Dude! A hundred dollars? I haven't tried VOIP but I switched to MCI's neighborhood and I only pay $60 with taxes. My wife has used 2000 minutes of long distance in a month and it cost the same (can't STFU imagine that). At least swap to a unlimited program even if you decide VOIP isn't for you.
If there's an emergency, I can always count on a $5 pack of floppies to save my ass.
What kind of emergency are you talking about? I hope not a flood, for instance. A $5 pack of floppies couldn't float your cat, let alone your heavy ass.
I think that's the point. We don't need a shoebox full o' drivers and such when the whole damned box will fit on a USB key. I think the only time a floppy will be needed is for those guys who still use thier outdated computers (486 firewalls & routers come to mind). Get rid of those and you don't need a floppy since everything 166 & higher had an option of USB on some models of mother boards.
The schools don't upgrade because they can't afford to. It's not because it's better or for nostalgia purposes but because M$ is a money grubbing whore. Schools always wanna be leading tech when it comes to technologies that prepare the kids for a real world job (think IT & vo-tech type jobs). It's bragging rights pure and simple and unfortunately most schools can't afford to brag. BELIEVE ME we all want win95 & NT4 to die. Blame M$ just like we always do:D
Here's the original (and official in my book) article.
I read this yesterday and thought to myself "wow this would make a great/. article." Lo and behold it shows up here. Damn work for blocking non.gov addresses!!
Unfortunately in the cell phone world that just isn't as easy as you say. With these comapnies you are locked into a one, two, or even three year contract and you just can't drop your service if they pop something like this up. Not without an early termination fee. For those first timers that are still shopping around, yeah I agree totally. Check it out before ya buy & don't get it if you disagree. But for those of us locked in with a company, we have to put up with it until the contract is over which by the way usually contains a "We can change our side of the contract but you can't change yours" clause which normally makes them able to enforce these new protocols leaving us with nothing to do but cry about it. Wahhhhhhh
I pay FOR ALL of my channels you insensitive clod!
I have satellite TV and have to pay for each and every channel. Does that mean that I still have to view commercials? I think not. I remember when buying cable meant not having any commercials. But then after a short time they realized they couldn't pay thier bills by not having commercials and then reniged on thier commercial free promise. It's not my fault that the 0.04 cents per channel my subsciption pays for doesn't make them enough money. They should have fired thier number crunchers and came up with a new business model. My viewing any media is not that owners right! They have to make me want to view/listen to it. If not then I skip it, change the channel or just turn the damned thing off!
I take it you didn't RTFA. The motors will be powered by a battery bank being fed by a GENERATOR. You won't have to worry about the battery pack going low or dead unless there is a fault with the batteries or mechanical failure of the generator. In that case your screwed anyways.
Do you honestly think 3rd world countries will have this on a large scale anytime soon? Hell they don't even have electricity in parts of the country. By the time 3rd world nations get this on a widespread basis I'm sure there will be bigger and better battery types available.
No more shall we be the butt end of an elf's joke. No longer shall we be downtrodden and reduced to court jester! It's time we dwarves stand up for justice & equal footing in the eyes of others.
Won't somebody think of the Dwarves?!
Rise up and throw off your chains of servitude!
The elves can take away our lives and our lands but they can never have our FREEDOM!!!!!!
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Oh great! Now you've gone and ruined your perfectly strong point by mentioning/comparing LOTR & Harry Potter. LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
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/. probably didn't notice because we don't care.
I'm sorry the rest of the geek world can't keep up with your mad geek-story-finding skillz.
2.5% Colorado Springs (as of January 1, 2002 through present) 2.9% State of Colorado 1.0% El Paso County 6.4% Combined Sales and Use Tax
Wow that was hard to figure out....now where does it go? Well to Colorado of course. Mail order taxes and similar should go to the point of delivery. Which would be in Colorado Springs. That may not be the official rules though-I don't live in Colorado....thank god.....
When I lived in Japan we had to pay to get rid of anything. When I left I had to pay roughly $100 USD to get rid of my car. I HAD TO PAY IT! What else was I supposed to do with the damned thing? If you don't recertify your Insurance every 2 years the damned thing is undrivable-permanently as far as I could tell. I didn't want to pay for the inspection & the $600 (ouch just for 6 mo liability) for the insurance since I was leaving. Seems you just can't take them off to the junkyard. What's even more annoying than having to pay to get rid of it is that the junkyard dealer can then sell off all the parts from it that he wants. Now how's that for double dipping? I am in no way surprised that Japan has introduced another trash fee on computer parts. Next thing you know they'll institute Japanese Compulsory Insurance on the damned things to stimulate the insurance industry.:)
Tinfoil stocks have skyrocketted today as millions rush to shield themselves from the ever prying eyes of Coke(c) for fear of GPS laden nano probes secretly added to thier products. The spokesman for Coke(c) had no comment.
Seinfeld did a WHOLE product placement episode that was absolutely hilarious. Remember the episode where everyone starts eating Snickers bars with forks and if you didn't you just weren't "elite"? That whole episode was one of the best Seinfeld's out there-right up there with the Soup Nazi. They took a product placement skit and just ran with it. They did it right. Though I could see some pretty crappy things turn up if ie: Demolition Man. Taco Bell, Doritos, & Pepsi. God that was a huge market plug and it blew BUT with the proper writers & mad movie skillz one should be able to make it work.
Man stop sounding like this is the next big evil since terrorism.
From your link: "Merchants may ask you to provide a phone number, home address, or other personal information on credit card sales slips. This practice not only violates your privacy, but American Express, MasterCard, and Visa prohibit requiring it as a condition of sale."
Now this doesn't mean you don't have to show your ID to prove your card is yours but if Texas (I don't live there) makes you scan the card to record the data WITH the purchase then that violates the contract.
Just wanted to point that out since your post seems to infer that you don't have to show ID to use a card period.
I can't figure out if this is a troll or a legitimate question. Every time someone posts a story about VOIP phones someone just has to point this out. The same answer applies each time. NO. You have to run a UPS. Why is that hard to comprehend? VOIP is not a replacement for standard telephony-it's an alternative. A better one in my book. If it ran just like the phone service how would it be better? It's like the Linux\Windows debates. Linux doesn't have to be just like Windows to be successful on the desktop-it just has to work. VOIP works. Not exactly like the Bells but good enough.
Maybe some slashdotter out there should start another stupid beowulf cluster/soviet russia/I for one jokes with this damned tired VOIP question. IE:
HEADLINE: AMD launches new Athlon 64 CPU.
"/.er": Yeah but will it work during a power outage and you need to dial 911?
See how that works? Just as retarded as those other worn out jokes.
Oh and BTW I for one welcome our new VOIP overlords.
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Dude! A hundred dollars? I haven't tried VOIP but I switched to MCI's neighborhood and I only pay $60 with taxes. My wife has used 2000 minutes of long distance in a month and it cost the same (can't STFU imagine that). At least swap to a unlimited program even if you decide VOIP isn't for you.
If there's an emergency, I can always count on a $5 pack of floppies to save my ass.
What kind of emergency are you talking about? I hope not a flood, for instance. A $5 pack of floppies couldn't float your cat, let alone your heavy ass.
I think that's the point. We don't need a shoebox full o' drivers and such when the whole damned box will fit on a USB key. I think the only time a floppy will be needed is for those guys who still use thier outdated computers (486 firewalls & routers come to mind). Get rid of those and you don't need a floppy since everything 166 & higher had an option of USB on some models of mother boards.
The schools don't upgrade because they can't afford to. It's not because it's better or for nostalgia purposes but because M$ is a money grubbing whore. Schools always wanna be leading tech when it comes to technologies that prepare the kids for a real world job (think IT & vo-tech type jobs). It's bragging rights pure and simple and unfortunately most schools can't afford to brag. BELIEVE ME we all want win95 & NT4 to die. Blame M$ just like we always do :D
Here's the original (and official in my book) article. /. article." Lo and behold it shows up here. Damn work for blocking non .gov addresses!!
I read this yesterday and thought to myself "wow this would make a great
Unfortunately in the cell phone world that just isn't as easy as you say. With these comapnies you are locked into a one, two, or even three year contract and you just can't drop your service if they pop something like this up. Not without an early termination fee. For those first timers that are still shopping around, yeah I agree totally. Check it out before ya buy & don't get it if you disagree. But for those of us locked in with a company, we have to put up with it until the contract is over which by the way usually contains a "We can change our side of the contract but you can't change yours" clause which normally makes them able to enforce these new protocols leaving us with nothing to do but cry about it. Wahhhhhhh
downloading the games from P2P.
$60 a game? Whatever.
There is still a textile factory that runs a water purification/softening system I built running *drum roll please* WFW 3.11
As you said for some it just works and for these guys it HAS to work. Again--Ain't broke, don't fix it.
That appears to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks.
You wouldn't happen to know where to get that One Big Download Package for 95 anymore would ya? The catalog sadly doesn't list it anymore.
I pay FOR ALL of my channels you insensitive clod!
I have satellite TV and have to pay for each and every channel. Does that mean that I still have to view commercials? I think not. I remember when buying cable meant not having any commercials. But then after a short time they realized they couldn't pay thier bills by not having commercials and then reniged on thier commercial free promise. It's not my fault that the 0.04 cents per channel my subsciption pays for doesn't make them enough money. They should have fired thier number crunchers and came up with a new business model. My viewing any media is not that owners right! They have to make me want to view/listen to it. If not then I skip it, change the channel or just turn the damned thing off!
I take it you didn't RTFA. The motors will be powered by a battery bank being fed by a GENERATOR. You won't have to worry about the battery pack going low or dead unless there is a fault with the batteries or mechanical failure of the generator. In that case your screwed anyways.
Do you honestly think 3rd world countries will have this on a large scale anytime soon? Hell they don't even have electricity in parts of the country. By the time 3rd world nations get this on a widespread basis I'm sure there will be bigger and better battery types available.
No more shall we be the butt end of an elf's joke. No longer shall we be downtrodden and reduced to court jester! It's time we dwarves stand up for justice & equal footing in the eyes of others.
Won't somebody think of the Dwarves?!
Rise up and throw off your chains of servitude!
The elves can take away our lives and our lands but they can never have our FREEDOM!!!!!!
Oh great! Now you've gone and ruined your perfectly strong point by mentioning/comparing LOTR & Harry Potter. LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
/. probably didn't notice because we don't care.
I'm sorry the rest of the geek world can't keep up with your mad geek-story-finding skillz.
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This is freakin hilarious.
Oh and I for one welcome our new Software on Tape masters.
2.5% Colorado Springs (as of January 1, 2002 through present)
2.9% State of Colorado
1.0% El Paso County
6.4% Combined Sales and Use Tax
Wow that was hard to figure out....now where does it go? Well to Colorado of course. Mail order taxes and similar should go to the point of delivery. Which would be in Colorado Springs. That may not be the official rules though-I don't live in Colorado....thank god.....
When I lived in Japan we had to pay to get rid of anything. When I left I had to pay roughly $100 USD to get rid of my car. I HAD TO PAY IT! What else was I supposed to do with the damned thing? If you don't recertify your Insurance every 2 years the damned thing is undrivable-permanently as far as I could tell. I didn't want to pay for the inspection & the $600 (ouch just for 6 mo liability) for the insurance since I was leaving. Seems you just can't take them off to the junkyard. What's even more annoying than having to pay to get rid of it is that the junkyard dealer can then sell off all the parts from it that he wants. Now how's that for double dipping? I am in no way surprised that Japan has introduced another trash fee on computer parts. Next thing you know they'll institute Japanese Compulsory Insurance on the damned things to stimulate the insurance industry. :)
Tinfoil stocks have skyrocketted today as millions rush to shield themselves from the ever prying eyes of Coke(c) for fear of GPS laden nano probes secretly added to thier products. The spokesman for Coke(c) had no comment.
Seinfeld did a WHOLE product placement episode that was absolutely hilarious. Remember the episode where everyone starts eating Snickers bars with forks and if you didn't you just weren't "elite"? That whole episode was one of the best Seinfeld's out there-right up there with the Soup Nazi. They took a product placement skit and just ran with it. They did it right. Though I could see some pretty crappy things turn up if ie: Demolition Man. Taco Bell, Doritos, & Pepsi. God that was a huge market plug and it blew BUT with the proper writers & mad movie skillz one should be able to make it work.
Man stop sounding like this is the next big evil since terrorism.
You can also have your Bonsai kitties crash thier bonsai cars!!.
It was the only plant left after all the other plants voted each other off the planet.
From your link:
"Merchants may ask you to provide a phone number, home address, or other personal information on credit card sales slips. This practice not only violates your privacy, but American Express, MasterCard, and Visa prohibit requiring it as a condition of sale."
Now this doesn't mean you don't have to show your ID to prove your card is yours but if Texas (I don't live there) makes you scan the card to record the data WITH the purchase then that violates the contract.
Just wanted to point that out since your post seems to infer that you don't have to show ID to use a card period.
BTW thanks for the link. Good info
I can't figure out if this is a troll or a legitimate question. Every time someone posts a story about VOIP phones someone just has to point this out. The same answer applies each time. NO. You have to run a UPS. Why is that hard to comprehend? VOIP is not a replacement for standard telephony-it's an alternative. A better one in my book. If it ran just like the phone service how would it be better? It's like the Linux\Windows debates. Linux doesn't have to be just like Windows to be successful on the desktop-it just has to work. VOIP works. Not exactly like the Bells but good enough.
Maybe some slashdotter out there should start another stupid beowulf cluster/soviet russia/I for one jokes with this damned tired VOIP question. IE:
HEADLINE: AMD launches new Athlon 64 CPU.
"/.er": Yeah but will it work during a power outage and you need to dial 911?
See how that works? Just as retarded as those other worn out jokes.
Oh and BTW I for one welcome our new VOIP overlords.