That depends on if you got it with the Chevy motor or the Volvo motor. Since only a handful of people got Chevy motors, you're close enough for government work.
Good thing that's who I work for (contractor, actually).
Without touching that link (I have someplace to be in an hour), "women in refrigerators" most certainly has to do with Kyle Raynor's former girlfriend. She's the frickin' trope namer (and the first of what, three of his romantic entanglements to die?)
In racing, everybody knows the course. And much money is spent trying to keep the secrets under the hood (and, especially in F1, the shape of the 'hood' itself).
I think your point is good, but your analogy sucks. Open standards are there for automobiles: width of the road, location, how many lights are required, etc. The exact details of meeting that implementation is left up to each manufacturer. If they want to open them up to the world, so be it (and Mercedes essentially does this when they offer an S420 for sale at the dealership. Ford is more than able to purchase one and disassemble it. Not so much for the McLaren racing engines and chassis.)
Love the story at the first link. Number two was bitching about Warcraft III. Now we are how many years into WoW? That entry made most interesting by number one, which was 'top vaporware'... in 2001.
Sounds like a somewhat biased sample. I suspect the people you cite are probably also dealing with ICE, which can be a bit perverse. As far as actual businesses on the ground with US owners/operators? The only people who complain are people with some political axe to grind. My father owned his own business for ~35 years and regulatory problems were the least of it. Ditto a few friends of his from high school as well as a few more distant relatives. All this in one of those east coast blue states that should be a bastion of liberalism.
I agree with earlier posters who said Guitar Hero sucks. Chasing the Dragon? AWESOME game. I think I'll go chase it again. I. Just. Can't. Stop. Playing.
Missing out on a few points. First, they might lose $560 of revenue, but they are earning however much revenue GP will pay over two years. $2400 or so? Second, they got him from out of contract back to locked in for two years without subsidizing a phone. A savings of perhaps $200 (I have no idea what Apple charges AT&T for the phone). If those figures are correct, the NPV of the $560 two year stream of revenue might be equal to the $200 AT&T didn't spend on this guy. And of course the profit on the services he IS paying for.
Call AT&T. Punch in debit card number. Bill paid. Job done. No stamps, no online bill pay fee. Minutes are free, and AT&T eats the merchant charge for Visa.
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A subscription that nobody needs? Oh, the irony.
Are we talking about AoL or slashdot subscriptions?
Watching cash-in movies always makes you feel like a dirty whore.
That's the closest most slashdotters will ever come to feeling like they've had sex.
How can the following script be repeated for 1600 pages:
"You started it!"
"No, you started it!"
"No, you started it!"
Nuke them all. Their respective God will provide his true chosen people with the ability to live in the radioactive wasteland.
That depends on if you got it with the Chevy motor or the Volvo motor. Since only a handful of people got Chevy motors, you're close enough for government work.
Good thing that's who I work for (contractor, actually).
Without touching that link (I have someplace to be in an hour), "women in refrigerators" most certainly has to do with Kyle Raynor's former girlfriend. She's the frickin' trope namer (and the first of what, three of his romantic entanglements to die?)
Except that many of the newstands and certainly the grocers and five and dime stores wouldn't have wanted to carry 'smut books aimed at kids'.
Cut him some slack, he just arrived from 1986.
0-88mph takes 25 years in a DeLorean? Sounds about right...
I wanted to come here and make some fake troll posts just for laughs. Sadly, the real trolls have beat me to the punch.
If over a decade of Linux distros has taught us one thing, it is that one man's "half assed" is another man's "usable".
In racing, everybody knows the course. And much money is spent trying to keep the secrets under the hood (and, especially in F1, the shape of the 'hood' itself).
I think your point is good, but your analogy sucks. Open standards are there for automobiles: width of the road, location, how many lights are required, etc. The exact details of meeting that implementation is left up to each manufacturer. If they want to open them up to the world, so be it (and Mercedes essentially does this when they offer an S420 for sale at the dealership. Ford is more than able to purchase one and disassemble it. Not so much for the McLaren racing engines and chassis.)
No, the problem is that some Americans have not had an evolution in their moral makeup since the Puritans landed.
And if I had a magic flying pony I could use that to commute to work, while picking up teenage girls.
What's the matter, opening the door on your white panel van and offering them candy isn't doing it for you any longer?
You are assuming that commodore 64 love actually has any friends with whom he could share media.
Love the story at the first link. Number two was bitching about Warcraft III. Now we are how many years into WoW? That entry made most interesting by number one, which was 'top vaporware'... in 2001.
Ahh, yeah, the overly litigious mentality that has overtaken the US in the past generation or two.
You are wondering?
I would be willing to guarantee they are doing something like that.
My slashdot kingdom for a (up)mod point.
Sounds like a somewhat biased sample. I suspect the people you cite are probably also dealing with ICE, which can be a bit perverse. As far as actual businesses on the ground with US owners/operators? The only people who complain are people with some political axe to grind. My father owned his own business for ~35 years and regulatory problems were the least of it. Ditto a few friends of his from high school as well as a few more distant relatives. All this in one of those east coast blue states that should be a bastion of liberalism.
So lead-laced child sex slaves would be... bad?
Ahh, perhaps that is where the discrepancy comes from: $US vs $CA. Which, despite near parity, still results in price differences. Tariffs?
But some of those operating systems are pining for the fjords.
After Christmas is usually when I find I need to 'satisfy my woman'.
Sorry dude. After hitting it the other 364 days of the year, I thought I should be nice and let you get in on her once.
I agree with earlier posters who said Guitar Hero sucks. Chasing the Dragon? AWESOME game. I think I'll go chase it again. I. Just. Can't. Stop. Playing.
Missing out on a few points. First, they might lose $560 of revenue, but they are earning however much revenue GP will pay over two years. $2400 or so? Second, they got him from out of contract back to locked in for two years without subsidizing a phone. A savings of perhaps $200 (I have no idea what Apple charges AT&T for the phone). If those figures are correct, the NPV of the $560 two year stream of revenue might be equal to the $200 AT&T didn't spend on this guy. And of course the profit on the services he IS paying for.
Call AT&T. Punch in debit card number. Bill paid. Job done. No stamps, no online bill pay fee. Minutes are free, and AT&T eats the merchant charge for Visa.
Probably depends on what state he is in.