With a credit card you can dispute any item you want and you don't have to pay until the dispute is cleared up. Most of the time the customer will win the dispute. No signature=no guarantee the charge is valid.
Please read the fine print on using a check aka debit card vs a credit card to make sure you are covered for any fruad.
Local news did a story on people using check cards when buying gas. Even is is the purchase was for $20 they will place a hold charge of $50-$100 on the account to make sure the money is there so they will get paid.
With a credit card, they can only tag the card for $1 to make sure it is a legit card.
Thats why you wear a hidden mic to get them on tape. Now if only I could find a pair of those camera glasses that Howie Mandel wears on the Tonight Show.
Think thats bad, I have over 1500 vhs tapes (of various crap, tv shows, etc) as well as almost 1000 3/4" Umatic tapes-many broadcast masters of tv shows.
Know the feeling, graduated with a BS, couldn't find jack shit. Went back for a Masters, still can't find jack shit. Been out of school for about 5 years now, still haven't worked a real job yet.*
'course living at home in a converted basement helps on the rent and the free time did allow me to camp out for AotC but that's another matter.
*by real I mean something other than stocking Walmart, waiting tables, grocery clerk, etc.
Am I angry? Damn right, wake up pissed off every single day.
Do you remeber those crappy eMachines that resembled the iMacs? It's bad enough when people ask me how to open up an eMachine because they think it's an iMac.
Now people might confuse the eMac as being an abreviated eMachine. I can just hear their response now: "It's the same thing right?" ...reach for hammer...
Huh?
As documented in that Austin Power's movie, there is no "world" to dominate, only corporations.
Conquer those and you control the government. Atleast until the magnetic pulse wipes it out.
The movies are loaded from a dvd, don't remember the compression specs. Monsters came on a single disk, I'm sure others like Black Hawk Down spanned 2 or more.
The machine I worked on had 4 80gig scsi drives connected via fibre channel which is what the movies are eventually played from.
Here's a link to the parent company that built the machine:
http://www.technicolordigital.com/index.html
I actually was lucky enough to work on installations of digital projectors here in Dallas (Cinemark Legacy-Plano, a suburb). The difference is incredible. We ran Monsters on the digital projector and analog film projector on 2 screens at the same time. There is a vast superior difference on the digital as to be expected.
They are not that hard to work with or install; and in many cases, plug right into the existing setups. It's a linux based computer running movies from fibre based harddrives. The movies are loaded from a highly encrypted (sic!) dvd disk. The image is then sent via the same projector lens (with a modification) out to the same silver screen we are all used to.
The only drawback is the cost of the setup which is one of the reasons there are not more screens.
How will they market it? I mean, we're used to seeing hordes of kids and parents lined up at midnight to buy the latest Potter book. Now when they will release it, there won't be much of a media buzz, other than a reporter infront of a computer with a Server 500 error trying to download it on the 5 o'clock news.
Plus, what will all the religeous groups burn/ban out of the libraries? Nothing makes a scene more than someone burning a book.
Burn a cd/compact flash card? Doesn't seem the same...
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Please read the fine print on using a check aka debit card vs a credit card to make sure you are covered for any fruad.
Local news did a story on people using check cards when buying gas. Even is is the purchase was for $20 they will place a hold charge of $50-$100 on the account to make sure the money is there so they will get paid. With a credit card, they can only tag the card for $1 to make sure it is a legit card.
How about squashing the spam coming out of China
Thats why you wear a hidden mic to get them on tape. Now if only I could find a pair of those camera glasses that Howie Mandel wears on the Tonight Show.
Think thats bad, I have over 1500 vhs tapes (of various crap, tv shows, etc) as well as almost 1000 3/4" Umatic tapes-many broadcast masters of tv shows.
Take a look
Yeah but 10 Pounds for shipping?
'course living at home in a converted basement helps on the rent and the free time did allow me to camp out for AotC but that's another matter.
*by real I mean something other than stocking Walmart, waiting tables, grocery clerk, etc.
Am I angry? Damn right, wake up pissed off every single day.
I'll be sure to forward all my yahoo spam to you. Just deleted 17 emails from the inbox and still have 246 in the bulk mail folder.
Makes me kinda greatful for my 3% raise this year
Me thinks that they just want to be able to show more pop-under ads and to force more people to register on their website to see the info.
Now people might confuse the eMac as being an abreviated eMachine. I can just hear their response now: "It's the same thing right?"
...reach for hammer...
Hmm...noticed that trying to download Adaware subjected me to even more ads and other popup annoyances...catch-22 I suppose
That's like saying there is a training department, right Mike?
Yeah, it's all symbolism over sustenance
Wonder if this will add fuel to the fire on all those claims that Pay Pal stole their money (ex: www.paypalsucks.com)
I can see it now, a virus with a sound clip that goes from device to device saying, "Tag, you're it"
Don't that beat all?
Doffus sales droid came up to offer me an extended warranty and I told him that I just wanted a copy of that movie. He said go ahead.
Popped in a zip disk and copied away. Too bad there wasn't much else to copy...
Huh?
As documented in that Austin Power's movie, there is no "world" to dominate, only corporations. Conquer those and you control the government.
Atleast until the magnetic pulse wipes it out.
Wonder what's going to happen to the stocks and stock owners, who are already screwed...
Combine that with a soccer mom driving a Ford SUV with Firestone tires.
The machine I worked on had 4 80gig scsi drives connected via fibre channel which is what the movies are eventually played from.
Here's a link to the parent company that built the machine:
http://www.technicolordigital.com/index.html
They are not that hard to work with or install; and in many cases, plug right into the existing setups. It's a linux based computer running movies from fibre based harddrives. The movies are loaded from a highly encrypted (sic!) dvd disk. The image is then sent via the same projector lens (with a modification) out to the same silver screen we are all used to.
The only drawback is the cost of the setup which is one of the reasons there are not more screens.
Plus, what will all the religeous groups burn/ban out of the libraries? Nothing makes a scene more than someone burning a book.
Burn a cd/compact flash card? Doesn't seem the same...