Well, I don't know about you, but my pay-as-you-go uses a credit-card. I suppose you could mail them a check or something, but...
So what you're telling me is that these people are going to use their telephone as their credit card, and then pay for the telephone with a money order or a personal check? That sounds really convenient. If you're looking for the convenience of having your credit-card "built-in" to your cell-phone, you're probably using the convenience of paying for your phone bill with your credit card, too.
That's what a debit card is for. If you don't have the cash for it, you can't buy it. Just as convenient as a credit card, but without ever subjecting yourself to an ounce of debt.
Don't most people pay their phone bill with their credit card? I'm seeing something oroborous about this.
I still don't get the draw of cell phones, either. I'm not even 30 yet, but I carry a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone that I use for emergencies and calling taxis. If I want to have a conversation with someone, I'll just wait until I get to my office or home and use a comfortable human-sized phone.
As for credit cards... Meh. I don't know. I have no sympathy for people who go into debt because they act like their credit-line is free money. I *CERTAINLY* have no sympathy for our parents (previous generation) who have treated credit cards that way.
I use my credit card for one purpose - building credit. That's it. I try to keep it at 30% usage - no more and no less. And to keep it that way, I only use it to pay predictable, regular bills (internet, cable, safari.oreilly, renter's insurance, etc). And then I use my automatic online bill-pay service to transfer the correct amount from my checking account to my credit card to pay it off each month. I barley even have to pay attention to it.
I suppose I'd use my credit card if I had some huge emergency and my debit card wasn't handy (which it always is), but I sure wouldn't use it for buying myself neat little toys and taking people out to dinner becaue "it's free money!" or anything.
How am I jealous of people who follow their dreams?
I'm simply saying that following your dreams is difficult. You can be well-off or wealthy and have material goods and a nice house or whatever else - or you can follow your dreams. It's the lucky few who succeed in their dreams to the point that they can eventually have both. And even of those people, they rarely get both, without being a "starving artist" first.
My point is merely that I'm tired of hearing people whine about it. "Oh, boo-hoo. Working in community theater is not financially rewarding". Well, tough - if that's your dream, you have to make compromises. If what you want is to have money, go be a laywer or a doctor or an engineer or something.
Don't these people realize how self-absorbed they sound to be bitching about how unfair it is because they're living on top ramen and they can't find some mindless benefactor to pay them gobs of money to create sculptures out of packaging tape?!
The fact is that most people are NOT doing the job they want. Even those who go into engineering or computer science - they may be in the general field they wanted, but that wannabe-game-developer is probably writing hotfixes for crappy financial programs for a boring company. That's life.
If you do what you love, quit bitching about the money. If you're good at it and other people value it, it will probably eventually bring you an income. It's just like starting your own business. You may or may not get rich doing it - but the important thing is whether it is fulfilling and rewarding to you, personally.
Artists who whine about how they aren't appreciated and don't make enough money sound to me like selfish little kids - and come across as more materialistic than the people they're complaining about in the first place. If you don't love your art enough to do it at any price, then give it up.
Regardless of whether it actually works, one thing you should keep in mind is how much you plan to use it. Most phone companies (I don't know about Cell companies) offer "unlimited long distance", for example. However - if you inquire it turns out that what they mean by "unlimited" is actually so many hundred or thousand minutes per month.
I don't know about everyone else, but I take money that I earn (from my paycheck) and then I write another check and send a portion of that on to my financial institution where I have my IRA. My employer has as much control over my IRA account as they do my checking account. Which is to say - none.
Who cares if people THINK there is or isn't life elsewhere or if they will or won't be nice. Let's find the fuck out. People thought the solar system revolved around the earth, but that didn't make it so. People thought that if you traveled faster than 60mph, you'd pass out; that didn't make it so.
Variety is just fine, but there's a reason a great number of comics have a hard time. Most of them simply aren't very good. And even among those that are, they're all a rip off of the same thing. Have any "popular" online comics NOT done the whole "tech support sucks HAHAHAHAH!" thing yet? Have any of them not done "end users suck and I hate working in tech support HAHAHAHA!".
Most of them are trying really hard to be User Friendly, which itself isn't all that bad. I think a lot of people just have the idea that what they do is so unique and remarkable that THE MAN -- *SOME* MAN -- must be HOLDIN' THEM DOWN. After all, their work is brilliant, creative, unique, interesting, hilarious and priceless. Why, the only reason they're not millionaires off their work yet HAS to be because United Artist hates them, personally.
By the way - what do I give a shit about "starving artists"? It's hard to make a living as a lot of fun things. You know what? That's the sacrifice you make. If you're so concerned with popularity and money, go get a REAL job like everyone else. You think everyone LOVES their jobs? Hell no. But they make a living - or better - at it. If it was simply to make a good living playing with clay, crayons, pastels, watercolor or writing books, everyone would be doing it.
If you've made the choice that you want to draw stuff for a living, don't bitch to the rest of the world about how poor you are. Go out and get a job providing a service. Or make "better" art. Of course, you'll probably complain that "but art is subjective! You can't put a value on it!". Well, then stop putting a value on it by whining about how hard it is to make a living. The Starving Artist who complains about making a living is the one who is putting a price on his own work as it is.
Art is great. Variety is great. But don't bitch about how the rest of the world "just doesn't get it" or isn't making it financially feasible for you to continue your "dream job" of playing Jim Davis or Stan Lee.
It seems like every PSU related story on Slashdot is really some sort of a direct sales-pitch.
Oh - and 580 watts?! That'll go really well for the average geek's apartment where they might only have two 1800 watt circuits. Add in the monitor, air conditioner (obviously necessary if you work around today's machines), a television or stereo of some sort, some lighting, routers, cable modems, telephones and a few other devices and the average geek isn't going to have the available power flow to keep his house lit.
Well, by his logic, you should only develop for Microsoft, because Unix/Linux/Mac and everything else has only a minor overall deployment rate.
Just sounds to me like someone's a little greedy, because it only hampers the main platform (if it even does that). But, in the process, it raises these other platforms. This gives more variety, choice, options... all really obvious things.
Dude, you're talking about two totally different things. Are you going to get laid or to make a buddy? If you're looking to get laid, go to a club. If you're looking for some buddy to link your PSPs together with and play Zelda (yes, I know I'm mixing my handhelds), sure - go to the pizza parlor game thingy.
This is like... common sense 101... But the fact is that most guys aren't going out at night to waste time "making buddies" when they can use that time to make a hookup.
But that was my original point - there are dorky/geeky girls everywhere. If you're just trying to make geek friends, you don't need a pizza/game parlor to do that.
You can tell a hot chick in either venue. The point is that you'll have more hot chicks at a bar or a club and you're going to score more often with less work if she's lushed-up than if she's snapping bubblegum in front of whack-a-mole. Why do you think bars are noisey, dark, boozing meat-markets?! Because that shit works.
Buy your lunch. Bring me the receipt. If you don't want to bring me the receipt, you don't get the lunch.
What you suggest is like a kid refusing to eat his dinner, because he wants desert - the parent saying they can't have desert until they finish dinner, and then the kid whining because his parents are starving him.
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Well, I don't know about you, but my pay-as-you-go uses a credit-card. I suppose you could mail them a check or something, but...
So what you're telling me is that these people are going to use their telephone as their credit card, and then pay for the telephone with a money order or a personal check? That sounds really convenient. If you're looking for the convenience of having your credit-card "built-in" to your cell-phone, you're probably using the convenience of paying for your phone bill with your credit card, too.
That's what a debit card is for. If you don't have the cash for it, you can't buy it. Just as convenient as a credit card, but without ever subjecting yourself to an ounce of debt.
*shrug*
I guess you haven't seen Britney recently.
Don't most people pay their phone bill with their credit card? I'm seeing something oroborous about this.
I still don't get the draw of cell phones, either. I'm not even 30 yet, but I carry a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone that I use for emergencies and calling taxis. If I want to have a conversation with someone, I'll just wait until I get to my office or home and use a comfortable human-sized phone.
As for credit cards... Meh. I don't know. I have no sympathy for people who go into debt because they act like their credit-line is free money. I *CERTAINLY* have no sympathy for our parents (previous generation) who have treated credit cards that way.
I use my credit card for one purpose - building credit. That's it. I try to keep it at 30% usage - no more and no less. And to keep it that way, I only use it to pay predictable, regular bills (internet, cable, safari.oreilly, renter's insurance, etc). And then I use my automatic online bill-pay service to transfer the correct amount from my checking account to my credit card to pay it off each month. I barley even have to pay attention to it.
I suppose I'd use my credit card if I had some huge emergency and my debit card wasn't handy (which it always is), but I sure wouldn't use it for buying myself neat little toys and taking people out to dinner becaue "it's free money!" or anything.
My Brain?
:P
You mean, just Brain, right?
I was undecided about upgrading to Longhorn in the future, but this solidifies my decision. This is definitely going to be worth the $300 upgrade!
Fornicating heathens?
You must be new here.
How am I jealous of people who follow their dreams?
I'm simply saying that following your dreams is difficult. You can be well-off or wealthy and have material goods and a nice house or whatever else - or you can follow your dreams. It's the lucky few who succeed in their dreams to the point that they can eventually have both. And even of those people, they rarely get both, without being a "starving artist" first.
My point is merely that I'm tired of hearing people whine about it. "Oh, boo-hoo. Working in community theater is not financially rewarding". Well, tough - if that's your dream, you have to make compromises. If what you want is to have money, go be a laywer or a doctor or an engineer or something.
Don't these people realize how self-absorbed they sound to be bitching about how unfair it is because they're living on top ramen and they can't find some mindless benefactor to pay them gobs of money to create sculptures out of packaging tape?!
The fact is that most people are NOT doing the job they want. Even those who go into engineering or computer science - they may be in the general field they wanted, but that wannabe-game-developer is probably writing hotfixes for crappy financial programs for a boring company. That's life.
If you do what you love, quit bitching about the money. If you're good at it and other people value it, it will probably eventually bring you an income. It's just like starting your own business. You may or may not get rich doing it - but the important thing is whether it is fulfilling and rewarding to you, personally.
Artists who whine about how they aren't appreciated and don't make enough money sound to me like selfish little kids - and come across as more materialistic than the people they're complaining about in the first place. If you don't love your art enough to do it at any price, then give it up.
So, I'm supposed to take a significant paycut _and_ throw away any sense of decenty I have?
I already told you, It's not a tu-mah!
I'm sorry, but my faith does not allow for medical/mathematical intervention. You must allow my child to die to fulfill god's glorious plan.
You can stuff all your "evolution" and "math" voodoo. Fucking heathens!
Regardless of whether it actually works, one thing you should keep in mind is how much you plan to use it. Most phone companies (I don't know about Cell companies) offer "unlimited long distance", for example. However - if you inquire it turns out that what they mean by "unlimited" is actually so many hundred or thousand minutes per month.
THIS JUST IN!!!
Stupid shit tends to be more popular than high quality shit!
Britney Spears has more sales than Tom Waits, but that doesn't mean she's better.
There are two kinds of species on this planet:
Those that become oil and those who consume oil.
I know which one I want to be on. And so do you, if you're a decent, patriotic, god-fearing Amerikan!
How would your employer raid your IRA?!
I don't know about everyone else, but I take money that I earn (from my paycheck) and then I write another check and send a portion of that on to my financial institution where I have my IRA. My employer has as much control over my IRA account as they do my checking account. Which is to say - none.
I don't see why this poll even matters.
Who cares if people THINK there is or isn't life elsewhere or if they will or won't be nice. Let's find the fuck out. People thought the solar system revolved around the earth, but that didn't make it so. People thought that if you traveled faster than 60mph, you'd pass out; that didn't make it so.
Enough of this bullshit - let's get to work.
I guess you've never read Red Meat, then. At best, it ties with Zippy.
I'm still stunned that there are already 10 Trek films.
Further proof that you can't possibly ever under-estimate the American public.
Variety is just fine, but there's a reason a great number of comics have a hard time. Most of them simply aren't very good. And even among those that are, they're all a rip off of the same thing. Have any "popular" online comics NOT done the whole "tech support sucks HAHAHAHAH!" thing yet? Have any of them not done "end users suck and I hate working in tech support HAHAHAHA!".
Most of them are trying really hard to be User Friendly, which itself isn't all that bad. I think a lot of people just have the idea that what they do is so unique and remarkable that THE MAN -- *SOME* MAN -- must be HOLDIN' THEM DOWN. After all, their work is brilliant, creative, unique, interesting, hilarious and priceless. Why, the only reason they're not millionaires off their work yet HAS to be because United Artist hates them, personally.
By the way - what do I give a shit about "starving artists"? It's hard to make a living as a lot of fun things. You know what? That's the sacrifice you make. If you're so concerned with popularity and money, go get a REAL job like everyone else. You think everyone LOVES their jobs? Hell no. But they make a living - or better - at it. If it was simply to make a good living playing with clay, crayons, pastels, watercolor or writing books, everyone would be doing it.
If you've made the choice that you want to draw stuff for a living, don't bitch to the rest of the world about how poor you are. Go out and get a job providing a service. Or make "better" art. Of course, you'll probably complain that "but art is subjective! You can't put a value on it!". Well, then stop putting a value on it by whining about how hard it is to make a living. The Starving Artist who complains about making a living is the one who is putting a price on his own work as it is.
Art is great. Variety is great. But don't bitch about how the rest of the world "just doesn't get it" or isn't making it financially feasible for you to continue your "dream job" of playing Jim Davis or Stan Lee.
Is anyone not an "independant online cartoonist" these days? The only thing there's more of are "internet models" and "blog journalists".
It seems like every PSU related story on Slashdot is really some sort of a direct sales-pitch.
Oh - and 580 watts?! That'll go really well for the average geek's apartment where they might only have two 1800 watt circuits. Add in the monitor, air conditioner (obviously necessary if you work around today's machines), a television or stereo of some sort, some lighting, routers, cable modems, telephones and a few other devices and the average geek isn't going to have the available power flow to keep his house lit.
Well, by his logic, you should only develop for Microsoft, because Unix/Linux/Mac and everything else has only a minor overall deployment rate.
Just sounds to me like someone's a little greedy, because it only hampers the main platform (if it even does that). But, in the process, it raises these other platforms. This gives more variety, choice, options... all really obvious things.
Dude, you're talking about two totally different things. Are you going to get laid or to make a buddy? If you're looking to get laid, go to a club. If you're looking for some buddy to link your PSPs together with and play Zelda (yes, I know I'm mixing my handhelds), sure - go to the pizza parlor game thingy.
This is like... common sense 101... But the fact is that most guys aren't going out at night to waste time "making buddies" when they can use that time to make a hookup.
But that was my original point - there are dorky/geeky girls everywhere. If you're just trying to make geek friends, you don't need a pizza/game parlor to do that.
You can tell a hot chick in either venue. The point is that you'll have more hot chicks at a bar or a club and you're going to score more often with less work if she's lushed-up than if she's snapping bubblegum in front of whack-a-mole. Why do you think bars are noisey, dark, boozing meat-markets?! Because that shit works.
That is the alternative.
Buy your lunch. Bring me the receipt. If you don't want to bring me the receipt, you don't get the lunch.
What you suggest is like a kid refusing to eat his dinner, because he wants desert - the parent saying they can't have desert until they finish dinner, and then the kid whining because his parents are starving him.