So? I pay for my LaunchCast service through Yahoo which has over 13000 of my ratings on songs/artists/albums now. I got an email in December saying they sold off their radio station, would no longer offer customized stations, and were shuttering it as of Feb 09. My three mails to their support (which they closed down before the announcement) asking for a simple dump of my data was met with form-letter replies about how lucky I am that they sold to a bigger company for 'my benefit' and how I'll still have all those great pre-set stations. LaunchCast was the only thing I've used and liked out of Yahoo -- teaches me to give them a chance. Now I hope they wither and die (yes, I already scraped their website for my ratings, but their poor site reliability meant I needed a huge number of delays and retries to do it)
My god, did you just jump on that 'partisan speech' bullshit too? Seriously, if a partisan speech swayed anyone at all because their feelings were hurt, then they should be immediately ejected from congress for ignoring the issue and voting to punish the democrats (or whatever rediculous reason they gave). Also, that 97% number keeps going up...it was 90% a month or so ago. Are they discovering new votes? McCain was at 98% voting with Bush but can still call himself a 'Maverick'...given that he and Obama are both voting with their party, how does this number mean *anything* when trying to decide between the two? And while I'm at it...socialism? That newest hot button is a joke and a desperate grab for votes. I'm surprised McCain/Palin didn't start saying 'Communism' instead to try and evoke even more fear and misunderstanding in the population.
I'm making lunch. Right here I have a can of beans and a bowl to put them in. Let's call the can of beans the source and the bowl the target.
Step 1 : Open Source
Step 2 : Pour Source Into Target
Step 3 : Profit?
Uh, oh. I used "Open Source". Better call my lawyer and prepare for the oncoming community outrage.
Finally...thought I was going to get through all the comments with only the "no one in the world enjoyed these because I didn't and two old people I know didn't". I too liked them as shorts, and as shorts I associated with gates in a more personal, less stuffy way. I'd probably transfer any good memories of the short to Microsoft simply because of gates. Yes, he's mostly out of there by now, but still the microsoft-icon.
Oh, and I love the commentary in the summary (from the article):
echoes his underlings' spin
...I didn't see any facts that this was in fact not planned, so I don't know how it can be spin. If you show me a contract for 2+N episodes, then it is spin.
I normally couldn't care less about the quality of the summary or any mistakes it contains. What does drive me batty is the horrible misuse of THEN. From the department of:
because-your-friends-are-clearly-funnier-then-the-professionals?
Maybe buy a a bunch of cheaper receivers and put them on every door jamb in the house. At least then you'll have a "last seen in this room" style locator.
You say you were born in Taiwan, but you are speaking of China. I lived in Taiwan for several years and even though China wants everyone to believe they are the same place, they are not. Did you spend time in China as well, or are you speaking of your experiences in Taiwan? Were you in places with heavy recent Chinese immigration such as Taipei, or further south with a more Taiwanese natives and more of those that originally fled there from Chinese communism?
Based on the amount of news and discussion against various government actions, I didn't get the impression that anyone there wanted to tolerate oppression, even with just a few years spent in northern Taiwan.
Oh, and if anyone thinks the right/left leaning of American news is bad, watch some local Taiwanese news channels which are either backed by China or Taiwan. It is amazing how conflicting the reports and coverage can be of the same event. Oh, and CNN is actually good watching in Taiwan.
Do you have links? I saw that explanation for one single county, and when questioned they looked over the numbers and saw someone wrote down 0 instead of 31 (or something like that). There wasn't a recount, just a comparison of totals vs what got written down on the reporting sheet. Why can't that be human error as they said it was? If I wanted to cheat, I'd put something harder to spot as a mistake like 6 instead of 0.
I'm not saying a recount won't find real problems, but every mistake isn't automatically a conspiracy. Yes it is a shame -- I'd like it if Ron Paul got more votes also -- but until I see the results of the recount I'm not jumping to any conclusions.
And that is the key -- it is a pre-built set of products.
I could also create something for my shed if i want to look into manufacturers for quality and price, choose the individual components, ensure I knew how they all went together (safely), and mount it on the shed. Just like I don't have the time or interest in building computers from scratch anymore, I don't have the interest in investing all this time into building a custom solution. If they can give a warantee that covers their whole package, they can test the configurations and crazy outdoor conditions, and they can build thousands of them in the time it takes me to assemble one, then super. They aren't stopping you from creating your own custom product for your shed.
I wish someone would make some entry level package like this for homes -- a solar cell, simple cables (as easy as a power cord you can plug into each side), and a battery. Then give me some ways to go battery-out to random appliances and I think it would be a good way to let people try solar without the 10K+ investment and installation knowledge. Even if I only get enough juice to charge my laptop, it is at least a way to get started/interested.
(summary) "There are ways to bypass the Windows Vista protection by encoding the movies using alternative codecs like X264, or DiVX, which are in fact more effective sometimes Kb>then Windows own WMV codec."
I normally let these slide, but the than/then confusion gets to me more than the their/there/they're mix ups. Mabye it is the fact that I pronounce their/there/they're the same, but than/then differently? I hit the word when reading and my brain pukes and I have to re-read the sentence to see what I may have missed. Why is this so confusing and hard to get right?
Maybe I'll have to get all my stories read to me so I can just chalk it up to accent/pronunciation. Offtopic, but some of the samples on that site are hillarious...
Yeah, I tried planting a bunch of fauna once, but it is hard to get them to hold still while you back-fill -- especially those hardy fauna. I guess a shovel across the head or reducing their oxygen on the way to Mars to make them dazed...oh, or did you mean flora?
you are surrounded by "a few" Microsoft lemmings and the fact that they don't have a Zune says a lot? Among the 50 to 60 thousand employees you quote, I wouldn't think "a few" would be a significant sample size.
I work in tech and I wouldn't buy either an ipod or a zune. I don't see a need to pay more than 25 bucks for something I just need to play music right above the din of traffic and jerks on cell phones, so I have a cheap 1Gig Taiwanese budget player
Also, I've never seen another of my player in the states, so therefore it must have only sold less than, oh I don't know, 10k units?
Ummm, my five year old dell desktop with 768M RAM and 1.99 Ghz proc works great on Vista with Aero, and Media Center and WMP both are perfectly fine at loading, playing, and recording all the video I want.
Are you running a dreaded Tecra M3/M4 or something? Those things have endless problems in hardware -- especially the mobo and video bits where they fry or parts fall off. Beyond that, their bios and some drivers were wonky and they had special updates come out after Vista shipped.
Are you up to date on Toshiba-custom-drivers? Are you running your computer throttled down to 'presentation' mode when testing Vista?
(note, I'm not saying your Ubuntu experience wasn't awesome, I'm just wondering if your Vista experience may have been altered by especially crappy xp-targeted drivers or bios issues that Ubuntu ignores/doesn't use.)
Why is this news -- because it is Google? The whole article is filled with "Google understands blah blah...but all their competitors do too and have been doing the same thing".
No hot grits, but you can see natalie portman images inlined in the search results in live.com and that has been there for a while now. http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=natalie+port man&form=QBRE
Directly from the article:
Google's competitors have also begun integrating results from their engines in various ways and with different approaches, but with the same goal in mind: improve the search experience for users.
People keep calling out crazy patents and explaining how they would defeat them with obviousness or prior art, but does anyone yet know WHICH patents Microsoft is talking about? Maybe MS is giving their maximum number to create more of a scare. Maybe they have already filtered out anything they consider too obvious and this announced number is more defendable/actionable. Unless a person knows which patents are/aren't being considered, just hold off on the guessing for now. People can still shout about patent reform and abuse, though it is pretty much preaching to the choir.
Why have they certainly not read your feedback? I see a Check-all box right there at the top of the mail-summary column. Did you even look at the release before you said they didn't fix any of the problems you gave feedback for?
Everyone here is trying too hard. You could send a mail out saying "Please update your BankOfAmerica account at www.somerandomname.com"
and some people would do it.
Foolproof is a word only used by fools.
You're never going to get past the education issue whenever you add something that requires the user to notice that something is wrong. Your solution needs to completely invade the privacy of the user and double guess their intentions to 'protect' them and we all know how that will look. Even with this, some people would probably throw their password into a blank page with a text form on it that says "enter your information to update your account"
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So? I pay for my LaunchCast service through Yahoo which has over 13000 of my ratings on songs/artists/albums now. I got an email in December saying they sold off their radio station, would no longer offer customized stations, and were shuttering it as of Feb 09. My three mails to their support (which they closed down before the announcement) asking for a simple dump of my data was met with form-letter replies about how lucky I am that they sold to a bigger company for 'my benefit' and how I'll still have all those great pre-set stations. LaunchCast was the only thing I've used and liked out of Yahoo -- teaches me to give them a chance. Now I hope they wither and die (yes, I already scraped their website for my ratings, but their poor site reliability meant I needed a huge number of delays and retries to do it)
Pumaman would have to be on that poll. Something about being able to fly when you get the powers of a puma...from a magic belt...awesome.
Links to those dropping numbers please. I've heard 250k was right around the cutoff since the numbers first came out. What are they now? Oh here, let me get that for you:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Factsheet_Tax_Plan_FINAL.pdf
"Middle class families will see their taxes cut - and no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase."
Now if you want to claim he can't stick to those numbers it is one thing, but try to drop in some links next time instead of emotional summaries.
My god, did you just jump on that 'partisan speech' bullshit too? Seriously, if a partisan speech swayed anyone at all because their feelings were hurt, then they should be immediately ejected from congress for ignoring the issue and voting to punish the democrats (or whatever rediculous reason they gave). Also, that 97% number keeps going up...it was 90% a month or so ago. Are they discovering new votes? McCain was at 98% voting with Bush but can still call himself a 'Maverick'...given that he and Obama are both voting with their party, how does this number mean *anything* when trying to decide between the two? And while I'm at it...socialism? That newest hot button is a joke and a desperate grab for votes. I'm surprised McCain/Palin didn't start saying 'Communism' instead to try and evoke even more fear and misunderstanding in the population.
I'm making lunch. Right here I have a can of beans and a bowl to put them in. Let's call the can of beans the source and the bowl the target.
Step 1 : Open Source
Step 2 : Pour Source Into Target
Step 3 : Profit?
Uh, oh. I used "Open Source". Better call my lawyer and prepare for the oncoming community outrage.
Oh, and I love the commentary in the summary (from the article):
echoes his underlings' spin
I normally couldn't care less about the quality of the summary or any mistakes it contains. What does drive me batty is the horrible misuse of THEN. From the department of:
because-your-friends-are-clearly-funnier-then-the-professionals?
A card begging him to not listen to advice given from people who use 'then' when they should use 'than'
If it were that simple to create such a temperature differential on a line, couldn't you make one hell of an awesome Stirling engine up there?
Guess it is time to start investing in umbrella stock.
Maybe buy a a bunch of cheaper receivers and put them on every door jamb in the house. At least then you'll have a "last seen in this room" style locator.
You say you were born in Taiwan, but you are speaking of China. I lived in Taiwan for several years and even though China wants everyone to believe they are the same place, they are not. Did you spend time in China as well, or are you speaking of your experiences in Taiwan? Were you in places with heavy recent Chinese immigration such as Taipei, or further south with a more Taiwanese natives and more of those that originally fled there from Chinese communism?
Based on the amount of news and discussion against various government actions, I didn't get the impression that anyone there wanted to tolerate oppression, even with just a few years spent in northern Taiwan.
Oh, and if anyone thinks the right/left leaning of American news is bad, watch some local Taiwanese news channels which are either backed by China or Taiwan. It is amazing how conflicting the reports and coverage can be of the same event. Oh, and CNN is actually good watching in Taiwan.
Does waterboarding these 'terror chips' work as well as water cooling?
Do you have links? I saw that explanation for one single county, and when questioned they looked over the numbers and saw someone wrote down 0 instead of 31 (or something like that). There wasn't a recount, just a comparison of totals vs what got written down on the reporting sheet. Why can't that be human error as they said it was? If I wanted to cheat, I'd put something harder to spot as a mistake like 6 instead of 0.
I'm not saying a recount won't find real problems, but every mistake isn't automatically a conspiracy. Yes it is a shame -- I'd like it if Ron Paul got more votes also -- but until I see the results of the recount I'm not jumping to any conclusions.
I'm more of a "Puma Man" guy myself. Nothing like flying through the air like a majestic puma...wait..
They're just threatening early to discourage people from getting the truth out about the Chuck Norris showdown.
And that is the key -- it is a pre-built set of products.
I could also create something for my shed if i want to look into manufacturers for quality and price, choose the individual components, ensure I knew how they all went together (safely), and mount it on the shed. Just like I don't have the time or interest in building computers from scratch anymore, I don't have the interest in investing all this time into building a custom solution. If they can give a warantee that covers their whole package, they can test the configurations and crazy outdoor conditions, and they can build thousands of them in the time it takes me to assemble one, then super. They aren't stopping you from creating your own custom product for your shed.
I wish someone would make some entry level package like this for homes -- a solar cell, simple cables (as easy as a power cord you can plug into each side), and a battery. Then give me some ways to go battery-out to random appliances and I think it would be a good way to let people try solar without the 10K+ investment and installation knowledge. Even if I only get enough juice to charge my laptop, it is at least a way to get started/interested.
(summary) "There are ways to bypass the Windows Vista protection by encoding the movies using alternative codecs like X264, or DiVX, which are in fact more effective sometimes Kb>then Windows own WMV codec."
I normally let these slide, but the than/then confusion gets to me more than the their/there/they're mix ups. Mabye it is the fact that I pronounce their/there/they're the same, but than/then differently? I hit the word when reading and my brain pukes and I have to re-read the sentence to see what I may have missed. Why is this so confusing and hard to get right?
Maybe I'll have to get all my stories read to me so I can just chalk it up to accent/pronunciation. Offtopic, but some of the samples on that site are hillarious...
I came to the comments on this story ONLY to read the "Deuce Bigelow - Space Gigolo" comments. Slashdot, you have sorely disappointed me.
Yeah, I tried planting a bunch of fauna once, but it is hard to get them to hold still while you back-fill -- especially those hardy fauna. I guess a shovel across the head or reducing their oxygen on the way to Mars to make them dazed...oh, or did you mean flora?
you are surrounded by "a few" Microsoft lemmings and the fact that they don't have a Zune says a lot? Among the 50 to 60 thousand employees you quote, I wouldn't think "a few" would be a significant sample size.
I work in tech and I wouldn't buy either an ipod or a zune. I don't see a need to pay more than 25 bucks for something I just need to play music right above the din of traffic and jerks on cell phones, so I have a cheap 1Gig Taiwanese budget player
Also, I've never seen another of my player in the states, so therefore it must have only sold less than, oh I don't know, 10k units?
Ummm, my five year old dell desktop with 768M RAM and 1.99 Ghz proc works great on Vista with Aero, and Media Center and WMP both are perfectly fine at loading, playing, and recording all the video I want.
Are you running a dreaded Tecra M3/M4 or something? Those things have endless problems in hardware -- especially the mobo and video bits where they fry or parts fall off. Beyond that, their bios and some drivers were wonky and they had special updates come out after Vista shipped.
Are you up to date on Toshiba-custom-drivers? Are you running your computer throttled down to 'presentation' mode when testing Vista?
(note, I'm not saying your Ubuntu experience wasn't awesome, I'm just wondering if your Vista experience may have been altered by especially crappy xp-targeted drivers or bios issues that Ubuntu ignores/doesn't use.)
Why is this news -- because it is Google? The whole article is filled with "Google understands blah blah...but all their competitors do too and have been doing the same thing".t man&form=QBRE
No hot grits, but you can see natalie portman images inlined in the search results in live.com and that has been there for a while now. http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=natalie+por
Directly from the article:
Google's competitors have also begun integrating results from their engines in various ways and with different approaches, but with the same goal in mind: improve the search experience for users.
People keep calling out crazy patents and explaining how they would defeat them with obviousness or prior art, but does anyone yet know WHICH patents Microsoft is talking about? Maybe MS is giving their maximum number to create more of a scare. Maybe they have already filtered out anything they consider too obvious and this announced number is more defendable/actionable. Unless a person knows which patents are/aren't being considered, just hold off on the guessing for now. People can still shout about patent reform and abuse, though it is pretty much preaching to the choir.
Why have they certainly not read your feedback? I see a Check-all box right there at the top of the mail-summary column. Did you even look at the release before you said they didn't fix any of the problems you gave feedback for?
Everyone here is trying too hard. You could send a mail out saying
"Please update your BankOfAmerica account at www.somerandomname.com"
and some people would do it.
Foolproof is a word only used by fools.
You're never going to get past the education issue whenever you add something that requires the user to notice that something is wrong. Your solution needs to completely invade the privacy of the user and double guess their intentions to 'protect' them and we all know how that will look. Even with this, some people would probably throw their password into a blank page with a text form on it that says "enter your information to update your account"