Way #201 to keep your customers happy: Amazon:Hey want to buy your wife an anniversary gift? Widower of 3 weeks: WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH...........
Agreed. Just go to www.irs.gov and download the PDFs. You can get the forms and the instructions. The forms are fill-in so you can just type in your numbers. When you are done print and sign. It took me longer then the parent poster, it actually took me about a day to do Federal and State. When I was done I printed, my wife and i signed and I mailed them in. Why pay to e-file when I can mail them for less then a $1 each!?!? That's what really gets me about taxes...it costs the Govnmt quite a bit less if you e-file but they charge you to do so! i'll mail them and make them spend more the process my taxes until they make e-file free.
Or as was just commented on Slashdot the other day (i'm to lazy to find the comment) a number of big name musicians have degrees from very good schools and who decided not to follow those sucessful career paths but instead to continue there music......i'll bet for every 1 big name that way there a few hundered or so your've never heard of.....
I'm looking for a small mp3 player for me to put Audio Books. I would want to ability to see what track I'm on so i know when i'm getting near the end of the book and need to load the next one. It's also nice to have a display incase I want to rewind a bit because I missed something. Remember that MP3 players are good for things OTHER then music......
These could really be helpful in video editing and encoding. If I could pull my 2 xeons and replace them with 2 dual core xeons i suspect i would see a big time decrease in compile times....
"Hello Blizzard. I bought a second-hand copy of the game. Please give me a new key."
and..
"Hello Blizzard. I bought a new copy of the game. Someone with a key generator already used the key taht came with my game so I can not use it. Please give me a new key."
How would they deal with that? Assume that a customer who DID pay shouldn't be allowed to play?
What if he showed up to work drunk? What if the slapped a female co-worker's ass? What if the kept posting to slashdot all day instead of working? There are MANY reasons to fire someone, i will admit that this looks fishy, however if he really was fired for blogging one would think he would post a rant about it on his blog!
He could choose not to buy a new TV. If he wants access to their content (and everything on TV is content created and owned by someone) the he had to buy the technology that they support and allow their content to play on. If he doesn't want to support that technology, then he has no rights to watch their content. I agree that all this DRM is overboard and I don't like it, but I don't like to see people saying they are "forced" or who act like it's their god given right to have access to all content out there.
Who's forcing you? Just don't buy a PC/GFX card/DVD play/ TV with this! It might limit your choses (or mean you can't buy something you would want). It might mean you can't watch a movie you want to see, but no one is going to hold a gun to your head and FORCE you to use this. There are people who chose not to use credit cards, and while it does limit them in many ways, they survive.....
Actually value and potential value are two vastly different things. When you by a house do you report what it might be worth in 10 years on your value for property taxes? Why you buy a car do you pay what it might be worth if 25 years if it becomes a rare classic auto? Your "lucky" ticket's value is that which you paid for it, until that roll happens, personally I wouldn't pay you a dime for it because it could just as easily be worthless. That's why I don't play the lotto. However since that ticket MIGHT be worth X millions of dollars you must be willing to pay a lot for it.
Actualy when issued they are usualyy worth 0. Since the price they are set at = the market value of the day. Also in MOST cases they vest over time so i can't sue them today even if the price of my stock doubles over night. So right now stock options are worth NOTHING the day they are granted.
The other side of that is, if when I switch OS I have to switch ALL my apps at the same time I might now do it. However if I can switch apps 1 at a time using my current OS, when I get all of them switched and am using all apps that will run under linux (from a windows box) then switching to linux will be easier since i already know the apps and have my data files ported and such. It can make the switch easier.
If Dell isn't happy with RedHat's value, they're welcome to support Gentoo and Debian instead.
My bet is that RedHat does provide decent value for the dollar, so Dell'll stick with them.
How much are you betting? If you RTFA you will see the Dell just signed an agreement with Novell for SuSE Linux. So, yeah they ARE supporting someone else. So where can i collect my winnings?
Well When does Donald get fired for his wonderful job at managing casinos? People make mistakes, some times big one. Why would you want to fire someone who has made many good choices, built a good reputation, and is well respected for making a bad choice? As an investor I like companies who can are not reactionary and fire people high level managers just becuase of sort term setbacks. It was reactionary managment like that that led me to selling my HP stock. I would MUCH rather have executive who have made mistakes (and learned something) then ones who only know success.
And if you RTFA you would see that Paul Otellini says: "What was wrong was that I made the decision to go public on it at the Consumer Electronics Show, error of judgment. Mea culpa. I learned a lesson." He said exactly what you just did, and took responsibility for it.
Or more simply, since IR shows up on most video camcorders as white light (point a remote control at your camcorder as proof) put have a large number of flashing IR LEDs around and winthin the screen and make the recorded video unwatchable....
Here are some interesting results of a study of distracted drivers causing an accident:
Rubbernecking: 16 percent
driver fatigue: 12 percent
looking at scenery: 10 percent
other passengers or children: 9 percent
adjusting the radio, cassette or CD player: 7 percent
So does all the fancy extras include windows? radios? passanger seats?
Come to California where someone thought it would be a good idea to put stop lights on the entrance ramps to the highway so EVERYONE has to come to a complete stop. It's fun trying to merge from 0 into traffic at 70 mph!
Jest this weekend I was driving a stick shift truck with a UHAUL trailer behind it when my cell phone rang. I had to use the same hand for my Egg McMuffin and the wheel, while using my other hand for the speaker phone and the stick shift. Considering the pooring rain and my broekn foot i thought I was doing pretty well.
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Way #201 to keep your customers happy:
Amazon:Hey want to buy your wife an anniversary gift?
Widower of 3 weeks: WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH...........
Agreed. Just go to www.irs.gov and download the PDFs. You can get the forms and the instructions. The forms are fill-in so you can just type in your numbers. When you are done print and sign. It took me longer then the parent poster, it actually took me about a day to do Federal and State. When I was done I printed, my wife and i signed and I mailed them in. Why pay to e-file when I can mail them for less then a $1 each!?!? That's what really gets me about taxes...it costs the Govnmt quite a bit less if you e-file but they charge you to do so! i'll mail them and make them spend more the process my taxes until they make e-file free.
Or as was just commented on Slashdot the other day (i'm to lazy to find the comment) a number of big name musicians have degrees from very good schools and who decided not to follow those sucessful career paths but instead to continue there music......i'll bet for every 1 big name that way there a few hundered or so your've never heard of.....
I'm looking for a small mp3 player for me to put Audio Books. I would want to ability to see what track I'm on so i know when i'm getting near the end of the book and need to load the next one. It's also nice to have a display incase I want to rewind a bit because I missed something. Remember that MP3 players are good for things OTHER then music......
These could really be helpful in video editing and encoding. If I could pull my 2 xeons and replace them with 2 dual core xeons i suspect i would see a big time decrease in compile times....
Then what is the difference between
"Hello Blizzard. I bought a second-hand copy of the game. Please give me a new key."
and..
"Hello Blizzard. I bought a new copy of the game. Someone with a key generator already used the key taht came with my game so I can not use it. Please give me a new key."
How would they deal with that? Assume that a customer who DID pay shouldn't be allowed to play?
Although in this case it's probably that "All your base pairs".... :)
It's not a dupe it's the google cached copy......
Yeah, but he's already proven that he doesn't think that far ahead. :)
What if he showed up to work drunk? What if the slapped a female co-worker's ass? What if the kept posting to slashdot all day instead of working? There are MANY reasons to fire someone, i will admit that this looks fishy, however if he really was fired for blogging one would think he would post a rant about it on his blog!
They think that because according to US law they DO have that right, and they are getting it more and more all the time. It's unfortunate, but true.
He could choose not to buy a new TV. If he wants access to their content (and everything on TV is content created and owned by someone) the he had to buy the technology that they support and allow their content to play on. If he doesn't want to support that technology, then he has no rights to watch their content. I agree that all this DRM is overboard and I don't like it, but I don't like to see people saying they are "forced" or who act like it's their god given right to have access to all content out there.
Who's forcing you? Just don't buy a PC/GFX card/DVD play/ TV with this! It might limit your choses (or mean you can't buy something you would want). It might mean you can't watch a movie you want to see, but no one is going to hold a gun to your head and FORCE you to use this. There are people who chose not to use credit cards, and while it does limit them in many ways, they survive.....
Actually value and potential value are two vastly different things. When you by a house do you report what it might be worth in 10 years on your value for property taxes? Why you buy a car do you pay what it might be worth if 25 years if it becomes a rare classic auto? Your "lucky" ticket's value is that which you paid for it, until that roll happens, personally I wouldn't pay you a dime for it because it could just as easily be worthless. That's why I don't play the lotto. However since that ticket MIGHT be worth X millions of dollars you must be willing to pay a lot for it.
Actualy when issued they are usualyy worth 0. Since the price they are set at = the market value of the day. Also in MOST cases they vest over time so i can't sue them today even if the price of my stock doubles over night. So right now stock options are worth NOTHING the day they are granted.
The other side of that is, if when I switch OS I have to switch ALL my apps at the same time I might now do it. However if I can switch apps 1 at a time using my current OS, when I get all of them switched and am using all apps that will run under linux (from a windows box) then switching to linux will be easier since i already know the apps and have my data files ported and such. It can make the switch easier.
If Dell isn't happy with RedHat's value, they're welcome to support Gentoo and Debian instead.
My bet is that RedHat does provide decent value for the dollar, so Dell'll stick with them.
How much are you betting? If you RTFA you will see the Dell just signed an agreement with Novell for SuSE Linux. So, yeah they ARE supporting someone else. So where can i collect my winnings?
Do you still let him use yuour terminals?!?
Well When does Donald get fired for his wonderful job at managing casinos? People make mistakes, some times big one. Why would you want to fire someone who has made many good choices, built a good reputation, and is well respected for making a bad choice? As an investor I like companies who can are not reactionary and fire people high level managers just becuase of sort term setbacks. It was reactionary managment like that that led me to selling my HP stock. I would MUCH rather have executive who have made mistakes (and learned something) then ones who only know success.
And if you RTFA you would see that Paul Otellini says: "What was wrong was that I made the decision to go public on it at the Consumer Electronics Show, error of judgment. Mea culpa. I learned a lesson." He said exactly what you just did, and took responsibility for it.
Good answer. I stand corrected.
Or more simply, since IR shows up on most video camcorders as white light (point a remote control at your camcorder as proof) put have a large number of flashing IR LEDs around and winthin the screen and make the recorded video unwatchable....
Here are some interesting results of a study of distracted drivers causing an accident:
Rubbernecking: 16 percent
driver fatigue: 12 percent
looking at scenery: 10 percent
other passengers or children: 9 percent
adjusting the radio, cassette or CD player: 7 percent
So does all the fancy extras include windows? radios? passanger seats?
Come to California where someone thought it would be a good idea to put stop lights on the entrance ramps to the highway so EVERYONE has to come to a complete stop. It's fun trying to merge from 0 into traffic at 70 mph!
Jest this weekend I was driving a stick shift truck with a UHAUL trailer behind it when my cell phone rang. I had to use the same hand for my Egg McMuffin and the wheel, while using my other hand for the speaker phone and the stick shift. Considering the pooring rain and my broekn foot i thought I was doing pretty well.