What you're saying reminds me of buying lightbulbs. I recently bought new bulbs for almost every room in my house at a whopping $10 each. They are guarranteed to last eight years and consume about a fourth of the electricity of normal bulbs. So, my recurring costs are less and I don't have to buy new bulbs until at least 2010.
To me providing a patch in source form is exactly the same as providing a description
It's like I tried to explain to my roomate in college: Writing a computer program is like writing a (quote number of pages from the last print out I made)-page essay... in a foriegn language... where if you mess up on spelling or punctuation or syntax, even a missing semicolon, you will fail miserably!
That is a pun or play on words, and you should be sentenced to public flogging for that.
If such puns were outlawed as such, then Shakespeare would have died of flogging.
Take for example, from Hamlet, when the Prince asks the gravedigger whose grave he is digging, the gravedigger replies that he is digging his own grave. Hamlet responds that of course it is his because he "lies" in it. hehe
You make a legitamate point, but I may not have been clear on what I was saying.
I have a credit card. I used it to buy a refigerator and a washer and a dryer because I didn't have any of them. I have one year to pay it off with no interest. I will have it paid off by then. I justify the fridge as a basic necessity. The washer and dryer will save me money in the long run compared to a laundromat.
When I pay it off, what will I use it for? Going to the movies? Buying groceries? No. It's a safety net. If the car needs fixing and I don't have the cash, stuff like that. As far as convenient shopping (without carrying cash) I have a debit card, which I monitor closely.
You mentioned your intent on paying off a 30-year mortgage in fifteen years. You couldn't do that if you couldn't afford a 15-year mortgage. If you are disciplined enough to handle it, then that plan works fine. The benefit is the ability to make lower payments in times of tight money. The bad part is that you don't have to make such a big payment, and if you don't there is more money to spend. What I advise against is scraping by on a 30-year mortgage. That's how the trouble starts.
You seem to know what you're doing. Money management is not something that can be summed up in a/. post. It's too complex. You will probably be one of those "better off" in the end as it seems you are prepared for a bumpy ride that may or may not come to you. Good luck with it.
You are so right about this. Calling this time another Great Depression is like calling a headache a tumor. It's not a tumor. (AS)
Too many people like to spend money they don't have. Like a friend of mine who just bought a new car. She has a tight budget and a 6yo daughter and rents an apartment - and that was before the car. She could have bought one used 3-5 years old and saved over 60%.
And then there are those who are wise to borrowing money, but instead they spend their whole paycheck as soon as they get it. Like my mother-in-law, who has what she calls "entertainment expenses." This translates to 5 new dvds and a PlayStation game with every paycheck. Then there is also the AOL. She is thinking about getting cable. She is planning to get XBox and PS2. She found out her Social Security benefits was going to be $500/mo and started cursing the government. Anytime there is something she wants, she puts it on layaway. If there is something she needs, she waits until payday because she has no more money left. She rents an apartment too.
Don't even get me started on the idea of credit cards.
I just don't think most people in the US have a concept of money. I don't consider paying a mortgage as "owning" a house. It is better characterized without the "n": you are "owing" a house. A 30-year loan will easily make you pay 2.5x the price of the house. I'd rather own 2.5 houses thank you very much. If a ten year loan costs too much per month, buy a cheaper house.
Yeah, the standard of living may decrease, but those who know how to manage their money will be the first, if not the only, to recover.
What kind of music did Ronnie James Dio perform in the 50s?
I honestly don't know. I haven't heard anything that old. I don't even know if it was re-released on CD. For more information on him, try The Unofficial Site or The Official Site.
WSJ: Compact disc shipments fell 7% in the first six months of this year.
A 7% drop? That's it? Wow, they're doing amazingly well in these tough times. The company I work for (different industry) dropped about 50% in sales.
Actually it's my fault record sales dropped. I used to buy CDs like crazy from those "10 CDs for $.01" deals. Now I just buy used, unless one of my favorite artists just comes out with a new release, or I can't find it used. That rarely happens though.
The newer artists I favor are an acquired taste, so they are common in the "Used" section. Also, that section is where I purchase bands I never heard of before, and I have yet to be dissappointed. So, it works both ways.
As for the older artists, they rarely come out with something new. The only new CD I bought recently was Dio "Killing the Dragon" which was released this year. This guy has been performing since at least the 50s, and concentrating on the Metal genre at least since his experience with Black Sabbath in 70s. (I say "at least" because nobody knows how old he is). My point is that many of the artists I favor are retired or dead, and therefore are not spitting out new recordings any more. This particular case is an exception.
In conclusion, people like me see the "New" CD shelves as no more than obsticals between the door and the "Used" shelves/bins (which often, though not always, are found in the back of the store). It's really the best "Under $5" I can spend (and sometimes as low as $1.99 or even $.99).
New sales from me have dropped at least 95% in the past decade. Feel the burn.
I like this statistic because it shows the loss by figuring the number of expansions compared to the origional. It totally ignores those who pirated both, who probably wouldn't have paid for it anyway. It's very possible though, as you said, that the difference comes from the additonal publicity. Maybe now with expansions being so popular, the software companies should consider releasing the original for free. Many bands, like Metallica, would never have made it "big" if they didn't hand out their original recordings when they were "small-time" garage bands.
You said: There's a reason that different cars have different chasses.
The article says (page 2 paragraph 1):...large plants could eventually mass-produce a small number of skateboard types--for example, compact, mid-size and large...
Oh yeah... I forgot. This is/. we're talking about. Never mind.
That's right. Business owners need not expand their knowledge! Forget a well rounded education. Forget knowing what you're talking about. Forget being able to put in your two cents when there is a discussion on baroque or child psychology. Forget being able to know if someone is correct in a statement they make and instead just trust them. Forget finding new and interesting ways to express your thoughts.
If I were to live forever, I would make it a point to learn everything possible. Not for fortune, but for knowledge. I would reccommend to anyone who is thinking of college to learn so that they may gain knowledge, not so that they may gain fortune or fame or anything else.
I do not mean to dishonor anyone, nor to arouse anger or resentment. Still, there is one thing that has been puzzling me.
I have been hearing a lot about all this sympathy for those lost on September 11, and their families. What I am wondering is if and how it would have been different had the individual died in a car crash, or from a heart attack, or cancer, or in an armed robbery, aside from the obvious point that this was a terrorist attack.
Basically what I am asking is if there is anything specific about this way to death that makes the mourning process more difficult than non-terrorst related deaths.
Forgive me for not understanding. Here is where I am coming from. I have not lost anyone in that way, so I can't relate. The only people close to me that died left in such a way that it wasn't so sad, but that's because of the way I see death: the natural end to every life cycle.
My grandmother died of cancer. I was happy that she was done suffering.
My great grandmother died "naturally" in her eighties. Even she would say that she would die someday. Thankfully there was no pain.
My great uncle shot himself. He was suffering through a lot of irreversible health problems that kept getting worse. He made the conscious decision to end his life, and I respect that.
Thanks in advance for not taking my question as disrespectful or anything less than a request for information. I may have a psychologial flaw that has been preventing me from understanding on my own (and I am serious when I say that). Please, if you can, shed some light on the subject for me.
In other news, scientists have discovered the many difficulties of rematerialization as seen in science fiction works such as Star Trek ("Beam me up, Scotti!"). However, they realized the basics of the technology are already applied in our daily activities, ie: when we drive our cars from point A to point B.
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They pay a lot of money to the post office, and this money helps keep the cost of regular mail, that you and I send, cheaper.
Two problems I immediately notice with your theory are as follows:
ok, this last is a bit spurious -- who can use 1000 mbit devices to the fullest right now?
Seriously? One bit per second is too fast for you?
What you're saying reminds me of buying lightbulbs. I recently bought new bulbs for almost every room in my house at a whopping $10 each. They are guarranteed to last eight years and consume about a fourth of the electricity of normal bulbs. So, my recurring costs are less and I don't have to buy new bulbs until at least 2010.
To me providing a patch in source form is exactly the same as providing a description
It's like I tried to explain to my roomate in college: Writing a computer program is like writing a (quote number of pages from the last print out I made)-page essay... in a foriegn language... where if you mess up on spelling or punctuation or syntax, even a missing semicolon, you will fail miserably!
That is a pun or play on words, and you should be sentenced to public flogging for that.
If such puns were outlawed as such, then Shakespeare would have died of flogging.
Take for example, from Hamlet, when the Prince asks the gravedigger whose grave he is digging, the gravedigger replies that he is digging his own grave. Hamlet responds that of course it is his because he "lies" in it. hehe
Maybe they will finally send HAL9000 up to Jupiter so that he may proceed to kill every living thing onboard.
My mind is going. I can feel it.
You make a legitamate point, but I may not have been clear on what I was saying.
I have a credit card. I used it to buy a refigerator and a washer and a dryer because I didn't have any of them. I have one year to pay it off with no interest. I will have it paid off by then. I justify the fridge as a basic necessity. The washer and dryer will save me money in the long run compared to a laundromat.
When I pay it off, what will I use it for? Going to the movies? Buying groceries? No. It's a safety net. If the car needs fixing and I don't have the cash, stuff like that. As far as convenient shopping (without carrying cash) I have a debit card, which I monitor closely.
You mentioned your intent on paying off a 30-year mortgage in fifteen years. You couldn't do that if you couldn't afford a 15-year mortgage. If you are disciplined enough to handle it, then that plan works fine. The benefit is the ability to make lower payments in times of tight money. The bad part is that you don't have to make such a big payment, and if you don't there is more money to spend. What I advise against is scraping by on a 30-year mortgage. That's how the trouble starts.
You seem to know what you're doing. Money management is not something that can be summed up in a /. post. It's too complex. You will probably be one of those "better off" in the end as it seems you are prepared for a bumpy ride that may or may not come to you. Good luck with it.
You are so right about this. Calling this time another Great Depression is like calling a headache a tumor. It's not a tumor. (AS)
Too many people like to spend money they don't have. Like a friend of mine who just bought a new car. She has a tight budget and a 6yo daughter and rents an apartment - and that was before the car. She could have bought one used 3-5 years old and saved over 60%.
And then there are those who are wise to borrowing money, but instead they spend their whole paycheck as soon as they get it. Like my mother-in-law, who has what she calls "entertainment expenses." This translates to 5 new dvds and a PlayStation game with every paycheck. Then there is also the AOL. She is thinking about getting cable. She is planning to get XBox and PS2. She found out her Social Security benefits was going to be $500/mo and started cursing the government. Anytime there is something she wants, she puts it on layaway. If there is something she needs, she waits until payday because she has no more money left. She rents an apartment too.
Don't even get me started on the idea of credit cards.
I just don't think most people in the US have a concept of money. I don't consider paying a mortgage as "owning" a house. It is better characterized without the "n": you are "owing" a house. A 30-year loan will easily make you pay 2.5x the price of the house. I'd rather own 2.5 houses thank you very much. If a ten year loan costs too much per month, buy a cheaper house.
Yeah, the standard of living may decrease, but those who know how to manage their money will be the first, if not the only, to recover.
When setting up my phone service, this conversation came up:
Rep: We will put your name and number in our phone books free of charge. Would you like that?
Me: No, I don't need that.
Rep: Then it will cost you $x up front and $y per month.
It's absurd to have to pay for someone to not do something. That has to be illegal. Bribery? Blackmail? I don't know, IANAL.
"The time has come", the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings."
Although OT, I felt inclined to quote a song that references that quote.
"Babies, and bachelors, fishes, cabbages, and queens don't know what's coming but they know what it means." -Todd Rundgren Worldwide Epiphany
As an unenlightened one, I am having trouble comprehending your theory.
Are you saying that the radio stations pay the record companies pay the radio stations?
I think the legality of tampering with the odometer is up to the states. In New Jersey, titles and odmeter statements have two checkboxes:
(Taken off the back of a New Jersey title, capitalization is their's)
So, it is not illegal as long as you check box #2 when you sell it.
What kind of music did Ronnie James Dio perform in the 50s?
I honestly don't know. I haven't heard anything that old. I don't even know if it was re-released on CD. For more information on him, try The Unofficial Site or The Official Site.
Apparently he's touring the US next month!
Or haven't you been watching the news lately?
And the news will never mettle with statistics. And statistics will never lie. I take the "news" with a pound of salt becuase everything is biased.
WSJ: Compact disc shipments fell 7% in the first six months of this year.
A 7% drop? That's it? Wow, they're doing amazingly well in these tough times. The company I work for (different industry) dropped about 50% in sales.
Actually it's my fault record sales dropped. I used to buy CDs like crazy from those "10 CDs for $.01" deals. Now I just buy used, unless one of my favorite artists just comes out with a new release, or I can't find it used. That rarely happens though.
The newer artists I favor are an acquired taste, so they are common in the "Used" section. Also, that section is where I purchase bands I never heard of before, and I have yet to be dissappointed. So, it works both ways.
As for the older artists, they rarely come out with something new. The only new CD I bought recently was Dio "Killing the Dragon" which was released this year. This guy has been performing since at least the 50s, and concentrating on the Metal genre at least since his experience with Black Sabbath in 70s. (I say "at least" because nobody knows how old he is). My point is that many of the artists I favor are retired or dead, and therefore are not spitting out new recordings any more. This particular case is an exception.
In conclusion, people like me see the "New" CD shelves as no more than obsticals between the door and the "Used" shelves/bins (which often, though not always, are found in the back of the store). It's really the best "Under $5" I can spend (and sometimes as low as $1.99 or even $.99).
New sales from me have dropped at least 95% in the past decade. Feel the burn.
I like this statistic because it shows the loss by figuring the number of expansions compared to the origional. It totally ignores those who pirated both, who probably wouldn't have paid for it anyway. It's very possible though, as you said, that the difference comes from the additonal publicity. Maybe now with expansions being so popular, the software companies should consider releasing the original for free. Many bands, like Metallica, would never have made it "big" if they didn't hand out their original recordings when they were "small-time" garage bands.
You said: There's a reason that different cars have different chasses.
The article says (page 2 paragraph 1): ...large plants could eventually mass-produce a small number of skateboard types--for example, compact, mid-size and large...
Oh yeah... I forgot. This is /. we're talking about. Never mind.
That's right. Business owners need not expand their knowledge! Forget a well rounded education. Forget knowing what you're talking about. Forget being able to put in your two cents when there is a discussion on baroque or child psychology. Forget being able to know if someone is correct in a statement they make and instead just trust them. Forget finding new and interesting ways to express your thoughts.
If I were to live forever, I would make it a point to learn everything possible. Not for fortune, but for knowledge. I would reccommend to anyone who is thinking of college to learn so that they may gain knowledge, not so that they may gain fortune or fame or anything else.
I do not mean to dishonor anyone, nor to arouse anger or resentment. Still, there is one thing that has been puzzling me.
I have been hearing a lot about all this sympathy for those lost on September 11, and their families. What I am wondering is if and how it would have been different had the individual died in a car crash, or from a heart attack, or cancer, or in an armed robbery, aside from the obvious point that this was a terrorist attack.
Basically what I am asking is if there is anything specific about this way to death that makes the mourning process more difficult than non-terrorst related deaths.
Forgive me for not understanding. Here is where I am coming from. I have not lost anyone in that way, so I can't relate. The only people close to me that died left in such a way that it wasn't so sad, but that's because of the way I see death: the natural end to every life cycle.
Thanks in advance for not taking my question as disrespectful or anything less than a request for information. I may have a psychologial flaw that has been preventing me from understanding on my own (and I am serious when I say that). Please, if you can, shed some light on the subject for me.
An electric-powered Delorean...
All you need is a Mr. Fusion, or a bolt of lightning, to get your 1.21 gigawatts.
That's because they're thinking fourth demensionally. Once you reach 88mph, those traffic lights and stop signs won't even be there.
Awesome. I am really impressed with the comment. Now I want to see a comment on M$Windows.
Second thought, I get enough toddler comments from my two-year-old.
Awesome. I am really impressed with the image. Now I want to see a visual representation of M$Windows.
Second thought, I see enough toddler artwork from my two-year-old.
There is already a natural occurance of this type of warning. It's called pain.
In other news, scientists have discovered the many difficulties of rematerialization as seen in science fiction works such as Star Trek ("Beam me up, Scotti!"). However, they realized the basics of the technology are already applied in our daily activities, ie: when we drive our cars from point A to point B.