what else will these senators be doing to earn their keep? It sounds like it would be a really slack job if all they have to do would be to look at the results of an online poll and vote that way.
As a father of a couple teenagers, I will also say that they still have immature "I don't care, I waaaaant it" episodes (but then again, so does their mother), so I can see the point of the mom in the story: a childish impluse isn't a good reason to waste a lot of time installing a new OS, especially if one has to re-install the old one because the new one sucks. If my career involved playing WoW, Halo3, or creating Myspace/Gia Online profiles, I'd be waiting for that kick in the head. But since it doesn't, I'm not worried.
There are point of sale systems in use that are still using DOS. From a driver standpoint, these machines aren't very advanced. Until a lot of retail USB peripherals started showing up, the only big requirement was having enough serial ports for the desired peripherals: light bar, receipt printer, cash register latch, check reader, server connection, etc.
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who is making these? I had read somewhere that the original zune was just a rebadged Toshiba device.
It was an engineering college, so there wasn't any segregation to one side of the campus. The liberal arts department existed only to satisfy the state arts/humanities requirements and did not offer any degrees until later on - and that was in "interdisciplinary sciences" where you basically took a wide combination of science, math, engineering, & lib arts courses. It was mainly a way to get some non-geek pre-med women on campus. The dean of students would sometimes have little open forum type meetings in the dorms to ask students for their ideas on how to make campus life better. Recruiting and keeping more female students was always brought up...quite a few would leave their freshman year after getting their Mrs degree from a graduating senior with a job offer and continue their education somewhere else. Severe alcohol abuse, bad grades, and the thought of living like a monk for 4 years would get rid of many of the male students after the 1st couple years. It was a good place though if you just wanted to study and not have a "typical college social life". Having a girlfriend in the real world was another reason to look forward to graduation and getting a job.
It would have been a bit north of DU. But no, they were real women...real fat & ugly...some looked like ugly guys and you couldn't tell what they were except by what dorm they lived in. That's right. No co-ed dorms. Of course, that made it much easier for people to park horse trailers in front of the doors of the female dorm or put up cattle crossing signs. The "hot women" would have been considered plain to average at most colleges. After a while some of the 'normal gals' on campus would start to look ok. A visit to one's hometown and seeing someone that you went to high school would result in an "OMG WTF was I thinking" moment that would snap you back to reality very quickly. Spare time was spent studying, getting drunk, or watching lots of TV re-runs. My college roommate had memorized all the dialog to M*A*S*H.
The male:female ratio at my college was ranged between 3:1 & 4:1 and only a few that were remotely attractive. It's bad when a high school class of 36 people had more attractive women than your freshman class in college and it only got worse as the years went by. But not everyone can say that their volleyball team could probably kick the football team's ass. The weight difference was certainly negligible.
That behaviour sounds very familiar. That's basically why every woman I've ever dated has gone out with me: I'm paying for dinner/movie/whatever and/or they have a computer that needs fixing. Then it's "oh, gee..look at the time. goodbye".
Standard users aren't going to be dealing with multiple firmware versions, unlocks, or other hacks. They are going to be using the designated cell network provider in their country and won't pay much attention to an update unless Apple really screws up a software release.
Given that they are selling non-DRM'ed mp3's, that would be interesting, but if you sign up, do they give you a better browse capability? I don't care how popular an artist or song is, I just want to see all the artists in a given genre, click on the their name, and see everything that's available for them. I found it quite annoying that to have to browse through the newest category, then the "buzzing", free, etc.
Then people will bitch and moan that they were scammed and will demand a rebate or some sort of credit when the song drops from a $1.50 to $1. IMHO, Apple probably likes the fact that there is a standard price. It makes it simple for the customer and simple for them to keep track of the transactions. They don't have to deal with each label setting up some odd pricing scheme and managing customer pricing disputes. I can't recall if my econ class ever went into situation where you basically have an infinite supply of a product.
A 5 year old shouldn't worry about finances. If he would have expressed his fear to his parents, they should have told him about the plan and to not worry. Being scared shitless is a a good way of being motivated to make a change to improve the situation, though. Not that a 5 yr old could do much to change anything for the better, however he did learn a good lesson about planning ahead.
that's the early adopter fee. I've read that Canadians are paying well over $1000 for unlocked iPhones while people in the US bitch about getting only a $100 rebate.
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what do you consider to be a "fair share" of the tax burden?
what else will these senators be doing to earn their keep? It sounds like it would be a really slack job if all they have to do would be to look at the results of an online poll and vote that way.
based on what's popular for a lot of TV shows, I'd say they had a point.
As a father of a couple teenagers, I will also say that they still have immature "I don't care, I waaaaant it" episodes (but then again, so does their mother), so I can see the point of the mom in the story: a childish impluse isn't a good reason to waste a lot of time installing a new OS, especially if one has to re-install the old one because the new one sucks. If my career involved playing WoW, Halo3, or creating Myspace/Gia Online profiles, I'd be waiting for that kick in the head. But since it doesn't, I'm not worried.
I guess topics like this bring out a lot of the low UID users....kinda like class reunions. :)
I've always heard that most of the stuff in this cookbook is crap, so what's the problem if some nutcase wastes his time & resources?
There are point of sale systems in use that are still using DOS. From a driver standpoint, these machines aren't very advanced. Until a lot of retail USB peripherals started showing up, the only big requirement was having enough serial ports for the desired peripherals: light bar, receipt printer, cash register latch, check reader, server connection, etc.
who is making these? I had read somewhere that the original zune was just a rebadged Toshiba device.
It was an engineering college, so there wasn't any segregation to one side of the campus. The liberal arts department existed only to satisfy the state arts/humanities requirements and did not offer any degrees until later on - and that was in "interdisciplinary sciences" where you basically took a wide combination of science, math, engineering, & lib arts courses. It was mainly a way to get some non-geek pre-med women on campus. The dean of students would sometimes have little open forum type meetings in the dorms to ask students for their ideas on how to make campus life better. Recruiting and keeping more female students was always brought up...quite a few would leave their freshman year after getting their Mrs degree from a graduating senior with a job offer and continue their education somewhere else. Severe alcohol abuse, bad grades, and the thought of living like a monk for 4 years would get rid of many of the male students after the 1st couple years. It was a good place though if you just wanted to study and not have a "typical college social life". Having a girlfriend in the real world was another reason to look forward to graduation and getting a job.
It would have been a bit north of DU. But no, they were real women...real fat & ugly...some looked like ugly guys and you couldn't tell what they were except by what dorm they lived in. That's right. No co-ed dorms. Of course, that made it much easier for people to park horse trailers in front of the doors of the female dorm or put up cattle crossing signs. The "hot women" would have been considered plain to average at most colleges. After a while some of the 'normal gals' on campus would start to look ok. A visit to one's hometown and seeing someone that you went to high school would result in an "OMG WTF was I thinking" moment that would snap you back to reality very quickly. Spare time was spent studying, getting drunk, or watching lots of TV re-runs. My college roommate had memorized all the dialog to M*A*S*H.
that would be more than good enough for monitoring the weather.
The male:female ratio at my college was ranged between 3:1 & 4:1 and only a few that were remotely attractive. It's bad when a high school class of 36 people had more attractive women than your freshman class in college and it only got worse as the years went by. But not everyone can say that their volleyball team could probably kick the football team's ass. The weight difference was certainly negligible.
the rest probably just ignored him like they do other pests.
Cats seek your companionship when they want to be fed.
No, they come looking for a guy with $$$ that doesn't embarrass them too much in public.
That behaviour sounds very familiar. That's basically why every woman I've ever dated has gone out with me: I'm paying for dinner/movie/whatever and/or they have a computer that needs fixing. Then it's "oh, gee..look at the time. goodbye".
Standard users aren't going to be dealing with multiple firmware versions, unlocks, or other hacks. They are going to be using the designated cell network provider in their country and won't pay much attention to an update unless Apple really screws up a software release.
Given that they are selling non-DRM'ed mp3's, that would be interesting, but if you sign up, do they give you a better browse capability? I don't care how popular an artist or song is, I just want to see all the artists in a given genre, click on the their name, and see everything that's available for them. I found it quite annoying that to have to browse through the newest category, then the "buzzing", free, etc.
Then people will bitch and moan that they were scammed and will demand a rebate or some sort of credit when the song drops from a $1.50 to $1. IMHO, Apple probably likes the fact that there is a standard price. It makes it simple for the customer and simple for them to keep track of the transactions. They don't have to deal with each label setting up some odd pricing scheme and managing customer pricing disputes. I can't recall if my econ class ever went into situation where you basically have an infinite supply of a product.
It's amazing that you were able to type all of that and have such poor reading comprehension since what you got out of my post is 100% wrong.
got a link to that 160G mp3 player for $40? I wouldn't mind getting one of those.
A 5 year old shouldn't worry about finances. If he would have expressed his fear to his parents, they should have told him about the plan and to not worry. Being scared shitless is a a good way of being motivated to make a change to improve the situation, though. Not that a 5 yr old could do much to change anything for the better, however he did learn a good lesson about planning ahead.
that's the early adopter fee. I've read that Canadians are paying well over $1000 for unlocked iPhones while people in the US bitch about getting only a $100 rebate.