That won't take much longer. Let fuel costs keep climbing and it won't be economical to move cattle to the feed lots or transport the beef to the super markets, at least at a price most people can afford. Not a major problem for me, after the gall bladder went, beef and I just don't agree anymore.
Dell, the people who almost weekly ask me about the DVD tray when I tell them the video is bad? Apple on the other hand has repaired everything I have sent them, and replaced my battery out of warranty. After a serially unpleasant email about an issue I had last year, the guy on the phone made my appointment at the store and followed up twice.
I am not buying another one because of the whole app store nonsense, and to be honest KDE on whatever distro I'm using today gives me the user experience I want, but I can't fault there support.
That and the graphics on the 13.3 are a worse joke than the last go round.
Ahhh, HP, now there is a company that has made me some serious support money. From 04 to 07 I think every HP laptop must have died. Now the Dell Precision workstations I've encountered from '06 have held up far better than I would have ever believed.
Personally my late 2009 MacBook Pro 13.3 has encoded several dozen movies at 100% CPU load for about 40 min each and not crashed once.
Why would you have to upgrade? My circa 2005/6 MacBook is running just fine, (gen 1 core duo), the Core 2 MacBook Pro I have is suffering no issues (2006), and my newer 09 MacBook Pro has no issues. The first two placed with family but I still end up upgrading them.
It might have been better if we (The US) hadn't just sat on our hands and let this nut job take power back in 79/80. If I recall correctly it was the UK which effectively handed him power. He ran Zanu PF which was more or less a terrorist group.
Actually, since they scan your license at most stores now, you can't buy any "D" drugs over your allotted limit. I know, I take 1 12 hour allergy pill every day, and on those silly occasions I thought I should pick them up before I ran out (3 pills left), I was denied my medication.
I did once buy them early at "Safeway", but they only required me to sign the book, but unless they take 3 years to audit such things I probably won't be arrested for a few weeks yet. Besides, do you have any idea the amount of those silly pills you would need to buy in order to make Meth? My understanding is that it requires something in the range of a pallet, and while I have no idea how many little boxes with their safety packaging would fit on that (I can't imagine some meth head popping out 1 pill at a time), I do have pallets of computers at work, and that would be a lot. Making a case against a person for unreasonably trying to buy a 1 month supply of allergy medication with a working decongestant would be a bit difficult, and before you get all defensive, 2 bottles of NyQuil would also be a hard case.
Especially given how this person did this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn#2007_arrest
Yes, but bear in mind that should anything ever happen such as a game not work, you have 0 recourse.
If for instance you upset them they can terminate your account blocking access to all of your games.
If say you attempt a charge back on a game that doesn't work and they will not support, they will terminate access to your account and all the software you have bought through them, and then the charge back will be declined.
Steam is great.
That is actually pretty rough. $10,000 isn't much when you plan to manufacture 5 or 10 million cables. $210,000 for a 5 million cable run vs. $10,000,000 at $2 per device.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but uhm, dude, I own a Yaris ($14,400 with every feature available) and it came with an Aux port right by the e-brake. Plug a $5 (non-apple or Belkin) cable from the iPhone to the Aux port, hit Aux on the stock stereo and crank up because of the crappy noise insulation on the damn car, and listen.
I went high tech/high cost and bought the $29.99 cable at Radio shack that not only charges said iPhone but also allows me to plug in at the same time.
I can't wait to trade this car in, it was a mistake. Should have gotten the 4 door, but tried to save money, gas was $4.10 a gallon and it was supposed to get 36/38mpg, more like 29 city and 38 highway.
No, just using worst case examples. Non-negotiated rates on Bypass surgery can exceed $250,000. That only covers the Surgery. The guy who puts you to sleep is extra.
2 rounds of Chemo and the associated medication to treat the side effects can run into the hudreds of thousands as well.
No, I have to disagree there. I have employer provided health insurance. It isn't bad, only $72 a month. On top of this I have $1000 in a FSA.
Not a bad deal, until I have to use it.
10% copay on all hospital care, 3rd party approval for an MRI, 3rd party approval for knee surgery so I can stop living in pain, and a $2.5 million life time cap.
Insurance based out of CA, keeps billing me as out of network when the providers I go to are in network, just not in CA.
So, basically, if I had this insurance when my Gall Bladder decided to go, that would have cost me over $1000 just for that visit. If I developed Cancer or a Heart Issue I would blow that lifetime cap. If this 3rd party, whoever they are, decides I don't need the surgery to repair my knee (something two doctors agree I need) I could spend a few years appealing it and never get the surgery. Which I will have to pay 10% of. They will also probably try to claim I'm not in network again because they don't talk to their local affiliate.
This is why I complain. This is nonsense. Imagine having to pay 10% of a $250,000 heart surgery? Indian hospitals become tempting at that point. You spend $25,000 not including your deductible, bills for your actual hospitalization, ambulance, food, and the anesthesiologist. On top of all that you just blew 10% of your total life time cap. After which you get into your follow up care, rehab, and the various tests they will want to run.
So, if I killed my cable TV, cell phone, and internet. Two of which are actually closer to a must have for work purposes. (Just not deductible on my taxes yet) In 12.5 years I would be able to save enough to not go bankrupt if I follow in the footsteps of most of the men in my family. Unlike most of them, I don't smoke, drink, and try to keep my weight down to avoid this very situation.
And Voice Control is garbage. Until I deleted the one abba song my wife put on there, it did not matter what I said, Waterloo started playing in Spanish.
Play VNV Nation = Abba
Play New Order = Abba
Play True Faith = Abba
Call Home = Abba
I gave up.
As someone who owns one, this has puzzled me, much as the entire text message thing does. I have a phone, it has email. I click the button, take the picture, tap the screen to email it, type the first two letter of the persons name, select the address, send. total time 15 sec.
Why bother with MMS.
But then, I don't text either.
Phones have been bound to contracts for years now, but I have multiple unlocked Nokia's from the original AT&T wireless, the new formerly Cingular at&t wireless, and T-Mobile. I actually swapped my work sim into my old Nokia because the new Samsung they gave me had no reception. However the iPhone can not be unlocked by asking the nice folks at the store or looking up the codes online. No, I have to jailbreak it, something I've not bothered with. at&t, while absolute and lasting proof of the evil that resides within the souls mankind, is the only cell provider with decent coverage at my house. I think they jam the others, it makes no sense.
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That won't take much longer. Let fuel costs keep climbing and it won't be economical to move cattle to the feed lots or transport the beef to the super markets, at least at a price most people can afford. Not a major problem for me, after the gall bladder went, beef and I just don't agree anymore.
Dell, the people who almost weekly ask me about the DVD tray when I tell them the video is bad? Apple on the other hand has repaired everything I have sent them, and replaced my battery out of warranty. After a serially unpleasant email about an issue I had last year, the guy on the phone made my appointment at the store and followed up twice. I am not buying another one because of the whole app store nonsense, and to be honest KDE on whatever distro I'm using today gives me the user experience I want, but I can't fault there support. That and the graphics on the 13.3 are a worse joke than the last go round.
You are, just about every Apple laptop I've owned has gone in once. After that 0 issues.
Ahhh, HP, now there is a company that has made me some serious support money. From 04 to 07 I think every HP laptop must have died. Now the Dell Precision workstations I've encountered from '06 have held up far better than I would have ever believed. Personally my late 2009 MacBook Pro 13.3 has encoded several dozen movies at 100% CPU load for about 40 min each and not crashed once.
Why would you have to upgrade? My circa 2005/6 MacBook is running just fine, (gen 1 core duo), the Core 2 MacBook Pro I have is suffering no issues (2006), and my newer 09 MacBook Pro has no issues. The first two placed with family but I still end up upgrading them.
It might have been better if we (The US) hadn't just sat on our hands and let this nut job take power back in 79/80. If I recall correctly it was the UK which effectively handed him power. He ran Zanu PF which was more or less a terrorist group.
Actually, since they scan your license at most stores now, you can't buy any "D" drugs over your allotted limit. I know, I take 1 12 hour allergy pill every day, and on those silly occasions I thought I should pick them up before I ran out (3 pills left), I was denied my medication. I did once buy them early at "Safeway", but they only required me to sign the book, but unless they take 3 years to audit such things I probably won't be arrested for a few weeks yet. Besides, do you have any idea the amount of those silly pills you would need to buy in order to make Meth? My understanding is that it requires something in the range of a pallet, and while I have no idea how many little boxes with their safety packaging would fit on that (I can't imagine some meth head popping out 1 pill at a time), I do have pallets of computers at work, and that would be a lot. Making a case against a person for unreasonably trying to buy a 1 month supply of allergy medication with a working decongestant would be a bit difficult, and before you get all defensive, 2 bottles of NyQuil would also be a hard case. Especially given how this person did this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn#2007_arrest
Yes, but bear in mind that should anything ever happen such as a game not work, you have 0 recourse. If for instance you upset them they can terminate your account blocking access to all of your games. If say you attempt a charge back on a game that doesn't work and they will not support, they will terminate access to your account and all the software you have bought through them, and then the charge back will be declined. Steam is great.
Actually, if I recall correctly from my bad old days at an Engineering society, there is a nuclear time bomb. This isn't the article from the Environmental Engineering Journal, but I don't feel like paying for that. http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/sabotage_and_attacks_on_reactors/impacts-of-a-terrorist-attack.html
Two hundred million people live in NC, wow!
That is actually pretty rough. $10,000 isn't much when you plan to manufacture 5 or 10 million cables. $210,000 for a 5 million cable run vs. $10,000,000 at $2 per device.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but uhm, dude, I own a Yaris ($14,400 with every feature available) and it came with an Aux port right by the e-brake. Plug a $5 (non-apple or Belkin) cable from the iPhone to the Aux port, hit Aux on the stock stereo and crank up because of the crappy noise insulation on the damn car, and listen. I went high tech/high cost and bought the $29.99 cable at Radio shack that not only charges said iPhone but also allows me to plug in at the same time. I can't wait to trade this car in, it was a mistake. Should have gotten the 4 door, but tried to save money, gas was $4.10 a gallon and it was supposed to get 36/38mpg, more like 29 city and 38 highway.
No, just using worst case examples. Non-negotiated rates on Bypass surgery can exceed $250,000. That only covers the Surgery. The guy who puts you to sleep is extra. 2 rounds of Chemo and the associated medication to treat the side effects can run into the hudreds of thousands as well.
No, I have to disagree there. I have employer provided health insurance. It isn't bad, only $72 a month. On top of this I have $1000 in a FSA. Not a bad deal, until I have to use it. 10% copay on all hospital care, 3rd party approval for an MRI, 3rd party approval for knee surgery so I can stop living in pain, and a $2.5 million life time cap. Insurance based out of CA, keeps billing me as out of network when the providers I go to are in network, just not in CA. So, basically, if I had this insurance when my Gall Bladder decided to go, that would have cost me over $1000 just for that visit. If I developed Cancer or a Heart Issue I would blow that lifetime cap. If this 3rd party, whoever they are, decides I don't need the surgery to repair my knee (something two doctors agree I need) I could spend a few years appealing it and never get the surgery. Which I will have to pay 10% of. They will also probably try to claim I'm not in network again because they don't talk to their local affiliate. This is why I complain. This is nonsense. Imagine having to pay 10% of a $250,000 heart surgery? Indian hospitals become tempting at that point. You spend $25,000 not including your deductible, bills for your actual hospitalization, ambulance, food, and the anesthesiologist. On top of all that you just blew 10% of your total life time cap. After which you get into your follow up care, rehab, and the various tests they will want to run. So, if I killed my cable TV, cell phone, and internet. Two of which are actually closer to a must have for work purposes. (Just not deductible on my taxes yet) In 12.5 years I would be able to save enough to not go bankrupt if I follow in the footsteps of most of the men in my family. Unlike most of them, I don't smoke, drink, and try to keep my weight down to avoid this very situation.
I think almost everyone will be able to find provisions they like and provisions they dislike. Overall I'm unhappy with this thing though.
Damn, I've been saying this for years. I'm happy to see it posted by someone else. I regret I have no points.
I did like Moon 44.
Actually, he isn't that big. He may not be on the air at all in a very short period of time.
I so wish I could mod this funny.
And Voice Control is garbage. Until I deleted the one abba song my wife put on there, it did not matter what I said, Waterloo started playing in Spanish. Play VNV Nation = Abba Play New Order = Abba Play True Faith = Abba Call Home = Abba I gave up.
There are apps to do it for free. But I have imap setup for gmail and my own domain, three clicks and the picture is emailed.
I think the AT&T network would have crashed, but more importantly, they had not yet figured out what price the market would bare for that feature.
As someone who owns one, this has puzzled me, much as the entire text message thing does. I have a phone, it has email. I click the button, take the picture, tap the screen to email it, type the first two letter of the persons name, select the address, send. total time 15 sec. Why bother with MMS. But then, I don't text either.
Phones have been bound to contracts for years now, but I have multiple unlocked Nokia's from the original AT&T wireless, the new formerly Cingular at&t wireless, and T-Mobile. I actually swapped my work sim into my old Nokia because the new Samsung they gave me had no reception. However the iPhone can not be unlocked by asking the nice folks at the store or looking up the codes online. No, I have to jailbreak it, something I've not bothered with. at&t, while absolute and lasting proof of the evil that resides within the souls mankind, is the only cell provider with decent coverage at my house. I think they jam the others, it makes no sense.
One possible problem with this is that the arbitration clause has already failed in at least one state.