Many consumer product installment payment contracts have similar accelerated payment clauses which can be triggered by loss or damage to the product, changes in borrowers financial status (miss a payment and it all comes due, for example), etc. This is a product installment payment contract for a phone you are buying. It is not a cell phone service contract.
Because this is a contract to buy a phone, not cell service. Same as buying a washing machine at Sears on time payments. Sears wants their money regardless of whether or not you are using the machine. If you can't come up with money to buy a real smartphone up front, perhaps you should stick with a $10 Tracfone.
I think we should replace all of our nuclear reactors with one big one. The good news is that this is already in operation and has proven to be a stable design. It has been generating power for millions of years and has a projected life of millions more. It only gives earth a small amount of harmful radiation due to natural shielding. It provides many times the power the earth could possibly ever use. I am, of course, referring to the sun.
This is much better than the original summary (or even the original article). I think/. should as a matter of policy run all submissions through Google translate to get to the core of their meaning.
Having only used MacOS and Linux for the past 5-10 years and having not had to deal with malware and security software and these kinds of clusterfucks when the security software attacks your computer, I wonder why, oh why, do people still use the crap software known as Windows???... are they masochists?... are they stupid?... are they zombies?... ??? WTF??? Really??
Microsoft had been selling XP and Vista as a new OS on computers until just a year or two ago so it would seem reasonable that they should support something they were selling for at least a year or two after selling it as a new, current OS.
Nitpicking point taken. However, the other part of the equation, cost, has the potential to make these very attractive compounds. If you could turn the side of your house into a solar panel for just the cost of paining it, this would be a very attractive value proposition. Even if the efficiency was only half that of a conventional PV panel, the cost per watt would be much lower. Good to see this research.
Most of the research for truly new classes of drugs is performed at public expense by NIH, etc. Drug companies cash in on this by conducting clinical trials at inflated cost. Drug companies also so a lot of research on tweaking existing drugs to "discover" slightly different variations which they can patent and milk for more profits. Drug companies tend to lie about and hide adverse effects of their drugs. The only service they provide is clinical trials and this could be done a much lower public expense.
This is a very insightful comment.
I did not inherit money but I did receive a good education so I am fortunate in that I have been able to provide level 1 for all of my working life. Level 2 has been easy with friends and family (and not too much focus on work). Of course, you have to get past level 1 to avoid the "nose to the grindstone" but it's also about setting priorities. Having a business in town allowed me to fully participate in raising our children (such as going to all of their soccer games, track meets, etc.). Level 3 started about 20 years ago after I sold my first company and "retired". I was too young to stop working so I applied my tech and medical skills in developing countries. This has proven to be intellectually and socially stimulating as well as giving me a sense of contributing back to society. I did have some advantages in education which were a gift to me but this is no more than many people receive in developed countries. I think the key to success in this is attitude and setting priorities. I started by deciding that I had enough money to live on and that I could afford to spend time on family and friends and recreation. I made this decision a long time ago when I had no money. Rather than tell myself that I couldn't do things because I didn't have money, I adjusted my life to live on my budget so I wouldn't be a wage slave. I have kept this same attitude regardless of the amount of money I had. It's a sort of Buddhist approach to life. It really frees you sit back and enjoy your life. (I do realize that many people do not have the advantages I have had and they have a much harder time of just getting to level 1.) Now that I think about it more, I really do think the Buddhist idea of being satisfied with your life and divorcing yourself from attachments and desires to material things is key.
Australia came up with a much more strict gun control laws after a massacre at a place called Newtown. The result is that they have a much lower rate of gun violence compared to before the gun control laws. Gun control works.
I have read quite a few of their books and have found them all to be high quality edits. I would like to thank everyone who has worked on the project for the excellent job they are doing.
(In contrast, I recently purchased a Kindle copy of Paul Theroux's The Happy Isles of Oceania which is about 20 years old and they obviously produced the electronic copy by OCR and from the looks of it did little or no proofreading. There were obvious typos on every page. It's irritating that a publisher who actually get's paid to do this work can't be bothered to do even cursory proofreading.)
Makes you appreciate the fine work the Gutenberg people are doing.
A few cheap Belkin routers that I bought for my family do just this. They have a sticker on the bottom with a (hopefully) unique username and password.
I know that the fossil fuel industry is narrowly focused on finding more hydrocarbons to burn since they can count these as assets and run up their stock price, but there is growing consensus among climate scientists (not deniers) that we can only burn about one third of the hydrocarbons that we have already discovered if we are to avoid climate catastrophe. It would be nice if raw greed didn't run the world. However, reality will intrude sooner or later and all of these new discoveries will become worthless.
I couldn't get Silverlight to install on my Mac OSX. Netflix told me to call Microsoft. Microsoft was clueless about OSX but still wanted $99 for the service call. My solution was to cancel Netflix.
My mom was always having trouble with her computer. I live a long distance away but my sister lives close and was constantly confused by her requests for help. Finally got her an iPad. (My sister objected strongly that she was not going to support it.) She loves the iPad. Works great. Never "broken". No tech support issues.
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Many consumer product installment payment contracts have similar accelerated payment clauses which can be triggered by loss or damage to the product, changes in borrowers financial status (miss a payment and it all comes due, for example), etc.
This is a product installment payment contract for a phone you are buying. It is not a cell phone service contract.
Because this is a contract to buy a phone, not cell service.
Same as buying a washing machine at Sears on time payments.
Sears wants their money regardless of whether or not you are using the machine.
If you can't come up with money to buy a real smartphone up front, perhaps you should stick with a $10 Tracfone.
I think we should replace all of our nuclear reactors with one big one.
The good news is that this is already in operation and has proven to be a stable design.
It has been generating power for millions of years and has a projected life of millions more.
It only gives earth a small amount of harmful radiation due to natural shielding. It provides many times the power the earth could possibly ever use.
I am, of course, referring to the sun.
Ask and you shall receive.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435742530/udoo-android-linux-arduino-in-a-tiny-single-board
I think you're looking for this board:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435742530/udoo-android-linux-arduino-in-a-tiny-single-board
This is much better than the original summary (or even the original article). /. should as a matter of policy run all submissions through Google translate to get to the core of their meaning.
I think
The last update to Mac OSX did this too. Drove me crazy until I found a fix.
Having only used MacOS and Linux for the past 5-10 years and having not had to deal with malware and security software and these kinds of clusterfucks when the security software attacks your computer, I wonder why, oh why, do people still use the crap software known as Windows??? ... are they masochists? ... are they stupid? ... are they zombies? ... ??? WTF???
Really??
I agree.
I was just objecting to people excusing XP as a 10 year old OS
Microsoft had been selling XP and Vista as a new OS on computers until just a year or two ago so it would seem reasonable that they should support something they were selling for at least a year or two after selling it as a new, current OS.
I'll take a wild guess and say they use wires.
Nitpicking point taken.
However, the other part of the equation, cost, has the potential to make these very attractive compounds. If you could turn the side of your house into a solar panel for just the cost of paining it, this would be a very attractive value proposition. Even if the efficiency was only half that of a conventional PV panel, the cost per watt would be much lower.
Good to see this research.
Most of the research for truly new classes of drugs is performed at public expense by NIH, etc.
Drug companies cash in on this by conducting clinical trials at inflated cost.
Drug companies also so a lot of research on tweaking existing drugs to "discover" slightly different variations which they can patent and milk for more profits. Drug companies tend to lie about and hide adverse effects of their drugs.
The only service they provide is clinical trials and this could be done a much lower public expense.
This is a very insightful comment.
I did not inherit money but I did receive a good education so I am fortunate in that I have been able to provide level 1 for all of my working life. Level 2 has been easy with friends and family (and not too much focus on work). Of course, you have to get past level 1 to avoid the "nose to the grindstone" but it's also about setting priorities. Having a business in town allowed me to fully participate in raising our children (such as going to all of their soccer games, track meets, etc.).
Level 3 started about 20 years ago after I sold my first company and "retired". I was too young to stop working so I applied my tech and medical skills in developing countries. This has proven to be intellectually and socially stimulating as well as giving me a sense of contributing back to society.
I did have some advantages in education which were a gift to me but this is no more than many people receive in developed countries. I think the key to success in this is attitude and setting priorities. I started by deciding that I had enough money to live on and that I could afford to spend time on family and friends and recreation. I made this decision a long time ago when I had no money. Rather than tell myself that I couldn't do things because I didn't have money, I adjusted my life to live on my budget so I wouldn't be a wage slave. I have kept this same attitude regardless of the amount of money I had. It's a sort of Buddhist approach to life. It really frees you sit back and enjoy your life. (I do realize that many people do not have the advantages I have had and they have a much harder time of just getting to level 1.)
Now that I think about it more, I really do think the Buddhist idea of being satisfied with your life and divorcing yourself from attachments and desires to material things is key.
Australia came up with a much more strict gun control laws after a massacre at a place called Newtown.
The result is that they have a much lower rate of gun violence compared to before the gun control laws.
Gun control works.
I have read quite a few of their books and have found them all to be high quality edits.
I would like to thank everyone who has worked on the project for the excellent job they are doing.
(In contrast, I recently purchased a Kindle copy of Paul Theroux's The Happy Isles of Oceania which is about 20 years old and they obviously produced the electronic copy by OCR and from the looks of it did little or no proofreading. There were obvious typos on every page. It's irritating that a publisher who actually get's paid to do this work can't be bothered to do even cursory proofreading.)
Makes you appreciate the fine work the Gutenberg people are doing.
A few cheap Belkin routers that I bought for my family do just this.
They have a sticker on the bottom with a (hopefully) unique username and password.
You bought Google Reader Hardware?... and now have an expensive paperweight?
I'll buy it from you to put in my museum.
I know that the fossil fuel industry is narrowly focused on finding more hydrocarbons to burn since they can count these as assets and run up their stock price, but there is growing consensus among climate scientists (not deniers) that we can only burn about one third of the hydrocarbons that we have already discovered if we are to avoid climate catastrophe.
It would be nice if raw greed didn't run the world. However, reality will intrude sooner or later and all of these new discoveries will become worthless.
I do believe that he is smart but to get into Harvard you need to have money and connections and that is how he got in.
He got into Harvard because he came from a rich family ... the usual connections.
I couldn't get Silverlight to install on my Mac OSX.
Netflix told me to call Microsoft.
Microsoft was clueless about OSX but still wanted $99 for the service call.
My solution was to cancel Netflix.
In order to really understand this story, you need to Google Denise Milani.
Here are a few results:
http://www.denisemilani.com/
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Denise_Milani's_breasts
http://www.fhm.com/girls/covergirls/denise-milani
They had a very limited ability to burn hydrocarbons.
My mom was always having trouble with her computer. I live a long distance away but my sister lives close and was constantly confused by her requests for help.
Finally got her an iPad. (My sister objected strongly that she was not going to support it.)
She loves the iPad. Works great. Never "broken". No tech support issues.