Thank you for the chuckle. I went through the exact same issue several months ago when IT "upgraded" me to Office 07. Suddenly, I couldn't find all the stuff that I needed, and I had deadlines to meet. Simple things like "Freeze Panes", moved for no apparent reason. Now that I've used it for a few months, I do like some of the newer features, but it seems that MS changed so many things for no reason other than to change them.
My apologies. You are absolutely correct, and now I'm feeling like an idiot for my original statement. Guess it's a good thing I'm not in the left seat anymore.
LOL! My guess is that the high rollers are actually paying for all the free crap. Do you honestly think the casinos are going to be encouraging the big players to come to their casinos if they're winning? Sheeez!
Actually, they do. The casinos rarely pay attention to the amount won/lost by any individual player, but focus more on average bet size and time played. This is because they know the actuarial odds, and know how much they expect to win over time based upon the math. In keeping track of those numbers, they're simply determining how much "action" the player is giving them, and how much in "comps" they're willing to give them. The only reason they'll pay attention to someone's winnings is if foul play is suspected.
I won't claim to be an expert, but as a point of reference, I've been going to Vegas every year since the 70s, and been "comp'ed" free rooms, and shows. I have family friends who are well off, and flown out there at the casino's expense...my dad's buddy plays high stakes craps, and is expected to play a certain number of hours for those freebies. They used to be much easier to get when the mob ruled the town...the corporate takeover of Vegas, has cut that back very considerably.
Ok, we'll it's been about 15 years since I last used my pilots license. Your experience may be different than mine, but I was taught to adjust the compass as part of my preflight. The compasses I used in Cessna 152, 172 and 182s were all adjustable. Unless you're traveling very long distances, and only east/west distances would matter, would you need to readjust...I believe tweak13 is incorrect on that.
Nobody has a right to not be offended. If you've taken offense at something said or written by someone that wasn't directed at you, then it's your problem, not theirs...take the chip off your shoulder. Offense should never be taken when there was no intent to give it.
We'd all be well served by reviewing the lessons taught by the late great George Carlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words I was amazed to learn that he was once arrested for saying them...now that's offensive!
Because when you're sitting in the cockpit, looking at your compass, you don't see true, you see magnetic. You are able to adjust aircraft compasses for the magnetic deviation (shown on nav maps, and flight charts).
it's a chuckle to see "big" 80gb drives and "small" 2gb drives
Oh my, I'll see your 80gb/2gb, and raise you...
Somewhere in the basement is my first hard drive, purchased for a Mac II, which came without a hard drive, or monitor, for about $4500, circa 1988...80Mb (over $1k back then). Also, down there is a 5Mb Iomega Bernoulli Box removable drive, used with my 512ke Mac.
One of these days, I'm going to have to plug those units in, and see what still powers up. Now if I could just find the punched paper tapes from my 1974 Basic class...
You're welcome to make that assumption, but jumping to that conclusion doesn't make you right. Most companies react to legal notices, bad press, or public pressure purely for financial reasons. To say that they "actively support" the others is simply being naive.
With all the other hot women on the planet, I'll never understand why guys show interest in women with attitudes.
As an old fart (50+), I've been around the block a few times...you'll learn that for more than a one-nighter, you'll always be happier with a nice woman, than with one that's just eye-candy.
Considering that there are around a thousand billionaires ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_US_dollar_billionaires ), and you'd be counting the 93,000+ "ultra-millionaires" ($30M+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Number_of_millionaires_in_the_world) for quite a while. Remember, when you make items like these, you're only hoping to sell one, two, or a very few...or use it to market your other products. You see it all the time in marketing...it brings free media attention, and interest in your company. It's the same idea as spending millions on a SuperBowl ad...only takes a couple sales to make that up in many cases.
This kind of post is why we need to be able to mark items as Naive. Seriously, let us know when you're back from Oz, Utopia, or whatever other trip you're on, so you can hold a logical discussion.
Seriously, I hope/. is getting advertising funds from WikiLeaks. Is there really nothing else important enough that we have to see five articles on them?
Thank you for that memory of my 7th grade (1970 timeframe). Our other favorite was disassembling the old Bic pens so that you could use the hollow tube as a blow gun.
Are these the jobs that we keep hearing that Americans won't do?/sarcasm
Sorry, I'm just tired of hearing that excuse from people who don't want aliens to get their citizenship/work-visas the right way. And for the record, my grandparents did it, and so did my wife, it's not that hard.
Considering your low ID number, I'm guessing that you're a bit older than the average college student (am I wrong?)...and likely more mentally mature as well. That would mean that you're probably not joining in with the younger folks at the frat house beer bashes. While I do agree with much of your post, I think that there is a certain rite of passage here that some miss out on (I did, having not done the traditional 4 yrs. right after HS...night school/fulltime work. UGH).
Not unless it's a presidential election. And even then, I defy you to point to where the electors have caused the election result to be different than the popular (hint: it didn't happen in Bush v. Gore).
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Thank you for the chuckle. I went through the exact same issue several months ago when IT "upgraded" me to Office 07. Suddenly, I couldn't find all the stuff that I needed, and I had deadlines to meet. Simple things like "Freeze Panes", moved for no apparent reason. Now that I've used it for a few months, I do like some of the newer features, but it seems that MS changed so many things for no reason other than to change them.
My apologies. You are absolutely correct, and now I'm feeling like an idiot for my original statement. Guess it's a good thing I'm not in the left seat anymore.
Jesus, don't you know anything about the history of Las Vegas? The Corps ARE the Mob.
Nah. The mob actually treated it's customers much nicer. You just didn't want to cross them.
Depends...recommend the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting
LOL! My guess is that the high rollers are actually paying for all the free crap. Do you honestly think the casinos are going to be encouraging the big players to come to their casinos if they're winning? Sheeez!
Actually, they do. The casinos rarely pay attention to the amount won/lost by any individual player, but focus more on average bet size and time played. This is because they know the actuarial odds, and know how much they expect to win over time based upon the math. In keeping track of those numbers, they're simply determining how much "action" the player is giving them, and how much in "comps" they're willing to give them. The only reason they'll pay attention to someone's winnings is if foul play is suspected.
I won't claim to be an expert, but as a point of reference, I've been going to Vegas every year since the 70s, and been "comp'ed" free rooms, and shows. I have family friends who are well off, and flown out there at the casino's expense...my dad's buddy plays high stakes craps, and is expected to play a certain number of hours for those freebies. They used to be much easier to get when the mob ruled the town...the corporate takeover of Vegas, has cut that back very considerably.
Ok, we'll it's been about 15 years since I last used my pilots license. Your experience may be different than mine, but I was taught to adjust the compass as part of my preflight. The compasses I used in Cessna 152, 172 and 182s were all adjustable. Unless you're traveling very long distances, and only east/west distances would matter, would you need to readjust...I believe tweak13 is incorrect on that.
Nobody has a right to not be offended. If you've taken offense at something said or written by someone that wasn't directed at you, then it's your problem, not theirs...take the chip off your shoulder. Offense should never be taken when there was no intent to give it.
We'd all be well served by reviewing the lessons taught by the late great George Carlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words I was amazed to learn that he was once arrested for saying them...now that's offensive!
Because when you're sitting in the cockpit, looking at your compass, you don't see true, you see magnetic. You are able to adjust aircraft compasses for the magnetic deviation (shown on nav maps, and flight charts).
As an engineer...
...for Microsoft?
it's a chuckle to see "big" 80gb drives and "small" 2gb drives
Oh my, I'll see your 80gb/2gb, and raise you...
Somewhere in the basement is my first hard drive, purchased for a Mac II, which came without a hard drive, or monitor, for about $4500, circa 1988...80Mb (over $1k back then). Also, down there is a 5Mb Iomega Bernoulli Box removable drive, used with my 512ke Mac.
One of these days, I'm going to have to plug those units in, and see what still powers up. Now if I could just find the punched paper tapes from my 1974 Basic class...
How many companies from the NASDAQ 100 of 50 years ago still exist?
Zero...considering NASDAQ is 39 yrs old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ
I would say they are aiding and abetting, clearly that is active support.
And, maybe on a moral ground, you'd be correct, but you'd have no leg to stand on legally. If you don't like the system, work to change it.
You're welcome to make that assumption, but jumping to that conclusion doesn't make you right. Most companies react to legal notices, bad press, or public pressure purely for financial reasons. To say that they "actively support" the others is simply being naive.
3. Megan Fox.
With all the other hot women on the planet, I'll never understand why guys show interest in women with attitudes.
As an old fart (50+), I've been around the block a few times...you'll learn that for more than a one-nighter, you'll always be happier with a nice woman, than with one that's just eye-candy.
Considering that there are around a thousand billionaires ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_US_dollar_billionaires ), and you'd be counting the 93,000+ "ultra-millionaires" ($30M+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Number_of_millionaires_in_the_world) for quite a while. Remember, when you make items like these, you're only hoping to sell one, two, or a very few...or use it to market your other products. You see it all the time in marketing...it brings free media attention, and interest in your company. It's the same idea as spending millions on a SuperBowl ad...only takes a couple sales to make that up in many cases.
Endless Top ### lists with no real substance writen by writers who can neither write nor...
...make use of commas.
Queue Obligatory "In Soviet Russia..." in 3...2...1...
This kind of post is why we need to be able to mark items as Naive. Seriously, let us know when you're back from Oz, Utopia, or whatever other trip you're on, so you can hold a logical discussion.
Seriously, I hope /. is getting advertising funds from WikiLeaks. Is there really nothing else important enough that we have to see five articles on them?
There's a reason sporks were invented.
Thank you for that memory of my 7th grade (1970 timeframe). Our other favorite was disassembling the old Bic pens so that you could use the hollow tube as a blow gun.
Are these the jobs that we keep hearing that Americans won't do? /sarcasm
Sorry, I'm just tired of hearing that excuse from people who don't want aliens to get their citizenship/work-visas the right way. And for the record, my grandparents did it, and so did my wife, it's not that hard.
Considering your low ID number, I'm guessing that you're a bit older than the average college student (am I wrong?)...and likely more mentally mature as well. That would mean that you're probably not joining in with the younger folks at the frat house beer bashes. While I do agree with much of your post, I think that there is a certain rite of passage here that some miss out on (I did, having not done the traditional 4 yrs. right after HS...night school/fulltime work. UGH).
Not unless it's a presidential election. And even then, I defy you to point to where the electors have caused the election result to be different than the popular (hint: it didn't happen in Bush v. Gore).
EngKey can hold scripted conversations with students to help them improve their language skills
Scripted conversations are better compared to normal human conversations in helping young children develop language skills? What a joke.
Well, uh, yeah. Like totally.