Well, I guess it is time to replace my old 128 MB thumb drive. On second thought, no, I'll hold onto it awhile longer. After all, it's not even full yet.
India pisses me off. They are more than happy to take our jobs, but you try to take one of theirs and the dung hits the fan. And just try to get a job in India as an American citizen. I dare you. They are just a bunch of hypocrites. They want their cake and want to eat it too. Insert additional cliche here.
i got burnt like that once, another company took a return, resealed it and sold it as new, even tho what was inside the box was a far older item, covered in years of dust. )
Well at least that explains why companies want to charge you a restocking fee on a broken item return.
Because today we had an article about Gamestop opening retail boxes and pulling out online coupons. This article undoubtedly made it through because of the similarity.
I would never buy an extended warranty on a new car, either. If you know even a smattering of how to take care of a car yourself, like replacing batteries, alternators, radiator hoses, belts and so forth, then you are very likely to be better off without the warranty. They will show you average cost of repairs over the life of the vehicle, but the cost they show you assumes that you pay the dealerships shop rates, which are much higher than an independent mechanic and infinitely higher than your own labor. Also, on Auto warranties, they generally just extend bumper to bumper to last as long as the drivetrain manufacturers warranty. This is because they know that most of what they will be covering is stuff that is either going to be broke out of the box or work long past the manufacturers warranty period.
I went with a buddy to buy a car and couldn't talk him out of the extended warranty onsite, because they said he had 30 days to cancel. However, once he got it home and went over it for about a week, he came to the conclusion that it was a waste of money. He had a hard time getting them to let him cancel, but he is pretty hardheaded himself, so he eventually got them to honor their word that he could cancel.
Extended warranty plans cover as little as possible. They want to make money on it, not pay for service problems. They are counting on the fact that you will either sell the laptop, break it during the manufacturers warranty, or buy a new one and forget about the old one in that time period.
It is in your best interest to insure yourself on a purchase as cheap as a laptop, especially a $300 one.
Grandfather is exactly right. On the average insurance policies are a bad deal for the consumer because you have to pay one average what they would have to pay plus their profit.
This is only a "Good deal" if it will prevent you from breaking the bank on a particularly catastrophic problem.
When it comes to laptops, you would have to be extremely unlucky to have a number of them break in your lifetime such that it would be better for you to have bought the warranty.
Cell phone warranties are even worse. You pay 8 dollars a month and if you break or lose your phone they give you a refurbished one for only the cost of the deductible (about $90-$100), which happens to be about the same as the cost of buying a brand new phone on ebay. And then, if you break it again, you are out of luck, because they only cover one claim a year. This is an asinine policy considering that with your deductible, they are making money on the deal even if they gave you a new phone every day.
Medical insurance is still the same way. You are paying out exactly what on average you would pay in plus their profit. The additional factor that makes medical insurance worthwhile is that the insurance company has contracts with the providers. If you go to the doctor you would pay $100. But if you have insurance, you pay a deductible of $20 and the insurance company pays maybe $50 and then your premium ends up being $70 to cover their cost plus profit. So you end up paying less overall, while still paying a profit to the insurance company. These numbers are all hypothetical and for illustration, but the principal is true.
Hmm, so God created two human beings. But I suppose after all that effort it would clearly be impossible for him to create a few more. The fact that it is not mentioned in the Bible does not mean it didn't happen. According to the Bible, there were people in the land of Nod, it just doesn't say how they got there.
Once we accept that any given Bible story is clearly not literally an accurate attestation of fact then there's no particular reason to expect any other part to be particularly either.
This is exactly the sort of thinking that led to Biblical literalism in the first place. Apparently, despite millions of other books to the contrary, it is just impossible for an allegory and a true story to coexist in the same book. So people began to espouse that the whole Bible was literally true. This clearly backfired, because the Bible contains much that is allegorical, and also much that is true, and attempting to pervert this substance can only lead to trouble.
As far as the Noah story goes, the entire Earth may not have been flooded, but the entire world as they knew it was flooded.
There is no need to raise taxes. The amount of money the school gets is based upon the property taxes. Property taxes are based upon property values. Property values (or at least assessed property values) outpace inflation. If they are unable to make do with what they have now, then they should have been in even worse shape last year and the year before that, etc, etc. Education continues to suffer from programs being cut, teachers not getting salary increases and all in the name of money woes, yet the districts get more money every year. What is the problem? At least where I live, the problem is the administration. When I grew up (in this same town), we had about the same population, about the same number of teachers, 1 principal per high school and no administrators. Now there are multiple principals, multiple administrative buildings and literally dozens of school board administrators. It is essentially government makework that takes money out of taxpayers hands in the name of education and gives it to paperpushers and busybodies that back in my day would have done the same job, but not got paid for it.
A long time ago, when I was in college, I had one class where completed projects had to be e-mailed to the teacher. Of course, this law doesn't apply to college (at least I don't think so), but my point is that this was almost 20 years ago, and electronic interchange has gotten much more common in the intervening years. I imagine that using facebook as a tool is probably even somewhat common. I know I have been talking to some people in the teaching profession that my stepson recently moved up to campus to start college, and they said "Oh, yeah, I saw his post on facebook."
You're right. If I was ever to play a multiplayer game it would absolutely be a "network party". I suspect that there are others out there who feel the same way, and probably are the same sorts of people who would never "friend" somebody that they were not actually real world friends with.
Hmm, my memory is fuzzy, but I think we had Fortran and Pascal first year, and then assembly second year, along with a Programming Language Design class in which we learned about two languages a week, and another class where we had about two weeks of C inexplicably stuck at the end of a hardware architecture class, and an assembly for microcontrollers class, which was fun.
By the third year, you were expected to either already know all the languages (including C,of which you had had two weeks) that you needed, or be clever enough to figure it out as you went. Thanks to that second year, learning to learn was very well ingrained, so when they through Pspice or some other application specific scripting language at you, you were able to get by,
In my case, I learned C and C++ back when Java was an island in Indonesia. C was very natural to pick up. C++ I never really got the hang of, and just did what I needed to get by. Then for a long time, I did no programming at all. When I came back to programming, I learned Java, and the OO principles that seemed so unintuitive in C++ suddenly made sense because I was not trying to learn OO and a tricky language at the same time. So much so, in fact, that I recently have taken up C++ again, and this time around, it is making a great deal more sense.
In tune with the article, we use C++ because we use OCR, which is a processor dependent task, and the C++ libraries are much faster than a java implementation would be. Our main application, though, is in Java, so I have written a JNI wrapper to control the C++ code that I wrote to interface directly with the engine.
To each his own, I guess. I played some multiplayer back in my college days, but I find that it is no fun to play against people who have nothing better to do with their levels but level up so they can kill you as soon as you join the game. I wouldn't play multiplayer now if you paid me.
Grinding? In Red Dead Redemption? If you had mentioned Final Fantasy I would be right there with you, but I played Red Dead Redemption through to not just the end of the story line, but even to 100% and there was no grinding. There was acquiring different outfits, but the means of obtaining them was different plot lines, or different challenges for every single one, rather than "Kill this monster 150 times so you can get to the next level and get 2 more hit points". If there was one issue I had with Red Dead Redemption it was the ridiculous number of bears in Tall Trees. And they usually just charge up silently from behind and kill you.
I'm playing Undead Nightmare now. It is also pretty good, but it has the one drawback that every game with zombies in it has: too many zombies.You can't even get off your horse to collect a freaking flower without getting attacked by zombies. On the other hand, I have discovered that if you ride an undead horse, the undead animals can't kill your horse and thus can't get to you.
Also, the number of people who see a blockbuster movie is a large multiple of the people who buy a blockbuster game. It may come as a surprise to some, but there is a world outside of slashdot, and a lot of those people don't play video games.
Just to prove you wrong I would go and sell two of my bitcoins to acquire one of the silver coins and have change left over. But frankly, I'd rather just have the bitcoins.
The FF team disagrees. They think the bigger problem is with enterprises stagnating on antique browsers.
Well obviously every website you go to has been rigorously testing their site for at least 6 months against the code Mozilla released this morning.
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Well, I guess it is time to replace my old 128 MB thumb drive. On second thought, no, I'll hold onto it awhile longer. After all, it's not even full yet.
No, all of the world's porn is larger than the contents of the LoC.
India pisses me off. They are more than happy to take our jobs, but you try to take one of theirs and the dung hits the fan. And just try to get a job in India as an American citizen. I dare you. They are just a bunch of hypocrites. They want their cake and want to eat it too. Insert additional cliche here.
We have pretty good fake wood. Problem is, it's made out of oil.
i got burnt like that once, another company took a return, resealed it and sold it as new, even tho what was inside the box was a far older item, covered in years of dust. )
Well at least that explains why companies want to charge you a restocking fee on a broken item return.
Because today we had an article about Gamestop opening retail boxes and pulling out online coupons. This article undoubtedly made it through because of the similarity.
That's why I only buy Fresh brand milk. and 100% Beef brand tofu dogs.
I would never buy an extended warranty on a new car, either. If you know even a smattering of how to take care of a car yourself, like replacing batteries, alternators, radiator hoses, belts and so forth, then you are very likely to be better off without the warranty. They will show you average cost of repairs over the life of the vehicle, but the cost they show you assumes that you pay the dealerships shop rates, which are much higher than an independent mechanic and infinitely higher than your own labor. Also, on Auto warranties, they generally just extend bumper to bumper to last as long as the drivetrain manufacturers warranty. This is because they know that most of what they will be covering is stuff that is either going to be broke out of the box or work long past the manufacturers warranty period.
I went with a buddy to buy a car and couldn't talk him out of the extended warranty onsite, because they said he had 30 days to cancel. However, once he got it home and went over it for about a week, he came to the conclusion that it was a waste of money. He had a hard time getting them to let him cancel, but he is pretty hardheaded himself, so he eventually got them to honor their word that he could cancel.
Extended warranty plans cover as little as possible. They want to make money on it, not pay for service problems. They are counting on the fact that you will either sell the laptop, break it during the manufacturers warranty, or buy a new one and forget about the old one in that time period.
It is in your best interest to insure yourself on a purchase as cheap as a laptop, especially a $300 one.
Grandfather is exactly right. On the average insurance policies are a bad deal for the consumer because you have to pay one average what they would have to pay plus their profit.
This is only a "Good deal" if it will prevent you from breaking the bank on a particularly catastrophic problem.
When it comes to laptops, you would have to be extremely unlucky to have a number of them break in your lifetime such that it would be better for you to have bought the warranty.
Cell phone warranties are even worse. You pay 8 dollars a month and if you break or lose your phone they give you a refurbished one for only the cost of the deductible (about $90-$100), which happens to be about the same as the cost of buying a brand new phone on ebay. And then, if you break it again, you are out of luck, because they only cover one claim a year. This is an asinine policy considering that with your deductible, they are making money on the deal even if they gave you a new phone every day.
Medical insurance is still the same way. You are paying out exactly what on average you would pay in plus their profit. The additional factor that makes medical insurance worthwhile is that the insurance company has contracts with the providers. If you go to the doctor you would pay $100. But if you have insurance, you pay a deductible of $20 and the insurance company pays maybe $50 and then your premium ends up being $70 to cover their cost plus profit. So you end up paying less overall, while still paying a profit to the insurance company. These numbers are all hypothetical and for illustration, but the principal is true.
Because he doesn't have a laptop?
Hmm, so God created two human beings. But I suppose after all that effort it would clearly be impossible for him to create a few more. The fact that it is not mentioned in the Bible does not mean it didn't happen. According to the Bible, there were people in the land of Nod, it just doesn't say how they got there.
Once we accept that any given Bible story is clearly not literally an accurate attestation of fact then there's no particular reason to expect any other part to be particularly either.
This is exactly the sort of thinking that led to Biblical literalism in the first place. Apparently, despite millions of other books to the contrary, it is just impossible for an allegory and a true story to coexist in the same book. So people began to espouse that the whole Bible was literally true. This clearly backfired, because the Bible contains much that is allegorical, and also much that is true, and attempting to pervert this substance can only lead to trouble.
As far as the Noah story goes, the entire Earth may not have been flooded, but the entire world as they knew it was flooded.
There is no need to raise taxes. The amount of money the school gets is based upon the property taxes. Property taxes are based upon property values. Property values (or at least assessed property values) outpace inflation. If they are unable to make do with what they have now, then they should have been in even worse shape last year and the year before that, etc, etc. Education continues to suffer from programs being cut, teachers not getting salary increases and all in the name of money woes, yet the districts get more money every year. What is the problem? At least where I live, the problem is the administration. When I grew up (in this same town), we had about the same population, about the same number of teachers, 1 principal per high school and no administrators. Now there are multiple principals, multiple administrative buildings and literally dozens of school board administrators. It is essentially government makework that takes money out of taxpayers hands in the name of education and gives it to paperpushers and busybodies that back in my day would have done the same job, but not got paid for it.
A long time ago, when I was in college, I had one class where completed projects had to be e-mailed to the teacher. Of course, this law doesn't apply to college (at least I don't think so), but my point is that this was almost 20 years ago, and electronic interchange has gotten much more common in the intervening years. I imagine that using facebook as a tool is probably even somewhat common. I know I have been talking to some people in the teaching profession that my stepson recently moved up to campus to start college, and they said "Oh, yeah, I saw his post on facebook."
I would just want a law that says if they do that I can charge them in advance whatever I want for the privilege.
You're right. If I was ever to play a multiplayer game it would absolutely be a "network party". I suspect that there are others out there who feel the same way, and probably are the same sorts of people who would never "friend" somebody that they were not actually real world friends with.
Hmm, my memory is fuzzy, but I think we had Fortran and Pascal first year, and then assembly second year, along with a Programming Language Design class in which we learned about two languages a week, and another class where we had about two weeks of C inexplicably stuck at the end of a hardware architecture class, and an assembly for microcontrollers class, which was fun.
By the third year, you were expected to either already know all the languages (including C,of which you had had two weeks) that you needed, or be clever enough to figure it out as you went. Thanks to that second year, learning to learn was very well ingrained, so when they through Pspice or some other application specific scripting language at you, you were able to get by,
In my case, I learned C and C++ back when Java was an island in Indonesia. C was very natural to pick up. C++ I never really got the hang of, and just did what I needed to get by. Then for a long time, I did no programming at all. When I came back to programming, I learned Java, and the OO principles that seemed so unintuitive in C++ suddenly made sense because I was not trying to learn OO and a tricky language at the same time. So much so, in fact, that I recently have taken up C++ again, and this time around, it is making a great deal more sense.
In tune with the article, we use C++ because we use OCR, which is a processor dependent task, and the C++ libraries are much faster than a java implementation would be. Our main application, though, is in Java, so I have written a JNI wrapper to control the C++ code that I wrote to interface directly with the engine.
Me too. Could not finish Adventure. Obviously, whatever they imagine they are observing is not a recent phenomenon, or even necessarily a problem.
To each his own, I guess. I played some multiplayer back in my college days, but I find that it is no fun to play against people who have nothing better to do with their levels but level up so they can kill you as soon as you join the game. I wouldn't play multiplayer now if you paid me.
Grinding? In Red Dead Redemption? If you had mentioned Final Fantasy I would be right there with you, but I played Red Dead Redemption through to not just the end of the story line, but even to 100% and there was no grinding. There was acquiring different outfits, but the means of obtaining them was different plot lines, or different challenges for every single one, rather than "Kill this monster 150 times so you can get to the next level and get 2 more hit points". If there was one issue I had with Red Dead Redemption it was the ridiculous number of bears in Tall Trees. And they usually just charge up silently from behind and kill you.
I'm playing Undead Nightmare now. It is also pretty good, but it has the one drawback that every game with zombies in it has: too many zombies.You can't even get off your horse to collect a freaking flower without getting attacked by zombies. On the other hand, I have discovered that if you ride an undead horse, the undead animals can't kill your horse and thus can't get to you.
Also, the number of people who see a blockbuster movie is a large multiple of the people who buy a blockbuster game. It may come as a surprise to some, but there is a world outside of slashdot, and a lot of those people don't play video games.
Just to prove you wrong I would go and sell two of my bitcoins to acquire one of the silver coins and have change left over. But frankly, I'd rather just have the bitcoins.
The FF team disagrees. They think the bigger problem is with enterprises stagnating on antique browsers.
Well obviously every website you go to has been rigorously testing their site for at least 6 months against the code Mozilla released this morning.