Indeed. In my two years working for the company I do, I've received 7 certificates, a big honkin' beer mug (logo'd), 3 logo'd stress balls, 4 shirts with slogans, 3 keychains (logo'd), 2 mousepads (with HUGE logos), 5 lunches and 3 stupid pins. Ugh.
Been there, done that. Nothing quite like having the police show up at your door to find you just sitting at your 'puter, programming, nobody else in sight. I have to say, though, that the cop thought it was pretty funny (I happened to know him, luckily).
I recently ran into an ANCIENT IBM Thinkpad that did just that, somewhere in the 500 series, I think. This design is harrdley new or innovative. For its time, that old ThinkPad was pretty light, and did pretty much everything that you speak of, though I doubt it'd even run Win2k now, let alone Xp.
::chuckles:: Yeah, I suppose you have a point, there...but just two things in my defense:
-- The Riviera Beach Motor Inn (right on the ocean in S. Yarmouth, MA) doesn't, and it's hardly a small motel, or a cheap one (on season, $250 or so a night)
-- The Shearaton in Springfield, MA and the Hilton in Valley Forge, PA don't charge either.
I imagine that the possibility of charging is proportional to how much they believe they can ream you for. Hehe.
Well, not to sound like an ad or anything, but every Motel 6 I ever stayed in has had free *local* calls, along with all the nasty sleezy hotels over in West Springfield (Massachusetts) (and the one REALLY sleezy one in Agawam). I've stayed in a few with ludicrous rates, though.
Yep, that's psoriasis all right. It's pretty common. Bleach does work well for it, probably by removing the excess skin. I was prescribed a couple things for it on occasion, and it went away, but it came back afterwards. It doesn't really bug me, personally, unless it gets so dry it cracks. I recommend popping vitamin A (I think? or was it E?) capsals open and smearing the goo over it. It'll go away within a week. Good stuff, that.
Well, around here, a fairly standard plan is this one, from a large carrier: $35 per month, 200 day minutes, 3300 night and weekend minutes, $0.40 for ever minute over, free long distance.
My landline, from another large carier is $17 per month, unlimited local calls, $4 per month for long distance at $0.04 a minute. Night begins at 9 PM.
My typical usage: 6 hours local calling in a month during the day. 10 hours long distance calling at night. Very rarely do I make long distance calls during the day.
Cell Phone: 6 Hours * 60 Mins/Hr = 360 mins day time 10 Hours * 60 Mins/Hr = 600 mins night (or weekend) 360 mins-200 included in plan=160 minutes overage 160 mins * $0.40/min = $64 The 600 night minutes are free, included in plan.
Total cost for cell phone: $35 + $64 = $99 in a typical month
Land Line: 360 mins local, 600 mins long distance, as above. Local time is free --> included in plan 600 mins * $0.04/minute = $24.00
Total cost for land line: $17 + $4 + $24 = $42
That's right. For me, the cell phone is almost double the price...and that's only if I make a large ammount of long distance calls. My $17 includes voice mail and caller ID. I'd drop $3 if I had an answering machine.
Sure, I could pick a better plan for more money, but I don't want to pay, say, $55 a month if I'm only making what would be $20 in calls on my land line. My minimum on the land line is only $21/mo. For me, at least, this is why I don't use a cell. I just can't rationalize it.
Right now, I'm running Word 97, Trillian (with about a dozen open windows), Outlook Express and 3 instances of IE. No complaints, really. There's a bit of churn, sure. Like I said, I could use more RAM. It's fairly responsive, though.
A good way to tell whether or not you should use I or me at the end of a sentence is to see what it would be like without the second object.
For example, "He shot my friend and me."
"He shot I" would sound rather silly, wouldn't it? "He shot me" sounds much better, and should be grammatically correct as "He shot my friend and me." "He shot my friend and I." may sound better, but it is wrong...at least, last time I checked.
I run Win2k on my P166/64MB laptop, myself, with fairly minimal swap (it could really use another 64MB, which I'm going to get soon). It runs fine overall, just boots a tad slow. I can only imagine that a 400 Mhz box would be even better...
I would think that there's concern about the amount of time that it takes to send the message or time that it takes to actually encrypt it, etc. It could very well be faster to send a key through the secure means, then transmit the encrypted message over other means, rather than do the entire message over the secure means.
Also, I suppose there's a cost involved as well...and it may not always be feasable to be connected through the secure means.
Not only that, but I've gone through 2 Creative CD-RW's (both died just after warranty) and 3 Creative DVD-RAM drives (under warranty). Worse still is my mate, who has toasted an amazing 3 Creative CD-RW's. Their stuff, especially lately, is crap. My SB Live! Platinum (got for $20 a year ago) is the only thing I've ever gotten from them that works (I'm also not affected by the WinXp problem--I run 2K and FreeBSD on that box). Simply amazing.
I'm using a POS 15" Provue running at 1152x768, 60 Hz (ohh my eyes). Why 60 Hz? The stupid monitor woobles and deforms at anything above that. It used to do 85, once upon a time *sigh*.
At work, I use a dell 17" Trinitron...and my laptop has a 14.1" LCD. The Dell runs atthe same 1152x768, the laptop at 1024x768. Not bad.
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Indeed. In my two years working for the company I do, I've received 7 certificates, a big honkin' beer mug (logo'd), 3 logo'd stress balls, 4 shirts with slogans, 3 keychains (logo'd), 2 mousepads (with HUGE logos), 5 lunches and 3 stupid pins. Ugh.
Been there, done that. Nothing quite like having the police show up at your door to find you just sitting at your 'puter, programming, nobody else in sight. I have to say, though, that the cop thought it was pretty funny (I happened to know him, luckily).
...and besides, in a lot of places, you *can* get local channels very easily. Granted, sometimes they charge you extra, but sometimes they don't.
I recently ran into an ANCIENT IBM Thinkpad that did just that, somewhere in the 500 series, I think. This design is harrdley new or innovative. For its time, that old ThinkPad was pretty light, and did pretty much everything that you speak of, though I doubt it'd even run Win2k now, let alone Xp.
Can I have a link to that? I can't seem to find it on their site.
::chuckles:: Yeah, I suppose you have a point, there...but just two things in my defense:
-- The Riviera Beach Motor Inn (right on the ocean in S. Yarmouth, MA) doesn't, and it's hardly a small motel, or a cheap one (on season, $250 or so a night)
-- The Shearaton in Springfield, MA and the Hilton in Valley Forge, PA don't charge either.
I imagine that the possibility of charging is proportional to how much they believe they can ream you for. Hehe.
Well, not to sound like an ad or anything, but every Motel 6 I ever stayed in has had free *local* calls, along with all the nasty sleezy hotels over in West Springfield (Massachusetts) (and the one REALLY sleezy one in Agawam). I've stayed in a few with ludicrous rates, though.
Just FYI, a good place to get your POP mail while on the road (at the price of a banner ad or two) is Mail2Web. Check 'em out.
Yep, that's psoriasis all right. It's pretty common. Bleach does work well for it, probably by removing the excess skin. I was prescribed a couple things for it on occasion, and it went away, but it came back afterwards. It doesn't really bug me, personally, unless it gets so dry it cracks. I recommend popping vitamin A (I think? or was it E?) capsals open and smearing the goo over it. It'll go away within a week. Good stuff, that.
Well, around here, a fairly standard plan is this one, from a large carrier: $35 per month, 200 day minutes, 3300 night and weekend minutes, $0.40 for ever minute over, free long distance.
My landline, from another large carier is $17 per month, unlimited local calls, $4 per month for long distance at $0.04 a minute. Night begins at 9 PM.
My typical usage:
6 hours local calling in a month during the day.
10 hours long distance calling at night.
Very rarely do I make long distance calls during the day.
Cell Phone:
6 Hours * 60 Mins/Hr = 360 mins day time
10 Hours * 60 Mins/Hr = 600 mins night (or weekend)
360 mins-200 included in plan=160 minutes overage
160 mins * $0.40/min = $64
The 600 night minutes are free, included in plan.
Total cost for cell phone: $35 + $64 = $99 in a typical month
Land Line:
360 mins local, 600 mins long distance, as above.
Local time is free --> included in plan
600 mins * $0.04/minute = $24.00
Total cost for land line: $17 + $4 + $24 = $42
That's right. For me, the cell phone is almost double the price...and that's only if I make a large ammount of long distance calls. My $17 includes voice mail and caller ID. I'd drop $3 if I had an answering machine.
Sure, I could pick a better plan for more money, but I don't want to pay, say, $55 a month if I'm only making what would be $20 in calls on my land line. My minimum on the land line is only $21/mo. For me, at least, this is why I don't use a cell. I just can't rationalize it.
Naw, it shouldn't. I may just have lesser standards of speed than others. Whatever works, I suppose.
That *is* odd. I just went back, and the CD-ROM only one is gone now. *shrug* Don't know what to say.
Right now, I'm running Word 97, Trillian (with about a dozen open windows), Outlook Express and 3 instances of IE. No complaints, really. There's a bit of churn, sure. Like I said, I could use more RAM. It's fairly responsive, though.
A good way to tell whether or not you should use I or me at the end of a sentence is to see what it would be like without the second object.
For example, "He shot my friend and me."
"He shot I" would sound rather silly, wouldn't it? "He shot me" sounds much better, and should be grammatically correct as "He shot my friend and me." "He shot my friend and I." may sound better, but it is wrong...at least, last time I checked.
I run Win2k on my P166/64MB laptop, myself, with fairly minimal swap (it could really use another 64MB, which I'm going to get soon). It runs fine overall, just boots a tad slow. I can only imagine that a 400 Mhz box would be even better...
That's odd, I put in for STCC (Springfield Technical Community College) in Massachusetts, I get the $999 base model too...and as shopping for myself.
Don't forget, they said 5 employees on 2 PC's. YOu're looking more along the line of $48,000! Yikes!
I would think that there's concern about the amount of time that it takes to send the message or time that it takes to actually encrypt it, etc. It could very well be faster to send a key through the secure means, then transmit the encrypted message over other means, rather than do the entire message over the secure means.
Also, I suppose there's a cost involved as well...and it may not always be feasable to be connected through the secure means.
So...exactly the same tech support that you get from them now? Beautiful.
OEM Version:
1. Reboot
2. Reboot more
3. Run quick restore disk without telling customer what it will do.
You mean, like this?
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It may not be GNU, but it *is* open...
Not only that, but I've gone through 2 Creative CD-RW's (both died just after warranty) and 3 Creative DVD-RAM drives (under warranty). Worse still is my mate, who has toasted an amazing 3 Creative CD-RW's. Their stuff, especially lately, is crap. My SB Live! Platinum (got for $20 a year ago) is the only thing I've ever gotten from them that works (I'm also not affected by the WinXp problem--I run 2K and FreeBSD on that box). Simply amazing.
So does my Magneto Optical drive use discs, disks or discks? Hehehe.
Well, I have an abundance of Commie floppy drives with power supplies...want one?
Nobody around over 21 that the parents will give written permission to?
I'm using a POS 15" Provue running at 1152x768, 60 Hz (ohh my eyes). Why 60 Hz? The stupid monitor woobles and deforms at anything above that. It used to do 85, once upon a time *sigh*.
At work, I use a dell 17" Trinitron...and my laptop has a 14.1" LCD. The Dell runs atthe same 1152x768, the laptop at 1024x768. Not bad.