So, don't buy it now. Don't buy anything you don't really need now. Do this for 6 months. Save all the money that is left. From then on, continue to live as you do now. And suddenly you realize that you don't need your credit card with huge interest rates anymore! And you have suddenly all this interest that you would normally pay to the credit card company all for yourself!!
Indeed, why pay $75 so that you have to pay small cash now, but lots more later.
Funny, I'm already surviving for more than 30 years with the idea of saving money before you spend it. The only reason I use a credit card is because sometimes it's impossible to pay something another way.
Just stop with all this credit card madness. Save money before you spend it. Don't let the bank own you and your stuff. I thought in the USA everything is about freedom, yet why is everyone a slave of the credit card companies???
Well, then they should simply make it impossible to pay without a PIN. Actually it should've been like that from the start and there wouldn't have been so much problems with stolen credit card numbers.
If only there was a way to have credit card owners approve each charge through the entering of some kind of a pin.
In Europe it is often already required to enter a PIN when paying something with a credit card. I am wondering why they didn't introduce it in the USA yet...
... said "release WP7 handsets or we'll sue you for patent infringement." All the others complied, and Motorola is being sued for patent infringement....
Interesting, after all these years of trying to get Office onto all computers on the world, they suddenly force someone (Motorola) to make handsets with WordPerfect 7 on it! Where did this change of plans come from??
I guess that is the way to create a success-story. Just have very low expectations and it will always exceed expectations. I don't know if NASA did it on purpose, but it has played out very well, these robots.
Although this news is of course potentially bad news, the lifetime of the Spirit robot exceeded all expectations. I think the original programme was more in the order of months than the years it has been successfully transmitting data now.
Everyone knew that this moment was going to come, so I bet the people working with the robot will be sad, but have planned something new in their lives. Next year for example, NASA is going to launch another Mars rover.
I am confused. The title says 'Who is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?'. So I was guessing they didn't know and were coming to Slashdot to ask if anyone knew.
But no, they already know it! So why bother and ask us anyway??
This might be true, but if you compare it to which fraction of our total energy production is renewable, then renewables get relatively more fuel subsidies than the fossil fuels.
To all the people that were asking about the debris, maybe the solution is not that far away. Raytheon has unveiled a anti-aircraft laser system today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693
I am no expert in this field, but to me it seems not too far-fetched that the system will also be suitable in the future to get rid of space debris.
I set my parents up with an Ubuntu machine. On the desktop are icons for: Solitaire, Google, and Yahoo! Mail. They have not had a problem since I moved them to this setup.
Ever since I started reading slashdot parents have been used to portray the computer user with no knowledge of computers at all. I wonder for how long this will stay like that. I mean, at some point even slashdot-readers will get children.
He's talking about the 70s, when you could buy a very nice 4 bedroom house for $32,000USD (that's what my parents paid in 1974 for their brick colonial in a town of about 100,000 people - and that was expensive back then). The average yearly salary was less than 10 grand. And a ticket overseas would cost about 5-6 grand. I remember it well.
That might all be true, but it does not really change my point.
My parents had to take out a bank loan to cover the airfares - They were that high.
Excuse me, a bank loan to pay for airfares??? I can see where the credit crisis originated. How hard is it to save money (and earn some interest) and then pay for the flight to England? It saves you a lot of money in interest on the loan...
In case of slashdotting the site, here are the first two paragraphs...
At the sixties latter term, as for Andreas Pavel and that friend from Bach which in order to inquire about record at that house gets together systematically here to Janis Joplin, and politics of story and philosophy. With leap of fantasy, as for them it kept depending with anywhere, why as for taking those their music whether it is not possible expectation, you thought in doubt.
It is urged by those arguments, Pavel invented the device which today is known as Walkman. But as for that before winning the right he finally to say that in the world Corporation and other things it fights, you took Sony of the courthouse and patent bureau of 25 game years or more: Andreas Pavel invented the portable private stereo player.
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Anyway, electrons are already assumed to have no volume, they are considered point particles. So no size reduction possible there.
...if you are Dutch.
... if you live in the Netherlands.
So, don't buy it now. Don't buy anything you don't really need now. Do this for 6 months. Save all the money that is left. From then on, continue to live as you do now. And suddenly you realize that you don't need your credit card with huge interest rates anymore! And you have suddenly all this interest that you would normally pay to the credit card company all for yourself!! Indeed, why pay $75 so that you have to pay small cash now, but lots more later.
Yes, borrowing for a wedding and having to pay it off for the next 10 years sounds indeed incredibly stupid to me!
Funny, I'm already surviving for more than 30 years with the idea of saving money before you spend it. The only reason I use a credit card is because sometimes it's impossible to pay something another way.
Just stop with all this credit card madness. Save money before you spend it. Don't let the bank own you and your stuff. I thought in the USA everything is about freedom, yet why is everyone a slave of the credit card companies???
Agreed, I was very surprised to read this kind of statement on slashdot.
Well, then they should simply make it impossible to pay without a PIN. Actually it should've been like that from the start and there wouldn't have been so much problems with stolen credit card numbers.
If only there was a way to have credit card owners approve each charge through the entering of some kind of a pin.
In Europe it is often already required to enter a PIN when paying something with a credit card. I am wondering why they didn't introduce it in the USA yet...
... said "release WP7 handsets or we'll sue you for patent infringement." All the others complied, and Motorola is being sued for patent infringement. ...
Interesting, after all these years of trying to get Office onto all computers on the world, they suddenly force someone (Motorola) to make handsets with WordPerfect 7 on it! Where did this change of plans come from??
I guess that is the way to create a success-story. Just have very low expectations and it will always exceed expectations. I don't know if NASA did it on purpose, but it has played out very well, these robots.
Everyone knew that this moment was going to come, so I bet the people working with the robot will be sad, but have planned something new in their lives. Next year for example, NASA is going to launch another Mars rover.
What is a tormented Facebook file??
But no, they already know it! So why bother and ask us anyway??
I don't get it.
This might be true, but if you compare it to which fraction of our total energy production is renewable, then renewables get relatively more fuel subsidies than the fossil fuels.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=California,+United+States&daddr=Japan&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&dirflg=w&doflg=ptm&sll=34.887365,-170.58489&sspn=75.78003,158.027344&ie=UTF8&z=3
I am no expert in this field, but to me it seems not too far-fetched that the system will also be suitable in the future to get rid of space debris.
They always want to be the best in everything. Now it seems that the Chinese are trying to become the country with the most objects in earth orbit.
I set my parents up with an Ubuntu machine. On the desktop are icons for: Solitaire, Google, and Yahoo! Mail. They have not had a problem since I moved them to this setup.
Ever since I started reading slashdot parents have been used to portray the computer user with no knowledge of computers at all. I wonder for how long this will stay like that. I mean, at some point even slashdot-readers will get children.
This is also the reason why Ubuntu, or Linux, will never become a major player in the consumer OS market.
If you've just been told your Grandmother only has a few weeks to live ? Very hard.
If you know that you're grandmother lives on the other side of the Atlantic, you'll probably also know that she will die at some point.
He's talking about the 70s, when you could buy a very nice 4 bedroom house for $32,000USD (that's what my parents paid in 1974 for their brick colonial in a town of about 100,000 people - and that was expensive back then). The average yearly salary was less than 10 grand. And a ticket overseas would cost about 5-6 grand. I remember it well.
That might all be true, but it does not really change my point.
My parents had to take out a bank loan to cover the airfares - They were that high.
Excuse me, a bank loan to pay for airfares??? I can see where the credit crisis originated. How hard is it to save money (and earn some interest) and then pay for the flight to England? It saves you a lot of money in interest on the loan...
At the sixties latter term, as for Andreas Pavel and that friend from Bach which in order to inquire about record at that house gets together systematically here to Janis Joplin, and politics of story and philosophy. With leap of fantasy, as for them it kept depending with anywhere, why as for taking those their music whether it is not possible expectation, you thought in doubt.
It is urged by those arguments, Pavel invented the device which today is known as Walkman. But as for that before winning the right he finally to say that in the world Corporation and other things it fights, you took Sony of the courthouse and patent bureau of 25 game years or more: Andreas Pavel invented the portable private stereo player.
I wonder how many of the 650,000 people actually removed the mp3's after 7 days of full enjoyment...