I can definitely understand this. Back when I was in High School, I had a part-time job at a Blockbuster Video. One summer, they ran a promotion where if you donated $1 to the Boys and Girls Club of America, you could rent any movie from the "Family" section for free every single day until Labor Day. At this time, all movies that weren't new releases (including family) were $1.99 plus tax, which came out to about $2.15. The dollar was also tax free. I agree with everyone else that I hate sales pitches myself, so I didn't push it to anyone who didn't have kids. But any time someone brought up a family film and I noticed they didn't already have the promotion on their account, I asked them if they would like to save at a minimum $1.15 today, with the option to get FREE movies every single day for the rest of the summer. You would not believe how many people turned me down. Sometimes they would say "I don't rent children's movies that often," or even worse "This will be the only children's movie I rent all summer, my neice/nephew is in town". It doesn't click to them that no one cares if they only rent one movie, its still free with the $1 donation. I could understand if the donation was $5 or $10 or any amount more than two bucks, but not when the donation is less than actual rental price.
I'm sure I could have gotten fired if the mgmt found out, but after a while I just started activating the promotion on their account and giving them the movie for free without the sales pitch. None of the customers were ever brilliant enough to actually read their receipts, so they never noticed that they got that movie for only a dollar. They were probably pleasantly surprised the next time they rented a family film that summer and it was free. I'm sure none complained that they would rather just pay the $2.15.
They've been spending the days remapping the channels (especially HD) into their new packages. Their favorite time to do this is during the sporting events when suddenly your baseball game turns into some flower pot show and you're frantically changing channels trying to figure out where they put the game. If its truly during the baseball games like you say, then you probably have plenty of time between pitches to find the next channel. Baseball: slowest game ever!
I obviously can't speak for the millions of other buyers, buy I would never have bought Wii Play if it hadn't been bundled with a wiimote. (having said that, I like the game and it has seen more play time than several games which I paid full price for, but never the less, I wouldn't have bought it at full price) If it hadn't been bundled with a remote, would you have paid just $10 for it? I would have. In fact, for a $10 game, I've also played it more than most of the $50 Wii games I have, effectively giving me more fun per dollar. But I agree; I probably would not have paid full price for the game.
Actually, I read some article about it. Creators of 'Net made a mistake with domain names - but when they realised it was too late. They logically should be made in this way - top to bottom. Protocol://TLD.domain name/rest of URI. I cannot find where I've seen it... So does that mean that in a few years after this change, we'll have the com-dot boom? Will we be living in the age of com-dot? That doesn't even roll off the tounge...
So you're saying Zap2It stopped offering their free service because not enough people were using it? Zap2It stopped offering their free service because too many people were reselling it. Of course, you have to wonder who is willing to pay for something that is offered for free, but Zap2It obviously would rather charge a subscription fee for something people are willing to pay for.
As a user of SageTV PVR, I enjoyed not having to pay for my subscription services. I've known about Zap2It going to subscription for sometime, but have failed to do the research on how Sage is handling this... does anyone else know? I haven't had my HTPC up and running all summer.
Here is a question, what would happen if you got half way there and the phone network cut out or the battery went dead and you couldn't use it. Would you be stuck in the middle of nowhere? Or would you be able to use your memory and other tools to get back home? Is yellowpages.com, or the actual Yellow Pages for that matter, going to help me in that situation either? I think the OP's point is that Google Maps Mobile is a phenomenal application, and if it weren't for unlimited internet, I'd be out a ton of money!
Then he sent you the wrong link. Ask him to go on to facebook, access his profile, and scroll to the bottom. There is a link there for "public listing", and a URL to be used by non-members of facebook. That link can also be customized via privacy settings to allow/disallow certain aspects of your profile to be publicly visible.
What plan are you on that gives you 450 minutes with unlimited data and 1500 messages for $60?
I have the 450 minutes for $39.99, and the Media Max for $19.99, but mine comes with 200 messages. Effectively the exact same plan and price as this iPhone plan. I am using the Samsung Blackjack (also bought from eBay), and I should be using the PDA Max plan, but what they don't know wont hurt them. Of course, with my corporate discount, I only pay about $50 a month after taxes.
That's just for physicists... Engineers, on the other hand, like to think of things as being sufficiently close. So if Y=0 as X approaches infinity, by the time X gets to, oh, say, 10, its close enough to just go ahead and call it zero.
To be honest, I watched that Super Bowl and did not notice that Janet's breast had been exposed until I had read about later that night online. I don't think any kids who would actually be scarred for life by that event were paying that much attention, either...
you let your kids watch grown men beat the crap out of each other, but get worried about a breast? More importantly, I would imagine, what rating does National Geographic get when they show tribal nudity?
All you have to know to understand Americans these days (particularly politicians) is that they've lost all ability to view things in perspective. Whoa whoa, whoa. Don't lump me in with the rest of those idiots. Perhaps you're the one who has lost perspective, thinking that all 300 million of us share the same viewpoints. Read almost all the other comments here from fellow Americans who quite clearly see that this is not a good law.
The Zerg have some awesome building tricks as it is; I don't know of anyother game (except WCIII) which you lose a harvester to build their buildings. But the Zerg could do more; perhaps encourage the player to expand the creep far and wide by giving an extra larva spawn at each creep colony to enhance the overwhelming force and plague-like gameplay nature of the zerg. The Zerg should be all about expanding, flexability and mobility; overwhelming forces and expanding across the whole of the map in infestation as they go. I see what you're asking for here, but that's what the Hatcheries were. Hatcheries add creep just like creep colonies, only with the addition of larva. What would be nice is if upgrading hatcheries also increased the number of larva from 3 to 4, or 5. Back when I played, my modus operandi was always to have 4 hatcheries in close proximity so that I could select 12 larva at once and create units. Maybe another nice-to-have would be an in-between building, say maybe a cheaper hatchery that didn't produce larva but would generate creep, and it didn't have to be built on existing creep. That was a drawback, being forced to build expensive, slow-growing hatcheries in new bases.
Speaking of this, does anyone know of a make/model of GSM cell phone where you can have it send the call to voicemail or just not ring OR vibrate if the caller ID is not in your speeddial/address list? I can almost do this on my samsung phone by recording an empty ringtone, setting that as the default and then assinging people in the address book another, real ringtone... but then if I set the phone to vibrate (which it nearly always is for me) all numbers will ring. I know that my gen1 V3 Razr would do this if you set up specific profiles. Setting the default profile to be silent (no "silent ringtone" required) and no vibrate would accomplish this, and then setting all other profiles to have the ringtone of your choice. The problem I see with this method is that you need to make sure everyone in your phonebook is in the proper group.
My Samsung D807 that I have now will not allow me to do this at all, it seems to lack many features that the Razr had. Caveat: I absolutely hated the Razr.
When I was in college, one of the bars I frequented had a large book that had samples of every state's ID, what to look for, and distinguishing characteristics. I had (at the time) and Oklahoma ID, and went to school in Indiana. Several friends also had out of state IDs, but usually from nearby Ohio or Illinois. Most bartenders are more familiar with IDs that they see more often, and Oklahoma just happened to be one of the less common cards.
I realize this is anecdotal, and I don't have any evidence to back up my claims, but take it at face value. This bar was also one of the more stringent bars with regards to ID; I rarely saw someone whom I knew to be underage inside. The college dive down the street had underage kids in it all the time.
My wife and I were looking at TVs, and we walked past some gorgeous 52" LCDs that support 1080p, and I told her this is what I wanted.
Then she walked past a smalled 32" LCD that only supported 720p/1080i and she said, "this picture looks so much better, and the TV is $1000 less! Why?" And she didn't seem to notice that the TV that was $1000 less was also 20" less in diameter? At $50 an inch, plus being 1080p, you're getting a good deal by going with the 52". And thats only assuming that price on TVs is linearly increasing with diameter! (which its not, of course. That would mean I could get a massive 100" HDTV for a mere $2400 more than whatever the 52" was selling for). If you were able to get both those TVs into your living room, I guarantee she'll notice the difference between them side by side, HD content playing or not.
Don't always have to take your teacher's word for it. Back when I was in high school, my Pre-Calculus teacher recommended that everyone get the TI-83 to use in class, because we all were required to have a graphing calculator. I never liked the 83, and instead told her I was planning on getting a TI-86, and she flat out told me that she would not teach me to use it and that I was responsible for anything that it couldn't do that the 83's could. Despite being unreasonable, I went and got the 86 anyway and couldn't be happier. It was easy to learn, the damn thing came with an instruction manual anyway, and it could do everything the 83 could and more. Years later in college, just about everyone had an 86, and I've still used it from time to time since then.
We used Maple in college. Being software, Maple is vastly superior to any handheld calculator solution, anyway. I honestly don't ever see handhelds being able to do what software can do.
As far as I know, and this is from the last time that I read the official rulebook that came with my Monopoly board, you do indeed pay 10% upon receipt of mortgaged property in addition to the 110% cost of unmortgaging it later.
The other two rules I never play with (but I'm not sure if they are in the official rules, without going to check), because it makes the game more fair.
You should only be able to buy/sell houses at the beginning of your turn before you roll
you should be forced to wait until the beginning of your next turn to use a get-out-of-jail card to get out.
What some people I play with fail to understand is that jail is supposed to be a punishment. That's why you have to pay $50 to get out unless you roll doubles, even after your third roll. I know its a "house-rule", but I typically like to institute a half-rent (or no rent) rule when you are in jail, meaning you can only collect half-rent or no rent at all during your stay. Otherwise, people would stay in jail as long as possible for free and collect money, all the while they don't run the risk of paying anyone else rent.
I'm one of those who enjoy Monopoly, but none of my friends want to play unless we use those house rules.
And I've successfully paid hotel rent on Boardwalk before, its easy when you own all the Red and Orange properties! People obsess about getting Boardwalk and Park Place, and are willing to trade you Red and Orange for way less than their market value should be. Statistically, they have the highest possibility to be landed on, and the orange properties have some of the best payout:hotel cost ratio on the entire board.
My idea of a useful text message is one that conveys the most information in a short amount of time. If I'm paying 10-15 cents for it, and I have a certain amount of allowed characters, I might as well use it. So I'll send something like, "Hey, are you going to be free tonight, and do you want to go out somewhere? You pick, I'll meet you there." Then I'll get a response back saying "Yes", which conveys to me very little amounts of information. So now I've got to send a follow up to clarify more information.
All of this could have probably been done more efficiently speaking over the phone, but some people just insist on using texts or not answering their phones or whatever. Either way, I ended up getting unlimited data plan, which includes 1000 messages (Cingular, this plan should just be unlimited messages... be reasonable.). I only end up using about 50-100, mostly MMS.
According to the Federal Government, you are not required to give your SSN to anyone but the Federal Government (think IRS) and your employer. Which only makes me wonder how all these "privacy zealots" got their contract subscriptions in the first place (not including pay-as-you-go, I'm talking the two year contract variety). If only they had flat out refused to supply their SSN when they signed up, since its not required, then Cingular/Verizon/whoever would not have it. Since they did supply it, and subsequently refuse to verify it, it seems a bit hypocritical.
They insist on me providing my SSN in order to stop, which I flatly refuse -- they say it's for "security" so other people can't make annoying changes to my account, ironically. If I recall, they only ask for your last four digits. And since they already have the whole thing anyway (you already supplied it when you signed up), plus they have you on their caller ID when you call 611 from your cell, I don't exactly see it as a super-duper major invasion of my privacy to provide it. Maybe they should be requesting some alternate form of identification other than last four SSN, but its fairly innocuous. You're just being an ass.
Cingular even refuses to turn my text messaging off (I never use it, I hate text messages). Really? Because Cingular refused to turn my text messages on under my old plan if I called them up. For the longest time, I'd have people saying to me, "didn't you get my text? We went to a movie or blah blah" when Cingular never delivered them. I've never been a big text messager, but I figure I should at least read what my friends are sending to me. The good thing was that I never paid for these non-existant text messages.
The problem fixed itself when I cancelled that plan to start a new plan when I moved after college. Of course, now that I actually get text messages, I realize how useless they are. If I get one more text that simply says "yes" from this one friend in particular, I'll strangle her.
I don't see how these companies get off charging 10 cents each way (I heard it was 15 cents now?) for these messages, especially when they are only 168 bytes each. Then they turn around and charge 1 penny per kilobyte of data (also a ripoff, but less of a ripoff.)
I went to a college out-of-state, as did a lot of my friends. And none of us had ever been refused entrance into a bar because of our out-of-state IDs, even though we were mostly 21 and 22 at the time. One was refused entrance one time because his (in-state!) ID expired that day, but it also happened to be his 21st birthday. He wasn't pleased about that. And I had been refused entrance into a bar once with my government issued passport, which I'm still not too sure about. But never because I had an out-of-state ID.
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I can definitely understand this. Back when I was in High School, I had a part-time job at a Blockbuster Video. One summer, they ran a promotion where if you donated $1 to the Boys and Girls Club of America, you could rent any movie from the "Family" section for free every single day until Labor Day. At this time, all movies that weren't new releases (including family) were $1.99 plus tax, which came out to about $2.15. The dollar was also tax free. I agree with everyone else that I hate sales pitches myself, so I didn't push it to anyone who didn't have kids. But any time someone brought up a family film and I noticed they didn't already have the promotion on their account, I asked them if they would like to save at a minimum $1.15 today, with the option to get FREE movies every single day for the rest of the summer. You would not believe how many people turned me down. Sometimes they would say "I don't rent children's movies that often," or even worse "This will be the only children's movie I rent all summer, my neice/nephew is in town". It doesn't click to them that no one cares if they only rent one movie, its still free with the $1 donation. I could understand if the donation was $5 or $10 or any amount more than two bucks, but not when the donation is less than actual rental price.
I'm sure I could have gotten fired if the mgmt found out, but after a while I just started activating the promotion on their account and giving them the movie for free without the sales pitch. None of the customers were ever brilliant enough to actually read their receipts, so they never noticed that they got that movie for only a dollar. They were probably pleasantly surprised the next time they rented a family film that summer and it was free. I'm sure none complained that they would rather just pay the $2.15.
I cannot find where I've seen it... So does that mean that in a few years after this change, we'll have the com-dot boom? Will we be living in the age of com-dot? That doesn't even roll off the tounge...
As a user of SageTV PVR, I enjoyed not having to pay for my subscription services. I've known about Zap2It going to subscription for sometime, but have failed to do the research on how Sage is handling this... does anyone else know? I haven't had my HTPC up and running all summer.
Then he sent you the wrong link. Ask him to go on to facebook, access his profile, and scroll to the bottom. There is a link there for "public listing", and a URL to be used by non-members of facebook. That link can also be customized via privacy settings to allow/disallow certain aspects of your profile to be publicly visible.
What plan are you on that gives you 450 minutes with unlimited data and 1500 messages for $60?
I have the 450 minutes for $39.99, and the Media Max for $19.99, but mine comes with 200 messages. Effectively the exact same plan and price as this iPhone plan. I am using the Samsung Blackjack (also bought from eBay), and I should be using the PDA Max plan, but what they don't know wont hurt them. Of course, with my corporate discount, I only pay about $50 a month after taxes.
That's just for physicists... Engineers, on the other hand, like to think of things as being sufficiently close. So if Y=0 as X approaches infinity, by the time X gets to, oh, say, 10, its close enough to just go ahead and call it zero.
That's not to say you're not right, of course.
To be honest, I watched that Super Bowl and did not notice that Janet's breast had been exposed until I had read about later that night online. I don't think any kids who would actually be scarred for life by that event were paying that much attention, either...
you let your kids watch grown men beat the crap out of each other, but get worried about a breast? More importantly, I would imagine, what rating does National Geographic get when they show tribal nudity?
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My Samsung D807 that I have now will not allow me to do this at all, it seems to lack many features that the Razr had. Caveat: I absolutely hated the Razr.
When I was in college, one of the bars I frequented had a large book that had samples of every state's ID, what to look for, and distinguishing characteristics. I had (at the time) and Oklahoma ID, and went to school in Indiana. Several friends also had out of state IDs, but usually from nearby Ohio or Illinois. Most bartenders are more familiar with IDs that they see more often, and Oklahoma just happened to be one of the less common cards.
I realize this is anecdotal, and I don't have any evidence to back up my claims, but take it at face value. This bar was also one of the more stringent bars with regards to ID; I rarely saw someone whom I knew to be underage inside. The college dive down the street had underage kids in it all the time.
Then she walked past a smalled 32" LCD that only supported 720p/1080i and she said, "this picture looks so much better, and the TV is $1000 less! Why?" And she didn't seem to notice that the TV that was $1000 less was also 20" less in diameter? At $50 an inch, plus being 1080p, you're getting a good deal by going with the 52". And thats only assuming that price on TVs is linearly increasing with diameter! (which its not, of course. That would mean I could get a massive 100" HDTV for a mere $2400 more than whatever the 52" was selling for). If you were able to get both those TVs into your living room, I guarantee she'll notice the difference between them side by side, HD content playing or not.
Don't always have to take your teacher's word for it. Back when I was in high school, my Pre-Calculus teacher recommended that everyone get the TI-83 to use in class, because we all were required to have a graphing calculator. I never liked the 83, and instead told her I was planning on getting a TI-86, and she flat out told me that she would not teach me to use it and that I was responsible for anything that it couldn't do that the 83's could. Despite being unreasonable, I went and got the 86 anyway and couldn't be happier. It was easy to learn, the damn thing came with an instruction manual anyway, and it could do everything the 83 could and more. Years later in college, just about everyone had an 86, and I've still used it from time to time since then.
We used Maple in college. Being software, Maple is vastly superior to any handheld calculator solution, anyway. I honestly don't ever see handhelds being able to do what software can do.
The other two rules I never play with (but I'm not sure if they are in the official rules, without going to check), because it makes the game more fair.
- You should only be able to buy/sell houses at the beginning of your turn before you roll
- you should be forced to wait until the beginning of your next turn to use a get-out-of-jail card to get out.
What some people I play with fail to understand is that jail is supposed to be a punishment. That's why you have to pay $50 to get out unless you roll doubles, even after your third roll. I know its a "house-rule", but I typically like to institute a half-rent (or no rent) rule when you are in jail, meaning you can only collect half-rent or no rent at all during your stay. Otherwise, people would stay in jail as long as possible for free and collect money, all the while they don't run the risk of paying anyone else rent.I'm one of those who enjoy Monopoly, but none of my friends want to play unless we use those house rules.
And I've successfully paid hotel rent on Boardwalk before, its easy when you own all the Red and Orange properties! People obsess about getting Boardwalk and Park Place, and are willing to trade you Red and Orange for way less than their market value should be. Statistically, they have the highest possibility to be landed on, and the orange properties have some of the best payout:hotel cost ratio on the entire board.
My idea of a useful text message is one that conveys the most information in a short amount of time. If I'm paying 10-15 cents for it, and I have a certain amount of allowed characters, I might as well use it. So I'll send something like, "Hey, are you going to be free tonight, and do you want to go out somewhere? You pick, I'll meet you there." Then I'll get a response back saying "Yes", which conveys to me very little amounts of information. So now I've got to send a follow up to clarify more information.
All of this could have probably been done more efficiently speaking over the phone, but some people just insist on using texts or not answering their phones or whatever. Either way, I ended up getting unlimited data plan, which includes 1000 messages (Cingular, this plan should just be unlimited messages... be reasonable.). I only end up using about 50-100, mostly MMS.
The problem fixed itself when I cancelled that plan to start a new plan when I moved after college. Of course, now that I actually get text messages, I realize how useless they are. If I get one more text that simply says "yes" from this one friend in particular, I'll strangle her.
I don't see how these companies get off charging 10 cents each way (I heard it was 15 cents now?) for these messages, especially when they are only 168 bytes each. Then they turn around and charge 1 penny per kilobyte of data (also a ripoff, but less of a ripoff.)
I went to a college out-of-state, as did a lot of my friends. And none of us had ever been refused entrance into a bar because of our out-of-state IDs, even though we were mostly 21 and 22 at the time. One was refused entrance one time because his (in-state!) ID expired that day, but it also happened to be his 21st birthday. He wasn't pleased about that. And I had been refused entrance into a bar once with my government issued passport, which I'm still not too sure about. But never because I had an out-of-state ID.