Re:Thoughts from the dad of a 9month old
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i for one as a male of 19 am always telling my partner to get the good job so i can stay at home. never rule this out no matter how badly you feel you have to be the bread winner. besides the fact that you might be more financialy sound, you as a male might have a better relationship with your kid/s in the future do to the early bonding... but what do i know?:)
unfortunatly this bend would be nothing more then bending the metal over your knee, which again is nothing like using a brake. brake provides percise degree bends dead on from one end of YOur piece to the other end
if YOu can ofcourse save the community all this money by using a door way i would definatly apreciate an mpeg of you doing so. as well as the rest of the slashdot community im sure.
and if your looking to save some money this model is cheaper yet... you could also probly get by with this brake im not sure at this point if they carry a cheaper shear.. the whole point is if you have any wood working skills what so ever you could easily build a case out of wood, the trick with metal ofcourse is planning in advance what to bend and at what order to make bends in... tip #1 do your drilling before you bend it all together... one other thing to look at would be perhaps spot welding certain joints... while you could invest in a spot welder it might be cheaper to take it to a shop to have them do it, but if money is the true issue you can get by without spot welding at all
metal working is incredibly easy. in fact, i personaly think it is easier to work with sheat metal then wood. the tools required to do a profesional job tend to be a bit expensive but i imagine it would be pretty expensive to one single computer case custom built for you
you would need a hand brake and ofcourse, a nice drill press, and i would also recomend a shear the ones given are mearly examples of what you would need tool wise. you can sometimes get them in an all in one combination.. brake press to bend the metal, shear to do your big straight cuts and a drill press for precision holes.. you would need airplane shears and a few other assorted tools like perhaps a scratch awl and what not..
that's pretty close... from the manpage.. not what you wanted i know.. let me see what else i come up with...
i was wrong. however, if you read "Unlike other crond/crontabs, this crontab does not try to do everything under the sun. Frankly, a shell script is much more able to manipulate the environment then cron" that leads to my second thought... your entry for once in a year leads to a shell script that at some point removes the cron entry that called it.:) not quite as easy as at i do agree, but it will work
ah but! cron can one a job just once on the year/month/date/time you specify... since at is old and rarely used many at like features are done in cron. allthough not as easily as at...
thanks for giving me the chance to laugh at you laughing at him!
"What he's saying is that a company cannot afford to offer an extended warranty unless, statistically speaking, they will make money off of that"
stores cant afford to sell anything they dont make money on. "statistically".
"If you're selling a 5 sheet paper shredder that you know will have to be replaced every 6 months, either you shouldn't sell the product"
why shouldnt it be sold? who says? knuckle heads who refuse to buy the warranty will keep buying these things increasing the money we make even more.
"or you should inform the consumer"
we do inform them of this, the most common response is i will just buy another. not to mention no where do we advertise the life of the shreader thus there is no false advertising.
what your trying to say yourself is, you think its not worth it. that's fine and dandy, but in this situation the warranty works. we have regular buisness customers who come in every 2 months on the nose and replace larger paper shreaders with the brushes all burnt out on them and the blades chewed to all hell.. $200 shredders. when they initialy get one they pay $219.99+%7 sales tax for the shreader and the prp... and everyone after that only costs them 19.99.. whats wrong with that? they break one, get a gift card for 199.99+%7 tax to buy a new one.. and then they invest the $19.99+%7 sales tax again.. where is it a losing proposition? $20 for a $200 shredder?
so you would rather buy, for instance, a 5 sheet paper shreader every 6 months, at $50, then spend $55 for two which would last you a year? because im detecting a savings of $45. but if you have money to throw away like that, hey, i have some college bills i would love to have you pay
there are obviously two types of people who are out there. those who think the warranties are worth while and those who dont. its going to break, the question is when.
in the return policy == good to go
in the manufacture warranty == pay shipping to and from, outside of 90 days pay labor
outside of the warranty w/o extended warranty == throw it away
i work for staples, and i used to make money on the warranties, 1$ on prp(product replacement plan) and 5% on the cost of a tsp(technical suport plan) however they have stopped doing this and are now moving back to a comission based on your sales...(there a lot of details to this, post a message asking for details and leaving an email addy if you care)
our prp is a one year extension on the manufc. warranty and is definatly worth it on some items. for instance
$200 monitor, plan is $19.99, $100 after rebate it "goes bad" in your warranty time, call up, its bad, they walk you through some steps, one in ten has to send the item in shipping PRE PAID. you get $200+tax back on a gift card to spend in the store even though you only paid $100+tax
our tsp is what we used on pda's and digital cameras but i think its most important role is on things like computers and expensive laser printers
you have the option to buy tsp's with 2 years or 3 years of service, depending on the dollar amount you can get carry-in or onsite/express shipping.
onsite express shipping is the way to go. think something is wrong with it? anything at all, makes a funny noise, change a cartridge still some streaks? double sheet fead? you want them to clean it? ANYTHING. they show up to your place of buisness or home. your out of the area or it might take them a while to get to you? overnight shipping PREPAID. have you ever shipped a computer to a manufacturer? we had a lady ship a gayway computer back with monitor and printer, total cost, $173. the cost of a tsp. not to mention if you plan on shipping a monitor via ups, it has to have the origional box for ups to insure it for any value.
it all comes down to the question of how well you know your technology. everything is going to break, its just a question of when.
in our store if you have a warranty we take care of you if they dont take care of you when you call it in, you put your trust in us to take care of you, so we're going to do everything to take care of you.
i would like to add that this isnt a staples sales pitch, go to whatever store you like, see who offers what when it comes to warranties. i must also say when someone says no i dont push it, they said no. i myself have walked out of bestbuy because it seemed like the sales kid was never going to shut up and sell me the cd player for the car. again he was using the age old time of "it needs to be cleaned every" well it may be, but i'd like to atleast by the darn thing:)
do you feel you tought them a lesson by walking out? do you think they wered upset that they lost the sale? or do you think that they laughed at you later on?
the truth is, in the warranty selling position they'd rather not sell anything, then sell something without a warranty.
at my store which is not best buy, if you bring an electronic item back on the 15th day, one past the return policy, with no warranty on it, you just wasted a trip. if its under warrant (at our store there is no in store service) we will swap you out for a new one if its in a reasonable time and send you on your way, if its not in a reasonable time we'll swap you out a new one and terminate the extended warranty (depending on the kind of warranty)
they dont require you to sign anything, simply activate your minutes and go. however prepaid phones carry a much higher cost per minute. as a cell phone user you are coverd by the tcpa dont fret.. read the bottom of the page on what info you need to file a report.. keep it handy... $500 for every offense. if its a telemarketing company with any brains they wont be calling cell phones.
yes nextel has some plans where you only pay for outgoing calls starting at $60 you can get such a plan, and yes, in this case the tcpa wouldnt even protect you because the call is at no cost to you.
i submitted this story because my bank wellsfargo couldnt seem to stop calling me on my cell. i tried in good faith many times to get them to stop. i received over 5 calls from them. when i contacted my cellphone provider at&t on getting help on getting the numbers of the person calling because under the tcpa solicitations are not allowed to be made to phones. you guesed it though. att was about as much help as, well, dead flash light batteries when the power goes out.
my highschool had suh poar security on teachers computers not to mention the hole network. nothing like letting the kids play with their grades or poking fun at others.
when i went to a middle school that had a system like that the teacher randomly selected someone to run the computer that day and do all the work in it because he didnt want to... privacy privacy privacy...
this is the best way to go, its where i always pass cell phones on to. definatly a worth while cause. just having the cellphone can make a big difference in how the women feel moving about day to day
when i was a kid we had to sell chocolate and the likes of other stuff, not email. my message to kids is pull out the pen and be creative. if they give money for email addys turned in non-verified, as in they dont know if they wont bounce or not this is a potential cash cow. if they do judge by wether or not it will bounce turn in your school's email addy's and every other local email addy. along with whomever elses you can find. including the white house;)
if you have any sort of programming skills, and an as, or a bachelors hit Mayo.edu and check out the job listings, in rochester programmers are in HIGH demand. there is also internships available.
rochester realy isnt the happening place for younger folks but if you realy need a job bad this is a great place to start, it will look good on a resume... and rochester has been ranked the #1 city to live in a couple times in recent years
actualyf if you read the initial article he says he allready has the stack of 1u servers all he has to do is add the ram. which is much cheaper then what your suggesting.
not to mention that most slashdot articles are from people on a budget
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i for one as a male of 19 am always telling my partner to get the good job so i can stay at home. never rule this out no matter how badly you feel you have to be the bread winner. besides the fact that you might be more financialy sound, you as a male might have a better relationship with your kid/s in the future do to the early bonding... but what do i know? :)
unfortunatly this bend would be nothing more then bending the metal over your knee, which again is nothing like using a brake. brake provides percise degree bends dead on from one end of YOur piece to the other end
if YOu can ofcourse save the community all this money by using a door way i would definatly apreciate an mpeg of you doing so. as well as the rest of the slashdot community im sure.
actualy, you cant do anything with a door frame that you can do with a sheet metal brake.. so it should be modded -1 anything...
and if your looking to save some money this model is cheaper yet... you could also probly get by with this brake im not sure at this point if they carry a cheaper shear.. the whole point is if you have any wood working skills what so ever you could easily build a case out of wood, the trick with metal ofcourse is planning in advance what to bend and at what order to make bends in... tip #1 do your drilling before you bend it all together... one other thing to look at would be perhaps spot welding certain joints... while you could invest in a spot welder it might be cheaper to take it to a shop to have them do it, but if money is the true issue you can get by without spot welding at all
you would need a hand brake and ofcourse, a nice drill press, and i would also recomend a shear the ones given are mearly examples of what you would need tool wise. you can sometimes get them in an all in one combination.. brake press to bend the metal, shear to do your big straight cuts and a drill press for precision holes.. you would need airplane shears and a few other assorted tools like perhaps a scratch awl and what not..
# 4:00 a.m. on january 1st
:) not quite as easy as at i do agree, but it will work
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that's pretty close... from the manpage.. not what you wanted i know.. let me see what else i come up with...
i was wrong. however, if you read "Unlike other crond/crontabs, this crontab does not try to do everything under the sun. Frankly, a shell script is much more able to manipulate the environment then cron" that leads to my second thought... your entry for once in a year leads to a shell script that at some point removes the cron entry that called it.
and the biggest joke of all is the grammar in my last post!
thanks for giving me the chance to laugh at you laughing at him!
stores cant afford to sell anything they dont make money on. "statistically".
"If you're selling a 5 sheet paper shredder that you know will have to be replaced every 6 months, either you shouldn't sell the product"
why shouldnt it be sold? who says? knuckle heads who refuse to buy the warranty will keep buying these things increasing the money we make even more.
"or you should inform the consumer"
we do inform them of this, the most common response is i will just buy another. not to mention no where do we advertise the life of the shreader thus there is no false advertising.
what your trying to say yourself is, you think its not worth it. that's fine and dandy, but in this situation the warranty works. we have regular buisness customers who come in every 2 months on the nose and replace larger paper shreaders with the brushes all burnt out on them and the blades chewed to all hell.. $200 shredders. when they initialy get one they pay $219.99+%7 sales tax for the shreader and the prp... and everyone after that only costs them 19.99.. whats wrong with that? they break one, get a gift card for 199.99+%7 tax to buy a new one.. and then they invest the $19.99+%7 sales tax again.. where is it a losing proposition? $20 for a $200 shredder?
so you would rather buy, for instance, a 5 sheet paper shreader every 6 months, at $50, then spend $55 for two which would last you a year? because im detecting a savings of $45. but if you have money to throw away like that, hey, i have some college bills i would love to have you pay
i normaly dont bother responding to ac's for obvious reasons, but perhaps you should read further on my views of extended warranties
in the return policy == good to go
in the manufacture warranty == pay shipping to and from, outside of 90 days pay labor
outside of the warranty w/o extended warranty == throw it away
i work for staples, and i used to make money on the warranties, 1$ on prp(product replacement plan) and 5% on the cost of a tsp(technical suport plan) however they have stopped doing this and are now moving back to a comission based on your sales...(there a lot of details to this, post a message asking for details and leaving an email addy if you care)
our prp is a one year extension on the manufc. warranty and is definatly worth it on some items. for instance
$200 monitor, plan is $19.99,
$100 after rebate
it "goes bad" in your warranty time, call up, its bad, they walk you through some steps, one in ten has to send the item in shipping PRE PAID.
you get $200+tax back on a gift card to spend in the store even though you only paid $100+tax
our tsp is what we used on pda's and digital cameras but i think its most important role is on things like computers and expensive laser printers
you have the option to buy tsp's with 2 years or 3 years of service, depending on the dollar amount you can get carry-in or onsite/express shipping.
onsite express shipping is the way to go. think something is wrong with it? anything at all, makes a funny noise, change a cartridge still some streaks? double sheet fead? you want them to clean it? ANYTHING. they show up to your place of buisness or home. your out of the area or it might take them a while to get to you? overnight shipping PREPAID. have you ever shipped a computer to a manufacturer? we had a lady ship a gayway computer back with monitor and printer, total cost, $173. the cost of a tsp. not to mention if you plan on shipping a monitor via ups, it has to have the origional box for ups to insure it for any value.
it all comes down to the question of how well you know your technology. everything is going to break, its just a question of when.
in our store if you have a warranty we take care of you if they dont take care of you when you call it in, you put your trust in us to take care of you, so we're going to do everything to take care of you.
i would like to add that this isnt a staples sales pitch, go to whatever store you like, see who offers what when it comes to warranties. i must also say when someone says no i dont push it, they said no. i myself have walked out of bestbuy because it seemed like the sales kid was never going to shut up and sell me the cd player for the car. again he was using the age old time of "it needs to be cleaned every" well it may be, but i'd like to atleast by the darn thing
do you feel you tought them a lesson by walking out? do you think they wered upset that they lost the sale? or do you think that they laughed at you later on?
the truth is, in the warranty selling position they'd rather not sell anything, then sell something without a warranty.
at my store which is not best buy, if you bring an electronic item back on the 15th day, one past the return policy, with no warranty on it, you just wasted a trip. if its under warrant (at our store there is no in store service) we will swap you out for a new one if its in a reasonable time and send you on your way, if its not in a reasonable time we'll swap you out a new one and terminate the extended warranty (depending on the kind of warranty)
they dont require you to sign anything, simply activate your minutes and go. however prepaid phones carry a much higher cost per minute. as a cell phone user you are coverd by the tcpa dont fret.. read the bottom of the page on what info you need to file a report.. keep it handy... $500 for every offense. if its a telemarketing company with any brains they wont be calling cell phones.
yes nextel has some plans where you only pay for outgoing calls starting at $60 you can get such a plan, and yes, in this case the tcpa wouldnt even protect you because the call is at no cost to you.
i submitted this story because my bank wellsfargo couldnt seem to stop calling me on my cell. i tried in good faith many times to get them to stop. i received over 5 calls from them. when i contacted my cellphone provider at&t on getting help on getting the numbers of the person calling because under the tcpa solicitations are not allowed to be made to phones. you guesed it though. att was about as much help as, well, dead flash light batteries when the power goes out.
oh and, lets not forget this one click
assuming you have the wireless coverage for it, what a match made in heven.
here we go voip cell phone the thought just up and struck me that it was symbol who makes this device. they also are known for their pos equipment.
when i went to a middle school that had a system like that the teacher randomly selected someone to run the computer that day and do all the work in it because he didnt want to... privacy privacy privacy...
this is the best way to go, its where i always pass cell phones on to. definatly a worth while cause. just having the cellphone can make a big difference in how the women feel moving about day to day
when i was a kid we had to sell chocolate and the likes of other stuff, not email. my message to kids is pull out the pen and be creative. if they give money for email addys turned in non-verified, as in they dont know if they wont bounce or not this is a potential cash cow. if they do judge by wether or not it will bounce turn in your school's email addy's and every other local email addy. along with whomever elses you can find. including the white house
this program can be abused both ways.
rochester realy isnt the happening place for younger folks but if you realy need a job bad this is a great place to start, it will look good on a resume... and rochester has been ranked the #1 city to live in a couple times in recent years
they make a cell phone with voip built in, but i beleive its in the upwards of $600 usd
i ofcourse cant seem to find the link for it now but i do know it exists...
it is argued that's sprints 3g is nothing but voip..
if you realy want me to try hard to dig up that link let me know
not to mention that most slashdot articles are from people on a budget
i hope they have a lot of ethernet coard. it will probly be ripped out of their car. or the cat5 will break.