Microsoft claims that the machine cannot be moved while on with a disk in it or it will do this to the disks. He claims he didn't move it.
Not that we disbelieve your BIL, but I can't tell you the number of times I've heard this. "My browser won't load some web site." "It needs cookies, are you running software that blocks 'em?" "No." A day later, "Oh, it turns out my dad put blocking software on the computer." You don't say. See also approximately 600 episodes of Shark Tank.
. But, a machine that destroys your $60 game disks, that can't be easily backed up, because you bumped into the entertainment center is unacceptable IMO.
Exactly what are people doing where they're bumping into the entertainment center, getting out of control while playing DDR? Notwithstanding that, the device should, in fact, not be quote so sensitive that it does this.
I guess when you're selling systems at a loss the urge to cut costs wherever you can is pretty strong.
Well, people want stuff cheap these days, and they don't really care much, in general, about what they're giving up to get cheap (i.e., quality). There's no other way to explain the success of Wal-Mart, and most everyone else seems to be following suit. What's the solution? I dunno--don't buy stuff predicated on the shaver/razor blade sales model? Don't let cost be your sole determining factor when you buy stuff?
Good grief, the sailing wasn't that bad. They put teleporters all over the place so you don't have to sail for ages. Admittedly, access to them comes later than you'd like, but it generally doesn't take more than a minute or so, and probably less, to sail across any given grid on the map.
I didn't say "difficult," I said "expensive." Not just vending machines, mind, but I mentioned cash registers as well. How many millions of units is that, I wonder, all of which cost probably hundreds of dollars.
Ever heard of the broken windows fallacy? It works like this: someone breaks a store window. The shopkeep comes out, upset, until the glass man comes by and points out that by buying that new window, the shopkeeper is stimulating the economy. Well, that's all true--but the money he spent on the window, he might've used for more supplies, or towards a bigger shop or something, that would've provided a more far-reaching economic benefit.
Every dollar spent replacing perfectly fine cash registers and vending machines is a dollar NOT spent on inventory, salary, expansion, etc.
Sure, that's a great idea, changing the size of currency. And now we have to replace very cash register and vending machine in the country, to make life easier for a tiny minority of people.
And there ya have it. This is pointless, since if Linux is gonna stick with GPLv2, as it is perfectly able to, GPLv3 is utterly moot--in fact, GPLv3 could be taken directly from the Microsoft Windows EULA and it still wouldn't matter to Linux, because there's no reason software has to "upgrade" it's copyright/left.
Impressively low rates you have. Most places I've lived (all up and down the East Coast) tend to have electric rates much higher than that, and that's not counting the fuel charges. I think I'm paying about 5.5 cents per kwh right now, plus another 4 cents per kwh fuel charges. At that point, wind is definitely competitive--if you live in an area with sufficient wind, of course.
Forced? How? Will someone shoot them if they don't?
Feeling particularly obtuse today? Wal-Mart is forced to sell certain equipment at MSRP if they want to sell it at all. While many things they sell cheaper, a lot of their electronics aren't. Wanna buy a Nintendo DS (or, in fact, any console?) You'll maybe save 53 cents buying it at Wal-Mart over buying it at Gamestop. Even Wal-Mart's behemoth-like size can't force Nintendo or Sony to give them a deal better than anyone else.
The only piece of malware that I haven't been able to remove was a variant of CoolWebSearch. Not even CWShredder got rid of it (or even detected it) as well as all of the other cleaners.
I think I have managed to nuke CoolWWWSearch on a computer this weekend. We created a new user, downloaded MS Antispyware, and immediately ran it. It took out a bunch of stuff, 30-40 entries. Fortunately, he uses webmail only, so we copied the few documents he had over to the new My Documents directory, saved his favorites teh same way, and deleted the old user. Computer seems to work now.
I'm in the US but I would imagine the situation is similar in Canada.
I'm working for a recruiting company right now on a long-term contract. I'm working as an independent contractor and am self-employed. In this case, vacation is pretty much whatever I want it to be, as long as I make sure to give enough notice so as not to inconvenience the client--and, of course, I don't get paid when I'm not working.
I wonder if NetSolutions will drop their prices soon?
I wouldn't count on it. They dropped from $50 to $35 way back when other registrars started appearing--how many years ago was that? Sure, they have volume discounting now, but the 1-year price hasn't gone down in, effectively, forever.
What he's doing is a brute-force attempt to find words with--for himself--a high ham probability. I don't see how this is necessarily going to be an effective general-purpose technique. If you need to start bombarding people with thousands of messages to find the good words you're just going to drive more people into using filters--and this will almost certainly coerce ISPs into doing more filtering as well. Plus, you've got to deal with the issue of keeping data on all those users to find out which words are good for them. This would require you to tailor your spam to each individual user, which probably is going to increase the cost to the spammer (at least in terms of disk storage and time, anyway) and, as Graham-cumming implemented it, is going to fail utterly for anyone who isn't viewing mail as HTML, anyway.
This is the same reason I haven't had solar cells installed on my house. It would take 30 years for the savings to balance the cost, and the cells are rated for only 20 years before they need to be replaced.
Actually, from what I've read, the RoI on solar panels is closer to 20 years or even under. And while solar cells are rated for only 20 years usually, many of them will last over 25 or more when treated well. (I'm going from anecdotal eveidence on mailing lists, magazine articles in Home Power, and the like.)
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Not that we disbelieve your BIL, but I can't tell you the number of times I've heard this. "My browser won't load some web site." "It needs cookies, are you running software that blocks 'em?" "No." A day later, "Oh, it turns out my dad put blocking software on the computer." You don't say. See also approximately 600 episodes of Shark Tank.
Exactly what are people doing where they're bumping into the entertainment center, getting out of control while playing DDR? Notwithstanding that, the device should, in fact, not be quote so sensitive that it does this.
Well, people want stuff cheap these days, and they don't really care much, in general, about what they're giving up to get cheap (i.e., quality). There's no other way to explain the success of Wal-Mart, and most everyone else seems to be following suit. What's the solution? I dunno--don't buy stuff predicated on the shaver/razor blade sales model? Don't let cost be your sole determining factor when you buy stuff?
Good grief, the sailing wasn't that bad. They put teleporters all over the place so you don't have to sail for ages. Admittedly, access to them comes later than you'd like, but it generally doesn't take more than a minute or so, and probably less, to sail across any given grid on the map.
True about smaller bills; not sure that's the way they'd go. Note that this isn't a problem for bills with holes in them instead.
As for vending machines, I'd need to see a more authoritative source: cash registers vastly outnumber vending machines.
I'm not objecting to putting women on money, but there should be a better reason to do it than for the sake of doing it.
I've lived in places were the $1 Sacajawea and SBA coins were in moderately widespread use.
I didn't say "difficult," I said "expensive." Not just vending machines, mind, but I mentioned cash registers as well. How many millions of units is that, I wonder, all of which cost probably hundreds of dollars.
Ever heard of the broken windows fallacy? It works like this: someone breaks a store window. The shopkeep comes out, upset, until the glass man comes by and points out that by buying that new window, the shopkeeper is stimulating the economy. Well, that's all true--but the money he spent on the window, he might've used for more supplies, or towards a bigger shop or something, that would've provided a more far-reaching economic benefit.
Every dollar spent replacing perfectly fine cash registers and vending machines is a dollar NOT spent on inventory, salary, expansion, etc.
Sure, that's a great idea, changing the size of currency. And now we have to replace very cash register and vending machine in the country, to make life easier for a tiny minority of people.
And there ya have it. This is pointless, since if Linux is gonna stick with GPLv2, as it is perfectly able to, GPLv3 is utterly moot--in fact, GPLv3 could be taken directly from the Microsoft Windows EULA and it still wouldn't matter to Linux, because there's no reason software has to "upgrade" it's copyright/left.
Impressively low rates you have. Most places I've lived (all up and down the East Coast) tend to have electric rates much higher than that, and that's not counting the fuel charges. I think I'm paying about 5.5 cents per kwh right now, plus another 4 cents per kwh fuel charges. At that point, wind is definitely competitive--if you live in an area with sufficient wind, of course.
Forced? How? Will someone shoot them if they don't?
Feeling particularly obtuse today? Wal-Mart is forced to sell certain equipment at MSRP if they want to sell it at all. While many things they sell cheaper, a lot of their electronics aren't. Wanna buy a Nintendo DS (or, in fact, any console?) You'll maybe save 53 cents buying it at Wal-Mart over buying it at Gamestop. Even Wal-Mart's behemoth-like size can't force Nintendo or Sony to give them a deal better than anyone else.
if you want to save some mullah.
So that's where Omar is!
Can't Bono afford a TV with inputs on the front?
The real story is, how dumb is Bono if he can't set up an Xbox. It's like sex. Plug in socket. What, he can't handle that?
for the cognitive dissonance to set in. Linux and BASIC together.
I think I have managed to nuke CoolWWWSearch on a computer this weekend. We created a new user, downloaded MS Antispyware, and immediately ran it. It took out a bunch of stuff, 30-40 entries. Fortunately, he uses webmail only, so we copied the few documents he had over to the new My Documents directory, saved his favorites teh same way, and deleted the old user. Computer seems to work now.
You're kidding, right? This stuff makes it harder to keep your PC safe. Expect it to become dominant.
Deep Impact and the like where they get an expert to act as a consultant and then do the exact opposite of what he says?
I'm in the US but I would imagine the situation is similar in Canada.
I'm working for a recruiting company right now on a long-term contract. I'm working as an independent contractor and am self-employed. In this case, vacation is pretty much whatever I want it to be, as long as I make sure to give enough notice so as not to inconvenience the client--and, of course, I don't get paid when I'm not working.
I wonder if NetSolutions will drop their prices soon?
I wouldn't count on it. They dropped from $50 to $35 way back when other registrars started appearing--how many years ago was that? Sure, they have volume discounting now, but the 1-year price hasn't gone down in, effectively, forever.
The internet is more than just the US, thank you.
And how does that change what the previous poster said? Geez.
on building the base on the OUTSIDE of the crater.
did IL have credibility?
What he's doing is a brute-force attempt to find words with--for himself--a high ham probability. I don't see how this is necessarily going to be an effective general-purpose technique. If you need to start bombarding people with thousands of messages to find the good words you're just going to drive more people into using filters--and this will almost certainly coerce ISPs into doing more filtering as well. Plus, you've got to deal with the issue of keeping data on all those users to find out which words are good for them. This would require you to tailor your spam to each individual user, which probably is going to increase the cost to the spammer (at least in terms of disk storage and time, anyway) and, as Graham-cumming implemented it, is going to fail utterly for anyone who isn't viewing mail as HTML, anyway.
Hopefully, Rosen doesn't live in Salem lest she run the risk of being burned at the stake!
The witches of Salem would be organizing a campaign to preserve the dignity of burning at the stake if someone tried to do that to an RIAA exec.
This is the same reason I haven't had solar cells installed on my house. It would take 30 years for the savings to balance the cost, and the cells are rated for only 20 years before they need to be replaced.
Actually, from what I've read, the RoI on solar panels is closer to 20 years or even under. And while solar cells are rated for only 20 years usually, many of them will last over 25 or more when treated well. (I'm going from anecdotal eveidence on mailing lists, magazine articles in Home Power, and the like.)
What's there to be confused about? I don't recall anything in the GPL stating that registration was forbidden.