The number is checked against their database. At least for Safeway stores... But if you have a friend with a supermarket card just use their phone number (it's probably already in your mobile phone. uhhh.. ask your friend of course before running it.)
This is a load of crap. This just 10 extremely heavily populated places!!!!! These have to be the top 10 usage spots as well!
from the report... The top ten Chicago Drop-spots include:
1. O'Hare Airport 2. Midway Airport 3. Union Station 4. Woodfield Mall 5. Navy Pier 6. Six Flags 7. McCormick Place 8. Old Orchard Mall 9. Gurnee Mills 10. Rosemont Convention Center
This means one thing...
RECEPTION ALWAYS SUCKS. We've collectively drank the "mobile Kool Aid" (And you thought mLife was just an advertising campaign) and now believe that paying 50 bucks a month for CB Radio quality reception is OK.
So where in Chicago does reception suck? I can tell you everyone I most commonly drop out on:
-S-turn on North Lake Shore Drive -East Wicker Park area -North Ravenswood/Lincoln Square area.
"The Dutch Economy saw a sharp rebound today when space cake consumption more than tripled after the Royal Dutch Mint released "trippy" new coin design."
*********************** We will not accept presentations or art pieces that include any of the following:
* Volatile, dangerous or otherwise hazardous chemicals
* Weapons
* Flames, fire or explosives
* Bodily fluids
* Obscenity or undue vulgarity
* Nudity
* Any illegal drug
* Anything else deemed illegal or unduly dangerous
Obviously, films and music are exempted from most of these descriptions. Film makers, though, are encouraged to avoid subjects involving nudity as members of the audience may be under the age of 18. Likewise, we will discourage pieces that are extraordinarily heavy or immobile such that housing the exhibit would put undue strain on the organizers.
However, pieces may deal with all but one of these subjects (the exception being obscenity) and artists are welcome to discuss or make comment on them through their art.
It's not a problem. You'll get a warning every time you press your tivo button that says something like "It's been 175 days since you've dialed up" but unless you want to do pay-per-view it simply doesn't matter. At least it hasn't mattered to me. The Direct Tivo sends programming data to you machine via the satellite.
So you could buy those two Aphex Twin Hangable Auto Bulb records on vinyl at Ebay for $185 US dollars (at the least, there's 21 bids and over 5 hours to go in the bidding) or download the whole thing like I did at bleep for 6 bucks and some change.
Score!
unfortunately it doesn't look like it. Though I've ordered through Warps site before (vinyl)and they have always been more than cool.
I bought a warped record from them (yeah, the irony...) and i offered to return the record back as proof. They sent me a new record and said "just keep the old one. no sense in paying for shipping a bum record. maybe it'll be a collectors item or something someday."
okay.. so the single downloads actually have the artist and track title. like this "AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb.mp3"
But the zipped-up downloads aren't the same. They look like this. "01.mp3"
The problem is when you select two different albums you get two different say "01.mp3" files in your zip. If you drag and drop your zip contents into a folder on your desktop the OS doesn't like that one "01.mp3" lands on your desktop then another shows up out of the zip so it asks if you want to overwrite. Thus nuking the first 01.mp3 you had.
If you do the actual "extract" you'll get two folders named ex: WAP66 and WAP67 which is better though not what I would call descriptive (though this might be the warp release #) and the filenames inside the folder are that "01.mp3" style name.
Not so great. but this should be a fairly easy fix and I'd still buy other tracks.
WARP, for those who don't visit the site often have a pretty damn insane site. luckily they backed off the whacked out design features at bleep.com but the experience is still definitely "warp."
The catalog is a bit light on the options but there's definitely some tasty aphex twin in there and some prefuse73 and others. The sections currently are:
The check out and download was quite simple: Most of the detail below...
1. Registration was quite easy. just name email address and password.
2. they're taking paypal and mc/visa and SMS text message.
3. They report as you put things in your cart.
"Total download size" of my purchase in XX.XX MB
and Estimated download time (via 512K DSL/Cable)in MM:SS. The 512k DSL measure is actually accurate for my connection so I'm not sure if they are sniffing or if that is just a metric they decided to standardize on.
4. With my purchases, (indeed the old Aphex Twin stuff (good stuff BTW)) I tried to use paypal and got a " Waiting for a paypal payment report..." in the checkout pane and it kept refreshing but reporting nothing.
5. So I bit my lip and hit the back button (I'm using Mozilla 1.6b). and amazingly enough was actually back at my Paypal Credit/Debit Card option.
6. Checkout was pretty standard and very straightforward with a few unusual options I wasn't used to (I'm from the U.S. so maybe some of this stuff is normal in the U.K./Europe)
7. Interestingly theres the follow card descriptions in the dropdown.
Electron
Eurocard
Mastercard
Visa
Visa Debit
8. Expiry date are xx Month and xxxx year which is nice unlike the annoying (to me anyway) spelling of the month option
9. There is also a
"For Switch and Solo cards only:" Section with
"Start Date:"
"Issue Number:" fields
10. Strangely you then only have the option to add this information you've filled out to your profile.
11. You then loop through a more normal check out where you can select the card you want to use from a dropdown or add a new card (presumably you'd loop through what I just went through)
12. and you get "When you select 'Process Order' below your card will be debited with the total amount of $X.XX" info and are given a process order button.
13. The frame refreshes and you get "ORDER CONFIRMATION" message and "Your order has been processed succesfully." and a "DOWNLOAD YOUR ORDER" option.
14. It chugged a bit then spit back my dowloads
as one big zip or as each track. with the following info below.
"Click on the links above to download your tracks.
PC users: You will be presented with a 'Save As...' dialog box, use this to choose the location on your local hard drive you wish to save the file too.
MAC users: By default tracks will download to your Desktop, unless you have specified otherwise in your browser preferences."
15. I selected the ZIP option and the frame reloads with a bit of chugging then
"ZIPPING YOUR ORDER"
"Your order is zipped and ready for download..."
"Once your order has started downloading then you may continue browsing the site."and a "DOWNLOADS" button to click.
16: the Download time was respectable even with the site getting slashdotted and every IDM geek, all of which are plugged into computers incessantly (ahem... unlike myself. That's why I'm so tan... or something...), checking it out at the same time.
17: oh also, across the top nav you get the following options:
LOGGED IN AS emailuser@emailaddress.tld -
LOG OUT -
YOUR ORDER -
DOWNLOADS -
PREFERENCES -
FAQ -
HELP -
That's pretty much it. Damn well done I'd say.
I have the latest version of Microsoft Fury. It's called Microsoft Windows XP. It comes with MSN product placement in one if it's bigger levels called "the shell." wierd...
sorry to go further... but anybody who thinks people are going to pronounce this program as Em. You. Tee. E. and not "myoot" when there is a mute in a trumpet as part of the logo is a dang fool.
Slashdot Mirror
A giant strap on dong glued right in the middle of the keyboard should do the trick.
This way when it's in your lap it will look like your penis is busting through your pants and all the way through your computer.
do I get a discount if I already have a subscription to Black Tail?
uh... Sorry I meant "they're" instead of "their." Sorry about that. Feel free to point that contraction cannon elsewhere.
Too bad almost all the winners have announced their leaving the Cabinet.
The number is checked against their database. At least for Safeway stores... But if you have a friend with a supermarket card just use their phone number (it's probably already in your mobile phone. uhhh.. ask your friend of course before running it.)
What we need is a Foghorn Leghorn proxy! Too bad there isn't a Google Translator...
You would think AOL would rather it be called it SPAIM.
Nothing like Brand recognition when your talking about Spam.
Oh wait... Hormel's already got that one cornered.
"China to Launch worlds largest Telescope Filter"
"A giant shutter will close when you do things like point the telescope at Google and Yahoo Headquarters."
found in consecutive digits of e.com...
A9 is hiring.
check the jobs page if you're looking for employment.
They're looking for
* Software Development Engineers
* Client Software Engineers
* Operational Excellence Engineers
* Systems Engineers
* Quality Assurance Engineers
* Help Desk Support Engineer
You can apply here
see you in the interviews,
This is a load of crap. This just 10 extremely heavily populated places!!!!! These have to be the top 10 usage spots as well!
from the report...
The top ten Chicago Drop-spots include:
1. O'Hare Airport
2. Midway Airport
3. Union Station
4. Woodfield Mall
5. Navy Pier
6. Six Flags
7. McCormick Place
8. Old Orchard Mall
9. Gurnee Mills
10. Rosemont Convention Center
This means one thing...
RECEPTION ALWAYS SUCKS. We've collectively drank the "mobile Kool Aid" (And you thought mLife was just an advertising campaign) and now believe that paying 50 bucks a month for CB Radio quality reception is OK.
So where in Chicago does reception suck?
I can tell you everyone I most commonly drop out on:
-S-turn on North Lake Shore Drive
-East Wicker Park area
-North Ravenswood/Lincoln Square area.
I can see it now...
"The Dutch Economy saw a sharp rebound today when space cake consumption more than tripled after the Royal Dutch Mint released "trippy" new coin design."
then they might actually use their cash coffers to try to mitigate VOIP "taxes..."
From the Call for Proposals.
***********************
We will not accept presentations or art pieces that include any of the following:
* Volatile, dangerous or otherwise hazardous chemicals
* Weapons
* Flames, fire or explosives
* Bodily fluids
* Obscenity or undue vulgarity
* Nudity
* Any illegal drug
* Anything else deemed illegal or unduly dangerous
Obviously, films and music are exempted from most of these descriptions. Film makers, though, are encouraged to avoid subjects involving nudity as members of the audience may be under the age of 18. Likewise, we will discourage pieces that are extraordinarily heavy or immobile such that housing the exhibit would put undue strain on the organizers.
However, pieces may deal with all but one of these subjects (the exception being obscenity) and artists are welcome to discuss or make comment on them through their art.
It's not a problem. You'll get a warning every time you press your tivo button that says something like "It's been 175 days since you've dialed up" but unless you want to do pay-per-view it simply doesn't matter. At least it hasn't mattered to me. The Direct Tivo sends programming data to you machine via the satellite.
Sears carries one for $600... And thouugh you'll need a tad more square footage to put it, it's ripe for some great extreme case mods.
So you could buy those two Aphex Twin Hangable Auto Bulb records on vinyl at Ebay for $185 US dollars (at the least, there's 21 bids and over 5 hours to go in the bidding) or download the whole thing like I did at bleep for 6 bucks and some change. Score!
unfortunately it doesn't look like it.
Though I've ordered through Warps site before (vinyl)and they have always been more than cool.
I bought a warped record from them (yeah, the irony...) and i offered to return the record back as proof. They sent me a new record and said "just keep the old one. no sense in paying for shipping a bum record. maybe it'll be a collectors item or something someday."
okay.. so the single downloads actually have the artist and track title. like this "AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb.mp3"
But the zipped-up downloads aren't the same. They look like this. "01.mp3"
The problem is when you select two different albums you get two different say "01.mp3" files in your zip. If you drag and drop your zip contents into a folder on your desktop the OS doesn't like that one "01.mp3" lands on your desktop then another shows up out of the zip so it asks if you want to overwrite. Thus nuking the first 01.mp3 you had.
If you do the actual "extract" you'll get two folders named ex: WAP66 and WAP67 which is better though not what I would call descriptive (though this might be the warp release #) and the filenames inside the folder are that "01.mp3" style name.
Not so great. but this should be a fairly easy fix and I'd still buy other tracks.
hmmmm... just like your CD collection eh?
The catalog is a bit light on the options but there's definitely some tasty aphex twin in there and some prefuse73 and others. The sections currently are:
The check out and download was quite simple: Most of the detail below...
1. Registration was quite easy. just name email address and password.
2. they're taking paypal and mc/visa and SMS text message.
3. They report as you put things in your cart. "Total download size" of my purchase in XX.XX MB and Estimated download time (via 512K DSL/Cable)in MM:SS. The 512k DSL measure is actually accurate for my connection so I'm not sure if they are sniffing or if that is just a metric they decided to standardize on.
4. With my purchases, (indeed the old Aphex Twin stuff (good stuff BTW)) I tried to use paypal and got a " Waiting for a paypal payment report..." in the checkout pane and it kept refreshing but reporting nothing.
5. So I bit my lip and hit the back button (I'm using Mozilla 1.6b). and amazingly enough was actually back at my Paypal Credit/Debit Card option.
6. Checkout was pretty standard and very straightforward with a few unusual options I wasn't used to (I'm from the U.S. so maybe some of this stuff is normal in the U.K./Europe)
7. Interestingly theres the follow card descriptions in the dropdown. Electron Eurocard Mastercard Visa Visa Debit
8. Expiry date are xx Month and xxxx year which is nice unlike the annoying (to me anyway) spelling of the month option
9. There is also a "For Switch and Solo cards only:" Section with "Start Date:" "Issue Number:" fields
10. Strangely you then only have the option to add this information you've filled out to your profile.
11. You then loop through a more normal check out where you can select the card you want to use from a dropdown or add a new card (presumably you'd loop through what I just went through)
12. and you get "When you select 'Process Order' below your card will be debited with the total amount of $X.XX" info and are given a process order button.
13. The frame refreshes and you get "ORDER CONFIRMATION" message and "Your order has been processed succesfully." and a "DOWNLOAD YOUR ORDER" option.
14. It chugged a bit then spit back my dowloads as one big zip or as each track. with the following info below. "Click on the links above to download your tracks. PC users: You will be presented with a 'Save As...' dialog box, use this to choose the location on your local hard drive you wish to save the file too. MAC users: By default tracks will download to your Desktop, unless you have specified otherwise in your browser preferences."
15. I selected the ZIP option and the frame reloads with a bit of chugging then
"ZIPPING YOUR ORDER" "Your order is zipped and ready for download..." "Once your order has started downloading then you may continue browsing the site."and a "DOWNLOADS" button to click.
16: the Download time was respectable even with the site getting slashdotted and every IDM geek, all of which are plugged into computers incessantly (ahem... unlike myself. That's why I'm so tan... or something...), checking it out at the same time.
17: oh also, across the top nav you get the following options: LOGGED IN AS emailuser@emailaddress.tld - LOG OUT - YOUR ORDER - DOWNLOADS - PREFERENCES - FAQ - HELP - That's pretty much it. Damn well done I'd say.
that life imitates The Simpsons
I have the latest version of Microsoft Fury. It's called Microsoft Windows XP. It comes with MSN product placement in one if it's bigger levels called "the shell." wierd...
sorry to go further... but anybody who thinks people are going to pronounce this program as Em. You. Tee. E. and not "myoot" when there is a mute in a trumpet as part of the logo is a dang fool.
-Rob
I didn't know anybody on slashdot had actually gotten a paycheck in the past 3 or so years!
and I don't mean Male = Master
and Female = slave.
what about Master / Subordinate?
or Master / Pupil?
So is this an S&M beef or a racism beef? or both?!?!
I propose Pimp and Ho.