pretty difficult to prove that you were not paying attention... First thing most people do after an accident is get on their cell phone to their insurance companies or to 911.
My father has a 2004 Acura TL with Bluetooth cellphone stuff... He was trying to get it to dial a number. What a pain in the ass. It was seriously almost as distracting as hand entering the number. I believe he had to ask it to dial XXX-XXXX 5 or 6 times before it stopped adding in two random zeros.
Until the machines can be 100% accurate without frustration they are next to useless.
Oh my personal pet peeve are authors that like to hear themselves talk. There is nothing like reading a book about a professor's life that is compared with the Cold War.
I read My Cold War ahead of time. It was not only unbearably boring I actually felt sorry for the students that this professor lectures to. I am sure he makes them read this novel for a better understanding of him as a person and why he grades them poorly when they tell him that his book sucks.
The rest of his books (listed here on his website) are mostly about music. I am quite confused why he just didn't stick to that genre. He seemed to be putting out quite a few, someone must have been buying them.
He actually mentions in this book that the reason he wrote it was because he couldn't find it in his heart to continue the research/writing for the actual book he was writing and he needed to "find himself" with this one. Great, nothing like reading the book that an author used to fill time in his life.
Two things to be learned from this rant: a) don't take classes with professors that require readings from their own books and b) only you and your family give a flying rat's ass about your life (unless you are famous), don't write about it even if you somehow think you can link it to your line of research.
I received the book to review ahead of time... It was absolutely terrible. I don't know about the rest of the world but I am not into reading books written as if I was reading at a third grade level (ie Stephen King's latest works). Trying to be bio-tech and computer savvy when you aren't just does not work.
I was also irked by the author's apparent need to mention the race of the characters in the novel. It was almost as if he was trying to point out that it is possible for those of color to become lawyers and famous musicians (duh). Let the read imagine whatever they like about the characters don't shove it in their face.
I highly doubt that you will get anymore money out of him. Your Xmas bonus is going to more lights and your co-workers are going to start calling you Rudolph the Brown-nosed reindeer.
you know what depresses me about driving? Sitting in traffic. You know what depresses me even more? Sitting in traffic in the winter time. Why you ask? Because I go to work in the dark and I come home in it.
Would I really want to pay someone tolls to use a dark tunnel to drive to work everyday on a road that I paid for in taxes?
then have a charger that shuts itself off. If you are paying astronomical amounts of money for what is touted as a "great" product from a "great company" I expect that same great company producing this great product to take care to make sure the charger doesn't overcharge the battery.
We use a shredding company to do our work as well. The papers are put into a loosely locked box and picked up monthly.
The man who picks ours up is a toy short of a happy meal. He rarely says more than an incoherent mumble or two. Something usually about the damn lock on the door (I share his frustration).
We started using them after we shred about 5000 pounds of confidential data. I filled 12 large bins that they provided for us. These were probably 3.5 feet tall and large enough for at least two of my fat asses to fit inside easily.
Why do we use them? Because it would take me two or three days to destroy a single box of paper records that we have. I don't have time for that.
It's something like $500 for 5000 pounds. You do the math... Pay an employee $15/hr to shred documents for 3 days ($15 x 8) x 3 or $500 for 5000 pounds.
oh but they are. Sooner or later you will have to buy a television and it will HAVE to have the HDTV tuner included. Thus the cost is passed on to me for something I don't really want.
who gives a shit if the law was federal AND written correctly? What spammer actually announces where they are really from and what spammer wouldn't immediately move out of the country if the laws actually did anything to hurt them?
then they should specify that, in writing, with specific numbers.
That's like telling someone, "yes you owe us money... Well, we determine the money amount based on an average. We can't tell you how much money you owe because we don't keep track. Oh wait, you haven't paid so we are cutting you off."
However, it's not a great strategy for them. Good businesses protect their customers, and assume the best.
Your kidding right? Haha, you must be. Let me explain how it really works out there.
For those of you lucky enough to have freedom of ISPs you better be thanking your lucky fucking stars. There are people (like me) that have had multiple types of Internet over the years (dialup, 640/160 DSL, 768/128 DSL, 3000/384 Cable, 1500/128 Cable, 1500/256 Cable, 1800/256 Cable and soon to be 3000/256 Cable). I have had a handful of providers and a wide range of acceptable connections, speed, and tech support.
I currently live in a suburb of Minneapolis. We have two choices currently (where I live)... Comcast cable (which raised the rates on those that don't want their CATV to over $50 if you have your own modem) and Wireless (which has a $500 setup fee and slow speeds (640/640 IIRC)).
Comcast comes in and takes over an area, raises prices because there are no other options for HSD, and then sets these invisible caps...
Do you really fucking think that Comcast gives a flying rats ass if I go over my invisible limit and they dump me (mind you, they refuse to tell you what the cap is, how they determine it, how you should determine it, how you should protect yourself from it, etc)? They don't for one simple reason... MORE MONEY. If I go over that limit I am hogging bandwith money from others that only check email and a few webpages a day...
With 25 million subscribers, moving to a 3mbit speed cap, and needing more money, they are doing exactly the best thing to save their bandwith costs, dumping those users that use the service the way it should be.
Sadly we have no recourse. 90% of their users aren't going to start pegging their bandwith usage and they are going to keep dropping off the high-end users until they are satisfied they are raking in enough dough.
sure they have and they don't want you using it. Sadly for us, we have no recourse if they terminate our service...
Just because they advertise "unlimited" service does not mean that they can refuse us service at any time for any reason.
They want to be as vague as possible (by not setting specific limits) so that they can continue to lower and lower the cap until the only people able to use the service are those that are into checking www.msn.com, www.comcast.net, and their email via Outlook Express to their Comcast mailbox.
It is much more profitable for them to drop the high bandwith users and keep these people that never use their connection.
Comcast states, "if you are using service more than the average". If you are living in a residential area in southern FL you are likely to have a lot of elderly residents checking the status of their pregnant daugther-in-law. If you are in a college town you are likely averaging with the best of the pr0n/warez kids.
While it might be the size of a small orange it isn't exactly flat and I don't consider it to be conducive to fitting in my pocket. The other PDA to the left of the screen shot, while being quite a bit taller, is far thinner and would probably fit into a pocket easier than this.
So the OS is some non-standard thing w/probably little or no support, the shape is not really good for "pocket PCs", there is no screen, and everything is in yen and Japanese;)
No thanks. I'll stick to my rarely stable PocketPC for now.
because 99% of the population isn't going to use them to hack. Who in their right mind is going to pay $10 to buy the camera and sit there soldering a USB cable to the inards to get the pictures off? Not a non-geek I can tell you that.
Do you really think that billy joe bob buying a computer at Walmart is going to notice the difference between Lindows and Windows? Do you think that even the 16 yr old sales clerk knows the difference?
yes.
I am also curious why Microsoft shouldn't have been allowed to trademark Windows as it related to operating systems?
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I am really glad that we waste billions of dollars on missions to Mars to find out exactly what we already knew... There's nearly nothing there.
Way to go guys!
Perhaps we should reserve those billions on aid to our own starving populations.
Just a thought,
pretty difficult to prove that you were not paying attention... First thing most people do after an accident is get on their cell phone to their insurance companies or to 911.
My father has a 2004 Acura TL with Bluetooth cellphone stuff... He was trying to get it to dial a number. What a pain in the ass. It was seriously almost as distracting as hand entering the number. I believe he had to ask it to dial XXX-XXXX 5 or 6 times before it stopped adding in two random zeros.
Until the machines can be 100% accurate without frustration they are next to useless.
It won't beat this player's price...
$1 is a lot less money than $320k.
While I am certainly in aggreement that playing to lotto is pointless it is certainly no where near the "scam level" as the Nigerian scam.
Oh my personal pet peeve are authors that like to hear themselves talk. There is nothing like reading a book about a professor's life that is compared with the Cold War.
.02,
I read My Cold War ahead of time. It was not only unbearably boring I actually felt sorry for the students that this professor lectures to. I am sure he makes them read this novel for a better understanding of him as a person and why he grades them poorly when they tell him that his book sucks.
The rest of his books (listed here on his website) are mostly about music. I am quite confused why he just didn't stick to that genre. He seemed to be putting out quite a few, someone must have been buying them.
He actually mentions in this book that the reason he wrote it was because he couldn't find it in his heart to continue the research/writing for the actual book he was writing and he needed to "find himself" with this one. Great, nothing like reading the book that an author used to fill time in his life.
Two things to be learned from this rant: a) don't take classes with professors that require readings from their own books and b) only you and your family give a flying rat's ass about your life (unless you are famous), don't write about it even if you somehow think you can link it to your line of research.
Just my worthless
My worst reading for 2003 was: The Last Goodbye
.02,
I received the book to review ahead of time... It was absolutely terrible. I don't know about the rest of the world but I am not into reading books written as if I was reading at a third grade level (ie Stephen King's latest works). Trying to be bio-tech and computer savvy when you aren't just does not work.
I was also irked by the author's apparent need to mention the race of the characters in the novel. It was almost as if he was trying to point out that it is possible for those of color to become lawyers and famous musicians (duh). Let the read imagine whatever they like about the characters don't shove it in their face.
Just my worthless
I highly doubt that you will get anymore money out of him. Your Xmas bonus is going to more lights and your co-workers are going to start calling you Rudolph the Brown-nosed reindeer.
what happens when they make you use it on "your own time" because you are a sallaried employee and you are ALWAYS on their time?
you know what depresses me about driving? Sitting in traffic. You know what depresses me even more? Sitting in traffic in the winter time. Why you ask? Because I go to work in the dark and I come home in it.
Would I really want to pay someone tolls to use a dark tunnel to drive to work everyday on a road that I paid for in taxes?
NO and you shouldn't either.
then have a charger that shuts itself off. If you are paying astronomical amounts of money for what is touted as a "great" product from a "great company" I expect that same great company producing this great product to take care to make sure the charger doesn't overcharge the battery.
We use a shredding company to do our work as well. The papers are put into a loosely locked box and picked up monthly.
The man who picks ours up is a toy short of a happy meal. He rarely says more than an incoherent mumble or two. Something usually about the damn lock on the door (I share his frustration).
We started using them after we shred about 5000 pounds of confidential data. I filled 12 large bins that they provided for us. These were probably 3.5 feet tall and large enough for at least two of my fat asses to fit inside easily.
Why do we use them? Because it would take me two or three days to destroy a single box of paper records that we have. I don't have time for that.
It's something like $500 for 5000 pounds. You do the math... Pay an employee $15/hr to shred documents for 3 days ($15 x 8) x 3 or $500 for 5000 pounds.
The way they explain things shows that the single reason for this software is to trade files that belong to the RIAA.
They might have wanted to think twice before doing that.
how about we abolish marriage all together? Animals were never meant to have life long partnerships mandated by law.
If you want to live your life with someone, so be it, there's no one stopping you... If you want to have 1000 girlfriends, woo for you.
It would end multi-marriages (either from religion or deception). It would end divorce. It would end indiscretion as we see it today.
No one cares about the vows anyway, what's the difference?
oh but they are. Sooner or later you will have to buy a television and it will HAVE to have the HDTV tuner included. Thus the cost is passed on to me for something I don't really want.
who gives a shit if the law was federal AND written correctly? What spammer actually announces where they are really from and what spammer wouldn't immediately move out of the country if the laws actually did anything to hurt them?
then they should specify that, in writing, with specific numbers.
That's like telling someone, "yes you owe us money... Well, we determine the money amount based on an average. We can't tell you how much money you owe because we don't keep track. Oh wait, you haven't paid so we are cutting you off."
Does it sound silly to you now?
However, it's not a great strategy for them. Good businesses protect their customers, and assume the best.
.02.
Your kidding right? Haha, you must be. Let me explain how it really works out there.
For those of you lucky enough to have freedom of ISPs you better be thanking your lucky fucking stars. There are people (like me) that have had multiple types of Internet over the years (dialup, 640/160 DSL, 768/128 DSL, 3000/384 Cable, 1500/128 Cable, 1500/256 Cable, 1800/256 Cable and soon to be 3000/256 Cable). I have had a handful of providers and a wide range of acceptable connections, speed, and tech support.
I currently live in a suburb of Minneapolis. We have two choices currently (where I live)... Comcast cable (which raised the rates on those that don't want their CATV to over $50 if you have your own modem) and Wireless (which has a $500 setup fee and slow speeds (640/640 IIRC)).
Comcast comes in and takes over an area, raises prices because there are no other options for HSD, and then sets these invisible caps...
Do you really fucking think that Comcast gives a flying rats ass if I go over my invisible limit and they dump me (mind you, they refuse to tell you what the cap is, how they determine it, how you should determine it, how you should protect yourself from it, etc)? They don't for one simple reason... MORE MONEY. If I go over that limit I am hogging bandwith money from others that only check email and a few webpages a day...
With 25 million subscribers, moving to a 3mbit speed cap, and needing more money, they are doing exactly the best thing to save their bandwith costs, dumping those users that use the service the way it should be.
Sadly we have no recourse. 90% of their users aren't going to start pegging their bandwith usage and they are going to keep dropping off the high-end users until they are satisfied they are raking in enough dough.
Sad but true... Just my worthless
sure they have and they don't want you using it. Sadly for us, we have no recourse if they terminate our service...
Just because they advertise "unlimited" service does not mean that they can refuse us service at any time for any reason.
They want to be as vague as possible (by not setting specific limits) so that they can continue to lower and lower the cap until the only people able to use the service are those that are into checking www.msn.com, www.comcast.net, and their email via Outlook Express to their Comcast mailbox.
It is much more profitable for them to drop the high bandwith users and keep these people that never use their connection.
Comcast states, "if you are using service more than the average". If you are living in a residential area in southern FL you are likely to have a lot of elderly residents checking the status of their pregnant daugther-in-law. If you are in a college town you are likely averaging with the best of the pr0n/warez kids.
YMMV,
While it might be the size of a small orange it isn't exactly flat and I don't consider it to be conducive to fitting in my pocket. The other PDA to the left of the screen shot, while being quite a bit taller, is far thinner and would probably fit into a pocket easier than this.
;)
So the OS is some non-standard thing w/probably little or no support, the shape is not really good for "pocket PCs", there is no screen, and everything is in yen and Japanese
No thanks. I'll stick to my rarely stable PocketPC for now.
1. 5+ MP digital camera to replace the 2MP I dropped which is now taking fuzzy pictures
;)
2. DVD Player that plays DVD+-R/RW and VCDs on both CDR and CDRW.
3. Both seasons of 24 on DVD, Family Guy season 3 on DVD (the divxs just aren't as much fun as the DVDs), and free tickets to LOTR3.
4. Gore-tex hiking boots (not too geeky unless you're a geocacher like me
Does it display a table of executives slaughtering a baby when you drive buy listening to a ClearChannel or Infinity station? ;)
because 99% of the population isn't going to use them to hack. Who in their right mind is going to pay $10 to buy the camera and sit there soldering a USB cable to the inards to get the pictures off? Not a non-geek I can tell you that.
pay in cash at a Walgreens you normally don't go to (considering that they are mostly in Wisconsin right now I don't think that will be a problem).
Do you really think that billy joe bob buying a computer at Walmart is going to notice the difference between Lindows and Windows? Do you think that even the 16 yr old sales clerk knows the difference?
yes.
I am also curious why Microsoft shouldn't have been allowed to trademark Windows as it related to operating systems?
Because you can't do that to common words.