China is very lax on ex-pats. It is very easy for me as an American to go work in China. It's not quite "immigration", but it does let them build up a big international center. Korea and Japan are straight out. Europe is almost (just?) as bad for the most part.
Well, at $3/month it seemed reasonable. A new modem was in the range of $100, so payback period seemed close to the life of the device. Now that a brand new DOCSIS 3.0 modem costs $60 and they charge $8/month? You are damned right I stopped renting!
And no, I'm not a transient per se - but the neighbors have FIOS and so I'm under the delusion that I'll get it too. My relationship with Comcast ends when FIOS shows up.
Yeah, my hatred for them runs deep, and far beyond my geek wish for internet with no cable.
They raised the rent on my old-ass cable modem. First from $3/month to $7/month, and then this year to $8/month. This for something that has probably been depreciated for years. Can you imagine if you brought home your new car and a year into the lease they doubled the "rent"? What a fucking ballsy move.
Dealing with their contractors is like something out of a movie. They apparently get paid by the service and not by the service call, because they never fail to find something "wrong" - and then proceed to "fix" it in the most ghetto way possible. Sorry I'm two hours late. This brand-new carefully-routed cable line? It's "old" and needs to be replaced. Here, let me drill a hole in your hardwood floor and leave the replacement hanging along the ceiling of your basement. Oh, that line up on the pole where you can see the shielding from the street because squirrels have been chewing on it? I can't fix that - you should really call customer service.
Thanks to Comcast, Verizon is not my most hated company. And that's impressive, because Verizon is basically dedicated to ruining your day. But they are of the bumbling, hilarious variety of evil. Like an evil Shemp from The Three Stooges.
US, Japan, Korea, or China I suspect. Only two of those encourage any kind of immigration, which you would probably want for a big international center of innovation.
Yeah, like I said in the other branch of this thread, Windows 7 hardly ever gets in my way. It cleaned up a lot of rough edges in XP, and it includes a (mostly) useful backup program that can restore from images. I like it a lot, and my one-year "upgrade" to Windows 8 was a mistake.
I still get irritated every time I install something like Putty, where I have to drag the EXE to a folder, make a shortcut, and then drag that to the Start menu. To be fair, you can drag it directly to the Start Menu. I'm sure that is a bad idea for some reason, but I can't recollect why at the moment.
I'm not sure I've ever had it in a can. I must have, I just don't remember. The only time I have it is when a bar my dad likes has "wing nights" with cheap pitchers of Coors Light. Between the burning tongue and my penchant for "anything on draft", it's not the end of the world.
I like the start menu for what it is: a comprehensive tree of everything I have installed
But that's not quite what it is - it's a tree of everything that decided to put stuff there. If you manually dragged an exe to Program Files, no show. If some uninstaller didn't remember the shortcut, you have a dead link. Worse, it's an idea decidedly rooted in a single-user machine, so exterminating an entry means looking in a few different places that they added to accommodate multiple users.
I really do like Windows 7 as well. Still not sold on the Start Menu:) At least in 7 it rarely bothers me. Frequent programs I have pinned to the task bar so that I can use the "pinned" feature in the right-click menu. Less-frequently accessed stuff can be accessed with a quick tap of the Windows button and a few letters from the name. I was quite shocked when I moved to Windows 8. I gave it a year and still hated it. When the hard drive died and I found out how horrid Windows 8 backup is, I moved back to 7.
I suspect this is related to the dust-up caused by Haruko Obokata and the charges being hurled her way. Some of the (maybe, apparently, possibly fraudulent?) most promising work is under fire at the moment.
The amazing thing (to me, anyway) is that I always hated the start menu. Never liked having such redundancy... rather than giving me some flexibility in how applications are organized you make this ghetto of delicate "shortcuts", requiring installers for even the most simple binaries.
And yet, what they replaced it with is so much worse that I find myself wishing for it back.
I have to disagree. The only difference between the Apple slide and the MS slide is 20 years of updated graphics. The Apple slide even has a little 3D graphic of a sliding button, just like the MS video.
I like wheat beer. I don't like fruit in beer in general, and in fact despise the trend of sticking a wedge of citrus on the glass.
Either you or Wikipedia is wrong. If it is Wikipedia, please get in there and fix it rather than wasting your time correcting just me:)
The Reinheitsgebot was introduced in part to prevent price competition with bakers for wheat and rye. The restriction of grains to barley was meant to ensure the availability of affordable bread, as the more valuable wheat and rye were reserved for use by bakers.
That's not horrible... just 1200 lightbulbs. You could protect the occupants with some space shuttle tiles or any ablative impregnated carbon shielding you might have sitting around the house.
In NJ, for a long time you could renew your driver's license via mail. It was a tri-fold thing with no picture. You could stuff a $50 or $100 bill inside and have a plausible defense in case you met an honest cop. I never heard of anyone needing to use that line, though I did meet a guy who claims that the cop pretended there was nothing in there and still gave him a ticket.
Yes, I usually find it helps to think of politics as a team sport. People are very irrational when it comes to our tribal instincts, and both politics and professional sports provide ample illustrations.
Most people would consider fermented fruit some kind of wine. I've had something described as barley wine before, but it was just very strong beer.
Whiskey and beer wort is very similar, so you might be on to something with the "distilled beer" comment. Never heard it described like that but it gets the point across. If you go on a whiskey tour, they introduce you to the mash, wort, and brewing process before getting into distillation. I think most people would insist on having their beer fermented, though:)
Even the Germans gave up pretending beer was only made from barley. The wheat prohibition ("purity law") was political anyway.
I don't really care one way or another. From my perspective, they promised "free forever" and for a while they delivered. Then they started down the annoying their users path and I fled. If they held some kind of monopoly I'd be a lot more worked up, but there are plenty of alternatives.
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Yeah, it was a bad example. The problem remains.
To be honest, I would probably use both. I'd just play them off of one another for their intro deals.
China is very lax on ex-pats. It is very easy for me as an American to go work in China. It's not quite "immigration", but it does let them build up a big international center. Korea and Japan are straight out. Europe is almost (just?) as bad for the most part.
I did.
That's what you get for renting their modem, doh.
Well, at $3/month it seemed reasonable. A new modem was in the range of $100, so payback period seemed close to the life of the device. Now that a brand new DOCSIS 3.0 modem costs $60 and they charge $8/month? You are damned right I stopped renting!
And no, I'm not a transient per se - but the neighbors have FIOS and so I'm under the delusion that I'll get it too. My relationship with Comcast ends when FIOS shows up.
Yeah, my hatred for them runs deep, and far beyond my geek wish for internet with no cable.
They raised the rent on my old-ass cable modem. First from $3/month to $7/month, and then this year to $8/month. This for something that has probably been depreciated for years. Can you imagine if you brought home your new car and a year into the lease they doubled the "rent"? What a fucking ballsy move.
Dealing with their contractors is like something out of a movie. They apparently get paid by the service and not by the service call, because they never fail to find something "wrong" - and then proceed to "fix" it in the most ghetto way possible. Sorry I'm two hours late. This brand-new carefully-routed cable line? It's "old" and needs to be replaced. Here, let me drill a hole in your hardwood floor and leave the replacement hanging along the ceiling of your basement. Oh, that line up on the pole where you can see the shielding from the street because squirrels have been chewing on it? I can't fix that - you should really call customer service.
Thanks to Comcast, Verizon is not my most hated company. And that's impressive, because Verizon is basically dedicated to ruining your day. But they are of the bumbling, hilarious variety of evil. Like an evil Shemp from The Three Stooges.
Xcalc then :)
So then... no?
That was just an example, and apparently a bad one.
Does NRAM count?
US, Japan, Korea, or China I suspect. Only two of those encourage any kind of immigration, which you would probably want for a big international center of innovation.
Yeah, like I said in the other branch of this thread, Windows 7 hardly ever gets in my way. It cleaned up a lot of rough edges in XP, and it includes a (mostly) useful backup program that can restore from images. I like it a lot, and my one-year "upgrade" to Windows 8 was a mistake.
I still get irritated every time I install something like Putty, where I have to drag the EXE to a folder, make a shortcut, and then drag that to the Start menu. To be fair, you can drag it directly to the Start Menu. I'm sure that is a bad idea for some reason, but I can't recollect why at the moment.
I'm not sure I've ever had it in a can. I must have, I just don't remember. The only time I have it is when a bar my dad likes has "wing nights" with cheap pitchers of Coors Light. Between the burning tongue and my penchant for "anything on draft", it's not the end of the world.
I like the start menu for what it is: a comprehensive tree of everything I have installed
But that's not quite what it is - it's a tree of everything that decided to put stuff there. If you manually dragged an exe to Program Files, no show. If some uninstaller didn't remember the shortcut, you have a dead link. Worse, it's an idea decidedly rooted in a single-user machine, so exterminating an entry means looking in a few different places that they added to accommodate multiple users.
I really do like Windows 7 as well. Still not sold on the Start Menu :) At least in 7 it rarely bothers me. Frequent programs I have pinned to the task bar so that I can use the "pinned" feature in the right-click menu. Less-frequently accessed stuff can be accessed with a quick tap of the Windows button and a few letters from the name. I was quite shocked when I moved to Windows 8. I gave it a year and still hated it. When the hard drive died and I found out how horrid Windows 8 backup is, I moved back to 7.
I suspect this is related to the dust-up caused by Haruko Obokata and the charges being hurled her way. Some of the (maybe, apparently, possibly fraudulent?) most promising work is under fire at the moment.
The amazing thing (to me, anyway) is that I always hated the start menu. Never liked having such redundancy... rather than giving me some flexibility in how applications are organized you make this ghetto of delicate "shortcuts", requiring installers for even the most simple binaries.
And yet, what they replaced it with is so much worse that I find myself wishing for it back.
I would not have thought this was possible.
Yeah, but that's not really relevant. This lawsuit started when they were still showing a slide button.
I have to disagree. The only difference between the Apple slide and the MS slide is 20 years of updated graphics. The Apple slide even has a little 3D graphic of a sliding button, just like the MS video.
RAID 6 is only one more than RAID 5.
I like wheat beer. I don't like fruit in beer in general, and in fact despise the trend of sticking a wedge of citrus on the glass.
Either you or Wikipedia is wrong. If it is Wikipedia, please get in there and fix it rather than wasting your time correcting just me :)
The Reinheitsgebot was introduced in part to prevent price competition with bakers for wheat and rye. The restriction of grains to barley was meant to ensure the availability of affordable bread, as the more valuable wheat and rye were reserved for use by bakers.
That's not horrible... just 1200 lightbulbs. You could protect the occupants with some space shuttle tiles or any ablative impregnated carbon shielding you might have sitting around the house.
In NJ, for a long time you could renew your driver's license via mail. It was a tri-fold thing with no picture. You could stuff a $50 or $100 bill inside and have a plausible defense in case you met an honest cop. I never heard of anyone needing to use that line, though I did meet a guy who claims that the cop pretended there was nothing in there and still gave him a ticket.
Yes, I usually find it helps to think of politics as a team sport. People are very irrational when it comes to our tribal instincts, and both politics and professional sports provide ample illustrations.
Most people would consider fermented fruit some kind of wine. I've had something described as barley wine before, but it was just very strong beer.
Whiskey and beer wort is very similar, so you might be on to something with the "distilled beer" comment. Never heard it described like that but it gets the point across. If you go on a whiskey tour, they introduce you to the mash, wort, and brewing process before getting into distillation. I think most people would insist on having their beer fermented, though :)
Even the Germans gave up pretending beer was only made from barley. The wheat prohibition ("purity law") was political anyway.
I don't really care one way or another. From my perspective, they promised "free forever" and for a while they delivered. Then they started down the annoying their users path and I fled. If they held some kind of monopoly I'd be a lot more worked up, but there are plenty of alternatives.