You could've been on that episode! While they would've "attacked" you during the segment, like they did the lady they got to represent the anti-spam side, all of the viewers know that they are being sarcastic. In that episode, they made Richter look like a total ass, and even put his e-mail up on the screen after asking him if it was OK (he said no). It would've been stressful and wierd during the interview, but I trust the Daily Show to put across the right message, even if they are saying the opposite.
This reminds me of the time I tried to pay for my tuition with my MBNA Mastercard. I had payed it off 3 days earlier using Scotia Bank's online system, which is supposed to only take 48 hours to process.
When I went to pay, the charge was denied, so I called the complaint line. The guy said that while the electronic payment went through yesterday, and interest would be calculated based on that, they couldn't clear my account until acual money was tranfered from Scotia Bank. This blew me away! I've been in many situations where the bank isn't sure the check I'm depositing is good, but in this case, MBNA was essentially saying that they weren't sure Scotia Bank was good for it.
The customer support guy manually cleared it for me, in the end, but I still think its funny that there really is some armored car somewhere driving between Scotia and MBNA when I make payments on my card.
I have an iGesture Pad, actually (thank you Santa!), and so far have been very pleased with it. First, though I should mention that the picture they give is not of the iGesture Pad but the iGesture NumPad, which is a bit more expensive, not what I have.
Anyways, the thing is pretty easy to get used to, especially if you've spent any time using a touchpad on a laptop. The much larger surface area makes pointing much more fun than those, too. The gestures are helpful too (and are preprogrammed for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Emacs), and I can now browse the web without the keyboard or using any of the menus or scrollbars (closing/opening tabs, scrolling, back, forward). The gestures are also good for code reorganization or copy/paste work.
What I didn't know until I got one myself is that they are highly customizable. There is Java software (Works on Windows, Linux, and OS X) that allows you to customize what every finger combination does, and even has a few completely blank gestures. The utilities are pretty robust, although I've only used them for a few small tweaks to the gesture set.
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You could've been on that episode! While they would've "attacked" you during the segment, like they did the lady they got to represent the anti-spam side, all of the viewers know that they are being sarcastic. In that episode, they made Richter look like a total ass, and even put his e-mail up on the screen after asking him if it was OK (he said no). It would've been stressful and wierd during the interview, but I trust the Daily Show to put across the right message, even if they are saying the opposite.
This reminds me of the time I tried to pay for my tuition with my MBNA Mastercard. I had payed it off 3 days earlier using Scotia Bank's online system, which is supposed to only take 48 hours to process.
When I went to pay, the charge was denied, so I called the complaint line. The guy said that while the electronic payment went through yesterday, and interest would be calculated based on that, they couldn't clear my account until acual money was tranfered from Scotia Bank. This blew me away! I've been in many situations where the bank isn't sure the check I'm depositing is good, but in this case, MBNA was essentially saying that they weren't sure Scotia Bank was good for it.
The customer support guy manually cleared it for me, in the end, but I still think its funny that there really is some armored car somewhere driving between Scotia and MBNA when I make payments on my card.
I have an iGesture Pad, actually (thank you Santa!), and so far have been very pleased with it. First, though I should mention that the picture they give is not of the iGesture Pad but the iGesture NumPad, which is a bit more expensive, not what I have.
Anyways, the thing is pretty easy to get used to, especially if you've spent any time using a touchpad on a laptop. The much larger surface area makes pointing much more fun than those, too. The gestures are helpful too (and are preprogrammed for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Emacs), and I can now browse the web without the keyboard or using any of the menus or scrollbars (closing/opening tabs, scrolling, back, forward). The gestures are also good for code reorganization or copy/paste work.
What I didn't know until I got one myself is that they are highly customizable. There is Java software (Works on Windows, Linux, and OS X) that allows you to customize what every finger combination does, and even has a few completely blank gestures. The utilities are pretty robust, although I've only used them for a few small tweaks to the gesture set.
Hope this helped a bit.