Recently i tried to find a family Dr. After being "interviewed" for 10 mins, and flat out told that NO, i may not ask questions.. at the end i was told to book an appointment "next week" to ask the question i had originally went there for. i was also informed that i may ask only one question per appointment. This is a great use of my time.. waited for 25 mins, did a "meet and great" for 10 mins, and told to book two more appointments so i can wait another 25 mins each for a 5 minute discussion??
SWIPE that OHIP card baby.
where else do you effectively "pay first" and get service later? the first thing you do when you go to a medial office in Ontario is wipe the card. then wait in the primary waiting room, move to the secondary waiting room to wait some more.. then they dr enters the secondary waiting room and gives you your 15 seconds.
Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following:
I'm with you on this one. I make OK money, have no mortgage or car loans. Both of my cars are like 10 years old and they work fine for what they are suppose to do (go from Point A to Point B).
My previous car (cheap Voyager) lasted 10 years and it still had the original battery in it when i got rid of it.
People get hung up on cars as "status symbols". If someone wants to judge me because i have a 10 year old car that is fine, i am not "hung up" on cars... they are just machines to serve a purpose and the old ones i own now do that.
Once they start to cost me money in repairs they will be gone. I just replaced the windshield in one car for $200 due to a 12 inch crack, if i get another few years out of it then my $200 "investment" in the windshield was OK.
MPAA - Your action will lead to another company losing revenue.
Using your maths, each customer lost thanks to your rule is a multiple of the actual loss.
So, again using your rules, how about you compensate the ISP for each customer you terminate to the tune of $250,000?
I mean that is the number you use right? And it is all about lost revenue so I am sure you can appreciate the revenue the ISP has lost and want to compensate them just as you expect to be compensated for your "losses".
There is basically a "one click" way to do this.. just takes a bit of time.
Once i did it to my own FIRE i then installed another launcher.. basically giving me an ASUS tab (using the asus launcher) for $30 thanks to black friday. ASUS doesnt have anything that can come close to that price level.
I found moving to CyanogenMod left the device unstable and atually went back to FireOS and the playstore work-around.
The problem is the DMCA prevents you from ripping DVD's you "own". Most do this, but legally it is at least "Gray".
Why would they want you to format shift when they can sell you the DVD, and then sell you a DRM'd copy for your amazon fire (which hopefully you got on black Friday for $35, Great deal).
Quoting the Steve Jobs line from the ebook price fixing lawsuit:
“We’ll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway.”
I had one ink jet printer (it was a gift).. Once the initial "sample" in packs ran out the full fledged replacements cost around the same as the printer did.
I opted to replace it with a colour laser... Much smarter choice.. no more ink drying out before i use it and a much lower operating cost. If you have an inkjet, seriously consider tossing it and getting a colour laser, they are reasonably priced and work well and dont have all this "technology" around protecting the ink market with lockout chips in the ink and all that fun stuff.
Funny, as another foreign national living in the US my US drivers license was not nearly as painful (i think it took a few days) but agree with you 100% on the stacks of paper.
The DMV needed proof of legal status in the US... Did they check their database or have me bring in my passport, with all the US attachments which DHS stapled in?
I also filed my taxes online, but my W2 came in paper form via snail-mail... I then retyped the info into the tax software manually and filed electronically.
Minecraft for Windows Download and run Minecraft.msi. This will install Minecraft and create a shortcut in your start menu. If you'd like a version without an installer, you may use Minecraft.exe instead. You do not need Java installed to run either of these.
why don't you take a look at the pics of hitchbot and count the litter around it. Clearly "civil minded people" such as yourself didnt seem to mind the existing litter in the area.
Also, in case you didndt read the article, it wasnt disposed of, it was vandalized and left to create a "distraction and an eyesore".
Sunday your day off, where instead of doing "civil minded things" like cleaning up litter you come here to post rude comments?
Perhaps you can show us some examples of your recent "social experiments". Just share some links showing your project had news coverage like hitchbot had.
Oh, i see.. you are more about criticizing others even though you have nothing of real value, further, you willingly admit you are of sufficiently low intelligence you would damage someone else' work?
"This seems to get overlooked by OS ideologues, incumbency carries the most weight."
Does it?
First i am not arguing about ideologues. I have stated many times i don't believe there is a "perfect" OS. One of the issues with Windows is actually its popularity. If i am going to write a virus/malware/browser hijack or whatever I would target what everyone uses.
To your point about the usability of Mint, it is somewhat odd and not consistent with my own experiences.
Small example:
We live in Ontario and the kids are required to take French class. I recently rebuilt the middle kids computer to upgrade to the newer Ubuntu and move her to a spare SSD drive I had kicking around to hold her over until I buy her a new computer.
So, as she's working on her French assignment for summer school she notices it is not doing any grammar/spell checking.
She googles "libreoffice French dictionary" , downloads it and installs it and moves on. Had she used MS Office, she would have had the same issue (missing dictionary) and installed it in a similar way.
I don't prevent them from using windows. As i said earlier, when one of them had powerpoint issues i offered to convert her back but she found an alternative instead (borrowing her moms computer).
They can open their MS Office work from school on LibreOffice, edit it and save it back and for the most part it works fairly well (powerpoint being the big exception where some of the formatting gets all weird).
I will leave windows on their new computers and give it half the drive (500GB) so it is fully usable and let them decide which to run.
No one in my house are "coders" either (Obviously I am in IT but not a dev) but as someone else said their career choice is up to them and they have made their choices which are solid jobs with good future potential.
PS My two desktops at work both run windows and i have used Windows for my entire career. Having my kids use Linux at home doesn't harm their ability to use windows, but it does give them another prospective on how to solve issues.
I try to encourage them to think "outside the box" and not just go with the flow.
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Considering my question was around why my shoulder was sore, no, it did not answer my question.
Unfortunately there is a lot of truth to this.
Recently i tried to find a family Dr. After being "interviewed" for 10 mins, and flat out told that NO, i may not ask questions.. at the end i was told to book an appointment "next week" to ask the question i had originally went there for. i was also informed that i may ask only one question per appointment. This is a great use of my time.. waited for 25 mins, did a "meet and great" for 10 mins, and told to book two more appointments so i can wait another 25 mins each for a 5 minute discussion??
SWIPE that OHIP card baby.
where else do you effectively "pay first" and get service later? the first thing you do when you go to a medial office in Ontario is wipe the card. then wait in the primary waiting room, move to the secondary waiting room to wait some more.. then they dr enters the secondary waiting room and gives you your 15 seconds.
"Well, if it wasn't so cold. :) "
Is your area under yet another "heat warning"?
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Ownership of Gold was illegal in the US for a time period as well.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following:
I'm with you on this one. I make OK money, have no mortgage or car loans. Both of my cars are like 10 years old and they work fine for what they are suppose to do (go from Point A to Point B).
My previous car (cheap Voyager) lasted 10 years and it still had the original battery in it when i got rid of it.
People get hung up on cars as "status symbols". If someone wants to judge me because i have a 10 year old car that is fine, i am not "hung up" on cars... they are just machines to serve a purpose and the old ones i own now do that.
Once they start to cost me money in repairs they will be gone. I just replaced the windshield in one car for $200 due to a 12 inch crack, if i get another few years out of it then my $200 "investment" in the windshield was OK.
MPAA - Your action will lead to another company losing revenue.
Using your maths, each customer lost thanks to your rule is a multiple of the actual loss.
So, again using your rules, how about you compensate the ISP for each customer you terminate to the tune of $250,000?
I mean that is the number you use right? And it is all about lost revenue so I am sure you can appreciate the revenue the ISP has lost and want to compensate them just as you expect to be compensated for your "losses".
Sorry, you may be right about $35, obviously it was a few months ago.. regardless once i applied some "updates" it became much more useful.
There is basically a "one click" way to do this.. just takes a bit of time.
Once i did it to my own FIRE i then installed another launcher.. basically giving me an ASUS tab (using the asus launcher) for $30 thanks to black friday.
ASUS doesnt have anything that can come close to that price level.
I found moving to CyanogenMod left the device unstable and atually went back to FireOS and the playstore work-around.
Unable to login from work so i posted anon..
I have an old SUN X4500 running solaris 11.3, 16GB ram and incredibly the system doesn't have issues with 3TB drives.
The problem is the DMCA prevents you from ripping DVD's you "own". Most do this, but legally it is at least "Gray".
Why would they want you to format shift when they can sell you the DVD, and then sell you a DRM'd copy for your amazon fire (which hopefully you got on black Friday for $35, Great deal).
The CRTC does, they are just against the consumer... the same way the incumbents are anti-consumer.
Maybe in 2020 they can get it so Rogers finally stops calling me every other week even though i have asked them to stop....
One time they are DIFFIDENTLY not American is when it comes time to pay taxes.
Interesting read on this topic (using bases to expand the empire) : http://www.amazon.com/Base-Nat...
As someone who has 50TB on a system with 16GB ram i agree with you.
I wish people would stop spreading this "1gb ram/tb" FUD.
It is the recommendation for DEDUP, not for standard ZFS.
Quoting the Steve Jobs line from the ebook price fixing lawsuit:
“We’ll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway.”
+1 to you.
I had one ink jet printer (it was a gift).. Once the initial "sample" in packs ran out the full fledged replacements cost around the same as the printer did.
I opted to replace it with a colour laser... Much smarter choice.. no more ink drying out before i use it and a much lower operating cost.
If you have an inkjet, seriously consider tossing it and getting a colour laser, they are reasonably priced and work well and dont have all this "technology" around protecting the ink market with lockout chips in the ink and all that fun stuff.
Any chance you have kids?
It seems every week or so one of my kids comes home with some school forms looking for money... and they take cash or check.
Since i pay for everything on cards and rarely carry cash, check it is and so i write a lot of them.
Funny, as another foreign national living in the US my US drivers license was not nearly as painful (i think it took a few days) but agree with you 100% on the stacks of paper.
The DMV needed proof of legal status in the US... Did they check their database or have me bring in my passport, with all the US attachments which DHS stapled in?
I also filed my taxes online, but my W2 came in paper form via snail-mail... I then retyped the info into the tax software manually and filed electronically.
Paperless... not so much.
is it?
https://minecraft.net/download
Minecraft for Windows
Download and run Minecraft.msi. This will install Minecraft and create a shortcut in your start menu. If you'd like a version without an installer, you may use Minecraft.exe instead. You do not need Java installed to run either of these.
Right...
why don't you take a look at the pics of hitchbot and count the litter around it.
Clearly "civil minded people" such as yourself didnt seem to mind the existing litter in the area.
Also, in case you didndt read the article, it wasnt disposed of, it was vandalized and left to create a "distraction and an eyesore".
Sunday your day off, where instead of doing "civil minded things" like cleaning up litter you come here to post rude comments?
Among the metrics of success is usability for the masses.
it is by no stretch the only metric, but it is one of them.
You don't get 'funding' for projects people don't care about, do you?
Marketing plays into almost everything in some ways.
Perhaps you can show us some examples of your recent "social experiments". Just share some links showing your project had news coverage like hitchbot had.
Oh, i see.. you are more about criticizing others even though you have nothing of real value, further, you willingly admit you are of sufficiently low intelligence you would damage someone else' work?
Yeah, because there are few things a 14 year old girl wants to learn more then how to use virtualbox?
"This seems to get overlooked by OS ideologues, incumbency carries the most weight."
Does it?
First i am not arguing about ideologues. I have stated many times i don't believe there is a "perfect" OS. One of the issues with Windows is actually its popularity. If i am going to write a virus/malware/browser hijack or whatever I would target what everyone uses.
To your point about the usability of Mint, it is somewhat odd and not consistent with my own experiences.
Small example:
We live in Ontario and the kids are required to take French class.
I recently rebuilt the middle kids computer to upgrade to the newer Ubuntu and move her to a spare SSD drive I had kicking around to hold her over until I buy her a new computer.
So, as she's working on her French assignment for summer school she notices it is not doing any grammar/spell checking.
She googles "libreoffice French dictionary" , downloads it and installs it and moves on.
Had she used MS Office, she would have had the same issue (missing dictionary) and installed it in a similar way.
I don't prevent them from using windows. As i said earlier, when one of them had powerpoint issues i offered to convert her back but she found an alternative instead (borrowing her moms computer).
They can open their MS Office work from school on LibreOffice, edit it and save it back and for the most part it works fairly well (powerpoint being the big exception where some of the formatting gets all weird).
I will leave windows on their new computers and give it half the drive (500GB) so it is fully usable and let them decide which to run.
No one in my house are "coders" either (Obviously I am in IT but not a dev) but as someone else said their career choice is up to them and they have made their choices which are solid jobs with good future potential.
PS
My two desktops at work both run windows and i have used Windows for my entire career. Having my kids use Linux at home doesn't harm their ability to use windows, but it does give them another prospective on how to solve issues.
I try to encourage them to think "outside the box" and not just go with the flow.
I put Ubuntu on the same drive and it is still running fine 2 years later.