As for the assumptions; has anyone had a erally positive experience with telemarketeers? I mean, they called you around 17, just after work but before dinner to offer you a really good deal on something you needed and were helpful to compare it with your current offer? And said "Oh, well it was a pleasure anyway, enjoy your dinner, mr. Callee" when you kindly turned down the offer?
I hate to say it, but yes, I have had several positive experiences with telemarketers. Out of the hundreds or thousands of calls from telemarketers, I have recieved 3 that I enjoyed, and pretty much all others have annoyed and/or pissed me off.
The 3 I enjoyed were just that. They called, were easy to hear and understand, clearly told me who they were and who they were calling for, were polite and respectful, had a sense of humour, and were very quick. When I told them that I was not interested and asked to be put on the DNC list, they acknowledged and repeated the statement, apoligized for the interruption, and wished me a great day.
Hell, the last two times that happened I interrupted the TM before they hung up and told them that even though I wasn't interested in their product, I really appreciated their attitude and professionalism.
Oh yeah, and I didn't recieve another call from any of those companies for at least 12-24 months.
That would be me. It doesn't matter what type of drugs are going into my system. I take nighttime medicine during the day and vice versa, drink tea or coke before going to bed, doesn't matter.
I think I agree with another poster that mentioned that it probably has to do with the high metabolism and energy levels. I've had one hell of a metabolism for years.
Back during college I made an experiment out of it. I found no benefit at all from drinking coke or another beverage. In fact, it was usually harder to stay awake drinking it, mainly because I don't drink nearly the volume of coke that I drink water. So now I use water to keep me up.:-)
Oh, come now. That's just being unrealistic. You can't expect to exercise reasonable control over everything in any operating system with only a mouse (or whatever).
I suppose that if you wanted to get technical, you could actually do it with only a mouse, but it'd be a pain in the rear. You could always use the character map to copy and paste your words with the mouse.
My point is that you can do what you need to with Windows. But you have to work around certain issues with all operating systems.
Really? How do you delete all files with an A in the second position and a.BAK extension?
Pretty easy, really. Wildcards still work just as well, so here's your answer:
GUI: Use the Find dialog and use the wildcards to find all the files you wish to delete. i.e. "Named: ?A*.BAK", Select everything that comes up and delete at will.
For the record, I prefer DOS myself, but I'd like to point out that most everything is possible to do fairly easily in Windows, including what you mention. The only thing I've ever had problems with is renaming files with wildcards, but I've heard that they've fixed that in XP. Haven't tried for myself yet though.
IANAL, but if I remember right, there's a federal regulation about solicitation calls on your cell phone. The telemarketing companies have to be "reasonably sure" that the number that they're calling is not a cell phone. If they don't take steps to ensure that they don't tie up cell lines, they can face some pretty heavy federal penalties.
I had one that I kept on hand for after dealing with the horses or other stuff that can get messy.
Granted, I didn't carry it with me though. I have a feeling the reason is because a girl might as well carry it with them, since they're already carrying everything else!
Well, IANAP (I am not a pilot), but I've got a couple of ideas.
First off, when you autorotate, it's kinda like you're storing up your lift for when you need it, by reducing the amount of drag you have on the blades to as little as possible.. Well, the closer to the ground you use it up, the more time you have stored up already, thus more lift. Granted, you also NEED more lift at this point, so I'm thinking you'd still have to be lucky.
Also, let's assume that you ARE a lucky bastard and you will have plenty of lift at whatever point you chose to start autorotating to completely stop your descent and maybe provide a little extra lift so you start ascending! I'm not sure how possible it is, really, but I'm willing to make a couple of assumptions and play with them. My question would be, where would you prefer to use up that lift, 20000 feet up or 20 feet up? Granted, perhaps you could keep autorotating, and come down in short dives. Anyways, I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
Okay, I have a couple of things to add. I don't have my references available, so I'll leave the math to someone else.
We don't need a nice computer, just use a minimal and use resources elsewhere on the wireless network. Also, as people have pointed out in other articles, why not use hydrogen instead of helium? Yes, it does have a chance to explode, and I'd be a little leery of letting it check on the kids at night, or help in the kitchen. But that would provide much better lift at less volume. Or another for lift that idea I read about a long time ago in a sci-fi book (about colonizing Jupiter) was to use a vacuum as lifting power. I'm curious as to how feasible that actually is.
Indeed. I've got a couple of friends that are cops, and one cop I ran into was amazingly helpful (even though he did give me a ticket). I eventually saw this cop while I was fighting a different ticket, and he was extremely helpful to me, since I hadn't been in the courthouse before.
Unfortunately, I don't run into many of the "nice cops" out on the road. I've found that many of the cops in my area get pissed at me no matter how polite I am. Interestingly, I have found that many of the cops in this area (Georgia, USA) react better if I use a southern accent when I speak to them than using my normal (slightly northern) accent.
if they had called it "Dessert Planet, a story inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune"
LOL! Sorry, but I just got visions of the dinner scene in the book with everyone eating sundaes or cakes or something, then rolling the end credits.
Well, as it annoys me to get a reply about a spelling error and nothing about the content, I'll also make an actual reply. I would say that both movies sucked, really. I just couldn't get over the "wierding modules" and the raining in the Lynch film, and the time limit just made it worse. But the mini series was of just such poor acting and poor FX (for most of it), it was distracting from the story.
I'm only a little older than you (21) and I have a slide rule. It was my mother's back when she was a physics major in colelge. I've even used it to take a physics exam in college. (I forgot my calculator.) I highly recommend that you find one and learn to use it. They are VERY easy to use, and very useful.
Actually, pretty much the same case here, except I don't know how to use it. I got one from my father a couple of years ago and have been searching for directions since then. My father doesn't remember how to use it very well, and no one else I know seems to know how either. I'm still interested in learning how to use it, anyone know of a good set of directions somewhere? Or do any good books on this exist?
Well, how much can we really say about how bad this stuff would be for us? We've been altering our environment for a very long time, even if not in ways quite like this.
I'd say many people are just overreacting without too much to worry about.
True enough. We called once asking for some assistance on decoding trace files, just in general, and were pointed to several fairly useless TARs. I was surprised that the first level folks even knew what SQL was, but they started knowing their stuff once you escalated. But like you said, they were still friendly and trying to help.
The only thing keeping me so far from doing this kind of thing has been the time. I know it's not real expensive, but finding the hardware, then doing the actual setup is pretty slow going. Especially since you want to make sure you get everything right the first time.
After reading all the comments, I've changed my plans for including these around the home. I think I should just be able to use some of these things for connecting in just about every room around the home.
Umm, exactly what context are we taking this in? You can certainly get fairly close to the speed of light (faster than 1/2, at least) with constant acceleration. Granted, it might take a while with a relatively low thrust drive, but all it requires is enough time and fuel (or a way to make the fuel on the way).
This is the 2004 elections though, between now and then they decided to change to using the electric chair, and also move where the executions take place!
I don't even care about ripping movies all that much, I'm mainly concerned with getting that amount of space cheaper. The more common it gets, the cheaper the drives and the disks will get. I've been going through spindles of CDs like tissue paper on a bad diarrhea day.
Umm, anyone happen to know the legal issues of violating the soveriegn territory of an island that is sunk or sinking? I mean, if it doesn't exist anymore, how would you be in their waters?:-)
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As for the assumptions; has anyone had a erally positive experience with telemarketeers? I mean, they called you around 17, just after work but before dinner to offer you a really good deal on something you needed and were helpful to compare it with your current offer? And said "Oh, well it was a pleasure anyway, enjoy your dinner, mr. Callee" when you kindly turned down the offer?
I hate to say it, but yes, I have had several positive experiences with telemarketers. Out of the hundreds or thousands of calls from telemarketers, I have recieved 3 that I enjoyed, and pretty much all others have annoyed and/or pissed me off.
The 3 I enjoyed were just that. They called, were easy to hear and understand, clearly told me who they were and who they were calling for, were polite and respectful, had a sense of humour, and were very quick. When I told them that I was not interested and asked to be put on the DNC list, they acknowledged and repeated the statement, apoligized for the interruption, and wished me a great day.
Hell, the last two times that happened I interrupted the TM before they hung up and told them that even though I wasn't interested in their product, I really appreciated their attitude and professionalism.
Oh yeah, and I didn't recieve another call from any of those companies for at least 12-24 months.
Heh.. Been there, done that, got slammed by the Justice System.
:-)
I think it'd be amusing if the studios started trying to put messages into the spots, how many people do you think are out for blood?
We all get those e-mails wanting to sell e-mail lists. Why not just e-mail them with a message that says something like:
"Would you mind taking me off of those lists of yours? I'm always falling for scams, so I've already lost a lot of money to people on these lists!"
That would be me. It doesn't matter what type of drugs are going into my system. I take nighttime medicine during the day and vice versa, drink tea or coke before going to bed, doesn't matter.
:-)
I think I agree with another poster that mentioned that it probably has to do with the high metabolism and energy levels. I've had one hell of a metabolism for years.
Back during college I made an experiment out of it. I found no benefit at all from drinking coke or another beverage. In fact, it was usually harder to stay awake drinking it, mainly because I don't drink nearly the volume of coke that I drink water. So now I use water to keep me up.
There's quests!? Wow, I've been having too much fun just fooling with NPCs and raiding vaults and stuff.. ;-)
Much like my Daggerfall experience, I don't bother with the quests much, I just go off and do my own thing. That's where the real fun comes in.
Oh, come now. That's just being unrealistic. You can't expect to exercise reasonable control over everything in any operating system with only a mouse (or whatever).
I suppose that if you wanted to get technical, you could actually do it with only a mouse, but it'd be a pain in the rear. You could always use the character map to copy and paste your words with the mouse.
My point is that you can do what you need to with Windows. But you have to work around certain issues with all operating systems.
Really? How do you delete all files with an A in the second position and a .BAK extension?
Pretty easy, really. Wildcards still work just as well, so here's your answer:
GUI: Use the Find dialog and use the wildcards to find all the files you wish to delete. i.e. "Named: ?A*.BAK", Select everything that comes up and delete at will.
For the record, I prefer DOS myself, but I'd like to point out that most everything is possible to do fairly easily in Windows, including what you mention. The only thing I've ever had problems with is renaming files with wildcards, but I've heard that they've fixed that in XP. Haven't tried for myself yet though.
IANAL, but if I remember right, there's a federal regulation about solicitation calls on your cell phone. The telemarketing companies have to be "reasonably sure" that the number that they're calling is not a cell phone. If they don't take steps to ensure that they don't tie up cell lines, they can face some pretty heavy federal penalties.
I had one that I kept on hand for after dealing with the horses or other stuff that can get messy.
Granted, I didn't carry it with me though. I have a feeling the reason is because a girl might as well carry it with them, since they're already carrying everything else!
Well, IANAP (I am not a pilot), but I've got a couple of ideas.
First off, when you autorotate, it's kinda like you're storing up your lift for when you need it, by reducing the amount of drag you have on the blades to as little as possible.. Well, the closer to the ground you use it up, the more time you have stored up already, thus more lift. Granted, you also NEED more lift at this point, so I'm thinking you'd still have to be lucky.
Also, let's assume that you ARE a lucky bastard and you will have plenty of lift at whatever point you chose to start autorotating to completely stop your descent and maybe provide a little extra lift so you start ascending! I'm not sure how possible it is, really, but I'm willing to make a couple of assumptions and play with them. My question would be, where would you prefer to use up that lift, 20000 feet up or 20 feet up? Granted, perhaps you could keep autorotating, and come down in short dives. Anyways, I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
Okay, I have a couple of things to add. I don't have my references available, so I'll leave the math to someone else.
We don't need a nice computer, just use a minimal and use resources elsewhere on the wireless network. Also, as people have pointed out in other articles, why not use hydrogen instead of helium? Yes, it does have a chance to explode, and I'd be a little leery of letting it check on the kids at night, or help in the kitchen. But that would provide much better lift at less volume. Or another for lift that idea I read about a long time ago in a sci-fi book (about colonizing Jupiter) was to use a vacuum as lifting power. I'm curious as to how feasible that actually is.
Indeed. I've got a couple of friends that are cops, and one cop I ran into was amazingly helpful (even though he did give me a ticket). I eventually saw this cop while I was fighting a different ticket, and he was extremely helpful to me, since I hadn't been in the courthouse before.
Unfortunately, I don't run into many of the "nice cops" out on the road. I've found that many of the cops in my area get pissed at me no matter how polite I am. Interestingly, I have found that many of the cops in this area (Georgia, USA) react better if I use a southern accent when I speak to them than using my normal (slightly northern) accent.
The guy making rude racial comments every time they pass over the same part of the globe...dozens of times a day.
It may not be racial comments, you know.. Could just be something else that would get on your nerves.
"Look, kids! There's Big Ben!"
if they had called it "Dessert Planet, a story inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune"
LOL! Sorry, but I just got visions of the dinner scene in the book with everyone eating sundaes or cakes or something, then rolling the end credits.
Well, as it annoys me to get a reply about a spelling error and nothing about the content, I'll also make an actual reply. I would say that both movies sucked, really. I just couldn't get over the "wierding modules" and the raining in the Lynch film, and the time limit just made it worse. But the mini series was of just such poor acting and poor FX (for most of it), it was distracting from the story.
I'm only a little older than you (21) and I have a slide rule. It was my mother's back when she was a physics major in colelge. I've even used it to take a physics exam in college. (I forgot my calculator.) I highly recommend that you find one and learn to use it. They are VERY easy to use, and very useful.
Actually, pretty much the same case here, except I don't know how to use it. I got one from my father a couple of years ago and have been searching for directions since then. My father doesn't remember how to use it very well, and no one else I know seems to know how either. I'm still interested in learning how to use it, anyone know of a good set of directions somewhere? Or do any good books on this exist?
Well, how much can we really say about how bad this stuff would be for us? We've been altering our environment for a very long time, even if not in ways quite like this.
I'd say many people are just overreacting without too much to worry about.
Once you escalate a few levels they are OK
True enough. We called once asking for some assistance on decoding trace files, just in general, and were pointed to several fairly useless TARs. I was surprised that the first level folks even knew what SQL was, but they started knowing their stuff once you escalated. But like you said, they were still friendly and trying to help.
The only thing keeping me so far from doing this kind of thing has been the time. I know it's not real expensive, but finding the hardware, then doing the actual setup is pretty slow going. Especially since you want to make sure you get everything right the first time.
After reading all the comments, I've changed my plans for including these around the home. I think I should just be able to use some of these things for connecting in just about every room around the home.
Not really any solution that could be actually useful in this case would be cheap.
Of course, I guess it really just depends on how much you're willing to spend.
Umm, exactly what context are we taking this in? You can certainly get fairly close to the speed of light (faster than 1/2, at least) with constant acceleration. Granted, it might take a while with a relatively low thrust drive, but all it requires is enough time and fuel (or a way to make the fuel on the way).
Then again, I'm more than a bit rusty.
This is the 2004 elections though, between now and then they decided to change to using the electric chair, and also move where the executions take place!
;-)
Gee, some people..
I don't even care about ripping movies all that much, I'm mainly concerned with getting that amount of space cheaper. The more common it gets, the cheaper the drives and the disks will get. I've been going through spindles of CDs like tissue paper on a bad diarrhea day.
How many of you are anime fans? Of those, how many of us really care about Yet Another Anime To Game Conversion?
:-)
Well, I would think that most of the people who even clicked on the subject, considering it was actually pretty clear what the topic was.
If you're in here posting and you're not interested, then you're probably just trolling.
Umm, anyone happen to know the legal issues of violating the soveriegn territory of an island that is sunk or sinking? I mean, if it doesn't exist anymore, how would you be in their waters? :-)