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Used to smooth flat surfaces by averaging the colors of adjacent pixels, which blurs them and removes blockiness when viewed up close. - Just Plain Insane <321@123098.net> writes:On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:37:44 GMT I replied to mpat on a piece of toilet paper while scribbling their name and phonenumber on the bathroom wall in alt.consumers.experiencesI have discovered an apparent conflict within the UPS Store which tookover Mail Boxes Etc. now having a mail box at the MBE for nearly 2years.Shhh, here's a secret, MBE has always BEEN owned by UPS, at leasthere they have.Mail Boxes Etc and The UPS Store are both franchise operations. Most(maybe all?) locations are franchises.UPS bought the franchisor Mail Boxes Etc in April 2001. They have notowned Mail Boxes Etc forever.Brian Elfert
A type of program or process that is not directly accessed by a user. Often it will carry out its tasks independently of the front-end or user interface. For example, a user could request data from a database, not knowing that the data is refreshed on the back-end on a daily basis. - A minor distinction, at best. It's still not rocket science to ask when arebate expires before plunking down your hard earned. Live and learn...."Stan Brown" wrote in messagenews:MPG.1b74bf2e320544a998c7df@news.odyssey.net... "Jeff Hansman" wrote in misc.consumers:"This is why you never ever EVER buy a product on the basis of amail-in rebate."Hogwash. I have bought dozens of products with MIRs and have yet to beburned. You just have to be smart enough ( no reflection on the OP) toknowwhen they expire. Ah -- always an indication of bogosity, posting upside down. Scott did not say never to buy a product with a rebate, he said never to buy one ON THE BASIS OF a rebate. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com "Sticklers unite! You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion (and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with)." -- Lynne Truss, /Eats, Shoots &
Any type of disk media which is not rigid. Often it's contained in hard cases, which can lead to confusion in identification. Commonly, the term is used to describe 1.44 MB 3.5 inch diskettes, but it applies to any media. Zip disks, for example, are floppy in nature if removed from their casing. - How it inaccurate?The minimum AMD CPU stated is an Athlon... and the K6 falls belowthat minimum. Whether it is "compatible" in the sense that you arestating is irrelevant, as the CPU in >question is clearly under theminimum.I agree and tried to make the same point. For christ sake an 8086 is compatibleaccording to him.
Anything entered into a computer or system. This includes keystrokes, mouse movement, and talking into a microphone. - "Henry" wrote innews:3f90f550@post.usenet.com: **** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** I have noticed that Best Buy employees seem to be less intelligent and more blindly obedient than those at other places, even places that pay only minimum wage. Does Best Buy train its employees to be like this or psychologically screen out people who are intelligent or individualistic? I realize that there are cliches about bad employees, but the people at Best Buy stores seem to be abnormally uniform in personality.Yes. Keeping your job is based on how many warranties you sell. 48hours ran a story on this fact & Best Buy a few years ago.SuperTech
In UNIX systems this term is commonly used in reference to memory, and the crash dump "core" files you will find if you do something naughty in UNIX. The term goes back to when memory chips were actually magnetic coils, or core memory. Yeah, I want my enterprise systems running on that! Just kidding, real core memory hasn't been built into systems in many, many years. - On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:39:57 -0600, Kent Wills wrote:I think I've figured it out.You know how automated teller machines save the banks money byallowing them to hire fewer human tellers? Yet banks are chargingpeople $3, $5, and even more AT BOTH ENDS to use an ATM? They aren'tcharging this fee to recover costs - they are charging it becausepeople like the convenience of ATMs and will put up with theoutrageous fees. Yes and no. There are costs associated with operating an ATM and the feeswould be applied to said costs. I doubt the fees charged equal thecost, so chances are, any remaining amount is profit.I think the actual costs are more than offset by the savings the banksachieve from staff reductions. They must be recovering the costssomehow, because as long as I use a WF ATM I don't pay any fees.--Friends don't let friends shop at Best Buy.
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