Jeez people. I think we can safely say the OP was exaggerating about the divorce thing. Either that or he's very, very poor, and should not be having a cell phone. Gee, which one do you think it is?
If you annoy somebody else by texting in there (and you most probably will), they can just tell you to stop it - no need to place stupid bans. This is a bit off topic, but you just made me think of something. How much rude behavior do we let people get away with these days because we're somehow afraid the other guy is going to shoot us? If this isn't the case then what else changed that made us so tolerant?
I haven't actually seen unlimited calls. I think the operators are afraid people would find ways to abuse the privilege... but 3500 minutes, enough for all 6 of my nuclear family and equivalent to 2 hours on the phone every day, during peak hours only with nights starting at a piddly 7pm, is 130 a month.
You know the adage, in America 100 years is a long time, and in Europe 100 miles is a long way. The only reason we even have nationwide cell coverage from sea to shining freakin' sea is that we pay a bit more. If anything, our current service represents a remarkable triumph of the free market, the likes of which we don't see nearly often enough.
Isn't the idk in the school paper thing a bit apocryphal. I mean, seriously, these kids don't have spell check? See I could have just made a typo here, but Firefox caught me.
I think the bigger problem is that these particular kids have no idea that there is a difference between formal writing and oh I don't know lets call it dumbass writing, like I'm doing now.
This is compounded by the fact that most adults don't bother writing formally these days either.
essentially, in order to have a system which requires a human player, we need to check that there's a human player. Let me be the first to propose mandatory eye-toy-type devices (with signed code and a hypervisor of course) for all Halo 3 matches.
Agreed, but the point here is to have a closed system in which no one can cheat. There's always going to be security holes in games, but allowing only unmodified systems online keeps individual game developers from having to play cat and mouse with their userbase. See halo 2 for examples.
mp3PRO is cool, but the Wiki says that there are no portable players on the market right now that can play it properly, and all the software out there to do it is binary-only.
Why not give out flac's, and let people do whatever they want with em. Better yet, encode on the fly to whichever format the customer wants.
IMHO these modes suck. Fortunately the Beta and presumably the release have an option to veto the game type before it starts. So if enough people agree with us, we won't have to play these modes.
Fortunately we also get modes like VIP, which is sweet.
Maybe if you're parked next to the ocean or something, you might have accelerated corrosion, but most people should be fine. I live next to the ocean, you insensitive clod!
*not a direct reply* Anecdotes aside though, you're crazy if you think most people want to deal with the maintenance on 3 cars. The market has already determined this, and this is why SUVs are so popular. Call them stupid sheeple if you want, but I think the market has made the right decision for the moment, taxes or no taxes.
I'm inspired however, by the ZipCars I've seen in major cities. Maybe we need ZipTrucks. Still won't help the folks in the suburbs though...
I'm not sure what peaceable means, but drinking in peace is at worst a minor statutory violation.
Would you say the same thing about a jay walker? How about the guy who forgot to add a couple of bucks to his customs declaration for the bottle of booze he brought back?
What does replacing hard drives have to do with having a Mac? I dunno about Macs, but the hard drives in "PC" notebooks are interchangeable these days. Of course you have to deal with getting your data/programs from the one to the other, but hardware is not a problem.
I think the already-released Smashing Pumpkins albums will be relevant for 10 years at least. They just got back together, so there might be even more relevant music.
It's too hard to predict what people will listen to in 50 years, but it's hard to believe that it some of today's pop won't make it. If I could, I'd buy some posters and T-shirts cheap and sell them at outrageous prices to collectors in 50 years.
How many times do I have to tell people. Money that sits still is next to worthless. You can't stash it all under your mattress and then get pissed when it's not worth anything any more. If you'd put it in an international index fund in early-to-mid '06 (I won't advertise any, but they're not hard to find) you'd be 20% richer right now.
If you have no faith in the dollar, then invest in Euros or gold. You don't even have to leave the country. If you can't handle that then, well... Wal-Mart will always keep rolling back prices for you.
Short answer: because you're paying for them. Ok, well, U.S. drug buyers are paying for them. I'm assuming you're one of those.
These companies are thinking: Ok, if we've done all the hard work already, we may as well sell them for whatever we can get in Canada and Europe. If you think of it as one complete system, those who pay more are subsidizing the rest. Basically, other countries are leaching off of the U.S.'s highly efficient drug market. We'll see for how long that works for them.
You're redundancy is commendable, however, in the last dorm I lived in, when hurricane Rita came, I couldn't get a wireless call out to save my life. Land lines did fine. Luckily I didn't need to.
Keep in mind that if you're using Vista, you're machine will likely not wake, and, if you have my problem, you'll have to hard power down the machine, fscking your filesystem.
Nice little bit of fiction there AC.
I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." Perhaps your problem is that when said families actually come into the store you insult them with words that you'd never hear in a Christian rock album.
Why does everyone keep implying that all Wal-Mart customers are poor/average/drunks? Maybe Joe Six-pack used all the money he saved shopping at Wal-Mart instead of Saks or wherever you shop to buy an HDTV.
Also, let's not rule out the possibility of folks going to Wal-Mart because they heard about the unbelievably cheap HD-DVD players.
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Buy a real compiler. Hell buy two.
I mean who seriously codes much in assembly these days. Even if you do, you can always hire somebody who can code PowerPC assembly like... oh say me.
Jeez people. I think we can safely say the OP was exaggerating about the divorce thing. Either that or he's very, very poor, and should not be having a cell phone. Gee, which one do you think it is?
I haven't actually seen unlimited calls. I think the operators are afraid people would find ways to abuse the privilege... but 3500 minutes, enough for all 6 of my nuclear family and equivalent to 2 hours on the phone every day, during peak hours only with nights starting at a piddly 7pm, is 130 a month.
Hey man, I do that already, just to make passers-by uncomfortable.
Seriously, mod me of offtopic if you want. This is funny; somebody give this guy his karma back. (Use underrated)
You know the adage, in America 100 years is a long time, and in Europe 100 miles is a long way. The only reason we even have nationwide cell coverage from sea to shining freakin' sea is that we pay a bit more. If anything, our current service represents a remarkable triumph of the free market, the likes of which we don't see nearly often enough.
Isn't the idk in the school paper thing a bit apocryphal. I mean, seriously, these kids don't have spell check? See I could have just made a typo here, but Firefox caught me.
I think the bigger problem is that these particular kids have no idea that there is a difference between formal writing and oh I don't know lets call it dumbass writing, like I'm doing now.
This is compounded by the fact that most adults don't bother writing formally these days either.
Agreed, but the point here is to have a closed system in which no one can cheat. There's always going to be security holes in games, but allowing only unmodified systems online keeps individual game developers from having to play cat and mouse with their userbase. See halo 2 for examples.
mp3PRO is cool, but the Wiki says that there are no portable players on the market right now that can play it properly, and all the software out there to do it is binary-only.
Why not give out flac's, and let people do whatever they want with em. Better yet, encode on the fly to whichever format the customer wants.
IMHO these modes suck. Fortunately the Beta and presumably the release have an option to veto the game type before it starts. So if enough people agree with us, we won't have to play these modes.
Fortunately we also get modes like VIP, which is sweet.
*not a direct reply*
Anecdotes aside though, you're crazy if you think most people want to deal with the maintenance on 3 cars. The market has already determined this, and this is why SUVs are so popular. Call them stupid sheeple if you want, but I think the market has made the right decision for the moment, taxes or no taxes.
I'm inspired however, by the ZipCars I've seen in major cities. Maybe we need ZipTrucks. Still won't help the folks in the suburbs though...
I'm not sure what peaceable means, but drinking in peace is at worst a minor statutory violation.
Would you say the same thing about a jay walker? How about the guy who forgot to add a couple of bucks to his customs declaration for the bottle of booze he brought back?
If you get 3 months rent out of a 1000 bucks, much less 500, I need to know where you are livin' man. No joke... I just might move there.
What does replacing hard drives have to do with having a Mac? I dunno about Macs, but the hard drives in "PC" notebooks are interchangeable these days. Of course you have to deal with getting your data/programs from the one to the other, but hardware is not a problem.
Me. I pwned Compuserve.
Too early for internets as a teen. By the time they got it together, I'd lost interest.
I think the already-released Smashing Pumpkins albums will be relevant for 10 years at least. They just got back together, so there might be even more relevant music.
It's too hard to predict what people will listen to in 50 years, but it's hard to believe that it some of today's pop won't make it. If I could, I'd buy some posters and T-shirts cheap and sell them at outrageous prices to collectors in 50 years.
True enough, but you can use thin clients quite effectively. It's still a box, but it's a small one.
How many times do I have to tell people. Money that sits still is next to worthless. You can't stash it all under your mattress and then get pissed when it's not worth anything any more. If you'd put it in an international index fund in early-to-mid '06 (I won't advertise any, but they're not hard to find) you'd be 20% richer right now.
If you have no faith in the dollar, then invest in Euros or gold. You don't even have to leave the country. If you can't handle that then, well... Wal-Mart will always keep rolling back prices for you.
Short answer: because you're paying for them. Ok, well, U.S. drug buyers are paying for them. I'm assuming you're one of those.
These companies are thinking: Ok, if we've done all the hard work already, we may as well sell them for whatever we can get in Canada and Europe. If you think of it as one complete system, those who pay more are subsidizing the rest. Basically, other countries are leaching off of the U.S.'s highly efficient drug market. We'll see for how long that works for them.
You're redundancy is commendable, however, in the last dorm I lived in, when hurricane Rita came, I couldn't get a wireless call out to save my life. Land lines did fine. Luckily I didn't need to.
Keep in mind that if you're using Vista, you're machine will likely not wake, and, if you have my problem, you'll have to hard power down the machine, fscking your filesystem.
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Why does everyone keep implying that all Wal-Mart customers are poor/average/drunks? Maybe Joe Six-pack used all the money he saved shopping at Wal-Mart instead of Saks or wherever you shop to buy an HDTV.
Also, let's not rule out the possibility of folks going to Wal-Mart because they heard about the unbelievably cheap HD-DVD players.