We live by the seat of our pants and never really plan out little things like movie watching in advance.
I live life on the seat of my pants. When there's nothing on TV, it's nice to be able to say "what do we have from Netflix rignt now?" and watch it without having to drag my lazy ass off the couch and head over to rent a video. Having little kids, it's even more of an issue, especially if you decide you want to watch something late at night.
If you are reasonably diligent at sending the DVDs back after you watch them, you pretty much always have something new to watch (assuming you only watch a couple movies each week). That's nice. It's not like we plan what movies we want to watch which nights. We just keep a queue of 10 or 20 movies we'd like to see and update it once a month or so, and when we get bored we watch whatever we happen to have right then.
They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!
I'm glad they didn't go with the design where it licked its thumb before turning each page. I hate that!
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Want to reduce the amount of change you have to make? Get rid of the penny. Round everything to the nearest 5 cents. Then you have an average of 2.7 coins per transaction (if you use 5, 10, and 25 cent coins). I think that's a lot more practical than this guy's suggestions. You could probably pick more optimal denominations as well as getting rid of the penny, but come on now.
When I travelled to Australia a few years back they had just finished doing this. They only time they really had to round anything at the register was in the case of things like produce where you weigh it and could come up with odd values. Sales tax wasn't a problem either, because they had value added tax.
Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a statue as representing empires. The final empire is represented by the statue's feet, which are made of a mixture of clay and iron.
I wonder if this is part of the reason behind the use of the name Nebuchadnezzar in the story. The mixture of humans (clay) and machines (iron) is certainly reminiscent of his dream.
If an online retailer with headquarters out-of-state has shops in California, they have to charge California sales tax to customers that purchase from California. So, if you live in CA and buy something from (New York-based) Barnes and Noble, you get charged CA sales tax because Barnes and Noble has CA retail locations.
If you live somewhere else (say Arizona), you don't have to pay anything unless AZ passes a similar law, which would require you to pay AZ sales tax on your online Barnes and Noble purchases. But you wouldn't have to pay CA sales tax -- that would be crazy.
If the online retailer has no physical presence in CA (say a hypothetical Fred's Books dot com), a person buying from CA wouldn't have to pay sales tax.
That's not an option for businesses like Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us, etc, that have retail shops in California. Those guys would have to have the sales tax, even if the internet part of their business was run from somewhere out of state.
If you read about the technology on the company's web site, it sounds a lot like a high resolution Magna-doodle (except it's electrostatic, not magnetic).
So to turn the page, do you shake it, or run the little bar along the side?
VoIP will take over the PBX long before it takes over POTS. And that's where the money is for manufacturers like Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, etc. Cisco doesn't want to put a VoIP phone in every kitchen. They want to put it on every desk.
They stand to make a lot more money more quickly that way. VoIP is a direct replacement for the PBX. You have phones on desks, connected to a call manager and a gateway which connects to the regular old telephone network to make outside calls. VoIP is more flexible software-wise than PBX, and now you only have to run one type of wire around your building.
And these desktop VoIP phones cost hundreds of dollars. Cisco is going to make billions in this market before they even think about replacing the $100 cordless in your kitchen.
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In other news, USB has been renamed to TMB ("The Magic Bus").
I live life on the seat of my pants. When there's nothing on TV, it's nice to be able to say "what do we have from Netflix rignt now?" and watch it without having to drag my lazy ass off the couch and head over to rent a video. Having little kids, it's even more of an issue, especially if you decide you want to watch something late at night.
If you are reasonably diligent at sending the DVDs back after you watch them, you pretty much always have something new to watch (assuming you only watch a couple movies each week). That's nice. It's not like we plan what movies we want to watch which nights. We just keep a queue of 10 or 20 movies we'd like to see and update it once a month or so, and when we get bored we watch whatever we happen to have right then.
I was thinking it would be pretty cool if they put themes from Wagner in the score for the LOTR musical (in a very subtle way of course).
I'm glad they didn't go with the design where it licked its thumb before turning each page. I hate that!
When I travelled to Australia a few years back they had just finished doing this. They only time they really had to round anything at the register was in the case of things like produce where you weigh it and could come up with odd values. Sales tax wasn't a problem either, because they had value added tax.
RHAT distributes Linux and has 30 times the market cap, and 50% more revenue than SCOX. You can make more of free software? Never!!!!
I wonder if this is part of the reason behind the use of the name Nebuchadnezzar in the story. The mixture of humans (clay) and machines (iron) is certainly reminiscent of his dream.
If an online retailer with headquarters out-of-state has shops in California, they have to charge California sales tax to customers that purchase from California. So, if you live in CA and buy something from (New York-based) Barnes and Noble, you get charged CA sales tax because Barnes and Noble has CA retail locations.
If you live somewhere else (say Arizona), you don't have to pay anything unless AZ passes a similar law, which would require you to pay AZ sales tax on your online Barnes and Noble purchases. But you wouldn't have to pay CA sales tax -- that would be crazy.
If the online retailer has no physical presence in CA (say a hypothetical Fred's Books dot com), a person buying from CA wouldn't have to pay sales tax.
That's not an option for businesses like Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us, etc, that have retail shops in California. Those guys would have to have the sales tax, even if the internet part of their business was run from somewhere out of state.
So to turn the page, do you shake it, or run the little bar along the side?
VoIP will take over the PBX long before it takes over POTS. And that's where the money is for manufacturers like Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, etc. Cisco doesn't want to put a VoIP phone in every kitchen. They want to put it on every desk. They stand to make a lot more money more quickly that way. VoIP is a direct replacement for the PBX. You have phones on desks, connected to a call manager and a gateway which connects to the regular old telephone network to make outside calls. VoIP is more flexible software-wise than PBX, and now you only have to run one type of wire around your building. And these desktop VoIP phones cost hundreds of dollars. Cisco is going to make billions in this market before they even think about replacing the $100 cordless in your kitchen.