Walmart's non-synthetic basic oil / filter change is cheaper than what I can buy the oil / filter for individually unless I turn to the internet. They make like $2 profit off each job, so it was really worth it before I switched to synthetic.

A few of my local dealerships are pretty competitive on prices, though one in particular happens to be great; selling parts for my cars cheaper than the local auto parts stores and most of the internet after shipping. The repairs are almost always quoted cheaper than other dealerships and are higher quality, but they have a huge repair shop to make up the profit via volume repair.

I am incredibly glad that I earned my CS degree through a liberal arts college (Hope College). To this day, I feel the liberal arts requirements were just as valuable to my overall growth as my core CS classes were at helping me land a great job straight out of school.

In Michigan you pay sales tax when you register the car, regardless of where you bought it.

Didn't really see anything useful except for maybe the bandwidth monitoring.

The cop should have just removed the offending charging cable with some rubber gloves and a bolt cutter. Problem solved.

The moment the app plays a loud audio ad, it's gone. Small un-intrusive ads, no problem, but full screen or audio ads, good bye.

streisand effect ... Streisand Effect ... STREISAND EFFECT... HOOOO!!!

I'm a 31 year old married programmer just getting out of college and looking forward to kids soon. Working a nice 40 hour a week paid internship with decent money and moving into a full time gig starting with generous pay, salary, and pension system in a great mid sized company. All of the programmers on my team are 35+ years old in a very highly successful and growing company. The latest hire is a 60 year old main-framer who's looking forward to retirement in 5 years and just enjoying the work until then.

Terrible experiences being taken advantage of are no more the norm than great companies who do not age discriminate and offer great compensation, hours, vacation time, wages, and other benefits, they just get more attention.

I'm curious how long it will be before these optimizations are found in the compilers themselves.

So they off-shored from India to America?

A large portion of consumers have repeatedly stated the Chromebook is exactly what they want. It's cheap, handles basic computing needs (word processes, etc), handles online streaming, and is nearly virus proof with little to no learning curve. There is also no slow degrade of speed over time as your not installing any software. For a lot of non-techies, it's a dream come true.

Looking forward to getting a few more bucks saved up to get my wife another as she's used her old Chromebook into the ground (the monitor is literally held on with tape as it was a beta product and she's a rough user).

You may not agree, but I find it hard to believe you formed your opinion on the realities of what the common computer user wants.

Even with translation, all the stories are nonsense and un-entertaining.

I normally check back on this site throughout the day, but this will be my last post until tomorrow.

Destroying your product for a day is just a bad business decision Slashdot.

Was gonna spend my mod point down rating, but I decided to comment instead....

That's how you win an argument, you insult the other person if they don't agree with you.

*home*

Waiting to see an apartment full of geeks and gamers rocking 10 cable modems all linked together and splitting the bill.