Don't you have to get a plan with text messaging when you get an iPhone anyway? They force it on you so it's not like you can save any money that way, right?
Yeah this is my situation except for it being a small house rather than a mansion. It's 108 years old and in a National Historic District. It's my first house and I bought it in November.
The windows are almost all original luckily in decent shape for their age. I don't plan to replace them. There are crappy storm windows outside of them that aren't doing very well but they do help. A couple are missing. I've got one room I put new window treatments in that also helps some but none of the rest of my house has blinds or anything. Those are expensive too so I'll wait for the periodic sales at JC Penny and space them out.
The insulation is pretty pathetic. I have no idea about the walls, might not be insulated, but the attic has maybe 10% coverage (around the edges of the wood plank flooring). The gas/power bill in winter was worse than my parents' house which is much larger. There is about a $270 range between my highest bill and lowest (last month). I wanted to put insulate it better but people have been telling me to do different things, pull up the floor boards and put it under there, or in case I ever put a room up there or whatever put the insulation under the rafters.
I'm using the A/C very sparingly as I'm not home a lot, but I can't sleep if it's muggy and 80F+ in the house. We've been in the 90s quite a bit lately. The A/C and furnace are 1992 models and probably not in the best of shape. The inspector I hired when I bought the house tested the A/C and it didn't cool the air up to snuff. I need to spray off the unit sometime to clean if off some.
I have the hot water heater adjusted to where it's as low as I can have it without running out of hot water in the shower.
I don't know about issues with solar and wind stuff there... I would love to do lots of things to my house but I just make a moderate salary.
I ride my bicycle to work when I can, if there is a fairly small chance of rain and it's not too hot or too cold. It's a 15min bicycle ride over nice trails, or an 8min drive in my car. The bicycle trail is actually a straighter shot than driving. I am sweaty lately when I get to work which sucks but it goes away after a while. I have been wearing my work clothes on the bike with tennis shoes. I've thought about wearing different clothes and changing at work but there isn't much room in my backpack for them (with cheap rain poncho, lunch, planner, water bottle, dress shoes) and they'd be wrinkly anyway so I haven't done that. There isn't any place for me to keep clothes at work. Sometimes I manage to ride my bike 4 out of 5 weekdays lately, but it's getting too hot and humid now.
My big energy usage now is driving to my girlfriend's 30min away. Riding my bike to work has actually saved quite a bit of gas I've noticed though. I have a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP so there is room for improvement there, but I drive it in as much of a gas saving manner as I can. I am getting 28mpg on the current tank and I have monitored this closely since I bought the car. I recently had to replace the transmi$$ion so because of that, and because it's paid off, I intend to keep it as long as I can to save money... at least 3 years which is the warranty on the new trans. I also hit a deer on the interstate driving back from my girlfriend's house one night, argh.
So cash is low, but recovering now after the transmission, deer, and a couple trips.
I agree. At Illinois there were no classes for learning a programming language. We were expected to learn them as needed for the subject we were working on. If we didn't know them already, we learned them for the MPs (machine problems = programming assignments). There was some language instruction in a few core classes, but mostly as it pertained to the subject matter. I learned to use more than one language in quite a few classes.
I didn't get one of those, but maybe they weren't testing in my area. From previous comments it sounds like the opt-out method isn't very effective anyway.
They were probably thinking long term in the interest of their stockholders. If they implemented it then they would certainly have a jump in income, but if everyone got mad, then they would definitely lose in the longer term. Charter Communications is the company St. Louisans love to hate. We seriously need some competition here. CableAmerica has a very small grip in the St. Louis suburbs and they seemed like a nice company when I had them. Now AT&T is rolling out U-verse in the area as well so Charter had better behave.
That's what I don't get. How are all these homes going for that amount?! There must be a ton of people making way more than me and I thought I was doing ok. I have what I would have called a solid young professional's salary... maybe it isn't anymore. Didn't people used to raise families after getting a job out of college? I have no chance to raise a family on it right now much less buy one of the houses I see everywhere.
I do however live near a military base, and they get a housing allowance that is supposed to comfortably pay for all of their housing expense. I should have gone into the air force like my buddies I guess. They got free college and are making a bunch more now.
I live in STL metro area, metro east, Illinois, and $700 is about normal in the town I'm in. I did have a 1BR apartment in a decent STL suburb a while back that was $500 and I know it's gone up a bit since then, but probably still in the 500s or maybe 600. I have a 2BR house now and pay only just a little more than that $700 that apartments go for here.
Salaries are less here though from everything I've read. The thing with a higher salary and higher livings costs is that people think it would be about the same living as in the midwest with lower salary and lower living costs... but I disagree because if you save money, there is potential to save WAY more with the high salary high living costs situation. You'll just have more money if you are reasonable about living within your means.
So there are actually sites out there where you can buy these drugs mentioned in the spam? From what I've seen, the spam is all just gibberish and doesn't actually go to any drug selling web site. Not that I click on many of those though...
You could give them a database user that is confined to whatever database or tables you wish and can only do SELECTs. Actually you should really say too bad and if you want custom queries, you should pay us to write a front-end for what you need. This solves the access problem and the possible server load problem from whatever cross product queries they might come up with.
I would think that the actual app itself is what needs to improve more than the database back end. If you've got a good database architecture for your requirements, then you can switch front ends and just keep the back end with minor changes. Although in my case both were crap and I had to start from scratch basically... but now you could build a new front end with the same back end if you wanted to.
Why wire the country more if we could use the air? Use WiMax on "stratellites" or high altitude blimps that act like close satellites, and you could give a ton of people internet access much easier.
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You should sue them for making it take so long to be able to sue.
#1 I think Viacom can upload their own material to YouTube if they want... even if it is a rogue employee.
#2 They could be in trouble for that, true
Don't you have to get a plan with text messaging when you get an iPhone anyway? They force it on you so it's not like you can save any money that way, right?
Who killed the electric car?
Yeah this is my situation except for it being a small house rather than a mansion. It's 108 years old and in a National Historic District. It's my first house and I bought it in November.
The windows are almost all original luckily in decent shape for their age. I don't plan to replace them. There are crappy storm windows outside of them that aren't doing very well but they do help. A couple are missing. I've got one room I put new window treatments in that also helps some but none of the rest of my house has blinds or anything. Those are expensive too so I'll wait for the periodic sales at JC Penny and space them out.
The insulation is pretty pathetic. I have no idea about the walls, might not be insulated, but the attic has maybe 10% coverage (around the edges of the wood plank flooring). The gas/power bill in winter was worse than my parents' house which is much larger. There is about a $270 range between my highest bill and lowest (last month). I wanted to put insulate it better but people have been telling me to do different things, pull up the floor boards and put it under there, or in case I ever put a room up there or whatever put the insulation under the rafters.
I'm using the A/C very sparingly as I'm not home a lot, but I can't sleep if it's muggy and 80F+ in the house. We've been in the 90s quite a bit lately. The A/C and furnace are 1992 models and probably not in the best of shape. The inspector I hired when I bought the house tested the A/C and it didn't cool the air up to snuff. I need to spray off the unit sometime to clean if off some.
I have the hot water heater adjusted to where it's as low as I can have it without running out of hot water in the shower.
I don't know about issues with solar and wind stuff there... I would love to do lots of things to my house but I just make a moderate salary.
I ride my bicycle to work when I can, if there is a fairly small chance of rain and it's not too hot or too cold. It's a 15min bicycle ride over nice trails, or an 8min drive in my car. The bicycle trail is actually a straighter shot than driving. I am sweaty lately when I get to work which sucks but it goes away after a while. I have been wearing my work clothes on the bike with tennis shoes. I've thought about wearing different clothes and changing at work but there isn't much room in my backpack for them (with cheap rain poncho, lunch, planner, water bottle, dress shoes) and they'd be wrinkly anyway so I haven't done that. There isn't any place for me to keep clothes at work. Sometimes I manage to ride my bike 4 out of 5 weekdays lately, but it's getting too hot and humid now.
My big energy usage now is driving to my girlfriend's 30min away. Riding my bike to work has actually saved quite a bit of gas I've noticed though. I have a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP so there is room for improvement there, but I drive it in as much of a gas saving manner as I can. I am getting 28mpg on the current tank and I have monitored this closely since I bought the car. I recently had to replace the transmi$$ion so because of that, and because it's paid off, I intend to keep it as long as I can to save money... at least 3 years which is the warranty on the new trans. I also hit a deer on the interstate driving back from my girlfriend's house one night, argh.
So cash is low, but recovering now after the transmission, deer, and a couple trips.
I agree. At Illinois there were no classes for learning a programming language. We were expected to learn them as needed for the subject we were working on. If we didn't know them already, we learned them for the MPs (machine problems = programming assignments). There was some language instruction in a few core classes, but mostly as it pertained to the subject matter. I learned to use more than one language in quite a few classes.
They are tools to the computer scientist.
So what is dome? Do they really say dome? Gloom and Dome doesn't have the same ring to it.
Wife and girlfriend? You'd think one of them wouldn't mind a little pr0n.
Gator strikes again!
chief privacy officer, aaaaaaaa
Geez, what the hell!
I invite everyone to make their opinion on this matter known to Charter via their support web chat, email form, or whatever:
http://www.charter.com/customers/contactus.aspx?contactus=7
I am pretty sure their support people are here in STL and not India.
I didn't get one of those, but maybe they weren't testing in my area. From previous comments it sounds like the opt-out method isn't very effective anyway.
They were probably thinking long term in the interest of their stockholders. If they implemented it then they would certainly have a jump in income, but if everyone got mad, then they would definitely lose in the longer term. Charter Communications is the company St. Louisans love to hate. We seriously need some competition here. CableAmerica has a very small grip in the St. Louis suburbs and they seemed like a nice company when I had them. Now AT&T is rolling out U-verse in the area as well so Charter had better behave.
Agree.
That's what I don't get. How are all these homes going for that amount?! There must be a ton of people making way more than me and I thought I was doing ok. I have what I would have called a solid young professional's salary... maybe it isn't anymore. Didn't people used to raise families after getting a job out of college? I have no chance to raise a family on it right now much less buy one of the houses I see everywhere.
I do however live near a military base, and they get a housing allowance that is supposed to comfortably pay for all of their housing expense. I should have gone into the air force like my buddies I guess. They got free college and are making a bunch more now.
You're making more than 75K!
I live in STL metro area, metro east, Illinois, and $700 is about normal in the town I'm in. I did have a 1BR apartment in a decent STL suburb a while back that was $500 and I know it's gone up a bit since then, but probably still in the 500s or maybe 600. I have a 2BR house now and pay only just a little more than that $700 that apartments go for here.
Salaries are less here though from everything I've read. The thing with a higher salary and higher livings costs is that people think it would be about the same living as in the midwest with lower salary and lower living costs... but I disagree because if you save money, there is potential to save WAY more with the high salary high living costs situation. You'll just have more money if you are reasonable about living within your means.
That said, the midwest is a nice place.
True, the parking lot space of Wal-Marts is nothing to be ignored!
Wow it sounds like it's doing damn good for a test plant. It's not vaporware and it's actually making profit??! Somebody kick some ass there.
Yeah, this is only true and would only happen if they collaborate in a cartel (illegal in the US). Oh wait....
So there are actually sites out there where you can buy these drugs mentioned in the spam? From what I've seen, the spam is all just gibberish and doesn't actually go to any drug selling web site. Not that I click on many of those though...
You could give them a database user that is confined to whatever database or tables you wish and can only do SELECTs. Actually you should really say too bad and if you want custom queries, you should pay us to write a front-end for what you need. This solves the access problem and the possible server load problem from whatever cross product queries they might come up with.
I would think that the actual app itself is what needs to improve more than the database back end. If you've got a good database architecture for your requirements, then you can switch front ends and just keep the back end with minor changes. Although in my case both were crap and I had to start from scratch basically... but now you could build a new front end with the same back end if you wanted to.
Why wire the country more if we could use the air? Use WiMax on "stratellites" or high altitude blimps that act like close satellites, and you could give a ton of people internet access much easier.
Here's one trying to do it:
http://www.globetel.net/
With a reputable company, you wouldn't have to pay if you didn't get your data back. That's fairly standard now.
If you really need it, then you pay for it, don't you. Yes, everyone should backup.
How about spaceflightnow!! http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0712/25glonass/
Jebus.