Couldn't you buy the new player, and then begin purchasing HD-DVD or Blu-ray disks? Keep watching your old movies in standard def, and enjoy new movies in higher resolution? That would get you the best of both worlds.
Of course, then you couldn't come bitching to slashdot.
funny - i started buying dvds in 1996? Heck - I had a sizable collection when I went away to college in 1998. And now i'm up to over 500 dvds.
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amen - I spend (well, the insurance company spends) much more on test strips than on insulin.
Retail: a bottle of insulin is $20. That lasts me approximately 14 days In those 14 days I will use between 70 and 140 test strips, which cost about $.50 a piece. So lets say $50. Also - in those 14 days I will use 5 sets of supplies for my insulin pump. At $17 a pop, that's $85
Out of that total $155, the insulin is only 13% of the cost. Granted the insurance company doesnt pay retail for anything, and I absorb a small fraction of the cost through deductibles, but it will still end up only being 13% of the cost of the daily supplies.
And let's not talk about the $5,000 insulin pump that only works for 4 years, or all the doctors visits, blood work, ER visits if I become sick......
A cure for Type 1 diabetes would save the insurance companies a fair amount of money in the mid-term, and extremely large amounts of money in the long term.
no no no. Inventory turns is a major metric for anyone who has to keep stock on hand. And you want inventory turns to be as high as possible. If the best buy manager is really smart he'll go for this - knowing that this will cause his store to beat out all the other stores in the area for the quarter.... possibly putting him in line for a promotion!
I've got a friend at the red cross, and she loves to tell the story about how people who bank their own blood to "avoid disease" usually already have a blood-borne disease and don't know about it. Ain't that a kick in the pants - it's not you that need protection from us - it's us that need protection from you!
Actually coke's recipe is fairly easy for someone else to duplicate.
But Pepsi would never ever duplicate Coke's taste. To most people (i'd say 99%) of the population coke and pepsi taste different. I continue to drink coke (actually diet coke) because I like how it tastes. I have friends who only drink diet pepsi because they like how it tastes. They're both cola, but they've differentiated themselves in the marketplace by how they taste, and their brand image.
Now those off brands - I would bet they they neither want to spend the time or money to try and duplicate anybodies formula. They know they're selling based upon price, not taste.
Everybody I know who is older and has tattoos doesn't regret them at all. The tattoos has been with them all their lives and are more like old friends than a foolish choice made as a youngster. I love my tattoos and cherish them. They all have memories tied to them and are important to me.
I also made sure that all my tattoos are covered up by pants and a polo shirt. If a job's attire is more relaxed than that then some ink certainly won't hurt chances of getting hired or promoted.
That's odd. I'm using iTunes right now in minimized mode. And I set it to always on top. It's tough to do though. You've got to select "Switch to mini player" from the advanced menu, or type ctrl+M.
actually the second button isn't a problem with windows tablets. All tablets use almost exactly the same screen technology from wacom, and you can even use a pen from one companies tablet on another machine.
All those pens include a little button, that you can hold down while you tap to do a right click. Not too bad or troublesome.
That being said - I'd love to have an apple tablet. I had a motion computing tablet computer for a year - it was wonderful for taking notes in class. I do have to say - convertible tablets are much more useful than pure tablets. There are many times you just need a keyboard - and having to carry one around just isn't practical.
Umn - i think you're thinking of "Watt" or "the absolute meter-kilogram-second unit of power equal to the work done at the rate of one joule per second or to the power produced by a current of one ampere across a potential difference of one volt : 1/746 horsepower".
Wat isn't a word. unless you count abbreviations. or airport codes.
and for that matter "bi" isn't actually a word, but rather a prefix, an abbreviation for the element bismuth, or the country code for burundi.
There is a chain of stores called "Rent a Rim". The Wall Street Journal actually had a story about them about 3 years back. Went into detail about bling-lovin hoes showing up with the paystubs of their three boyfriends so they could get some sweet rims for their ride.....
I actually saw one of their stores in a bad area of Phoenix. Busted out laughing. Good times.
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hahha - but your ipod only holds 33 of your 3hr long movies. My Ipod holds 66 90 minute movies! So there!
Couldn't you buy the new player, and then begin purchasing HD-DVD or Blu-ray disks? Keep watching your old movies in standard def, and enjoy new movies in higher resolution? That would get you the best of both worlds.
Of course, then you couldn't come bitching to slashdot.
funny - i started buying dvds in 1996? Heck - I had a sizable collection when I went away to college in 1998. And now i'm up to over 500 dvds.
amen - I spend (well, the insurance company spends) much more on test strips than on insulin.
Retail: a bottle of insulin is $20. That lasts me approximately 14 days
In those 14 days I will use between 70 and 140 test strips, which cost about $.50 a piece. So lets say $50.
Also - in those 14 days I will use 5 sets of supplies for my insulin pump. At $17 a pop, that's $85
Out of that total $155, the insulin is only 13% of the cost. Granted the insurance company doesnt pay retail for anything, and I absorb a small fraction of the cost through deductibles, but it will still end up only being 13% of the cost of the daily supplies.
And let's not talk about the $5,000 insulin pump that only works for 4 years, or all the doctors visits, blood work, ER visits if I become sick......
A cure for Type 1 diabetes would save the insurance companies a fair amount of money in the mid-term, and extremely large amounts of money in the long term.
no no no. Inventory turns is a major metric for anyone who has to keep stock on hand. And you want inventory turns to be as high as possible. If the best buy manager is really smart he'll go for this - knowing that this will cause his store to beat out all the other stores in the area for the quarter.... possibly putting him in line for a promotion!
ooh classy - nice implication of a causal relationship between ipods and homosexuality. grow up.
I've got a friend at the red cross, and she loves to tell the story about how people who bank their own blood to "avoid disease" usually already have a blood-borne disease and don't know about it. Ain't that a kick in the pants - it's not you that need protection from us - it's us that need protection from you!
I think you're mistaken. quadruple anal penetration does not use the c*nt, but rather the backdoor (hence the "anal" part of "anal penetration")
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that's the funny thing - those four year old iBooks still work pretty damn good.....
you can also drive him crazy by not proofreading before posting
Glass breaks on me when I drop it from a countertop and you want to drop it from how high?
Actually coke's recipe is fairly easy for someone else to duplicate.
But Pepsi would never ever duplicate Coke's taste. To most people (i'd say 99%) of the population coke and pepsi taste different. I continue to drink coke (actually diet coke) because I like how it tastes. I have friends who only drink diet pepsi because they like how it tastes. They're both cola, but they've differentiated themselves in the marketplace by how they taste, and their brand image.
Now those off brands - I would bet they they neither want to spend the time or money to try and duplicate anybodies formula. They know they're selling based upon price, not taste.
Everybody I know who is older and has tattoos doesn't regret them at all. The tattoos has been with them all their lives and are more like old friends than a foolish choice made as a youngster. I love my tattoos and cherish them. They all have memories tied to them and are important to me.
I also made sure that all my tattoos are covered up by pants and a polo shirt. If a job's attire is more relaxed than that then some ink certainly won't hurt chances of getting hired or promoted.
there goes the entire reason to have a high speed internet connection
oh that's much easier than F2
That's odd. I'm using iTunes right now in minimized mode. And I set it to always on top. It's tough to do though. You've got to select "Switch to mini player" from the advanced menu, or type ctrl+M.
so it's about $200 american a pound, right?
actually the second button isn't a problem with windows tablets. All tablets use almost exactly the same screen technology from wacom, and you can even use a pen from one companies tablet on another machine.
All those pens include a little button, that you can hold down while you tap to do a right click. Not too bad or troublesome.
That being said - I'd love to have an apple tablet. I had a motion computing tablet computer for a year - it was wonderful for taking notes in class. I do have to say - convertible tablets are much more useful than pure tablets. There are many times you just need a keyboard - and having to carry one around just isn't practical.
not to nitpick - but 90120 isn't even a valid zip code....
What kind of gym do you go to where people ejaculate on the gym equipment?
We're talking about gyms, not gay sex clubs.
Umn - i think you're thinking of "Watt" or "the absolute meter-kilogram-second unit of power equal to the work done at the rate of one joule per second or to the power produced by a current of one ampere across a potential difference of one volt : 1/746 horsepower".
Wat isn't a word. unless you count abbreviations. or airport codes.
and for that matter "bi" isn't actually a word, but rather a prefix, an abbreviation for the element bismuth, or the country code for burundi.
There is a chain of stores called "Rent a Rim". The Wall Street Journal actually had a story about them about 3 years back. Went into detail about bling-lovin hoes showing up with the paystubs of their three boyfriends so they could get some sweet rims for their ride.....
I actually saw one of their stores in a bad area of Phoenix. Busted out laughing. Good times.
Darn those thieves who come prepared with box cutters, or use that pair of scissors you left on your desk.
The laptop cable might take a bit of work to get through, but i'd bet the handle of the case comes off pretty easy.
Yes - it's included in the EULA. If the tax software has a calculation error, they pay for it.
So if somehow 2+2=5 on your tax return, they'll take care of the problems that incurs.
I don't think they've ever had to pay out. Except for people using pentiums with the division error bug.
Actually that one guy is a dork because he has a discman in a big fanny pack.
And I have an ipod because I appreciate being able to have lots of music with me, in a small form factor, with a user interface that I find intuitive.