I do suspect that they intentionally delay your shipment, but it was no more than a day extra for me. I've noticed if I go a month without returning soon as I do I get a new movie faster than when I have a steady cipher going for a month. Nonetheless even with the delay I feel like it's still worth it. Consider how much you'd pay for back in the good 'ol days of driving to the video store.
Around 2000 I remember buying my graphing calculator at Kmart for $50. It wasn't their nicest calculator, but it got me through all of college. I ended resorting to my cheaper and smaller Scientific calculator most of the time anyway and kept the graphing as a back up.
A good teacher will tell you that Ford was the first to make it practical for the common man by making an assembly line for it. Every history teacher I had made that distinction.
I do not have cable, but the few times I've watched at my parent's house I've seen commercials outlining very simply that analog TV is going away and your current TV will cease to function unless you have a converter. Does that mean my parents know.. No! My Dad who's a little savvy in such matters has no idea.
Another anecdote.. My friend who works at Target is instructed to tell customers buying analog TV's that they will not work in 2009. He tells them this... Do they buy them anyway? Yes!
it could very well revolutionize how the world is powered
I've seen a couple post that mention the power loss due to inverters used. But if solar panels were to truly change the world wouldn't we consider wiring our house DC then?
Anyone know any good Brick and Mortor stores in the US I can refer my friends to for cables? Usually when they buy something they have to have it now and can't wait for Amazon.
The best place I could recommend my friend to get his HDMI cable was Walmart. So instead of $60-$90, he paid $30 (which I still think is a little high for any non-analog cable).
I suppose if robots can be programmed to fall in love with humans, they'd also fall in love with one another?
Imagine being rejected by a robot... "I'm sorry this isn't working for me. Calculon... He's just more similar to me. He understands me. I mean you can't even do complex differential equations in under 30 ms"
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've always advertised my geekiness when flirting with women. Works for me. Wellllll it didn't work in college. My theory is women just simply prefer 25-35 yr old males when it comes to looking for a mate.
Add Cartoon Network to that list. I watch my Boondocks and Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the website. Although there are commercials it's much more tolerable since there is only one 20 second spot per commerecial slot. Closer to how TV used to be. I can put up with that amount. I feel like it's fair.
Hmm I think that's a sign of the industry. I work for a competitor and there is so many applications and sub applications that are offered by the company the marketing people getting shuffled around the company cannot keep up. It's also been my experience that unfortunately it's not the IT technical types at hospitals pitching their systems to... but it's the business types who have no clue as well.
As a techy who has complained about lawyer jargon before... after reading your post I'm a little more sympathetic to it now. My coworkers get frustrated with me when I use technical jargon, but I'm just being specific to avoid ambiguity.
Of course I would like my Project Managers to beef up their technical glossary. So many occasions they look at me like I'm speaking Japanese.
I think you're preaching to the choir on this one. A lot of us write software. Enough said! Stuff breaks... fix it move on.
I find it strange that a NASA spokesperson would say something negative about something that she's supposed to be supporting. Unless she has a vested interest in Moon to Mars program.
Ok call it a loan of sorts (whether it's an ethical loan is another debate)... but what I'm saying basically is why doesn't Apple front those costs to the artists instead. How about giving them a larger chunk of the profits as an incentive to going to Apple instead of an RIAA based company? They already have an advertising arm and distribution arm. All they need to do is build a few studios.
Well they do:
1)Solicit artists (though the quality is in question)
2)Provide the studio
3)Studio costs, sound engineers etc.
4)Pay for a possible orchestral accompaniment
4)And Advertising.
However I do see your point. Why doesn't a company like Apple take on all those other pieces and start their own Record company to solicit artists. Record companies see the old value they had (by charging $20 a CD, but a net-new company is willing to accept that base revenue as their business model. If I was a burgeoning artist I wouldn't mind having Apple do my distribution, studio costs, and advertising for me. Who cares if anyone buys my physical CD in a store? It's funny I get it now.
My brother the oldest of us was:
1) Put into a gifted program at a very young age.
2) Told that his IQ was significantly above average.
3) Constantly coddled that he's a very gifted individual and should use his talents.
Me:
1) I was one of those kids that went to the "special" classes in 1st and 2nd grade. I had a lot of catching up to do. This was embarrassing for me at the time.
2) Never told my IQ (maybe it was low I don't know).
3) I eventually got sick of being with the "special" kids and realized I wasn't as dumb as they thought I was.
4) The only advice given by Dad when I had trouble with my homework was "Figure it out!" I used to be so frustrated with him for that answer, but it worked I did try to figure it out.
My brother dropped out of community college (after 1 semester). Went into sales telemarketing etc. Lost his job never bothered to look for a new one. Living with my parents now... he's 33. Regularly asks me for advice in anything from paying bills to computer questions.
Me, went to a halfway decent Engineering school and graduated with good grades. Got a good job; good salary and own my own house now. I feel challenged and am happy with the challenges my job provides me. I generally seek intellectual enriching activities. What helped me? Curiosity. Asking my dad endless questions on how cars, computers, and electronics work. He now asks me questions.
Maybe I put too much emphasis on getting laid, but high school is the time to try out different things develop social skills etc. Figure out what you want to do. Not the time to lock yourself in a dark room coding.
True at a young age I knew I'd be an engineer of some type (dabbling in coding, dabbling in fixing electronics, dabbling in Star Trek), but I ddin't know I wanted to code for a living until my Senior year in College. Yes I was an EE major, but I soon began to realize how I gravitated towards the Software side of things anyway.
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For graphic designers, architects, etc. you could have it sit up at 45 deg angle like how the old fashioned drafting desks.
I do suspect that they intentionally delay your shipment, but it was no more than a day extra for me. I've noticed if I go a month without returning soon as I do I get a new movie faster than when I have a steady cipher going for a month. Nonetheless even with the delay I feel like it's still worth it. Consider how much you'd pay for back in the good 'ol days of driving to the video store.
You mean that star my ex bought me meant nothing!
Yeah so! I was four. It came with a special controller for the Atari.
C64 - My first game was a little cooler One on One: Julius Erving and Larry Bird You could even break the backboard in 1984.
Let's take it out of Escape from New York too. Why not pretend it ever happened.
To send you junk mail, and they *claim* to verify it's not fake id. Plenty of bars use 'em in Pennsylvania.
Around 2000 I remember buying my graphing calculator at Kmart for $50. It wasn't their nicest calculator, but it got me through all of college. I ended resorting to my cheaper and smaller Scientific calculator most of the time anyway and kept the graphing as a back up.
80 Gigs just doesn't cut it anymore these days.
A good teacher will tell you that Ford was the first to make it practical for the common man by making an assembly line for it. Every history teacher I had made that distinction.
I do not have cable, but the few times I've watched at my parent's house I've seen commercials outlining very simply that analog TV is going away and your current TV will cease to function unless you have a converter. Does that mean my parents know.. No! My Dad who's a little savvy in such matters has no idea.
Another anecdote.. My friend who works at Target is instructed to tell customers buying analog TV's that they will not work in 2009. He tells them this... Do they buy them anyway? Yes!
I've seen a couple post that mention the power loss due to inverters used. But if solar panels were to truly change the world wouldn't we consider wiring our house DC then?
Anyone know any good Brick and Mortor stores in the US I can refer my friends to for cables? Usually when they buy something they have to have it now and can't wait for Amazon.
The best place I could recommend my friend to get his HDMI cable was Walmart. So instead of $60-$90, he paid $30 (which I still think is a little high for any non-analog cable).
Imagine being rejected by a robot... "I'm sorry this isn't working for me. Calculon... He's just more similar to me. He understands me. I mean you can't even do complex differential equations in under 30 ms"
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've always advertised my geekiness when flirting with women. Works for me. Wellllll it didn't work in college. My theory is women just simply prefer 25-35 yr old males when it comes to looking for a mate.
How did this one slip by me. I'll give it a try. I see the UI is a little more television friendly than Miro.
Add Cartoon Network to that list. I watch my Boondocks and Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the website. Although there are commercials it's much more tolerable since there is only one 20 second spot per commerecial slot. Closer to how TV used to be. I can put up with that amount. I feel like it's fair.
Hmm I think that's a sign of the industry. I work for a competitor and there is so many applications and sub applications that are offered by the company the marketing people getting shuffled around the company cannot keep up. It's also been my experience that unfortunately it's not the IT technical types at hospitals pitching their systems to... but it's the business types who have no clue as well.
Wasn't that done in RoboCop?
As a techy who has complained about lawyer jargon before... after reading your post I'm a little more sympathetic to it now. My coworkers get frustrated with me when I use technical jargon, but I'm just being specific to avoid ambiguity.
Of course I would like my Project Managers to beef up their technical glossary. So many occasions they look at me like I'm speaking Japanese.
That area has some interesting geography. I wonder what that volcano looking thing with a moat around it is to the east of the salt flats is?
I think you're preaching to the choir on this one. A lot of us write software. Enough said! Stuff breaks... fix it move on.
I find it strange that a NASA spokesperson would say something negative about something that she's supposed to be supporting. Unless she has a vested interest in Moon to Mars program.
Ok call it a loan of sorts (whether it's an ethical loan is another debate)... but what I'm saying basically is why doesn't Apple front those costs to the artists instead. How about giving them a larger chunk of the profits as an incentive to going to Apple instead of an RIAA based company? They already have an advertising arm and distribution arm. All they need to do is build a few studios.
Well they do:
1)Solicit artists (though the quality is in question)
2)Provide the studio
3)Studio costs, sound engineers etc.
4)Pay for a possible orchestral accompaniment
4)And Advertising.
However I do see your point. Why doesn't a company like Apple take on all those other pieces and start their own Record company to solicit artists. Record companies see the old value they had (by charging $20 a CD, but a net-new company is willing to accept that base revenue as their business model. If I was a burgeoning artist I wouldn't mind having Apple do my distribution, studio costs, and advertising for me. Who cares if anyone buys my physical CD in a store? It's funny I get it now.
My brother the oldest of us was:
1) Put into a gifted program at a very young age.
2) Told that his IQ was significantly above average.
3) Constantly coddled that he's a very gifted individual and should use his talents.
Me:
1) I was one of those kids that went to the "special" classes in 1st and 2nd grade. I had a lot of catching up to do. This was embarrassing for me at the time.
2) Never told my IQ (maybe it was low I don't know).
3) I eventually got sick of being with the "special" kids and realized I wasn't as dumb as they thought I was.
4) The only advice given by Dad when I had trouble with my homework was "Figure it out!" I used to be so frustrated with him for that answer, but it worked I did try to figure it out.
My brother dropped out of community college (after 1 semester). Went into sales telemarketing etc. Lost his job never bothered to look for a new one. Living with my parents now... he's 33. Regularly asks me for advice in anything from paying bills to computer questions.
Me, went to a halfway decent Engineering school and graduated with good grades. Got a good job; good salary and own my own house now. I feel challenged and am happy with the challenges my job provides me. I generally seek intellectual enriching activities. What helped me? Curiosity. Asking my dad endless questions on how cars, computers, and electronics work. He now asks me questions.
Plenty of time to develop skills.
Maybe I put too much emphasis on getting laid, but high school is the time to try out different things develop social skills etc. Figure out what you want to do. Not the time to lock yourself in a dark room coding.
True at a young age I knew I'd be an engineer of some type (dabbling in coding, dabbling in fixing electronics, dabbling in Star Trek), but I ddin't know I wanted to code for a living until my Senior year in College. Yes I was an EE major, but I soon began to realize how I gravitated towards the Software side of things anyway.