If you want to go for something more elegant, take a look at the Belkin Cushtop. It's a rigid pillow that you rest your laptop on, and it has space for you to shove in your power adapter. I use it all the time while sitting on a couch, and it even angles the laptop towards you to reduce wrist strain... which is something my dad's old beanbag+board combo could never do.
We have a similar rule like this in Quebec. The rule applies if you bring an item to the cash where it is subsequently scanned at a higher price than was advertised or printed on any label pertaining to the product (even on the shelf). You have to catch it of course, but you are entitled to the lowest of all the prices minus $10. The first item rule applies to the ten bucks as well. Many stores even have large posters (even electronics stores!) detailing this law to the customers.
Now to my understanding, the stores can reverse a misprint in an advertisement. All they have to do is post an ad in the newspaper advising the public of the pricing error, and they are no longer obliged to sell the item at the incorrectly advertised price.
This law was created to prevent the bait-and-switch that would occur at the cash. But how similar is a price tag to text on a website? Should Dell have to place an advertisement in newspapers all over the serviced area?
Well, of course your Blackberry still works! All web traffic from a Blackberry will either pass through Research In Motion's network, or additionally through the internet connection of your employer (if they have Blackberry Enterprise Server with MDS installed). On top of data compression, routing all traffic through their network lowers the risk of policy changes (such as this one) affecting RIM's bottom line.
Actually, we were using the assisted GPS feature on a CDMA Treo 650 to track a user. Whenever we pinged his phone, it would drop a call, restart, or both. Maybe you're being tracked...
So that's what it's called.. we used exactly that in the last municipal election for my riding in St-Laurent Quebec.
It seems that many people are assuming that Quebec used the same Diebold electronic voting machines, when they were clearly not. This press release is outlining the problems of an electronic means of counting paper ballots, which are 100% verifiable if the counting machine fails.
Here's how the voting process went: After voting on a ballot that looked similar to previous elections, the ballot was inserted into a black cardboard holder, which was then fed into a rather simple looking machine. I was astonished when I later found out that these boxes were actually counting the votes as they went in. (And yes, I do live, eat, drink Pepsi and vote in Quebec)
If we have problems counting regular-looking paper ballots, how are we supposed to trust our votes to a machine?
Applicants with a large line of credit (which is maxed out) might also be ones who are easily exploitable; they might be more desperate than others to pay off their bills. Are we going to see companies seeking employees that can be abused, knowing that they'll come crawling back in fear of losing their job? Suddenly a good credit rating doesn't look so great anymore...
Orderlies, not nurses, are the ones who move the (increasingly heavier) patients. You'll find that the gender of the people working in this position are mostly male.
It's not a matter of being a "calendar expert," but rather being a marketing expert. Marketers are sensationalists. Compare 99.98% to 99.99%. If they give you all the numbers to do the work, you won't see it from their point of view. If they do all the math for you, and they present it in such a way that your boss who only wants to see "executive summaries" (and is most likely scared by numbers), they can generate buzz about their company.
The article is not necessarily biased towards Windows. It's biased towards causing a stir, and being sensational. How many companies release statistics of 0.01% difference? We don't know, because we don't care. We want big numbers, and as long as we want big numbers, we'll keep getting them.
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Not necessarily -- with the advent of VoIP, we no longer need to run copper into a physical address to get a phone number. You can sign up to get a 1-800 DID (direct inward dialing) phone number over the internet, just as easily as you could sign up for a hosted server. Use a few (stolen) credit cards, and you're off to the races.
Now if they would get rid of that horrible on-hold music, we might have something to worry about...
Why not skip all the other numbers? So Dell can suck another $300 out of you when the big red tool-tip tells you that your hard disk will limit you from using all the cool features of Vista, and you need a 72gig 15krpm drive which has a 7.0 rating. Now your rating is 4, and all thats limiting you is your CPU, which will cost only $300 to upgrade...
Why don't you save yourself the hassle of upgrading part by part, suck it up, and buy a Dell XPS 600 Renegate for $10k? One click, and you're Vista ready... problem solved!
Does anyone remember their chemistry classes? There's something called a limiting reagent. If you don't have enough of a certain compound, the whole process is limited by that one agent.
Vista appears to be no different -- if your "limiting reagent" is the rating amount of video RAM, you cannot produce a total 5.2 score. Nor can you take the average, so you're stuck with 3.7. You also don't have enough to meet the 4 threshold, so you're stuck with less than 4... which turns out to be a 3 on the Vista step-scale.
Not quite what they taught you in chemistry class, but since when has school taught you anything applicable to the real world?
We're still using CDs? I thought people used DVDs for archiving, and iPods for music.
Joking aside, I haven't purchased a spindle of CDs in over a year. They cost more per unit (in Canada) than a blank DVD, yet yield more than 6x the capacity. This move might just force many people to do the same... and buy a few CD-RWs to still have that "legacy" capability.
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If you want to go for something more elegant, take a look at the Belkin Cushtop. It's a rigid pillow that you rest your laptop on, and it has space for you to shove in your power adapter. I use it all the time while sitting on a couch, and it even angles the laptop towards you to reduce wrist strain... which is something my dad's old beanbag+board combo could never do.
We have a similar rule like this in Quebec. The rule applies if you bring an item to the cash where it is subsequently scanned at a higher price than was advertised or printed on any label pertaining to the product (even on the shelf). You have to catch it of course, but you are entitled to the lowest of all the prices minus $10. The first item rule applies to the ten bucks as well. Many stores even have large posters (even electronics stores!) detailing this law to the customers.
Now to my understanding, the stores can reverse a misprint in an advertisement. All they have to do is post an ad in the newspaper advising the public of the pricing error, and they are no longer obliged to sell the item at the incorrectly advertised price.
This law was created to prevent the bait-and-switch that would occur at the cash. But how similar is a price tag to text on a website? Should Dell have to place an advertisement in newspapers all over the serviced area?
Well, of course your Blackberry still works! All web traffic from a Blackberry will either pass through Research In Motion's network, or additionally through the internet connection of your employer (if they have Blackberry Enterprise Server with MDS installed). On top of data compression, routing all traffic through their network lowers the risk of policy changes (such as this one) affecting RIM's bottom line.
Actually, we were using the assisted GPS feature on a CDMA Treo 650 to track a user. Whenever we pinged his phone, it would drop a call, restart, or both. Maybe you're being tracked...
So that's what it's called.. we used exactly that in the last municipal election for my riding in St-Laurent Quebec.
It seems that many people are assuming that Quebec used the same Diebold electronic voting machines, when they were clearly not. This press release is outlining the problems of an electronic means of counting paper ballots, which are 100% verifiable if the counting machine fails.
Here's how the voting process went: After voting on a ballot that looked similar to previous elections, the ballot was inserted into a black cardboard holder, which was then fed into a rather simple looking machine. I was astonished when I later found out that these boxes were actually counting the votes as they went in. (And yes, I do live, eat, drink Pepsi and vote in Quebec)
If we have problems counting regular-looking paper ballots, how are we supposed to trust our votes to a machine?
Applicants with a large line of credit (which is maxed out) might also be ones who are easily exploitable; they might be more desperate than others to pay off their bills. Are we going to see companies seeking employees that can be abused, knowing that they'll come crawling back in fear of losing their job? Suddenly a good credit rating doesn't look so great anymore...
Orderlies, not nurses, are the ones who move the (increasingly heavier) patients. You'll find that the gender of the people working in this position are mostly male.
I don't think they're trying to get Apple to stop selling iPods. Have you heard of the phrase "No publicity is bad publicity"?
If Apple's iPod is stealing ideas from Creative, consumers might think that Creative's products are comparable to the #1 music player on the market.
I think I smell a publicity stunt... and hey, if we can make Apple spend a few dollars on lawyers, maybe they won't have as much money for R&D.
You must work for one of the hard disk companies; we like our "Mega" to mean 2^20.
It's not a matter of being a "calendar expert," but rather being a marketing expert. Marketers are sensationalists. Compare 99.98% to 99.99%. If they give you all the numbers to do the work, you won't see it from their point of view. If they do all the math for you, and they present it in such a way that your boss who only wants to see "executive summaries" (and is most likely scared by numbers), they can generate buzz about their company.
The article is not necessarily biased towards Windows. It's biased towards causing a stir, and being sensational. How many companies release statistics of 0.01% difference? We don't know, because we don't care. We want big numbers, and as long as we want big numbers, we'll keep getting them.
Not necessarily -- with the advent of VoIP, we no longer need to run copper into a physical address to get a phone number. You can sign up to get a 1-800 DID (direct inward dialing) phone number over the internet, just as easily as you could sign up for a hosted server. Use a few (stolen) credit cards, and you're off to the races.
Now if they would get rid of that horrible on-hold music, we might have something to worry about...
Why not skip all the other numbers? So Dell can suck another $300 out of you when the big red tool-tip tells you that your hard disk will limit you from using all the cool features of Vista, and you need a 72gig 15krpm drive which has a 7.0 rating. Now your rating is 4, and all thats limiting you is your CPU, which will cost only $300 to upgrade...
Why don't you save yourself the hassle of upgrading part by part, suck it up, and buy a Dell XPS 600 Renegate for $10k? One click, and you're Vista ready... problem solved!
Does anyone remember their chemistry classes? There's something called a limiting reagent. If you don't have enough of a certain compound, the whole process is limited by that one agent.
Vista appears to be no different -- if your "limiting reagent" is the rating amount of video RAM, you cannot produce a total 5.2 score. Nor can you take the average, so you're stuck with 3.7. You also don't have enough to meet the 4 threshold, so you're stuck with less than 4... which turns out to be a 3 on the Vista step-scale.
Not quite what they taught you in chemistry class, but since when has school taught you anything applicable to the real world?
We're still using CDs? I thought people used DVDs for archiving, and iPods for music.
Joking aside, I haven't purchased a spindle of CDs in over a year. They cost more per unit (in Canada) than a blank DVD, yet yield more than 6x the capacity. This move might just force many people to do the same... and buy a few CD-RWs to still have that "legacy" capability.
I'll bet we start seeing guys with all of their nails at 7 inches long. How else are you going to fit all of your porn onto them?
Long fingernails aren't just for cocaine addicts anymore...
Aren't Haikus supposed to have a Kigo -- namely, a word describing what season the poem takes place in?