... the fee. I have (had, woo hoo!) a checking acct with wells fargo since 1994. I stopped using it as my primary account after moving to a region where they had little presence. I retained a portion of direct deposit for years and now they decided to charge me 5 bucks a month unless I kept a $xx daily balance or increased my direct deposit amount . Dropping them was an easy decision, but my point is that they aren't charging everyone fees -- only those customers who aren't necessarily making them money. They can still kiss off though, for sure.
Germany takes privacy laws to the extreme, in my opinion. For example, the company I work for has a large presence in both the US and Germany. We were in the process of setting up user-based page-hit tracking of an intranet application and found that doing so would be illegal, according to German law. In order to stay within the law and protect the privacy of our own employees (even though the data would only be used within the company), we had to track usage based on the user's Active Directory group.
In hindsight, usage reporting by group is a lot easier/cleaner/simpler than by user but, I can't help but think the law is a bit too strict.
This article reminds me of a passage from Dan Simmon's 'Rise of Endymion,' bk 4 of the "Hyperion" series:
"... movie-one of the ancient, celluloid kinds that had to be projected by a machine." "...preferred to watch them with the "soundtrack," optical jiggles and wiggles, visible on the screen." "... We'd watched the films there for a year before... told us they had been made to be watched _without_ the soundtrack visible."
Not exactly the same thing, but interesting all the same.
Sorry if this has been mentioned... PBS will be broadcasting the original R Wars soon, they had a sneak preview last Friday. Missed it, but I've seen a couple of commercial plugs and... isn't the host from Red Dwarf??
There something you whiney types should realize about Mozilla being 'big' and 'slow.' I shouldn't have to remind you that this software is still a beta! Hence it's still being worked on, hence there's a helluva lot of debugging code that's working behind the scenes. Taking that into account, heck yeah, it's going to be 'big' and 'slow.'
I have to agree, this doesn't really mean a damn thing. These are converted _radio_ waves. So what?!? It's foolish to say "this is what space sounds like." No, this is what a converted radio wave sounds like!
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The young ones, too. My 12 year old step son uses the browser search bar for everything - even "youtube". It's maddening!
Good grief. That was all clearly stated in the summary. The comparison is used to describe what FLAC is.
Insightful?! You just restated a point made clear in the fucking summary.
... the fee. I have (had, woo hoo!) a checking acct with wells fargo since 1994. I stopped using it as my primary account after moving to a region where they had little presence. I retained a portion of direct deposit for years and now they decided to charge me 5 bucks a month unless I kept a $xx daily balance or increased my direct deposit amount . Dropping them was an easy decision, but my point is that they aren't charging everyone fees -- only those customers who aren't necessarily making them money. They can still kiss off though, for sure.
And let me say it before someone else does: "If I had a UID like yours, I wouldn't bother, either."
Some folks just don't bother logging in.
Actually, now it's the 3rd result. Feeling lucky, anyone?
Germany takes privacy laws to the extreme, in my opinion. For example, the company I work for has a large presence in both the US and Germany. We were in the process of setting up user-based page-hit tracking of an intranet application and found that doing so would be illegal, according to German law. In order to stay within the law and protect the privacy of our own employees (even though the data would only be used within the company), we had to track usage based on the user's Active Directory group.
In hindsight, usage reporting by group is a lot easier/cleaner/simpler than by user but, I can't help but think the law is a bit too strict.
...it keeps the stupid people happy and gives them something to talk about.
Ahem....
This article reminds me of a passage from Dan Simmon's 'Rise of Endymion,' bk 4 of the "Hyperion" series:
... told us they had been made to be watched _without_ the soundtrack visible."
"... movie-one of the ancient, celluloid kinds that had to be projected by a machine." "...preferred to watch them with the "soundtrack," optical jiggles and wiggles, visible on the screen." "... We'd watched the films there for a year before
Not exactly the same thing, but interesting all the same.
Sorry if this has been mentioned... PBS will be broadcasting the original R Wars soon, they had a sneak preview last Friday. Missed it, but I've seen a couple of commercial plugs and... isn't the host from Red Dwarf??
There something you whiney types should realize about Mozilla being 'big' and 'slow.' I shouldn't have to remind you that this software is still a beta! Hence it's still being worked on, hence there's a helluva lot of debugging code that's working behind the scenes. Taking that into account, heck yeah, it's going to be 'big' and 'slow.'
I have to agree, this doesn't really mean a damn thing. These are converted _radio_ waves. So what?!? It's foolish to say "this is what space sounds like." No, this is what a converted radio wave sounds like!