Thanks for the response; it made me dig deeper. I set the "summary only" option on the subscription, and to my surprise I saw, not some lame message (as I fully expected), but the cartoon , the whole cartoon, and nothing but the cartoon! Without that option, I was seeing roughly what you'd see if you visited http://dilbert.com./
1. Habit (read "too stupid to think of it"). When I first "subscribed" years ago, there was no feed. When it came time to tweak it (as I had to in 2006) I didn't even consider looking for that option.
Now that I checked it out, here's reason #2:
2. I don't like it for the same reason I don't just visit the home page: I don't want all the other junk they include with it. A small, simple picture is welcome, particularly if I choose to read it on a handheld device; the rest of it isn't.
Maybe they sold a lot in the store, but how many were returned by people who didn't even read the packaging, or when their friend's pirated copy of some Windows app wouldn't install on their system, and their friend said "Dude, you got ripped off."
Online retailers have always had an edge over brick-n-mortar stores in terms of customer satisfaction. Why? Because the average intelligence (or at least knowledge) of the online buyer is way above that of the person who walks into CompUSA to buy one. (Okay, can't use that one anymore; if you try to walk into a CompUSA building today expecting to buy one, chances are good that you're REALLY lacking intelligence!)
I enjoy a good, skillful kill (or an incredibly lucky one) -- even if I'm at the receiving end of it. I don't have so much invested in the game that I can't cheer for a real-life buddy that just cooked my carcass.
I think this binary thing is a good idea, but it still hasn't provided me a clue... What is the significance of the number 128? When I'm out driving, a lot of people stick there hands out the window and flash "128" at me.
"they even went after the President of Transunion, one of the credit reporting bureaus."
They'd better be good at stealing identities; they'll never be able to use their own again!:-)
You're gonna stop by a gas station to use the john, even though you don't need to fill up your gas tank, and while you're sitting there, the SWAT team's gonna come and lob a tear gas grenade in at ya.
Don't tell me that already happened to you; That was just the guy in the next stall!
the best case is that they immediately escort you to the door, and have to pay you for as long as your notice was for.
Cool, I'm giving my 10-year notice right now!
Unlawful termination? Good luck. Unless they *really* trust you, it's generally considered stupid to let you hang around for another 2 weeks or more while you make preparations to suck them dry. Of course, I've never completely understood that, since knowing that, a half-intelligent person would've already completed said preparations *before* giving notice...
" Increase your page load times and save bandwidth"
Probably not exactly what most people want to do, but yeah, if you can throttle your server so that page load time approaches infinity, bandwidth consumption will approach zero -- especially once people stop trying to use your site...
Hey, all you democratic republics out there: You should know that America has a patent on that form of government going back several years. We'll be happy to license it to you; just pay us enough money, and we won't take you out for infringing on out IP.
Hey all you Americans: We're going to distribute the profits from this to our loyal citizens, and many of you will become very wealthy. The bad news is that we expect you to work 20 hours a day to make sure we stomp out Taiwan, and if anyone mentions the word "Iran" my vice president's going to throw a !@#$% chair at you!
I all she wants to do is access a few money sites, you could always set up a whitelist so she can't access anything else! Of course, then when her friends send her links to cute kitty pictures that she can't access, she might get cranky...oh yeah, those aren't usually links, they're usually 80MB attachments. Should be fine.:-)
I can't quote a definitive source right now any better than you did, but I believe that the commonly accepted figure for drives (based on a lot of their components, such as electrolytic capacitors) is 50% per *10* degrees C. Still significant, but nothing to cause you to spend big bucks to cool it 2 degrees.
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Big Brother's the one loosing the tools. :-)
The government expreses confidence that this will cause no problems.
In unrelated news, ISPs have been asked by the government to throttle all customer connections to 300bps....
Thanks for the response; it made me dig deeper. I set the "summary only" option on the subscription, and to my surprise I saw, not some lame message (as I fully expected), but the cartoon , the whole cartoon, and nothing but the cartoon! Without that option, I was seeing roughly what you'd see if you visited http://dilbert.com./
Good suggestion -- it's a worthy alternative.
The main reason why not:
1. Habit (read "too stupid to think of it"). When I first "subscribed" years ago, there was no feed. When it came time to tweak it (as I had to in 2006) I didn't even consider looking for that option.
Now that I checked it out, here's reason #2:
2. I don't like it for the same reason I don't just visit the home page: I don't want all the other junk they include with it. A small, simple picture is welcome, particularly if I choose to read it on a handheld device; the rest of it isn't.
Oh good! I can make my email script work again, so the strip is delivered to me every morning. I thought I was going to be lonely!
Maybe they sold a lot in the store, but how many were returned by people who didn't even read the packaging, or when their friend's pirated copy of some Windows app wouldn't install on their system, and their friend said "Dude, you got ripped off."
Online retailers have always had an edge over brick-n-mortar stores in terms of customer satisfaction. Why? Because the average intelligence (or at least knowledge) of the online buyer is way above that of the person who walks into CompUSA to buy one. (Okay, can't use that one anymore; if you try to walk into a CompUSA building today expecting to buy one, chances are good that you're REALLY lacking intelligence!)
I enjoy a good, skillful kill (or an incredibly lucky one) -- even if I'm at the receiving end of it. I don't have so much invested in the game that I can't cheer for a real-life buddy that just cooked my carcass.
Anyone else find it just a tad funny that such a little town as Lindon breeds both these guys and The SCO Group? Must be something the water...
...how far people will drive to find the cheapest gas.
I think this binary thing is a good idea, but it still hasn't provided me a clue... What is the significance of the number 128? When I'm out driving, a lot of people stick there hands out the window and flash "128" at me.
Yeah, my girlfriend's been giving me FLAC, so I walked up to the pharmacy counter and said "TROJANIZE ME!" The guy just looked at me funny...
"they even went after the President of Transunion, one of the credit reporting bureaus." They'd better be good at stealing identities; they'll never be able to use their own again! :-)
'nuff said.
You're gonna stop by a gas station to use the john, even though you don't need to fill up your gas tank, and while you're sitting there, the SWAT team's gonna come and lob a tear gas grenade in at ya.
Don't tell me that already happened to you; That was just the guy in the next stall!
With everyone else on the road letting their cars drive for them, it'll be a WHOLE lot easier for me to cut traffic! [evil grin]
I use both KDE and GNOME. I'm more than happy to share either one with you.
Cool, I'm giving my 10-year notice right now!
Unlawful termination? Good luck. Unless they *really* trust you, it's generally considered stupid to let you hang around for another 2 weeks or more while you make preparations to suck them dry. Of course, I've never completely understood that, since knowing that, a half-intelligent person would've already completed said preparations *before* giving notice...
Just hang on a little longer -- Unisys is coming out with some major [patentable] improvements ANY TIME that everyone will just HAVE to have!
What a fantastic way to completely eliminate a conservative state!
I think he means that someone blew up his offices, and the pieces of each are scattered over a large area.
" Increase your page load times and save bandwidth"
Probably not exactly what most people want to do, but yeah, if you can throttle your server so that page load time approaches infinity, bandwidth consumption will approach zero -- especially once people stop trying to use your site...
Hey, all you democratic republics out there: You should know that America has a patent on that form of government going back several years. We'll be happy to license it to you; just pay us enough money, and we won't take you out for infringing on out IP.
Hey all you Americans: We're going to distribute the profits from this to our loyal citizens, and many of you will become very wealthy. The bad news is that we expect you to work 20 hours a day to make sure we stomp out Taiwan, and if anyone mentions the word "Iran" my vice president's going to throw a !@#$% chair at you!
Persuade (v.) See also: Soften up, educate, hustle, blackmail, pistol whip.
I all she wants to do is access a few money sites, you could always set up a whitelist so she can't access anything else! Of course, then when her friends send her links to cute kitty pictures that she can't access, she might get cranky...oh yeah, those aren't usually links, they're usually 80MB attachments. Should be fine. :-)
I can't quote a definitive source right now any better than you did, but I believe that the commonly accepted figure for drives (based on a lot of their components, such as electrolytic capacitors) is 50% per *10* degrees C. Still significant, but nothing to cause you to spend big bucks to cool it 2 degrees.