Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you're already asking for a discount on the gun, humanity ain't going to be buying your ammo. Save some money. Make peace with the space aliens for once. If you don't well, I'll have less competition for that nailgun I've always wanted.....
Since they are tailing a private citizen, the FBI seems encouraged to prosecute someone for destruction of federal gov't property should they destroy said tracking device. Now, there would HAVE to be some sort of law that would support this particular opinion, right? So if the FBI were tailing a * foreigner* of interest, say a diplomat or employee of, are they going to go knocking on their door and charge them with destruction of said similar property? I don't think so. So, is there a different law for citizens and foreigners in this situation or does it just depend on who you are?
I am awaiting the announcement of an Apple Special Event on this problem soon.
At the event Mr. Jobs will bash with a hammer the screens of competing cell phones from RIM, Motorola, Sony, Nokia, etc. The results of this vigorous laboratory testing will be presented with a pie-chart to show that the iPhone screen is more resistant to hammer blows as long as you hold the hammer carefully with a finger or two and not grip it with your whole hand.
If I recall correctly, every year there is a DARPA challenge to have autonomous vehicles navigate a desert terrain in the US... perhaps in Nevada itself. I wounder if this research is somehow related in that they might be using the results of these experiments on the vehicles in question for this article. I guess the best thing so far is they aren't armed.... yet anyways.
Why are you being modded funny? That's $10/ft! Holy shit..... I just paid $180 for a similar length cable! Where ever this store is that charges $60 for a 6 ft HDMI cable is a real bargain.
Since this thread is about Best Buy is this the store you are referring to? I just never stopped by. I guess I should read their sales flyer more often. That other store really ripped me off!
But what if its his name 10 times in a row? And they manage to crack the password.
If you say you forgot but its a trivially easy password, again, assume they cracked it, would it make for perjury charge? Ortherwise, yes, prove that you forgot it.
I don't know if there's any paid subscription with Facebook. But, I currently pay Skype with my Credit Card. I don't know who keeps this information (e.g. if Skype) keeps in database. Would this merger not give Facebook to link its users with their credit card info? Certainly, with the amount of info kept on FB, the CC info if kept by Skype and all the phone numbers you call, it doesn't seem to be a good mix of sharing of information.
Mine started advertising an all employee orienteering with other departments. They brought it up with everyone.... oh 6 months ago... and we still haven't heard anything!
The question becomes, what happens if you refuse to sign such an agreement. Will the employer fire you? Look for an excuse to fire you? Or just not really care and pay attention to those that have signed. If, say you've been an employee with the company for 20 years vs a new hire.
That's my real concern with the BB apps: Cost. I use my BB for personal use. I had a BB before and on my 9300 curve, the battery lasts almost a whole week.
I'd buy apps but many of them are in the $20 - $50 range. I do use the BB for work use - organizing/calendar, so I can justify the cost of an app if it helps me with work and my personal life, but that price makes me cringe if it sucks.
A few really cool 'killer' organizing apps for the BB at the $2.99 to $5.99 range would be awesome. I'm sure would sell much better volume than the current pricing too.
Lucas is a visionary. He knew EP 1, II and III would not be appreciated enough until it was released in 3D. Unfortunately, due to pressure from the studio and toy manufacturers he had to release reluctantly several years early.
I think the rule of thumb is most banks offer a few months' worth of records. My Canadian bank offers 3 months worth of records on line as well. I don't know what the practice is with other banks. But mine offers further records if I go to the branch and pay for the records. You may find that you will also need to pay for transaction records. These records may or may not be available on-line and you may only be able to get them at a branch.
Now, if you have enough money in your account (you're of sufficient high net worth) they may be able to give you better service. Then again, you wouldn't be posting the question on/. you'd already have a banking officer doing it for you!
I've brought up the issue of Canadian content in music with friends and in several university classes. I've yet to hear a convincing argument. Maybe someone here can provide an insightful answer. Slightly off-topic, but on subject, since many of these fees are intended to protect "Canadian Content".
When I hear of Canadian Music or Canadian Content, I know that the intention is 1) to protect the Canadian Music Industry and 2) from the perspective of the government to protect "Canadian Identity" and "Canadian Culture". This second argument is usually the one that people fight most to protect especially in the government (and probably lobbiests) as its a softer issue than dealing with the money aspect and has a nice ring to it - we're helping you protect all of our identities.
I have bought my fair share of CDs over the last 10 years (probably over 500). I'd say about 50% of that is American artists, 40% Canadian and 10% European/Asian. I've yet to hear any song (save our Nat. Anthem) that is distinctly in whole or in spirit so damn different from American music. I listen to rock, metal, country, jazz, blues, folk, rap. The BareNaked Ladies strikes me as having been the most popular band with some Canadian references in the songs. (Not a fan) but otherwise Neil Young and Tom Petty are probably the next closest. But even then substitute a few words here and there and you're listening to an American performing the same song.
Other than that across all genres of music, there isn't much to say this song IS Canadian. Even a lot of the (newer) French Canadian music, is the same and is indistinguishable from the rest. It makes reference to French culture - but not generally Canadian or (generously) French Canadian culutre.
So these Tarifs seem to be implying that they are protecting the Canadian music industry. Yet, the consumer is the one that chooses (regardless of piracy rates) what albums he or she will buy. And besides, you are more than free to listen to any number of streaming radio stations on the Internet. Heck, I like those stations better since they play anything but the same Canadian artists on local radio stations.
Well, Apple also has a 'vested' interest not only in H.264 and 'open standards'. The Mac platform has always been "Think (or do) Different(ly)". I've added to the expression obviously. But the point is, when Macs didn't have games (now Steam, etc), didn't have Office, didn't have music player (now iTunes which Windows users use too)..... and so on.
Its at a point where people aren't thinking, I'm not going to buy a Mac because I can't do x on it. Their decision might be I won't buy a Mac because YouTube runs in Flash. Flash sucks on Mac, I use YouTube a lot but its slow my Mac. So PC it is.
If Jobs manages to make Flash disappear (or give himself the credit for it) even though it comes from his small market share influence and HTML 5 was coming anyways, it just makes Jobs' Mac platform more appealing to new buyers.
Ghouls n' Ghosts is bloody impossible to me. Even to this day, I have a hard time getting past the first level. The only way I ever managed to beat it was with MAME and all cheats turned on.
I don't care too much about heights. I will look all around in a plane, top of transparent lookout on a tower, etc. I've gone pretty fast on a mountain bike down hills, jump down some drop offs and such.
I don't have a balance problem, but I cannot climb ladders without any level of comfort. So, I'm not afraid of heights, just afraid of climbing ladders.... stepping stool up to about 4 or 5 feet off the ground fine. I'm a young, fit person. From 8 to 10 feet on a ladder, no way even to change a light bulb or paint a ceiling (I'll just get a longer pole for the paint roller!).
The biggest 'environmental' problem IMO the "failed delivery attempt" to many residential locations... much wated gas. They should just setup a few centralized pickup locations in urbanized areas (provided, of course, the real estate is available and 'cheap' enough to keep rates low).
What I don't understand is why the post office (at least Canada Post) and the major shippers UPS, FedEX must make a delivery to your house should you order something. I can see they want to make sure you exist and that you have an address. Most people work and its not always practical to have goods delivered to work.
I've had a few things shipped with UPS and FedEX - low dollar value e.g. under $200. When I wasn't available to pickup it was a huge headache to get them to drop off at an alternate location. I live in a major city and their pickup/warehouse place is next to the airport - a good 40 minute commute.
Are you American? If yes, then that is partly why you're not as concerned. There are many countries that don't have similar laws that are within ACTA, let alone DMCA type laws. Its also going to be much harder to defeat ACTA if copyright and IP laws are standardized across many countries.
The think I kind of like about the originals is its supposed to be futuristic but the people are straight out of the 70s and 80s kind of like the 'older' Star Trek movies. Movies from that era had a feel good, entertaining feeling to it. There's less emphasis on special effects and what ones there are, now that I'm older, I've realized how genius and improvised they are (I was about 10 when SW IV was released. Heck, I wish they had filmed the new movie in the same way rather than all computer generated. That shiny ship Padmé flies in looks horrible - the XWing and Falcon and the Bounty hunter one were way cooler.
The special effects in I - III make the technology in the earlier "Star Wars universe" look more advanced than in IV - VI
There's many other things to the originals but this to me is just the most memorable thing I like about the originals.
I'm not surprised by someone bringing up a cellphone argument, but I am surprised that you didn't bring up concert goers recording parts of the show on their phone.
A lot of cell phones now have fairly good audio and video quality. The iPhone 4 "boasts" its 720p or close enough (whatever). The idea is the practice basically constitutes unregistered recording of the show. Are they going to ban cell phones now? If anything this helps promote the artist(s) and show. Hey look at this show I saw last night, or, x # of people on YouTube seeing a -portion- of a song.
I've seen some great shows and its unfortunate the venue or the artists often don't sell a recording of the show afterwards. This is kind of why I like bootleggers in principal - if the show is good enough to record and sell afterwords and turn a profit after (bootleggers probably wouldn't show up to take a loss), then its something the artist/label/venue/lawyers all need to sort out.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you're already asking for a discount on the gun, humanity ain't going to be buying your ammo. Save some money. Make peace with the space aliens for once. If you don't well, I'll have less competition for that nailgun I've always wanted.....
Since they are tailing a private citizen, the FBI seems encouraged to prosecute someone for destruction of federal gov't property should they destroy said tracking device. Now, there would HAVE to be some sort of law that would support this particular opinion, right? So if the FBI were tailing a * foreigner* of interest, say a diplomat or employee of, are they going to go knocking on their door and charge them with destruction of said similar property? I don't think so. So, is there a different law for citizens and foreigners in this situation or does it just depend on who you are?
I am awaiting the announcement of an Apple Special Event on this problem soon.
At the event Mr. Jobs will bash with a hammer the screens of competing cell phones from RIM, Motorola, Sony, Nokia, etc. The results of this vigorous laboratory testing will be presented with a pie-chart to show that the iPhone screen is more resistant to hammer blows as long as you hold the hammer carefully with a finger or two and not grip it with your whole hand.
If I recall correctly, every year there is a DARPA challenge to have autonomous vehicles navigate a desert terrain in the US ... perhaps in Nevada itself. I wounder if this research is somehow related in that they might be using the results of these experiments on the vehicles in question for this article. I guess the best thing so far is they aren't armed .... yet anyways.
Yeah, but MS Paint doesn't quite -yet- match Photoshop. ;-)
Why are you being modded funny? That's $10/ft! Holy shit ..... I just paid $180 for a similar length cable! Where ever this store is that charges $60 for a 6 ft HDMI cable is a real bargain.
Since this thread is about Best Buy is this the store you are referring to? I just never stopped by. I guess I should read their sales flyer more often. That other store really ripped me off!
But what if its his name 10 times in a row? And they manage to crack the password.
If you say you forgot but its a trivially easy password, again, assume they cracked it, would it make for perjury charge? Ortherwise, yes, prove that you forgot it.
"The article linked in the summary is riddled with factual inaccuracies."
Translation: "The article linked in the summary makes for interesting reading."
I don't know if there's any paid subscription with Facebook. But, I currently pay Skype with my Credit Card. I don't know who keeps this information (e.g. if Skype) keeps in database. Would this merger not give Facebook to link its users with their credit card info? Certainly, with the amount of info kept on FB, the CC info if kept by Skype and all the phone numbers you call, it doesn't seem to be a good mix of sharing of information.
Mine started advertising an all employee orienteering with other departments. They brought it up with everyone .... oh 6 months ago ... and we still haven't heard anything!
The question becomes, what happens if you refuse to sign such an agreement. Will the employer fire you? Look for an excuse to fire you? Or just not really care and pay attention to those that have signed. If, say you've been an employee with the company for 20 years vs a new hire.
That's my real concern with the BB apps: Cost. I use my BB for personal use. I had a BB before and on my 9300 curve, the battery lasts almost a whole week.
I'd buy apps but many of them are in the $20 - $50 range. I do use the BB for work use - organizing/calendar, so I can justify the cost of an app if it helps me with work and my personal life, but that price makes me cringe if it sucks.
A few really cool 'killer' organizing apps for the BB at the $2.99 to $5.99 range would be awesome. I'm sure would sell much better volume than the current pricing too.
Lucas is a visionary. He knew EP 1, II and III would not be appreciated enough until it was released in 3D. Unfortunately, due to pressure from the studio and toy manufacturers he had to release reluctantly several years early.
I'm not sure what you mean by "The US isn't guilty of enabling Iran. The US is guilty of intrusive policy."
It seems to me that the US is enabling the US to spy on Iranians. ;)
"If you are stupid enough to bank with Wells Fargo"
LOL! Thanks made my day.
I think the rule of thumb is most banks offer a few months' worth of records. My Canadian bank offers 3 months worth of records on line as well. I don't know what the practice is with other banks. But mine offers further records if I go to the branch and pay for the records. You may find that you will also need to pay for transaction records. These records may or may not be available on-line and you may only be able to get them at a branch.
Now, if you have enough money in your account (you're of sufficient high net worth) they may be able to give you better service. Then again, you wouldn't be posting the question on /. you'd already have a banking officer doing it for you!
I've brought up the issue of Canadian content in music with friends and in several university classes. I've yet to hear a convincing argument. Maybe someone here can provide an insightful answer. Slightly off-topic, but on subject, since many of these fees are intended to protect "Canadian Content".
When I hear of Canadian Music or Canadian Content, I know that the intention is 1) to protect the Canadian Music Industry and 2) from the perspective of the government to protect "Canadian Identity" and "Canadian Culture". This second argument is usually the one that people fight most to protect especially in the government (and probably lobbiests) as its a softer issue than dealing with the money aspect and has a nice ring to it - we're helping you protect all of our identities.
I have bought my fair share of CDs over the last 10 years (probably over 500). I'd say about 50% of that is American artists, 40% Canadian and 10% European/Asian. I've yet to hear any song (save our Nat. Anthem) that is distinctly in whole or in spirit so damn different from American music. I listen to rock, metal, country, jazz, blues, folk, rap. The BareNaked Ladies strikes me as having been the most popular band with some Canadian references in the songs. (Not a fan) but otherwise Neil Young and Tom Petty are probably the next closest. But even then substitute a few words here and there and you're listening to an American performing the same song.
Other than that across all genres of music, there isn't much to say this song IS Canadian. Even a lot of the (newer) French Canadian music, is the same and is indistinguishable from the rest. It makes reference to French culture - but not generally Canadian or (generously) French Canadian culutre.
So these Tarifs seem to be implying that they are protecting the Canadian music industry. Yet, the consumer is the one that chooses (regardless of piracy rates) what albums he or she will buy. And besides, you are more than free to listen to any number of streaming radio stations on the Internet. Heck, I like those stations better since they play anything but the same Canadian artists on local radio stations.
Well, Apple also has a 'vested' interest not only in H.264 and 'open standards'. The Mac platform has always been "Think (or do) Different(ly)". I've added to the expression obviously. But the point is, when Macs didn't have games (now Steam, etc), didn't have Office, didn't have music player (now iTunes which Windows users use too)..... and so on.
Its at a point where people aren't thinking, I'm not going to buy a Mac because I can't do x on it. Their decision might be I won't buy a Mac because YouTube runs in Flash. Flash sucks on Mac, I use YouTube a lot but its slow my Mac. So PC it is.
If Jobs manages to make Flash disappear (or give himself the credit for it) even though it comes from his small market share influence and HTML 5 was coming anyways, it just makes Jobs' Mac platform more appealing to new buyers.
Ghouls n' Ghosts is bloody impossible to me. Even to this day, I have a hard time getting past the first level. The only way I ever managed to beat it was with MAME and all cheats turned on.
yeah, its a nice option and I would choose it if I didn't live in a downtown apartment. :)
I don't care too much about heights. I will look all around in a plane, top of transparent lookout on a tower, etc. I've gone pretty fast on a mountain bike down hills, jump down some drop offs and such.
I don't have a balance problem, but I cannot climb ladders without any level of comfort. So, I'm not afraid of heights, just afraid of climbing ladders .... stepping stool up to about 4 or 5 feet off the ground fine. I'm a young, fit person. From 8 to 10 feet on a ladder, no way even to change a light bulb or paint a ceiling (I'll just get a longer pole for the paint roller!).
The biggest 'environmental' problem IMO the "failed delivery attempt" to many residential locations ... much wated gas. They should just setup a few centralized pickup locations in urbanized areas (provided, of course, the real estate is available and 'cheap' enough to keep rates low).
What I don't understand is why the post office (at least Canada Post) and the major shippers UPS, FedEX must make a delivery to your house should you order something. I can see they want to make sure you exist and that you have an address. Most people work and its not always practical to have goods delivered to work.
I've had a few things shipped with UPS and FedEX - low dollar value e.g. under $200. When I wasn't available to pickup it was a huge headache to get them to drop off at an alternate location. I live in a major city and their pickup/warehouse place is next to the airport - a good 40 minute commute.
Are you American? If yes, then that is partly why you're not as concerned. There are many countries that don't have similar laws that are within ACTA, let alone DMCA type laws. Its also going to be much harder to defeat ACTA if copyright and IP laws are standardized across many countries.
The think I kind of like about the originals is its supposed to be futuristic but the people are straight out of the 70s and 80s kind of like the 'older' Star Trek movies. Movies from that era had a feel good, entertaining feeling to it. There's less emphasis on special effects and what ones there are, now that I'm older, I've realized how genius and improvised they are (I was about 10 when SW IV was released. Heck, I wish they had filmed the new movie in the same way rather than all computer generated. That shiny ship Padmé flies in looks horrible - the XWing and Falcon and the Bounty hunter one were way cooler.
The special effects in I - III make the technology in the earlier "Star Wars universe" look more advanced than in IV - VI
There's many other things to the originals but this to me is just the most memorable thing I like about the originals.
I'm not surprised by someone bringing up a cellphone argument, but I am surprised that you didn't bring up concert goers recording parts of the show on their phone.
A lot of cell phones now have fairly good audio and video quality. The iPhone 4 "boasts" its 720p or close enough (whatever). The idea is the practice basically constitutes unregistered recording of the show. Are they going to ban cell phones now? If anything this helps promote the artist(s) and show. Hey look at this show I saw last night, or, x # of people on YouTube seeing a -portion- of a song.
I've seen some great shows and its unfortunate the venue or the artists often don't sell a recording of the show afterwards. This is kind of why I like bootleggers in principal - if the show is good enough to record and sell afterwords and turn a profit after (bootleggers probably wouldn't show up to take a loss), then its something the artist/label/venue/lawyers all need to sort out.