I was really eager to build myself a MythTV box, had it all planned out.. It'd be headless, with 4 tuners so each member of the family could schedule their own recordings, etc..
The TV listings thing worried me. I cant remember the verbage, but there was something in Zap2its EULA (or whatever they have) to the effect of "we might stop tomorrow, and screw you".
There was no other option, no pay service to which I could subscribe.
The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
All debts mean all debts to the government, or all debts you perhaps have a legal judgement/lien on.
So you can refuse to pay in cash upfront, get sued, lose, and then get to pay with your precious, precious cash.
As the quote says, it's no less legal to deny cash than it is for a bus or a vending machine to demand exact change.
Is a whole different animal than the home-user's version of support we're used to: wait on hold for 3 hours and have some level 1 tell you to flatten and reinstall.
Seems sensible to test the waters w/ personal use first.
You do, diesel-electrics like that are exceedingly common.
Almost all "big equipment" runs on the same principle. Ships, trains, construction stuff (bulldozers, etc).
It is simply not all that fuel efficient on smaller scales. You waste a lot of energy converting the chemical energy to mechanical energy (diesel to spinnign crankshaft), to electricity, back to mechanical energy.
It is, however, the best way to supply a METRIC ASSLOAD of power to a drivewheel that needs the METRIC ASSLOAD of torque that only electricity can deliver.
That's never been true. It was spread around because of the "censorship" present in the SNES release of Mortal Kombat - thoguh that wasn't even Nintendo's doing - it was Acclaim reacting to the over-reaction concerning the arcade machines.. Mortal Kombat was the "GTA" or "Manhunt" of the time. Midway actually started installing a switch on the cabinets marked "violence on/off". It didn't do anything, but appeased all the angry mommas.
Anyways, what's forgotten is that they learned their lesson, and MKII and the rest of the series were ported as faithfully as possible.
Actually, Neo Geo was originally designed as a rental machine, the idea was you'd go to EB and rent one for your birthday party, so you could play real arcade games at home. Hence, the high prices. They put the cartridges on a different physical format so arcade operators couldnt use them, otherwise the hardware and games are identical.
Anyways, once they started showing up, people wanted to buy them - so EB started selling them. The prices never dropped, once again, they were being sold to EB for the purposes of rental. Eventually SNK realized what was going on, and tried to market to the rest of the home crowd with the Neo Geo CD. The load times killed the "true arcade" feel, and the appeal really was to arcade gamers, since there were only weak attempts at making home console titles for it.
So, you can't compare PS3 - if you look at it in perspective, the Neo Geo AES was a completely unexpected success.
The story of SNKs decline and demise is long and sordid, but sadly had little to do with tech or their products. You can read about the Barones on the googleweb.
It's up to the states to decide at what age one can taste a beer, but if they decide anything other than 21, they get money withheld.
There are more examples. This is one of the most oft-used tools for the federal government to get around the *very limited* power granted to them by the constitution.
The other is calling everything under the sun "interstate commerce". Think about this, slavery didn't count as interstate commerce back in the day, which is why the feds were powerless to eliminate it at their level. Now just about everything counts as "interstate", with the flimsiest excuses.
Don't forget that the high end Sony and Dell machines in the article ACTUALLY DISPLAY THE MILLIONS OF COLORS that Apple lies about, and then tapdances around.
All Mac fanboys do is sit around dithering all day, it gets old.
I wish people would stop trying to sell me Apple stuff all day long.
All this shows is that Vaios and Inspirons are way, way overpriced.
Why don't you compare the Mac to something from AOpen, Acer, or even eMachines?
Hell, even Gateway or HP.
They're all just as "similary equipped".
You cant specifically compare overpriced shiny crap to overpriced shiny crap and say you "punctured the myth".
And you can't compare Best Buy's jacked up retail prices to the Apple store. Hop online and see what it would truly cost you, the geek. I don't know where I can get discount Macs online.
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Don't start until the game is pending an actual release.
Samples of past over-hyped games I didn't give a flying fuck about by the time they came out:
Doom 3
Black and White
Future games I won't give a flying fuck about:
Duke Nukem Forever
Spore
I was really eager to build myself a MythTV box, had it all planned out.. It'd be headless, with 4 tuners so each member of the family could schedule their own recordings, etc..
The TV listings thing worried me. I cant remember the verbage, but there was something in Zap2its EULA (or whatever they have) to the effect of "we might stop tomorrow, and screw you".
There was no other option, no pay service to which I could subscribe.
I ended up going with Tivo because of it.
Consisting of lost of pages, many of them with interesting facts and diagrams.
I highly recommend this to both the hobbyist and the seasoned professional!
I dont know how to do referral links so just give me money directly thanks k bye
Who else sells OSX supported hardware then?
Sounds like a monopoly control to me, just a REALLY TINY one.
All debts mean all debts to the government, or all debts you perhaps have a legal judgement/lien on.
So you can refuse to pay in cash upfront, get sued, lose, and then get to pay with your precious, precious cash.
As the quote says, it's no less legal to deny cash than it is for a bus or a vending machine to demand exact change.
Is a whole different animal than the home-user's version of support we're used to: wait on hold for 3 hours and have some level 1 tell you to flatten and reinstall.
Seems sensible to test the waters w/ personal use first.
You do, diesel-electrics like that are exceedingly common.
Almost all "big equipment" runs on the same principle. Ships, trains, construction stuff (bulldozers, etc).
It is simply not all that fuel efficient on smaller scales. You waste a lot of energy converting the chemical energy to mechanical energy (diesel to spinnign crankshaft), to electricity, back to mechanical energy.
It is, however, the best way to supply a METRIC ASSLOAD of power to a drivewheel that needs the METRIC ASSLOAD of torque that only electricity can deliver.
Y'know, outside of a handful of rabid /. posters, nobody is really interested in "sticking it" to microsoft.
They just really don't care.
Would you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed outta winders?
That's never been true. It was spread around because of the "censorship" present in the SNES release of Mortal Kombat - thoguh that wasn't even Nintendo's doing - it was Acclaim reacting to the over-reaction concerning the arcade machines.. Mortal Kombat was the "GTA" or "Manhunt" of the time. Midway actually started installing a switch on the cabinets marked "violence on/off". It didn't do anything, but appeased all the angry mommas.
Anyways, what's forgotten is that they learned their lesson, and MKII and the rest of the series were ported as faithfully as possible.
I am sure you will be happy to hear that the rate Alaska is melting there probably won't be any Inuits left in 10 years.
Are they going to melt too?
Even if they're on a beach in Jamaica, they're still Inuits.
What happens if nothing happens?
/.'s favorite company then?
And other big-online players realize that THEY DONT NEED GOOGLE TO EXIST?
What happens to
I remember a perfectly functional internet, pre-google. I'd love to see how the internet runs post-google.
AH NEO GEO now you're talking.
Actually, Neo Geo was originally designed as a rental machine, the idea was you'd go to EB and rent one for your birthday party, so you could play real arcade games at home. Hence, the high prices. They put the cartridges on a different physical format so arcade operators couldnt use them, otherwise the hardware and games are identical.
Anyways, once they started showing up, people wanted to buy them - so EB started selling them. The prices never dropped, once again, they were being sold to EB for the purposes of rental. Eventually SNK realized what was going on, and tried to market to the rest of the home crowd with the Neo Geo CD. The load times killed the "true arcade" feel, and the appeal really was to arcade gamers, since there were only weak attempts at making home console titles for it.
So, you can't compare PS3 - if you look at it in perspective, the Neo Geo AES was a completely unexpected success.
The story of SNKs decline and demise is long and sordid, but sadly had little to do with tech or their products. You can read about the Barones on the googleweb.
You can go for a ride in a MIG much cheaper too, for my $$$ a fighter jet would be way more fun.
But then, I like a good rollercoaster more than one of those drop tower things. (you know, pulls you up, drops you.. yay thrill)
Seriously, look it up, its science.
I see lots of govt dollars going to space tourism now, in the US, and now over "across the pond" in wackyland.
Will these costs ever be recouped? I seen governments build all kinds of doofy shit that turned out to be nothing but a waste of money in the end.
Sounds like election time pork. Do they vote in Europe or what?
If, in some alternate universe, you manage to have sexual relations and concieve a child, I hope some beurocrat decides to kill it for you.
What problem? The problem that most don't agree with your goofy politics?
Plants have feelings, huh?
Fuck off you fucking stupid cocksmoking fucking assholes for even posting this.
What is a plants sibling? A clone? You mean the same exact genetic material?
Of course a plant doesnt attack its own root system.
As is the pseudo-federal drinking age of 21.
It's up to the states to decide at what age one can taste a beer, but if they decide anything other than 21, they get money withheld.
There are more examples. This is one of the most oft-used tools for the federal government to get around the *very limited* power granted to them by the constitution.
The other is calling everything under the sun "interstate commerce". Think about this, slavery didn't count as interstate commerce back in the day, which is why the feds were powerless to eliminate it at their level. Now just about everything counts as "interstate", with the flimsiest excuses.
And you aren't going to see me crying for the company that beat Vonage down with it's patent bat.
Go go geomas!
Something should be done about this.
I know whenever someone breaks into my home or assaults myself or my family, I call the A-team.
You guys need to stop flipping out over stupid no-duhh shit.
And they havent even sold one unit!
I really can't wait for the iPhone to come out.
I've been dying for a phone with 3G capabilities and a decent web browser, bluetooth, and the ability to play all my divx files and nes games!
All for the reasonable price of 150 bucks!
The PS3 started up their hype machine years before I ever heard mention of the Wii.
The Wii hype seemed to build momentum, more "organically", as people actually talked about it, rather from contrived xxx-treme web trickery.
Yeah, when did I hear about the revolutionary cell "supercomputer" that would make fantasy worlds real, for the first time?
Don't forget that the high end Sony and Dell machines in the article ACTUALLY DISPLAY THE MILLIONS OF COLORS that Apple lies about, and then tapdances around.
All Mac fanboys do is sit around dithering all day, it gets old.
I wish people would stop trying to sell me Apple stuff all day long.
All this shows is that Vaios and Inspirons are way, way overpriced.
Why don't you compare the Mac to something from AOpen, Acer, or even eMachines?
Hell, even Gateway or HP.
They're all just as "similary equipped".
You cant specifically compare overpriced shiny crap to overpriced shiny crap and say you "punctured the myth".
And you can't compare Best Buy's jacked up retail prices to the Apple store. Hop online and see what it would truly cost you, the geek. I don't know where I can get discount Macs online.