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by peckrob 13y ago
What build number is it?
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by peckrob 13y ago
I think it's dependent on whether or not a 3rd party seller in Amazon's marketplace is offering the same item. Amazon also sometimes has a "bulk" item at a higher price.
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by peckrob 13y ago
The thing that's really annoying about the whole "Add-On Items" bit is that they won't ship them AT ALL, even if I want to pay to have them shipped. Forget the free shipping thing - they won't even let me pay shippi
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by peckrob 13y ago
We reached a point where it was just becoming painful to keep track of them - what a server did and where it was located. When you only have a handful of machines at one location, it's not a big deal. But once that number grows, and es
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by peckrob 13y ago
I had a similar experience in Boston a couple months ago with Budget. Waited in line more than an hour just to get to an agent, and when I finally got up there, I discovered what was taking so long: they had no cars available. They had only
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by peckrob 13y ago
We used to use Marvel characters until our setup got too big. Now it's (datacenter)-(type (web, proxy, db, etc))(number). So, sfo-proxy1, for example.
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by peckrob 13y ago
> It's just that there doesn't seem to be enough demand to sustain an entire airline dedicated to the idea. Yeah, this is kind of what I meant. The only people capable of doing this are the majors (and then only on a small hand
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by peckrob 13y ago
There's a saying in the airline industry that goes something like this: "What's the fastest way to become a millionaire in the airline industry? Start with a billion dollars." I don't work in the airlines, but I&#x2
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by peckrob 13y ago
We bought a house last year in what was a moderately complex transaction. What we were trying to do was purchase a "new" home (it was actually 2 years old, but had been the model home in a neighborhood so it hadn't actually b
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by peckrob 13y ago
I had a rental car in Boston a few weeks ago and the rental car came with an EZ-Pass that flipped into a little box. I was told by the rental company that if I didn't want to use it and pay cash tolls, just keep it inside the box. So I
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by peckrob 14y ago
This is the exact position my wife and I are in as well. Kids change the equation a lot. We have our first kid on the way (due at the end of November) and currently live in a 1,600 square foot house. I remember when I bought it, before I wa
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by peckrob 14y ago
American here. Checks are basically little pieces of paper (about the size of two credit cards; they usually come in a book of 25-50) that allow the recipient to make a demand against my account. I write on the check the name of the recipie
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by peckrob 15y ago
I totally agree with you about the need for better drivers' training, especially in the United States. Quite frankly, my "driving exam" was a joke - a 5 minute drive around the courthouse square (again, I lived in a small town - cows outnum
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by peckrob 15y ago
To provide a counterpoint, I've lived my entire life in smaller cities with little to no public transit, so all the things you've mentioned are just second nature to me. Never run out of gas because there's always a gas station nearby (and