Might want to read the fine print on Compusa's website then.....
No guarantee the in store price is the same, even if it usually is. And how do you check stock quickly, hehe, kinda painful to check more than one item:( At least the overpriced burner worked good.
We don't have an income tax, thus we don't even send out a form to put the "0" on ! How many people do you suppose will track down the right form to pay, hehe. Also means we are more dependent on the sales taxes:(
I would go along with them if they can figure out how to implement some kind of simplified tax structure. WA is also one of those with a diferent tax code/rate for every damn city, county and bus district. Over 330 codes at last count:O And you should know whether an address is within city limits or in the transit district to figure the correct tax. Luckily from within WA you use the ship point so we only have 2.
Makes a real mess from an IT standpoint. We do both ID and WA and diferent items are taxable in each state. WA depends on ship point while ID goes by destination. Some non-taxable items are taxable if going to a Veterinarian instead of patient or doctor. Computers don't seem to like the 'sometimes' and 'maybe' answers to TAXABLE (Y/N)?
Sounds great....now if they only had some records to sell:(
There seems to be one album and 11 (sidebar says 8) singles.
That was a waste to follow that link:/
I did the same as another poster and grabbed new vinyl at random just too play a new one. Next time i'll be more careful, hehe. Full blown vintage Pioneer system with 4-channel 8-track player/recorders:) My buddy never realized we were listening to an 8-track mix tape;)
I usually play several different characters and they can have diferent play styles:)
Not that i want them cataloging my chat,movements, and attacks in the first place. Oh well, when worse comes to worse make a game of seeing if i could change the type of ad by altering my playstyle.
hehe, i want MORE blinky lights. But i want them to mean something like you say.
I went so far as to actually buy the memory sticks with the activity lights so my computer (acrylic case) would finally match the sci-fi stuff:) Goes with the blacklight tied to sound card and light ribbon tied to external sounds and.....
As for the article's rant, i only give him half credit. Need a light for keyboard then get a lit keyboard...but then wait until he finds out it stays ON after you shutdown the computer. Same thing for the matching clear lit mouse:/ of course I have a USB drive that stays lit up (and SPUN up!) after the computer is shut down unless you pull the plug (either comp or drive) that serves little use:(
Many of his are certainly easy to fix/cover or eliminate if you wish and most of them have use.
Of course i would like many more lights and controls to turn them off, but that costs much more for controls than lights:(
"...location of the rocket hardware is known within some 1,300 feet (400 meters) or so. But given the dense vegetation on the side of the mountain being searched, along with equipment available to the search team, pinpointing the exact locale has proven a tough assignment.
Yet another trip up on the mountain is slated next week, Larson said.
Joining the search this time is the manufacturer of the transmitters onboard the rocket gear."
Excuse me....transmitters and parachutes and known within 1300 feet and you couldn't find it?!? What is their idea of a transmitter..an RFID tag glued to a button battery? Or did they not think to include a matching receiver in the recovery team?!!?
Good aim tho to hit the only vegatation in New Mexico;p
Aye, seems a lot simpler than trying to get a computer to overide the driver or not at the right times and still do any good. If the driver next to me starts to enter my lane will the computer override my hitting the gas to get out of the way?
My 87 bird had a real-time mpg readout. It would really help with mileage if you wanted it to.
Of course just getting a few people to realize they don't have to approach the red-light half a block ahead at 40mph. I am ammazed how many people pass me approaching a light when i lift off the gas only to hit the brakes 50ft later. But i don't see forcing it.
"unless you like to miss large chunks of the shows"
except that those large chunks of the show are now rarely longer than 7 minutes before another commercial break. I find i rarely have a problem missing a whole chunk nowdays and catching up when i get back (try not to miss last chunk is all):)
No cable, so no bigger to me atm;) I am waiting for a comcast ad/sales pitch that tells how much i am really paying...5 years later all they send is promo info...the 1st x months is irrelevent if i will have it for years afterwards:) Telemarketer could NOT tell me regular rate after the 6 month promo she offered...i am supposed to buy without knowing the cost, right:(
Interesting i didn't know clicking reply-to OR read more of this comment would expnad it and apply your indenting that doesn't show in regular display.
Just in case someone else didn't know that either....
I don't think that means what you think it means;)
Yes it will go 115 years if it REPLACED every five years or so as it reaches its expected end of life....which is MUCH less than MTBF. DOH.
We know some go dead quickly, how do you think they measured the ones that lasted over 115 years to get the average? Of course you can't replace a 5 year-old drive with a new version of same so you can't even test their definition... If they were really expected to last that long what are the odds of having a dead drive? Now how many of us have/had a dead HD...not even remotely close eh?
Even with the 115 years i still wouldn't bet on it outlasting the house...If houses burned on average 100 years we would have 1000 house fires a years. I found 4 actual fire calls last week, only 1 burned down the house and 1 partial. Be generous and call it 2 for 100 per year, not too close. (totlaly wild guesses at 100k houses,etc)
Well then dude, don't leave your mattress in the street where it can accidently get set on fire.
If there are mattresses where a stray butt can ignite them you may have more of a litter problem than a couple of rude smokers....
But yeah, don't see why it is too much to at least put them out 1st so at least they aren't burning. Even a homeless person should be able to manage that...even if some of our employees cant. Keep tossing them in the storm drain burning...it only has water during rain shesh.
"If I had to do it all over, a smart sign that would get me away from the gas leak would be very welcome."
Well as long as the relay to turn on the new sign is NOT nearby also:O
Does the system come with a gas detector to tell it not to turn on/off any lights etc during a suspected gas leak like the gas company says?
Hmm it would either disable itself and not help you or possibly blow you up trying to help, oops.
----
The big (unanswered ) question tho.
Did it save enough to pay for the system and the 215 sensors (and installing those sensors) they installed in the part of that building to test it ?!?
oh wait...all they did was set all this up and it could predict what people were doing MOST of the time. No clue as to whether that was enough to change hvac to save any money at all. Nor a clue as to how the 9% of the time it is wrong would affect said hvac changes!
So the news is: With enough sensors it can ALMOST predict what people are doing.
Maybe it is all a push from the mercury manufacters to use more since we banned the mercury thermometers as dangerous:(
Or maybe the next push is for a mercury substitie like thermometers that only costs 6x as much. Then we can all pay like $20 per light bulb that we mastered at $.50 ages ago...:(
We are not allowed to sell mercury thermometers any more nor mercury blood pressure gauges but they now want to REQUIRE us to use CFLs with mercury in em, WTF ?!?!
Yes they only have a tad in them opposed to grams but the danger is in inhaling mercury vapor which certainly doesn't seem lessened in a bulb breaking.
I don't find minesweeper particularly engaging but my race games and MMO on the other hand...
Of course i find very little to compete with the games on TV as it is as sporadic as my games. The TV show is usually just as engrossing as a race in Flatout2....and they both only go for about 5-10 before being interruppted:(
Many games are intense during play but not really memorable or anything to make a lasting connection. FPS for example, but you've played 100's games of it with diferent people and diferent outcomes etc. Whereas a movie or show has ONE plot and outcome for sometimes hours of entertainment tends to stick with you more. Or something like that, not articulating it real good;(
Either way, i can play a game for hours, read a book for hours, watch a whole movie or Tv show(DVDs) or two with out a break so kind of a toss up for me personally;)
100% juice, just not the ones shown on label..... i like the banana and strawberry made from pears and cucumbers or some damn thing:O
but there are plenty of others.
And NO, don't make our chocolate even cheaper please. My first thought was of Ghirardelli (wax) squares, do they even mention choclate? the version they sell in the Kwikimarts is horrid. ugh. Nothing like the blocks:(
chocolate flavored treats is just fine for a description. If it is cheaper it will sell anyways...fruit drinks and such seem to have no problem selling.
The new one is just the opposite of the old one, very interesting. I don't really see how this umm law applies more to one than the other tho.
I do see what they are saying tho. A good sample is the button below for Plain Old Text. In that font it looks like the sans-serif T wants to get away altho in this font the seriffed T looks fine cause of a extra dot.
"and you have a culture that strongly associates the OEM with everything computer-related."
And rightfully so, since it IS all on the OEM per their agreements.
Hmm, i wonder how much of that is on purpose to distance themselves. I would imagine that the retail buyers of an OS would be more savvy than OEM buyers overall or you wouldn't be buying an OS by itself.
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Might want to read the fine print on Compusa's website then.....
:( At least the overpriced burner worked good.
No guarantee the in store price is the same, even if it usually is.
And how do you check stock quickly, hehe, kinda painful to check more than one item
Can't we all just use those addresses directly?
That would make spying on the internet users alot more efficient!
And the reason WA state is so keen on this.
:(
:O And you should know whether an address is within city limits or in the transit district to figure the correct tax. Luckily from within WA you use the ship point so we only have 2.
We don't have an income tax, thus we don't even send out a form to put the "0" on ! How many people do you suppose will track down the right form to pay, hehe. Also means we are more dependent on the sales taxes
I would go along with them if they can figure out how to implement some kind of simplified tax structure. WA is also one of those with a diferent tax code/rate for every damn city, county and bus district. Over 330 codes at last count
Makes a real mess from an IT standpoint. We do both ID and WA and diferent items are taxable in each state. WA depends on ship point while ID goes by destination. Some non-taxable items are taxable if going to a Veterinarian instead of patient or doctor. Computers don't seem to like the 'sometimes' and 'maybe' answers to TAXABLE (Y/N)?
"that can withstand extreme weather and terrorist attacks."
But can it withstand the squirrels down the street that have an affinity for transformers?
Whadya mean squirrel-proof is another 40 million......
"so would being able to walk into a store and pressing a button under the item you want to buy it."
..... ?
So like a vending machine then
Sounds great....now if they only had some records to sell :(
:/
:) My buddy never realized we were listening to an 8-track mix tape ;)
There seems to be one album and 11 (sidebar says 8) singles.
That was a waste to follow that link
I did the same as another poster and grabbed new vinyl at random just too play a new one. Next time i'll be more careful, hehe. Full blown vintage Pioneer system with 4-channel 8-track player/recorders
I usually play several different characters and they can have diferent play styles :)
Not that i want them cataloging my chat,movements, and attacks in the first place. Oh well, when worse comes to worse make a game of seeing if i could change the type of ad by altering my playstyle.
hehe, i want MORE blinky lights. But i want them to mean something like you say.
:) Goes with the blacklight tied to sound card and light ribbon tied to external sounds and.....
:/ of course I have a USB drive that stays lit up (and SPUN up!) after the computer is shut down unless you pull the plug (either comp or drive) that serves little use :(
:(
I went so far as to actually buy the memory sticks with the activity lights so my computer (acrylic case) would finally match the sci-fi stuff
As for the article's rant, i only give him half credit. Need a light for keyboard then get a lit keyboard...but then wait until he finds out it stays ON after you shutdown the computer. Same thing for the matching clear lit mouse
Many of his are certainly easy to fix/cover or eliminate if you wish and most of them have use.
Of course i would like many more lights and controls to turn them off, but that costs much more for controls than lights
I got bored/frustrated trying to decipher the article.
;)
I decided it is simpler to call it a good distraction for a few congresscritters so they don't attempt any real work and let it go at that
"...location of the rocket hardware is known within some 1,300 feet (400 meters) or so. But given the dense vegetation on the side of the mountain being searched, along with equipment available to the search team, pinpointing the exact locale has proven a tough assignment.
;p
Yet another trip up on the mountain is slated next week, Larson said.
Joining the search this time is the manufacturer of the transmitters onboard the rocket gear."
Excuse me....transmitters and parachutes and known within 1300 feet and you couldn't find it?!? What is their idea of a transmitter..an RFID tag glued to a button battery? Or did they not think to include a matching receiver in the recovery team?!!?
Good aim tho to hit the only vegatation in New Mexico
Aye, seems a lot simpler than trying to get a computer to overide the driver or not at the right times and still do any good. If the driver next to me starts to enter my lane will the computer override my hitting the gas to get out of the way?
My 87 bird had a real-time mpg readout. It would really help with mileage if you wanted it to.
Of course just getting a few people to realize they don't have to approach the red-light half a block ahead at 40mph. I am ammazed how many people pass me approaching a light when i lift off the gas only to hit the brakes 50ft later. But i don't see forcing it.
"unless you like to miss large chunks of the shows"
:)
;) :) Telemarketer could NOT tell me regular rate after the 6 month promo she offered...i am supposed to buy without knowing the cost, right :(
except that those large chunks of the show are now rarely longer than 7 minutes before another commercial break. I find i rarely have a problem missing a whole chunk nowdays and catching up when i get back (try not to miss last chunk is all)
No cable, so no bigger to me atm
I am waiting for a comcast ad/sales pitch that tells how much i am really paying...5 years later all they send is promo info...the 1st x months is irrelevent if i will have it for years afterwards
Interesting i didn't know clicking reply-to OR read more of this comment would expnad it and apply your indenting that doesn't show in regular display.
Just in case someone else didn't know that either....
I don't think that means what you think it means ;)
w ww.storage.ibm.com/storage/oem/tech/mtbf.htm
Yes it will go 115 years if it REPLACED every five years or so as it reaches its expected end of life....which is MUCH less than MTBF. DOH.
We know some go dead quickly, how do you think they measured the ones that lasted over 115 years to get the average? Of course you can't replace a 5 year-old drive with a new version of same so you can't even test their definition... If they were really expected to last that long what are the odds of having a dead drive? Now how many of us have/had a dead HD...not even remotely close eh?
http://web.archive.org/web/20001202154100/http://
Even with the 115 years i still wouldn't bet on it outlasting the house...If houses burned on average 100 years we would have 1000 house fires a years. I found 4 actual fire calls last week, only 1 burned down the house and 1 partial. Be generous and call it 2 for 100 per year, not too close. (totlaly wild guesses at 100k houses,etc)
I think i will just wait for the Law and Order episode.
Well then dude, don't leave your mattress in the street where it can accidently get set on fire.
If there are mattresses where a stray butt can ignite them you may have more of a litter problem than a couple of rude smokers....
But yeah, don't see why it is too much to at least put them out 1st so at least they aren't burning. Even a homeless person should be able to manage that...even if some of our employees cant. Keep tossing them in the storm drain burning...it only has water during rain shesh.
"If I had to do it all over, a smart sign that would get me away from the gas leak would be very welcome."
:O
Well as long as the relay to turn on the new sign is NOT nearby also
Does the system come with a gas detector to tell it not to turn on/off any lights etc during a suspected gas leak like the gas company says?
Hmm it would either disable itself and not help you or possibly blow you up trying to help, oops.
----
The big (unanswered ) question tho.
Did it save enough to pay for the system and the 215 sensors (and installing those sensors) they installed in the part of that building to test it ?!?
oh wait...all they did was set all this up and it could predict what people were doing MOST of the time. No clue as to whether that was enough to change hvac to save any money at all. Nor a clue as to how the 9% of the time it is wrong would affect said hvac changes!
So the news is:
With enough sensors it can ALMOST predict what people are doing.
"Notice that in software patents, you must reference a combination of a "method and a device", or some such language"
Then how were they found to be violating in the US?
I didn't buy my computer from MS.
Maybe it is all a push from the mercury manufacters to use more since we banned the mercury thermometers as dangerous :(
:(
Or maybe the next push is for a mercury substitie like thermometers that only costs 6x as much. Then we can all pay like $20 per light bulb that we mastered at $.50 ages ago...
We are not allowed to sell mercury thermometers any more nor mercury blood pressure gauges but they now want to REQUIRE us to use CFLs with mercury in em, WTF ?!?!
Yes they only have a tad in them opposed to grams but the danger is in inhaling mercury vapor which certainly doesn't seem lessened in a bulb breaking.
it depends on what games vs what other media?
:(
;(
;)
I suppose on the whole maybe.
I don't find minesweeper particularly engaging but my race games and MMO on the other hand...
Of course i find very little to compete with the games on TV as it is as sporadic as my games. The TV show is usually just as engrossing as a race in Flatout2....and they both only go for about 5-10 before being interruppted
Many games are intense during play but not really memorable or anything to make a lasting connection. FPS for example, but you've played 100's games of it with diferent people and diferent outcomes etc. Whereas a movie or show has ONE plot and outcome for sometimes hours of entertainment tends to stick with you more. Or something like that, not articulating it real good
Either way, i can play a game for hours, read a book for hours, watch a whole movie or Tv show(DVDs) or two with out a break so kind of a toss up for me personally
"was inspired from a drawing he received unbeknownst to him belonging to..."
:O
:O
;p
So he didn't know he recieved and looked at the drawing and then duplicated it nearly line for line...he's obviously got better drugs than we do
-or-
He didn't know who it belonged to....so he assumed he did it and put his name on it
oh wait...that doesn't explain a darn thing
and i love the 'inspired from'
The new flavor V8 drinks perhaps?
:O
:(
100% juice, just not the ones shown on label..... i like the banana and strawberry made from pears and cucumbers or some damn thing
but there are plenty of others.
And NO, don't make our chocolate even cheaper please. My first thought was of Ghirardelli (wax) squares, do they even mention choclate? the version they sell in the Kwikimarts is horrid. ugh. Nothing like the blocks
chocolate flavored treats is just fine for a description. If it is cheaper it will sell anyways...fruit drinks and such seem to have no problem selling.
hehe
The new one is just the opposite of the old one, very interesting. I don't really see how this umm law applies more to one than the other tho.
I do see what they are saying tho. A good sample is the button below for Plain Old Text. In that font it looks like the sans-serif T wants to get away altho in this font the seriffed T looks fine cause of a extra dot.
Then why click on the link to Nastyladies.com instead of sherwinwilliams.com ? Or perhaps "I Feel Lucky" doesn't mean what he thought it did ;)
;)
:( :)
Now wtf did that have to do with wireless again? or was it about Wii? or was it about cellphones? Bah i lost track
bummer, no mod points today
I suspect i get more than my share by NOT using them all
"and you have a culture that strongly associates the OEM with everything computer-related."
And rightfully so, since it IS all on the OEM per their agreements.
Hmm, i wonder how much of that is on purpose to distance themselves. I would imagine that the retail buyers of an OS would be more savvy than OEM buyers overall or you wouldn't be buying an OS by itself.