Well, if you enjoy tinkering with stuff and would otherwise have the time free anyhow, then it might even be that the time is of a negative cost.
That is to say, if you spend $25k for the unit, but spend 200 hours being rather entertained by putting it together, then you've just spend $25k on the parts and saved $x on whatever else you might have spend that money on (movies, video games, trips, etc).
I do a lot of the additions/repairs around the house. If might cost *more* than a plumber/carpenter/etc if you count what my day job's hourly rate is, but for me the cost of supplies is paying for both the renos and the entertainment of doing them.
One man's burden is another man's leisure, I'd rather be working on neat projects around the house than baking under a hot sun swinging a stick at a dimpled white ball.
Well, a big lure is that various types of gameplay require authentication. Online play is a big one, which can be pretty easily tied to a less-irritating but still rather effective authentication scheme.
I intend to e-mail the publisher explaining that I would rather pirate it than pay them money thanks to their greed.
It says "I would rather pirate than pay"
But it doesn't say "I am going to pirate"
The argument here is that they're not going to pay for it anyways, but it doesn't say that they would rather just not play the game at all VS pirating it.
Compare it to a statement like "I'd rather swim with hungry sharks than shop at your company again"
It doesn't mean you will (or want to) swim with live sharks, just that it's preferable to shopping at company X.
Yes. I'd have to say that at least the Canadian carriers do text you when you cross the border. I went to Seattle from Vancouver and once I was far enough across the border for my network to switch, I got a text-message from Telus (TELUS of all companies) letting me know I was now roaming and a basic synopsis of extra fees. I think the phone even had a special icon that showed up in roaming mode
Same thing with Rogers, which as a lucky thing actually. I was in Niagara falls, and even though I was on the Canadian side, for some reason my phone decided to connect to a US carrier from across the border. Good thing too, otherwise I'd imagine I would have footed a hefty bill if I had picked up any calls there.
What I'd like to see is the actual bill breakdown. How much was charged by the remote carrier. How much was tacked on by AT&T, and what kind of agreement is actually in place for billing between AT&T and the remote telco?
This technology was recently circumvented by terrorist using several cans of Mountain Dew and no bathroom breaks.
"After a few cans of Dew and several hours without using the bathroom, the gait of the individuals changed suddenly to a very unstable, pinched position"
I was getting a lot of spam which had links redirecting to this scam site. It was one of those sites that does a fake virus scan and claims you're infected so they can sell you a bogus product (funny how it was scanning windows-related files on my Linux system, eh).
I sent the offending URL to privacyprotect and was surprised when they actually responded by pulling the spammer's protection, then forwarding the info to his ISP and having the domain itself pulled (the nameserver has been changed to "ns1.suspended-domain.com" and DNS no longer resolves).
Didn't a similar thing happen with movies/books mentioning domains that didn't exist, and a few smart people capitalizing on that and registering the domains?
Maybe movies/books/articles need a good extension for domains, like 555-xxxx is for phone numbers.
How about.dni (does not exist) or.nex (nonexistent)?
It depends on whether what's being done is hardware-based or software base (or, at least, whether it can run on current hardware).
While not quite as adaptable as a PC, a 360 (and I'd assume a PS3) can still adapt to anything that doesn't require a core hardware change. After all, not everything is about horsepower, sometimes it's how you use it.
I moved from BC to Ontario (Canada). Both have a store called "the Real Canadian Superstore." In BC, superstore gives you these nice and thick plastic bags that are really durable and useful. I tended to use them for all sorts of things, or re-use them, because they were so durable. Yes, a lot went out with the garbage, but as garbage bags (so in a sense it was less waste as I was only tossing the SS bag and not another garbage bag as well). Other uses found them storing tools/clothes/etc.
Here in Ontario, Superstores will bag your groceries with a crapload of thin, cruddy bags that easily break. I bought the re-usable bags not because I was really so much into the recycling part as that my bag-holder under the sink was getting full (normally at least I keep the bags until they can be used for bagging up other garbage, etc).
It seems to me that - in Canada at least - the East preaches a lot more about recycling, while in the West it was actually more a part of daily life. The city I'm in has a lot more public recycling containers to drop your pop bottle etc than my hometown back west, but they don't have a deposit-based system etc to entice people to return their bottles for a refund like the west does.
I remember one cool tech awhile back (I think it was mentioned on/.) where they modified certain trees/plants to collect various forms of heavy metals. The trees were alive and healthy (though if you ate the fruit you'd be dead), however having deep-rooted plants in a landfill that suck up a large part of the heavy metals etc would be *awesome* for harvesting purposes.
I have a 360 (no Wii yet) and for a long period I simply didn't have any time for playing it. I had a few moments to relax recently, so I played a bit and managed to collect some cars on Burnout and pass the first disc on "Lost Odyssey"
Aside from that though, I noticed that my TV shelf had been getting cluttered with the consoles, VCR, and two DVD players (one for normal DVD's and that has the surround head, the other plays DivX). I moved the DivX play out of the room and setup the 360 as a media unit, so now it's got a whole lot more usefulness besides being a game console.
Because plenty of windows core services still send traffic even if there's not an obvious "app" in charge of them (there are a bunch of normal system processes that tend to run services underneath them, some of which involve networking).
And that doesn't count traffic on your network as well. Even if your computer isn't sending anything out, it may be responding to other traffic on the network depending on how things are configured, even if it's just to say "this is not the machine you're looking for."
No idea. Perhaps if you had a different SO living with you prior to that then they'd expect you to wait 6 months. Anyhow, I really would have loved to see them try and enforce that one and pay the legal bills when they were nailed for it, it's completely illegal.
The only argument I could see is that the special arrangements needed to send granny back and forth to her cancer treatments might be rather expensive and burdensome on the system.
Of course, IMHO the bonus of the cancer is that the above notwithstanding, she'll be spending less time tying up the prison system should the cancer have its way.
As my girlfriends best friend can recently attest to, the experience is often rather uncomfortable for the female.
And as many of my female friends have mentioned, big guys tend to this size=all, and therefore they don't actually consider a lot of other aspects/actions that make one a good lover. In fact, many of them seem to have this "she'll love it because I'm soooo big" attitude, and thus cause more discomfort than pleasure in their fumbling.
I suppose one of the good things about being "the guy friend" and hearing all the stories from my (often attractive) female friends is that I learned a lot more about women like, and try to avoid making the same mistakes myself.
Rosa was not actively seeking conflict. She was seeking to bring attention to the racial injustice of a region of the country.
Actually, I'm fairly sure that Ms Parks had a pretty damn big defiant streak in her (and good on her for it, I wish more these days would when it comes to injustice).
If you read things more closely, you'll find out that the Homeowners Association was in defiance of the law, by attempting to create illegal bylaws/restrictions.
Having been on the rough equivilent (strata council), I'd say they were in the wrong. While councils should do their best to fairly and equally enforce their own bylaws, they should also do their best to ensure said bylaws are legal and enforceable as well. Anything else is hypocritical (we're going to come after your for doing something for contravening our rule which in turn contravenes state/federal law).
The problem is that these associations show up everywhere, and as you might note, they're trying to enforce laws that are not legal. I see no reason that the grandparent should have to hunt everywhere for a non-HOA location just because some idiots want to play God but haven't researched the local laws.
Sometimes you may seem like a jerk for doing so, but a stand needs to be taken.
I've been on both ends of the fence here. I've been on a strata council (that assigned bylaws for our condo complex) and I've had a cousin get bitten by bad council rules.
In my case, I actually *joined* the council to made sure that the rules governing my home weren't being arbitrarily made by a bunch of aged "get off my lawn" types. The oldest guy in the group was actually one of the best though, as he didn't put up with BS (either in making stupid rules, or people who didn't adhere to the sensical ones).
In regards to the "rusted automobile" one... we actually did enforce a rule that stated that vehicles had to be usable and in good repair. Why? Because prior to that we had a bunch of broken-down pickups in the common grounds, that hadn't been driven in 5 years and were leaking nasty fluids all over the place.
We had plenty of other things that might seem pushy (council had to give approval to certain exterior or interior modifications), but when you have things like people creating holes which then allow flooding into their neighbours, etc, they make sense (and again, we tried to be reasonable about it).
Now in the area of unreasonableness, I've seen things like "rent restrictions" and even worse. Rent restrictions suck, because if you have to move suddenly (new job, lost job, whatever) and you can't afford your mortgage without renting the place, you're screwed. These had been suggested but we shot them down every time. We just made sure to deal with bad renters (owners are responsible for whom they rent to).
Now back to the real big issues: my cousin got a place in a complex with a bunch of nosy old fogies. They had rent controls and live-in controls. Not only could you not rent out, but you couldn't have a roomate, and you couldn't have your significant other move in until you'd been together a certain time. I'm rather certain that these weren't legal, but fighting them takes time and possibly court money.
So, my suggestion for anyone buying into a place with a local council: research the rules first, and join the council if you've got any amount of space time to contribute.
Banks have a lot of "broad" experience in dealing with financial matters, but that doesn't mean that they have a lot of experience in dealing with *your* financial matters, unless you've got a rep assigned specifically to your account.
Think of it as the difference between "managed" web hosting or renting space in a rack (for your own servers). Sure, the NOC might be able to identify certain patterns unusual bandwidth consumption to identify spam/virus issues, but they're not going to be able to catch that backdoor script running on your custom-configured server.
My credit-card has a certain amount of automated monitoring/protection, and I've heard of some with bank accounts that have the same. They can catch fraud-related patterns like a small-withdrawal+big-withdrawal+spending spree which is common to thieves testing then abusing a stolen card (heck, the CC company called me on this the other day as I'd bought a few small things then had some major car repairs done). What they likely won't catch is patterns that fit within your normal business. If you're writing $1000 eCheques regularly, and a few extra are slipped in over time, how are they to know which ones are legit or not?
Hell, if the customer himself couldn't easily figure it out, I wouldn't expect anyone short of a dedicated financial representative to be able to do so.
They give a new agreement out, and you, should you continue with service and pay, have given them consideration and voila
Except that it often doesn't work that way. Sometimes it's a notice posted up on their website (often in a not-obvious area). Sometimes it's a hidden clause buried in a mound of other useless paperwork. And in any of the above cases, there is no verification process using written or even verbal acceptance.
And furthermore, there's already a fucking contract. Sorry, but if I have an agreement to pay for their service for the next 1-3+ years, then the should have to stand by that agreement for the same time period. Trust me, if you decide you "don't like" the new terms it's not likely that your phone/internet/whatever carrier is going to allow you to cancel service without a cancellation fee (at least not until a judge steps in).
I remember reading a long article about people who were prone to violence in their sleep, or when on the weird twilight edge between consciousness and unconsciousness. Perfectly normal people have done some scary stuff in these situations.
I remember that I once had a bad dream and then ended up somehow socking my GF in the arm, but actually attacking somebody or smothering them is scary stuff.
Recommendation: people should not approach you when you're sleep-walking...
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Well, if you enjoy tinkering with stuff and would otherwise have the time free anyhow, then it might even be that the time is of a negative cost.
That is to say, if you spend $25k for the unit, but spend 200 hours being rather entertained by putting it together, then you've just spend $25k on the parts and saved $x on whatever else you might have spend that money on (movies, video games, trips, etc).
I do a lot of the additions/repairs around the house. If might cost *more* than a plumber/carpenter/etc if you count what my day job's hourly rate is, but for me the cost of supplies is paying for both the renos and the entertainment of doing them.
One man's burden is another man's leisure, I'd rather be working on neat projects around the house than baking under a hot sun swinging a stick at a dimpled white ball.
Well, a big lure is that various types of gameplay require authentication. Online play is a big one, which can be pretty easily tied to a less-irritating but still rather effective authentication scheme.
I intend to e-mail the publisher explaining that I would rather pirate it than pay them money thanks to their greed.
It says "I would rather pirate than pay"
But it doesn't say "I am going to pirate"
The argument here is that they're not going to pay for it anyways, but it doesn't say that they would rather just not play the game at all VS pirating it.
Compare it to a statement like "I'd rather swim with hungry sharks than shop at your company again"
It doesn't mean you will (or want to) swim with live sharks, just that it's preferable to shopping at company X.
Which laws? I'm assuming it was actually a contract between them a third party?
Does anyone have some more info on this?
a) You can visit the link and - seeing that it's no longer valid - follow that in this case they did do proper diligence in killing the spam-domain.
b) You can see look up that domain name, and see the whois
c) If the domain is ever resurrected somehow through a different registrar, I'd like to see it attached to the word "scam" in most search engines
Yes. I'd have to say that at least the Canadian carriers do text you when you cross the border. I went to Seattle from Vancouver and once I was far enough across the border for my network to switch, I got a text-message from Telus (TELUS of all companies) letting me know I was now roaming and a basic synopsis of extra fees. I think the phone even had a special icon that showed up in roaming mode
Same thing with Rogers, which as a lucky thing actually. I was in Niagara falls, and even though I was on the Canadian side, for some reason my phone decided to connect to a US carrier from across the border. Good thing too, otherwise I'd imagine I would have footed a hefty bill if I had picked up any calls there.
What I'd like to see is the actual bill breakdown. How much was charged by the remote carrier. How much was tacked on by AT&T, and what kind of agreement is actually in place for billing between AT&T and the remote telco?
This technology was recently circumvented by terrorist using several cans of Mountain Dew and no bathroom breaks.
"After a few cans of Dew and several hours without using the bathroom, the gait of the individuals changed suddenly to a very unstable, pinched position"
I was getting a lot of spam which had links redirecting to this scam site. It was one of those sites that does a fake virus scan and claims you're infected so they can sell you a bogus product (funny how it was scanning windows-related files on my Linux system, eh).
I sent the offending URL to privacyprotect and was surprised when they actually responded by pulling the spammer's protection, then forwarding the info to his ISP and having the domain itself pulled (the nameserver has been changed to "ns1.suspended-domain.com" and DNS no longer resolves).
Didn't a similar thing happen with movies/books mentioning domains that didn't exist, and a few smart people capitalizing on that and registering the domains?
Maybe movies/books/articles need a good extension for domains, like 555-xxxx is for phone numbers.
How about .dni (does not exist) or .nex (nonexistent)?
It depends on whether what's being done is hardware-based or software base (or, at least, whether it can run on current hardware).
While not quite as adaptable as a PC, a 360 (and I'd assume a PS3) can still adapt to anything that doesn't require a core hardware change. After all, not everything is about horsepower, sometimes it's how you use it.
I moved from BC to Ontario (Canada). Both have a store called "the Real Canadian Superstore." In BC, superstore gives you these nice and thick plastic bags that are really durable and useful. I tended to use them for all sorts of things, or re-use them, because they were so durable. Yes, a lot went out with the garbage, but as garbage bags (so in a sense it was less waste as I was only tossing the SS bag and not another garbage bag as well). Other uses found them storing tools/clothes/etc.
Here in Ontario, Superstores will bag your groceries with a crapload of thin, cruddy bags that easily break. I bought the re-usable bags not because I was really so much into the recycling part as that my bag-holder under the sink was getting full (normally at least I keep the bags until they can be used for bagging up other garbage, etc).
It seems to me that - in Canada at least - the East preaches a lot more about recycling, while in the West it was actually more a part of daily life. The city I'm in has a lot more public recycling containers to drop your pop bottle etc than my hometown back west, but they don't have a deposit-based system etc to entice people to return their bottles for a refund like the west does.
I remember one cool tech awhile back (I think it was mentioned on /.) where they modified certain trees/plants to collect various forms of heavy metals. The trees were alive and healthy (though if you ate the fruit you'd be dead), however having deep-rooted plants in a landfill that suck up a large part of the heavy metals etc would be *awesome* for harvesting purposes.
That use varies by individual.
I have a 360 (no Wii yet) and for a long period I simply didn't have any time for playing it. I had a few moments to relax recently, so I played a bit and managed to collect some cars on Burnout and pass the first disc on "Lost Odyssey"
Aside from that though, I noticed that my TV shelf had been getting cluttered with the consoles, VCR, and two DVD players (one for normal DVD's and that has the surround head, the other plays DivX). I moved the DivX play out of the room and setup the 360 as a media unit, so now it's got a whole lot more usefulness besides being a game console.
Because plenty of windows core services still send traffic even if there's not an obvious "app" in charge of them (there are a bunch of normal system processes that tend to run services underneath them, some of which involve networking).
And that doesn't count traffic on your network as well. Even if your computer isn't sending anything out, it may be responding to other traffic on the network depending on how things are configured, even if it's just to say "this is not the machine you're looking for."
No idea. Perhaps if you had a different SO living with you prior to that then they'd expect you to wait 6 months. Anyhow, I really would have loved to see them try and enforce that one and pay the legal bills when they were nailed for it, it's completely illegal.
The only argument I could see is that the special arrangements needed to send granny back and forth to her cancer treatments might be rather expensive and burdensome on the system.
Of course, IMHO the bonus of the cancer is that the above notwithstanding, she'll be spending less time tying up the prison system should the cancer have its way.
As my girlfriends best friend can recently attest to, the experience is often rather uncomfortable for the female.
And as many of my female friends have mentioned, big guys tend to this size=all, and therefore they don't actually consider a lot of other aspects/actions that make one a good lover. In fact, many of them seem to have this "she'll love it because I'm soooo big" attitude, and thus cause more discomfort than pleasure in their fumbling.
I suppose one of the good things about being "the guy friend" and hearing all the stories from my (often attractive) female friends is that I learned a lot more about women like, and try to avoid making the same mistakes myself.
Rosa was not actively seeking conflict. She was seeking to bring attention to the racial injustice of a region of the country.
Actually, I'm fairly sure that Ms Parks had a pretty damn big defiant streak in her (and good on her for it, I wish more these days would when it comes to injustice).
If you read things more closely, you'll find out that the Homeowners Association was in defiance of the law, by attempting to create illegal bylaws/restrictions.
Having been on the rough equivilent (strata council), I'd say they were in the wrong. While councils should do their best to fairly and equally enforce their own bylaws, they should also do their best to ensure said bylaws are legal and enforceable as well. Anything else is hypocritical (we're going to come after your for doing something for contravening our rule which in turn contravenes state/federal law).
The problem is that these associations show up everywhere, and as you might note, they're trying to enforce laws that are not legal. I see no reason that the grandparent should have to hunt everywhere for a non-HOA location just because some idiots want to play God but haven't researched the local laws.
Sometimes you may seem like a jerk for doing so, but a stand needs to be taken.
I've been on both ends of the fence here. I've been on a strata council (that assigned bylaws for our condo complex) and I've had a cousin get bitten by bad council rules.
In my case, I actually *joined* the council to made sure that the rules governing my home weren't being arbitrarily made by a bunch of aged "get off my lawn" types. The oldest guy in the group was actually one of the best though, as he didn't put up with BS (either in making stupid rules, or people who didn't adhere to the sensical ones).
In regards to the "rusted automobile" one... we actually did enforce a rule that stated that vehicles had to be usable and in good repair. Why? Because prior to that we had a bunch of broken-down pickups in the common grounds, that hadn't been driven in 5 years and were leaking nasty fluids all over the place.
We had plenty of other things that might seem pushy (council had to give approval to certain exterior or interior modifications), but when you have things like people creating holes which then allow flooding into their neighbours, etc, they make sense (and again, we tried to be reasonable about it).
Now in the area of unreasonableness, I've seen things like "rent restrictions" and even worse. Rent restrictions suck, because if you have to move suddenly (new job, lost job, whatever) and you can't afford your mortgage without renting the place, you're screwed. These had been suggested but we shot them down every time. We just made sure to deal with bad renters (owners are responsible for whom they rent to).
Now back to the real big issues: my cousin got a place in a complex with a bunch of nosy old fogies. They had rent controls and live-in controls. Not only could you not rent out, but you couldn't have a roomate, and you couldn't have your significant other move in until you'd been together a certain time. I'm rather certain that these weren't legal, but fighting them takes time and possibly court money.
So, my suggestion for anyone buying into a place with a local council: research the rules first, and join the council if you've got any amount of space time to contribute.
Banks have a lot of "broad" experience in dealing with financial matters, but that doesn't mean that they have a lot of experience in dealing with *your* financial matters, unless you've got a rep assigned specifically to your account.
Think of it as the difference between "managed" web hosting or renting space in a rack (for your own servers). Sure, the NOC might be able to identify certain patterns unusual bandwidth consumption to identify spam/virus issues, but they're not going to be able to catch that backdoor script running on your custom-configured server.
My credit-card has a certain amount of automated monitoring/protection, and I've heard of some with bank accounts that have the same. They can catch fraud-related patterns like a small-withdrawal+big-withdrawal+spending spree which is common to thieves testing then abusing a stolen card (heck, the CC company called me on this the other day as I'd bought a few small things then had some major car repairs done). What they likely won't catch is patterns that fit within your normal business. If you're writing $1000 eCheques regularly, and a few extra are slipped in over time, how are they to know which ones are legit or not?
Hell, if the customer himself couldn't easily figure it out, I wouldn't expect anyone short of a dedicated financial representative to be able to do so.
... that or just paying somebody monthly to keep track of it all.
They give a new agreement out, and you, should you continue with service and pay, have given them consideration and voila
Except that it often doesn't work that way. Sometimes it's a notice posted up on their website (often in a not-obvious area). Sometimes it's a hidden clause buried in a mound of other useless paperwork. And in any of the above cases, there is no verification process using written or even verbal acceptance.
And furthermore, there's already a fucking contract. Sorry, but if I have an agreement to pay for their service for the next 1-3+ years, then the should have to stand by that agreement for the same time period. Trust me, if you decide you "don't like" the new terms it's not likely that your phone/internet/whatever carrier is going to allow you to cancel service without a cancellation fee (at least not until a judge steps in).
I've always been a sleep walker/talker
I remember reading a long article about people who were prone to violence in their sleep, or when on the weird twilight edge between consciousness and unconsciousness. Perfectly normal people have done some scary stuff in these situations.
I remember that I once had a bad dream and then ended up somehow socking my GF in the arm, but actually attacking somebody or smothering them is scary stuff.
Recommendation: people should not approach you when you're sleep-walking...