I had AT&T remove text message support to my phone completely. The only ones I receive are from AT&T telling me about my bill (which they don't charge me for).
When my wife started getting spam text messages, I called AT&T up again and had text message support removed from that line as well.

I'm too lazy to call about each text message I get, so getting the service removed completely made me happy.

Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.
* Emails cost money if it is larger than some small number of bytes (so email between phones is usually free / close to free, but receiving news letters is not).

I didn't drink coffee until I finished college and started working. From middle school up until that time, I drank soda. I had my part-time job at a place giving out free soda, so I probably drank a gallon a day.
Now that I'm on coffee, I have at least 6 cups a day to feel normal. Drinking it before going to sleep has no affect.

Worrying about work and what-not would keep me awake, so I usually try to note down any brilliant ideas when lying in bed and that usually helps.

I used to think the soda kept me up at night, but it really is just the computer (and its addiction).

ref: Google's initial public offering (IPO) took place five years later on August 19, 2004. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share.[46][47] Shares were sold in a unique online auction format using a system built by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, underwriters for the deal.[48][49] The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion.[50]

So Facebook is getting them $5b, for a value ranging from $50b to $100b. Google was $23b. So Facebook could be 2-4x what Google was.

I guess this depends on what is written for the state, but for California (ref: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21453.htm), it isn't a red light violation if you've entered the intersection on yellow (and changes red while still in the intersection). On the other hand, the length of yellow is important if it is short and the speed limit is high as the car won't have enough time to break before reaching the intersection. The width of the intersection shouldn't be important in this case.

Yes, driving safely and obeying the law is complicated. I think Google et al should first invest a lot into the safety part (other drivers don't always obey the law, so more defensive driving would be necessary). After that is problem free, following the endless list of state/country laws should be invested in.

Not sure, but perhaps once you read a book, it doesn't have as much value since the knowledge in it has already been taken.
But an unread book still has knowledge that hasn't been consumed, hence the value.

It is a one-man shop, and he even got "Marketting" wrong.

Japan has a significant price difference between using electricity at night (11pm-7am) and during the day. Since usage is down at night, it is much cheaper, so people do things that might require a lot of electricity (e.g. washer, dish-washer).

But I doubt the price difference is enough for people to invest in the batteries & inverter system.

QA at our company would be rated better or worse by the number of bugs we filed that got fixed. So it made more sense to focus on small issues (e.g. typo in some text) than bigger issues (e.g. data corruption in a stress environment).
I could file 5-10 easy bugs that get fixed in a day, while someone else suffers trying to explain how to reproduce the data corruption issue.

This wasn't the absolute deciding factor keeping your job, but it had quite some weight to it.
I also wrote the report that the managers used to read this data, but before that I wonder what factors they used to judge performance.

I had a coworker that did that for both c++ and python.
Who knows, maybe their IDE did it for them, but after they hit the 8th space, it turned into a tab. My tab width is 3, so it is completely unreadable. I refuse to set mine to 8, so I am just slowly cleaning up their mess (whenever I change their code).

Was recently married and finally randomly selected for the first time in the last 10 years of flying.
My wife on the other hand has been randomly selected every time in the last 5 years I've been with her. Maybe it is that we always go together that they can't randomly select 2 people in a row so they pick her over me.

Why would the investors care? They are as transient as the current CEO and will move on to the next company after the coal has turned to a clinker.

At the time of purchase, AMD's 8-core processor cost more than Intels 4-core w/ HT, so Intel was the better deal for me. Also Intel performs better with virtualization and that was one of the selling points for me.
I think the energy usage was lower as well for Intel.

I have a dual proc quad core AMD at work though and it does its function fine there.

Regarding the English link. Is that something that people have to do at a pawn shop? (all customer bio records go to the sheriff's station?)
I wouldn't think that would be legal.

But honest customer already bought the game.
Only no more profit if they equate Capcom with crippling DRM and refuse to buy more games. We'll see how good their memory is by the time the next game comes out.

You could also duplicate items by giving them to another character, removing that character and saving it as a different file.
Pools of Darkness had a bug in one room where the treasure would always respawn (and the experience wasn't bad). I used this to level & multiclass my humans (39/40) as well as be rich with gems.

Even with all this cheating, beating the boss was tough for me (I suck at games).