No kidding. With eBay's fees plus PayPal's fees, I've been doing most of my selling on Craigslist lately, with a bit of Amazon thrown in. eBay does NOT have a monopoly anymore.
I had no idea that HD didn't actually stand for anything there. The first time I heard a commercial for "high definition radio" I actually thought it was a joke. What? That makes no sense! Now it makes so much more sense. Surprising no one's called them out for false advertising.
I assume you also get an hour of exercise per day, eat no more than X grams of saturated fats every day, don't eat any trans fat or HFCS, eat a good 25g of fiber every day, floss your teeth twice a day and go to the dentist every few months, rotate your mattress on time, etc etc etc? If not, maybe you should stop to admire how pretty your glass house is before you pick up that rock...
can also hear when a TV is turned on but not tuned to anything, and I've learned most folks can't.
Oh, I hate that. We don't have a TV that can do this, but when we visit my mom's house their TV has a setting (used for connecting to the DVD or video games) where it looks like it's off but isn't really. My husband is really bad about leaving it on in this setting, and is amazed that I can tell the difference.
It's a "cool hack" that infringes on other people's rights. Just like the advertising that can be focused right on your eardrum as you walk down the street. Nobody thinks we should outlaw all devices that can produce this tone - but they should not be used to annoy the general public. Just like you shouldn't drive a van down the street with loudspeakers blaring the theme music to your favorite video game.
Damn, I was going to ask my dept to upgrade my laptop now that the Stacks have been given options more like the old dock, but I can't live without my windowshading. I will never understand why they took that away in the switch from 9 to X.
We are not talking about people working 80 hours a week to make enough to make enough to buy little food, we are talking about average people who want more money like we all do.
We are talking about people who make most of their income through residuals. If internet distribution has no residuals, and DVDs go away in favor of the internet, they do not have a career that will support a family. It's not about making more money - it's about making sure that 10-20 years from now, they're still making money at all and enough that they don't have to change careers. That future writers will be able to choose this career instead of doing something else for a living and writing as a hobby because writing as a career is financially infeasible.
Maybe you get modded down because you spout off random opinions about unions in general while obviously having no understanding of the specific situation you're applying your opinions to?
Why are you paying $10 over the internet fee for only local channels that you could get for free with your antenna?? Does your cable company really require that you pay for a cable plan in order to get internet service from them? That's insane if they do.
When I watched the "Christmas" episode of House last week, I was incredibly disappointed and started to think maybe the show was on the verge of jumping the shark. I mean, repeats of medical cases I can deal with, but do we have to investigate the nature of truth AGAIN?
But then I watched Frozen and this Tuesday's episode and my faith was restored. Both were excellent. I mean, this week's did rehash the "can people change" thing, but unlike last week's, the new hires actually added something as distinct characters. Last week we just had 13 playing the role of Cameron, with Kutner as a dopier Chase. And, of course, having CTB around just makes everything better.
Sorry, I just realized that while I meant "improv-ing" as in improvising, it came out looking like improving, like making better. Who knows, maybe they could improve the episodes. But not likely via their writing talents.
Talk shows are more on the "reality" side of the spectrum, even though the comedy bits for those are usually scripted. And of course, it helps that the hosts of those shows are writers themselves. I don't think the cast of Lost is going to be improving any episodes. Once the pre-strike episodes have aired, that's it.
From what I could tell the level of writing did not seem to drop that much.
That's because, with the exception of reality programming, you've been watching the episodes that were in the can before the strike started. If it lasted a couple more months, the remaining shows would run dry and THEN you'd really see a difference.
I've heard rumblings elsewhere that Eisner is spewing crap, and honestly he's not someone I'm going to trust without outside confirmation. When a writer says it's over, I'll believe it.
Funny, I bought my car for $800 and the bumper (which is gold, while the hood is black and the rest of the car is red) is literally held on by duct tape. Yet I have never been pulled over or had any other issues because of this. I'd always heard you were more likely to be pulled over if you drive a sports car.
How is that surprising? There were enough people total that liked him to elect him Governor; when you take away all the people who voted against him (because they probably weren't voting in the Republican primaries) why would you be surprised that there'd still be a lot of people who liked him?
95% of americans only use it for checking yahoo webmail once every 2 weeks and automatic windows updates.
I don't buy that at all, at least not 95% of Americans with home broadband connections. The internet isn't a haven for the tech-savvy anymore - and hasn't been for nearly a decade! My mom uses her laptop on the kitchen counter to cook from recipes at FoodNetwork.com, my little brother is almost constantly on one MMOG or another, my decidedly non-techie sister is almost always on IM, Facebook, MySpace, and LiveJournal, and everyone I work with (even those who don't consider themselves "computer-oriented") uses Google Scholar almost exclusively for research.
I don't personally know anyone who both has a broadband connection and doesn't use it every day, usually an hour or more a day. The people I do know who only use email occasionally either don't have it at home or have dialup - they're not stupid enough to pay $30-50/month for a service they won't use.
The difference is whether it's sender-side or receiver-side. I have a very basic phone that doesn't have MMS. If I call your wife, the only option is to leave a regular voice mail, which has to be navigated to via an annoying voice mail menu. Or someone else might have MMS, but when they try to call your wife and get voice mail, it doesn't occur to them to hang up and send an MMS instead of leaving a regular voice mail.
With visual voicemail, if your wife wants ALL incoming voice mail treated like MMS, she can have that, instead of just getting it when someone happens to send her an MMS.
I'll be very disappointed, too. It'll be annoying enough to move my 9-year email address over to gmail. But I also use sites like yp.yahoo.com, tv.yahoo.com, movies.yahoo.com, weather.yahoo.com - I know there are alternatives to all of these, but that's not nearly as convenient as having them all together. Does google offer anything like those? I've found that whenever I have any kind of specific non-web-content search like that, Yahoo has a page for it. I can practically just type in "whatineed.yahoo.com" and it'll work. What's the best alternative?
It's really not that hard. For example, I don't shop at Wal-Mart. This takes nearly no effort on my part, literally, because not going to a store takes no effort. I don't even know/worry about what kind of low prices I'm missing, because I don't even go there to find out. I just shop elsewhere and pretend the Wal-Mart near me doesn't exist.
Listen to your brain for once and do what you want to.
But not if it involves boycotting a company whose practices you don't agree with!
But if that's what they meant, why not just decree that if you go with IVF you must have all embryos implanted? I've read stories of religious couples who did just that - had IVF once, then a few years later had the rest of the embryos done. (And usually wound up with more kids than they bargained for, of course, but you've gotta expect that.)
I didn't like it even before I noticed the new mid-thread banner ads. I also had a helluva time turning it off the other day - I've had it unchecked for months, then suddenly I refresh a page and it's checked. I kept trying to uncheck it, but it kept checking itself again with every new page loaded. I finally had to go to some Options screen from the left sidebar to turn it back off completely.
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No kidding. With eBay's fees plus PayPal's fees, I've been doing most of my selling on Craigslist lately, with a bit of Amazon thrown in. eBay does NOT have a monopoly anymore.
Dude, I am a girly-girl, but I want a candle that smells like a jalapeno bacon cheeseburger. But then, the only girl candles I like are food-scented.
I had no idea that HD didn't actually stand for anything there. The first time I heard a commercial for "high definition radio" I actually thought it was a joke. What? That makes no sense! Now it makes so much more sense. Surprising no one's called them out for false advertising.
I assume you also get an hour of exercise per day, eat no more than X grams of saturated fats every day, don't eat any trans fat or HFCS, eat a good 25g of fiber every day, floss your teeth twice a day and go to the dentist every few months, rotate your mattress on time, etc etc etc? If not, maybe you should stop to admire how pretty your glass house is before you pick up that rock...
Oh, I hate that. We don't have a TV that can do this, but when we visit my mom's house their TV has a setting (used for connecting to the DVD or video games) where it looks like it's off but isn't really. My husband is really bad about leaving it on in this setting, and is amazed that I can tell the difference.
It's a "cool hack" that infringes on other people's rights. Just like the advertising that can be focused right on your eardrum as you walk down the street. Nobody thinks we should outlaw all devices that can produce this tone - but they should not be used to annoy the general public. Just like you shouldn't drive a van down the street with loudspeakers blaring the theme music to your favorite video game.
Damn, I was going to ask my dept to upgrade my laptop now that the Stacks have been given options more like the old dock, but I can't live without my windowshading. I will never understand why they took that away in the switch from 9 to X.
We are talking about people who make most of their income through residuals. If internet distribution has no residuals, and DVDs go away in favor of the internet, they do not have a career that will support a family. It's not about making more money - it's about making sure that 10-20 years from now, they're still making money at all and enough that they don't have to change careers. That future writers will be able to choose this career instead of doing something else for a living and writing as a hobby because writing as a career is financially infeasible.
Maybe you get modded down because you spout off random opinions about unions in general while obviously having no understanding of the specific situation you're applying your opinions to?
Why are you paying $10 over the internet fee for only local channels that you could get for free with your antenna?? Does your cable company really require that you pay for a cable plan in order to get internet service from them? That's insane if they do.
But then I watched Frozen and this Tuesday's episode and my faith was restored. Both were excellent. I mean, this week's did rehash the "can people change" thing, but unlike last week's, the new hires actually added something as distinct characters. Last week we just had 13 playing the role of Cameron, with Kutner as a dopier Chase. And, of course, having CTB around just makes everything better.
Sorry, I just realized that while I meant "improv-ing" as in improvising, it came out looking like improving, like making better. Who knows, maybe they could improve the episodes. But not likely via their writing talents.
Talk shows are more on the "reality" side of the spectrum, even though the comedy bits for those are usually scripted. And of course, it helps that the hosts of those shows are writers themselves. I don't think the cast of Lost is going to be improving any episodes. Once the pre-strike episodes have aired, that's it.
Ok, here is question #1:
Which of the following have you watched more than five episodes of?
- Star Trek (any series)
- Battlestar Galactica (either version)
- The X-Files
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Firefly
- Stargate: SG1
- Babylon 5
- Heroes
A passing score requires at least four. Bonus points for any seasons you have on DVD.That's because, with the exception of reality programming, you've been watching the episodes that were in the can before the strike started. If it lasted a couple more months, the remaining shows would run dry and THEN you'd really see a difference.
Oh wait.
I've heard rumblings elsewhere that Eisner is spewing crap, and honestly he's not someone I'm going to trust without outside confirmation. When a writer says it's over, I'll believe it.
Funny, I bought my car for $800 and the bumper (which is gold, while the hood is black and the rest of the car is red) is literally held on by duct tape. Yet I have never been pulled over or had any other issues because of this. I'd always heard you were more likely to be pulled over if you drive a sports car.
How is that surprising? There were enough people total that liked him to elect him Governor; when you take away all the people who voted against him (because they probably weren't voting in the Republican primaries) why would you be surprised that there'd still be a lot of people who liked him?
I don't buy that at all, at least not 95% of Americans with home broadband connections. The internet isn't a haven for the tech-savvy anymore - and hasn't been for nearly a decade! My mom uses her laptop on the kitchen counter to cook from recipes at FoodNetwork.com, my little brother is almost constantly on one MMOG or another, my decidedly non-techie sister is almost always on IM, Facebook, MySpace, and LiveJournal, and everyone I work with (even those who don't consider themselves "computer-oriented") uses Google Scholar almost exclusively for research.
I don't personally know anyone who both has a broadband connection and doesn't use it every day, usually an hour or more a day. The people I do know who only use email occasionally either don't have it at home or have dialup - they're not stupid enough to pay $30-50/month for a service they won't use.
With visual voicemail, if your wife wants ALL incoming voice mail treated like MMS, she can have that, instead of just getting it when someone happens to send her an MMS.
I'll be very disappointed, too. It'll be annoying enough to move my 9-year email address over to gmail. But I also use sites like yp.yahoo.com, tv.yahoo.com, movies.yahoo.com, weather.yahoo.com - I know there are alternatives to all of these, but that's not nearly as convenient as having them all together. Does google offer anything like those? I've found that whenever I have any kind of specific non-web-content search like that, Yahoo has a page for it. I can practically just type in "whatineed.yahoo.com" and it'll work. What's the best alternative?
Listen to your brain for once and do what you want to.
But not if it involves boycotting a company whose practices you don't agree with!
But if that's what they meant, why not just decree that if you go with IVF you must have all embryos implanted? I've read stories of religious couples who did just that - had IVF once, then a few years later had the rest of the embryos done. (And usually wound up with more kids than they bargained for, of course, but you've gotta expect that.)
I envisioned this wave of ennui crashing over the area. Suddenly peace breaks out because no one can be bothered to blow anyone up.
I didn't like it even before I noticed the new mid-thread banner ads. I also had a helluva time turning it off the other day - I've had it unchecked for months, then suddenly I refresh a page and it's checked. I kept trying to uncheck it, but it kept checking itself again with every new page loaded. I finally had to go to some Options screen from the left sidebar to turn it back off completely.