I'm still waiting for a law that says your ISP must give you every e-mail that's sent to you. There are too many roadblocks in the e-mail system already without blocking whole countries. We can't have a delivery system with holes and roadblocks in it.
I personally had to help a customer last week who signed up somewhere like onemail.com, apparently they're a redirection service so you can use the same e-mail address forever even if your actual e-mail address changes. Well, his ISP was blocking mail redirected to him from onemail.com, so I couldn't reply to his inquiry! After looking at the bounce headers I saw what was happening and luckily it included his real e-mail address. But why should I spend my time studying the bounce message and resending messages just because his ISP doesn't do what it's supposed to do? And if I didn't know how to reply to him, he would just think we were ignoring his e-mail, not good for PR.
And don't bother saying he doesn't have to use that ISP. Maybe it's his only choice in a rural area. But either way, I think ISPs should be like telephone companies, just patch me through and keep your hands off the information!
..because on the East Coast over the last 6 months, I bet they haven't shown 3 episodes! No wonder the ratings were bad! Futurama was supposed to be on at 7, but every Sunday night I would turn on the TV at 6:45 and there was a football game with 15 minutes or so left. When you translate Football Time to Real Time, it's like a 1:3 ratio, 45 minutes at least. So I knew there was no way I was going to see Futurama, maybe not even King of the Hill.
You don't suppose FOX compares the Futurama rating on the same chart with shows that were shown in all time zones and not pre-empted by football? That's so stupid it might be true...
Surely you don't like those incredibly propietary, disposable machines??
I'll take an aluminum PC tower case with a nice 1Gig+ CPU, 512MB of memory, Radeon AIW card, CD-RW, DVD, and a RAID array of 4 hard drives. And a separate, cheap, upgradable monitor. Try stuffing that in your iMac!
From what I understand, getting waste TO Nevada would be a problem. Many states will not let the waste pass through their state, so unless the Federal Government intervenes, there might not be a way to get it there.
Meanwhile at at least one plant waste piles up in huge cylinders that are hot to the touch sitting on concrete slabs. I'm not sure why they don't bury it or at least get it out of sight somehow.
Although currently demonstrating its technology on very small bit strings, ZeoSync expects to overcome the existing temporal restraints of its technology and optimize its algorithms to lead to significant changes in how data is stored and transmitted.
ZeoSync "expects" to overcome the restraints? I can see those guys now. "Well, let's see. What if we came up with some mumbo-jumbo about 100:1 compression or cold fusion or what-not, and make an impressive-sounding press release that says we're right on the brink of a breakthrough. Then people will get excited and give us money, and we can sit around for a couple years pretending to work on the problem only to discover a previously unknown fundamental flaw."
Wow, I think I've just found a way to not work and still get people to give me money!
I hope I'm wrong though, because my poor 56k connection is in serious need of a boost.
This is sort of OT, but I'll give my thoughts anyway.
Yes, a gift card/certificate is an admission of defeat in selecting a gift. But once you've decided to give them cash or a gift card, I think a gift card is better if you want them to buy something they want rather than something they need. If you give a person cash, they might use it to buy milk and bread or gas. Not that those aren't important, but what you really wanted is for them to buy some CDs at Best Buy.
The tentative lineup is Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, the Eagles, Dixie Chicks and Stevie Nicks at the Forum in Inglewood; Offspring, No Doubt, Weezer at the Long Beach Convention Center; Ozzy Osborne at the Los Angeles Sports Arena;
That's a great lineup! I like and respect all those bands. Especially The Eagles, Dixie Chicks, Offspring, and Weezer. Throw in Guns and Roses and it would be perfect. They all play their own insturnments, write their own songs, and apparently they can see Hillary Rosen and her mates at the RIAA as the evil greedy people they are.
You'd better not ever write any checks or use a debit card. The evil "they" will have your super-secret checking acount number.
Huh? If I write you a check you can't withdraw any funds from my account, other than the exact amount of the check. I'm talking about not giving PayPal a direct withdrawl link to my bank account when I would rather use a credit card to have an extra layer of protection. Yes, I know you can elect to use your credit card on each PayPal transaction, but the default is always set to bank account and you have to change it every time.
It's just too bad they have that policy because I like PayPal other than that.
The real deal is, they only require your credit card info to start a PayPal account, which is good and fine. But you can only charge up to $1,000 worth of stuff before they require you to supply your bank account information to become a "verified" member.
Now there's no way they're getting my bank account info. Don't they think that charging $1000 worth of stuff to my credit card over a couple years is enough to "verify" me?? What I did when I recently hit the $1000 limit was start another PayPal account using a different e-mail address and a different credit card number. That seemed to work just fine.
Yeah, that's flamebait. I seek out Rolling Rock, it's clean and smooth.
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I can't see this being allowed to run on sidewalks and banging into people's shins. It's rather slow for the bike lanes. You don't want to be out among cars in this thing.
And what if you need to carry something? Like a briefcase, laptop computer, or worse yet groceries? What if it's raining?
And $3000? Please. This will be a California yuppie toy at best. You'll probably see a few on the boardwalk next to the beaches for those willing to spend $3000, that's about it.
That was the trouble with Discover magazine. I got so sick of reading about "will be available in a few years" and "should be" and "is expected to". There was very little content about things that were actually practical and available..
I try to support companies that write good software. 99% of the software on my hard drive is legit, and most of the software that isn't is not available for purchase. I register good shareware like GetRight, MMJB, and ThumbsPlus. If we don't buy the good stuff, companies won't keep making it.
But if Microsoft thinks I'm going to be forced to call them and tell them when I buy a new motherboard, they can forget that. If I ever buy Windows XP (most likely to run a game), the first thing I'll do is install the crack to disable their product activation crap.
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The XBox is from Microsoft. MS isn't all bad, but I BET there will be show-stopping bugs found in the OS. And how are you going to update the OS? Is it on the HD, or is it loaded from ROM?
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yah and no more games will ever be produced in the future of the universe, sounds like a GREAT investment! besides, overpriced?? the game^3 is the same price as the DC when it debuted.
To me no game system is an "investment". You're not going to make money on them. I personally won't pay $40 or $50 dollars for games, and I wouldn't have bought a DC when it first came out either.
The DC has good games, good graphics (as good as the PS2) and is a heck of a lot cheaper because it's a few years old.
To each his own, I'm just saying you can spend a lot less and get a lot more with a DC or even a PS1.
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I'm still waiting for a law that says your ISP must give you every e-mail that's sent to you. There are too many roadblocks in the e-mail system already without blocking whole countries. We can't have a delivery system with holes and roadblocks in it.
I personally had to help a customer last week who signed up somewhere like onemail.com, apparently they're a redirection service so you can use the same e-mail address forever even if your actual e-mail address changes. Well, his ISP was blocking mail redirected to him from onemail.com, so I couldn't reply to his inquiry! After looking at the bounce headers I saw what was happening and luckily it included his real e-mail address. But why should I spend my time studying the bounce message and resending messages just because his ISP doesn't do what it's supposed to do? And if I didn't know how to reply to him, he would just think we were ignoring his e-mail, not good for PR.
And don't bother saying he doesn't have to use that ISP. Maybe it's his only choice in a rural area. But either way, I think ISPs should be like telephone companies, just patch me through and keep your hands off the information!
You don't suppose FOX compares the Futurama rating on the same chart with shows that were shown in all time zones and not pre-empted by football? That's so stupid it might be true...
Yeah, it means we might get to see Futurama in Sunday nights now. They've shown like 2 episides in the last 4 months.
I'll take an aluminum PC tower case with a nice 1Gig+ CPU, 512MB of memory, Radeon AIW card, CD-RW, DVD, and a RAID array of 4 hard drives. And a separate, cheap, upgradable monitor. Try stuffing that in your iMac!
Don't nerds stress function over form any more?
Meanwhile at at least one plant waste piles up in huge cylinders that are hot to the touch sitting on concrete slabs. I'm not sure why they don't bury it or at least get it out of sight somehow.
Using the DC is an interesting idea, but why not just fix his current PC rather than trying to make an orange into an apple?
ZeoSync "expects" to overcome the restraints? I can see those guys now. "Well, let's see. What if we came up with some mumbo-jumbo about 100:1 compression or cold fusion or what-not, and make an impressive-sounding press release that says we're right on the brink of a breakthrough. Then people will get excited and give us money, and we can sit around for a couple years pretending to work on the problem only to discover a previously unknown fundamental flaw."
Wow, I think I've just found a way to not work and still get people to give me money!
I hope I'm wrong though, because my poor 56k connection is in serious need of a boost.
Yes, a gift card/certificate is an admission of defeat in selecting a gift. But once you've decided to give them cash or a gift card, I think a gift card is better if you want them to buy something they want rather than something they need. If you give a person cash, they might use it to buy milk and bread or gas. Not that those aren't important, but what you really wanted is for them to buy some CDs at Best Buy.
The Subaru site is like that too. How about some hard data?
That's a great lineup! I like and respect all those bands. Especially The Eagles, Dixie Chicks, Offspring, and Weezer. Throw in Guns and Roses and it would be perfect. They all play their own insturnments, write their own songs, and apparently they can see Hillary Rosen and her mates at the RIAA as the evil greedy people they are.
Now if Google would just let me post from their web interface without using my real e-mail address...
Huh? If I write you a check you can't withdraw any funds from my account, other than the exact amount of the check. I'm talking about not giving PayPal a direct withdrawl link to my bank account when I would rather use a credit card to have an extra layer of protection. Yes, I know you can elect to use your credit card on each PayPal transaction, but the default is always set to bank account and you have to change it every time.
It's just too bad they have that policy because I like PayPal other than that.
Now there's no way they're getting my bank account info. Don't they think that charging $1000 worth of stuff to my credit card over a couple years is enough to "verify" me?? What I did when I recently hit the $1000 limit was start another PayPal account using a different e-mail address and a different credit card number. That seemed to work just fine.
Oh well, compared to Half-Life, NOLF, or Soldier of Fortune Skynet might be too ugly anyway.
The main problem I have with it is how long it takes to scan for new songs among my 2,000+ MP3s. And it seems to take a LOT of CPU, even on my 1.1GHZ.
Yeah, that's flamebait. I seek out Rolling Rock, it's clean and smooth.
And what if you need to carry something? Like a briefcase, laptop computer, or worse yet groceries? What if it's raining?
And $3000? Please. This will be a California yuppie toy at best. You'll probably see a few on the boardwalk next to the beaches for those willing to spend $3000, that's about it.
Personally, I use a wood-burning cell phone.
But if Microsoft thinks I'm going to be forced to call them and tell them when I buy a new motherboard, they can forget that. If I ever buy Windows XP (most likely to run a game), the first thing I'll do is install the crack to disable their product activation crap.
I'll take the boxed version of BlitzBasic. Very easy 2D and 3D game programming:
http://www.blitzbasic.com
I also want some Daily Feed archive CDs: http://www.dailyfeed.com
Thank you for thinking of me Taco.
The XBox is from Microsoft. MS isn't all bad, but I BET there will be show-stopping bugs found in the OS. And how are you going to update the OS? Is it on the HD, or is it loaded from ROM?
To me no game system is an "investment". You're not going to make money on them. I personally won't pay $40 or $50 dollars for games, and I wouldn't have bought a DC when it first came out either.
The DC has good games, good graphics (as good as the PS2) and is a heck of a lot cheaper because it's a few years old.
To each his own, I'm just saying you can spend a lot less and get a lot more with a DC or even a PS1.