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Walmart Tries to Emulate MySpace
mattsucks writes to tell us that according to AdAge, retail behemoth WalMart is trying desperately to target the MySpace demographic with a new, and highly sanitized, site designed to appeal to teens. From the article: "It's a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to 'express their individuality,' yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to e-mail one another. Oh, and it calls users 'hubsters' -- a twist on hipsters that proves just how painfully uncool it is to try to be cool."
Water is not a beverage.
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Since when is Wal*Mart good for getting laid?
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Nitpick all you like, he was right about one thing... the use of the word "trys" in the headline was poor English.
First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
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What does a Monty Python quote have to do with a tryst?
I'm going to join this site just to be ironic, dude.
The only acceptable time for "trys" is when you're on the way to "tryst"
Very nice turn of phrase! I wonder, how many "trys" does it take to make a "tryst"? It never seems to work for me, no matter how many "trys" :(
"Trys" does lead to one other seldom-used word: trysexual. From Wikipedia:
Of course, we must take this definition with a grain of salt, given its source. Especially in light of the Wikipedia article for cisgender, which reads in part:
So...not really a word then, unless you are a transgendered grammar Nazi. Never mind, then ...
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I'm sorry but water is not a beverage.
from Dictionary.com
Beverage
Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water.
from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Beverage
noun a drink other than water.
From OED.
Beverage
1. Drink, liquor for drinking; esp. a liquor which constitutes a common article of consumption.
2. A 'draught' which has been brewed, and must be drunk...
I use OS X so they are "nicer" to us.. They shipped Flash 9 final , as we can't find anywhere "what's new", all could only guess there must be some better performance, compatibility fixes and even unlisted security fixes.
We updated.
Result? Sites claim we don't have Flash installed! Yes, not "older" version problem, just because "newer" version problem.
I tried to downgrade a program/plugin first time in my life as result of it. If I could find the 8.22...
Flash professionals (very common on OS X) claim a reasonable reason: A very widely used Flash detector script was not coded with anything higher than 8 in mind. As Adobe (new boss!) does not come up with an official explanation, that is what I believe.
If that detector is widely used (including my bank!), couldn't they try to add some hack of backwards compatibility?
As far as I know, x86's have some compatibility features dating back to 1980s.
What do they suggest? Contact millions of web page authors?
I try not being negative but it is the first time I saw a problem happens when you get a newer flash plugin. I can't remember anything like that since version 1.0, never filtered it in my life too. Congrats Adobe?
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