I love all the whining about the weight of the thing. The bag you carry it in will probably weigh as much or more.
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I used to carry a Mac SE with a jerry-rigged hard drive home every night from work on the train. The damn thing was 35 pounds by the time it was in the bag.
I was happy when we switched to the Compaq Portables. Happy, I tell you!
I don't agree with the trend to include more and more functionsin a device just because it's possible. It's much more important to have it perform the function it's supposed to perform well.
To illustrate my point - do you want a fork and a spoon or just a spork? If you're eating fast food, maybe the spork, but if you're eating home cooking or fine food, I think you'll opt for the two utensils.
Give me a phone that gets good reception, adequate volume, and good sound quality over onewith tetris on it any day.
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Attempt no landings there. Oh wait, never mind. Go ahead and land. Everything's already dead.
So rather than trust data that companies rely on from a source they trust to help them set compensation levels for executives abroad, I should trust your feelings.
Also, I should now know that although coverage is available (contrary to your earlier statement) it might be pricy.
There is a very direct link between the availability of broadband and the tech industry. No, companies don't rely on DSL everywhere. We do for offices with fewer than 10 people, but in general it's a consumer technology.
However, workers are increasingly location-diverse from the home office. We've seen a 60% increase in workers who have moved away but who still work for us via the net.
You get beat up a lot in bars, don't you? I do get it. You are the one who does not get "it".
I will not trust you on the cost of living because you are in fact wrong. The cost of living index in one survey for Chicago (where I live) is 83.7, for Sydney 62.2. That's not housing, that's not salary, that's the total cost of living.
83.7 vs. 62.2 - It's 25.6% cheaper. Pretty much smack in the middle of that 20-30% cheaper number, eh?
Regarding health insurance, it looks to me from the medibank site that health insurance is indeed available for overseas visitors, and after placing a call to my health provider (BAAB), I have had it confirmed that they will sell private insurance to a person like me if I were to work overseas temporarily.
My priorities are fine. Look back at the first message. It posits a situation that does not exist. The message is that if the local situation is not conducive to a tech industry and conditions elsewhere (especially somewhere pleasant) can be made so, we should vote with our feet.
If another stable technically advanced country like Canada or Australia or New Zealand or the UK would like a lot of sophisticated IT talent, get your telcos to offer good network services and set up an American-targeted H1-B-type visa program targeted at American talent.
You'll be able to pick and choose and will soon have a nice fat booming economy.
We're pissed about the limits on research being imposed by the asshats in office now anyway, so there's an opportunity here for the taking.
Re:So people can track what I buy? Wow.
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Smug's not good when it's uninformed.
It uses an external power source and reacts when hit by a detection frequency.
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Well how about a would-be burglar slowly rolling down the street and scanning houses until he finds a collection of tags he'd like to take home with him?
Does that make your sphincter wobble any?
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issues), aff'd, 799 F.2d 1219 (8th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 479
U.S. 1070 (1987)].
I don't think Joack's going to beat Daniel Day-Lewis. Everyone has been saying that Lewis's performance is the best in a decade.
While that might be going too far, it certainly was the best broad ham performance since Al Pacino is Scent of a Woman.
I'm curious why Gangs of New York got nominated for best ORIGINAL screenplay when it was inspired/adapted from a book by the same name. The author also wrote about San Francisco's underworld and Chicago's mobs in the late 19th and early 20th century in two companion books.
Akira made $150 million in Japan? According to this article it made 800 million yen, or about 6.59 million dollars at today's exchange rate from Yahoo.
I stand by my statement that Anime is not ever going to break into the mainstream Oscar race. It might get a win for animated feature, but Best Picture is out of it's grasp for the forseeable future for both fair and unfair reasons.
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Would say "No more Win-dows bombs in An-da-lu-cia!"
If TiVO is smart, they'll offer a subscription service to the Replay customers. Extry revenue!
Not complaining, just pointing out that YMMV.
Oldmanrant
I used to carry a Mac SE with a jerry-rigged hard drive home every night from work on the train. The damn thing was 35 pounds by the time it was in the bag.
I was happy when we switched to the Compaq Portables. Happy, I tell you!
Oh yeah, we ate sand.
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Were the translations from before 1923? Even if the work is before the magic copyright date, the translation may still be protected.
Search your favorite bookseller for Maurice LeBlanc (the author) if you want to read the inspiration for this series.
To illustrate my point - do you want a fork and a spoon or just a spork? If you're eating fast food, maybe the spork, but if you're eating home cooking or fine food, I think you'll opt for the two utensils.
Give me a phone that gets good reception, adequate volume, and good sound quality over onewith tetris on it any day.
bumbum bumbum bumbum bumbum bahhhhhhh!
FYI we route from Chicago to Kansas City to Tokyo and down across SprintLink.
I don't pay packet costs in Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, or Hong Kong. Why would it be impossible to eliminate them in Sydney?
Also, I should now know that although coverage is available (contrary to your earlier statement) it might be pricy.
There is a very direct link between the availability of broadband and the tech industry. No, companies don't rely on DSL everywhere. We do for offices with fewer than 10 people, but in general it's a consumer technology.
However, workers are increasingly location-diverse from the home office. We've seen a 60% increase in workers who have moved away but who still work for us via the net.
I usually do have fun. Thanks.
I will not trust you on the cost of living because you are in fact wrong. The cost of living index in one survey for Chicago (where I live) is 83.7, for Sydney 62.2. That's not housing, that's not salary, that's the total cost of living.
83.7 vs. 62.2 - It's 25.6% cheaper. Pretty much smack in the middle of that 20-30% cheaper number, eh?
Regarding health insurance, it looks to me from the medibank site that health insurance is indeed available for overseas visitors, and after placing a call to my health provider (BAAB), I have had it confirmed that they will sell private insurance to a person like me if I were to work overseas temporarily.
My priorities are fine. Look back at the first message. It posits a situation that does not exist. The message is that if the local situation is not conducive to a tech industry and conditions elsewhere (especially somewhere pleasant) can be made so, we should vote with our feet.
The move is predicated on a country getting serious about fixing the DSL situation if you'd read the first message.
The 20-30% salary cut doesn't take into account the lower cost of living. And private health insurance is fine by me. It's what we have here now.
Hard times call for bold moves. Jump-start the industry now and it'll pay off next boom.
If another stable technically advanced country like Canada or Australia or New Zealand or the UK would like a lot of sophisticated IT talent, get your telcos to offer good network services and set up an American-targeted H1-B-type visa program targeted at American talent.
You'll be able to pick and choose and will soon have a nice fat booming economy.
We're pissed about the limits on research being imposed by the asshats in office now anyway, so there's an opportunity here for the taking.
Oh wait, I thought this was . Sorry.
It uses an external power source and reacts when hit by a detection frequency.
Well how about a would-be burglar slowly rolling down the street and scanning houses until he finds a collection of tags he'd like to take home with him? Does that make your sphincter wobble any?
And how does your gym like it when you set that up out on the floor?
I bow to your superior Kung Fu. Who knew?
1986 ruling by the 8th Circuit Court.
Good article about it here.
Without a Westlaw page number, it is very difficult to cite a case in a court. Our law librarian used to rage on about this.
While that might be going too far, it certainly was the best broad ham performance since Al Pacino is Scent of a Woman. I'm curious why Gangs of New York got nominated for best ORIGINAL screenplay when it was inspired/adapted from a book by the same name. The author also wrote about San Francisco's underworld and Chicago's mobs in the late 19th and early 20th century in two companion books.
Quite a long way from $150 million. To contrast Titanic made 25.5 billion yen in Japan or approx. $205 million.
I stand by my statement that Anime is not ever going to break into the mainstream Oscar race. It might get a win for animated feature, but Best Picture is out of it's grasp for the forseeable future for both fair and unfair reasons.