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I'm fairly sure you'll never need more than 640k.
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope.
Welcome to my world.
-Me explaining my job to an engineer
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All generalizations are wrong, including this one!
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(O.o)
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For those who don't recall, 4 weeks ago, while in the US, I left some things in a budget car and tried 4 times to contact them to try to find it. A week later, I sent them an abusive email b/c they did not reply. The abusive email got a reply a week ago, and my first email to them, got a reply tonight, to say they could not find the goods and could not accept liability.
So, an abusive email took two weeks to reply to and a polite one asking for help, took four weeks.
I hired with Avis on this trip, and they were awesome. Super helpful when my stupid bank blocked my car after I made some calls at LAX. I will use them in future. They even give me flyer miles.
Christian Graus
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I'm gonna recommend National. Somehow - and, i'll admit, i don't know by what voodoo they've managed to achieve this - i've never left anything in any of their vehicles. It's almost scary, when i think about it.
So, i don't...
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Christian Graus wrote: I hired with Avis on this trip, and they were awesome. Super helpful when my stupid bank blocked my car after I made some calls at LAX. I will use them in future. They even give me flyer miles.
You should leave a CD in the car, and see whether you can get it back. That would be a good way to compare services. 
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Thomas George wrote: You should leave a CD in the car, and see whether you can get it back
But make sure it is one that you would actually want back, because if it is one that you dont want back, chances are you will get it back.
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Christian Graus wrote: I hired with Avis on this trip, and they were awesome. Super helpful when my stupid bank blocked my car after I made some calls at LAX. I will use them in future. They even give me flyer miles.
Enterprise found a power inverter I left in my car, under the seat, and mailed it to me, free of charge. I never liked budget, hate their rentals, though the price is decent, the service always leaves a lot.
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thanks to the moron who loves to 1 vote me. It amuses me to think that I obviously have far more of a life than you ever will.
Christian Graus
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Yeah I noticed you were getting a few... I 5'd you just to even it out lol
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Budget employees?
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Budget employees?
Trust me, they cann't use the systems they've got, let alone something as compliminatificated as a voting button!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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This voting crap has to be taken off this website (except for may be programming forums). It actually serves no purpose, but annoys people.
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I very rarely vote a 1 except for cases of obvious abuse, because I think everyone is entitled to his opinion, and voting 1 is not going to change it.
OTOH, I will vote 5 when I think someone has made a good post - it reduces forum clutter. The alternative would be to post a message that says "Good post" - with maybe a ![Rose | [Rose]](/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) - and we all know what happens to people who do that a lot.
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I'd agree with you on that. But I get annoyed when I see a post is voted '1' for no obvious reasons (which literally means to me: someone just came, dropped his crap and off he went). This kinda upsets the person who received this vote, because there's no feedback on "why" someone disagreed or disliked his post.
Hans Dietrich wrote: I very rarely vote a 1 except for cases of obvious abuse, because I think everyone is entitled to his opinion, and voting 1 is not going to change it.
Exactly. But, the univoter thinks that someone cannot express his opinion which the univoter may not agree with, without the univoter dropping his crap on the said post!
It is like a disease on this website and must be eradicated completely.
Except for may be "Report this post" and an "Good post" buttons. But I'm still afraid that those morons will start misusing the "Report" feature as well. 
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I dont really see the point in voting and never have, its just a pissing contest...But what amazes me the most is that it bothers people...
Paul
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"But what amazes me the most is that it bothers people..."
You're so correct...I care less if someone 1 votes me for any reason, but then again that's just me.
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I'm boycotting voting forever. I think it's a failed experiment, I've said so for years and it's actually harmful to the flow of discussion but it seems people take a fatalistic view about it and Chris has yet to weigh in on the subject so it's assumed he's not getting rid of it.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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Why do you really care what 1 person thinks?
I just '1' voted you because you offended all of us morons in the world...but over all I usually think you're a 5!
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Really ? You need approval to develop for the iPhone ? Does that mean you can't deploy to an iPhone without Apple's help ? How do you test code, is there an emulator ?
I was planning an iPhone app, in fact, I was planning to buy the phone while in the US.
Christian Graus
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The Apple IPhone developer site.[^]
1. You need to register[^] for an apple developer program (99$ and 299$ for 2 different subscription types. The costlier one gets you more support, i think).
2. Download the SDK. It works with XCode and has a good simulator. Also supports on device debugging.
3. After registration, get what they call a 'provisioning profile' for your IPhone device. This tells the device that it is allowed to load developer certified apps.
4. Get a developer certificate and sign you applications with it.
5. A couple more easy steps.
6. Now you can put your own apps onto your phone.
Don't you just love it when hardware manufacturers want to control everything you can do on a piece of h/w that you spend lots of money to buy and just want to play around with?
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
-Ornette Coleman
"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently."
-Anon.
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Christian Graus wrote: I was planning to buy the phone while in the US.
Will you get the phone loss insurance too?
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Well, he seems to do a lot of whining about small things. If he thinks iPhone is bad, just as well he never tried Symbian development
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We had a couple weeks of not having to go to the basement for tornado warnings. That ended tonight. I was watching the incoming storms but there was no tornado watch. Hubby and I were working on eBay stuff and I looked outside and it was wild. I refreshed NOAA.gov and yep, tornado warning. One hit the ground a few miles from us and the sirens do not sound off. Man, am I upset.
We got everything to the basement; this time we felt rushed since there actually was one close to us. We had about 10 minutes left into the warning when my cellphone rang. As I'm screaming "who calls during a tornado?" I figured it was the mother in law to call and tell me there was a tornado. I basically answered the phone, "We're in a tornado, we are in the basement. We'll call you back." and hung up. Turns out grandma called mom who in turn called us.
I haven't seen any damage in our yard but it's too wet to really check. I had a feeling we would have storms since today the heat index was almost 100 degrees and and dew point was about 74. It felt like Puerto Rico.
Hope everyone else is safe.
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Wow, well at least you have a basement.
I grew up never having seen one until I was around 12 or 13, I had heard about them but no one around here builds houses with anything more than a crawlspace usually.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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