Five years ago, I read the reviews, and bought an iiyama 17" Monitor (around $700, then) via mail order.
When I got it, the bottom of the screen was kind of fuzzy.
I called Iiyama (not the online place I bought it from). They sent me a pre-paid shipping box (FedEx) to send the old one back, and the new one arrived in about 2 weeks from the time I sent the old one back.
Alternatively, if I had given them a credit card number, they would have charged me for the new one and sent it, and refunded me when they received the old one.
Bottom line: Iiyama makes good monitors. I got a bad one, but they fixed it fast and free. I will probably buy from them again.
Buyer beware: This was 5 years ago -- check their current return policy.
I'm still working for the dot com that we started last year. We had quite a lull earlier this year, but now we have more work than we can handle (and we're hiring).
Our company is small -- 4 people this week, 3 people last week. 1/2 of our office is a miniature basketball court, where we play to de-stress.
Of course, we do *real* work -- intranets and websites for other companies. We've developed our own programming languages and development systems. We use Perl / Apache (mostly), some Java, and (unfortunately) some ColdFusion (customer insisted), and Linux -- for servers and desktop machines.
Not long ago, a city here in California (can't remember if it was Sacramento or Anaheim), the city council was approached by the Hispanic-american community.
Why? Well, it seems that the city police were turning over anyone that they had caught who might have been an illegal alien to the INS.
It was claimed that this was a violation of their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they *are* illegal aliens, then they have no constitutional rights to begin with. If they're not, then no problem. Thank you have a nice day.
I'd like to point out that the people being turned over to INS had ben arrested for *commiting a crime*.
Only a handful of the 100 most popular online stores give shoppers adequate privacy, according to the EPIC ( it's a Washington-based privacy research group). The group's research focuses on whether sites use profile-based advertising and whether they use cookies in their site operations, both incredibly controversial practices on the Internet. The also focus on retailers' compliance with "Fair Information Practices''--those are basically guidelines that provide basic privacy protection for consumers--which *none* of the companies in the survey addressed properly, according to EPIC.
Both cookies and profile-based advertising are par for the course. They are a widely used standard practice. As far as being "incredibly controversial practices on the Internet," this statement is moot, at best.
The use of cookies is generally necessary for session tracking purposes when users log in to check their account (IP number tracking is not reliable for users behind firewalls).
Their use in conjunction with profile-based advertising is (to me) a generally good thing. When I go to Amazon, the front page usually shows me books that I'd probably be interested in. Sure, this is just good business for Amazon -- an attempt to sell more books; but that doesn't mean that they're doing me a disservice by tracking my reading habits. Practices such as this are rather benign.
Katz asserts that information that is stored and tracked for years (primarily by credit services) can adversely affect the lives of people, and they don't even know it. Sure, some people screw up, and have financial problems -- sucks to be them. But in other cases, mis-information reported by these agencies can have a negative impact on people who have done nothing wrong. I myself have received calls from collection agencies for bounced checks. Too bad it was someone with the same name that had bounced the checks.
Anybody remember M.U.L.E. for the C64? We'd stay up all night playing it. I know that you can play it on C64 emulators, but I'd like to see an updated version, but with the original feel.
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Seems to me that there was some issue about the people in America being taxed by a European nation, without the benefit of representation.
"European Union of 15 countries has recently required that all U.S. companies with web sales..."
How can a European country compell a US company to do anything, unless our own Gov't is in some sort of collusion?
Five years ago, I read the reviews, and bought an iiyama 17" Monitor (around $700, then) via mail order.
When I got it, the bottom of the screen was kind of fuzzy.
I called Iiyama (not the online place I bought it from). They sent me a pre-paid shipping box (FedEx) to send the old one back, and the new one arrived in about 2 weeks from the time I sent the old one back.
Alternatively, if I had given them a credit card number, they would have charged me for the new one and sent it, and refunded me when they received the old one.
Bottom line: Iiyama makes good monitors. I got a bad one, but they fixed it fast and free. I will probably buy from them again.
Buyer beware: This was 5 years ago -- check their current return policy.
That's funny -- my KDE desktop already has a trash can. Kind of old news, isnt' it?
From this site: http://www.titaniumweddingringsandbands.com
They arrived quickly, and fit well. And the price was right.
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I'm still working for the dot com that we started last year. We had quite a lull earlier this year, but now we have more work than we can handle (and we're hiring).
Our company is small -- 4 people this week, 3 people last week. 1/2 of our office is a miniature basketball court, where we play to de-stress.
Of course, we do *real* work -- intranets and websites for other companies. We've developed our own programming languages and development systems. We use Perl / Apache (mostly), some Java, and (unfortunately) some ColdFusion (customer insisted), and Linux -- for servers and desktop machines.
I guess I got lucky.
Yeah, those court recorders are sneaky bastards.
Not long ago, a city here in California (can't remember if it was Sacramento or Anaheim), the city council was approached by the Hispanic-american community.
Why? Well, it seems that the city police were turning over anyone that they had caught who might have been an illegal alien to the INS.
It was claimed that this was a violation of their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if they *are* illegal aliens, then they have no constitutional rights to begin with. If they're not, then no problem. Thank you have a nice day.
I'd like to point out that the people being turned over to INS had ben arrested for *commiting a crime*.
Only a handful of the 100 most popular online stores give shoppers adequate privacy, according to the EPIC ( it's a Washington-based privacy research group). The group's research focuses on whether sites use profile-based advertising and whether they use cookies in their site operations, both incredibly controversial practices on the Internet. The also focus on retailers' compliance with "Fair Information Practices''--those are basically guidelines that provide basic privacy protection for consumers--which *none* of the companies in the survey addressed properly, according to EPIC.
Both cookies and profile-based advertising are par for the course. They are a widely used standard practice. As far as being "incredibly controversial practices on the Internet," this statement is moot, at best.
The use of cookies is generally necessary for session tracking purposes when users log in to check their account (IP number tracking is not reliable for users behind firewalls). Their use in conjunction with profile-based advertising is (to me) a generally good thing. When I go to Amazon, the front page usually shows me books that I'd probably be interested in. Sure, this is just good business for Amazon -- an attempt to sell more books; but that doesn't mean that they're doing me a disservice by tracking my reading habits. Practices such as this are rather benign.
Katz asserts that information that is stored and tracked for years (primarily by credit services) can adversely affect the lives of people, and they don't even know it. Sure, some people screw up, and have financial problems -- sucks to be them. But in other cases, mis-information reported by these agencies can have a negative impact on people who have done nothing wrong. I myself have received calls from collection agencies for bounced checks. Too bad it was someone with the same name that had bounced the checks.
Anyhoo -- I ramble on.
Penultimate: next to the last.
Anybody remember M.U.L.E. for the C64? We'd stay up all night playing it. I know that you can play it on C64 emulators, but I'd like to see an updated version, but with the original feel.