Back in the '90s there were a bunch of free dial-up services that were ad supported. They didn't insert ads into your pages, but they did play an annoying ad before you could browsing, and they forced a special browser on you that had an ad bar. Not to mention they were slow as shit.
I had their DSL for a while, but it was their "Ultimate" $30/month version. After taxes and fees, it was about $55/month. I've switched to a faster cable connection, and I'm paying less. As much as I hate dealing with Time Warner, it's still better than AT&T.
The problem of course, is that every politician wears their faith as a badge of honor. Don't get me wrong, I still vote, but I'm tired of just voting for the least stupid person, rather than a candidate that really reflects my views. I participate in the rallies, and write my congresspeople, but its all basically just masturbation.
Parent said nothing about wanting to be outdoors, just to leave the house. Sure, it's almost inevitable that you'll pass through this "outdoors" at some point, but probably just on the way to some other indoor environment. LAN parties, coffee shops, etc.
If you have to put profanity in every sentence, you're doing a lousy job of speaking it, and that annoys me. It's like watching someone drive a ferrari without knowing how to shift; it makes me wince.
If you're literally filling every sentence with profanity, then I agree with you. However, an unwillingness to use it at all is like driving a ferrari and being unwilling to put it in top gear. Don't begrudge others their willingness to use all the words in our language.
I agree that bicycles for less than 5 miles is ideal, and further than that, a motorcycle is much more efficient than a car. I drive the hell out of my 600cc motorcycle, and get 47mpg. I could get more out of it if I wasn't confirming the 5 second 0-60 every time I pull away from a stop sign. With saddle bags, etc., cargo capacity is actually pretty good. Increased use of 2 wheeled transportation would do a world of good.
While it's definitely true that many windows users will eventually find themselves with Vista, many others will switch platforms. In fact, every windows user I know, even the less tech-savvy ones, plan to switch to a Mac or Ubuntu when XP hits EOL. I honestly think that Vista will cause a fall in MS's marketshare, even if it takes a few years for that to happen.
I know that for quite a few people, EOL for XP means switching platforms. Even my non-tech savvy friends and relatives aren't impressed with vista, and know that they won't be able to run it on their current hardware. Many of them are looking into ubuntu, or just switching to a mac, depending on their financial situation at the time.
As a victim of bullying myself through much of elementary and middle school, I agree that bullying sucks. However, I am getting tired of hearing from so many that safety should be the number one priority of schools. My university sent me an email to that effect a day or so ago, and it makes me sick. It is an institution of higher education. The pursuit of knowledge should be their number one priority. The same thing applies to high school. It's an educational facility. Maybe if more time and energy was spent on teaching rather than safety, our public education system wouldn't be in quite the shithole it's in right now.
I have also been presumed guilty of various infractions (many of which I didn't commit) in high school, though I had the opposite reaction, responding logically and calmly. Same result though, as I still got punished for insubordination. In my experience, the one thing school administration hates more than being wrong, is being shown that by "some dumb kid."
Libraries allow anybody to read just about any book for free, and yet bookstores still exist. Why? Because people clearly have a desire to physically own books, despite the ability to read the material for free.
As for reproducing books costless digitally, this is only true if you want to read a few hundred pages on a screen. I, for one, greatly prefer reading something on paper to reading it on a screen, and many people share this preference. Printing it myself or at a printshop(kinkos, etc.) would be more expensive than buying the book in the first place.
How long do you think the market for movies on physical discs will be around?
At the very least until bandwidth somehow catches up. If I could stream full HD movies with an initial buffer time roughly equal to the time it would take me to physically insert a disc, I would probably do it, assuming I could keep the movie when I was done watching it the first time. Until this happens(and it will be a while), physical media won't go away.
At every election, I try to convince myself to vote libertarian, because I am so sick of the bullsh*t put out by both the Dems and Republicans. However, here in Texas at least, most libertarian candidates that make it to the ballot seem to be little more than republicans with a different color tie.
I really don't see Leopard being delayed having much impact on vista sales. Mac users aren't going to jump platforms and adopt vista because they can't handle the wait, and windows users looking to switch probably don't even know what the hell leopard is. I have a friend that just switched to mac from windows, and had to ask me what version of OS X he was running.
Hell, just within Texas high speed rail would be great. If I could hop a train from Austin, where I live, to Dallas, where most of my friends go to school, and be there in less than an hour, I would probably commute pretty often. As it stands now, it's three to three and a half hours in suicide traffic down I-35. Problem is, most people in this state seem to prefer their Hummers and trucks.
Fine, how about this. Does the single human bicyclist still get 620 miles to the gallon carrying 4 passengers and some groceries? I suspect not. My comment was neither defensive, nor mean spirited. I happen to take public transportation most places. I'm a poor college student. I am in no way suggesting that a Hummer is more efficient than a bicyclist. All I said was that your example left out a lot of rather crucial variables.
This does not take into account the weight of what each thing is moving. The human being may go 10 times as far on the same amount of energy, but he's moving far less mass. Without taking this into account, your calculations are worse than useless.
I have had similar experiences to this. While I have yet to actually be involved in an accident, there are several times when reflexes built up through years of racing games has prevented accidents.
That being said, I do tend to drive more aggressively than I probably should.
Disclaimer: IAJAUPS(I am just an undergrad philosophy student)
In order for me to prove to you that you exist, I would have to prove to me that you exist, and that's something I can't do. I can prove that I exist though, but not to you, just to me.
Chase bank screwed me over too. I got the same "Your check will clear in one day" nonsense. A few days later, I notice that it still isn't there, so I go to the bank, and present them with the issue. It turns out the check did clear, but into somebody else's account. The account number wasn't even similar enough to warrant a possible typo at some point. I closed out my account that day, and moved to Bank of America. They may give cards and accounts to illegal aliens, but that doesn't really affect me in any way. Their service has been pretty good, I've had no problems with my money getting into MY account, and they offered me a lower interest rate on my car than anywhere else.
In summary, yes, Chase sucks.
Thank god I am not the only one wondering this. I've recently been coming across more and more windows "fanbois," and for the life of me cannot figure out why they feel that way. Its not even that they just love windows, its that they also hate linux and mac OS. I am personally a Mac user, though I just made the switch pretty recently. I've also used Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Gentoo, and a number of other distros. I have to say, the only advantage of windows comes down to its games, but the fanboys I find don't even game.
It can't be that its more user friendly. My computer-illiterate 9 year old sister couldn't figure out windows, but picked up ubuntu just fine in a matter of minutes.
Maybe it is just ignorance. I've had one windows fan actually tell me that Apple was the evil empire, and that someday M$ would overcome and take their rightful place in the sun.
Leviticus specifically only applies to the Jewish priest class. Last I checked, there are very, very few Christians who count themselves as part of that group.
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Back in the '90s there were a bunch of free dial-up services that were ad supported. They didn't insert ads into your pages, but they did play an annoying ad before you could browsing, and they forced a special browser on you that had an ad bar. Not to mention they were slow as shit.
I had their DSL for a while, but it was their "Ultimate" $30/month version. After taxes and fees, it was about $55/month. I've switched to a faster cable connection, and I'm paying less. As much as I hate dealing with Time Warner, it's still better than AT&T.
The problem of course, is that every politician wears their faith as a badge of honor. Don't get me wrong, I still vote, but I'm tired of just voting for the least stupid person, rather than a candidate that really reflects my views. I participate in the rallies, and write my congresspeople, but its all basically just masturbation.
Parent said nothing about wanting to be outdoors, just to leave the house. Sure, it's almost inevitable that you'll pass through this "outdoors" at some point, but probably just on the way to some other indoor environment. LAN parties, coffee shops, etc.
If you're literally filling every sentence with profanity, then I agree with you. However, an unwillingness to use it at all is like driving a ferrari and being unwilling to put it in top gear. Don't begrudge others their willingness to use all the words in our language.
I agree that bicycles for less than 5 miles is ideal, and further than that, a motorcycle is much more efficient than a car. I drive the hell out of my 600cc motorcycle, and get 47mpg. I could get more out of it if I wasn't confirming the 5 second 0-60 every time I pull away from a stop sign. With saddle bags, etc., cargo capacity is actually pretty good. Increased use of 2 wheeled transportation would do a world of good.
While it's definitely true that many windows users will eventually find themselves with Vista, many others will switch platforms. In fact, every windows user I know, even the less tech-savvy ones, plan to switch to a Mac or Ubuntu when XP hits EOL. I honestly think that Vista will cause a fall in MS's marketshare, even if it takes a few years for that to happen.
I know that for quite a few people, EOL for XP means switching platforms. Even my non-tech savvy friends and relatives aren't impressed with vista, and know that they won't be able to run it on their current hardware. Many of them are looking into ubuntu, or just switching to a mac, depending on their financial situation at the time.
As a victim of bullying myself through much of elementary and middle school, I agree that bullying sucks. However, I am getting tired of hearing from so many that safety should be the number one priority of schools. My university sent me an email to that effect a day or so ago, and it makes me sick. It is an institution of higher education. The pursuit of knowledge should be their number one priority. The same thing applies to high school. It's an educational facility. Maybe if more time and energy was spent on teaching rather than safety, our public education system wouldn't be in quite the shithole it's in right now.
I have also been presumed guilty of various infractions (many of which I didn't commit) in high school, though I had the opposite reaction, responding logically and calmly. Same result though, as I still got punished for insubordination. In my experience, the one thing school administration hates more than being wrong, is being shown that by "some dumb kid."
Libraries allow anybody to read just about any book for free, and yet bookstores still exist. Why? Because people clearly have a desire to physically own books, despite the ability to read the material for free. As for reproducing books costless digitally, this is only true if you want to read a few hundred pages on a screen. I, for one, greatly prefer reading something on paper to reading it on a screen, and many people share this preference. Printing it myself or at a printshop(kinkos, etc.) would be more expensive than buying the book in the first place.
At the very least until bandwidth somehow catches up. If I could stream full HD movies with an initial buffer time roughly equal to the time it would take me to physically insert a disc, I would probably do it, assuming I could keep the movie when I was done watching it the first time. Until this happens(and it will be a while), physical media won't go away.
At every election, I try to convince myself to vote libertarian, because I am so sick of the bullsh*t put out by both the Dems and Republicans. However, here in Texas at least, most libertarian candidates that make it to the ballot seem to be little more than republicans with a different color tie.
I really don't see Leopard being delayed having much impact on vista sales. Mac users aren't going to jump platforms and adopt vista because they can't handle the wait, and windows users looking to switch probably don't even know what the hell leopard is. I have a friend that just switched to mac from windows, and had to ask me what version of OS X he was running.
"Great! I bagsies the first one to make a life size anatomically correct Natalie Portman." There, fixed it.
Hell, just within Texas high speed rail would be great. If I could hop a train from Austin, where I live, to Dallas, where most of my friends go to school, and be there in less than an hour, I would probably commute pretty often. As it stands now, it's three to three and a half hours in suicide traffic down I-35. Problem is, most people in this state seem to prefer their Hummers and trucks.
Fine, how about this. Does the single human bicyclist still get 620 miles to the gallon carrying 4 passengers and some groceries? I suspect not. My comment was neither defensive, nor mean spirited. I happen to take public transportation most places. I'm a poor college student. I am in no way suggesting that a Hummer is more efficient than a bicyclist. All I said was that your example left out a lot of rather crucial variables.
This does not take into account the weight of what each thing is moving. The human being may go 10 times as far on the same amount of energy, but he's moving far less mass. Without taking this into account, your calculations are worse than useless.
I have had similar experiences to this. While I have yet to actually be involved in an accident, there are several times when reflexes built up through years of racing games has prevented accidents. That being said, I do tend to drive more aggressively than I probably should.
Disclaimer: IAJAUPS(I am just an undergrad philosophy student) In order for me to prove to you that you exist, I would have to prove to me that you exist, and that's something I can't do. I can prove that I exist though, but not to you, just to me.
The internet is not clockwork. It's a series of tubes.
Chase bank screwed me over too. I got the same "Your check will clear in one day" nonsense. A few days later, I notice that it still isn't there, so I go to the bank, and present them with the issue. It turns out the check did clear, but into somebody else's account. The account number wasn't even similar enough to warrant a possible typo at some point. I closed out my account that day, and moved to Bank of America. They may give cards and accounts to illegal aliens, but that doesn't really affect me in any way. Their service has been pretty good, I've had no problems with my money getting into MY account, and they offered me a lower interest rate on my car than anywhere else. In summary, yes, Chase sucks.
Now, I know /. has a strict policy on not RTFA, but at least glance over the summary.
Thank god I am not the only one wondering this. I've recently been coming across more and more windows "fanbois," and for the life of me cannot figure out why they feel that way. Its not even that they just love windows, its that they also hate linux and mac OS. I am personally a Mac user, though I just made the switch pretty recently. I've also used Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Gentoo, and a number of other distros. I have to say, the only advantage of windows comes down to its games, but the fanboys I find don't even game. It can't be that its more user friendly. My computer-illiterate 9 year old sister couldn't figure out windows, but picked up ubuntu just fine in a matter of minutes. Maybe it is just ignorance. I've had one windows fan actually tell me that Apple was the evil empire, and that someday M$ would overcome and take their rightful place in the sun.
Leviticus specifically only applies to the Jewish priest class. Last I checked, there are very, very few Christians who count themselves as part of that group.