Is there any good options for receiving payment on ebay other than paypal? (I'm thinking not, since I've used the site enough that I would have noticed.)
This is unfortunate (although my luck has been better, so far). I always figured the substantial fees charged by ebay and paypal were justified mainly by buyer/seller protections.
I don't think there's much of a choice. After I reached a lifetime total of $10,000, paypal wouldn't draw from a credit card any more to send payments until I linked to the bank account.
Obviously you're not a sports fan, but it's a big market. A football game would definitely benefit from an 80" screen with this resolution - you've got 22 guys running every play.
This is useful information. When I sell things I usually leave the money in there since I will eventually spend it down anyways, but perhaps it is better to transfer it out after each sale and not carry a balance.
On March 20, 2011, AT&T announced that it would purchase T-Mobile USA. On August 31, 2011, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice formally announced that it would seek to block the takeover, and filed a lawsuit to such effect in federal court. The bid was abandoned by AT&T on December 19, 2011.
Obviously the acquisition was intended to prevent exactly this sort of competitive undercutting.
Replying to my own post, I just spent some more time digging, and I don't think it exists.
The USB3 solutions may be the answer eventually, but the best chipset appears to be the Displaylink 3900 which is currently Windows only (not even Mac). Even then they are still based on compression/decompression. Maybe Optical Thunderbolt will happen one day and really solve the problem by taking extending the PCI Express bus across many meters.
Until then I'll just have to stick with my two fanless Geforce 210 cards... one in a hacked PCI-express X2 slot.
The problem with exceptions to rules is the line-drawing. It might make sense for us to kill the ass that did this to you. I mean, where do we draw the line?
People who refuse to see shades of gray and draw a line somewhere reasonable (even if its precise position is somewhat arbitrary) are what define both absurd ends of the spectrum - the idea that 10 cells is a "person", or the idea that a 6-month-old fetus perfectly capable of living a normal life if birth were induced today is fair game.
I've had a multi-seat linux system for many years and always found it difficult to set up and incredibly brittle to each new video card driver, Xorg release, and OS version (and likely not workable unless you disable the Gnome or KDE display manager). Once you get it working you do not touch it until you have at least a weekend to spend editing inittab, Xorg.conf, and so on.
I have concluded there isn't critical mass of user interest to keep it working and properly supported, and so given up hope that it will ever improve for good.
Anybody have a different experience?
If I could just say, "anything that hangs off USB hub 2001:f103 is part of a separate console" (including accelerated video replay and a usb sound card) I would be delirious with joy.
Ah, no. The whole issue against yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is that you could be charged with a crime for doing so, not that the owner could expel you from the premises.
This whole slashdot story is a sham, and so is your speculation. If you just follow a couple links you can get to the motion itself. What it says is, they know exactly where the guy is, efforts to get Panama to extradite him have failed for years, and since the case is dead they want to close out the files.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with these silly stories. They're always bogus, and they always lead to pages and pages of wild conspiracy theories and political rants. You're making fools of yourselves.
The litigation strategy is just one more parallel, and it seems destined to fail.
"Fail" would mean the amount they spend on litigation is less than the extra profit they make if the tactic prolongs the iPhone/iPad's fat margins - even by a few days, given how profitable it is. Lawyers are expensive, but the taxpayer eats most of the cost of the trial. So why not?
Also, the Obama administration attempted to block further Uranium mining
Citation needed. I just googled it and all I found was that uranium mining would not be allowed on Federal lands in Arizona, i.e. the Grand Canyon. This is a far cry from the universal ban you claimed or implied.
Natural gas also supposedly complements solar and wind better than coal because gas plants are cheap to build (so the amortized cost of letting them sit idle when cleaner sources are available) is less, and gas plants can adjust their output more quickly than coal (good since solar and wind are variable).
I have never heard it explained why gas plants are cheaper to build and more responsive than coal plants, so I'm curious if anybody knows.
Since we live in a world where millions of people die because they can't even afford antibiotics - or even clean water for that matter, it's pretty absurd to imagine genetic treatments being equally available to all. Those things are already plenty cheap. But if it comes to the point where you need $1 to live and you don't have it, your goose is cooked.
I should have said, "has been awfully volatile against the Australian dollar..." Of course it could as easily go up or down in the future. But since my income and most expenses are in dollars, those swings make the 5% look a lot less steady.
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But I think at least equally likely is the fact that insurance company has laywers and even doctors whose only job is to push back on costs.
Is there any good options for receiving payment on ebay other than paypal? (I'm thinking not, since I've used the site enough that I would have noticed.)
This is unfortunate (although my luck has been better, so far). I always figured the substantial fees charged by ebay and paypal were justified mainly by buyer/seller protections.
I don't think there's much of a choice. After I reached a lifetime total of $10,000, paypal wouldn't draw from a credit card any more to send payments until I linked to the bank account.
Obviously you're not a sports fan, but it's a big market. A football game would definitely benefit from an 80" screen with this resolution - you've got 22 guys running every play.
This is useful information. When I sell things I usually leave the money in there since I will eventually spend it down anyways, but perhaps it is better to transfer it out after each sale and not carry a balance.
Obviously the acquisition was intended to prevent exactly this sort of competitive undercutting.
Anyways if the DOE had its choice they would probably request a few hundred billion to research fusion.
What's wrong with wind? Hook it up to pumped-storage hydro and you have reliable energy. It's cost-competitive too.
Light is easy to block also; even a sheet of paper will do it! Anybody who relies on vision for collision avoidance deserves whatever they get.
The USB3 solutions may be the answer eventually, but the best chipset appears to be the Displaylink 3900 which is currently Windows only (not even Mac). Even then they are still based on compression/decompression. Maybe Optical Thunderbolt will happen one day and really solve the problem by taking extending the PCI Express bus across many meters.
Until then I'll just have to stick with my two fanless Geforce 210 cards... one in a hacked PCI-express X2 slot.
Watching (streaming) TV on the computer is such a staple application these days, at least in my household.
Still, I wonder if there are any similar products with hardware accelerated video decoding built into the USB (or thunderbolt?) video card?
People who refuse to see shades of gray and draw a line somewhere reasonable (even if its precise position is somewhat arbitrary) are what define both absurd ends of the spectrum - the idea that 10 cells is a "person", or the idea that a 6-month-old fetus perfectly capable of living a normal life if birth were induced today is fair game.
In principle, or in fact?
I've had a multi-seat linux system for many years and always found it difficult to set up and incredibly brittle to each new video card driver, Xorg release, and OS version (and likely not workable unless you disable the Gnome or KDE display manager). Once you get it working you do not touch it until you have at least a weekend to spend editing inittab, Xorg.conf, and so on.
I have concluded there isn't critical mass of user interest to keep it working and properly supported, and so given up hope that it will ever improve for good.
Anybody have a different experience?
If I could just say, "anything that hangs off USB hub 2001:f103 is part of a separate console" (including accelerated video replay and a usb sound card) I would be delirious with joy.
Ah, no. The whole issue against yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is that you could be charged with a crime for doing so, not that the owner could expel you from the premises.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with these silly stories. They're always bogus, and they always lead to pages and pages of wild conspiracy theories and political rants. You're making fools of yourselves.
"Fail" would mean the amount they spend on litigation is less than the extra profit they make if the tactic prolongs the iPhone/iPad's fat margins - even by a few days, given how profitable it is. Lawyers are expensive, but the taxpayer eats most of the cost of the trial. So why not?
Japan's panic-driven abandonment of nuclear is not anybody's model for a smooth and orderly transition to renewables. Offshore wind could supposedly take the place of nuclear in Japan, but it would/will take years, and offshore wind is expensive, compared to onshore wind which is quite cheap.
Citation needed. I just googled it and all I found was that uranium mining would not be allowed on Federal lands in Arizona, i.e. the Grand Canyon. This is a far cry from the universal ban you claimed or implied.
This is just begging for a Steve Jobs rebuttal quote. But I don't want to be one of those people.
Ugh, your're right, Obama used the term "clean coal" in his State of the Union address. Must he try and please everybody?
I have never heard it explained why gas plants are cheaper to build and more responsive than coal plants, so I'm curious if anybody knows.
Since we live in a world where millions of people die because they can't even afford antibiotics - or even clean water for that matter, it's pretty absurd to imagine genetic treatments being equally available to all. Those things are already plenty cheap. But if it comes to the point where you need $1 to live and you don't have it, your goose is cooked.
I should have said, "has been awfully volatile against the Australian dollar..." Of course it could as easily go up or down in the future. But since my income and most expenses are in dollars, those swings make the 5% look a lot less steady.
Ooops, it looks like the US dollar has consistently gone down against the Australian dollar in recent years.