please don't actually turn in businesses for this. most businesses that have minimum amounts or small fees for going under said amount are small businesses. Visa fines can be fairly painful to the local people who run these stores. if it really affects you enough to consider telling on them, just shop somewhere else.
"what? you won't let me pay for my 99 cent coffee with my credit card because it costs you a 50 cent fee on the transaction? heaven forbid i carry a couple bucks -- i'm going to get your Visa contract terminated."
Actually Visa/MC take a percentage most small business owners I've talked to say that if their average money per transaction doesn't break $5, they get charged a higher percentage by the credit card companies. thus why you see a minimum transaction amount at most small businesses, but most large chains don't have it because they can afford to eat the cost. or, small businesses around here might also charge an extra 50 cents on transactions smaller than $5. i think your business was really the exception to the rule.
Microsoft is essentially saying that they can either do what they currently are doing, or they can charge you juuuust a little bit more for your downloads. people tend to get upset when any cost is visibly passed onto the consumer, when in reality *every* cost is passed onto the consumer in some sort of way. it's just accounting.
my friend found a copy of CH3 on sale at Meijer, i believe. some employees put it out on accident and he bought it. i can definately say that this game still lives up to the Guitar Hero series. i plan to get both, though.:D
the use a machine that goes into the ground and bores a conduit from one point to the other. it drills through the ground and can be aimed and turned, so it can pass under roads and parking lots.
i work for a cable company that is actively expanding its fiber network. fiber IS much, much more expensive to run than other cable, and requires more skill and much more expensive hardware on the ends of it, despite the fact that the price is falling. also consider the fact that you have to rebuild so much of your cable system. AT&T is putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the ground PER CITY to do this, but if they don't they won't be able to keep up with the cable companies in bandwidth.
by the way, DOCSYS 3.0 lets you get speeds of up to 160Mbps over coax, and a lot of cable companies are going to be moving to it very shortly. eventually, though, fiber to the home will be the only option for cable/phone/internet companies. AT&T's solution is a joke until they finish the last leg and put fiber to the home, instead of relying on twisted pair for the last stretch. Verizon is probably the only ones doing it right, but i'm sure my boss wouldn't want to hear me saying that as I don't work for them.
actually, Archimonde should probably be more powerful than Arthas, even as the new Lich King. Archimonde was supposed to be almost on par with Kil'Jaeden as a fellow leader of the Eredar, and Kil'Jaeden is the one responsible for turning Ner'zhul into the Lich King, who is in turn responsible for corrupting Arthas and merging with him. with Archimonde being that powerful, it's pretty disappointing that he gets killed on Mount Hyjal.
granted, that involved a lot of people. and when the Lich King merged with Arthas, they may have become more powerful. and that was so far in the past, that the new Lich King may have become much more powerful in the meantime. but i think the next expansion will ultimately lead to Kil'Jaeden, just like BC ultimately led to Illidan.
mod parent up. i honestly think the time to level to 70 should be negligible, to encourage people to develop more alts. more characters allow for more flexibility. as it stands now, i'm considering quitting because of the huge time investments WoW is requiring now.
compare/played times with whoever says that it doesn't require a huge time investment. every time i do, it ends up dwarfing me by 2-3 times, and i used to be a "hardcore raider" in the Naxx days.
any enterprises relying on openMosix to run their operations are in a pretty bad spot right now, i agree. their enterprise quality support has evaporated.
of course, this would be a completely different story if it were a close-source program they were relying on... because... ?
companies go out of business, too. and when their close-source programs are no longer supported, *no one* has the ability to pick up where they left off.
i thought the same thing, and i install cable for a living. cablecards are a PITA, and they tpically have to be fully reset by our warehouse to work on another television. (don't know what they do exactly, unfortunately.) i've had to swap out pairs of cablecards at a time because they were provisioned wrong, at which point they are un-savable in the field.
our teeth decay mostly because of sugars, acidic drinks, and carbonated drinks. i'd imagine we would have much healthier teeth if you cut these out of our diets.
i think some of your assumptions are somewhat outdated. for a certain group of people, at any rate.
let me first say that i am 21. since i was in my early to mid teens, to my current age, i've had many girls "come back to my place." i've came back to many girls places. i've slept in the same bed of many girls, in very close positions. the majority of these visits did not end in sex in any way.
of course, there have also been times when the girl had other things in mind, and those were fun too.
my point is, people don't always associate closeness with sex as much as they used to. "wnat to sleep in my bed tonight" means, for me and a lot of my friends of both genders, "hey, wouldn't it be nice to have some extra warmth next to you while you sleep."
i do, however, have friends that only want girls/guys for sex, though, or assume hanging out with someone of the opposite gender is mainly done to hook up. its just that, most people i know arent like that.
granted, as a 14 year old, she should know that a 19 year old probably doesn't want to hang out with her because shes such an awesome 14 year old. so i do agree with a lot of what you are saying. i just wanted to point out that the old idea of dating and "come back to my place" isn't nearly what it used to be for a lot of people.
Not all speed tests are equal, because not all paths on the internet are the same. This is akin to buying a car, testing the time it takes you to drive across your city, and then wondering why it takes so long to drive to another state.
Oddly enough, this speed test actually does rate my speed at about what my ISP's speedtest rate's it, just shy of their maximum. And since i install modems for a living, and this software is nearly identical to my ISP's, i know that it tends to cut off a fraction of that speed. I have, however, been to many speed test sites that have reported my speeds to be less than half of what i know i'm truly getting.
I'm on Road Runner, for what it's worth. Maybe your ISP sucks, and i just have a really good one. However, these speedtest articles are usually just someone complaining about a subject they don't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand.
Not all speed tests are equal, because not all paths on the internet are the same. This is akin to buying a car, testing the time it takes you to drive across your city, and then wondering why it takes so long to drive to another state.
Oddly enough, this speed test actually does rate my speed at about what my ISP's speedtest rate's it, just shy of their maximum. And since i install modems for a living, and this software is nearly identical to my ISP's, i know that it tends to cut off a fraction of that speed. I have, however, been to many speed test sites that have reported my speeds to be less than half of what i know i'm truly getting.
I'm on Road Runner, for what it's worth. Maybe your ISP sucks, and i just have a really good one. However, these speedtest articles are usually just someone complaining about a subject they don't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand.
the webmaster did not get phished, as is the title of this article. a phishing site was put up in place of the website he administrates, when said website was hacked. maybe you should do a bit of that "reading" stuff you talk about.:-P
of course, the grandparent should really just let typos like that go. this is slashdot, after all.
i thought it was a joke, but it got modded insightful. i dunno, but:
couple n.
1. Two items of the same kind; a pair.
2. Something that joins or connects two things together; a link.
3. Informal. A few; several: a couple of days.
When somebody installs Linspire, we say "do you want to set up users, yes or no", we give them the choice, right there when they start up for the first time.
It shouldn't even be a choice.
why shouldnt it be a chioce? its my computer, why cant i set it up the way i want to? if i want the added security of user priviledges then ill choose to use them. if i want to be lazy and not use them, so be it.
these are the things a lot of people think about when not deciding to use linux. instead of forcing people to use your way to do things, give them options and tell them in what ways which is better.
meh. back in high school i got a 1.7 GPA, but i got test scores just about identical to yours. i only got accepted to one school i applied to, though. maybe i should have dropped out and got a GPA so they wouldnt have grades to look at.:-P
i strongly recommend these. they are aluminum, meaning they wont collapse if you start to stack them. also, since you probably have mostly burned CDs, you dont have jewel cases for them, meaning this will be your fastest way of going through your CDs (espically if well-organized).
i used to have a friend that DJed as well, and he used something very similar to these. he had at least a thousand CDs, mostly stuff that was burned or came with a paper CD holder, and he loved these.
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please don't actually turn in businesses for this. most businesses that have minimum amounts or small fees for going under said amount are small businesses. Visa fines can be fairly painful to the local people who run these stores. if it really affects you enough to consider telling on them, just shop somewhere else.
"what? you won't let me pay for my 99 cent coffee with my credit card because it costs you a 50 cent fee on the transaction? heaven forbid i carry a couple bucks -- i'm going to get your Visa contract terminated."
Microsoft is essentially saying that they can either do what they currently are doing, or they can charge you juuuust a little bit more for your downloads. people tend to get upset when any cost is visibly passed onto the consumer, when in reality *every* cost is passed onto the consumer in some sort of way. it's just accounting.
my friend found a copy of CH3 on sale at Meijer, i believe. some employees put it out on accident and he bought it. i can definately say that this game still lives up to the Guitar Hero series. i plan to get both, though. :D
forgot to change the formatting... ugh.
the use a machine that goes into the ground and bores a conduit from one point to the other. it drills through the ground and can be aimed and turned, so it can pass under roads and parking lots. i work for a cable company that is actively expanding its fiber network. fiber IS much, much more expensive to run than other cable, and requires more skill and much more expensive hardware on the ends of it, despite the fact that the price is falling. also consider the fact that you have to rebuild so much of your cable system. AT&T is putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the ground PER CITY to do this, but if they don't they won't be able to keep up with the cable companies in bandwidth. by the way, DOCSYS 3.0 lets you get speeds of up to 160Mbps over coax, and a lot of cable companies are going to be moving to it very shortly. eventually, though, fiber to the home will be the only option for cable/phone/internet companies. AT&T's solution is a joke until they finish the last leg and put fiber to the home, instead of relying on twisted pair for the last stretch. Verizon is probably the only ones doing it right, but i'm sure my boss wouldn't want to hear me saying that as I don't work for them.
actually, Archimonde should probably be more powerful than Arthas, even as the new Lich King. Archimonde was supposed to be almost on par with Kil'Jaeden as a fellow leader of the Eredar, and Kil'Jaeden is the one responsible for turning Ner'zhul into the Lich King, who is in turn responsible for corrupting Arthas and merging with him. with Archimonde being that powerful, it's pretty disappointing that he gets killed on Mount Hyjal.
:)
granted, that involved a lot of people. and when the Lich King merged with Arthas, they may have become more powerful. and that was so far in the past, that the new Lich King may have become much more powerful in the meantime. but i think the next expansion will ultimately lead to Kil'Jaeden, just like BC ultimately led to Illidan.
hopefully you feel like less of a nerd now.
mod parent up. i honestly think the time to level to 70 should be negligible, to encourage people to develop more alts. more characters allow for more flexibility. as it stands now, i'm considering quitting because of the huge time investments WoW is requiring now.
compare /played times with whoever says that it doesn't require a huge time investment. every time i do, it ends up dwarfing me by 2-3 times, and i used to be a "hardcore raider" in the Naxx days.
any enterprises relying on openMosix to run their operations are in a pretty bad spot right now, i agree. their enterprise quality support has evaporated.
of course, this would be a completely different story if it were a close-source program they were relying on... because... ?
companies go out of business, too. and when their close-source programs are no longer supported, *no one* has the ability to pick up where they left off.
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2! i might finally get an Xbox 360.
i thought the same thing, and i install cable for a living. cablecards are a PITA, and they tpically have to be fully reset by our warehouse to work on another television. (don't know what they do exactly, unfortunately.) i've had to swap out pairs of cablecards at a time because they were provisioned wrong, at which point they are un-savable in the field.
there are multiple cat5 wiring arrangement standards, which switch wire colors but do not change the basic wiring format:
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/layer_1/cables/tech_lan .htm#color
in my line of work (low-voltage wiring), describing wires by location is typically more precise than describing wires by color.
our teeth decay mostly because of sugars, acidic drinks, and carbonated drinks. i'd imagine we would have much healthier teeth if you cut these out of our diets.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/1 5/1810211
let me first say that i am 21. since i was in my early to mid teens, to my current age, i've had many girls "come back to my place." i've came back to many girls places. i've slept in the same bed of many girls, in very close positions. the majority of these visits did not end in sex in any way.
of course, there have also been times when the girl had other things in mind, and those were fun too.
my point is, people don't always associate closeness with sex as much as they used to. "wnat to sleep in my bed tonight" means, for me and a lot of my friends of both genders, "hey, wouldn't it be nice to have some extra warmth next to you while you sleep."
i do, however, have friends that only want girls/guys for sex, though, or assume hanging out with someone of the opposite gender is mainly done to hook up. its just that, most people i know arent like that.
granted, as a 14 year old, she should know that a 19 year old probably doesn't want to hang out with her because shes such an awesome 14 year old. so i do agree with a lot of what you are saying. i just wanted to point out that the old idea of dating and "come back to my place" isn't nearly what it used to be for a lot of people.
Oddly enough, this speed test actually does rate my speed at about what my ISP's speedtest rate's it, just shy of their maximum. And since i install modems for a living, and this software is nearly identical to my ISP's, i know that it tends to cut off a fraction of that speed. I have, however, been to many speed test sites that have reported my speeds to be less than half of what i know i'm truly getting.
I'm on Road Runner, for what it's worth. Maybe your ISP sucks, and i just have a really good one. However, these speedtest articles are usually just someone complaining about a subject they don't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand.
Not all speed tests are equal, because not all paths on the internet are the same. This is akin to buying a car, testing the time it takes you to drive across your city, and then wondering why it takes so long to drive to another state. Oddly enough, this speed test actually does rate my speed at about what my ISP's speedtest rate's it, just shy of their maximum. And since i install modems for a living, and this software is nearly identical to my ISP's, i know that it tends to cut off a fraction of that speed. I have, however, been to many speed test sites that have reported my speeds to be less than half of what i know i'm truly getting. I'm on Road Runner, for what it's worth. Maybe your ISP sucks, and i just have a really good one. However, these speedtest articles are usually just someone complaining about a subject they don't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand.
My car is a tool to get from point A to point B. That doesnt mean i dont have fun in the process.
of course, the grandparent should really just let typos like that go. this is slashdot, after all.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&id=349
why this wasnt just built into the GUI in the first place, i have no idea.
Why no last name for Samir. Its so easy to remember. Na, yeen, a, na, jar. Nayeenanajar.
couple n.
1. Two items of the same kind; a pair.
2. Something that joins or connects two things together; a link.
3. Informal. A few; several: a couple of days.
It shouldn't even be a choice.
why shouldnt it be a chioce? its my computer, why cant i set it up the way i want to? if i want the added security of user priviledges then ill choose to use them. if i want to be lazy and not use them, so be it.
these are the things a lot of people think about when not deciding to use linux. instead of forcing people to use your way to do things, give them options and tell them in what ways which is better.
who?
meh. back in high school i got a 1.7 GPA, but i got test scores just about identical to yours. i only got accepted to one school i applied to, though. maybe i should have dropped out and got a GPA so they wouldnt have grades to look at. :-P
i used to have a friend that DJed as well, and he used something very similar to these. he had at least a thousand CDs, mostly stuff that was burned or came with a paper CD holder, and he loved these.