I have had no issue with Verizon for the 5 years I have had them. I had a 2-year contract with them through work, which expired in 2002. I have changed my plan, changed my minutes, and even bought new phones without having a any contracts put onto my account.
I don't know why people don't like them, but I must be the exception. That, or I care about not dropping calls when I am downtown.
GSM is a great idea, but in the USA CDMA has better coverage.
I have always said that at some point air travel will be regulated down to the point where we show up at the airport and are given a duffle bag that has a jumpsuit with a number written all over the jumpsuit. We then proceed into changing booths (equipped with cameras, of course) and then change out of our clothing and into these jumpsuits. We put all of our belongings into the dufflebags, and then proceed as we already do. With one exception...
There will be no carry-on luggage. Everything will be sent in another cargo plane, ahead of our destination. They will fly much higher, and over less-populated areas as to minimize the deaths that would result if/when a plane is/has to be blown up mid-flight.
We will reverse the process when we arrive at our destination.
Umm... With a flat-tax, you pay more if you make more. As it is now, there are hundreds (thousands?) of little loopholes and tax breaks--which some of them would still exist with a flat-tax--which the wealthy people know about, or make enough money for them to apply to them, or they pay someone else to know for them.
As it is now, the wealthy pay less (percentage wise) than the poor in taxes because they maintain a much better understanding of the loopholes and laws. The poor do not, because they do not have the manpower/money to do so.
An example of this would be a guy who makes 30K a year, and pay 2K in taxes. They do it themselves, using TurboTax or something, and they end up getting about 1.5K of it back. Total taxes taken: $500
The wealthy guy, who makes 300K a year, pays about 30K in taxes. They have a team of accountants and tax experts that divide the money and contribute it to charities and write offs for business expenses. They end up getting back 22K, which he only ends up paying 7K.
Whereas a flat-tax would be whatever percentage they have to pay. You make 30K, you pay 10% which is $3K. You make 300K, you pay 30K. End of story. But it will never happen.
The problem with getting this ratified/approved is the people who would be hit the hardest with a flat-tax (read: wealthy individuals) would have the legal team, time and money to fight the flat-tax, whereas the people who would benefit from it (read: 'middle-class') simply do not have the money, time or legal team to lobby for it.
Well if that is the case, then he's using system memory anyway... So, the bottleneck is that it's going from ram, out, and then back in to the ram to be tested.
Or bloody download the ISO. You own the license, you are entitled to a disc. Download them from someplace, and there you go.
Go ahead. Tell me why it's illigal to get the bits that I rightly own from someone else--even when all the discs are the same, and the key is what makes it. Go'wan. Tell me. I dare you--I double dog dare you.
No console to date has been bricked from an update downloaded from the Internet.
None.
Playing a game from another region, with a modchip that is designed to remove the region HAS bricked the Wii. It's fairly obvious why. Disc sees that your console is not up to date (1.5U =! 1.5E) and then it patches the flash. Since the TV and some other internal things are slightly differnt--you get a nice white paperweight.
Nintendo is simply covering their asses when it comes to the patches with the note about 'unauthorized technical modification'. While Nintendo can tell that a modchip is installed, the haven't gone out of their way to stop them from working. It would be a simple check via the firmware to disable the entire Wii.
The modchips are not really true modchips at all. They are drivechips, which are in the most basic sense, forcing the drive to read copied disks. the games still authenticate with the CPU, they still check to make sure that everything is signed. The drive is just passing the data along--there is no memory locations on the Wii itself being bypassed or altered.
I find the easiest way to block all unwanted software is to uninstall Windows entirely.
And I know it is an old joke. And I don't care. People have to realize that most of the problems they have with their computer are from the result of Windows being a shoddily-programmed generic piece of software. The constant updates for patches, and no updates to increase functionality should be a dead giveaway for anybody out there.
While Linux has the same deal, more often than not new 'updates' come with a few things each update. New drivers come with kernel updates, more functions come with program updates. When was the last time Microsoft sent out an update that improved any of their software directly? Sure, security updates improve the software--but I just got an update for some of my software that had "Added feature x, y, z. Enjoy!" in the update.
Because most of the people making up the 'board of directors' of SchedulesDirect.org are the people on MythTV. They are going to make the data as complete and as compatible as possible.
Your MythTV never had it so good.
Not only that, they are planning on charging substantially less in the coming months. I can't figure out MythTV for the life of me--but if I could, I'd be using these guys.
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay. I sleep all night and I work all day. I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wildflowers. I wish I'd been a girlie, just like my dear paapaw.
I can't find it now, but I remember a device that would take a bunch of SD cards (like, 4 slots) and would combine them into a big disk that had (I believe) SATA on it. So, you would take a bunch of these cheap 2GB SD cards, and it would make one big disk out of them all.
The 8GB iPhone costs 220 to make. This is a gross estimate, but it was the second result in Google and I can't be arsed to look any further. It's a good baseline, if anything.
So each phone is $600. Toss in 'activation' which is usually somewhere around $35, insurance which is about $5 each month, and then the plan itself which will run you $100 a month recurring for the next 24 months...
600 + 35 + (5 * 24) + (100 * 24) = $3155
lets assume that you don't use up all your minutes, you don't send thousands of text messages a month, and you aren't getting a new iPhone because you keep dropping it in the toilet (who takes the phone into the bathroom?) and so on and so on.
AT&T is making money hand-over-fist with all the iPhone sales. They could sell the phone for $50 and STILL make money on it. Hell, I would consider switching at that point--and I... Hate... AT&T. I'd buy the phone at $50 and then cancel my contract and pay the $300 bucks. Unlock it, and sell it for the 40k that one kid did. It's still worth it to buy it, don't get a contract, and then sell it on eBay.
There was a study where they replaced someone's heart with a pump--not one that simulated a heartbeat, but just a constant flow. And the paitent lived for years afterwards... with no pulse.
However, the mental issues with 'not having a pulse' were almost insurmountable. You are alive, yet you have no pulse. Also, you are used to a constant movement inside your chest--that was also hard to get adjusted too, if they did at all.
However, just as in this story the patient's heart just re-started itself. Happy ending after all.
Or if you use Linux... Because that support has been standard for quite some time now. They even rotate which CPU gets priority so that heat and usage gets distributed evenly.
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I have had no issue with Verizon for the 5 years I have had them. I had a 2-year contract with them through work, which expired in 2002. I have changed my plan, changed my minutes, and even bought new phones without having a any contracts put onto my account.
I don't know why people don't like them, but I must be the exception. That, or I care about not dropping calls when I am downtown.
GSM is a great idea, but in the USA CDMA has better coverage.
Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch that would be SLOW.
TF2 doesn't work in Linux. Not even in Cedega.
I am also saddened by the lack of Portal playing. 49 bucks for the orange box, for nothing at the moment.
Linux client == Instant Purchase from me
I have always said that at some point air travel will be regulated down to the point where we show up at the airport and are given a duffle bag that has a jumpsuit with a number written all over the jumpsuit. We then proceed into changing booths (equipped with cameras, of course) and then change out of our clothing and into these jumpsuits. We put all of our belongings into the dufflebags, and then proceed as we already do. With one exception...
There will be no carry-on luggage. Everything will be sent in another cargo plane, ahead of our destination. They will fly much higher, and over less-populated areas as to minimize the deaths that would result if/when a plane is/has to be blown up mid-flight.
We will reverse the process when we arrive at our destination.
Umm... With a flat-tax, you pay more if you make more. As it is now, there are hundreds (thousands?) of little loopholes and tax breaks--which some of them would still exist with a flat-tax--which the wealthy people know about, or make enough money for them to apply to them, or they pay someone else to know for them.
As it is now, the wealthy pay less (percentage wise) than the poor in taxes because they maintain a much better understanding of the loopholes and laws. The poor do not, because they do not have the manpower/money to do so.
An example of this would be a guy who makes 30K a year, and pay 2K in taxes. They do it themselves, using TurboTax or something, and they end up getting about 1.5K of it back. Total taxes taken: $500
The wealthy guy, who makes 300K a year, pays about 30K in taxes. They have a team of accountants and tax experts that divide the money and contribute it to charities and write offs for business expenses. They end up getting back 22K, which he only ends up paying 7K.
Whereas a flat-tax would be whatever percentage they have to pay. You make 30K, you pay 10% which is $3K. You make 300K, you pay 30K. End of story. But it will never happen.
The problem with getting this ratified/approved is the people who would be hit the hardest with a flat-tax (read: wealthy individuals) would have the legal team, time and money to fight the flat-tax, whereas the people who would benefit from it (read: 'middle-class') simply do not have the money, time or legal team to lobby for it.
Well if that is the case, then he's using system memory anyway... So, the bottleneck is that it's going from ram, out, and then back in to the ram to be tested.
Resistance is futile, but capacitance has potential!
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http://www.google.com/search?q=130%2C000+yen+in+USD
because they don't want anybody to wait for the PC version. They want them to buy the console version, and then the PC version a few months later.
Double dipping. Mmm... tasty.
Yes. Whole disk encryption is really quite easy to come by, and that is what you want it for. PGP has a good working model. You should check it out.
Or bloody download the ISO. You own the license, you are entitled to a disc. Download them from someplace, and there you go.
Go ahead. Tell me why it's illigal to get the bits that I rightly own from someone else--even when all the discs are the same, and the key is what makes it. Go'wan. Tell me. I dare you--I double dog dare you.
But then having looked in the box, that would make the result be false.
I, for one, welcome the swarming robotic overlord bits below me as well.
Mmm... Grits...
No console to date has been bricked from an update downloaded from the Internet.
None.
Playing a game from another region, with a modchip that is designed to remove the region HAS bricked the Wii. It's fairly obvious why. Disc sees that your console is not up to date (1.5U =! 1.5E) and then it patches the flash. Since the TV and some other internal things are slightly differnt--you get a nice white paperweight.
Nintendo is simply covering their asses when it comes to the patches with the note about 'unauthorized technical modification'. While Nintendo can tell that a modchip is installed, the haven't gone out of their way to stop them from working. It would be a simple check via the firmware to disable the entire Wii.
The modchips are not really true modchips at all. They are drivechips, which are in the most basic sense, forcing the drive to read copied disks. the games still authenticate with the CPU, they still check to make sure that everything is signed. The drive is just passing the data along--there is no memory locations on the Wii itself being bypassed or altered.
I find the easiest way to block all unwanted software is to uninstall Windows entirely.
And I know it is an old joke. And I don't care. People have to realize that most of the problems they have with their computer are from the result of Windows being a shoddily-programmed generic piece of software. The constant updates for patches, and no updates to increase functionality should be a dead giveaway for anybody out there.
While Linux has the same deal, more often than not new 'updates' come with a few things each update. New drivers come with kernel updates, more functions come with program updates. When was the last time Microsoft sent out an update that improved any of their software directly? Sure, security updates improve the software--but I just got an update for some of my software that had "Added feature x, y, z. Enjoy!" in the update.
Just install Vista back onto the computer, and take it to another store. Problem solved.
always worked for me...
Because most of the people making up the 'board of directors' of SchedulesDirect.org are the people on MythTV. They are going to make the data as complete and as compatible as possible.
Your MythTV never had it so good.
Not only that, they are planning on charging substantially less in the coming months. I can't figure out MythTV for the life of me--but if I could, I'd be using these guys.
I don't knooooooAAAAAAUUUUGHHH!!!
*lameness filter getarounder*
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay. I sleep all night and I work all day.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wildflowers.
I wish I'd been a girlie, just like my dear paapaw.
I can't find it now, but I remember a device that would take a bunch of SD cards (like, 4 slots) and would combine them into a big disk that had (I believe) SATA on it. So, you would take a bunch of these cheap 2GB SD cards, and it would make one big disk out of them all.
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Not it, but close. Also way too expensive.
Yea, because you would be able to find the rootkit in a driver with thousands of lines of code...
The 8GB iPhone costs 220 to make. This is a gross estimate, but it was the second result in Google and I can't be arsed to look any further. It's a good baseline, if anything.
So each phone is $600. Toss in 'activation' which is usually somewhere around $35, insurance which is about $5 each month, and then the plan itself which will run you $100 a month recurring for the next 24 months...
600 + 35 + (5 * 24) + (100 * 24) = $3155
lets assume that you don't use up all your minutes, you don't send thousands of text messages a month, and you aren't getting a new iPhone because you keep dropping it in the toilet (who takes the phone into the bathroom?) and so on and so on.
AT&T is making money hand-over-fist with all the iPhone sales. They could sell the phone for $50 and STILL make money on it. Hell, I would consider switching at that point--and I... Hate... AT&T. I'd buy the phone at $50 and then cancel my contract and pay the $300 bucks. Unlock it, and sell it for the 40k that one kid did. It's still worth it to buy it, don't get a contract, and then sell it on eBay.
There was a study where they replaced someone's heart with a pump--not one that simulated a heartbeat, but just a constant flow. And the paitent lived for years afterwards... with no pulse.
However, the mental issues with 'not having a pulse' were almost insurmountable. You are alive, yet you have no pulse. Also, you are used to a constant movement inside your chest--that was also hard to get adjusted too, if they did at all.
However, just as in this story the patient's heart just re-started itself. Happy ending after all.
Or if you use Linux... Because that support has been standard for quite some time now. They even rotate which CPU gets priority so that heat and usage gets distributed evenly.
Yay for processes that make sense!