Pickup Pal is a service that allows individuals to arrange not only carpools. Specifically, it allows drivers and passengers to arrange compensation for trips.
Does this remind you of anything else? Oh, yes, a taxi company (or bus company, take your pick) which is Trentway-Wagar's complaint.
My wife buys food and cooks it for me as part of an informal arrangement. Does this remind you of anything else? Oh, yes, a restaurant.
Do you really not see the difference between private non-profit arrangements and commercial service? Honestly, your entire argument is stupid. There's nothing else I can say about it.
Oh please no. They'd have a detective "scripting ATM cameras with Visual Basic to Twitter their RSS for poolhiders", or some painfully unwatchable crap like that.
I, for one, will teach my kids that when someone tries to bully them they have to retaliate decisively, brutally and make sure everyone knows that crossing them means physical damage.
Yep. I taught my son how to make a proper fist, and how to swing with his whole body. I also taught him to aim for the nose. If he hits it'll hurt like crazy. If he misses, he'll catch an eye or mouth and it'll hurt like crazy. Finally, I taught him that he will never get in trouble with me for defending himself or his siblings.
This came up exactly one time, and he took my advice. His teacher told me what happened and I explained that he was following my instructions. She nodded and said that the bully had been a problem kid and she was surprised it took this long.
Well, let me give you a counterexample. I made some great friends when I was in college and in the military. Those people are scattered to the winds now, but I still think of them sometimes and wish them well. You say "stalking", but I say "seeing that my old pal in Hawaii just had a kid". I don't think that's insane or perverted. It's nice to know that these friends are happy and making careers and families for themselves.
I think the troll mods are because he didn't allow for this possibility. Sure, these sites could replace some relationships, and that's not (usually) good. I don't think that's how most people use them, though.
Know what scares me? Going to the DMV to renew my driver's license. Remember, the people around you in line are actually an above-average subset of the population. That is, they're the people who have it together enough to afford a car and be able to drive it, and yet a good 75% will look like reject extras from "Deliverance". Now, imagine them standing in line to vote. Sleep well!
And to those that say "but, but, but....they are great for keeping in touch with distant friends" - ever heard of email?
That's great for you, kid. For those of use over the age of 30, email didn't come along for average people until we had already befriended and then lost contact with a lot of people. It's only been widely popular for, what, 10 years? That doesn't extend back to my high school friends or people I was in the military with.
Maybe you're young enough that all of your friends have had email addresses, but that's not true for most of us.
Look at the attenuation v. frequency chart for the "HEAVY DUTY FARADAY CANOPY". Note the ineffective notch to the right with a 15dB (3100%, 3-1=2!) dropoff at almost exactly 2.4GHz. The canopy is clearly and blatantly designed to allow through the frequencies of common cordless phones, which everyone knows were designed by the NSA to monitor your theta waves. "Silver Lining"? That's what they want you to think.
It may be the case that support is generally longer term(I haven't looked at in depth personally) with open source. The problem is there is no guarantee, and outside of a few vendors like Red Hat or IBM, the developers don't have the resources to credibly commit to a guarantee even if they wanted to.
Outside of a few vendors like Microsoft or Apple, proprietary developers don't have the resources to credibly commit to a guarantee even if they wanted to. If you're going to hold FOSS to that standard, you have to do the same for proprietary.
I maintained a branch off a "dead" FOSS project for quite a while. There hasn't been a new release in over four years, but I was able to keep developing my version. You don't get those kinds of options with proprietary offerings.
In other words, the human brain is already somewhat too big for our own good. Fortunately for the species and men in particular, that's mostly an issue that women have to compensate for at very limited times.
Now that C-sections are common and relatively safe, do you think we'll see head sizes continue to grow, or do you reckon we'll stay roughly where we are?
Vista is barely slower than XP on hardware bought within the last 2 years.
I have Vista on last year's Presario with 2GB of RAM and a Turion 64 X2 CPU, and it runs like crap. I'd upgrade it to XP in a heartbeat if Nvidia made XP drivers for its graphics card.
Sigh. Everyone seems to be dinging me on this, when all I was trying to point out is that phone vs. pager seems to be an issue of local custom. At our hospital, almost everyone has a cell phone. I wasn't trying to imply that they weren't still used (or even that they weren't still popular) elsewhere.
My wife's a doctor and I gave the reasons she uses a cell phone instead of a pager. Maybe, just maybe, I know a little more about the subject than you think.
Not as much as my wife, granted. She (and her cell phone) are in surgery as we speak, but I mainly drop by for the free food at the staff meetings.
No need to replace the single battery (in most pagers) but once a month sometimes and no need to remember to put it on a charger every night.
What I'm asking, though, is whether that's really such a hardship. Doctors are in the habit of charging their PDAs daily, and it's pretty easy to get used to plugging in your phone at the same time.
He was referring to more unique tones of the pager compared to the obnoxious ring tone choices on cell phones.
What I was getting at is that you can make your cell phone sound exactly like your pager by recording the pager's tone and using that as your phone's ring tone. The reverse is not possible on any pager I've ever had.
The vibrate mode on most cell phones is very weak. At least weaker than they need to be in certain environments.
Now that is pretty legitimate, although it varies with the phone. That's one of the things that pagers usually do pretty well (even if it wrecks battery life;-) ).
Pretty much all doctors where I live still use them.
Fixed that for you. I haven't seen a pager here in ages.
2) Less intrusive. I get the info, but can respond to it when I choose. I guess you could call screen, but don't always know when to do that.
I don't really get that. When would you not call screen? How do you know that a page from a given number is less urgent than a call from the same number? Apply the same rules.
3) batteries last for several months
Cell phone batteries often last a couple years, considering I've never owned a cell phone that didn't come with a charger. I typically get 5-7 days on a single charge on an older RAZR.
4) Loud common ring tones, strong vibrate mode. Pagers tend to have common ring tones, which different phones do not. Easier to differentiate in a noisy setting if your pager is going off.
Fail. Almost every cell phone will allow you to install your own ring tone, but I've never had a pager with that ability. If you went into a cell phone store with an MP3 on a USB drive and told them you'd buy a phone if they could install that as your ring tone, I guarantee you'd walk out with it. My own phone allows me to copy up files via Bluetooth so I could change it hourly for free if I wanted to. The point here is that you could make a ringtone of James Earl Jones saying "spineboy, you have a message". How much more distinct could you get?
Finally, back to your point on reception. This is already changing as cell phone companies install repeaters inside large buildings. For example, a local steel mill got a repeater because otherwise phones wouldn't work at all inside its Faraday cage of a metal building. Chances are that if more than a handful of people need reception indoors somewhere, someone will supply it. Do you think they'll invest the same money supporting pagers today?
Yes, pagers at this moment have one or two nice features in specific locales, but the writing is on the wall.
FWIW, in America "returning" a product usually means "exchanging it for a like item". Retailers very rarely pay up front for their products, so whether you return an item to the store you bought it from or another, it'll get sent back to the factory and the factory's expense.
I've told this before but this seemed like the right time to repeat it.
I went to Circuit City to buy a cheap graphics card for a computer I was building. They were down to their last $50 card and a stack of $200 cards, and I bought the $50 card. It was DOA when I got home so I went to return it. The clerk absolutely refused to give me a full refund (because of their stupid 15% restocking fee policy) and they didn't have any more cheap cards, but offered to give me full credit toward a $200 card. I didn't want to shell out an extra $150 and told them so, but they wouldn't budge.
One thing led to another until I was screaming at a manager and telling would-be customers what happened, and they eventually paid me my $7.50 to get me to leave. Since then I've not spent a penny at their stores. Oh well - it sounds like no one else did either.
You didn't get the hint that you have to compare effectiveness as well.
No I don't. The only thing I have to consider is that one damages my computer. I guess I'm just selfish, but I couldn't care less which method is more convenient for publishers.
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Pickup Pal is a service that allows individuals to arrange not only carpools. Specifically, it allows drivers and passengers to arrange compensation for trips. Does this remind you of anything else? Oh, yes, a taxi company (or bus company, take your pick) which is Trentway-Wagar's complaint.
My wife buys food and cooks it for me as part of an informal arrangement. Does this remind you of anything else? Oh, yes, a restaurant.
Do you really not see the difference between private non-profit arrangements and commercial service? Honestly, your entire argument is stupid. There's nothing else I can say about it.
We could even have a new CSI CPU (Carpool Unit).
Oh please no. They'd have a detective "scripting ATM cameras with Visual Basic to Twitter their RSS for poolhiders", or some painfully unwatchable crap like that.
I, for one, will teach my kids that when someone tries to bully them they have to retaliate decisively, brutally and make sure everyone knows that crossing them means physical damage.
Yep. I taught my son how to make a proper fist, and how to swing with his whole body. I also taught him to aim for the nose. If he hits it'll hurt like crazy. If he misses, he'll catch an eye or mouth and it'll hurt like crazy. Finally, I taught him that he will never get in trouble with me for defending himself or his siblings.
This came up exactly one time, and he took my advice. His teacher told me what happened and I explained that he was following my instructions. She nodded and said that the bully had been a problem kid and she was surprised it took this long.
Well, let me give you a counterexample. I made some great friends when I was in college and in the military. Those people are scattered to the winds now, but I still think of them sometimes and wish them well. You say "stalking", but I say "seeing that my old pal in Hawaii just had a kid". I don't think that's insane or perverted. It's nice to know that these friends are happy and making careers and families for themselves.
I think the troll mods are because he didn't allow for this possibility. Sure, these sites could replace some relationships, and that's not (usually) good. I don't think that's how most people use them, though.
Look closer: he wrote "Zimbabwe". That billion plus 999 more just like it will get you a lollipop.
Know what scares me? Going to the DMV to renew my driver's license. Remember, the people around you in line are actually an above-average subset of the population. That is, they're the people who have it together enough to afford a car and be able to drive it, and yet a good 75% will look like reject extras from "Deliverance". Now, imagine them standing in line to vote. Sleep well!
And to those that say "but, but, but....they are great for keeping in touch with distant friends" - ever heard of email?
That's great for you, kid. For those of use over the age of 30, email didn't come along for average people until we had already befriended and then lost contact with a lot of people. It's only been widely popular for, what, 10 years? That doesn't extend back to my high school friends or people I was in the military with.
Maybe you're young enough that all of your friends have had email addresses, but that's not true for most of us.
Look at the attenuation v. frequency chart for the "HEAVY DUTY FARADAY CANOPY". Note the ineffective notch to the right with a 15dB (3100%, 3-1=2!) dropoff at almost exactly 2.4GHz. The canopy is clearly and blatantly designed to allow through the frequencies of common cordless phones, which everyone knows were designed by the NSA to monitor your theta waves. "Silver Lining"? That's what they want you to think.
It may be the case that support is generally longer term(I haven't looked at in depth personally) with open source. The problem is there is no guarantee, and outside of a few vendors like Red Hat or IBM, the developers don't have the resources to credibly commit to a guarantee even if they wanted to.
Outside of a few vendors like Microsoft or Apple, proprietary developers don't have the resources to credibly commit to a guarantee even if they wanted to. If you're going to hold FOSS to that standard, you have to do the same for proprietary.
I maintained a branch off a "dead" FOSS project for quite a while. There hasn't been a new release in over four years, but I was able to keep developing my version. You don't get those kinds of options with proprietary offerings.
In other words, the human brain is already somewhat too big for our own good. Fortunately for the species and men in particular, that's mostly an issue that women have to compensate for at very limited times.
Now that C-sections are common and relatively safe, do you think we'll see head sizes continue to grow, or do you reckon we'll stay roughly where we are?
I only do HD video editing so I can get away with tiny 750 gig drives,
I have a full-height 20MB hard drive I can smite you with. Get off my lawn!
Vista is barely slower than XP on hardware bought within the last 2 years.
I have Vista on last year's Presario with 2GB of RAM and a Turion 64 X2 CPU, and it runs like crap. I'd upgrade it to XP in a heartbeat if Nvidia made XP drivers for its graphics card.
Sigh. Everyone seems to be dinging me on this, when all I was trying to point out is that phone vs. pager seems to be an issue of local custom. At our hospital, almost everyone has a cell phone. I wasn't trying to imply that they weren't still used (or even that they weren't still popular) elsewhere.
My wife's a doctor and I gave the reasons she uses a cell phone instead of a pager. Maybe, just maybe, I know a little more about the subject than you think.
You must not be in hospitals much.
Not as much as my wife, granted. She (and her cell phone) are in surgery as we speak, but I mainly drop by for the free food at the staff meetings.
No need to replace the single battery (in most pagers) but once a month sometimes and no need to remember to put it on a charger every night.
What I'm asking, though, is whether that's really such a hardship. Doctors are in the habit of charging their PDAs daily, and it's pretty easy to get used to plugging in your phone at the same time.
He was referring to more unique tones of the pager compared to the obnoxious ring tone choices on cell phones.
What I was getting at is that you can make your cell phone sound exactly like your pager by recording the pager's tone and using that as your phone's ring tone. The reverse is not possible on any pager I've ever had.
The vibrate mode on most cell phones is very weak. At least weaker than they need to be in certain environments.
Now that is pretty legitimate, although it varies with the phone. That's one of the things that pagers usually do pretty well (even if it wrecks battery life ;-) ).
If only you could pay someone for answering your phone - a professional service, perhaps.
Pretty much all doctors where I live still use them.
Fixed that for you. I haven't seen a pager here in ages.
2) Less intrusive. I get the info, but can respond to it when I choose. I guess you could call screen, but don't always know when to do that.
I don't really get that. When would you not call screen? How do you know that a page from a given number is less urgent than a call from the same number? Apply the same rules.
3) batteries last for several months
Cell phone batteries often last a couple years, considering I've never owned a cell phone that didn't come with a charger. I typically get 5-7 days on a single charge on an older RAZR.
4) Loud common ring tones, strong vibrate mode. Pagers tend to have common ring tones, which different phones do not. Easier to differentiate in a noisy setting if your pager is going off.
Fail. Almost every cell phone will allow you to install your own ring tone, but I've never had a pager with that ability. If you went into a cell phone store with an MP3 on a USB drive and told them you'd buy a phone if they could install that as your ring tone, I guarantee you'd walk out with it. My own phone allows me to copy up files via Bluetooth so I could change it hourly for free if I wanted to. The point here is that you could make a ringtone of James Earl Jones saying "spineboy, you have a message". How much more distinct could you get?
Finally, back to your point on reception. This is already changing as cell phone companies install repeaters inside large buildings. For example, a local steel mill got a repeater because otherwise phones wouldn't work at all inside its Faraday cage of a metal building. Chances are that if more than a handful of people need reception indoors somewhere, someone will supply it. Do you think they'll invest the same money supporting pagers today?
Yes, pagers at this moment have one or two nice features in specific locales, but the writing is on the wall.
Four people owned my house before I bought it.
I got my car used.
I buy used books.
I buy used CDs.
I buy used video games.
Your little company doesn't get a free pass from economics just because you feel special, Capps.
FWIW, in America "returning" a product usually means "exchanging it for a like item". Retailers very rarely pay up front for their products, so whether you return an item to the store you bought it from or another, it'll get sent back to the factory and the factory's expense.
Yeah. I buy everything like that on a Visa now for that exact reason.
I've told this before but this seemed like the right time to repeat it.
I went to Circuit City to buy a cheap graphics card for a computer I was building. They were down to their last $50 card and a stack of $200 cards, and I bought the $50 card. It was DOA when I got home so I went to return it. The clerk absolutely refused to give me a full refund (because of their stupid 15% restocking fee policy) and they didn't have any more cheap cards, but offered to give me full credit toward a $200 card. I didn't want to shell out an extra $150 and told them so, but they wouldn't budge.
One thing led to another until I was screaming at a manager and telling would-be customers what happened, and they eventually paid me my $7.50 to get me to leave. Since then I've not spent a penny at their stores. Oh well - it sounds like no one else did either.
You didn't get the hint that you have to compare effectiveness as well.
No I don't. The only thing I have to consider is that one damages my computer. I guess I'm just selfish, but I couldn't care less which method is more convenient for publishers.
One continues to affect your computer's operation while the other does not.
But I don't want multiple copies of a 30GB music directory.