You could be spending that $1000/mo on daycare instead. (Well for one kid, expensive daycares are around $1000/mo, mid-range is around $650/mo. For 2 kids, mid-range daycare is $1300/mo and at that point you could get an au pair for $265/week, and if you have 3 kids it's cheaper to do it that way than spend $2000/mo on daycare). Of course that varies based on where you live in the USA.
That's just one of the many prices you pay when you have kids. So having a job with less expensive insurance but having the kid in daycare would put you at break-even in terms of monthly costs.
There must be something with iTunes though. I found that I keep all my music/videos/games on an external hard drive. I took a trip to New Zealand a couple weeks ago with my iPod, my laptop. I had all my stuff on the iPod so the kids could watch videos on the plane, and AV cables so I could hook it up to a TV.
Well... I hooked the iPod up to my laptop for the sole reason to use it as a hard disk and copy photos onto it. In the process it automatically launched iTunes and then automatically made it so I couldn't play any video from iTunes Store, and couldn't play any of those games either (because it couldn't find the original file? I don't know). I could still play things that I'd ripped from our DVDs but nothing from iTMS. grrrr.
Now I don't really trust iTMS not to lock me out of playing my files.
As a parent who buys Stride Rite shoes, I find that: 1. Outside of New Balance, it is EXTREMELY hard to find extra-wide shoes. Unless you shop at Stride Rite. 2. My kids can't tell me that their shoes fit properly. They may like Dora in the store at Payless but then won't wear the shoes later because they hurt their feet. I'd rather pay $35-$50 for a pair of shoes that fit properly than waste $15-$20 on a pair that doesn't. My husband also has bad bunions from improperly fitting shoes as a kid. 3. Stride Rite shoes (especially extra-wide widths) sell decently on Ebay. See #1. 4. Stride Rite shoes -are- good quality. My daughter (age 3) prefers the plain white/flower shoes from Stride Rite over the character shoes (she doesn't want to wear character shoes out of the store but she LOVES dora and ponies). My son has refused to wear some white canvas shoes from Payless, saying they hurt his feet (he was younger than 2). Neither kid has ever refused to wear Stride Rite shoes. 5. We have a franchise Stride Rite store and a Stride Rite owned store in town (and a couple others I haven't been to). They don't recommend hard-soled shoes until your kid is walking well (so they're not trying to throw the $50 shoes at you). They sell soft-soled crib shoes (and also Robeez) for the non-walkers. They don't overprice them either, they're competitive with the online prices (maybe a little bit more). The soft-soled shoes are a necessity if your child goes outside, to protect their feet from gravel/pebbles/sticks and cold. They might not be walkers but their feet do touch the ground, especially if they're "almost" walking and cruising. 6. They're a lot more knowledgeable about kid's feet at Stride Rite stores than any of the other stores. Nordstrom's has less selection (same price) for kids shoes. Payless doesn't give you any help whatsoever, and neither do Target or any of the other budget stores that sell cheap shoes. New Balance is OK for tennis shoes (only other local place with XW shoes) but my girly girl wants pink/dressy "dancing" shoes and insists on dresses every day, so she likes her tennis shoe-soled dressy looking shoes from Stride Rite. I wasted enough money on jeans for her that she won't wear, I don't want to do the same with shoes.;-)
I think your fit specialist friend is probably just a jaded former employee.
From my experience in voting during the 2004 election... the urban areas (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati), more precisely the downtown urban areas as opposed to the suburbs are not only Democrat by a far majority but also were the areas with voting lines a mile long. We're a swing state because of the densely populated Democrat areas offset the highly Republican rinkydink towns in the whole rest of the state, with the suburbs being more evenly distributed. I know a lot of people who did not have 2 hours on voting day to stand in line, because their job won't allow them to come in late, and we didn't expect to have lines that long when we went to go vote in the morning. I also know that the suburbs had either small lines or no lines at all. The small towns also did not have any lines. My precinct had the same number of booths they normally had, but many times more voters that day, and I stood in line for 2 hours to vote, but according to the local news, other areas of Franklin county had even longer lines. They either didn't predict well, or sent the extra booths elsewhere.
What about something like pharmaceutical sales? There are a lot of other jobs that would be useful to have experience in pharmacy without completely jumping to some totally different field.
You can call the OEM that made the computer and get new disks for it. If it's newer, it may even have an installation copy on another partition (Dell likes to do that nowadays).
Technology salaries got artificially inflated with the tech bubble. All those people got laid off and then when they found jobs (if they found another tech job), they were lower paying tech jobs.
For everyone else, their salaries haven't gone down, but all their benefits did. And salaries didn't go down but they didn't go up either. My husband's salary was frozen for 3 years, longevity pay is still frozen (he works for the state gov't), and his medical benefits went from being pretty good to downright sucky. (premium went up - doubled - , copays went from $10 to $15, prescriptions went from $10 to $20, maternity went from 100% to 80%/20%, etc). Gas prices have gone up a lot. His wage was frozen for 3 yrs and then he got a 3% raise.
So there has been some deflationary force at work. But in order to deflate to compete with China and India we'd have to have an outright depression going on in the US.
I took my kids to TRU just yesterday... just to poke around and waste time. The kids love looking at the toys, and I like keeping them happy and not trashing our house. I ended up buying Bambi II and Lady & The Tramp DVD's.
TRU has by far the best selection of any place to buy toys. I bought my daughter the Loving Family Twin Time Dollhouse for Christmas and both Target and Toys R Us carry the stuff, but Target has only a couple small accessories while TRU carries a wider selection. But the widest selection was online on the TRU/Amazon web site. Although the shipping will kill you.
So I could either go to a bunch of different stores to see what they have and if I want any of it, or I could go to TRU and just get it and be done with it.
You obviously don't work for an art school. People that have 3d rendering projects can eat up 40 gb of space before you can blink. People use 25 mb photoshop files... and multiple copies of it with all the revisions.
Frankly, I don't see that the power of laptops is enough. The max processors go up to 2 gb, desktops can have better graphics cards, better monitors, better processors. It would take twice as long to render a project on a laptop than it would on a nice desktop that probably would cost less.
I think laptops are OK for average college students, but for art students in particular, I think the better route are really souped up lab computers and big CALIBRATED monitors. The PC specs that you stated won't cut it for any of the art students, except the ones not taking any computer art classes.
To further go on the idea of having something like that in a restaurant, I could totally see something like that on a bar/counter. Say you're at the bar having a few drinks. You could sit there and play some games, watch some sports (have a spot to plug headphones in), etc, while you sip some overpriced drinks. The screen wouldn't be as big as the coffeetable's, but of course it would be protected from spills.
I could also see something like that in Starbucks. In my home though, probably the tv and my laptop is sufficient enough...
My grandparents and my in-laws are all the same way. I've repeated to them "you know, there are isp's out there for $10 a month" and they don't care. So if they don't care about that extra $10+ they're spending enough to allow me to help them move to something else, oh well, I'm not going to force them to change. They know there's something else cheaper and just as good, and if they want to change to save some money, they know my phone number.
My brother is in the indy film business and basically they submit a copy of the movie burned on a standard dvd burner to the MPAA for review. Once the movie gets its rating, then they get the movie published with the anti-copying encryption.
It's possible the big budget films might do more but considering this was a documentary and not big budget, I bet that it was done the way typical indy films are submitted.
Apple doesn't s upport anything for very long. I'm still running Panther and can't even download the new JRE because they ONLY made it for Tiger. Piss me off.
I do a lot of work with embroidery and so have embroidery software as well as an embroidery d-card reader/writer and not only do they not run on my Mac, but if I did run virtual PC, I'm not sure that it would find the reader/writer but it requires some hefty computing power and a virtual PC that's already slow would be REALLY DOG SLOW if I tried it. So I run it on my husband's computer and use my Powerbook for pretty much everything else. There's really no choice for embroidery software, the one program out there that runs on a Mac costs like $4000.
Having a dual-boot computer would definitely be ideal.
It pisses me off that Apple won't make the current version of Java available on Panther. Tiger's been out less than a year, and I'm not paying for Tiger with a less than a year old laptop!
And a big dog. Well I guess you don't 'need' a car at all if you don't want to ever go anywhere. It is impossible to fit 2 adults and 2 kids if one is in a rear facing seat, in a COMPACT car. Even in a mid-size sedan, the passenger is fairly close to the dashboard.
Maybe you don't/need/ a minivan for sheer survival, but I can't fit a double stroller in the trunk, and I couldn't take both kids places by myself without the double stroller. And since we usually took the dog and the double stroller along with bags of gear to go out of town to visit family, it's pretty hard to fit everything into the mid-size sedan (even if we leave the stroller at home). So I guess we don't/need/ to visit family, but it sure is convenient to visit Grandma once in awhile. If we only had a compact car, we'd never leave the house as a family.
Families need more space in a car than a small compact. If you are a family of 4 with 2 adults and 2 kids, and if one kid is in a rear facing carseat, if it's even possible to fit the car seat into the backseat of a compact car, the passenger seat has to be so far forward that no one can sit in it. I also could never fit my double stroller in our sedan's trunk (kids are 21 months apart and the older one was never much of a walker, she's only now getting better now that she's 3). And trying to fit our 70 lb dog in the sedan (an Accord) with the whole family inside, makes you look at the poor squished dog and feel a bit of pity for him.
THe idea of riding my bike to work is a nifty one until I try to think about the logistics of hauling the kids too. (that is, if we didn't live 15 miles from my work, crosstown, so riding the bus would take 2 hours).
So, we have a minivan and a sedan. My husband takes the bus into work (he works downtown, 1 bus ride, and parking is expensive downtown), but I am the one to wrangle the kids to daycare. I usually take the sedan to work because of the better gas mileage but any family outings, and especially if we take the dog, we go in the minivan. I can't imagine having only a compact car. If we had 3 kids, we'd really have to take the minivan everywhere.
The nice thing about text is that you can speedread or skim over the boring parts, mentally pick out threads that interest you, and read more deeply into those. You can get more information in a shorter amount of time from reading text (and adding in a static picture here and there perhaps) than you can from video or audio.
With video or audio blogs you either have to find out from other people the ones worth viewing/listening to, but you have to have extra time to watch or listen to them. Notice how books on tape take much longer to get through than just reading the book yourself.
Not only that, but these bandwidth hogs take a long time to download if you don't have the fastest connection. If you're cheap like me and have a bandwidth restricted cable connection at home, it would take a long time to download anything and not worth the effort to see if they're worth listening to.
India was taken over by the Brits way back when (and given back later), so although English isn't originally native, Indians do tend to speak it natively. (See the Wikipedia article, scroll down to where it says it's a major language in India).
That might be OK if you only had one card, but what if you had multiple credit cards in your wallet with this technology? You'd either randomly have one of your cards charged, or you'd have to take the card out of your wallet anyway.
Not necessarily. THe reason there's a demand in India is because Indians speak English (albeit a brand of English Americans find difficult to understand). Call centers are really big in India, but they wouldn't be able to find English-speaking people in say, China, thus they wouldn't be moving their call centers to China. However, if the wages in India rise enough to make it worthwhile to move the call centers back to the USA, they would probably do it because customers prefer to talk to other Americans. They're just currently willing to sacrifice that benefit for the cost benefit of using India.
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You could be spending that $1000/mo on daycare instead. (Well for one kid, expensive daycares are around $1000/mo, mid-range is around $650/mo. For 2 kids, mid-range daycare is $1300/mo and at that point you could get an au pair for $265/week, and if you have 3 kids it's cheaper to do it that way than spend $2000/mo on daycare). Of course that varies based on where you live in the USA.
That's just one of the many prices you pay when you have kids. So having a job with less expensive insurance but having the kid in daycare would put you at break-even in terms of monthly costs.
There must be something with iTunes though. I found that I keep all my music/videos/games on an external hard drive. I took a trip to New Zealand a couple weeks ago with my iPod, my laptop. I had all my stuff on the iPod so the kids could watch videos on the plane, and AV cables so I could hook it up to a TV.
Well... I hooked the iPod up to my laptop for the sole reason to use it as a hard disk and copy photos onto it. In the process it automatically launched iTunes and then automatically made it so I couldn't play any video from iTunes Store, and couldn't play any of those games either (because it couldn't find the original file? I don't know). I could still play things that I'd ripped from our DVDs but nothing from iTMS. grrrr.
Now I don't really trust iTMS not to lock me out of playing my files.
As a parent who buys Stride Rite shoes, I find that: ;-)
1. Outside of New Balance, it is EXTREMELY hard to find extra-wide shoes. Unless you shop at Stride Rite.
2. My kids can't tell me that their shoes fit properly. They may like Dora in the store at Payless but then won't wear the shoes later because they hurt their feet. I'd rather pay $35-$50 for a pair of shoes that fit properly than waste $15-$20 on a pair that doesn't. My husband also has bad bunions from improperly fitting shoes as a kid.
3. Stride Rite shoes (especially extra-wide widths) sell decently on Ebay. See #1.
4. Stride Rite shoes -are- good quality. My daughter (age 3) prefers the plain white/flower shoes from Stride Rite over the character shoes (she doesn't want to wear character shoes out of the store but she LOVES dora and ponies). My son has refused to wear some white canvas shoes from Payless, saying they hurt his feet (he was younger than 2). Neither kid has ever refused to wear Stride Rite shoes.
5. We have a franchise Stride Rite store and a Stride Rite owned store in town (and a couple others I haven't been to). They don't recommend hard-soled shoes until your kid is walking well (so they're not trying to throw the $50 shoes at you). They sell soft-soled crib shoes (and also Robeez) for the non-walkers. They don't overprice them either, they're competitive with the online prices (maybe a little bit more). The soft-soled shoes are a necessity if your child goes outside, to protect their feet from gravel/pebbles/sticks and cold. They might not be walkers but their feet do touch the ground, especially if they're "almost" walking and cruising.
6. They're a lot more knowledgeable about kid's feet at Stride Rite stores than any of the other stores. Nordstrom's has less selection (same price) for kids shoes. Payless doesn't give you any help whatsoever, and neither do Target or any of the other budget stores that sell cheap shoes. New Balance is OK for tennis shoes (only other local place with XW shoes) but my girly girl wants pink/dressy "dancing" shoes and insists on dresses every day, so she likes her tennis shoe-soled dressy looking shoes from Stride Rite. I wasted enough money on jeans for her that she won't wear, I don't want to do the same with shoes.
I think your fit specialist friend is probably just a jaded former employee.
From my experience in voting during the 2004 election... the urban areas (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati), more precisely the downtown urban areas as opposed to the suburbs are not only Democrat by a far majority but also were the areas with voting lines a mile long. We're a swing state because of the densely populated Democrat areas offset the highly Republican rinkydink towns in the whole rest of the state, with the suburbs being more evenly distributed. I know a lot of people who did not have 2 hours on voting day to stand in line, because their job won't allow them to come in late, and we didn't expect to have lines that long when we went to go vote in the morning. I also know that the suburbs had either small lines or no lines at all. The small towns also did not have any lines. My precinct had the same number of booths they normally had, but many times more voters that day, and I stood in line for 2 hours to vote, but according to the local news, other areas of Franklin county had even longer lines. They either didn't predict well, or sent the extra booths elsewhere.
You, sir, have absolutely no balls whatsoever.
What about something like pharmaceutical sales? There are a lot of other jobs that would be useful to have experience in pharmacy without completely jumping to some totally different field.
You can call the OEM that made the computer and get new disks for it. If it's newer, it may even have an installation copy on another partition (Dell likes to do that nowadays).
Technology salaries got artificially inflated with the tech bubble. All those people got laid off and then when they found jobs (if they found another tech job), they were lower paying tech jobs.
For everyone else, their salaries haven't gone down, but all their benefits did. And salaries didn't go down but they didn't go up either. My husband's salary was frozen for 3 years, longevity pay is still frozen (he works for the state gov't), and his medical benefits went from being pretty good to downright sucky. (premium went up - doubled - , copays went from $10 to $15, prescriptions went from $10 to $20, maternity went from 100% to 80%/20%, etc). Gas prices have gone up a lot. His wage was frozen for 3 yrs and then he got a 3% raise.
So there has been some deflationary force at work. But in order to deflate to compete with China and India we'd have to have an outright depression going on in the US.
I took my kids to TRU just yesterday... just to poke around and waste time. The kids love looking at the toys, and I like keeping them happy and not trashing our house. I ended up buying Bambi II and Lady & The Tramp DVD's.
TRU has by far the best selection of any place to buy toys. I bought my daughter the Loving Family Twin Time Dollhouse for Christmas and both Target and Toys R Us carry the stuff, but Target has only a couple small accessories while TRU carries a wider selection. But the widest selection was online on the TRU/Amazon web site. Although the shipping will kill you.
So I could either go to a bunch of different stores to see what they have and if I want any of it, or I could go to TRU and just get it and be done with it.
You obviously don't work for an art school. People that have 3d rendering projects can eat up 40 gb of space before you can blink. People use 25 mb photoshop files... and multiple copies of it with all the revisions.
Frankly, I don't see that the power of laptops is enough. The max processors go up to 2 gb, desktops can have better graphics cards, better monitors, better processors. It would take twice as long to render a project on a laptop than it would on a nice desktop that probably would cost less.
I think laptops are OK for average college students, but for art students in particular, I think the better route are really souped up lab computers and big CALIBRATED monitors. The PC specs that you stated won't cut it for any of the art students, except the ones not taking any computer art classes.
To further go on the idea of having something like that in a restaurant, I could totally see something like that on a bar/counter. Say you're at the bar having a few drinks. You could sit there and play some games, watch some sports (have a spot to plug headphones in), etc, while you sip some overpriced drinks. The screen wouldn't be as big as the coffeetable's, but of course it would be protected from spills.
I could also see something like that in Starbucks. In my home though, probably the tv and my laptop is sufficient enough...
My grandparents and my in-laws are all the same way. I've repeated to them "you know, there are isp's out there for $10 a month" and they don't care. So if they don't care about that extra $10+ they're spending enough to allow me to help them move to something else, oh well, I'm not going to force them to change. They know there's something else cheaper and just as good, and if they want to change to save some money, they know my phone number.
My brother is in the indy film business and basically they submit a copy of the movie burned on a standard dvd burner to the MPAA for review. Once the movie gets its rating, then they get the movie published with the anti-copying encryption.
It's possible the big budget films might do more but considering this was a documentary and not big budget, I bet that it was done the way typical indy films are submitted.
Apple doesn't s upport anything for very long. I'm still running Panther and can't even download the new JRE because they ONLY made it for Tiger. Piss me off.
I do a lot of work with embroidery and so have embroidery software as well as an embroidery d-card reader/writer and not only do they not run on my Mac, but if I did run virtual PC, I'm not sure that it would find the reader/writer but it requires some hefty computing power and a virtual PC that's already slow would be REALLY DOG SLOW if I tried it. So I run it on my husband's computer and use my Powerbook for pretty much everything else. There's really no choice for embroidery software, the one program out there that runs on a Mac costs like $4000.
Having a dual-boot computer would definitely be ideal.
It pisses me off that Apple won't make the current version of Java available on Panther. Tiger's been out less than a year, and I'm not paying for Tiger with a less than a year old laptop!
You can set up Exchange for Pop3 or Imap4, but you've got to get your sysadmin to do the setup. That's how I get it to work with handhelds.
And a big dog.
/need/ a minivan for sheer survival, but I can't fit a double stroller in the trunk, and I couldn't take both kids places by myself without the double stroller. And since we usually took the dog and the double stroller along with bags of gear to go out of town to visit family, it's pretty hard to fit everything into the mid-size sedan (even if we leave the stroller at home). So I guess we don't /need/ to visit family, but it sure is convenient to visit Grandma once in awhile. If we only had a compact car, we'd never leave the house as a family.
Well I guess you don't 'need' a car at all if you don't want to ever go anywhere. It is impossible to fit 2 adults and 2 kids if one is in a rear facing seat, in a COMPACT car. Even in a mid-size sedan, the passenger is fairly close to the dashboard.
Maybe you don't
Families need more space in a car than a small compact. If you are a family of 4 with 2 adults and 2 kids, and if one kid is in a rear facing carseat, if it's even possible to fit the car seat into the backseat of a compact car, the passenger seat has to be so far forward that no one can sit in it. I also could never fit my double stroller in our sedan's trunk (kids are 21 months apart and the older one was never much of a walker, she's only now getting better now that she's 3). And trying to fit our 70 lb dog in the sedan (an Accord) with the whole family inside, makes you look at the poor squished dog and feel a bit of pity for him.
THe idea of riding my bike to work is a nifty one until I try to think about the logistics of hauling the kids too. (that is, if we didn't live 15 miles from my work, crosstown, so riding the bus would take 2 hours).
So, we have a minivan and a sedan. My husband takes the bus into work (he works downtown, 1 bus ride, and parking is expensive downtown), but I am the one to wrangle the kids to daycare. I usually take the sedan to work because of the better gas mileage but any family outings, and especially if we take the dog, we go in the minivan. I can't imagine having only a compact car. If we had 3 kids, we'd really have to take the minivan everywhere.
The nice thing about text is that you can speedread or skim over the boring parts, mentally pick out threads that interest you, and read more deeply into those. You can get more information in a shorter amount of time from reading text (and adding in a static picture here and there perhaps) than you can from video or audio.
With video or audio blogs you either have to find out from other people the ones worth viewing/listening to, but you have to have extra time to watch or listen to them. Notice how books on tape take much longer to get through than just reading the book yourself.
Not only that, but these bandwidth hogs take a long time to download if you don't have the fastest connection. If you're cheap like me and have a bandwidth restricted cable connection at home, it would take a long time to download anything and not worth the effort to see if they're worth listening to.
Slashdotted already?? And to think I was all ready to fork over some money for an unseen movie, too!
There's still an image there *washes eyes out with soap*
India was taken over by the Brits way back when (and given back later), so although English isn't originally native, Indians do tend to speak it natively. (See the Wikipedia article, scroll down to where it says it's a major language in India).
That might be OK if you only had one card, but what if you had multiple credit cards in your wallet with this technology? You'd either randomly have one of your cards charged, or you'd have to take the card out of your wallet anyway.
Not necessarily. THe reason there's a demand in India is because Indians speak English (albeit a brand of English Americans find difficult to understand). Call centers are really big in India, but they wouldn't be able to find English-speaking people in say, China, thus they wouldn't be moving their call centers to China. However, if the wages in India rise enough to make it worthwhile to move the call centers back to the USA, they would probably do it because customers prefer to talk to other Americans. They're just currently willing to sacrifice that benefit for the cost benefit of using India.