Seriously, are you my twin? Stalking me? Something else strange going on? I operate the same as you. Sit and play my favorite MMO (WoW, for me though) and talk to people there, idle on IRC and chat with a few more people, and one or two forums here and there. And yes, I too do leave the house and go socialize with real people once in awhile, too. I've never signed up for any social networking site -- I don't see the point. Really, why do I need to let the whole world know my life story in a piss-poorly designed page plastered with 10 flash videos and 500 blinking-glitter-gif-images-that-need-to-fucking-d ie?
I've got to agree with a previous poster; social networking sites seem to attract the non-geek crowd who ALREADY have a social life and bring them online. Just another piece of advertising revenue by drawing in all the people more likely to buy some $80 pair of "designer" jeans they see in an ad when reading a friend's profile.
I don't see how the slow adoption of Vista is any different from previous Windows releases, except that the consumer version is being delayed a month rather than be released in tandem. The DoD only truly migrated fully to XP early last year; no corporation with a large IT infrastructure is going to be eager to lead the charge without concrete proof that upgrading will benefit them in the long term.
Or is the DoD just skipping the concept of digitally signing email? Actually the majority of the DoD signs and encrypts emails with the cerfiticates on our smart cards. And yes, there was push from the top to disable HTML email and have Outlook default to RTF, but it's still quite possible to change it to HTML. In my own experience, I still recieve HTML emails fine, too. Nothing on them is altered.
I loved Allofmp3.com:(. I've paid to download so much nice DRM-free music from there, especially older works that are near impossible to find anyplace legal or otherwise. Guess I best burn through my remaining credit fast!
I've always used spambob.org for things like this. They have plenty of different addresses and domains to choose from depending on exactly -how- disposable of an email address you want.
Thanks for this story, honestly. When I first read about the Zune I was pretty hyped (nicer screen, WiFi, large storage, etc) and wanted one over an iPod. Thankfully my wife bought me an iPod before the Zune launched, and after reading the review I'm happier than ever about it.
I'd be less than apt to sign up, too. If NASA has problems with shuttles exploding on launch, who's to say Russia will fare better with its program? Sorry, as nice as the "final frontier" might be, I'm not keen on the idea of being vaporized just trying to get there.
The only saving grace of creativity for sci-fi is that it can deal with things that are fully fictional in nature. Other genres usually have at least some basis in reality, but sci-fi is allowed to completely ignore this and make up things as they please based on how future events may possibly unfold.
Do you think we're near the breaking point on creativity in realistic fiction films? Or closing in? Truely, how many different possibilities actually exist (that would be entertaining / exciting enough) to make a movie out of, barring a wave of sci-fi? There's got to be a breaking point some day.
When I go on vacation I become a ghost to anybody back where I live. Usually I travel someplace international and provide no email, phone, or other means to contact me. I don't have a pet or anything else of horrible value that I have to leave behind, so there's not ANYTHING so important it can't wait for me to get back. It's all just stuff. Material posessions that can be replaced, say, if my place were to burn down.
Quit. Join the military. Sure, you'll get to see the sunny sands of such wonderful places as the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and others, but at least you usually have your own office / desk.
If the blocking is in effort to help transparently "remove" content like child porn from online, what good does it truly do out on the open web? Perhaps Canada will block out a handful of sickos from accessing their favorite sites, but the majority of things probably opperate on VPNs and anonymous networks like Freenet that are de-centralized and encrypted.
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Seriously, are you my twin? Stalking me? Something else strange going on? I operate the same as you. Sit and play my favorite MMO (WoW, for me though) and talk to people there, idle on IRC and chat with a few more people, and one or two forums here and there. And yes, I too do leave the house and go socialize with real people once in awhile, too. I've never signed up for any social networking site -- I don't see the point. Really, why do I need to let the whole world know my life story in a piss-poorly designed page plastered with 10 flash videos and 500 blinking-glitter-gif-images-that-need-to-fucking-d ie?
I've got to agree with a previous poster; social networking sites seem to attract the non-geek crowd who ALREADY have a social life and bring them online. Just another piece of advertising revenue by drawing in all the people more likely to buy some $80 pair of "designer" jeans they see in an ad when reading a friend's profile.
I don't see how the slow adoption of Vista is any different from previous Windows releases, except that the consumer version is being delayed a month rather than be released in tandem. The DoD only truly migrated fully to XP early last year; no corporation with a large IT infrastructure is going to be eager to lead the charge without concrete proof that upgrading will benefit them in the long term.
the process is so air tight that only 18 of 1 million pieces are considered defectiveMaybe Sony could take a note from this?
I loved Allofmp3.com :(. I've paid to download so much nice DRM-free music from there, especially older works that are near impossible to find anyplace legal or otherwise. Guess I best burn through my remaining credit fast!
I've always used spambob.org for things like this. They have plenty of different addresses and domains to choose from depending on exactly -how- disposable of an email address you want.
That I'm well ahead of the power curve on this. I spend most of my workday laid back just because I can :).
Thanks for this story, honestly. When I first read about the Zune I was pretty hyped (nicer screen, WiFi, large storage, etc) and wanted one over an iPod. Thankfully my wife bought me an iPod before the Zune launched, and after reading the review I'm happier than ever about it.
I'd be less than apt to sign up, too. If NASA has problems with shuttles exploding on launch, who's to say Russia will fare better with its program? Sorry, as nice as the "final frontier" might be, I'm not keen on the idea of being vaporized just trying to get there.
The only saving grace of creativity for sci-fi is that it can deal with things that are fully fictional in nature. Other genres usually have at least some basis in reality, but sci-fi is allowed to completely ignore this and make up things as they please based on how future events may possibly unfold.
Do you think we're near the breaking point on creativity in realistic fiction films? Or closing in? Truely, how many different possibilities actually exist (that would be entertaining / exciting enough) to make a movie out of, barring a wave of sci-fi? There's got to be a breaking point some day.
Amazon was bitten by the success of its $1,000 Xboxes for $100 promotionIt's been fixed since earlier ;)
So was Amazon selling 1,000 XBOX systems at $100? Or selling a $1,000 XBOX system at $100?
When I go on vacation I become a ghost to anybody back where I live. Usually I travel someplace international and provide no email, phone, or other means to contact me. I don't have a pet or anything else of horrible value that I have to leave behind, so there's not ANYTHING so important it can't wait for me to get back. It's all just stuff. Material posessions that can be replaced, say, if my place were to burn down.
Quit. Join the military. Sure, you'll get to see the sunny sands of such wonderful places as the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and others, but at least you usually have your own office / desk.
If the blocking is in effort to help transparently "remove" content like child porn from online, what good does it truly do out on the open web? Perhaps Canada will block out a handful of sickos from accessing their favorite sites, but the majority of things probably opperate on VPNs and anonymous networks like Freenet that are de-centralized and encrypted.