Depends on where you are and whether you terminated or just missed a payment. If you terminate the contract, then they tell you "have everything out by Friday, or it's going." Otherwise, they are just keeping your stuff for a month or three until you pay. Never heard of a place keeping it more than 3 months though...
I see no problem with them selling stuff off as soon as you say "I don't need this service anymore, and I am paying no longer."
Well, I have the same effect from alcohol. I am more aware, I can pay attention better, and things look prettier and sharper. This is, of course, with a couple drinks, probably about or below the "legal limit" in most states to drive. I wouldn't dare drive drunk, but after one, maybe two drinks, if I've eaten, and I feel fine, driving is barely more dangerous than when sober. With the fact that I see clearer and have a heightened sense of awareness, I think I may be safer driving with a drink under my belt than without.
I haven't been on/. lately and am very amused by this. Maybe more people are amused than disgusted, and like all vocal groups, you are actually in a minority.
Depends on where you are. Both in Kenosha County in Wisconsin, and Pinellas County in Florida, as long as you have fewer than 5 CRTs to get rid of at any one time, it is completely free.
That said, if you have a large number, in Wisconsin they charge $10 or so per unit to recycle. Not sure of in Florida, but probably at least the same. Any other tech items are free to recycle in both locations I've lived.
I find that those girls are too contorted and their body shapes too scary for my tastes. Any girl whose shoulders are twice as wide as her hips looks freakish to me. Even guys that are that abnormal look weird to me.
Depends on where/what you want. Where I lived (north Chicago suburbs) $700 won't get you anything better than a crack house.
Of course, if you live in a college town, near a college, you can get a decent place for about $600, but then you have to live with a bunch of students in a (still) fairly crappy area.
You honestly believe that this is still true? I remember when I loved Starbucks coffee. But in the past few years the quality of the beans and baristas have gone down. The coffee 95% of the time tastes burnt, and the baristas are by and large rude, and seem to not know what they are doing. Smaller shops now do much better, from my standpoint.
If you buy a Vista PC right now, you generally have to wait 30-45 minutes on first boot for it to install all the software, then you log in, and it spends forever installing more software. I'd rather have a clean Windows or linux install any day
I work at a retailer, and, at least in my retail chain, we get probably 20% or more of the credit cards as corporate accounts. The name rarely matches the bearer and they dn't even try to prove they work there with an ID or anything. I don't think they should need to (I don't care much about said retailer's business, as they treat employees like me pretty badly, but I'm trying for another job) but it is a bit of a big loophole.
I can completely jive with your point about controls in RE. My friends got RE0 on opening day and wanted me to play with them, as I had never played an RE game before. We handed off the controller, each of us taking a turn. It scared me shitless, but I played very little cause I couldn't get used to the control scheme. We got through the game in only like two days though. Same story with RE1. The controls are atrocious. I thought about playing RE4, with the better control scheme, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
That said, some movies have gotten to me horror-wise, but more games have. My favorite is Eternal Darkness for GC. So many things it that game screw with your mind.
How about when a zombie jumps out from under the daisies to latch onto your heels? ever thought about that scenario? Bet daisy-filled parks are not so harmless now, huh?;)
That's a little different than getting only store credit. I think it's a smart move by retailers. I have no problem leaving my name and phone number so they can see that I didn't steal these from anyone. I know it's a little invasion of privacy, but it does make it easier for thieves to get caught.
I don't get why people keep saying this. How is an AMD chip any more proprietary than an Intel chip? They both work with the same assembly instructions, both support the same 64-bit mode, both, as far as the OS is concerned, are identical except with respect to the SSE4 instructions Intel keeps putting out, and the 3DNow instructions that are (as far as I know) only AMD.
As far as I can see the 2 chip makers make identical products save that Intel is currently speed leader.
Even if you do manage to break a pack of 8 all at once, just get the little kids out of the room. They probably won't get enough exposure to harm them in this next step anyway, but better safe than sorry. Turn on a fan for a couple hours and open the windows. This will disperse the mercury to a point where you can safely assume there isn't enough mercury for a kid to get hurt with.
If you go to (I believe this is right) werkshop.com they do basically that. The unencumbered MP3 tracks and albums are slightly less expensive than the unencumbered FLAC recordings, presumably because the FLAC files cost them more bandwidth to transfer to the buyer.
As said earlier by myself and a few others, you can only buy DRM-free tracks if you live in Canada, or at the very least if you are not coming from a US IP address.
Unfortunately the DRM-free tracks are only available in Canada. If you try to see them from a US IP address you get a page saying those albums are only available to Canadian residents.
I would like to add that one possible reason that the Core 2 is so much faster than the Athlon 64 is that the memory is shared in a sense besides being able to be allocated all to one core. There is also the fact that say core(0) fetches some bit of data from memory and puts it in the on-die cache. If core(1) needs that same bit of info (which can happen in many benchmarks) then it doesn't have to go back to RAM to get it, but just uses the data there. The data could even be as simple as the address of another piece of data in RAM, or even the SCSI ID of a particular component. If the Athlon 64 were to have a unified cache like that, it might alone close the gap. Of course there is still the fact that the Core 2 can execute SSE instructions faster than any other CPU.
You have to remember that Socket A chips used a northbridge chip as the memory controller. In order to change memory type for the 64 line of processors they need to change transistors on the CPU itself because that's where the memory interface logic is found. IIRC DDR2 also uses more signal pins, or at least differently configured ones, than DDR. And also the two memory types have different power requirements which may affect the CPU interface as well.
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Depends on where you are and whether you terminated or just missed a payment. If you terminate the contract, then they tell you "have everything out by Friday, or it's going." Otherwise, they are just keeping your stuff for a month or three until you pay. Never heard of a place keeping it more than 3 months though...
I see no problem with them selling stuff off as soon as you say "I don't need this service anymore, and I am paying no longer."
I have never had a problem using the computer during a blackout. Cable internet with battery backup and a laptop.
I'm betting both.
Well, I have the same effect from alcohol. I am more aware, I can pay attention better, and things look prettier and sharper. This is, of course, with a couple drinks, probably about or below the "legal limit" in most states to drive. I wouldn't dare drive drunk, but after one, maybe two drinks, if I've eaten, and I feel fine, driving is barely more dangerous than when sober. With the fact that I see clearer and have a heightened sense of awareness, I think I may be safer driving with a drink under my belt than without.
I haven't been on /. lately and am very amused by this. Maybe more people are amused than disgusted, and like all vocal groups, you are actually in a minority.
Depends on where you are. Both in Kenosha County in Wisconsin, and Pinellas County in Florida, as long as you have fewer than 5 CRTs to get rid of at any one time, it is completely free.
That said, if you have a large number, in Wisconsin they charge $10 or so per unit to recycle. Not sure of in Florida, but probably at least the same. Any other tech items are free to recycle in both locations I've lived.
I find that those girls are too contorted and their body shapes too scary for my tastes. Any girl whose shoulders are twice as wide as her hips looks freakish to me. Even guys that are that abnormal look weird to me.
Only if it's some Captain. That's of course the best rum in existence.
Depends on where/what you want. Where I lived (north Chicago suburbs) $700 won't get you anything better than a crack house.
Of course, if you live in a college town, near a college, you can get a decent place for about $600, but then you have to live with a bunch of students in a (still) fairly crappy area.
You honestly believe that this is still true? I remember when I loved Starbucks coffee. But in the past few years the quality of the beans and baristas have gone down. The coffee 95% of the time tastes burnt, and the baristas are by and large rude, and seem to not know what they are doing. Smaller shops now do much better, from my standpoint.
I was never taught this in 12 years of public school in the US. And my school was rated fairly highly
Yeah, but it costs more to buy that way. Especially for me, as I haven't picked up Ep 1 yet, but have HL2 that I paid full price for.
If you buy a Vista PC right now, you generally have to wait 30-45 minutes on first boot for it to install all the software, then you log in, and it spends forever installing more software. I'd rather have a clean Windows or linux install any day
I work at a retailer, and, at least in my retail chain, we get probably 20% or more of the credit cards as corporate accounts. The name rarely matches the bearer and they dn't even try to prove they work there with an ID or anything. I don't think they should need to (I don't care much about said retailer's business, as they treat employees like me pretty badly, but I'm trying for another job) but it is a bit of a big loophole.
I can completely jive with your point about controls in RE. My friends got RE0 on opening day and wanted me to play with them, as I had never played an RE game before. We handed off the controller, each of us taking a turn. It scared me shitless, but I played very little cause I couldn't get used to the control scheme. We got through the game in only like two days though. Same story with RE1. The controls are atrocious. I thought about playing RE4, with the better control scheme, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
That said, some movies have gotten to me horror-wise, but more games have. My favorite is Eternal Darkness for GC. So many things it that game screw with your mind.
How about when a zombie jumps out from under the daisies to latch onto your heels? ever thought about that scenario? Bet daisy-filled parks are not so harmless now, huh? ;)
Who needs 10 minutes to take a leak?? You must have an enormous bladder.
That's a little different than getting only store credit. I think it's a smart move by retailers. I have no problem leaving my name and phone number so they can see that I didn't steal these from anyone. I know it's a little invasion of privacy, but it does make it easier for thieves to get caught.
I don't get why people keep saying this. How is an AMD chip any more proprietary than an Intel chip? They both work with the same assembly instructions, both support the same 64-bit mode, both, as far as the OS is concerned, are identical except with respect to the SSE4 instructions Intel keeps putting out, and the 3DNow instructions that are (as far as I know) only AMD.
As far as I can see the 2 chip makers make identical products save that Intel is currently speed leader.
Even if you do manage to break a pack of 8 all at once, just get the little kids out of the room. They probably won't get enough exposure to harm them in this next step anyway, but better safe than sorry. Turn on a fan for a couple hours and open the windows. This will disperse the mercury to a point where you can safely assume there isn't enough mercury for a kid to get hurt with.
If you go to (I believe this is right) werkshop.com they do basically that. The unencumbered MP3 tracks and albums are slightly less expensive than the unencumbered FLAC recordings, presumably because the FLAC files cost them more bandwidth to transfer to the buyer.
As said earlier by myself and a few others, you can only buy DRM-free tracks if you live in Canada, or at the very least if you are not coming from a US IP address.
Unfortunately the DRM-free tracks are only available in Canada. If you try to see them from a US IP address you get a page saying those albums are only available to Canadian residents.
I would like to add that one possible reason that the Core 2 is so much faster than the Athlon 64 is that the memory is shared in a sense besides being able to be allocated all to one core. There is also the fact that say core(0) fetches some bit of data from memory and puts it in the on-die cache. If core(1) needs that same bit of info (which can happen in many benchmarks) then it doesn't have to go back to RAM to get it, but just uses the data there. The data could even be as simple as the address of another piece of data in RAM, or even the SCSI ID of a particular component. If the Athlon 64 were to have a unified cache like that, it might alone close the gap. Of course there is still the fact that the Core 2 can execute SSE instructions faster than any other CPU.
You have to remember that Socket A chips used a northbridge chip as the memory controller. In order to change memory type for the 64 line of processors they need to change transistors on the CPU itself because that's where the memory interface logic is found. IIRC DDR2 also uses more signal pins, or at least differently configured ones, than DDR. And also the two memory types have different power requirements which may affect the CPU interface as well.