Assume numbers in article are true and that the cost of the system plus gold cards in cash is $384.52... The buyer is financing $285.52 for 24 months--$384.52 - $99. The buyer is making 24 payments of $14.99. Use TVM calculator, and the interest rate is 1.94% per period, multiply by 12 for yearly to get 23.28%. So, it's about the same as a bad credit card, or a credit card if you miss a payment. It's still way less than the 300+% from Rent-A-Center or payday loan places. You'd be better off going to Best Buy and going for a 12-month no interest plan, or paying off in cash to begin with. I'm sure its market is those with low impulse control--teenagers.
Actually, compared to those deals hawked by Troy Aikman, Hulk Hogan, and Montel Williams, the Microsoft deal isn't so bad a ripoff. Some finance guy could probably tell us the interest rate--might be less than a credit card?
Well, he owned a music store and was selling Fender amps from America. He took them apart and inspected them and figured he could make them cheaper and sell them for a better profit in England than he could by importing them from America. He used British variations of tubes that gave his amps a different sound than Fender amps. He happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right product.
I have an account. I logged in some time last week and it said my password had expired and I needed to change it. The change screen was sort of crappy and I was able to "reset" my password to the old password. If the rat b@st@rd had said "we've been hacked and you need to change your password", well, I would have changed my password to something else. But, just a simple expiration? Well, really not a reason to change my password.
Bureaucrats get caught with their pants down, don't come clean for a while, and then they go and blame everyone else for their screw ups.
Markus, take a hint. Don't send people's passwords to them in an e-mail once or more a week. Geez... Now, I do have a reason to change my password.
...and allow him to finish the rest of his sentence in jail or prison. If he's on probation that means he was convicted of the crime and therefore bail is not involved at all. If not being allowed to use a computer is cruel and unusual punishment, then my whole childhood was cruel and unusual. I guess he'll just have to learn to read books, talk to people, play board games, and play sports.
Was at a Buy More the other week looking at laptops. Heard the salesman give his spiel to some other unwitting victim about how they should pay them $100 to bring all the software up to date on a PC that hasn't even left the store. Basically, they wanted to charge them $100 to run Windows Update. Bend over and say you like it.
I've wanted to like Opera for years, but I don't like the way it caches data...for example using the Yuku (old EZ Board) message board. If there are new articles, I have to manually hit refresh to detect them when I navigate back to the page later on. IE, Firefox, and Chrome automatically detect the changes, Opera does not. Maybe there is a setting I could change, but why should I when the other browsers work fine out of the box for this.
Don't believe the disinformation doublespeak about why Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from the Apple Board of Directors this morning. For the story the Applo-Googlo-controlled media doesn't want you to hear, check out the following straight-ish dope leaked by our sources on "the inside". (What those sources are inside of, we're not saying.)
1. Too busy now that gmail is out of beta
2. Nervous about the Apple board's new zero-tolerance meth policy
3. Couldn't afford the gas for the Google-to-Apple monthly commutes
4. Just about to crush Apple with gTunes. Oops, did we just leak that?
5. Preparing to run for governor of Alaska
6. Can no longer deny that the Zune is the future
7. Just felt that they'd grown apart: "It's not Apple, it's me"
8. Tired of lecturing Millard Drexler about his foot-odor problem
9. Somebody keeps eating his pudding out of the break-room fridge
10. Offended about the tetherball court being removed at AT&T's request
11. Confused about how outsourcing works, he's going to serve on the board of some company in India
12. Won't have time now that he's playing bass for Nickelback
13. Upset that Steve Jobs refuses to release his real birth certificate
14. Now he can get that Palm Pre he's been eyeing
15. Never really forgave the Klingons for the death of his boy
16. Board meetings interfered with his plans to camp out for opening night of The Twilight Saga: New Moon
17. Decided to dedicate his life to finally finding a cure for fan death
18. Could no longer stand the anxiety of hiding his forbidden love for Steve Wozniak
19. Was only ever in it for the advance copy of Snow Leopard anyway
20. Couldn't resolve the conflict over which company was going to buy Woot
I wish I had mod points to mod up. Well said. It's as if the original poster asked whether he should get a Prius or a Honda hybrid and the respondents tell him he should get a horse instead.
I had a domain and let it go because I have no further plans for it. It expired about two weeks ago. If I want, I can get it back for $80 from my registrar. What a ripoff... I have to say, no daddy!
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Ok, I did the math...
Assume numbers in article are true and that the cost of the system plus gold cards in cash is $384.52... The buyer is financing $285.52 for 24 months--$384.52 - $99. The buyer is making 24 payments of $14.99. Use TVM calculator, and the interest rate is 1.94% per period, multiply by 12 for yearly to get 23.28%. So, it's about the same as a bad credit card, or a credit card if you miss a payment. It's still way less than the 300+% from Rent-A-Center or payday loan places. You'd be better off going to Best Buy and going for a 12-month no interest plan, or paying off in cash to begin with. I'm sure its market is those with low impulse control--teenagers.
Maybe next there will be a slashdot story telling me that buying my TV from Rent-A-Center is a bad deal, or that Montel Williams Money Mutual Loans might not be such a good deal??? Duh?
Actually, compared to those deals hawked by Troy Aikman, Hulk Hogan, and Montel Williams, the Microsoft deal isn't so bad a ripoff. Some finance guy could probably tell us the interest rate--might be less than a credit card?
I just tried logging in with bad passwords, and after the 10th try, it switched to captcha. This wasn't a brute force attack on the front end.
You know because you make LARP costumes in your mother's basement and you use Tandy tools to do it? Hey, I'm not judging....;)
What does it mean?
Well, he owned a music store and was selling Fender amps from America. He took them apart and inspected them and figured he could make them cheaper and sell them for a better profit in England than he could by importing them from America. He used British variations of tubes that gave his amps a different sound than Fender amps. He happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right product.
Worked for Hans Reiser...well, maybe not.
...unless you beat your meat.
Just go into your local Buy More store and ask the salesman which is the best one. ;)
I have an account. I logged in some time last week and it said my password had expired and I needed to change it. The change screen was sort of crappy and I was able to "reset" my password to the old password. If the rat b@st@rd had said "we've been hacked and you need to change your password", well, I would have changed my password to something else. But, just a simple expiration? Well, really not a reason to change my password.
Bureaucrats get caught with their pants down, don't come clean for a while, and then they go and blame everyone else for their screw ups.
Markus, take a hint. Don't send people's passwords to them in an e-mail once or more a week. Geez... Now, I do have a reason to change my password.
Maybe somebody will figure out how to use it this time around.
...and allow him to finish the rest of his sentence in jail or prison. If he's on probation that means he was convicted of the crime and therefore bail is not involved at all. If not being allowed to use a computer is cruel and unusual punishment, then my whole childhood was cruel and unusual. I guess he'll just have to learn to read books, talk to people, play board games, and play sports.
Was at a Buy More the other week looking at laptops. Heard the salesman give his spiel to some other unwitting victim about how they should pay them $100 to bring all the software up to date on a PC that hasn't even left the store. Basically, they wanted to charge them $100 to run Windows Update. Bend over and say you like it.
How can they telecommute to a job for creating cadmium and lead laced toys for happy meals?
Uh, they broke up?
I've wanted to like Opera for years, but I don't like the way it caches data...for example using the Yuku (old EZ Board) message board. If there are new articles, I have to manually hit refresh to detect them when I navigate back to the page later on. IE, Firefox, and Chrome automatically detect the changes, Opera does not. Maybe there is a setting I could change, but why should I when the other browsers work fine out of the box for this.
...is to use dilithium crystals. Someone, please call Capt. Scott.
From: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8910
Don't believe the disinformation doublespeak about why Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from the Apple Board of Directors this morning. For the story the Applo-Googlo-controlled media doesn't want you to hear, check out the following straight-ish dope leaked by our sources on "the inside". (What those sources are inside of, we're not saying.)
1. Too busy now that gmail is out of beta
2. Nervous about the Apple board's new zero-tolerance meth policy
3. Couldn't afford the gas for the Google-to-Apple monthly commutes
4. Just about to crush Apple with gTunes. Oops, did we just leak that?
5. Preparing to run for governor of Alaska
6. Can no longer deny that the Zune is the future
7. Just felt that they'd grown apart: "It's not Apple, it's me"
8. Tired of lecturing Millard Drexler about his foot-odor problem
9. Somebody keeps eating his pudding out of the break-room fridge
10. Offended about the tetherball court being removed at AT&T's request
11. Confused about how outsourcing works, he's going to serve on the board of some company in India
12. Won't have time now that he's playing bass for Nickelback
13. Upset that Steve Jobs refuses to release his real birth certificate
14. Now he can get that Palm Pre he's been eyeing
15. Never really forgave the Klingons for the death of his boy
16. Board meetings interfered with his plans to camp out for opening night of The Twilight Saga: New Moon
17. Decided to dedicate his life to finally finding a cure for fan death
18. Could no longer stand the anxiety of hiding his forbidden love for Steve Wozniak
19. Was only ever in it for the advance copy of Snow Leopard anyway
20. Couldn't resolve the conflict over which company was going to buy Woot
lol
You mean it wasn't available in 2.0.0.0.0.0.0?
I wish I had mod points to mod up. Well said. It's as if the original poster asked whether he should get a Prius or a Honda hybrid and the respondents tell him he should get a horse instead.
Can you say, "Costa Rican holiday?"
... and his recent appearance on Fox News. It should comfort any nerds worried about an early grave. Link.
Budweiser is close enough.
You can get it already: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US well, at least the windows, us-en version.
I had a domain and let it go because I have no further plans for it. It expired about two weeks ago. If I want, I can get it back for $80 from my registrar. What a ripoff... I have to say, no daddy!