He was probably refering to setting up a NAT based router in front of the windows box. They are cheap (a 386 will do), and they are fairly easy to setup using rc.firewall.
It's worked well for me for years now. That's not to say it's the only option, but it's a good one.
I want to scan my items as I shop so I can leave quickly.
You must have much better luck than I have. Items that don't scan take 3x as long when you have to wait for the self-service aid to clear the screen and do a hand entry of the price.. the joy of waiting on the two old twats who just can't seem to figure out how to scan their items.. and don't get me started on the frequently malconfigured "weight checking" bagging section, that stupid "incorrect item in basket area" line reminds me of clippy.
If you didn't guess, I think those stupid things are a pain in the ass.
Besides, if you're going to function as an employee (cashier), shouldn't there be an employee discount or something?
Yeah, it's great when it works, but that seems to be the exception.
There are more reasons than that. It's ideal for a company who makes a shitty product to offer a rebate. Once you cut that UPC you can't return it (usually).
So, if I had a crappy product, like say an answering machine with poor sound, I'd sell it for $40 and offer a $20 rebate. The idea of 50% off with rebate is sure to get me boost in sales from twits, and the rest will look at it and figure $20 is about right.
Most of the people who keep the machine (twits) will forget to send the rebate, so bonus cash for me.
And the group who send it in right away, *then* find out it's a piece of crap- they're stuck with it- that's about the best way to cut back on returns I can think of:)
The best part is, the majority of the customers won't think twice about never actually getting the rebate money. The few who complain I can send it too, and I'd still ahead.
I've had 3 problems with rebates, personal experience. I have straightened out all 3, but in 2 of the 3 cases I had to involve the BBB.
AT&T wireless: the rebate form had a line for the contact phone, and another for the phone you bought. They did not honor the rebate because they incorrectly entered the contact phone (my home phone) as the phone I bought. They required I resend all the information, which I did (2 stamps!), and they claimed they never got it. It took a *lot* phone calls and a grand total of 8 months. I was on their ass about it the whole time and they just did not even bother. When the BBB stepped in, AT&T simply credited my account the $50, and said they were preparing a lawsuit against the daughter company. I've seen no evidence of such, and I know they never bothered to grab the images I pointed them at off my website (got tired of wasting printer ink and stamps).
Comp USA- what can I say, they just don't want to give rebates. They even have a web site where you can view the money they don't plan to send you. I had one take over a year to get, and like a sucker, got nailed a second time. The corporate site claims you have to talk to the store manager where you bought it, the store manager claims it's a corperate issue. The BBB claims they should handle it, and they listen to the BBB.
Turbo Tax. Twice I've had to deal with them and they have (appearantly) mis-entered my ESN number, but at least they were kind enough to send me a letter saying I couldn't have it because the number was not valid. So another stamp, some more printer paper, some more printer ink, another envelope and you'll get your lousy $9.
Best companies I've dealt with? Believe it or not, Best Buy. They handle it. Every single time. I don't enjoy shopping there but damn they have some good deals from time to time, and they have never stiffed me on a rebate.
Another good one is Costco (used to be Price Club). They get extra points from me because I have sent off and received the rebate for items I returned without the UPC code. They took it and gave me all my money back.. I even told them that I'd removed the UPC for the rebate prior to discovering that it didn't suit my needs, and they didn't deduct a cent.
But that brings up another point about rebates- once you've cut that UPC, you're usually stuck with the item. So you're trapped between holding on to the item until you are sure it really stands up and (likely) forgetting about the rebate, or taking a chance and being stuck with something you didn't really want because you rushed to cash in that $20 rebate.
Number one rule of dealing with rebates: make sure you have a scanner. Make copies of everything you send when you send it, save the jpegs (thereby giving you a date), and once in a while glance in that folder. Delete the files where the transaction has completed, and contact the companies where it has not. Usually, you can get by with an email. Sometimes you have to use the phone. I don't think I've seen one yet where I had to send them a letter until after I talked to them- when they claimed that it was not accepted.
And the BBB (search google for better business) now has an online form to submit complaints. You can get the money, but don't consider the time it often takes. I know most rebates take more than an hour of wasted time forever lost, and most rebates are about $20. Tack on the stamps and you aren't fairing so well in the long run.
Did you read the article? They say Echelon "played a key role". I would say that the $27 million they paid to an informant, and the fact that the guy was sick played a larger role.
I have several computer w/o CD drives, they aren't really very important. The only time I start to recant on that is when I need to boot into rescue mode, but it doesn't take that long to plug one in.
Remember that drives are only as fast as the slowest drive on the channel, so if you want fast disk access you don't want a CD drive on the same channel.
So long as you have a networked drive elsewhere, you can share & use it.
Things like a windows installation CD. It could write the hardware list of the computer it was installed on, and then refuse to load on another system. Microsoft would love it.
I expect by next Christmas that good HDTV sets with HDTV tuners will be under $1,7.000.00
It might just be too early, or maybe I've had too little coffee, but for the life of me I can't tell if you mean 17 cents, $17,000, or $1,700, or what..
So eventually he gave up on it, but it got me to thinking, would the cover art be something unlawful for a CDDB type of entity to host?
Insert usual IANAL, however, I did some work with a museum who was putting photos of their collection on-line, and this was researched.
With artwork, usually the artist holds the copyright, and upon death, it transfers to the next of kin. This is what it boiled down to with one small exception: you can do thumbnails. Largest side cannot exceed 150 pixels.
My dad worried about out-sourcing union jobs to Mexico. I worry about out-sourcing programming jobs to India.
And *everyone* should. Here we are in a recession, with *lots* of people are out of work. People aren't consuming. And those with the money would *could* be helping the are sending it off to beef up the foriegn economy?
What the hell is up with that?
I work at large institution who is outsourcing *huge* amounts of developement to a foreign country. Is the code better than americans could write? No. Is there a skill set we are missing? No. Is it cheaper to outsource the development? No (costs associated with bug fixes, an inability to "steer" the developers in a timely manor/mis-communications, and the cost of getting a developer on-site to debug unforseen problems more than make up for any savings).
But we do it.
And since the economy is in the shitter, we get to deal with raising taxes for the people who are already coming up short.
I shop online for selection, convenience, and easy price comparison.
And the convenience of obtaining an RMA/paying shipping when something is bad.
Oh, and UPS is a pure joy. Gotta love those little yellow tags that say "I'll be back tomorrow at 4:30p", followed by one that says "I was here at 10:30a, I'll try making a last attempt tomorrow after 5pm". "where's the package" is one of the greatest games there is. The greatest is "will I actually get the item before the price drops 10%" is only a little better.
I live just over a mile from DMAFB, and I can't help but wonder how well my in-house wireless will react to this. I'm less than 300 ft. from a road military vehicles frequent, although presumably without radar turned on.
Perhaps it's time to grab an 802.11g access point before they are all military radar friendly. Or will the long term result be a ban on non-friendly access points?
I suppose time will tell. It has a habit of doing that.
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He was probably refering to setting up a NAT based router in front of the windows box. They are cheap (a 386 will do), and they are fairly easy to setup using rc.firewall.
It's worked well for me for years now. That's not to say it's the only option, but it's a good one.
If you didn't guess, I think those stupid things are a pain in the ass.
Besides, if you're going to function as an employee (cashier), shouldn't there be an employee discount or something?
Yeah, it's great when it works, but that seems to be the exception.
That's total BS.
Always remember- you can do anything you want.. once.
And on that note, I have just stolen your .sig.
Not because I wanted it, but because I could.
Where the heck are you? When I was unemployed in AZ it was $205/wk before taxes. After taxes, it was more like $150.
And it sucked. That barely paid the utilities & food- rent was covered by cashing out my 401K at a substantial loss.
Thank goodness I found work in about 2 & a half months..
Usually without the UPC, the item may only be exchanged for the same item. This would mean you would be stuck with the crappy unit.
Defective != crappy. It could just have bad memory causing garbled output, or only hold 5 30 second messages (in the example I gave).
There are more reasons than that. It's ideal for a company who makes a shitty product to offer a rebate. Once you cut that UPC you can't return it (usually).
:)
So, if I had a crappy product, like say an answering machine with poor sound, I'd sell it for $40 and offer a $20 rebate. The idea of 50% off with rebate is sure to get me boost in sales from twits, and the rest will look at it and figure $20 is about right.
Most of the people who keep the machine (twits) will forget to send the rebate, so bonus cash for me.
And the group who send it in right away, *then* find out it's a piece of crap- they're stuck with it- that's about the best way to cut back on returns I can think of
The best part is, the majority of the customers won't think twice about never actually getting the rebate money. The few who complain I can send it too, and I'd still ahead.
I've had 3 problems with rebates, personal experience. I have straightened out all 3, but in 2 of the 3 cases I had to involve the BBB.
AT&T wireless: the rebate form had a line for the contact phone, and another for the phone you bought.
They did not honor the rebate because they incorrectly entered the contact phone (my home phone) as the phone I bought. They required I resend all the information, which I did (2 stamps!), and they claimed they never got it. It took a *lot* phone calls and a grand total of 8 months. I was on their ass about it the whole time and they just did not even bother. When the BBB stepped in, AT&T simply credited my account the $50, and said they were preparing a lawsuit against the daughter company. I've seen no evidence of such, and I know they never bothered to grab the images I pointed them at off my website (got tired of wasting printer ink and stamps).
Comp USA- what can I say, they just don't want to give rebates. They even have a web site where you can view the money they don't plan to send you. I had one take over a year to get, and like a sucker, got nailed a second time. The corporate site claims you have to talk to the store manager where you bought it, the store manager claims it's a corperate issue. The BBB claims they should handle it, and they listen to the BBB.
Turbo Tax. Twice I've had to deal with them and they have (appearantly) mis-entered my ESN number, but at least they were kind enough to send me a letter saying I couldn't have it because the number was not valid. So another stamp, some more printer paper, some more printer ink, another envelope and you'll get your lousy $9.
Best companies I've dealt with? Believe it or not, Best Buy. They handle it. Every single time. I don't enjoy shopping there but damn they have some good deals from time to time, and they have never stiffed me on a rebate.
Another good one is Costco (used to be Price Club). They get extra points from me because I have sent off and received the rebate for items I returned without the UPC code. They took it and gave me all my money back.. I even told them that I'd removed the UPC for the rebate prior to discovering that it didn't suit my needs, and they didn't deduct a cent.
But that brings up another point about rebates- once you've cut that UPC, you're usually stuck with the item. So you're trapped between holding on to the item until you are sure it really stands up and (likely) forgetting about the rebate, or taking a chance and being stuck with something you didn't really want because you rushed to cash in that $20 rebate.
Number one rule of dealing with rebates: make sure you have a scanner. Make copies of everything you send when you send it, save the jpegs (thereby giving you a date), and once in a while glance in that folder. Delete the files where the transaction has completed, and contact the companies where it has not. Usually, you can get by with an email. Sometimes you have to use the phone. I don't think I've seen one yet where I had to send them a letter until after I talked to them- when they claimed that it was not accepted.
And the BBB (search google for better business) now has an online form to submit complaints. You can get the money, but don't consider the time it often takes. I know most rebates take more than an hour of wasted time forever lost, and most rebates are about $20. Tack on the stamps and you aren't fairing so well in the long run.
BS. Real programmers use
and if they have to use windows, they use
Did you read the article? They say Echelon "played a key role". I would say that the $27 million they paid to an informant, and the fact that the guy was sick played a larger role.
Bah- I was doing this (well, ftp, not sftp) in emacs back in '92 with ange-ftp.
Editing remote files seemlessly is nothing new.
I have several computer w/o CD drives, they aren't really very important. The only time I start to recant on that is when I need to boot into rescue mode, but it doesn't take that long to plug one in.
Remember that drives are only as fast as the slowest drive on the channel, so if you want fast disk access you don't want a CD drive on the same channel.
So long as you have a networked drive elsewhere, you can share & use it.
Things like a windows installation CD. It could write the hardware list of the computer it was installed on, and then refuse to load on another system. Microsoft would love it.
That would have been pretty funny if your login name was Hobbs.
LOL!
That one-liner is the funniest thing I've read all week.
It might just be too early, or maybe I've had too little coffee, but for the life of me I can't tell if you mean 17 cents, $17,000, or $1,700, or what..
You've got to love this scheme.
What happens when the next nasty worm breaks out? And just think of all the new devices to exploit which will bring everything down.
And you can't call to report a problem with your email because the phone is out too.
Yep, tieing all devices to one single point of failure sounds like a dream come true.
Insert usual IANAL, however, I did some work with a museum who was putting photos of their collection on-line, and this was researched.
With artwork, usually the artist holds the copyright, and upon death, it transfers to the next of kin. This is what it boiled down to with one small exception: you can do thumbnails. Largest side cannot exceed 150 pixels.
so 150x150 pixels should not be a problem.
And *everyone* should. Here we are in a recession, with *lots* of people are out of work. People aren't consuming. And those with the money would *could* be helping the are sending it off to beef up the foriegn economy?
What the hell is up with that?
I work at large institution who is outsourcing *huge* amounts of developement to a foreign country. Is the code better than americans could write? No. Is there a skill set we are missing? No. Is it cheaper to outsource the development? No (costs associated with bug fixes, an inability to "steer" the developers in a timely manor/mis-communications, and the cost of getting a developer on-site to debug unforseen problems more than make up for any savings).
But we do it.
And since the economy is in the shitter, we get to deal with raising taxes for the people who are already coming up short.
I've got one word: Fucktards.
Which makes this a nice time for a
I wonder what he'll make out of the puddle of muck his server is likely to be when he gets back?
And the convenience of obtaining an RMA/paying shipping when something is bad.
Oh, and UPS is a pure joy. Gotta love those little yellow tags that say "I'll be back tomorrow at 4:30p", followed by one that says "I was here at 10:30a, I'll try making a last attempt tomorrow after 5pm". "where's the package" is one of the greatest games there is.
The greatest is "will I actually get the item before the price drops 10%" is only a little better.
Seems unlikely since it's running linux.
I live just over a mile from DMAFB, and I can't help but wonder how well my in-house wireless will react to this. I'm less than 300 ft. from a road military vehicles frequent, although presumably without radar turned on.
Perhaps it's time to grab an 802.11g access point before they are all military radar friendly. Or will the long term result be a ban on non-friendly access points?
I suppose time will tell. It has a habit of doing that.
Cripe, that was the first thing that went through my head too..
I would be more than happy to pay whatever for a full set of *all* the animaniacs episodes in high quality w/o commercials on DVD.
Warner, are you listening? Cash money..
Oh how I miss that show..
yeah, I was.. I didn't figure it would go over well.. :)