And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
Really. Well, call me callous, but I think you deserve to die for using the terms dude and especially dudette. Okay, maybe not die, but a good flogging is certainly in order...
our house has aluminum siding and an aluminum roof. does a great job keeping the radio waves out, as evidenced by the really lousy cell phone reception inside.
Don't count on it. Credit Unions often outsource a lot of their operations to third-party groups to save on costs. Of course, the way the laws work, one doesn't often have to tell the customer that they are dealing with a third party.
I used to work for a collection agency that specifically did third-party collections for credit unions across the country. We just had an 800 number for each credit union, and we'd answer with the name of the CU depending on which line rang. Same with sending out letters- just change the letterhead accordingly.
If your CU is dealing with the kind of numbskulls I worked with, your data is probably just as insecure if not moreso than if it were with a big bank.
I've been using Washington Mutual for about a year now, and haven't been nickled-and-dimed on anything, and have been really happy with their service. Of course, I'm sure someone will now reply with their WaMu horror story...
It's a strange idea, isn't it? Given current technological trends, it seems likely that we may someday have direct computer input to the brain, and vice-versa. So, someday, it should be possible to allow real-time information sharing. You and I could both see what the other is seeing, hear what the other is hearing, feel what the other is feeling, etc. In some respects we would have become one organism with four eyes, ears, hands, etc.
the interesting thought this leads me to is this- if we began this sensory data sharing at birth, having both experienced the same things, would it be possible for us to have differing worldviews? to have a disagreement? does what we think and do in any given situation depend entirely on our prior experience? if we all shared eachother's experiences, would we then have world peace?
yeah, yeah- formatting error (on the second try, no less!)... I do have these dog treats that I got at Petsmart called "pup-corn" that are some kind of meat-flavored popcorn-like substance...
It seems to me that markets, at least in terms of big nationwide brands, mostly tend toward duopolies with a few other minor players. They often are red vs. blue, as well-
Coke vs. Pepsi Target vs. Wal-Mart Costco vs. Sam's Home Depot vs. Lowe's Netflix vs. Blockbuster Petsmart vs. Petco Nike vs. Reebok Marlboro vs. Camel Republicans vs. Democrats
Anyone else notice this? Can you think of any more?
It seems to me that the market, at least in terms of big nationwide brands, tends toward mostly duopolies with a few other minor players. They often are red and blue, as well-
Coke vs. Pepsi
Target vs. Wal-Mart
Costco vs. Sam's
Home Depot vs. Loews
Netflix vs. Blockbuster
Petsmart vs. Petco
Nike vs. Reebok
Republicans vs. Democrats
Anyone else notice this? Can you think of any more?
I have a desktop with a 333MHz K6-2 and 320Mb running Windows XP, the only real problem with this setup is you have to wait 5 minutes for the thing to boot up and get everything started
How is that any different from any other XP machine?:)
Strange- what are you trying to do with it? Mine's an old Digital Highnote laptop. It's actually got 80MB of RAM (16 on-board, 64 added) I mostly just use it for surfing the web, but I've also used it to do some photoshop/flash/illustrator-type stuff and it handles that ok...
Microsoft is developing a version of Windows to run on old machines that currently run 95 or 98. It would be very similar to XP, but run faster on the older hardware
Hmm... I think I saw this once, and it was called Windows 2000... I can run Win2K just fine on my 233MHz PII laptop w/64MB of RAM.
The drug companies DON'T WANT to cure cancer.
They want to keep selling drugs that mitigate the symptoms.
What. Ever. - Do you realize how much money one could make if one had the cure for cancer? Everyone is pretty much guaranteed to get cancer if something else doesn't get them first, so everyone will need the cure. They will probably need it multiple times, since there likely won't be a generic "cancer vaccine" or whatever but separate cures for different types of cancers. Cancer cures will be worth TONS. You have no idea what you are talking about.
because they are all way over priced, and have acceptable free alternatives
if they have acceptable free alternatives, why would people bother to pirate them? don't you mean that they don't have acceptable free alternatives?
i agree with the rest of your post, though- if Photoshop, Office, etc, were $25-$50, pretty much everyone would have legal copies of them, and Adobe, MS, et al would probably make even more money.
I'm assuming that all Cuban installations of Windows are pirate copies anyway, because it's illegal for US companies to sell to Cuba (very stiff penalties).
Could they not have purchased the copies of Windows legally from a reseller in Mexico?
can you do all those things simultaneously? i've heard of issues with the palms being underpowered. but what do i know? perhaps you're right. I do like having the wifi built in, and having my phone integrated with it, though.
true, and most of those also have CF slots that you can get a 4 or even 6GB microdrive for, and many of them have VGA screens and cameras as well, so they're better. see my previous post
I have an iPaq h6315 that I use all the time, and I don't think I'd find a Palm all that handy (I know, terrible pun). I think the PocketPC's more powerful processors make them a lot more useful- as you mentioned, they can be used for music and movies, but I also use mine for games (I'm addicted to snood), for checking the bus schedules (I've got the PDF's saved on my phone. They're not really very PDA-friendly, but they certainly suffice and are frequently useful), I keep mine synched with Money on my PC (which is great since I'm terrible about keeping a checkbook register), and I surf the web (and not just the limited stuff you get thru a cell phone) and check my e-mail with it as well.
Sure, some of those things I could do with a laptop, but a laptop has a shorter battery life, won't connect to GPRS by itself, doesn't fit in my pocket and I wouldn't want to carry one around all the time.
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And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
Really. Well, call me callous, but I think you deserve to die for using the terms dude and especially dudette. Okay, maybe not die, but a good flogging is certainly in order...
yes, good god! the phone company might know your phone number! they might know where you live! your name! heavens- they might even send you a bill!
our house has aluminum siding and an aluminum roof. does a great job keeping the radio waves out, as evidenced by the really lousy cell phone reception inside.
Don't count on it. Credit Unions often outsource a lot of their operations to third-party groups to save on costs. Of course, the way the laws work, one doesn't often have to tell the customer that they are dealing with a third party.
I used to work for a collection agency that specifically did third-party collections for credit unions across the country. We just had an 800 number for each credit union, and we'd answer with the name of the CU depending on which line rang. Same with sending out letters- just change the letterhead accordingly.
If your CU is dealing with the kind of numbskulls I worked with, your data is probably just as insecure if not moreso than if it were with a big bank.
I've been using Washington Mutual for about a year now, and haven't been nickled-and-dimed on anything, and have been really happy with their service. Of course, I'm sure someone will now reply with their WaMu horror story...
It's a strange idea, isn't it? Given current technological trends, it seems likely that we may someday have direct computer input to the brain, and vice-versa. So, someday, it should be possible to allow real-time information sharing. You and I could both see what the other is seeing, hear what the other is hearing, feel what the other is feeling, etc. In some respects we would have become one organism with four eyes, ears, hands, etc.
:)
the interesting thought this leads me to is this- if we began this sensory data sharing at birth, having both experienced the same things, would it be possible for us to have differing worldviews? to have a disagreement? does what we think and do in any given situation depend entirely on our prior experience? if we all shared eachother's experiences, would we then have world peace?
hmmm, well, i'd better get back to work...
You have to be single to get a hooker? Don't tell my wife!
You mean you like that your wife goes to hookers? What, are you impotent?
no, there appears to be a bug in slashcode...
I fear the space time continuum will rupture spewing forth a hoard of evil flesh eating time daemons.
i think you mean "demons" -better watch it, as you don't want the BSDers to get their panties in a wad...
your point being??
yeah, yeah- formatting error (on the second try, no less!) ... I do have these dog treats that I got at Petsmart called "pup-corn" that are some kind of meat-flavored popcorn-like substance...
(fixing formatting...)
It seems to me that markets, at least in terms of big nationwide brands, mostly tend toward duopolies with a few other minor players. They often are red vs. blue, as well-
Coke vs. Pepsi
Target vs. Wal-Mart
Costco vs. Sam's
Home Depot vs. Lowe's
Netflix vs. Blockbuster Petsmart vs. Petco
Nike vs. Reebok
Marlboro vs. Camel
Republicans vs. Democrats
Anyone else notice this? Can you think of any more?
It seems to me that the market, at least in terms of big nationwide brands, tends toward mostly duopolies with a few other minor players. They often are red and blue, as well- Coke vs. Pepsi Target vs. Wal-Mart Costco vs. Sam's Home Depot vs. Loews Netflix vs. Blockbuster Petsmart vs. Petco Nike vs. Reebok Republicans vs. Democrats Anyone else notice this? Can you think of any more?
I have a desktop with a 333MHz K6-2 and 320Mb running Windows XP, the only real problem with this setup is you have to wait 5 minutes for the thing to boot up and get everything started
:)
How is that any different from any other XP machine?
Strange- what are you trying to do with it? Mine's an old Digital Highnote laptop. It's actually got 80MB of RAM (16 on-board, 64 added) I mostly just use it for surfing the web, but I've also used it to do some photoshop/flash/illustrator-type stuff and it handles that ok...
Microsoft is developing a version of Windows to run on old machines that currently run 95 or 98. It would be very similar to XP, but run faster on the older hardware
Hmm... I think I saw this once, and it was called Windows 2000... I can run Win2K just fine on my 233MHz PII laptop w/64MB of RAM.
The drug companies DON'T WANT to cure cancer. They want to keep selling drugs that mitigate the symptoms.
What. Ever. - Do you realize how much money one could make if one had the cure for cancer? Everyone is pretty much guaranteed to get cancer if something else doesn't get them first, so everyone will need the cure. They will probably need it multiple times, since there likely won't be a generic "cancer vaccine" or whatever but separate cures for different types of cancers. Cancer cures will be worth TONS. You have no idea what you are talking about.
because they are all way over priced, and have acceptable free alternatives
if they have acceptable free alternatives, why would people bother to pirate them? don't you mean that they don't have acceptable free alternatives?
i agree with the rest of your post, though- if Photoshop, Office, etc, were $25-$50, pretty much everyone would have legal copies of them, and Adobe, MS, et al would probably make even more money.
-1, Troll...
I'm assuming that all Cuban installations of Windows are pirate copies anyway, because it's illegal for US companies to sell to Cuba (very stiff penalties). Could they not have purchased the copies of Windows legally from a reseller in Mexico?
it does have 802.11
can you do all those things simultaneously? i've heard of issues with the palms being underpowered. but what do i know? perhaps you're right. I do like having the wifi built in, and having my phone integrated with it, though.
Ok, so it's a little more than just a little more expensive. But let's do it with the 65MB RAM model of the MyPal and the 4GB Microdrive:
ASUS MyPal A730 - $480.00
Hitachi 4GB Microdrive - $174.00
Having something way better than a "LifeDrive" (VGA, 1.3 MP camera, voice recording, CF slot)- Priceless
true, and most of those also have CF slots that you can get a 4 or even 6GB microdrive for, and many of them have VGA screens and cameras as well, so they're better. see my previous post
sounds like you need what I posted earlier
I have an iPaq h6315 that I use all the time, and I don't think I'd find a Palm all that handy (I know, terrible pun). I think the PocketPC's more powerful processors make them a lot more useful- as you mentioned, they can be used for music and movies, but I also use mine for games (I'm addicted to snood), for checking the bus schedules (I've got the PDF's saved on my phone. They're not really very PDA-friendly, but they certainly suffice and are frequently useful), I keep mine synched with Money on my PC (which is great since I'm terrible about keeping a checkbook register), and I surf the web (and not just the limited stuff you get thru a cell phone) and check my e-mail with it as well.
Sure, some of those things I could do with a laptop, but a laptop has a shorter battery life, won't connect to GPRS by itself, doesn't fit in my pocket and I wouldn't want to carry one around all the time.