My two-week-old 12" Powerbook has a broken keyboard and Airport Extreme card. Excellent build quality my ass:(.
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Hrm. I've got Windows Media Player 9 on my Mac. Free download from microsoft.com/mac. Of course, it's a piece of shit, but AFAIK it should be able to handle any Windows Media file you throw at it.
And in our case, even if you have the huge digital cable plan (all the pay channels, everything) TechTV still doesn't come in.
Had techs out to look at it several times (not because of TechTV, it's largely worthless. Comedy Central has a similar problem), they say it's a "neighborhood-wide problem" and that they need to fix it at the office or whatever. Months go by, nothing happens.
Already getting rid of their cable internet service in favor of Speakeasy DSL. Television will be gone as soon as I bother to get DirecTV installed.
This has only been since we moved in to our current house (about 6 months). We've had the same service in other parts of Atlanta with no problems.
However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
Heh? I just walked into an AT&T Wireless store and bought a T616 retail-style. The guy in there acted like this is a fairly regular occurance. In fact, there was another guy in there doing the exact same thing.
Was it cheap? No. But I didn't have to sign a contract. Not sure why you are unable to do the same.
Most any business you're going to be able to start is going to have startup costs equal to or greater than what you'll make over a summer. Not only that, but running your own business generally means you're going to work your ever-loving asses off.
Unless you're dead set against it, why not just get a bullshit food service or retail job? Remember, you're in high school. This is the summer. One of the last ones you're going to get.
Think of it like this:
If you're only going to pursue this for the summer, you're likely to make more money working for someone else rather than trying to get a business of the ground.
You'll learn what it's like to work for someone else. If you don't like it, it'll make you that much more motivated to come up with a viable business idea. A "bad" job increases this effect over the typical $10-12/hr high school kid IT job. At the absolute very least you'll figure out why you don't want to wash dishes for the rest of your life and it'll motivate you to study and/or work harder after school.
Everyone can get one of these jobs. If you're dealing with summer, you've only got twelve weeks. You can get one of these jobs in one day if you can speak passable english. In the process you'll get some great zero-pressure interview experience. Remember, the interviewer is likely to be fucking ecstatic that a clean, bright teenager is applying.
Cute girls get lame part time jobs in retail and food service. If you don't already have tons of these hanging around (you're reading Slashdot, sue me for assuming), don't underestimate the value of being side-by-side with actual ladies every day for three months. You'd be surprised how crappy labor != bad job when you've got a hottie to admire while you do it. Couple this with the fact that low-wage coworkers tend to bond together quickly and tightly, and you've got a recipe for success.
I was blessed with amazing jobs I got through family contacts my last two years of high school, but I worked in a grocery store my sophomore year. It didn't really teach me anything, and the pay was right around minimum wage, but I also got invited to some pretty cool parties I would have missed if I didn't know my coworkers. I was actually rather sad when school started again and my extracurricular commitments forced me to quit.
Hell, to this day I'm thankful for that job. The people I worked with there are, by a wide margin, the largest group of people who didn't leave town after graduation. Gives me people to hang out with when I have to go home to visit the parents.
I work in IT, and make a pretty damn good living now with great job security, but I still look back on wasted high school summers fondly. Unless you are the type who is just miserable in high school, then maybe you would too.
Indeed. I have always been an Unreal hater, but I haven't touched CS since the UT2K4 demo came out. The sole reason for that is because of Onslaught. CTF and DM were done to death a long time ago.
Assault would probably be cool too, but I don't like the gimmick map they included with the demo.
You do realize you can say "fuck", "bitch", and "ass" on Slashdot, don't you?
I say this not because it's particularly interesting, or because I think you should cuss more, but because it seems silly to actually use the words but be afraid to type them.
So I'm not completely offtopic:
Aerons are okay, but not much more than that. I sit in a piece of plastic patio furniture at home and in an Aeron at work. The Aeron is more comfortable, but definitely not $700 worth.
Furthermore, it's not appreciably better than any decent adjustable office chair I've ever sat in, unless you happen to have a back sweating problem. In that case I imagine the mesh seating surface would be rather handy.
If I, like so many who own them, had managed to steal an Aeron from an employer, I'd probably sit in it. That's only because my patio chair (also stolen) isn't exactly much competition.
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My two-week-old 12" Powerbook has a broken keyboard and Airport Extreme card. Excellent build quality my ass :(.
Hrm. I've got Windows Media Player 9 on my Mac. Free download from microsoft.com/mac. Of course, it's a piece of shit, but AFAIK it should be able to handle any Windows Media file you throw at it.
It was a shoe! A shoe!
The holocaust is no big deal. Cable TV on the other hand, that matters.
I still poop at random. Just thought you might like to know.
And in our case, even if you have the huge digital cable plan (all the pay channels, everything) TechTV still doesn't come in.
Had techs out to look at it several times (not because of TechTV, it's largely worthless. Comedy Central has a similar problem), they say it's a "neighborhood-wide problem" and that they need to fix it at the office or whatever. Months go by, nothing happens.
Already getting rid of their cable internet service in favor of Speakeasy DSL. Television will be gone as soon as I bother to get DirecTV installed.
This has only been since we moved in to our current house (about 6 months). We've had the same service in other parts of Atlanta with no problems.
Your country is stupid.
Me no not wut UID have to do with IQ.
Mine too!
(Thanks NetZero.)
Heh? I just walked into an AT&T Wireless store and bought a T616 retail-style. The guy in there acted like this is a fairly regular occurance. In fact, there was another guy in there doing the exact same thing.
Was it cheap? No. But I didn't have to sign a contract. Not sure why you are unable to do the same.
The fact that you use Outlook Express makes you evil. Your computer is running slowly to punish you.
Unless you're dead set against it, why not just get a bullshit food service or retail job? Remember, you're in high school. This is the summer. One of the last ones you're going to get.
Think of it like this:
I was blessed with amazing jobs I got through family contacts my last two years of high school, but I worked in a grocery store my sophomore year. It didn't really teach me anything, and the pay was right around minimum wage, but I also got invited to some pretty cool parties I would have missed if I didn't know my coworkers. I was actually rather sad when school started again and my extracurricular commitments forced me to quit.
Hell, to this day I'm thankful for that job. The people I worked with there are, by a wide margin, the largest group of people who didn't leave town after graduation. Gives me people to hang out with when I have to go home to visit the parents.
I work in IT, and make a pretty damn good living now with great job security, but I still look back on wasted high school summers fondly. Unless you are the type who is just miserable in high school, then maybe you would too.
Sarcasm wasted on clueless reader. Film at eleven.
So stop making up letters and use the real alphabet.
Indeed. I have always been an Unreal hater, but I haven't touched CS since the UT2K4 demo came out. The sole reason for that is because of Onslaught. CTF and DM were done to death a long time ago.
Assault would probably be cool too, but I don't like the gimmick map they included with the demo.
Mantas rule.
And because you already posted so you can't moderate?
I'm just sayin'...
So... that was you!
Or, to put it more simply, "Don't be a little bitch."
I guess there is some justice in the world still.
Next thing you know everybody will be holding hands and singing and shit.
Well done.
Perhaps the amount of back sweat an individual produces is directly proportional to their importance?
You do realize you can say "fuck", "bitch", and "ass" on Slashdot, don't you?
I say this not because it's particularly interesting, or because I think you should cuss more, but because it seems silly to actually use the words but be afraid to type them.
So I'm not completely offtopic:
Aerons are okay, but not much more than that. I sit in a piece of plastic patio furniture at home and in an Aeron at work. The Aeron is more comfortable, but definitely not $700 worth.
Furthermore, it's not appreciably better than any decent adjustable office chair I've ever sat in, unless you happen to have a back sweating problem. In that case I imagine the mesh seating surface would be rather handy.
If I, like so many who own them, had managed to steal an Aeron from an employer, I'd probably sit in it. That's only because my patio chair (also stolen) isn't exactly much competition.
Hmm. For once XML is sounding pretty good.
The world has officially gone crazy.
First your cf syntax, now working with Microsoft?! What did we ever do to you?! Truly, a sysadmin's worst enemy.