So you're saying there is a direct cause and correlation regarding low corporate income taxes and a country going bankrupt? I'm sorry, but I fail to see a strong connection. I call total BS on your hypothesis.
Stop repeatedly using his full name, as if you want to rub in how foreign it sounds. It makes YOU sound like the xenophobe. Why didn't you use Hillary Clinton's full name?
If my math is correct, the pixel density on the "Zune HD" is roughly 167 dpi. If the resolution were 1280x720 on the same size screen, the density would be about 445 dpi.
I would say that yes, there would be a significantly distinguishable difference.
I, too, use automatic updates and installed SP2 that way. I do have automatic updates set to the "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" option, though, if that makes any kind of difference.
The funny thing is, when windows update prompted me about a new "important update", it didn't say at all what it was. Just that it was a 300+ something megabyte file, to which I immediately thought "holy shit, wtf could that be". I figured it must have been a service pack, but I didn't expect it to come out of the blue like it did. I saw no mention of it on the news sites. I guess I was expecting some kind of fanfare before its release. Anyway, once it finished downloading and started the install process, it finally identified itself that it was indeed Vista SP2.
As has been said, this product is not being marketed to Joe User. It's being marketed to businesses that rely on legacy apps and geeky power users who understand what it is they're getting.
Your average consumer will have the Home Edition of Windows 7, which will not include the built-in virtualization of XP. In other words, Microsoft is not promoting this to the average consumer as a way to make all your XP stuff compatible with Windows 7. Your average PC user won't even know that this "virtualization thing" exists.
Mod parent informative. AC is wrong. The second generation iPod Touch DOES NOT have a built-in microphone, but it does have a built-in speaker. I can personally vouch for that.
I find it very doubtful that the average person who would subscribe to XM/Sirius is now streaming "Net radio" in their cars. What's more likely is people are just penny pinching and discontinuing their subscriptions and simply going back to their terrestrial radio, CDs, or iPods.
Ah, but that does not fix the underlying problem. The underlying problem is the spend-yourself-into-huge-debt mentality that has gotten people into this problem in the first place! Bail them out now and they'll just find themselves back in the hole later.
You don't save a nation of starving people by supplying them with free food for one year. You save a nation of starving people by doing whatever you possibly can to help them become self sufficient.
I haven't heard of that situation with Boeing, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. And understandably so. Loose carbon nanofibers floating in the air have been found to have the same adverse health affects as asbestos.
By the way, I forgot to mention... yes, it is Wal-Mart policy that you're not supposed to tell other associates how much you make. But getting fired for that? Come on, that's a stretch. You'd have to already be on the chopping block to make divulging your wage the last straw that ends up getting you fired.
Thanks for the anecdote. It's not like that at every Wal-Mart store. I doubt it's even like that at half of them.
Some stores are much more laid back and generous to their employees. I work at a Sam's Club (it's basically a specialized Wal-Mart owned store for those who don't know). They pay new part time hires at the bottom level $7.25/hr. Working part time there is great, especially for students. The hours are very flexible to my school schedule. Also, it's pretty damn hard to get fired. I kinda wish they'd fire some of the lazy, idiotic people more often.
If you want to make working at Wal-mart your career, it's not too difficult to work your way up the chain, though politics and whose-ass-you-kiss do start to get more apparent the higher you try to get, but what job doesn't have that? Basically, if you do your job well and people like you, you're going to go places at most Wal-Marts. I, however, have no interest in making Wal-Mart my career. I personally find my talents more useful elsewhere. But by no means has working for Wal-Mart been a horrible experience for me.
Right you are. Also, the risk of getting caught for something so illegal simply could never be worth the intended payoff. How many votes can you extort out of people without getting caught? Probably not very many. In fact, the more people extorted, the better the legal case you'll have against the boss. One person saying their boss forced them to vote a certain way might look crazy and not have much credibility, but 100 people saying they all were forced to vote the same way can be pretty damning.
Sometimes I like to troll thru my "Temporary Internet Files" folder and pick out a few bits for posterity.
Well do I have just the extension for you! Last week I decided to search for an extension to see if I could do the very thing you wanted, and sure enough, someone had written one.
Meanwhile, a huge number of people get a quality-of-life boost from the extra daylight in the evening, which makes it more pleasant to walk home from work, to run late-afternoon errands, or just to enjoy some time outdoors on nice spring and autumn days
What about the people who enjoy having daylight in the morning hours? Just as spring gets closer and my first waking moment of the day is greeted with natural light shining through the window, DST comes and puts my morning into darkness for another month. I find that to be rather depressing. Ever consider how it may negatively affect the quality of life for others?
What's more is sometimes when you cancel your account to some website and still get their emails, the only way to unsubscribe is to log in and change your preferences! How the hell am I supposed to do that when I killed my account with you and I can no longer log in?
I was actually able to resolve the problem by sending an email to the site's tech assistance explaining my situation. No one ever did answer my email, but it must have worked since I don't get any of those emails anymore. It really would have been less of a hassle to just mark the emails as spam and be done with it.
Yeah, like one person's vote is worth $500. Or like an employer could get away with demanding to see your receipt lest you be fired.
No system can ever be perfect. You have to weigh out the possible downsides with the advantages. I'd rather know that my vote counted rather than worry about the unlikeliness of a receipt system being abused by a few people who sell their votes.
My thoughts exactly. Apple should have some sort of quality control. It might also be wise to have some kind of visible "stamp of quality" for content that has been inspected by iTS staff.
You're absolutely right it's a social problem. And there's even a social solution! Content distributors could use the same tactics as anti-drug organizations. Make "pirates" look like pathetic losers. Have a multi-million dollar "just say no to copying!" ad campaign.
What's that? They've already tried that? Hmmmm. Oh well. Hey, where'd I put my joint?
I went through puberty at a very young age. I started getting pimples at age 10 (4th grade). They got even worse at 11, and I HAD to shave at 12. It's not like it was a little peach fuzz hair. No, it was pretty thick, and it was blonde colored. If I didn't shave I got made fun of.
It was an absolute nightmare for me. I was so uncomfortable with myself. I couldn't express my sexual urges with anyone. None of my friends could relate at all. I'm also a son to a single mother. She was no help either.
I never cared about sports. At all. Maybe I would have enjoyed an early puberty if that had been the case, but I doubt it.
Today I am 20 and I have a really bad case of depression. It's only been treated recently. I've had it since I was 14. My education went to shit and I'm a social disaster.
I'm still a virgin, by the way.
Early puberty was no picnic for me.
I don't know why, but sometimes the preview samples sound absolutely horrid... like they were recompressed again and again to half the bitrate. I thought the previews were supposed to sound exactly the same as the full song, so as you can imagine there were songs I decided not to purchase because of how poor they sounded from the preview. Then one day I decided to buy one of those songs with an artifact filled preview just to end my curiosity and see if the song really sounded that bad.
It didn't. The full purchased song had CD quality. I even compared it back to back with the preview from the store and the difference in quality was as clear as night and day.
I suppose Apple does this to conserve bandwidth. Or maybe it's just an honest mistake. Either way, they lose sales because of it.
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So you're saying there is a direct cause and correlation regarding low corporate income taxes and a country going bankrupt? I'm sorry, but I fail to see a strong connection. I call total BS on your hypothesis.
How the hell did you get a hold of Goldman Sachs' secret trading algorithm!?
Stop repeatedly using his full name, as if you want to rub in how foreign it sounds. It makes YOU sound like the xenophobe. Why didn't you use Hillary Clinton's full name?
Even if they don't sue, it's something the church can throw onto the "we're being suppressed!" pile of propaganda.
I think this was an unwise move on Wikipedia's part. It won't solve anything. All it will do is add fuel to the fire.
If my math is correct, the pixel density on the "Zune HD" is roughly 167 dpi. If the resolution were 1280x720 on the same size screen, the density would be about 445 dpi.
I would say that yes, there would be a significantly distinguishable difference.
I, too, use automatic updates and installed SP2 that way. I do have automatic updates set to the "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" option, though, if that makes any kind of difference.
The funny thing is, when windows update prompted me about a new "important update", it didn't say at all what it was. Just that it was a 300+ something megabyte file, to which I immediately thought "holy shit, wtf could that be". I figured it must have been a service pack, but I didn't expect it to come out of the blue like it did. I saw no mention of it on the news sites. I guess I was expecting some kind of fanfare before its release. Anyway, once it finished downloading and started the install process, it finally identified itself that it was indeed Vista SP2.
As has been said, this product is not being marketed to Joe User. It's being marketed to businesses that rely on legacy apps and geeky power users who understand what it is they're getting.
Your average consumer will have the Home Edition of Windows 7, which will not include the built-in virtualization of XP. In other words, Microsoft is not promoting this to the average consumer as a way to make all your XP stuff compatible with Windows 7. Your average PC user won't even know that this "virtualization thing" exists.
Mod parent informative. AC is wrong. The second generation iPod Touch DOES NOT have a built-in microphone, but it does have a built-in speaker. I can personally vouch for that.
I find it very doubtful that the average person who would subscribe to XM/Sirius is now streaming "Net radio" in their cars. What's more likely is people are just penny pinching and discontinuing their subscriptions and simply going back to their terrestrial radio, CDs, or iPods.
Ah, but that does not fix the underlying problem. The underlying problem is the spend-yourself-into-huge-debt mentality that has gotten people into this problem in the first place! Bail them out now and they'll just find themselves back in the hole later.
You don't save a nation of starving people by supplying them with free food for one year. You save a nation of starving people by doing whatever you possibly can to help them become self sufficient.
I haven't heard of that situation with Boeing, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. And understandably so. Loose carbon nanofibers floating in the air have been found to have the same adverse health affects as asbestos.
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By the way, I forgot to mention... yes, it is Wal-Mart policy that you're not supposed to tell other associates how much you make. But getting fired for that? Come on, that's a stretch. You'd have to already be on the chopping block to make divulging your wage the last straw that ends up getting you fired.
Thanks for the anecdote. It's not like that at every Wal-Mart store. I doubt it's even like that at half of them.
Some stores are much more laid back and generous to their employees. I work at a Sam's Club (it's basically a specialized Wal-Mart owned store for those who don't know). They pay new part time hires at the bottom level $7.25/hr. Working part time there is great, especially for students. The hours are very flexible to my school schedule. Also, it's pretty damn hard to get fired. I kinda wish they'd fire some of the lazy, idiotic people more often.
If you want to make working at Wal-mart your career, it's not too difficult to work your way up the chain, though politics and whose-ass-you-kiss do start to get more apparent the higher you try to get, but what job doesn't have that? Basically, if you do your job well and people like you, you're going to go places at most Wal-Marts. I, however, have no interest in making Wal-Mart my career. I personally find my talents more useful elsewhere. But by no means has working for Wal-Mart been a horrible experience for me.
Right you are. Also, the risk of getting caught for something so illegal simply could never be worth the intended payoff. How many votes can you extort out of people without getting caught? Probably not very many. In fact, the more people extorted, the better the legal case you'll have against the boss. One person saying their boss forced them to vote a certain way might look crazy and not have much credibility, but 100 people saying they all were forced to vote the same way can be pretty damning.
Well do I have just the extension for you! Last week I decided to search for an extension to see if I could do the very thing you wanted, and sure enough, someone had written one.
What's more is sometimes when you cancel your account to some website and still get their emails, the only way to unsubscribe is to log in and change your preferences! How the hell am I supposed to do that when I killed my account with you and I can no longer log in?
I was actually able to resolve the problem by sending an email to the site's tech assistance explaining my situation. No one ever did answer my email, but it must have worked since I don't get any of those emails anymore. It really would have been less of a hassle to just mark the emails as spam and be done with it.
While 2006 was the year the FSF reached out, 2005 was certainly the year that the FSM did some reaching out (with his noodly appendage).
Yeah, like one person's vote is worth $500. Or like an employer could get away with demanding to see your receipt lest you be fired.
No system can ever be perfect. You have to weigh out the possible downsides with the advantages. I'd rather know that my vote counted rather than worry about the unlikeliness of a receipt system being abused by a few people who sell their votes.
My thoughts exactly. Apple should have some sort of quality control. It might also be wise to have some kind of visible "stamp of quality" for content that has been inspected by iTS staff.
You're absolutely right it's a social problem. And there's even a social solution! Content distributors could use the same tactics as anti-drug organizations. Make "pirates" look like pathetic losers. Have a multi-million dollar "just say no to copying!" ad campaign.
What's that? They've already tried that? Hmmmm. Oh well. Hey, where'd I put my joint?
I went through puberty at a very young age. I started getting pimples at age 10 (4th grade). They got even worse at 11, and I HAD to shave at 12. It's not like it was a little peach fuzz hair. No, it was pretty thick, and it was blonde colored. If I didn't shave I got made fun of. It was an absolute nightmare for me. I was so uncomfortable with myself. I couldn't express my sexual urges with anyone. None of my friends could relate at all. I'm also a son to a single mother. She was no help either. I never cared about sports. At all. Maybe I would have enjoyed an early puberty if that had been the case, but I doubt it. Today I am 20 and I have a really bad case of depression. It's only been treated recently. I've had it since I was 14. My education went to shit and I'm a social disaster. I'm still a virgin, by the way. Early puberty was no picnic for me.
Nooooo! Don't do that! Then my favorite phrase "gone the way of the Dodo" will mean something completely (and grotesquely) different!
I don't know why, but sometimes the preview samples sound absolutely horrid... like they were recompressed again and again to half the bitrate. I thought the previews were supposed to sound exactly the same as the full song, so as you can imagine there were songs I decided not to purchase because of how poor they sounded from the preview. Then one day I decided to buy one of those songs with an artifact filled preview just to end my curiosity and see if the song really sounded that bad.
It didn't. The full purchased song had CD quality. I even compared it back to back with the preview from the store and the difference in quality was as clear as night and day.
I suppose Apple does this to conserve bandwidth. Or maybe it's just an honest mistake. Either way, they lose sales because of it.