I work in Wisconsin for a company that takes care of electronics recycling from CRTs and PCs to old high voltage switches and used medical equipment. We not only recieve large shipments from Minnesota where landfilling of CRTs is illegal. We also have local collection days every six months where residents can bring their old electronics and trucks to pick up larger business orders. The cost for pickup is payed by those ridding themselves of the items though for the collection days money is only charged on CRTs and LCDs because of the cost invovled with disposing of them. Everything else is somewhat profitable as processors and circuit boards can be recycled for precious metals.
There may be some better way of dealing with old hardware, but paying us to dispose of them seems to be working out so far. We handled the regulations, and I get a good job.
Is it just me or is every comment that "FOSS software doesn't have the features we need" met by atleast one reply that schools, companies, homeowners, martians, or anyone else who uses computers should be paying for open source? Is it really so bad to pay money to get what you want without suggesting that schools hire programmers?
If that's the case then they're few and far between. I have a phone with "The midwests largest cellular communication company" which I don't think is national by any means and traveling from Wisconsin to Vancouver, CA the only time I lost signal was in the desolate barrens of majestic Montana.
Unless you're talking about some time far before my time I don't know when you think each game was wildly different from each other. That is unless you've never heard of the genre that's rarely mentioned these days "side scroller" or "top down." That will cover a good 80% of games released for the NES, but does it tell you a lick about any of them other than a perspective? Judging Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 as the same is like saying ActRaiser and Zelda were same thing.
If you think windows users havn't been opting out of major updates like SP2 that both add features and whatever reason cripple half the software on your system you obviously havn't been following the news here where only an estimated 27% of customers have updated.
I would have refused to take it back. Our company (Target) was far more suspicious of people opening the cash drawers without making a sale then of registers coming up short on change. So much so that they didn't actually count the change, but any time the command was entered to force open the drawer it ends up on a report looked at by Assets Protection.
I would buy a mac but:
1) I play games
2) I build my own
3) While you can find old Macs for low prices on ebay most of the time people will give you PC hardware just to be rid of it
I think the better idea would be not to break U.S. Laws, have people in the U.S. with plenty of free time to go after you know, and then come to the US.
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I work in Wisconsin for a company that takes care of electronics recycling from CRTs and PCs to old high voltage switches and used medical equipment. We not only recieve large shipments from Minnesota where landfilling of CRTs is illegal. We also have local collection days every six months where residents can bring their old electronics and trucks to pick up larger business orders. The cost for pickup is payed by those ridding themselves of the items though for the collection days money is only charged on CRTs and LCDs because of the cost invovled with disposing of them. Everything else is somewhat profitable as processors and circuit boards can be recycled for precious metals. There may be some better way of dealing with old hardware, but paying us to dispose of them seems to be working out so far. We handled the regulations, and I get a good job.
Is it just me or is every comment that "FOSS software doesn't have the features we need" met by atleast one reply that schools, companies, homeowners, martians, or anyone else who uses computers should be paying for open source? Is it really so bad to pay money to get what you want without suggesting that schools hire programmers?
If that's the case then they're few and far between. I have a phone with "The midwests largest cellular communication company" which I don't think is national by any means and traveling from Wisconsin to Vancouver, CA the only time I lost signal was in the desolate barrens of majestic Montana.
Unless you're talking about some time far before my time I don't know when you think each game was wildly different from each other. That is unless you've never heard of the genre that's rarely mentioned these days "side scroller" or "top down." That will cover a good 80% of games released for the NES, but does it tell you a lick about any of them other than a perspective? Judging Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 as the same is like saying ActRaiser and Zelda were same thing.
Damnit the second I read his post that same analogy popped into my head and I'll be damned if someone hadn't beatean me too it while I slept.
Trillian has informed me that Wikipedia has entires for all sorts of useful topics like "asshat" and "1337 h4X0rz"
But how fast will it get me porn?
If you think windows users havn't been opting out of major updates like SP2 that both add features and whatever reason cripple half the software on your system you obviously havn't been following the news here where only an estimated 27% of customers have updated.
I would have refused to take it back. Our company (Target) was far more suspicious of people opening the cash drawers without making a sale then of registers coming up short on change. So much so that they didn't actually count the change, but any time the command was entered to force open the drawer it ends up on a report looked at by Assets Protection.
I would buy a mac but: 1) I play games 2) I build my own 3) While you can find old Macs for low prices on ebay most of the time people will give you PC hardware just to be rid of it
I think the better idea would be not to break U.S. Laws, have people in the U.S. with plenty of free time to go after you know, and then come to the US.