I have found some distinct advantages to ordering pizza online.
My previous residence was on the edge of town and the nearest pizza place was several miles away. If I called and ordered, most of the employees were convinced that I was beyond their delivery area and wouldn't let me make delivery orders. If I ordered through the website, however, the order was routed to the same place and it would be delivered without question. On top of that they have *never* messed up an order sent in through the site, even with a dozen or so orders a month.
Taking the person on the phone out of the pizza ordering equation definitely improved the service they offered.
I found an way to get rid of the stupid pop-ups offering passport or XP tours. You click in them and when it launched the "Utility" or whatever the hell it was you clicked cancel.
I felt the same way about those pop-ups but when I saw cancel in the passport/tour window I figured it was worth a shot. No more pop-ups.
I know it doesn't change the fact that having those pop up in the first place wasn't shit, but have we come to expect any less from MS?
I don't know when the patch came out, but my HL2 install has been setup to automatically update itself from the beginning. I wasn't about to wait for Valve to get around to fixing the issue, when it should have worked right in the first place.
I bought the collectors edition of HL2. I'm not into counterstrike or any of the other games, I just wanted HL2. I installed it on my machine and tried to run it and ended up spending the better part of 2 weeks trying to get it working.
I had the priviledge of participating in live chat, e-mail and phone support with several different reps working from scripts in India. None really knew what was going on, but their flow charts did point in the right direction: there was some problem with the DVD or the drive that was keeping the game from running.
Upon launch the HL2.exe process would run, ramp up it's memory and processor usage and then quietly quit. no error, no feedback. After several reinstalls of both game and OS I exchanged my dvd for a new one, only to have the same problem. Rather than swap out my drive I pulled disc check crack off the internet and sure enough the game loaded without any issues.
Not only is there issues with their remote auth for the game, but there are issues with the SecuROM protection they use on the actual discs, forcing me to crack my legit copy of HL2 just to get the damn thing to *run*.
Fuck You Valve, If you release any more worthwhile games I'm just going to steal them to begin with... It's easier in the long run.
I was searching last night for Warez^H^H^H^H^HOpen Source Software downloads and it wasn't giving me any greif about what seemed to ba a fairly long search string.
I looked at the info for the Metro Phoenix area and it seems to only have data for the freeways and not suface streets.
Further to that it seems to have them all listed as a fairly uniform near zero speed which is definitely not the case right now (about 10:15pm on a Saturday).
But check out www.okcupid.com. It's free for all, so you don't have the imbalance you see with pay sites.
They perpetually test your personality, and provide you with a list of likely matches in your area. Dating isn't the primary focus, but for your purposes it should do nicely.
Spend a few days answering the matching questions and browsing through the profiles of people in your area, you'll find some girls to hang out with in no time.
I'm with you... I'm 21 and I've got no less than 3 tube amps in my apartment right now.
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More power for you, and I mean that in the figurative sense, does not in any way imply less power for the government. If, for whatever reason, the gubment went sour and there came a time for armed revolt, you having a gun doesn't make it any harder for you to be killed. It just means that you have a possibility of taking a few others with you.
Unfortunately, it's morons with no dicipline, self control or sanity using the extra "power" afforded to them by the second amendment to remove othewise innocent people from this earth.
Do we really want to leave this rock? I mean, we can start exploring Mars, but I'm not sure we're gonna like what we'll find there...
We get the same thing all the time...
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We get bounces to the support address at the company I work at all the time. Someone has decided to use our support address as the 'from:' address in their crappy spam. Anytime they send it to a non-existant address, we get the bounce. Our system is updated and locked down, so they aren't coming from us, but YMMV.
Either way, I'd suggest running that address through a spam block of some kind to filter out the crud or just give it up entirely if you can.
Most of the hardware at my high school was locked down to the desks using cable locks, but the mechanism used to attach it was certainly inferior to the kensington type.
Basically, there was a metal reciever that was screwed into a rubber/plastic pad that is epoxied to the hardware you want to keep. The cable is slipped through the reciever and then locked to a suitably heavy piece of cheap furniture, while the other end was to large to pass though the reciever However, since the unlocked end was not attached to anything, you simply slacked the cable, then passed the end under and around to unscrew the reciever from the epoxied pad.
It wouldn't have worked if it was riveted instead of screwed, but then again, it's a really a deterrent in the end.
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Outside? But aren't there bears outside?
House full of bachelors, someone's ordering pizza even if it's not me
What ever happened to honor among theives?
Har Har
I have found some distinct advantages to ordering pizza online.
My previous residence was on the edge of town and the nearest pizza place was several miles away. If I called and ordered, most of the employees were convinced that I was beyond their delivery area and wouldn't let me make delivery orders. If I ordered through the website, however, the order was routed to the same place and it would be delivered without question. On top of that they have *never* messed up an order sent in through the site, even with a dozen or so orders a month.
Taking the person on the phone out of the pizza ordering equation definitely improved the service they offered.
I found an way to get rid of the stupid pop-ups offering passport or XP tours. You click in them and when it launched the "Utility" or whatever the hell it was you clicked cancel.
I felt the same way about those pop-ups but when I saw cancel in the passport/tour window I figured it was worth a shot. No more pop-ups.
I know it doesn't change the fact that having those pop up in the first place wasn't shit, but have we come to expect any less from MS?
"Ow, My Server!"
--Strong Bad
I don't know when the patch came out, but my HL2 install has been setup to automatically update itself from the beginning. I wasn't about to wait for Valve to get around to fixing the issue, when it should have worked right in the first place.
I bought the collectors edition of HL2. I'm not into counterstrike or any of the other games, I just wanted HL2. I installed it on my machine and tried to run it and ended up spending the better part of 2 weeks trying to get it working.
I had the priviledge of participating in live chat, e-mail and phone support with several different reps working from scripts in India. None really knew what was going on, but their flow charts did point in the right direction: there was some problem with the DVD or the drive that was keeping the game from running.
Upon launch the HL2.exe process would run, ramp up it's memory and processor usage and then quietly quit. no error, no feedback. After several reinstalls of both game and OS I exchanged my dvd for a new one, only to have the same problem. Rather than swap out my drive I pulled disc check crack off the internet and sure enough the game loaded without any issues.
Not only is there issues with their remote auth for the game, but there are issues with the SecuROM protection they use on the actual discs, forcing me to crack my legit copy of HL2 just to get the damn thing to *run*.
Fuck You Valve, If you release any more worthwhile games I'm just going to steal them to begin with... It's easier in the long run.
I was searching last night for Warez^H^H^H^H^HOpen Source Software downloads and it wasn't giving me any greif about what seemed to ba a fairly long search string.
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It's ok, it's a friendly robot. This Time...
9 hours and no jokes about ARM processors?
I'm suprised and disappointed...
I looked at the info for the Metro Phoenix area and it seems to only have data for the freeways and not suface streets.
Further to that it seems to have them all listed as a fairly uniform near zero speed which is definitely not the case right now (about 10:15pm on a Saturday).
Profit falls at about step 2.5
Any of the students that abandon the class have already paid. It's not personal profit, but someone's making money.
But check out www.okcupid.com. It's free for all, so you don't have the imbalance you see with pay sites.
They perpetually test your personality, and provide you with a list of likely matches in your area. Dating isn't the primary focus, but for your purposes it should do nicely.
Spend a few days answering the matching questions and browsing through the profiles of people in your area, you'll find some girls to hang out with in no time.
They'll probably make it back before it releases too...
What's that? They aren't supposed to come back?
Oh well, my original comment stands...
I'm with you... I'm 21 and I've got no less than 3 tube amps in my apartment right now.
More power for you, and I mean that in the figurative sense, does not in any way imply less power for the government. If, for whatever reason, the gubment went sour and there came a time for armed revolt, you having a gun doesn't make it any harder for you to be killed. It just means that you have a possibility of taking a few others with you.
Unfortunately, it's morons with no dicipline, self control or sanity using the extra "power" afforded to them by the second amendment to remove othewise innocent people from this earth.
That is the best idea I've heard on slashdot!
Well, maybe that's not the best metric, but it's still a great idea.
The Michael Moore is a Dirty Liar flamewar...
Love the color scheme BTW...
Is it just me, or does this make you think of Nuclear Reactor DRM?
Do we really want to leave this rock? I mean, we can start exploring Mars, but I'm not sure we're gonna like what we'll find there...
We get bounces to the support address at the company I work at all the time. Someone has decided to use our support address as the 'from:' address in their crappy spam. Anytime they send it to a non-existant address, we get the bounce. Our system is updated and locked down, so they aren't coming from us, but YMMV.
Either way, I'd suggest running that address through a spam block of some kind to filter out the crud or just give it up entirely if you can.
Front Door? That's where the pizza guy comes from, right?
Most of the hardware at my high school was locked down to the desks using cable locks, but the mechanism used to attach it was certainly inferior to the kensington type.
Basically, there was a metal reciever that was screwed into a rubber/plastic pad that is epoxied to the hardware you want to keep. The cable is slipped through the reciever and then locked to a suitably heavy piece of cheap furniture, while the other end was to large to pass though the reciever However, since the unlocked end was not attached to anything, you simply slacked the cable, then passed the end under and around to unscrew the reciever from the epoxied pad.
It wouldn't have worked if it was riveted instead of screwed, but then again, it's a really a deterrent in the end.
Wrong Movie...
"There are those that call me... Tim?"