Walmart sells computers don't they? So I guess they can bundle it in with their computers. 50 free songs with the purchase of the box maybe?
As for portable music. They have this new RC car that can play songs purchased from the Wal-Mart Music Service (WMMS). With select models that are equiped with WMMS, you can drive around and listen to your favorite tunes.
Maybe its just that being a few years removed from high school, things seemed better then. heh.
its kinda strange. When I was in high school, there were friends, acquaintences and people you just didn't like.
High school friends are people I still talk to now. Acquaintence are: ah yes. I remember you. you're automatically a distant friend. Foe: I don't remember you...you weren't a friend then, prolly won't be now. acquaintence or foe. no grey area.
I remember back in high school (1998), there was this guy who went around with a little laptop (about the same size as the sharp in the picture is).
He used it to play starcraft during class. Anyway, it didn't fly too well with the teacher. Rumor has it that his father found out and hit him over the head with the laptop- smattering it into bits and thus rendered it useless.
I agree. With the current state our "American Politics" is headed, we might as well disrespect the dead too. After all, if they dont respect us living, why respect us when we're dead?
I back you up. I have a laptop because I move around alot. Though, most of the time it is plugged in and used just like a destkop.
One problem many laptop users have is that they don't turn down the brightness on the display. Yea! try it some time. you'll be shocked that it can be up to an hour of battery run time.
Lastly, the user needs to educate himself. People look at a laptop and see "4 hour battery" and they assume that no matter what they do, the battery will last 4 hours. SORRY! 4 hours if your doing something light. watch a movie or play a game, or some music. that battery just isn't going to last that long.
Yea We've in the QA dept at Belkin have known about this "feature" for a long time. I first saw it in action about 6 months ago. I told the developers it was a hassle to click "no thanks" every 8 hours. They insisted it was a "feature" marketing asked to be put in; and that it would generate revenue. I told them that this "feature" was pointless. If parents wanted parental control, they would sign their kids up for AOL 9.0, with all the jazz and parentel controls and AOL community etc. Only low-life geeks like myself would buy a full blown router and use cable/dsl at home. GEEKS AREN'T INTRESTED IN PARENTEL CONTROL!!! If they want to get parental controls noticed, put a shiny sticker on the box! Well, after a few dozen bug reports, my manager told me the develop guys were getting annoyed by these "bug reports". They insisted it wasnt *that much* of a hassle for the end user. Oh well. I tried.
Bob, Belkin QA dept. 800-223-5546 x 2263
But seriously, what is with QA testing at belkin? If I was doing QA for the routers, I would never let something like this fly. NEVER. Something like this is definately not a feature. If they want to get "parentel controls" noticed, put a sticker on the packing box or router itself. They can also advertise it in the config menu. Damn fools. Glad I bought a dlink. (although the dlink has its problems too.)
You sure it wasn't some crap they just made up? I remember seeing crosses between doze and Macintrash and the likes in movies before. Office space kinda comes to mind.
They create something that resembles, but isn't so they don't have legal issues with IP.
no, im using xp and its on by default and when i started getting them, I turned off the service. A simple fix without requring me to sintall AOL 9.0 optimized. -Grump
And how much did the fries cost you? If its on the dollar fries, then its quite the deal... I guess. Course, who pays for the heart bypass surgery? Hope you got insurance.
KFC "healthy" comparison. Ok, so if I were to go to get some fast food: 1. I don't buy a drink. Drinks are their highest profit margin, worst use of "my" money. 2. I can be a big eater, I'm 5'11, 200 pounds. 20 yrs old. 3. Being 20 and not making 100+k a year, "my" money is important. (you don't see me driving around in an NSX do you?) 4. When I go to KFC, I get 3 pc thigh/leg w/buscuit. I have calculated the cost/item to be lowest this way. "best deal" 5. I don't normally go to a fast food joint and eat all that much. But i'm trying to be comparable with KFC.
KFC: 3 piece thigh/leg w biscuit ( Calories: 1090 Fat 72 g Cost: 3.40+tax
Jack In The Box: 1 Ultimate Cheeseburger, 2 reg tacos. cal: 1330 fat: 74 cost: 3+tax. (currenetly, JIB has a 1.99 ultimate cheeseburger deal)
McDonalds: 2 McChicken, 1 double cheeseburger. ca: 1340 fat: 72g cost: $3+tax All 3 are 70ish in fat, but in calories, KFC is about 300 lower.(that is a 1/2 hour of jogging) Cost is also about the same.
However, if I were to go to JIB, it would just be an Ultimate Cheeseburger, and Mcdonalds would simply be 2 McChicken.
Thus, KFC would be less healthy, and cost me more money too.
-Grump Note: Prices approximate, nutritional values were taken from the respective restruant web pages. If I have mislead you in any way, SUE me!
Nicotine has just beome another essential nutrient! Heak, it may be *mildly* "poisioness", but then, isn't everything poision to you? Grandma's cooking, vitimin C, Vitimin A, Fried chicken, etc?
With all the vitimins, minerals, fiber and wholesome goodness of "all natural" Tomacco V8 has to be good for you! "IF it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger" -Grump
6 months, 40 pounds. eat low, i do a half hour-hour of jogging/hiking each day.
Do 10-16 miles on saturday. rest sunday. So far, I've done Half Dome at yosemite twice.
It works, and losing 40 pounds (aiming for another 20) feels good. then, there is that food craving...(jack in the box...ultimate cheeseburger for 1.99....)
Ignore the cravings for a week and they die down a bit.
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uh, im 20.
scratch that...no no, by this age, I have OLDER friends.
HI! I'm 12.
which wally-world is this?
Thanks!
PG-13 movies aren't checked for. Only R movies are restricted.
oh your referring to the booze.
never mind
-Grump.
Walmart sells computers don't they?
So I guess they can bundle it in with their computers.
50 free songs with the purchase of the box maybe?
As for portable music. They have this new RC car that can play songs purchased from the Wal-Mart Music Service (WMMS).
With select models that are equiped with WMMS, you can drive around and listen to your favorite tunes.
-Grump
So will we be seeing them for 49 cents a song then?
And I can print out a coupoun for a yellow happy face with the purchase of each song online-Walmart song right?
Is the little tune they play with each commerical free download? or do I have to pay for that too?
Can I buy online and pickup the songs on a cd in the store? That would be great!
-Grump.
then is it sane glue?
-Grump
Maybe its just that being a few years removed from high school, things seemed better then.
heh.
its kinda strange. When I was in high school, there were friends, acquaintences and people you just didn't like.
High school friends are people I still talk to now.
Acquaintence are: ah yes. I remember you. you're automatically a distant friend.
Foe: I don't remember you...you weren't a friend then, prolly won't be now.
acquaintence or foe. no grey area.
life is strange that way.
-Grump.
I remember back in high school (1998), there was this guy who went around with a little laptop (about the same size as the sharp in the picture is).
He used it to play starcraft during class.
Anyway, it didn't fly too well with the teacher. Rumor has it that his father found out and hit him over the head with the laptop- smattering it into bits and thus rendered it useless.
just a memory triggered by the picture.
-Grump
I agree. With the current state our "American Politics" is headed, we might as well disrespect the dead too. After all, if they dont respect us living, why respect us when we're dead?
Brings to mind the words "Soylent Green"
-Grump
I back you up.
I have a laptop because I move around alot. Though, most of the time it is plugged in and used just like a destkop.
One problem many laptop users have is that they don't turn down the brightness on the display.
Yea! try it some time. you'll be shocked that it can be up to an hour of battery run time.
Lastly, the user needs to educate himself. People look at a laptop and see "4 hour battery" and they assume that no matter what they do, the battery will last 4 hours. SORRY! 4 hours if your doing something light. watch a movie or play a game, or some music. that battery just isn't going to last that long.
-Grump
AAH, LiON batteries.
In the past year of having this laptop.
I'm currenetly on my 4th cell.
Thankfully, dell has covered my replacements so far.
Now that the warranty is out, I guess i'll have to suffer when the two cells I got go poop.
and when i take a dump...
oh man! green toilet water!!!
Yea We've in the QA dept at Belkin have known about this "feature" for a long time. I first saw it in action about 6 months ago. I told the developers it was a hassle to click "no thanks" every 8 hours. They insisted it was a "feature" marketing asked to be put in; and that it would generate revenue.
I told them that this "feature" was pointless. If parents wanted parental control, they would sign their kids up for AOL 9.0, with all the jazz and parentel controls and AOL community etc. Only low-life geeks like myself would buy a full blown router and use cable/dsl at home. GEEKS AREN'T INTRESTED IN PARENTEL CONTROL!!! If they want to get parental controls noticed, put a shiny sticker on the box!
Well, after a few dozen bug reports, my manager told me the develop guys were getting annoyed by these "bug reports". They insisted it wasnt *that much* of a hassle for the end user. Oh well. I tried.
Bob, Belkin QA dept.
800-223-5546 x 2263
But seriously, what is with QA testing at belkin?
If I was doing QA for the routers, I would never let something like this fly. NEVER. Something like this is definately not a feature. If they want to get "parentel controls" noticed, put a sticker on the packing box or router itself. They can also advertise it in the config menu. Damn fools. Glad I bought a dlink. (although the dlink has its problems too.)
-Grump
You sure it wasn't some crap they just made up?
I remember seeing crosses between doze and Macintrash and the likes in movies before.
Office space kinda comes to mind.
They create something that resembles, but isn't so they don't have legal issues with IP.
-Grump
no, im using xp and its on by default
and when i started getting them, I turned off the service.
A simple fix without requring me to sintall AOL 9.0 optimized.
-Grump
leet?
don't you mean 1337?
And how much did the fries cost you?
If its on the dollar fries, then its quite the deal...
I guess.
Course, who pays for the heart bypass surgery?
Hope you got insurance.
-Grump
OH god!
I can't bring myself to read the article.
When the page loaded, that face looked at me and I just had to run away.
Please no more scarry plastic figures being PR persons. Seriously, I'm scared of Ronald and haven't sat in his lap since I was like 6.
-The Grumpy Child.
Do what you want with these naturally occouring microbes. Judgement day will come and you will feel God's wrath for stealing HIS PRIOR ART!
-Grump
KFC "healthy" comparison.
Ok, so if I were to go to get some fast food:
1. I don't buy a drink. Drinks are their highest profit margin, worst use of "my" money.
2. I can be a big eater, I'm 5'11, 200 pounds. 20 yrs old.
3. Being 20 and not making 100+k a year, "my" money is important. (you don't see me driving around in an NSX do you?)
4. When I go to KFC, I get 3 pc thigh/leg w/buscuit. I have calculated the cost/item to be lowest this way. "best deal"
5. I don't normally go to a fast food joint and eat all that much. But i'm trying to be comparable with KFC.
KFC: 3 piece thigh/leg w biscuit (
Calories: 1090
Fat 72 g
Cost: 3.40+tax
Jack In The Box: 1 Ultimate Cheeseburger, 2 reg tacos.
cal: 1330
fat: 74
cost: 3+tax. (currenetly, JIB has a 1.99 ultimate cheeseburger deal)
McDonalds: 2 McChicken, 1 double cheeseburger.
ca: 1340
fat: 72g
cost: $3+tax
All 3 are 70ish in fat, but in calories, KFC is about 300 lower.(that is a 1/2 hour of jogging)
Cost is also about the same.
However, if I were to go to JIB, it would just be an Ultimate Cheeseburger, and Mcdonalds would simply be 2 McChicken.
Thus, KFC would be less healthy, and cost me more money too.
-Grump
Note: Prices approximate, nutritional values were taken from the respective restruant web pages.
If I have mislead you in any way, SUE me!
Nicotine has just beome another essential nutrient!
Heak, it may be *mildly* "poisioness", but then, isn't everything poision to you? Grandma's cooking, vitimin C, Vitimin A, Fried chicken, etc?
With all the vitimins, minerals, fiber and wholesome goodness of "all natural"
Tomacco V8 has to be good for you!
"IF it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger"
-Grump
Alaska's state income.
Something like 80% oil
5% tourism
5% other
The state gets so much income from big oil that there is no state tax, and the residents are even given a yearly check "for being residents".
Trust me, alaskans are big oil people. They have reaped many benefits from big oil.
Heak, without oil, nobody really wants alaska. (does russia ring a bell?)
-Grump
6 months, 40 pounds.
eat low, i do a half hour-hour of jogging/hiking each day.
Do 10-16 miles on saturday. rest sunday.
So far, I've done Half Dome at yosemite twice.
It works, and losing 40 pounds (aiming for another 20) feels good. then, there is that food craving...(jack in the box...ultimate cheeseburger for 1.99....)
Ignore the cravings for a week and they die down a bit.
-Grump
Don't they already sell stuff like this for swimming pools?
Dump some chemical in the water, it creates a layer at the top to prevent evaporation.
Oh well, exploiting something known for more profit...
-Grump.
Him working for M$, maybe he was using a pre-relase version of M$ Blog.
The software is self-aware, and calls home to report "Crimes against M$"
So after him losing his job, NO THANKS. I'll stick with my unaware nobody-calling blog.
-grump
Do these mutated yeast make better beer? better bread?
If yes to either, the benefits to humanity are infinate then!
I welcome chemical reserach!
Down with Shrub boy, back with So-Damn.
-Grump