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I could have used that on my driver's test. I was doing great on my driving test until I got to the parallel parking bit.

Picture this, an empty suburban street. Just one car parked on the road. All I have to do is park behind it. 10 min later, my car is about 6 feet away from the curb, at a 30 degree angle.

The woman giving me the test looked over the brim of her glasses and said, ``You want to try that again honey?''

I wanted to say no, because I was actually rather proud of how close I had gotten that time.

But, I tried again, with the same result.

``Why don't we move on.'' She said.

In the end, she passed me, but with the words, ``You're a very cautious driver, but the worst parallel parker I've seen in my entire career.''


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I could have used that on my driver's test. I was doing great on my driving test until I got to the parallel parking bit.

Picture this, an empty suburban street. Just one car parked on the road. All I have to do is park behind it. 10 min later, my car is about 6 feet away from the curb, at a 30 degree angle.

The woman giving me the test looked over the brim of her glasses and said, ``You want to try that again honey?''

I wanted to say no, because I was actually rather proud of how close I had gotten that time.

But, I tried again, with the same result.

``Why don't we move on.'' She said.

In the end, she passed me, but with the words, ``You're a very cautious driver, but the worst parallel parker I've seen in my entire career.''


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Talk about the good things first, then air your complaints as suggestions.


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Talk about the good things first, then air your complaints as suggestions.


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Wow , a 23 year old who thinks he knows how to be a great parent.

You may notice, that I just asked a question, I didn't tell anyone how to be a parent.


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Wow , a 23 year old who thinks he knows how to be a great parent.

You may notice, that I just asked a question, I didn't tell anyone how to be a parent.


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Mr. Nail predicts that Internet users will react well to the ads, both because they can click away if they choose and because the advertisers involved have brands that "people have positive reactions to

They won't have positive associations with those brands for long. People don't like spending 1,500 on a computer and 20/month for the net only to have adds forced on them when they are trying to do something else.


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Mr. Nail predicts that Internet users will react well to the ads, both because they can click away if they choose and because the advertisers involved have brands that "people have positive reactions to

They won't have positive associations with those brands for long. People don't like spending 1,500 on a computer and 20/month for the net only to have adds forced on them when they are trying to do something else.


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In the other, "Vacuum," a vacuum cleaner hunts a Pepsi drinker and eats his pants.

Mmmmmm, nothing makes me want to drink Pepsi like a malfunctioning vacuum.


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In the other, "Vacuum," a vacuum cleaner hunts a Pepsi drinker and eats his pants.

Mmmmmm, nothing makes me want to drink Pepsi like a malfunctioning vacuum.


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"It's TV, without the television," said John Vail, director for digital media and marketing for Pepsi-Cola North America, a unit of PepsiCo.

What the hell does Mr. Vail think TV is short for?"


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"It's TV, without the television," said John Vail, director for digital media and marketing for Pepsi-Cola North America, a unit of PepsiCo.

What the hell does Mr. Vail think TV is short for?"


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Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising.

There is a revolt over popups. Who thinks this is a good time for full-motion commercials? What kind of reaction are they expecting from the public on this one?


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Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising.

There is a revolt over popups. Who thinks this is a good time for full-motion commercials? What kind of reaction are they expecting from the public on this one?


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I have only 1 suggestiong for Google, and that is to let me up the number results returned to 250 or 500. Other than that, I'm on the bandwagon!

If you need to go to the 500th result, I don't think you are using the tool the right way.


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I have only 1 suggestiong for Google, and that is to let me up the number results returned to 250 or 500. Other than that, I'm on the bandwagon!

If you need to go to the 500th result, I don't think you are using the tool the right way.


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What if I as the parent of a 17 year old, give them permission to look at porn? Can I have that block removed from their phone... a phone I most likely bought and paid for in the first place?


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What if I as the parent of a 17 year old, give them permission to look at porn? Can I have that block removed from their phone... a phone I most likely bought and paid for in the first place?


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prediction: there will be email portability (similar to cell phone number portability) legislation proposed soon.

Not feasable with the current system. With phones, everyone has a unique number. When one guy has gandalf@hotmail.com and another gandalf@yahoo.com, how do you decide who is the `real' gandalf?


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prediction: there will be email portability (similar to cell phone number portability) legislation proposed soon.

Not feasable with the current system. With phones, everyone has a unique number. When one guy has gandalf@hotmail.com and another gandalf@yahoo.com, how do you decide who is the `real' gandalf?


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I'm sure Google is getting more and more concerned about locking in users

It's only a lockin if the users want to leave but can't. Google has a good history with users, I wouldn't expect them to do any less with a mail client.


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I'm sure Google is getting more and more concerned about locking in users

It's only a lockin if the users want to leave but can't. Google has a good history with users, I wouldn't expect them to do any less with a mail client.


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Sure, what the fuck ever. This is trivially defensible in court.

I wouldn't be so sure. Juries of average people I don't imagine have the patience to listen to lots of tech talk.


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Sure, what the fuck ever. This is trivially defensible in court.

I wouldn't be so sure. Juries of average people I don't imagine have the patience to listen to lots of tech talk.


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Haven't you seen Hackers?

Ah yes, the best nerd-are-cool fantasy ever.


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Haven't you seen Hackers?

Ah yes, the best nerd-are-cool fantasy ever.


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Chicks are like voltron, the more you hook up, the better it gets.


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Chicks are like voltron, the more you hook up, the better it gets.


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No kidding, I like my reviews shorter than the books.


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No kidding, I like my reviews shorter than the books.


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My biggest complaint about computing is that my brain->computer interface (hands to keyboard that is) is VERY low bandwidth and VERY high latency.

I'd just love to be able to type without using my hands - years of keyboarding have left with with a lot of repetitive stress injuries. And I'm only 22 : (


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My biggest complaint about computing is that my brain->computer interface (hands to keyboard that is) is VERY low bandwidth and VERY high latency.

I'd just love to be able to type without using my hands - years of keyboarding have left with with a lot of repetitive stress injuries. And I'm only 22 : (


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Seems to me one of the biggest issues is sending enough water.

Don't worry, the Martians already cut those cannals for us. : )


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Seems to me one of the biggest issues is sending enough water.

Don't worry, the Martians already cut those cannals for us. : )


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But how would we ensure that you would do the job when the time came? I think it would be better to pay some person's family after they completed the job. Send the people who made this movie on the one way trip.


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But how would we ensure that you would do the job when the time came? I think it would be better to pay some person's family after they completed the job. Send the people who made this movie on the one way trip.


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Don't worry, as this high quality film has shown, it would be easy to save them.


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Don't worry, as this high quality film has shown, it would be easy to save them.


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..then evidence for a second genesis would await us, providing a heaven-sent opportunity to compare two bio-systems..

..then evidence for a second genesis would await us, providing a heaven-sent opportunity to compare two bio-systems..

..."adaptive" information technology is about. It has something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests, and also with "modularising" and "integrating", as well as with lots of "enabling" and "processes"... Microsoft's Bill Gates talks of "seamless computing". Other vendors prefer "ubiquitous", "autonomous" or "utility" computing. Forrester Research, a consultancy, likes "organic". Gartner, a rival, opts for "real-time". Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"

Except for the Darwin part, it sounds like the usual, meaningless biz lingo.


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..."adaptive" information technology is about. It has something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests, and also with "modularising" and "integrating", as well as with lots of "enabling" and "processes"... Microsoft's Bill Gates talks of "seamless computing". Other vendors prefer "ubiquitous", "autonomous" or "utility" computing. Forrester Research, a consultancy, likes "organic". Gartner, a rival, opts for "real-time". Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"

Except for the Darwin part, it sounds like the usual, meaningless biz lingo.


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Not to nitpick, but that's not an oxymoron


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Not to nitpick, but that's not an oxymoron


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If a bunch of hobbiests were able to colonize the moon...

Don't you mean terrorists? I think we all know who the moon belongs to :/


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If a bunch of hobbiests were able to colonize the moon...

Don't you mean terrorists? I think we all know who the moon belongs to :/


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Rex Banner: Does anyone have any questions?

Comic Book Guy: Yes. I'd like to kno...

Rex Banner: Don't crack wise with me tubby

Comic Book Guy: Tubby? (looks down) Oh yes... Tubby


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Rex Banner: Does anyone have any questions?

Comic Book Guy: Yes. I'd like to kno...

Rex Banner: Don't crack wise with me tubby

Comic Book Guy: Tubby? (looks down) Oh yes... Tubby


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With episodes 7, 8, and 9 on the way, I need a new hope : (


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With episodes 7, 8, and 9 on the way, I need a new hope : (


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