Traditional banks find all sorts of ways to fuck you with fees, interest rates, interest accrual periods, minimum balances, inactivity penalties, and all that nonsense, and then on top of that, they're very picky (these days) about who gets the pleasure of being fucked by their credit cards.
My credit union has no fees, no minimum balances, no inactivity penalties, low (relatively) interest rates, high spending limits, and a very wide non-accrual period on new charges (something like 45+ days depending on how the billing cycle falls). And my credit union is not at all unique in this regard.
Shop around for a credit union and drop your Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, or whatever account. It'll be the best financial decision you've ever made.
One thing I'm curious that never seems to be mentioned. In both the Dell and Apple recalls, which company is paying to replace all these millions of batteries? Is it Dell/Apple or does Sony have to foot the bill?
Maybe as a gamer they're useless to you, but having to work as a sysadmin on many Windows machines, the Windows key is very valuable. Windows-R (to bring up the Run prompt), Windows-D (to hide/show everything - allowing access to the desktop), and Windows-L (to lock the machine) are all especially useful. Windows-Break is also a nice shortcut for getting to computer properties. There are a few others that I once knew but use infrequently and have since forgotten. But those 4 get used multiple times per day.
Competing head to head on hardware value seems like all the better reason *not* to release the OS independent of the hardware. Why would you pay for a Dell if you could get an equivalent Apple machine for about the same (or less in some cases) and be able to run both OS X and Windows on it natively?
Bridging the gap in initial purchase cost is a huge step forward by Apple to be able to push out more machines and increase market share. Many people always disregard buying an Apple on the basis that "they're too expensive." Now, just recently, that price gap has begun to disappear as long as you aren't digging at the bottom of the barrel (eMachines, barebones Dells, etc) or looking to make your own hardcore gaming rig.
My first generation MS Intellimouse Explorer had this problem if I made quick, sudden movements. However, after an unfortunate accident (read: dropping it down a flight of stairs while moving my computer around) I had to replace it. By this time the 3rd generation Intellimouses were out, and I couldn't make this mouse lose it's tracking or have the quirk you mentioned in my life depended on it. As much as I don't like MS software, their optical intellimouses are very very high quality products.
What kind of fuzzy math are you using? Last I checked Pi was 3.141.. not 3.183...
I guess Google won't always win. A little knowledge goes a long way to not make yourself look stupid when you make a mistake like that.
You can apply this to anything. For example, if you were writing a paper on Gatsby (to get back on topic), and Googled for summaries etc, who's to say that what you find is actually correct? This Googled Pi isn't.. why would a Gatsby summary be?
Ahh, for a while that Microsoft link wasn't working, and a couple of Torrents of it were around on the net (which I used to get SP2 for my XP Box).
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I remember hearing that Service Pack 2 will not be available manually via Windows Update until sometime around August 25. Until then you need to get it via automatic update or an external installer. However these external installers are somewhat harder to come by than previously, as Microsoft has shut many of them down - which is a shame since they were very fast torrents. Oh well.
THe Athlon FX line is not the series of CPUs that are being talked about as the cheap Intel killers. The standard Athlon 64s are what you want to look for. Myself, I am going to build an Athlon 64 3000+ system, and the CPU is going to cost me about $170. Rougly the same as a 2.6-2.8 GHz Pentium 4, but the A64 kills the P4 performance wise.
And besides, if you play multiplayer you have people to talk to. If you play singleplayer you might find yourself going insane and giving yourself a running commentary on your adventure, as in the Doom Comic Book
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Two words: Credit Union.
Traditional banks find all sorts of ways to fuck you with fees, interest rates, interest accrual periods, minimum balances, inactivity penalties, and all that nonsense, and then on top of that, they're very picky (these days) about who gets the pleasure of being fucked by their credit cards.
My credit union has no fees, no minimum balances, no inactivity penalties, low (relatively) interest rates, high spending limits, and a very wide non-accrual period on new charges (something like 45+ days depending on how the billing cycle falls). And my credit union is not at all unique in this regard.
Shop around for a credit union and drop your Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, or whatever account. It'll be the best financial decision you've ever made.
One thing I'm curious that never seems to be mentioned. In both the Dell and Apple recalls, which company is paying to replace all these millions of batteries? Is it Dell/Apple or does Sony have to foot the bill?
Maybe as a gamer they're useless to you, but having to work as a sysadmin on many Windows machines, the Windows key is very valuable. Windows-R (to bring up the Run prompt), Windows-D (to hide/show everything - allowing access to the desktop), and Windows-L (to lock the machine) are all especially useful. Windows-Break is also a nice shortcut for getting to computer properties. There are a few others that I once knew but use infrequently and have since forgotten. But those 4 get used multiple times per day.
Competing head to head on hardware value seems like all the better reason *not* to release the OS independent of the hardware. Why would you pay for a Dell if you could get an equivalent Apple machine for about the same (or less in some cases) and be able to run both OS X and Windows on it natively?
Bridging the gap in initial purchase cost is a huge step forward by Apple to be able to push out more machines and increase market share. Many people always disregard buying an Apple on the basis that "they're too expensive." Now, just recently, that price gap has begun to disappear as long as you aren't digging at the bottom of the barrel (eMachines, barebones Dells, etc) or looking to make your own hardcore gaming rig.
Uno does a pretty good job at unifying everything to be more Aqua-ish.
My first generation MS Intellimouse Explorer had this problem if I made quick, sudden movements. However, after an unfortunate accident (read: dropping it down a flight of stairs while moving my computer around) I had to replace it. By this time the 3rd generation Intellimouses were out, and I couldn't make this mouse lose it's tracking or have the quirk you mentioned in my life depended on it. As much as I don't like MS software, their optical intellimouses are very very high quality products.
What kind of fuzzy math are you using? Last I checked Pi was 3.141.. not 3.183...
I guess Google won't always win. A little knowledge goes a long way to not make yourself look stupid when you make a mistake like that.
You can apply this to anything. For example, if you were writing a paper on Gatsby (to get back on topic), and Googled for summaries etc, who's to say that what you find is actually correct? This Googled Pi isn't.. why would a Gatsby summary be?
Ahh, for a while that Microsoft link wasn't working, and a couple of Torrents of it were around on the net (which I used to get SP2 for my XP Box).
I remember hearing that Service Pack 2 will not be available manually via Windows Update until sometime around August 25. Until then you need to get it via automatic update or an external installer. However these external installers are somewhat harder to come by than previously, as Microsoft has shut many of them down - which is a shame since they were very fast torrents. Oh well.
THe Athlon FX line is not the series of CPUs that are being talked about as the cheap Intel killers. The standard Athlon 64s are what you want to look for. Myself, I am going to build an Athlon 64 3000+ system, and the CPU is going to cost me about $170. Rougly the same as a 2.6-2.8 GHz Pentium 4, but the A64 kills the P4 performance wise.
And besides, if you play multiplayer you have people to talk to. If you play singleplayer you might find yourself going insane and giving yourself a running commentary on your adventure, as in the Doom Comic Book
That's what the handy little switch on top labelled "Hold" is for, so that very thing doesn't happen. :)