Ok, they get the PC riddled with spyware.....so you clean it off.
2 days later, the scanner software goes on the blink. Guess who is going to get blamed? Yeah, probably you, the kind relative that cleaned up the PC but didn't touch the scanner software.
If you ever worked in a call center, you'd wish that the disabled *couldn't* use a phone at all... if you didn't think that, you would after being stuck on your first 2 hour long operator assisted relay call trying to troubleshoot Windows 95.
"What web browser are you using? Go ahead."....
(yes, I'm being a smart ass.. but if you've ever worked in a call center, you know what I'm talking about.)
I was going to a bar with a girlfriend in Sacramento a few years back (I hadn't had anything to drink yet) and at a stop light in front of us, this guy in a Ford F-350 plowed into the back of a Honda CRX, obliterating the entire car. We tried calling 911 from our cell phones (different carriers!) and all we got was "All circuits are busy at this time.."
The only one that was able to get through to 911 was a Pacific Gas & Electric repairman who radioed his dispatch office and gave them the location of the wreck. EMS showed up very quickly after that, fortunately.
Sun is in it to make profits to please the shareholders. If the job doesn't requite Solaris, go ahead and use Linux, be it SuSE or Red Hat. That's what McNealy sees anyway... dollar signs.
Sun has done some pretty cool things with Solaris 10. It might actually end up making Sun a lil' bit of spending cash..
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I hate to tell you, but I don't know one single woman that has EVER had ANY problem getting laid.
Getting laid by Mr. Hottie, maybe... but never any problem getting laid.:P
Until the "private schools" decide "We're going to be even BETTER! Your kids will be SAFER at our private schools because we have RFID tracking on all of them!" and the people that bought into the "private school education has to be better" lie will be in the same boat.
* Dotster now almost immediately swaps DNS to their servers and puts up a LAME "This domain has expired" and "search engine" type page. I didn't expect them to do something that lame.
* If you don't re-register within a grace period, they charge you a HUGE fee to renew the domain. I am not pleased with that at all. There've been times where I couldn't afford to renew a domain exactly when it was due. More suckage.
ChexSystems is absolute *bullshit* and can really screw you. Blocking you from a bank account (regardless of whether or not it's corrected & paid off) for FIVE YEARS?
I'd wager that shit like that is keeping a lot of people in poverty. I've been in ChexSystems, over a small bounced check that I didn't know about (was changing accounts) - US Bank REFUSED to tell me exactly how much the amount was. I eventually got an exact payoff amount and paid it immediately, only to have a branch manager practically laugh at me and say that it's against their policy to remove anyone from ChexSystems no matter what. Nice.
c) Why the hell is he making payments on a 2002 car if he is in such bad shape? Sell/trade the damn thing in on a late 90s used car, expenses go down.
Probably because he cannot sell it for what it's worth and trading it in would only drive him deeper into the hole? I've been right where this guy is. I could *not sell* a car that I couldn't afford anymore. The finance company rejected several very qualified people. Why? They make more reposessing the vehicle and selling it at auction.
d) Renting a Motel room is stupid, but I will say the article attempted to explain it as his bad credit keeps him from renting/homeowning, and that is understandable to an extent, but I'd wager that statement was only relevant with respect to the types of homes they would deem acceptable, they probably could suck it up and live in a lease below their prior standards until back on their feet.
Hah. I've been here, and it *sucks* especially when you get hit with $50 "application fees" (per person) only to be told "No, sorry, your PERFECT rental history and good job don't matter.. you have unpaid utility bills.." Bad credit isn't always caused by people getting into credit cards. I got slapped with thousands in medical bills after being hit by a car (hit & run) without insurance. I couldn' afford to pay, so guess who has a bunch of collections on his credit report? Yup, me.
Just because someone has bad credit doesn't mean that they were trying to live outside their means.
For the love of god, I just want a phone that can actually make a phone call from within my apartment. Or even on my patio.. or down at the corner.
I have T-Mobile (work phone) and have 0 signal within a 1/8th mile radius of my apartment. AT&T, Cingular, MetroPCS, and Sprint are all terrible around here as well. Only phone that gets "2 bars" is a Verizon one, and even that's spotty. I do *not* live in the boonies. I'm in an east SF bay area with over 250,000 people. Definately not BFE.
Instead, we get ringtones, games, and flippin *cameras* that take lousy photos. GSM seems to suck in the US. I rarely had coverage problems with my old TDMA phone.
I don't know anyone that will switch from Outlook simply because the calender offerings from the mozilla folks *suck*
Read some of my past posts. I'm too tired to rehash it, but basically the calendar is lacking really important features. Sunbird just doesn't cut it. Not even close.
The Mozilla Foundation needs a kick ass calendaring application. *That* is what holds a LOT of people to Outlook.. the goddamn calendar.
Yup. That's the whole reason. I searched and searched n Google and 50 other message boards and found others that were having the exact same problem. It sucked.:(
It was either a)have old drivers with bugs or b)have no DVD playback.
Here in the Bay Area, the Raiders games aren't televised unless the games sell out. The games rarely sell out, so I don't watch the Raiders play. Who loses? *shrug* Not me. The NFL loses another viewer.
Besides, even though I can't speak Spanish, there's usually a soccer game on the Spanish channels that's more interesting.:P
Aside from the NFL stuff they have, the music channels are pretty cool, the talk shows are cool, the service has been working great.
I think that this will do quite a bit to draw customers to them. THe Sirius units aren't that expensive. I spent $69.99 on one at Best Buy (Kenwood home unit) and it's been great for me.
They're also offering lifetime subscriptions right now, so if you don't like the monthly fee, there's another option.
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Ok, they get the PC riddled with spyware... ..so you clean it off.
2 days later, the scanner software goes on the blink. Guess who is going to get blamed? Yeah, probably you, the kind relative that cleaned up the PC but didn't touch the scanner software.
That's why I don't touch family PCs.
If you ever worked in a call center, you'd wish that the disabled *couldn't* use a phone at all... if you didn't think that, you would after being stuck on your first 2 hour long operator assisted relay call trying to troubleshoot Windows 95.
....
"What web browser are you using? Go ahead."
(yes, I'm being a smart ass.. but if you've ever worked in a call center, you know what I'm talking about.)
I was going to a bar with a girlfriend in Sacramento a few years back (I hadn't had anything to drink yet) and at a stop light in front of us, this guy in a Ford F-350 plowed into the back of a Honda CRX, obliterating the entire car. We tried calling 911 from our cell phones (different carriers!) and all we got was "All circuits are busy at this time.."
The only one that was able to get through to 911 was a Pacific Gas & Electric repairman who radioed his dispatch office and gave them the location of the wreck.
EMS showed up very quickly after that, fortunately.
No URL for it, but a local TV station (KRON 4) had a segment on the news about that last night and some of the privacy issues.
Yes, lawyers are being outsourced. Patent law work and legal work needing engineering/technical backgrounds is being outsourced to India as well.
At least Limewire isn't nagware. I hate that screen that Acquisition pops up all the time..
Sun is in it to make profits to please the shareholders. If the job doesn't requite Solaris, go ahead and use Linux, be it SuSE or Red Hat. That's what McNealy sees anyway... dollar signs.
Sun has done some pretty cool things with Solaris 10. It might actually end up making Sun a lil' bit of spending cash..
I hate to tell you, but I don't know one single woman that has EVER had ANY problem getting laid.
:P
Getting laid by Mr. Hottie, maybe... but never any problem getting laid.
Until the "private schools" decide "We're going to be even BETTER! Your kids will be SAFER at our private schools because we have RFID tracking on all of them!" and the people that bought into the "private school education has to be better" lie will be in the same boat.
I watch BOTH of those channels a lot!
:P
Rachael Ray is hot, and MXC is hilarious.
Those ads are so condescending and insulting.
Fuck you, MPAA. And knock off the long ass ads before movies. I don't want to pay $9.00 a pop to be peppered with 15 minutes of TV commercials.
The theater experience just plain sucks these days. Morons with cell phones, expensive snacks, etc.
I want for everything to come out on DVD. Then I grab it from Netflix. Hopefully they won't start peppering DVDs with ads too...
This guy just wants to download Hilary Duff and Britney Spears mp3s.
He's just using the other ones to cover it all up.
I can see right through his guise!
* Dotster now almost immediately swaps DNS to their servers and puts up a LAME "This domain has expired" and "search engine" type page. I didn't expect them to do something that lame.
* If you don't re-register within a grace period, they charge you a HUGE fee to renew the domain. I am not pleased with that at all. There've been times where I couldn't afford to renew a domain exactly when it was due. More suckage.
Registrars suck.
ChexSystems is absolute *bullshit* and can really screw you. Blocking you from a bank account (regardless of whether or not it's corrected & paid off) for FIVE YEARS?
I'd wager that shit like that is keeping a lot of people in poverty. I've been in ChexSystems, over a small bounced check that I didn't know about (was changing accounts) - US Bank REFUSED to tell me exactly how much the amount was. I eventually got an exact payoff amount and paid it immediately, only to have a branch manager practically laugh at me and say that it's against their policy to remove anyone from ChexSystems no matter what.
Nice.
c) Why the hell is he making payments on a 2002 car if he is in such bad shape? Sell/trade the damn thing in on a late 90s used car, expenses go down.
Probably because he cannot sell it for what it's worth and trading it in would only drive him deeper into the hole?
I've been right where this guy is. I could *not sell* a car that I couldn't afford anymore. The finance company rejected several very qualified people. Why? They make more reposessing the vehicle and selling it at auction.
d) Renting a Motel room is stupid, but I will say the article attempted to explain it as his bad credit keeps him from renting/homeowning, and that is understandable to an extent, but I'd wager that statement was only relevant with respect to the types of homes they would deem acceptable, they probably could suck it up and live in a lease below their prior standards until back on their feet.
Hah. I've been here, and it *sucks* especially when you get hit with $50 "application fees" (per person) only to be told "No, sorry, your PERFECT rental history and good job don't matter.. you have unpaid utility bills.."
Bad credit isn't always caused by people getting into credit cards. I got slapped with thousands in medical bills after being hit by a car (hit & run) without insurance. I couldn' afford to pay, so guess who has a bunch of collections on his credit report? Yup, me.
Just because someone has bad credit doesn't mean that they were trying to live outside their means.
For the love of god, I just want a phone that can actually make a phone call from within my apartment. Or even on my patio.. or down at the corner.
I have T-Mobile (work phone) and have 0 signal within a 1/8th mile radius of my apartment. AT&T, Cingular, MetroPCS, and Sprint are all terrible around here as well. Only phone that gets "2 bars" is a Verizon one, and even that's spotty.
I do *not* live in the boonies. I'm in an east SF bay area with over 250,000 people. Definately not BFE.
Instead, we get ringtones, games, and flippin *cameras* that take lousy photos.
GSM seems to suck in the US. I rarely had coverage problems with my old TDMA phone.
"The only downside to the book is its $85.00 price, "
:P
Ever since my job was outsourced, I can't afford books. Or food, or beer...
I don't know anyone that will switch from Outlook simply because the calender offerings from the mozilla folks *suck*
Read some of my past posts. I'm too tired to rehash it, but basically the calendar is lacking really important features. Sunbird just doesn't cut it. Not even close.
The Mozilla Foundation needs a kick ass calendaring application. *That* is what holds a LOT of people to Outlook.. the goddamn calendar.
Someone needs to load balance web servers a bit better. :P
Yup. That's the whole reason. I searched and searched n Google and 50 other message boards and found others that were having the exact same problem. It sucked. :(
:)
It was either a)have old drivers with bugs or b)have no DVD playback.
Fortunately there was a c)use VLC
www.videolan.org
I had to roll back nVidia drivers for a GeForce 2 MX because I found that I could no longer play DVDs because the card has a TV-Out.
No, you can NOT disable the TV-Out port *anywhere* in the software. The only choice was to roll back the drivers.
PowerDVD & Windows Media Player were rendered DVD-worthless... but at least VLC works.
Pissed me off, and reminded me that shitty drivers occur with both ATI and nVidia.
Here in the Bay Area, the Raiders games aren't televised unless the games sell out. The games rarely sell out, so I don't watch the Raiders play.
:P
Who loses? *shrug* Not me. The NFL loses another viewer.
Besides, even though I can't speak Spanish, there's usually a soccer game on the Spanish channels that's more interesting.
There are 157 Starbucks locations within 20 miles of 94111 (Financial District)
:P
San Francisco is *not* that big of a city.
All they need is a WiFi point in each Starbucks, and they'll pretty much cover everything in the city.
But just because you can't Google for it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
I'm living proof. I find whack ass errors in Linux all the time that I can't find with any amount of Googling. heh.
TV:"Oh, please God.. I can't take another episode of "Survivor" and I'm so sick of "The Surreal Life" these days.. help me!"
Aside from the NFL stuff they have, the music channels are pretty cool, the talk shows are cool, the service has been working great.
I think that this will do quite a bit to draw customers to them. THe Sirius units aren't that expensive. I spent $69.99 on one at Best Buy (Kenwood home unit) and it's been great for me.
They're also offering lifetime subscriptions right now, so if you don't like the monthly fee, there's another option.