These guys make a fair amount of money on commission. Regardless, no excuse for giving customers misnformation. (I feel justified saying this, having worked my share of minimum wage retail jobs.)
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These guys make a fair amount of money on commission.
Oh yeah. When they put a huge amount of effort into pushing one product over a similar one - I figure that currently their commissions must be higher for that product.
IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.
Damn, I remember reading about the Pentium a year / 18 months before they came out. I was amazed that the Pentium would run at 60mhz! With higher speeds to come!
IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.
Ah, the good old days. The hopes! The dreams! The bizarre floating-point errors!
The bizarre floating-point errors!
Oooh. I\'d forgotten about that one. Ahh.... good times...
I'm about to order a Harmony. I hope it works on my Mac because my roommate's computer is the slowest Windows computer in the universe (I believe he paid $500 for it almost 3 years ago).
ETA: Hmm. The 670 is $100. The 880 is apparently only $150 on Amazon right now. Should I pay $50 for pretty colors? Very tempting!
I ordered the 880! Not so much for the colors as for the greater number of activity keys.
I went for the 880 too. Woot. Now I just need to figure out how to actually make sure it gets delivered to me... living in a non-doorman apartment is a big PITA.
I was very tempted to go browse amongst the Harmony remotes when I found myself near a store that is said to carry them, but I am being all rational and holding off on getting a fancy remote until after I replace my TV. My 10 year old Symphonic keeps right on working fine, except that it refuses to take IR instruction of any kind. Or show things in high definition, of course.
Batcave home theater: [link]
I'm giving a powerpoint presentation Wed. I have now prepared the actual slide show, and a speech to go with it. But for my notes, what I'd like to have is thumbnail of each slide, and then tie the stuff I'm going to say to that thumbnail. Is there an easy way to make powerpoint generate a series of thumbnails of the slides? I'd rather have that than the RTF outline so that I know exactly what the audience is seeing at any one moment. Right now it looks like I have to copy one slide at a time.