As an old person, I say screw anyone that doesn't agree with me. Really, I could care less what other people do, as long as they don't try to text or natter on the phone while driving.
As far as my cell use.. I only have a work phone, and it only gets used personally by me with my wife calling to tell me to pick up some groceries on the way home. I don't send texts, but I use it to get status messages from the systems I am responsible for.
I haven't seen where cell phones are worth the hassle to me yet. I like being out of contact.
"The quadruped Dish of the Day is an Ameglian Major Cow, a Ruminant specifically bred to not only have the desire to be eaten, but to be capable of saying so quite clearly and distinctly. When asked if he would like to see the Dish of the Day, Zaphod replies: "let's meet the meat." The Major Cow's quite vocal and emphatic desire to be consumed by Milliways' patrons greatly distresses Arthur Dent, and the Dish is nonplussed by a queasy Arthur's subsequent order of a green salad, since he knows "many vegetables that are very clear" on the point of not wanting to be eaten -- which was part of the reason for the creation of the Ameglian Major Cow in the first place. After Zaphod orders four rare steaks, the Dish announces that he is nipping off to the kitchen to shoot himself. Though he states, "I'll be very humane," this does not comfort Arthur at all."
If I remember correctly, they had 2 sites, ebay for people in the bay area, and auctionweb for the rest of the country. I have been on since 97, so I agree completely. It really is a shame what has happened to ebay. There have been a few improvements, but most have been to screw the customer.
To use a broken house analogy: If you put a big sign on your house that says come on in, and your door is unlocked, you can't claim I was trespassing because you didn't know someone would actually come in.
So by that logic a welcome mat at your door is a legal open invitation to strangers.
Which is why the CARS program has some benefit. It destroys inefficient vehicles and replaces them with more efficient ones. The people that take advantage of the $4500 bonus do the most good as they need a 10 mpg gain to get the amount. Unfortunately you get $3500 for a 2 mpg gain.
Screw the motorcycle. Drive a $1000 shittermobile. It's pretty easy to buy one that gets 30 mpg. Drive it for a year or two and either junk it, or sell it for a couple hundred dollars. You'll never approach the efficiency of that compared to buying any new car, hybrid or not as there will be no new manufacturing required.
I have never seen any ads in BF2142, as I blocked the range in my router before I bought the game. Assuming they come from a different server, it shouldn't be to difficult to do.
In my experience, that was not true. I have a cell phone through work. It was US Cellular, but they got a good deal with Verizon and started switching everyone. I had to go back to US Cellular because there was no coverage in my little town 5 miles outside the urban area. They are qualifying that statement by saying 3G network though. So if you want to dick around on your phone and not use it as a phone, it probably works fine for that.
Yahoo search was useless anyway, so having bing won't change anything for me. It will give them great insight into how people use yahoo's web site though, which will probably allow MSN to poach yahoo users.
The interesting thing about that is that the amount of cashback sometimes correlates with what you searched for, but does not correlate with what you actually purchased and got the cash back on. What that means is that you can search for cell phones and get a cash back on lawnmowers in order to get a bigger cash back. Some stores don't offer cash back unless you search for a "cash back" item. Once you are on the site through the bing cash back link, you can get the cash back on most anything on the site.
A couple of gotchas I found out, that if you have to return a defective item for exchange for a non defective one, that will cancel the cash back. The other is that if you use a coupon, that will nix the cash back as well.
Combination of no adblockers on the default IE with the default Bing search page on most computers. Bing cashback, and the obfuscation of ads mixed in with real results. I'd say they are doing a good job of covering their bases.
"Man: The principle's the same. Bleeding C-of-E. The Mohmedans don't come 'round here wavin' bells at us! We don't get Buddhists playing bagpipes in our bathroom! Or Hindus harmonizing in the hall! The Shintuists don't come here shattering sheet glass in the shithouse, shouting slogans... Wife: All right, don't practice your alliteration on me."
I had never heard about g.ho.st before your post. It's interesting technology, but looks like it has a ways to go. Less than 10k views of their demo video on youtube. Also, it ran pretty slow in my browser (firefox 3.5). On a good note, since it is a web page, adblock+ works.
I don't like to do PC work for people that I work with. Just to keep things professional. So I sent some work to a friend of mine who was looking for some work. Initially he did a great job, and several people started spreading the word and got him a few more jobs. After a year or so, I started hearing complaints. Jobs not being done right or slowly, couldn't contact him, or couldn't get their machine back. One person at work ended up taking him to small claims court to get their computer back.
I found out later he was addicted to WOW and that was what was causing him to be a knob.
What happens if someone that has you as a friend does an app? Are you compromised then? I have only created 1 account with all bogus information, just to see what the damned facebook thing looks like. That account has no friends. It's a very sad account...;-(
It looks like these idiots tried to do that with the restored footage by displaying it in the wrong aspect ratio. I really hope it is what I think it is, Wired screwing up, and not NASA.
People(my parents), displaying 4:3 content stretched to fit a 16:9 screen because they want to use the whole screen, drive me batshit!
Don't worry...there are still plenty of ways to create wastelands. The trinity of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical is still around. You can add robot and grey goo to the mix in a few decades/centuries.
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Except on Second Life, they would be IFPs. Improvised Flying Penises.
As an old person, I say screw anyone that doesn't agree with me. Really, I could care less what other people do, as long as they don't try to text or natter on the phone while driving.
As far as my cell use.. I only have a work phone, and it only gets used personally by me with my wife calling to tell me to pick up some groceries on the way home. I don't send texts, but I use it to get status messages from the systems I am responsible for.
I haven't seen where cell phones are worth the hassle to me yet. I like being out of contact.
From Wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
"The quadruped Dish of the Day is an Ameglian Major Cow, a Ruminant specifically bred to not only have the desire to be eaten, but to be capable of saying so quite clearly and distinctly. When asked if he would like to see the Dish of the Day, Zaphod replies: "let's meet the meat." The Major Cow's quite vocal and emphatic desire to be consumed by Milliways' patrons greatly distresses Arthur Dent, and the Dish is nonplussed by a queasy Arthur's subsequent order of a green salad, since he knows "many vegetables that are very clear" on the point of not wanting to be eaten -- which was part of the reason for the creation of the Ameglian Major Cow in the first place. After Zaphod orders four rare steaks, the Dish announces that he is nipping off to the kitchen to shoot himself. Though he states, "I'll be very humane," this does not comfort Arthur at all."
With a name like Palentir, it sounds like trojan spy program, not a Google like search tool.
If I remember correctly, they had 2 sites, ebay for people in the bay area, and auctionweb for the rest of the country. I have been on since 97, so I agree completely. It really is a shame what has happened to ebay. There have been a few improvements, but most have been to screw the customer.
Pretty much any Saturn older than 10 years old. Old Escorts, Neons, rusty Civics.. etc. Small 4 cyl engines 2 liter or smaller.
To use a broken house analogy:
If you put a big sign on your house that says come on in, and your door is unlocked, you can't claim I was trespassing because you didn't know someone would actually come in.
So by that logic a welcome mat at your door is a legal open invitation to strangers.
Which is why the CARS program has some benefit. It destroys inefficient vehicles and replaces them with more efficient ones. The people that take advantage of the $4500 bonus do the most good as they need a 10 mpg gain to get the amount. Unfortunately you get $3500 for a 2 mpg gain.
Screw the motorcycle. Drive a $1000 shittermobile. It's pretty easy to buy one that gets 30 mpg. Drive it for a year or two and either junk it, or sell it for a couple hundred dollars. You'll never approach the efficiency of that compared to buying any new car, hybrid or not as there will be no new manufacturing required.
I have never seen any ads in BF2142, as I blocked the range in my router before I bought the game. Assuming they come from a different server, it shouldn't be to difficult to do.
In my experience, that was not true. I have a cell phone through work. It was US Cellular, but they got a good deal with Verizon and started switching everyone. I had to go back to US Cellular because there was no coverage in my little town 5 miles outside the urban area.
They are qualifying that statement by saying 3G network though. So if you want to dick around on your phone and not use it as a phone, it probably works fine for that.
Yahoo search was useless anyway, so having bing won't change anything for me. It will give them great insight into how people use yahoo's web site though, which will probably allow MSN to poach yahoo users.
The interesting thing about that is that the amount of cashback sometimes correlates with what you searched for, but does not correlate with what you actually purchased and got the cash back on. What that means is that you can search for cell phones and get a cash back on lawnmowers in order to get a bigger cash back. Some stores don't offer cash back unless you search for a "cash back" item. Once you are on the site through the bing cash back link, you can get the cash back on most anything on the site.
A couple of gotchas I found out, that if you have to return a defective item for exchange for a non defective one, that will cancel the cash back. The other is that if you use a coupon, that will nix the cash back as well.
Combination of no adblockers on the default IE with the default Bing search page on most computers. Bing cashback, and the obfuscation of ads mixed in with real results. I'd say they are doing a good job of covering their bases.
Ob Python....
"Man: The principle's the same. Bleeding C-of-E. The Mohmedans don't come 'round here wavin' bells at us! We don't get Buddhists playing bagpipes in our bathroom! Or Hindus harmonizing in the hall! The Shintuists don't come here shattering sheet glass in the shithouse, shouting slogans...
Wife: All right, don't practice your alliteration on me."
"Please do not offer my god a peanut"
And if you are lucky, in 40 years or so, the car will be worth the $32k you paid for it when it was new. By then though, $32k will be worth $10k.
Concerning the V6? $25k new, so I would say yours lost value quicker, as if that made any difference.
Moot point, really. Both lost value like crazy.
I had never heard about g.ho.st before your post. It's interesting technology, but looks like it has a ways to go. Less than 10k views of their demo video on youtube. Also, it ran pretty slow in my browser (firefox 3.5). On a good note, since it is a web page, adblock+ works.
I don't like to do PC work for people that I work with. Just to keep things professional. So I sent some work to a friend of mine who was looking for some work. Initially he did a great job, and several people started spreading the word and got him a few more jobs. After a year or so, I started hearing complaints. Jobs not being done right or slowly, couldn't contact him, or couldn't get their machine back. One person at work ended up taking him to small claims court to get their computer back.
I found out later he was addicted to WOW and that was what was causing him to be a knob.
Nope, Damaged by impact. They'll fire up the execution vans when they need some fresh ones.
What happens if someone that has you as a friend does an app? Are you compromised then? I have only created 1 account with all bogus information, just to see what the damned facebook thing looks like. That account has no friends. It's a very sad account...;-(
It looks like these idiots tried to do that with the restored footage by displaying it in the wrong aspect ratio. I really hope it is what I think it is, Wired screwing up, and not NASA.
People(my parents), displaying 4:3 content stretched to fit a 16:9 screen because they want to use the whole screen, drive me batshit!
Dumb question.. How do you have 3-4 hours a day to spend walking to and from work?
What the hell kind of Honda takes $50 worth of gas to fill? Must be some sort of big-ass SUV? Honda Pilot maybe?
Don't worry...there are still plenty of ways to create wastelands. The trinity of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical is still around. You can add robot and grey goo to the mix in a few decades/centuries.