Years ago, my father and I were both astonished to discover that hotmail was supposed to be a legitimate mail service. We'd both received so much porn spam from hotmail addresses (hot mail, right?) and didn't know anyone who actually used it. I can't believe that anyone would intentionally switch to it.
MiniDisc and Zip disks were the most successful storage mediums of all time? By what criteria
I know it's not popularity because Zip disks were popular for about four years. I've never used a MiniDisc. Compared to CD or floppy disks both are losers.
It can't be by durability because Zip disk is on the list.
I never have understood why people send personal emails from work anyway. Even with a free web based email account a lot of shops run DLP products that can still read the emails. If you must send personal emails on work time, which I don't agree with, at least be smart and use your phone, tablet, or some other 'off network' device.
I don't carry a cell phone because I don't like to talk on the phone. (And I have a land line at home and one at work.)
I work at a university and I don't think they care if my wife sends me email asking me to pick up milk on my way home from work and I return a message saying that I will. In a similar way, I don't care if the work system snoops and discovers patterns in my family's milk-buying habits.
More important personal stuff is either transmitted over the phone or waits until I get home.
do you really want to work for a company that requires you to know your legal status prior to a job interview?
As someone who has wasted his time interviewing people who seemed fantastic but turned out not to have visa sponsorships (no, my company isn't going to deal with the paperwork), I kind of wished someone has asked that question before the person came to my office. If you can't work here, please don't waste my time.
As someone who's arranged the correct visas and papers to work in foreign countries myself, I'm okay with someone asking me the same exact same question.
You'll see both the MBTA police working alone as well as with conjunction with TSA folks. And I mean actual TSA folks, with the uniform and everything. Both of them will rub the patch on your bag, run it through the sniffer machine and send you on your way.
That happened to me after I got back from a vacation and I suddenly understood why the guy who swiped my card at the gas station "had" to use a new reader.
Funnily enough, the credit card statement not only had plane tickets on there, but also the names of the people for whom they had been issued. I did a quick search for the names in the same state as the departing airport and found their address.
If I were more of an Internet tough guy I would have called them and told them that I knew where they lived and I was going to beat my money out of them. Instead, I gave all the information to the credit card company with the fond wishes that they'd do time.
My wife and I have done Netflix since '04. Started with 3 DVDs, then moved it down to 2 when they raised the price (and I realized that the third disc always just sat around).
The streaming was barely okay (we have lousy DSL) and the selection is a small subset, so it wasn't a difficult decision to reduce the plan to two DVDs.
I can wear a shirt that says FBI on it and that's fine. If I tried to use the shirt to get into a secured area, that would be different as I'd be using it for identification.
"'Female Body Inspector?' Looks legit to me. Let him in."
James Murdoch's full name is James Rupert Jacob Murdoch. Don't ask me why they only used one of his middle names though.
They might not know it. Many forms only allow the use of one middle name so if you pull from those sources you'll get incomplete information. I also have two middle names, but my license and my employer can only handle one. My passport lists both.
As much as the Bitcoin stories are getting a little much we are seeing the birth of something completely new; A medium of exchange that is independent of any government.
If you're worried about being broke in your late years, lifestyle decisions will have a much more profound impact than any typical investment strategy some banker will shove down your throat. Want to live like a king ? Don't have kids, and don't spend money you don't have. Better yet: choose a career where you'll still be valuable in your old age and retirement becomes a non-issue. A skilled consultant with 45 years experience will beat your retirement fund, since he won't be competing with inflation, he rolls it into his hourly rate.
I'd also add that one should work towards having a job one likes so that retirement doesn't seem like some sort of glorious goal. I, for one, enjoy my career and want to keep working it as long as I can. I've set my "retirement" date for investments for the year I turn 70, but I hope I get to keep working beyond that. Besides being useful, I'll have fewer years without a salary to worry about, my investments will have more time to grow, and I'll get a lot more back per month from Social Security at 70 than someone who retires at 65 (but I'm not counting on that last one).
I hope that site and its squads of web-shitting bastards all get kicked off google's search results.
Then, if they could boot the fake review sites and the domain squatters ("AnalRape.com: What you want, when you want it.") the web might be worthwhile again.
I say the iPad itself stands as king on Mount Crapmore for 2010. So far, all the people who bought one of those tablets can _not_ tell me what they are using it for. I can think of very few people who'd actually have a legitimate use for it. Others would be better off with a Blackberry or a cheap netbook.
I use it to read the web, do email, see my calendar, watch movies, and keep track of medical stuff. Yup, I could do all of that stuff with a Blackberry, but I want a larger screen. I could do all of that stuff with a cheap netbook, but I want the longer battery life of the iPad and again, the larger screen.
Yes, I could have identical functionality for less money, but I'm a gown-up with disposable income and can afford to buy what I like. In fact, the price difference between my iPad and a cheap netbook is what, a few hundred bucks? Over a three-year lifespan that's about ten bucks a month. Seriously? That makes you angry? Maybe you should stop worrying about how other people spend their money.
When I first rad this guy's columns I never knew he was a real writer--I thought his was a comedy bit, sort of like Andy Rooney, where some crazy old guy who kinds knows stuff explains in great and tedious detail how he tried to get something to work and every step he took to do it. Kind of like if the crazy person on the bus who sit next to you yammered on about home networking and defunct printer drivers instead of the goblins who keep stealing his liquor and getting him fired.
and of course MSFT Bob, an OS made for the clueless that needed a fricking gamer rig just to run and spawned the electronic son of Satan known as Clippy.
Bob was an interface, not an OS. It ran on top of Windows. The rest, however, is true.
And about this dependence on oil, think about how many states' economies are tied into the production and export of oil. What happens when the demand for oil suddenly drops? Many of these states use the oil revenues to suppress internal dissent. When that revenue is gone, all they will have to suppress dissent is force. Force is generally responded to by force. Do you see what is going on in Sudan and Somalia? That is what could very well happen in those states as well.
Big fucking whoop, so Alaska gets angry. A population the size of Boston who were dumb enough to vote for Palin. Once we don't need the oil, we can sell their state back to Russia.
"Vinyl puts the art back into music and allows bands to offer their fans their albums exactly how they had envisioned it."
Oh, please. This sounds like the same bullshit they used to say about music videos back when MTV was new.
I remember when CDs came out. Records suddenly seemed like a dreary pain--all that effort just to hear some crackly music for a few minutes and then it was time to flip the thing over again. And now high-quality MP3s make CDs look like space gobbling, fragile, wastes of shiny plastic. A record (or a CD) is just an interface that gets in the way of the music.
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Years ago, my father and I were both astonished to discover that hotmail was supposed to be a legitimate mail service. We'd both received so much porn spam from hotmail addresses (hot mail, right?) and didn't know anyone who actually used it. I can't believe that anyone would intentionally switch to it.
MiniDisc and Zip disks were the most successful storage mediums of all time? By what criteria
I know it's not popularity because Zip disks were popular for about four years. I've never used a MiniDisc. Compared to CD or floppy disks both are losers.
It can't be by durability because Zip disk is on the list.
I never have understood why people send personal emails from work anyway. Even with a free web based email account a lot of shops run DLP products that can still read the emails. If you must send personal emails on work time, which I don't agree with, at least be smart and use your phone, tablet, or some other 'off network' device.
I don't carry a cell phone because I don't like to talk on the phone. (And I have a land line at home and one at work.)
I work at a university and I don't think they care if my wife sends me email asking me to pick up milk on my way home from work and I return a message saying that I will. In a similar way, I don't care if the work system snoops and discovers patterns in my family's milk-buying habits.
More important personal stuff is either transmitted over the phone or waits until I get home.
do you really want to work for a company that requires you to know your legal status prior to a job interview?
As someone who has wasted his time interviewing people who seemed fantastic but turned out not to have visa sponsorships (no, my company isn't going to deal with the paperwork), I kind of wished someone has asked that question before the person came to my office. If you can't work here, please don't waste my time.
As someone who's arranged the correct visas and papers to work in foreign countries myself, I'm okay with someone asking me the same exact same question.
You'll see both the MBTA police working alone as well as with conjunction with TSA folks. And I mean actual TSA folks, with the uniform and everything. Both of them will rub the patch on your bag, run it through the sniffer machine and send you on your way.
Patty Hearst and the paper industry were responsible for outlawing marijuana in the first place
When she wasn't out robbing banks, of course.
QNX is probably the best operating system ever.
I think you forgot to insert the "Imma let you finish" part.
That happened to me after I got back from a vacation and I suddenly understood why the guy who swiped my card at the gas station "had" to use a new reader.
Funnily enough, the credit card statement not only had plane tickets on there, but also the names of the people for whom they had been issued. I did a quick search for the names in the same state as the departing airport and found their address.
If I were more of an Internet tough guy I would have called them and told them that I knew where they lived and I was going to beat my money out of them. Instead, I gave all the information to the credit card company with the fond wishes that they'd do time.
Is that with, or without the roaches and rats? I vote with.
I vote by marking a ballot with a felt-tip marker then feeding it into a machine. Are you sure your voting place is legit?
My wife and I have done Netflix since '04. Started with 3 DVDs, then moved it down to 2 when they raised the price (and I realized that the third disc always just sat around).
The streaming was barely okay (we have lousy DSL) and the selection is a small subset, so it wasn't a difficult decision to reduce the plan to two DVDs.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns
I can wear a shirt that says FBI on it and that's fine. If I tried to use the shirt to get into a secured area, that would be different as I'd be using it for identification.
"'Female Body Inspector?' Looks legit to me. Let him in."
James Murdoch's full name is James Rupert Jacob Murdoch. Don't ask me why they only used one of his middle names though.
They might not know it. Many forms only allow the use of one middle name so if you pull from those sources you'll get incomplete information. I also have two middle names, but my license and my employer can only handle one. My passport lists both.
As much as the Bitcoin stories are getting a little much we are seeing the birth of something completely new; A medium of exchange that is independent of any government.
Aside from, of course, barter.
If you're worried about being broke in your late years, lifestyle decisions will have a much more profound impact than any typical investment strategy some banker will shove down your throat. Want to live like a king ? Don't have kids, and don't spend money you don't have. Better yet: choose a career where you'll still be valuable in your old age and retirement becomes a non-issue. A skilled consultant with 45 years experience will beat your retirement fund, since he won't be competing with inflation, he rolls it into his hourly rate.
I'd also add that one should work towards having a job one likes so that retirement doesn't seem like some sort of glorious goal. I, for one, enjoy my career and want to keep working it as long as I can. I've set my "retirement" date for investments for the year I turn 70, but I hope I get to keep working beyond that. Besides being useful, I'll have fewer years without a salary to worry about, my investments will have more time to grow, and I'll get a lot more back per month from Social Security at 70 than someone who retires at 65 (but I'm not counting on that last one).
Oh, please. Save that bullshit for frat boys who think that saying "penetrating" often enough will get them laid.
I hope that site and its squads of web-shitting bastards all get kicked off google's search results.
Then, if they could boot the fake review sites and the domain squatters ("AnalRape.com: What you want, when you want it.") the web might be worthwhile again.
I say the iPad itself stands as king on Mount Crapmore for 2010. So far, all the people who bought one of those tablets can _not_ tell me what they are using it for. I can think of very few people who'd actually have a legitimate use for it. Others would be better off with a Blackberry or a cheap netbook.
I use it to read the web, do email, see my calendar, watch movies, and keep track of medical stuff. Yup, I could do all of that stuff with a Blackberry, but I want a larger screen. I could do all of that stuff with a cheap netbook, but I want the longer battery life of the iPad and again, the larger screen.
Yes, I could have identical functionality for less money, but I'm a gown-up with disposable income and can afford to buy what I like. In fact, the price difference between my iPad and a cheap netbook is what, a few hundred bucks? Over a three-year lifespan that's about ten bucks a month. Seriously? That makes you angry? Maybe you should stop worrying about how other people spend their money.
When I first rad this guy's columns I never knew he was a real writer--I thought his was a comedy bit, sort of like Andy Rooney, where some crazy old guy who kinds knows stuff explains in great and tedious detail how he tried to get something to work and every step he took to do it. Kind of like if the crazy person on the bus who sit next to you yammered on about home networking and defunct printer drivers instead of the goblins who keep stealing his liquor and getting him fired.
and of course MSFT Bob, an OS made for the clueless that needed a fricking gamer rig just to run and spawned the electronic son of Satan known as Clippy.
Bob was an interface, not an OS. It ran on top of Windows. The rest, however, is true.
Awesome! I can't wait to ride a ride or get in a building designed by someone who doesn't believe in science.
And about this dependence on oil, think about how many states' economies are tied into the production and export of oil. What happens when the demand for oil suddenly drops? Many of these states use the oil revenues to suppress internal dissent. When that revenue is gone, all they will have to suppress dissent is force. Force is generally responded to by force. Do you see what is going on in Sudan and Somalia? That is what could very well happen in those states as well.
Big fucking whoop, so Alaska gets angry. A population the size of Boston who were dumb enough to vote for Palin. Once we don't need the oil, we can sell their state back to Russia.
"Vinyl puts the art back into music and allows bands to offer their fans their albums exactly how they had envisioned it."
Oh, please. This sounds like the same bullshit they used to say about music videos back when MTV was new.
I remember when CDs came out. Records suddenly seemed like a dreary pain--all that effort just to hear some crackly music for a few minutes and then it was time to flip the thing over again. And now high-quality MP3s make CDs look like space gobbling, fragile, wastes of shiny plastic. A record (or a CD) is just an interface that gets in the way of the music.
It's getting the "pew! pew! pew!" noises to sync up that's hard.
Me too.