If you are comparing the Blockbuster Mail DVD service to Netflix then you get an additional benefit of 1 free local STORE DVD rental each week. Netflix can't do that. On the other hand, I suspect that Blockbuster has significant employee theft. They sure have high employee turnover.
I often don't watch my rentals for several weeks! I canceled once then rejoined Blockbuster and my queue remained in tact.
I thought that mail-in rebates were a major source of keeping cash for stores that offer them. The rate of cashing-in the rebates is below 50%. And the uncashed ones are pure profit.
I know a lot about technology, having started with Fortran and PL/1 in 1969 and PCs before IBM broke open the current era. But RSS is still not easy enough to use. I use 3 browsers (IE, Firefox and Opera) and unless RSS is integrated intelligently into the browser interface, I won't use it.
For most news I use the Chicago Tribune, radio (NPR and local all-news station) and a little bit of television. I love the idea of podcasting but have not actively used it. Blogging seems lame--the signal to noise ratio is poor unless I know the writer in another arena.
I am white, male, 55, married with grown kids, lower middle class h.s. chemistry teacher, evangelical Christian who is not a Republican.
I'm having to re-install Windows XP for the third time in 2 months. Wirus, trojan or hardware, I don't know what hit me despite my firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, and anti-spyware. This is getting real old, real fast.
I know my way around PCs, boot-strapping my self from DOS 1.1 to Win XP Pro. I don't hate Windows, but dealing with instability, constant attacks and the length of time to re-install has me ticked off.
I know only a little Linux, but dual boot, here I come.
[satire] that Novel has screwed up Linux! Of course the user name was "administrator" and password "linusrules" I only hacked it to show that strong passwords are better. Strong like user: admin6traitor password: billgatessucks69.
in practical terms unless all those little packet thingees can be traced to a certain person in a certain location. Spam seems to prove that it can't be done now.
Seem like there will always be a way to copy digital music and give it freely to others. How is it possible to stop the practice? Eventually those who make a living from music with be as rich as poets.
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Those chimp ladies are so good looking.
Just give them a key off by one digit and say, "OOPS" if they ask.
core 2 duo core 2 2
stupid
I suggest Zanziblurr Duality Turbo Plus.
If you study the diagram that comes with the article you will see lunacy. Making the laser diffuse and "focused by the atmosphere" is nonsense.
If you are comparing the Blockbuster Mail DVD service to Netflix then you get an additional benefit of 1 free local STORE DVD rental each week. Netflix can't do that. On the other hand, I suspect that Blockbuster has significant employee theft. They sure have high employee turnover.
I often don't watch my rentals for several weeks! I canceled once then rejoined Blockbuster and my queue remained in tact.
seriously, take a long vacation where your money will go far
I hate to go to the GUI then do the Command Prompt thang.
VISTA spelled other ways: ATSIV VATIS ATISV VASIT SVITA ASTIV TASIV TISVA just looking for some good new Linux distro names.
I thought that mail-in rebates were a major source of keeping cash for stores that offer them. The rate of cashing-in the rebates is below 50%. And the uncashed ones are pure profit.
An awesome, truly awesome post!
This so-called scientist is meerly promoting his own ideas and book. His "theory" that the earth is a living being is humorous.
If the man had "published" on slashdot, he would be marked a TROLL, marginalized, and maligned.
Exactly. You said it, brother!
No. Slashdot and the Internet seem too anonymous and impersonal, just trying to do my part.
BTW we need more smart people to reproduce regardless of color, but only if you care to properly raise your children.
I know a lot about technology, having started with Fortran and PL/1 in 1969 and PCs before IBM broke open the current era. But RSS is still not easy enough to use. I use 3 browsers (IE, Firefox and Opera) and unless RSS is integrated intelligently into the browser interface, I won't use it.
For most news I use the Chicago Tribune, radio (NPR and local all-news station) and a little bit of television. I love the idea of podcasting but have not actively used it. Blogging seems lame--the signal to noise ratio is poor unless I know the writer in another arena.
I am white, male, 55, married with grown kids, lower middle class h.s. chemistry teacher, evangelical Christian who is not a Republican.
Seems like it to me. Google vs the rest of the Netsphere.
Don't the "makers" of Firefox need cash?
If NPR has pledge drives, shouldn't the Open Source movement?
Just asking.
I'm having to re-install Windows XP for the third time in 2 months. Wirus, trojan or hardware, I don't know what hit me despite my firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, and anti-spyware. This is getting real old, real fast.
I know my way around PCs, boot-strapping my self from DOS 1.1 to Win XP Pro. I don't hate Windows, but dealing with instability, constant attacks and the length of time to re-install has me ticked off.
I know only a little Linux, but dual boot, here I come.
Someting bigger than a toaster with a non-artificial moon.
Is Visual Basic open yet or just Open Basic or BASIC BASIC?
[satire] that Novel has screwed up Linux! Of course the user name was "administrator" and password "linusrules" I only hacked it to show that strong passwords are better. Strong like user: admin6traitor password: billgatessucks69.
I know the GLP having read it. I question why ver. 3 will actually help keep code freely available.
fragile. Maybe the GPL needs to be simpler, not more complex.
in practical terms unless all those little packet thingees can be traced to a certain person in a certain location. Spam seems to prove that it can't be done now.
Seem like there will always be a way to copy digital music and give it freely to others. How is it possible to stop the practice? Eventually those who make a living from music with be as rich as poets.
...is obviously very over-rated.
Gore who invented the Internet certainly should be president. Bush only got the "un-popular" vote of the Supreme Court.
Bush has to have Laura turn on his toothbrush each morning. And photos of cabinet meetings show him with a mouse hooked to an Etch-a-Sketch.
cunt.uk.com is unresolved
but you can buy cuntless.uk.com a very fitting nerd domain, no?