Thank you for identifying yourself in your subject! As someone who grew up addicted to C&H and still loves it, I can also appreciate the Perry Bible Fellowship. There's more than just one comic strip in the funny pages for a reason. PBF is a different flavor of humor, so was the Far Side. Calvin and Hobbes will always be king. But in my opinion, PBF is hands-down the best currently running strip.
I can remember buying one of the first portable mp3 players - the Diamond Rio PMP300 with a whopping 32mb of storage - at a CompUSA back in '99 or 2000. I believe this was still the pre-Napster area. Mp3s came from ratio'd FTP sites or the Scour Media Agent. And thus, your average non-nerd knew nothing of them yet. So CompUSA was pretty cool at the time for carrying such a great item that most people didn't yet understand.
Come to think of it though, that was probably the first, last, and only thing I ever bought at a CompUSA.
Just because teens use IM more than e-mail doesn't mean that e-mail is becoming obsolete. Ten years ago when I was in high school I was using IM and chat a lot too, way more than e-mail. Yeah, short instant messages are better suited to a teen's social life. Big surprise. Give them ten years. Then we'll have another genius who notices the trend and writes another article about the death of e-mail.
Slashdot Mirror
could fill some kind of infinite vacuum.
Seems like an appropriate enough article for getoffmylawn
Why it's the War on Satellites, haven't you heard? Don't you watch your view-screen?
Hey great, now Guantanamo detainees can electrocute their own genitals just by being marched around!
Just like AirTran is ValueJet.
Thank you for identifying yourself in your subject! As someone who grew up addicted to C&H and still loves it, I can also appreciate the Perry Bible Fellowship. There's more than just one comic strip in the funny pages for a reason. PBF is a different flavor of humor, so was the Far Side. Calvin and Hobbes will always be king. But in my opinion, PBF is hands-down the best currently running strip.
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power
Deckard shoots first.
I can remember buying one of the first portable mp3 players - the Diamond Rio PMP300 with a whopping 32mb of storage - at a CompUSA back in '99 or 2000. I believe this was still the pre-Napster area. Mp3s came from ratio'd FTP sites or the Scour Media Agent. And thus, your average non-nerd knew nothing of them yet. So CompUSA was pretty cool at the time for carrying such a great item that most people didn't yet understand. Come to think of it though, that was probably the first, last, and only thing I ever bought at a CompUSA.
There goes Amazon's Mechanical Turk program. Time to get a real job.
I wonder which button is costing Slashdot $110 million...
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Just because teens use IM more than e-mail doesn't mean that e-mail is becoming obsolete. Ten years ago when I was in high school I was using IM and chat a lot too, way more than e-mail. Yeah, short instant messages are better suited to a teen's social life. Big surprise. Give them ten years. Then we'll have another genius who notices the trend and writes another article about the death of e-mail.
I used to get that from my dad's Nokia. I always knew when he was driving wearing his seatbelt.
Was this just an excuse to use the helmet story icon?
Your world. Delivered. To the NSA.
Uh oh, you used the words "terrorism" and "Wal-Mart" in the same post, you're now on the watch/no-fly list.
I realize I just used those words too, but it's okay, I was already on the list.
Nope, we are now two.
Especially when they carry them onto the bus, sit right behind me, and blab away like there's nobody around.
Haha, my thoughts exactly!
Porn can't cook and clean... yet.
"Shockin' brains."
"What for?"
"Make 'em happy."
"How's it work?"
"I dunno."
Finally, the best of /.'s "In Soviet Russia..." comments all in one place.