For instance, if they have a popup that redirects you to a specific URL at Amazon.com, then for the next 45 or 90 days anything you buy at Amazon.com gets credited to them as an affiliate, even if you go directly to their site.
I don't think that's correct. For instance, just the other day I had someone follow this link. They didn't buy anything right then, but a few hours later they went directly to it and bought something, and I didn't get any credit. But of course maybe I made a mistake in constructing the link.
Downloading kiosks are an interesting idea, but I'm not sure they have enough of an advantage over the current rental system to make it worthwhile.
You could go down to the mall, drop off your ipod, select a few movies ad go shopping, then pick up your ipod on the way out. I'll bet the Japanese could even automate the whole thing with a vending machine. Stick in your credit card and it returns your ipod to you.
I looked at the situation, and realized it wasn't going in the direction that I wanted. So after a couple of years of trying to figure things out, I went into healthcare.
That's surprising. For me personally, there's nothing else I'd rather do, no matter what the pay.
Personally I've had little trouble getting either one of them to crash, freeze, or get bogged down. I have a bad habit of opening lots of windows and tabs, and eventually they both crap out. (Though right now I've got about 20 windows open in Safari, most with more than one tab, and it's handling it just fine. It is using 2GB of virtual memory, though.)
Weak antiphishing is worse than no antiphishing. If a user gets used to seeing antiphishing messages pop up every time they do something stupid, then when one doesn't appear they're going to assume everything is okay.
That's a very good point for common events, but the average user will almost never see an antiphishing message, so the "autopilot" effect shouldn't be an issue.
All that will happen is that the scammers will spread their phishing sites more widely: there are hordes of compromised PCs out there, you can't track them all.
Wouldn't it be hard to make enough reasonable looking URLs?
the reason our airports were so lax before 9/11 is that we would not have put up with post-9/11 security back then.
Exactly right. And if Bin Laden had announced beforehand that he was going to find a way to make everybody voluntarily suffer in long lines, submit to invasive searches, and just generally make life a little less pleasant every day, we still wouldn't.
Part of playing a game well is to be able to plan moves in advance and this is hard to do if the opponent doesn't have a plan or is moving with some degree of randomness.
I think that's true pretty much for anything. If I played a tennis match with Federer he'd win 6-0, 6-0, but nobody'd be congratulating him on a well played match.
As fancy scrabble words go, I'd say quixotry is surprisingly legit. If I were in a situation where I wanted to say something like "Enough of your quixotry," no other word would work nearly as well.
Spending that much money when you're young and just starting out is one of the dumbest things you can do. Considering interest, by the time you retire the cost of that ring is absurd.
Some conservative numbers:
Two month's pay: Let's say that's 6,000
Annual interest: 8%
Years until retirement: 40
So that ring is going to reduce your retirement wealth by $130,347.
If you retire in 45 years: 191,523
Another enormous mistake is buying a fancy car. If you simply avoid throwing money away on a car and a ring, and instead put that money in a long-term investment, and do nothing else you'll still magically be in pretty good shape when it comes to retirement and you need the money most. And your old self will thank your young self every day for not being an idiot.
Read. It's a never-ending race to keep up.
Write programs. It's just like how you get to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
Learn some more math. Every once in a while a seemingly daunting programming problem will suddenly have a simple and elegant solution just because you happened to understand some mathematical principle.
I sure wish nobody had thought up that rhyme. It's turned an idea into a mindless mantra. Now in place of actual thinking people can, as soon as they see that something is hidden, pigeon-hole it as "security through obscurity," and then shut down their brains. The brain strives to do that - it goes out of its way to avoid that pesky actual thinking, and tries to categorize everything it sees. This is the root of prejudice, for instance.
Combining two monitors to make one large desktop is a standard feature of Windows.
Only if conditions are right. Are they in this case? I don't know for sure, but I am skeptical.
Now the question is, are those bells and whistles really worth an extra $850? To me, they definitely aren't.
That's a different argument. You can't have it both ways. Also, I was not able to duplicate that price. It was a couple of hundred dollars higher, and didn't include, for instance, software for burning dvds (it was an extra add on.) And i just bought the very Mac in question, and I paid $100 less than that price. And there's a lot more software than that that isn't on the HP. Again, you can't say "those aren't important to me" while at the same time using the price to demonstrate how much cheaper it is. And the are of course other advantages to the Mac that are more difficult to quantify.
And when I'm ready to sell it, it will still be worth more than the current price of that new HP.
Although the HP has a lower resolution screen, it also has a better DVD burner, more video RAM, an additional USB port, and it supports 802.11a.
Does it have digital video out? Optical audio out? Does it react to the ambient light? Is the keyboard backlit? Will the power cord detach if someone trips on it? If I plug in a monitor will it create a large desktop combining the external monitor and its own?
I honestly don't know the answer to those questions. If it does all that, and the screen is of equal quality, then I'd say it's a tremendous bargain.
Sorry to say, but you're just the type of Mac user that keeps people who are actually interested in switching, but run into problems with their new Mac experience, from ever becoming a Mac user. It's the typical "Macs work great; say otherwise and YOU MUST BE THE PROBLEM" mentality
I have to agree with you on that. It may be wrong to burn at 1x, but it's certainly not "utterly retarded." I've never seen an error message like the one you got, but if you did I would say if anything is utterly retarded it's that message. My guess would have been that your drive could not burn +R disks. My previous Mac could not.
But you can never stop people from exchanging information about their hands. If you and I are in the same game we can speak on the phone or by IM and have a huge edge. And I know for a fact that it goes on in the high limit games.
it kinda looks like you were being asked to do some contract work, which would have paid regardless of the success of the site
You're right. But this was in the middle of the internet boom - I was already getting paid way too much where I was, and had some stock options that looked like they were going to be worth about ten million. (they weren't.) So I would have had to have really believed it could work. Since I was certain that it wouldn't, I never really even considered taking it on. And of course it doesn't mean it would have succeeded, but I'd sure like to fire up the time machine and give it a try;-)
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I don't think that's correct. For instance, just the other day I had someone follow this link. They didn't buy anything right then, but a few hours later they went directly to it and bought something, and I didn't get any credit. But of course maybe I made a mistake in constructing the link.
You could go down to the mall, drop off your ipod, select a few movies ad go shopping, then pick up your ipod on the way out. I'll bet the Japanese could even automate the whole thing with a vending machine. Stick in your credit card and it returns your ipod to you.
What? You're...oh...using sarcasm. And then slyly misusing the word fascist.
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That's surprising. For me personally, there's nothing else I'd rather do, no matter what the pay.
Personally I've had little trouble getting either one of them to crash, freeze, or get bogged down. I have a bad habit of opening lots of windows and tabs, and eventually they both crap out. (Though right now I've got about 20 windows open in Safari, most with more than one tab, and it's handling it just fine. It is using 2GB of virtual memory, though.)
That's a very good point for common events, but the average user will almost never see an antiphishing message, so the "autopilot" effect shouldn't be an issue.
All that will happen is that the scammers will spread their phishing sites more widely: there are hordes of compromised PCs out there, you can't track them all.
Wouldn't it be hard to make enough reasonable looking URLs?
Shouldn't that be "They?"
Exactly right. And if Bin Laden had announced beforehand that he was going to find a way to make everybody voluntarily suffer in long lines, submit to invasive searches, and just generally make life a little less pleasant every day, we still wouldn't.
They meant it isn't often played in a scrabble game.
Well in a sense, probably so. Chances are your lane conditions would be much more favorable than a tournament setup. The difference is enormous.
I think that's true pretty much for anything. If I played a tennis match with Federer he'd win 6-0, 6-0, but nobody'd be congratulating him on a well played match.
As fancy scrabble words go, I'd say quixotry is surprisingly legit. If I were in a situation where I wanted to say something like "Enough of your quixotry," no other word would work nearly as well.
Some conservative numbers:
Two month's pay: Let's say that's 6,000
Annual interest: 8%
Years until retirement: 40
So that ring is going to reduce your retirement wealth by $130,347.
If you retire in 45 years: 191,523
Another enormous mistake is buying a fancy car. If you simply avoid throwing money away on a car and a ring, and instead put that money in a long-term investment, and do nothing else you'll still magically be in pretty good shape when it comes to retirement and you need the money most. And your old self will thank your young self every day for not being an idiot.
That's exactly how dictionaries function. They record language use, not dictate it.
Read. It's a never-ending race to keep up.
Write programs. It's just like how you get to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
Learn some more math. Every once in a while a seemingly daunting programming problem will suddenly have a simple and elegant solution just because you happened to understand some mathematical principle.
I sure wish nobody had thought up that rhyme. It's turned an idea into a mindless mantra. Now in place of actual thinking people can, as soon as they see that something is hidden, pigeon-hole it as "security through obscurity," and then shut down their brains. The brain strives to do that - it goes out of its way to avoid that pesky actual thinking, and tries to categorize everything it sees. This is the root of prejudice, for instance.
Not to get picky...ok, to get picky...that's me, not I. You wouldn't say "this drives I mad," would you?
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Speaking of Wikipedia...
That would make a good sig.
Only if conditions are right. Are they in this case? I don't know for sure, but I am skeptical.
Now the question is, are those bells and whistles really worth an extra $850? To me, they definitely aren't.
That's a different argument. You can't have it both ways. Also, I was not able to duplicate that price. It was a couple of hundred dollars higher, and didn't include, for instance, software for burning dvds (it was an extra add on.) And i just bought the very Mac in question, and I paid $100 less than that price. And there's a lot more software than that that isn't on the HP. Again, you can't say "those aren't important to me" while at the same time using the price to demonstrate how much cheaper it is. And the are of course other advantages to the Mac that are more difficult to quantify.
And when I'm ready to sell it, it will still be worth more than the current price of that new HP.
Does it have digital video out? Optical audio out? Does it react to the ambient light? Is the keyboard backlit? Will the power cord detach if someone trips on it? If I plug in a monitor will it create a large desktop combining the external monitor and its own?
I honestly don't know the answer to those questions. If it does all that, and the screen is of equal quality, then I'd say it's a tremendous bargain.
I have to agree with you on that. It may be wrong to burn at 1x, but it's certainly not "utterly retarded." I've never seen an error message like the one you got, but if you did I would say if anything is utterly retarded it's that message. My guess would have been that your drive could not burn +R disks. My previous Mac could not.
You're right. But this was in the middle of the internet boom - I was already getting paid way too much where I was, and had some stock options that looked like they were going to be worth about ten million. (they weren't.) So I would have had to have really believed it could work. Since I was certain that it wouldn't, I never really even considered taking it on. And of course it doesn't mean it would have succeeded, but I'd sure like to fire up the time machine and give it a try ;-)