Buyers have only three main responsibilities in an auction transaction:
1) Pay for the item in a timely manner.
2) Try to work out any problems with the seller BEFORE leaving negative feedback.
3) When returning an item, ensure that it is in the same condition as when it arrived.
There are a lot of things you can do to be considered an excellent ebayer, but the three things listed above are all you need to do in order to obtain positive feedback.
Some sellers only give positive feedback if the buyer gives them positive feedback first. I never buy from sellers with that policy and neither should you.
I'm always willing to leave feedback first, but I can't leave feedback until the transaction is complete. The transaction is complete when the item has been delivered and any problems have been resolved. This may involve the buyer notifying me that the item has been delivered and if there are any problems to be resolved. If you are kind enough to leave me feedback before I leave feedback, I will consider that as an indication that the transaction is complete.
My OLPC just arrived today (less than an hour ago in fact) and I'm planning on using it as my eBook reader. But if I manage to 'outgrow' the OLPC as an eBook reader, the iLiad will be my next one.
Philanthropic Speed-Cubers can get a deal as I just announced on my forums that I'm offering a $5 discount on speed-cubes to anyone who purchases an XO through the Give-1-Get-1 event.
My step son just landed there about a week ago. He and some classmates from UofO are there to do some studies for the summer.
He was just telling us about these environmental dangers on the phone yesterday.
He's going to be writing a story about some sweet windmill technology that will soon be deployed there and supply a large portion of the area's energy needs...Or something like that
Okay I've been giving it some thought I think a great (hopefully humorous) way to describe the internet is :
The Internet is a Postal Service run by Cookie Monsters, where all the messages you send are written on cookies. The cookies are too small to hold all but the smallest of messages, so you have to send messages on multiple cookies (data packets). The post office tries to determine the most efficient route to get your cookie to its destination (routers, hops, etc.). Thing is, the Cookie Monsters spend long hours shuffling your messages around and sometimes get hungry and eat some of the cookies (packet loss). Depending on the importance of your messages, you may have to develop techniques to combat the possible eating of your cookies (TCP vs UDP, etc).
I've seen many posts trying to associate the Internet with highways and such, but I think the tagging and routing performed by the postal service might be a closer match. And nobody seems to address the idea of packet loss, i.e. the carrier just giving up on your packet and having it completely dissapear without warning or notice. That is why I chose a Postal Service run by Cookie Monsters.
I just recently purchased the 50-inch model 50-PHD7UY, based in large part on CNet's review. I couldn't be happier with the the product. In fact I'm not sure why CNET didn't mention that TV in their article? Perhaps they are trying to stay within a certain price range.
The hard part was finding the product at a reasonable price, with reasonable shipping (I live in Hawaii) from a respectable source. I had read numerous accounts of ppl who tried to order their Plasma TV from sites that advertised lower prices only to have "problems" with their oder, requiring them to call customer support, at which time they would be pressured into buying a different/bigger product or buying accessories.
Indeed this is what happened to me. I placed an order with LCDTVS.com and recieved a message saying "There was a problem with your credit card." . I immediately canceled the order and decided to bite the bullet on a higher price and get it from Amazon.com... Well I guess they farmed it out to TigerDirect.com which turned out great for me, because for whatever reason, the shipping, which was guessed to be at around $300, ended up being only $78 vs the $430 that LCDTVs was going to charge... So even though I paid more for the TV, I saved about $100 on the total expense.
Another hard part was worrying if I had chosen the wrong time to buy...The *7UY is an older model. I wasn't able to verify if an *8UY was on its way, but I got freaked out because the tiger direct page for my product was "page not available" right after I bought mine.
TD didn't have a problem with the credit card, but they did mess up the order tracking, so I never knew for sure where my TV was.
Also it took a month to arrive, so the anticipation was killing me!
It was a lot of stress but like I said, I could not be happier with the product.
A programming language is essentially an abstract way of generating machine code. Machine code, in and of itself, is not a on OS. An OS is essentially machine code that abstracts the hardware.
A programming language does not abstract the hardware, it abstracts the machine code
Now if you use a programming lanuage to write an operating system, then use that same programming language to write programs for that operating system, it may *appear* that the programming language is the operating system.
But only until someone comes along and uses your programming language to write their programming language to run on your operating system.
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Below is the exact quote from my auction pages:
* FEEDBACK *
Buyers have only three main responsibilities in an auction transaction:
1) Pay for the item in a timely manner.
2) Try to work out any problems with the seller BEFORE leaving negative feedback.
3) When returning an item, ensure that it is in the same condition as when it arrived.
There are a lot of things you can do to be considered an excellent ebayer, but the three things listed above are all you need to do in order to obtain positive feedback.
Some sellers only give positive feedback if the buyer gives them positive feedback first. I never buy from sellers with that policy and neither should you.
I'm always willing to leave feedback first, but I can't leave feedback until the transaction is complete. The transaction is complete when the item has been delivered and any problems have been resolved. This may involve the buyer notifying me that the item has been delivered and if there are any problems to be resolved. If you are kind enough to leave me feedback before I leave feedback, I will consider that as an indication that the transaction is complete.
If you check the "customers" page on eink.com, you can see all the current e-Book producers and go to each site and check them out.
I have done this and I feel that the iRex Iliad is the top dog. You can read the specs here
Not counting the sweet ability to write with it using the built-in Wacom Penabled touch screen, here are some other plusses:
* It uses the 8.1 inch, 768x1024 pixel screen. All other e-book readers currently on the market use the 6-inch, 600x800 pixel screen.
* It claims 16 shades of grey (4-big). All other e-book readers are at 3-bit (8 shades)
* Decent Processing power with a 400mhz X-Scale processor
* Built-in wireless-G with support for 10/100mbs ether.
* IT'S HACKABLE! There appears to be an active dev community for it and even a sanction dev site
My OLPC just arrived today (less than an hour ago in fact) and I'm planning on using it as my eBook reader. But if I manage to 'outgrow' the OLPC as an eBook reader, the iLiad will be my next one.
Firstly, thanks for turning me on to the Baen free e-books, very cool!
Secondly, I'd like know which of the many available formats of their books will be best for reading on the OLPC XO-1?
I purchased the XO-1 for many reasons, but one of the big ones is that I really hope it functions as a nice e-book reader.
I haven't done any e-book reading yet, and wonder if anyone knows what format(s) are best to use, both in general, and specifically for the XO-1?
I think I read that it comes with a PDF reader, so maybe thats my answer? But it seems like HTML and Rich Text would be nice formats to support, too?
Any advise I could be would be much appreciated.
Philanthropic Speed-Cubers can get a deal as I just announced on my forums that I'm offering a $5 discount on speed-cubes to anyone who purchases an XO through the Give-1-Get-1 event.
You can read the full offer here:
http://www.puzzleproz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=902
Has anyone else mentioned that they reduced the length of the event from 15 days to 12 due to the high volume of sales in the first 12 hours?
I'm glad I got my order in already!
I wonder if you're getting a kind of Persistence Of Color effect.
Here's one my favs:
http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.php
My step son just landed there about a week ago. He and some classmates from UofO are there to do some studies for the summer.
He was just telling us about these environmental dangers on the phone yesterday.
He's going to be writing a story about some sweet windmill technology that will soon be deployed there and supply a large portion of the area's energy needs...Or something like that
"...If you buy condoms on friday night, you get a nailed hard, but if you buy them on wednesday morning you get a great deal."
Sounds like you're getting a great deal either way!
My apologies for the mispellings in the parent, especially in the title. Just goes to show that my tagline applies to all people, even its creator.
Okay I've been giving it some thought I think a great (hopefully humorous) way to describe the internet is :
The Internet is a Postal Service run by Cookie Monsters, where all the messages you send are written on cookies. The cookies are too small to hold all but the smallest of messages, so you have to send messages on multiple cookies (data packets). The post office tries to determine the most efficient route to get your cookie to its destination (routers, hops, etc.). Thing is, the Cookie Monsters spend long hours shuffling your messages around and sometimes get hungry and eat some of the cookies (packet loss). Depending on the importance of your messages, you may have to develop techniques to combat the possible eating of your cookies (TCP vs UDP, etc).
I've seen many posts trying to associate the Internet with highways and such, but I think the tagging and routing performed by the postal service might be a closer match. And nobody seems to address the idea of packet loss, i.e. the carrier just giving up on your packet and having it completely dissapear without warning or notice. That is why I chose a Postal Service run by Cookie Monsters.
On a slightly different angle,
I've always wondered who would be the first to create a logo visible from earth by causing it to disintegrate while entering the atmosphere.
I've always invisioned a giant flaming Coca-Cola logo flying through the night sky.
Aren't they taking a risk having SCAM in the name of any of their offerings?
The hard part was finding the product at a reasonable price, with reasonable shipping (I live in Hawaii) from a respectable source. I had read numerous accounts of ppl who tried to order their Plasma TV from sites that advertised lower prices only to have "problems" with their oder, requiring them to call customer support, at which time they would be pressured into buying a different/bigger product or buying accessories.
Indeed this is what happened to me. I placed an order with LCDTVS.com and recieved a message saying "There was a problem with your credit card." . I immediately canceled the order and decided to bite the bullet on a higher price and get it from Amazon.com ... Well I guess they farmed it out to TigerDirect.com which turned out great for me, because for whatever reason, the shipping, which was guessed to be at around $300, ended up being only $78 vs the $430 that LCDTVs was going to charge... So even though I paid more for the TV, I saved about $100 on the total expense.
Another hard part was worrying if I had chosen the wrong time to buy...The *7UY is an older model. I wasn't able to verify if an *8UY was on its way, but I got freaked out because the tiger direct page for my product was "page not available" right after I bought mine.
TD didn't have a problem with the credit card, but they did mess up the order tracking, so I never knew for sure where my TV was.
Also it took a month to arrive, so the anticipation was killing me!
It was a lot of stress but like I said, I could not be happier with the product.
-D
"Tom Ryden of iRobot with a emote-controlled PackBot being used in Iraq..."
I suspect this is so that it can be easily controlled through AIM over a cell phone.
So what keeps someone from sneaking DVD's out of a store in one of these magic bags?
If you're using Java, you might want to check out the Clustered JDBC project
-D
A programming language is essentially an abstract way of generating machine code. Machine code, in and of itself, is not a on OS. An OS is essentially machine code that abstracts the hardware.
A programming language does not abstract the hardware, it abstracts the machine code
Now if you use a programming lanuage to write an operating system, then use that same programming language to write programs for that operating system, it may *appear* that the programming language is the operating system.
But only until someone comes along and uses your programming language to write their programming language to run on your operating system.
Linux is written mostly in C. C is not an OS
Modified my settings and cat get 0 with : Force : 1 bar Heading: 159.00 Pitch: -90
I managed to get a score of 3 with the following:
Bars : 2
Heading : 215.43
Pitch : -86.47