The "Super Duper 4K" upgrade that was announced nearly 2 years ago (okay, a year and a half) has been delayed repeatedly. Microsoft is attempting to keep people interested in the game while they continue to delay the only thing worth a damn that Minecraft fans are waiting for.
Most of these "secret" brands are for women's clothing, makeup, and dietary supplements. It's a sneaky way to charge women more than they would pay if the item were labeled, say: "AmazonBasics Women's Vibrator". Now don't get me wrong, there are some Amazon Prime subscribers that would buy those in an instant, but they would expect them to cost less.
Manuals are printed at a cost to the manufacturer, placed in the box by a worker paid by the manufacturer, adds weight to the package shipped by the manufacturer, and potentially ends up going missing at a replacement cost to the manufacturer. The more of those boxes they can pack into a shipping container from China the lower their costs will be.
What about when Baby Boomers were the age of current Millennials? I know I fell for a credit related scam when I was in college 20+ years ago. Did credit cards even exist when Baby Boomers were that age?
Glacial rebound means the Crust is rising, as a result land will rebound higher than current sea level leaving plenty of room for all the melted ice. Such immaculate design!
Joke aside, have the Global Warming "scientists" taken into account glacial rebound with relation to their flood models?
Google was even so kind as to show an upcoming events list for the years 2019-2021, the list was filled with nothing but spam that Google had automatically put into my calendar without my consent and provided no clear way to remove. The worst part being that I never use Google Calendar, EVER!
Every programming course I took, I completed using the lab computers. We were forced to pay for the lab access so I figured I might as well get my monies worth. For all of the general education courses I simply used the computers in the library. The library had just gotten the 1st generation iMacs and I was eager to see just how awful the puck mouse really was (it is to date the worst mouse I have ever used.)
Wake me up when someone makes the Geo Metro of electric cars. Affordable with incredible mileage. No stupid computer in the console gimmicky crap, no GPS, no remote start, AC and electrical windows optional.
I use it to generate a detailed resume and have up to date contact info for references. It also is how I keep in touch with some former colleagues that I was never friends with but still care about on a human level. They are not people I would ever have invited to be friends on Facebook, not to mention I deleted my Facebook account, but I still like to know where they are working at and catch up with them from time to time to chat about the industry.
There isn't a month that goes by where a recruiter doesn't try to get me to add them to my LinkeIn profile. I don't though, because the last thing I need is more recruiter spam.
Having worked as a Systems Administrator though, you tend to have a positive impact on the lives of many people beyond your own field of employment. At least, if you are doing your job right you do.
When you have been working for a quarter of a century it gets hard to keep track of some of the finer details involved and it would be extremely difficult to keep in touch with some of these people by phone or mail, that's where LinkedIn shines.
My Electrical Engineer father got married thanks to drunken parties at college, not his salary. In fact, his income was largely unreliable in the early days of Silicon Valley due to all of the start-ups that failed. Although, maybe that aspect hasn't changed much. Kids were what held the marriage together, not income. The thing that convinced my Mom to pursue a relationship with my Dad over all the other frat-boys was his ability to hold onto something without dropping it while drunk.
Unlike the movies, fraternities always kept a few engineering students around to keep their average GPA up to avoid being shutdown or kicked off campus.
I got the company I worked for in Sunnyvale to pay the moving expenses for me to relocate to a field office in Illinois and kept my original salary while getting to enjoy half the cost of living.
The Mars Bar was discontinued in the US in 2002. What is sold as a Mars Bar in Europe is not the same recipe as what was sold in the US either. Attend any county or state fair in the US and you will see plenty of deep fried treats including: Snickers, Oreos, Twinkies, bubble-gum, beer, butter, Cinnabon, and more.
My paternal grandmother purposely left out ingredients in recipes that she gave my mom, but purely out of spite. She didn't want anyone cooking for my dad better than she cooked for him herself.
It tastes worse because they try and make it healthier and more accessible to people with dietary restrictions as a result of religion and/or hypochondria. McDonald's fries used to be fried in beef tallow but vegans protested and now they taste like crap. Almost all other fried foods used to be fried in lard, even Taco Bell refried beans and tortillas used to be made with lard. Burgers used to be made with regular ground beef and grilled fresh on the spot, now they are pre-made patties, refrigerated, and flash-grilled in ~42 seconds. Chicken Nuggets used to be made with dark meat, now it's all white meat, and more.
Not every studio supports MoviesAnywhere, for example: Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM do not support it. Also, some studios license movies from other studios or have distribution agreements to release movies in other regions and those agreements eventually run out.
I am curious if anyone that had purchased the same movies, downloaded them using iTunes, and kept a backup of their download (as Apple advises on their website,) would still be able to play the movie or if the digital license also gets pulled from the server making it impossible to verify authorization for the DRM?
It has been stated many times in previous years that Apple warns users it is the user's responsibility to download and backup their digital purchases and that Apple does not guarantee access to the title in the future.
A NYT's article? So, the ramblings of a 20 year old that doesn't know shit, basically. I doubt he even knows how to pronounce "San Tomas Expressway" correctly.
It appears the writer or Slashdot editor has zero clue about what a "valley" is and fails to realize that Santa Cruz is a city located on the coast of California, on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains which separate it from the actual geographical valley referred to as Silicon Valley.
That clarified, 12 years ago I happened to look for affordable housing in the communities surrounding Santa Cruz (the city itself has been trashed by drug addicts and illegal aliens.) Pricing for a room in someone's home back in 2006 was $950 a month, apartment started at $1,250. I can't imagine it has gotten any better now.
Also, the reason that area is filled with single family homes is due to white flight as people escaped the valley to live in peace from the melting pot of Silicon Valley. NIMBY Democrats are strong in that area and will fight tooth and nail against apartments, especially low-income apartments, being built anywhere near them.
What I see in 90% of homes are families that have a laptop for the mother, tablets for the little kids and smartphones for teens. Dad tends to be in the "man cave" drinking, or uses a work provided laptop, typically both.
It has become extremely rare to see desktop PC's in a home unless the person telecommutes or operates a home business on the side. Gamer's are really the only group left that stick to PC's but there is a growing trend to go with gaming laptops since they are easier to take to a friend's house/dorm.
If a company gives an employee more than $500 ($600 for US?) in "gifts" in a year it has to be reported on taxes. A designated parking spot counts as a gift and the company would need to calculate the value of it. That's one of the reasons so many people get in tax trouble for things like free tickets to an event. It's also why employment anniversary gifts are typically cheap crap (although, I really do like the alarm clock I got for my 5 year reward, it's a Sony Dream Station.)
The only upside to working at IBM's old Cottle Road site (sold and demolished now, sadly) was the office buildings were 100% offices, zero cubicles. It wasn't very pleasant though, long white hallways with white ceilings, white floors, white doors, and black door frames. Also, the office I was in had a wall of windows... that faced an area between buildings filled with pipes, weeds, and cracked concrete with a view of... the other building. The lighting in the hallways was nothing but flourescent tubes, and the only decoration was an occasional poster of yacht races.
There's a woman going through a divorce in the cubicle next to me who spends the entire morning on the phone bitching with someone about her incompetent husband and lazy kids that won't lift a finger to help her at home. Within 30 minutes of arriving at work I have to throw on earbuds and start listening to music to drown her out.
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The "Super Duper 4K" upgrade that was announced nearly 2 years ago (okay, a year and a half) has been delayed repeatedly. Microsoft is attempting to keep people interested in the game while they continue to delay the only thing worth a damn that Minecraft fans are waiting for.
DST doesn't end until November 4th.
Most of these "secret" brands are for women's clothing, makeup, and dietary supplements. It's a sneaky way to charge women more than they would pay if the item were labeled, say: "AmazonBasics Women's Vibrator". Now don't get me wrong, there are some Amazon Prime subscribers that would buy those in an instant, but they would expect them to cost less.
Manuals are printed at a cost to the manufacturer, placed in the box by a worker paid by the manufacturer, adds weight to the package shipped by the manufacturer, and potentially ends up going missing at a replacement cost to the manufacturer. The more of those boxes they can pack into a shipping container from China the lower their costs will be.
What about when Baby Boomers were the age of current Millennials? I know I fell for a credit related scam when I was in college 20+ years ago. Did credit cards even exist when Baby Boomers were that age?
Glacial rebound means the Crust is rising, as a result land will rebound higher than current sea level leaving plenty of room for all the melted ice. Such immaculate design!
Joke aside, have the Global Warming "scientists" taken into account glacial rebound with relation to their flood models?
Google was even so kind as to show an upcoming events list for the years 2019-2021, the list was filled with nothing but spam that Google had automatically put into my calendar without my consent and provided no clear way to remove. The worst part being that I never use Google Calendar, EVER!
Every programming course I took, I completed using the lab computers. We were forced to pay for the lab access so I figured I might as well get my monies worth. For all of the general education courses I simply used the computers in the library. The library had just gotten the 1st generation iMacs and I was eager to see just how awful the puck mouse really was (it is to date the worst mouse I have ever used.)
Wake me up when someone makes the Geo Metro of electric cars. Affordable with incredible mileage. No stupid computer in the console gimmicky crap, no GPS, no remote start, AC and electrical windows optional.
I use it to generate a detailed resume and have up to date contact info for references. It also is how I keep in touch with some former colleagues that I was never friends with but still care about on a human level. They are not people I would ever have invited to be friends on Facebook, not to mention I deleted my Facebook account, but I still like to know where they are working at and catch up with them from time to time to chat about the industry.
There isn't a month that goes by where a recruiter doesn't try to get me to add them to my LinkeIn profile. I don't though, because the last thing I need is more recruiter spam.
Having worked as a Systems Administrator though, you tend to have a positive impact on the lives of many people beyond your own field of employment. At least, if you are doing your job right you do.
When you have been working for a quarter of a century it gets hard to keep track of some of the finer details involved and it would be extremely difficult to keep in touch with some of these people by phone or mail, that's where LinkedIn shines.
My Electrical Engineer father got married thanks to drunken parties at college, not his salary. In fact, his income was largely unreliable in the early days of Silicon Valley due to all of the start-ups that failed. Although, maybe that aspect hasn't changed much. Kids were what held the marriage together, not income. The thing that convinced my Mom to pursue a relationship with my Dad over all the other frat-boys was his ability to hold onto something without dropping it while drunk.
Unlike the movies, fraternities always kept a few engineering students around to keep their average GPA up to avoid being shutdown or kicked off campus.
I got the company I worked for in Sunnyvale to pay the moving expenses for me to relocate to a field office in Illinois and kept my original salary while getting to enjoy half the cost of living.
The Mars Bar was discontinued in the US in 2002. What is sold as a Mars Bar in Europe is not the same recipe as what was sold in the US either. Attend any county or state fair in the US and you will see plenty of deep fried treats including: Snickers, Oreos, Twinkies, bubble-gum, beer, butter, Cinnabon, and more.
I haven't been able to find a delivery service that offers corn dogs and tater tots.
My paternal grandmother purposely left out ingredients in recipes that she gave my mom, but purely out of spite. She didn't want anyone cooking for my dad better than she cooked for him herself.
It tastes worse because they try and make it healthier and more accessible to people with dietary restrictions as a result of religion and/or hypochondria. McDonald's fries used to be fried in beef tallow but vegans protested and now they taste like crap. Almost all other fried foods used to be fried in lard, even Taco Bell refried beans and tortillas used to be made with lard. Burgers used to be made with regular ground beef and grilled fresh on the spot, now they are pre-made patties, refrigerated, and flash-grilled in ~42 seconds. Chicken Nuggets used to be made with dark meat, now it's all white meat, and more.
Not every studio supports MoviesAnywhere, for example: Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM do not support it. Also, some studios license movies from other studios or have distribution agreements to release movies in other regions and those agreements eventually run out.
I am curious if anyone that had purchased the same movies, downloaded them using iTunes, and kept a backup of their download (as Apple advises on their website,) would still be able to play the movie or if the digital license also gets pulled from the server making it impossible to verify authorization for the DRM?
It has been stated many times in previous years that Apple warns users it is the user's responsibility to download and backup their digital purchases and that Apple does not guarantee access to the title in the future.
Too bad Requiem was abandoned.
A NYT's article? So, the ramblings of a 20 year old that doesn't know shit, basically. I doubt he even knows how to pronounce "San Tomas Expressway" correctly.
It appears the writer or Slashdot editor has zero clue about what a "valley" is and fails to realize that Santa Cruz is a city located on the coast of California, on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains which separate it from the actual geographical valley referred to as Silicon Valley.
That clarified, 12 years ago I happened to look for affordable housing in the communities surrounding Santa Cruz (the city itself has been trashed by drug addicts and illegal aliens.) Pricing for a room in someone's home back in 2006 was $950 a month, apartment started at $1,250. I can't imagine it has gotten any better now.
Also, the reason that area is filled with single family homes is due to white flight as people escaped the valley to live in peace from the melting pot of Silicon Valley. NIMBY Democrats are strong in that area and will fight tooth and nail against apartments, especially low-income apartments, being built anywhere near them.
What I see in 90% of homes are families that have a laptop for the mother, tablets for the little kids and smartphones for teens. Dad tends to be in the "man cave" drinking, or uses a work provided laptop, typically both.
It has become extremely rare to see desktop PC's in a home unless the person telecommutes or operates a home business on the side. Gamer's are really the only group left that stick to PC's but there is a growing trend to go with gaming laptops since they are easier to take to a friend's house/dorm.
We see everyday how rumors cause Democrats to lose their collective shit and attack innocent people.
If a company gives an employee more than $500 ($600 for US?) in "gifts" in a year it has to be reported on taxes. A designated parking spot counts as a gift and the company would need to calculate the value of it. That's one of the reasons so many people get in tax trouble for things like free tickets to an event. It's also why employment anniversary gifts are typically cheap crap (although, I really do like the alarm clock I got for my 5 year reward, it's a Sony Dream Station.)
The only upside to working at IBM's old Cottle Road site (sold and demolished now, sadly) was the office buildings were 100% offices, zero cubicles. It wasn't very pleasant though, long white hallways with white ceilings, white floors, white doors, and black door frames. Also, the office I was in had a wall of windows... that faced an area between buildings filled with pipes, weeds, and cracked concrete with a view of... the other building. The lighting in the hallways was nothing but flourescent tubes, and the only decoration was an occasional poster of yacht races.
There's a woman going through a divorce in the cubicle next to me who spends the entire morning on the phone bitching with someone about her incompetent husband and lazy kids that won't lift a finger to help her at home. Within 30 minutes of arriving at work I have to throw on earbuds and start listening to music to drown her out.