...here in the UK, we make higher denomination notes larger in size than those of a lesser denomination... I guess they didn't think of that in the USA.
No, it's just because we're all such filthy rich capitalists, here. We like our big fat wads of money to be nice and even.
The old ones will still be accepted, and if they're easier to forge, why wouldn't I just forge one of those?
After the/. article on the release of the new $20's, I sort of gathered that the intent is to pull the old ones out (using the current note replacement cycle) until it's all new 20's (save Grandpappy's stash buried under the toolshed). It's the only way to replace money, as they can't do a wholesale, overnight swap.
That is unless everyone would be OK with "National Your Only Chance to Trade in Your Old $20's For The New One's Day".
A final note about hue... bills go through a lot, and you can't just go by the hue. I've seen bills that have been dyed... light green, dark purple, things like that. It happens.
Seriously. Heaven help the money that gets in our white wash. If my wife's track record with my socks and undershirts is any indicator, that money's about to get it's ass pinked.
My first thought about some thing like this would that it would be perfect in an environment where people need to communicate but can't talk, and especially can't be using a laptop...like in the courtroom. Seems like a great way for legal assistants to pass notes to lead cousel during a trial without sliding notepads all over the place or whispering.
Not being well versed in electric vehicles, what do you classify this car(click on "the fish car") as? I see this thing zipping all over Portland. They claim a top speed of 60!?
I'm assuming it's street legal in Oregon.
Does the WA legislation support these too, or will the support only apply to strict NEV's? And what is a electric "thing" called when it can do more than 25, yet isn't a real car chassis?
If you search for TV's at 800.com (it'll always be 800 to me...), the first page of top-sellers includes many 27" and higher TV's.
Without having any hard numbers, I'd guess the average home's screen size has gone up in the last few years. I know I didn't start opting for the widescreen until we got a big tv, and I had the screen real estate to enjoy the movie without squinting.
While it's a pitch for their server, Apple had a puff-piece on Trafford Publishing not too long ago. It's a brief look at how print-on-demand can be successful, at least on a small scale.
These items are priced much higher than roughly equivalent but less polished competitors, and people expect that extra Apple polish.
I bought my iBook, not expecting a nice clean plastic case, but a tight integration of hardware and software.
...than roughly equivalent but less polished competitors.
That polish includes the far-and-away better intergration. I think you are offering a major red herring here in thinking that most Mac users are terribly concerned with cosmetics. I recommend our Mac purchases to the $ people based on whether it will help me get an ad layed out, proofed, and approved by the client via PDF faster than what we have. Certainly not whether it has a seam in it. To grasp at this Cube 'debacle' is simply grasping at straws.
Why is it called 'repair permissions', when it actually runs a slew of other tests like fsck?
Because, due to the nature of the marketing of this product, it's made to be "Grandma Friendly".
Doesn't "Repair Permissions" sound better than "I'm gonna do a whole bunch of shit to your hard drive right about now buddy. You sure you want to do this?"?
...but I'd be interested to see who here is really gonna shop these two around?
I'm going to go ahead and be honest and say I would never consider the Nomad as I am a terribly, sold out Apple slut. I'm not going to make leet arguments about it...it's cool, and if I buy a MP3 player, it will be an iPod. Simple as that.
And judging from about 40 of the 90-something posts here so far, until something supports Ogg it will get summarily smacked down and shit-talked until the Penguins come home.
If you are a first-time MP3 player buyer and are seriously weighing these two on/....do you even exist?
While I can see your standpoint of wanting zero chemicals used to raise the food you eat (completely your perogative), don't you think that this is at least a very positive step in the right direction?
Before Robot: My field has weeds. I spray the whole field with extremely expensive and debateably dangerous chemicals.
Post Robot: My field has weeds. My robot sprays the individual weeds, saving money, keeping my production cost down (you'd be shocked at the cost of some herbicides), while reducing the total amount of herbicide employed per acre.
Plus, with your average grain row crop such as corn or carrot seed, the little leacherous weeds are much lower than the crop seed. Hitting them on their level makes a huge reduction in chemical transfer over broadcast spraying from swamp buggy or crop duster.
I realize to people who strongly advocate organics, this is just more of the wrong thing, only mechanized. But to those consuming/producing standard crops, this could be a money/chemical/labor saving boon. hey, has anybody seen my copy of Maximum Overdrive?
People advertise for 3 reasons.
You left off "So the agency can win awards."
In the ad biz myself, and an agency will sell a client all the sunshine they can fit up their butts if it gets them the approval to do something like this, which will clean house at award shows and get them in CA, get a gold pencil, etc etc.
I love how half the posts here have become describing how everyone take their drives out in the street, pours acid on them, shoots them, sledghammers them, drills holes in them and them drips melted pokki sticks on them. WTF do you people have on your hard drives? I don't think people are mining drives for anime these days.
Aside from the AppleTalk issue, everything you described is a problem with the user. I guess that's a side effect of average users not being scared shitless of their OS. All it would take it a size block on the email server and a few second of explaining to people what not to mess with.
That said, the added traffic (as mentioned by LordNimon) makes it much easier to conenct/find/etc printers, machines, servers. In a small environment (most ad agencies), I think this added benefit of not having to constantly walk idiots through switching printers or connecting to a server is worth it.
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No, it's just because we're all such filthy rich capitalists, here. We like our big fat wads of money to be nice and even.
After the /. article on the release of the new $20's, I sort of gathered that the intent is to pull the old ones out (using the current note replacement cycle) until it's all new 20's (save Grandpappy's stash buried under the toolshed). It's the only way to replace money, as they can't do a wholesale, overnight swap.
That is unless everyone would be OK with "National Your Only Chance to Trade in Your Old $20's For The New One's Day".
Seriously. Heaven help the money that gets in our white wash. If my wife's track record with my socks and undershirts is any indicator, that money's about to get it's ass pinked.
My first thought about some thing like this would that it would be perfect in an environment where people need to communicate but can't talk, and especially can't be using a laptop...like in the courtroom. Seems like a great way for legal assistants to pass notes to lead cousel during a trial without sliding notepads all over the place or whispering.
Soooo... you're saying we're a bunch of race-ists?
whizzz...*ducking*
Oh, dude, you must be using MS Office! ;)
Not being well versed in electric vehicles, what do you classify this car (click on "the fish car") as? I see this thing zipping all over Portland. They claim a top speed of 60!?
I'm assuming it's street legal in Oregon.
Does the WA legislation support these too, or will the support only apply to strict NEV's? And what is a electric "thing" called when it can do more than 25, yet isn't a real car chassis?
Hey, there's your answer to the issue of the blind and bills farther up (down?) the page. Braille away on our bills dammit!
Without having any hard numbers, I'd guess the average home's screen size has gone up in the last few years. I know I didn't start opting for the widescreen until we got a big tv, and I had the screen real estate to enjoy the movie without squinting.
...and it seems higly unlikely as well that Christina Aguilera is really a genie in a bottle. (and more to the point, wants to rub you the right way.)
While it's a pitch for their server, Apple had a puff-piece on Trafford Publishing not too long ago. It's a brief look at how print-on-demand can be successful, at least on a small scale.
I hate every aper I see...from chimpan-a to chimpan-z.
Then again, maybe you can convince the people laughing at your Franken-Ford that it is "custom" and you are "leet".
I'm still dying to get a new iPod...
Maybe you're dying if you don't get a new iPod!
I bought my iBook, not expecting a nice clean plastic case, but a tight integration of hardware and software.
That polish includes the far-and-away better intergration. I think you are offering a major red herring here in thinking that most Mac users are terribly concerned with cosmetics. I recommend our Mac purchases to the $ people based on whether it will help me get an ad layed out, proofed, and approved by the client via PDF faster than what we have. Certainly not whether it has a seam in it. To grasp at this Cube 'debacle' is simply grasping at straws.
Because, due to the nature of the marketing of this product, it's made to be "Grandma Friendly".
Doesn't "Repair Permissions" sound better than "I'm gonna do a whole bunch of shit to your hard drive right about now buddy. You sure you want to do this?"?
I'm going to go ahead and be honest and say I would never consider the Nomad as I am a terribly, sold out Apple slut. I'm not going to make leet arguments about it...it's cool, and if I buy a MP3 player, it will be an iPod. Simple as that.
And judging from about 40 of the 90-something posts here so far, until something supports Ogg it will get summarily smacked down and shit-talked until the Penguins come home.
If you are a first-time MP3 player buyer and are seriously weighing these two on /. ...do you even exist?
Before Robot: My field has weeds. I spray the whole field with extremely expensive and debateably dangerous chemicals.
Post Robot: My field has weeds. My robot sprays the individual weeds, saving money, keeping my production cost down (you'd be shocked at the cost of some herbicides), while reducing the total amount of herbicide employed per acre.
Plus, with your average grain row crop such as corn or carrot seed, the little leacherous weeds are much lower than the crop seed. Hitting them on their level makes a huge reduction in chemical transfer over broadcast spraying from swamp buggy or crop duster.
I realize to people who strongly advocate organics, this is just more of the wrong thing, only mechanized. But to those consuming/producing standard crops, this could be a money/chemical/labor saving boon. hey, has anybody seen my copy of Maximum Overdrive?
Every time I click on 'news', my screen is filled with a bunch of unitelligible, annoying garbage... oh, wait... that's not an ad...
Sorry, but you opened yourself for this...
Now you must name that song. :)
People advertise for 3 reasons. You left off "So the agency can win awards." In the ad biz myself, and an agency will sell a client all the sunshine they can fit up their butts if it gets them the approval to do something like this, which will clean house at award shows and get them in CA, get a gold pencil, etc etc.
I love how half the posts here have become describing how everyone take their drives out in the street, pours acid on them, shoots them, sledghammers them, drills holes in them and them drips melted pokki sticks on them. WTF do you people have on your hard drives? I don't think people are mining drives for anime these days.
I'm sure plenty of people have similar stories when Windows crashed;)
it was like beep,beep,beep,beep...and then, like, half of the paper was gone...
Aside from the AppleTalk issue, everything you described is a problem with the user. I guess that's a side effect of average users not being scared shitless of their OS. All it would take it a size block on the email server and a few second of explaining to people what not to mess with.
That said, the added traffic (as mentioned by LordNimon) makes it much easier to conenct/find/etc printers, machines, servers. In a small environment (most ad agencies), I think this added benefit of not having to constantly walk idiots through switching printers or connecting to a server is worth it.