I would trust my friends more than some salesperson motivated primarily by how much commission is offered on different products, or which products have a better extended warranty for them to make money off of. Interestingly enough, I was just talking to someone on facebook yesterday that was looking at buying a new hard drive for their laptop. Trying to decide between a standard hard disk versus a solid state drive. Several friends on facebook chimed in with insightful comments.
Hamburger meat is made from cows. McDonalds servers hamburgers. Cows are a sacred animal in India.
McDonald's serves something that vaguely resembles hamburger meat. Even if they throw in a couple too many horses in their meat, the Hindus still won't eat it. Not sure if the rest of us should, either,...
No, the Space Station module was named Tranquility, after the first moon landing spot. NASA named the new treadmill for the ISS after Stephen Colbert -- Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.
Admittedly, we didn't exactly have much of a choice with the Manhattan Project. If we didn't do it, Adolph Hitler was going to, and we certainly didn't want that nutjob to get his hands on a bomb before we did!
You can occasionally find some good deals at University surplus auctions, but in my experience, it's quite hit-or-miss. Usually what happens is that the school's IT department goes through all the old computer equipment, and takes anything that could be used in other systems, for repairs or upgrades. So what's left is basically a computer case without any RAM or hard drive in it, and it's been stripped of the OS as well. I wouldn't recommend buying a laptop at one of these deals, either -- laptops go through a lot of wear-and-tear, and by the time they get to University surplus, it's basically a piece of shit,... probably with something essentially, like a power adapter, missing as well,...
No need to go that far! Heck, just installing your favorite Linux distro on it will most likely discourage most of the Windoze Moochers from even asking! Or, they might ask and then notice that you have "something else" on the system that they "don't know how to use". Problem solved! =)
Just tell them to go out and by their own netbook. Those are about $300 (or even less) these days. If they don't want to buy it, or can't afford it, that's their problem. The school apparently has community PCs for the leechers and moochers to share anyways,...
But, strangely enough, the first thing you get in the list when you search for, "miserable failure", is President Bush's bio page on whitehouse.gov, so apparently they've got that working for them again!;-)
There's nothing wrong with paywalls, so long as you can make your product attractive enough to pay for.
Exactly. The problem that mass media is facing right now is how many stories about Octo-Mom do we actually ***want*** to pay for?!?! Who wants to pay to read the latest ***breaking news*** about some missing white chick from B.F.E.? How much are people willing to pay to be constantly scared about Swine Flu? Maybe if MSM actually produced some worthwhile stories that we'd actually want to read, they wouldn't be in this problem in the first place. But lately, 90% of the garbage they produce isn't exactly worth reading in the first place. So it seems like we're seeing Darwin's Natural Selection process at work in the journalism industry right now,...
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So, all those people that come up with the BMI indexes, are anorexic?
I would suggest putting it on Wikipedia, but it wouldn't pass WP:OR.
I would trust my friends more than some salesperson motivated primarily by how much commission is offered on different products, or which products have a better extended warranty for them to make money off of. Interestingly enough, I was just talking to someone on facebook yesterday that was looking at buying a new hard drive for their laptop. Trying to decide between a standard hard disk versus a solid state drive. Several friends on facebook chimed in with insightful comments.
Replace "Movie" with "Trilogy" -- LOTR is three movies, remember?
A couple of MPAA & RIAA attorneys sent to Iran will solve two problems, then! =)
Sure, there's not enough power to be used as a weapon. But I bet it could still make a giant-sized batch of Orville Reddenbacher's,... ;-)
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McDonald's serves something that vaguely resembles hamburger meat. Even if they throw in a couple too many horses in their meat, the Hindus still won't eat it. Not sure if the rest of us should, either,...
There. Fixed it for you. =)
Anonymous Coward might still have a shot, since s/he does not have a username or password to disclose,... ;-)
We're supposed to have Mr. Fusion by 2015, you know,... Of course, we were supposed to have flying cars 9 years ago, too,... ;-)
My guess is that would be extraordinarily bad. Kind of like crossing-the-streams-bad. Or shutting-off-the-power-supply-bad.
I wouldn't worry about anything until Sergey starts throwing chairs around!
I'm not sure I'd want to be European. I mean, they must spend an awful lot of time in the bathroom over there! ;-)
Wonder how many of these were flying over the skies of Pittsburgh and Detroit last night?
No, the Space Station module was named Tranquility, after the first moon landing spot. NASA named the new treadmill for the ISS after Stephen Colbert -- Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.
Or Dilithium?
Admittedly, we didn't exactly have much of a choice with the Manhattan Project. If we didn't do it, Adolph Hitler was going to, and we certainly didn't want that nutjob to get his hands on a bomb before we did!
I'm not wearing any pants, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia, Schools PAY YOU!!!!
You can occasionally find some good deals at University surplus auctions, but in my experience, it's quite hit-or-miss. Usually what happens is that the school's IT department goes through all the old computer equipment, and takes anything that could be used in other systems, for repairs or upgrades. So what's left is basically a computer case without any RAM or hard drive in it, and it's been stripped of the OS as well. I wouldn't recommend buying a laptop at one of these deals, either -- laptops go through a lot of wear-and-tear, and by the time they get to University surplus, it's basically a piece of shit,... probably with something essentially, like a power adapter, missing as well,...
No need to go that far! Heck, just installing your favorite Linux distro on it will most likely discourage most of the Windoze Moochers from even asking! Or, they might ask and then notice that you have "something else" on the system that they "don't know how to use". Problem solved! =)
Just tell them to go out and by their own netbook. Those are about $300 (or even less) these days. If they don't want to buy it, or can't afford it, that's their problem. The school apparently has community PCs for the leechers and moochers to share anyways,...
But, strangely enough, the first thing you get in the list when you search for, "miserable failure", is President Bush's bio page on whitehouse.gov, so apparently they've got that working for them again! ;-)
Exactly. The problem that mass media is facing right now is how many stories about Octo-Mom do we actually ***want*** to pay for?!?! Who wants to pay to read the latest ***breaking news*** about some missing white chick from B.F.E.? How much are people willing to pay to be constantly scared about Swine Flu? Maybe if MSM actually produced some worthwhile stories that we'd actually want to read, they wouldn't be in this problem in the first place. But lately, 90% of the garbage they produce isn't exactly worth reading in the first place. So it seems like we're seeing Darwin's Natural Selection process at work in the journalism industry right now,...
Not to be a troll here or anything, but where's the correlationisnotcausation tag? ;-)