I'm sorry, but Google Employee Bed is a BETA service. You simply can't trust it yet. Nevertheless, it is the best bed I have ever used and I plan to use it daily despite these early hiccups.
You know, there were search engines that existed before Google. All of them consisted of a search box and a submit button, with a few links to change what kind of search you wanted to run.
I really can't wait until the time comes when Google is obsolete, and we instead have thousands of stories about a different company that say "OMG JHOIM INTRODUCES USENET SEARCH! WOOT!"
What the international press never reports is that most of those lawsuits are filed by publicity-seeking lawyers, and that most of them get thrown out before they even go to trial. Of those that do go to trial, the vast majority never result in a monetary award for the plaintiff. The humongous "punitive damages" awards never get paid out in the amounts that you'd like to believe they are.
In the future, please do as michael does: post this tinfoil hat material in YRO or Politics so I don't have to consciously ignore it.
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Holy cow. That Kevin Rose blog entry would require thousands of valid entries to satisfy everyone's selfish desire for a free (product).
I'd bet good money that in 4 months time, these are the same suckers who will be complaining about how much junk mail they get -- both at the throwaway e-mail address they used and at their home mailing address.
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That probably has something to do with the fact that the Free Mac Mini ads specifically say "DO NOT BID! JUST CLICK MY LINK ALREADY!"
eBay can't be making much money off these listings (since they don't get to extract a Final Value Fee) and they're in violation of the Gratis Internet terms of service. I really wish eBay would crack down on these listings which pollute its service.
That eBay idea sounds pretty good. I think I'll sell info about how you can get a free Mac mini so that I can buy one myself!
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You must have been asleep when Gratis Internet started offering Free iPods (referral-free link). Then again, bloggers are necessarily a self-obsessed self-zealous group, concerned more with garnering interest than with creating actual content. The obsession with "help me get free shit! Click my ads!" is reminiscent of the AllAdvantage/GoGoCity/etc craze of 1999, when every personal web site had FREE MONEY FAST offers. Trust me! Some guy's personal web page says that he has a guy who took pictures of a REAL CHECK he got from the company! It works! Click here, dammit!
Just imagine: if this trend continues, the nightly news in 2020 will consist of "So I saw on NBC that Joe said that Mike said that Kim said that some guy in the Ukraine totally went to a web forum and downloaded info about HEY GET YOUR FREE MAC MICRO HERE something having to do with Korea. Comments?"
QIF is a VERY limited format. I track a lot of things in Quicken (401(k), stocks, assets) that can't be exported in QIF.
It's all just the same, since GnuCash is a usability nightmare (even when compared to Quicken and its lousy interfaces) and won't connect to any bank at all.
Web "standards" exist only in the minds of geeks. The W3C honestly doesn't care what your web browser does; it just publishes recommendations that are purposefully vague. You can never, ever be guaranteed of pixel-perfect compatibility across multiple browsers.
Many web sites look ugly in Firefox, and that's fine by me as long as I can read them. (I miss Opera's one-click option to toggle a custom style sheet for particularly ugly pages; perhaps someone has hacked up a mediocre extension to mimic this functionality in Firefox.) I wouldn't consider a web site to be "broken" until I am unable to navigate through it using whatever smashed-together UI scheme the designer chose. Some of those work with IE, some of them use IE-specific JavaScript, and others are specific to Firefox (because they use cool CSS voodoo majik).
Don't worry. It's being made by HP. Knowing their recent reputation, I expect that the camera would randomly seize up; that after 90 minutes on hold, an incomprehensible tech support robot will not be able to help you; and that every few weeks you'd be expected to pay $50 for a tiny canister of HP's exclusive brand of film.
User: Slashdot renders wrong in your browser Weenie: Well Slashdot is idiot because they do not code to XHTML 1.1 Strict with CSS3 like everybody else does. User: Oh that makes sense then. Weenie: Please sign my Internet petition to force them to use valid web juice or I will boycott them. User: OK I'm hanging up now.
Oh, good. Now my business plan for the Differential Titration Channel has legs. I thought nobody in their right mind would watch that shit 24 hours a day. Thank you Slashdot!
I thought you couldn't sue on the basis of look and feel. That was supposed to be the reason why every Linux distribution can include themes such as "poor copy of Aqua," "poor copy of Windows 95," etc. As long as neither party co-opts the other's corporate logo or other trademarked elements, it's fine.
And if Google were to trademark its very simple search result design, I think Slashdot users would have every right to throw a fit.
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I'm sorry, but Google Employee Bed is a BETA service. You simply can't trust it yet. Nevertheless, it is the best bed I have ever used and I plan to use it daily despite these early hiccups.
No, if they deleted people's mail then people would simply say, "It's beta. You shouldn't trust beta software with your private data."
Come on, Google. Release something. Hold yourselves accountable for something.
OK, then I guess I'd better go to a valid-HTML search engine.
Oops. Better try Yahoo.
Oops. Better try Ask Jeeves.
Oops. Maybe Teoma, the poor man's Google, works.
Oops. Guess nobody in the real world cares about "web standards" anyway.
- Birthdate has to be MM/DD/YY instead of MM/DD/YYYY
Now... I have to find someone to call for free...
Well, try calling all the 13-year olds and then call the 113-year-olds. Since they only use two-digit years, expect a world of fun!
Yes, any other journalistic source.
Everyone is biased.
Encarta is edited by professional editors, and as such it has a standard of integrity which Microsoft's customers expect.
Wikipedia is edited by bored Internet users, and as such it bears a disclaimer that it is "for entertainment purposes only."
I would much sooner trust Encarta than Wikipedia for encyclopedic knowledge, in much the same way that I'd trust any other journalistic source than a bunch of bored Internet users to edit my news.
You know, there were search engines that existed before Google. All of them consisted of a search box and a submit button, with a few links to change what kind of search you wanted to run.
I really can't wait until the time comes when Google is obsolete, and we instead have thousands of stories about a different company that say "OMG JHOIM INTRODUCES USENET SEARCH! WOOT!"
What the international press never reports is that most of those lawsuits are filed by publicity-seeking lawyers, and that most of them get thrown out before they even go to trial. Of those that do go to trial, the vast majority never result in a monetary award for the plaintiff. The humongous "punitive damages" awards never get paid out in the amounts that you'd like to believe they are.
That's it: I'm going to start filtering all my URLs through HugeURL just for you. :)
In the future, please do as michael does: post this tinfoil hat material in YRO or Politics so I don't have to consciously ignore it.
Holy cow. That Kevin Rose blog entry would require thousands of valid entries to satisfy everyone's selfish desire for a free (product).
I'd bet good money that in 4 months time, these are the same suckers who will be complaining about how much junk mail they get -- both at the throwaway e-mail address they used and at their home mailing address.
That probably has something to do with the fact that the Free Mac Mini ads specifically say "DO NOT BID! JUST CLICK MY LINK ALREADY!"
eBay can't be making much money off these listings (since they don't get to extract a Final Value Fee) and they're in violation of the Gratis Internet terms of service. I really wish eBay would crack down on these listings which pollute its service.
That eBay idea sounds pretty good. I think I'll sell info about how you can get a free Mac mini so that I can buy one myself!
You must have been asleep when Gratis Internet started offering Free iPods (referral-free link). Then again, bloggers are necessarily a self-obsessed self-zealous group, concerned more with garnering interest than with creating actual content. The obsession with "help me get free shit! Click my ads!" is reminiscent of the AllAdvantage/GoGoCity/etc craze of 1999, when every personal web site had FREE MONEY FAST offers. Trust me! Some guy's personal web page says that he has a guy who took pictures of a REAL CHECK he got from the company! It works! Click here, dammit!
Just imagine: if this trend continues, the nightly news in 2020 will consist of "So I saw on NBC that Joe said that Mike said that Kim said that some guy in the Ukraine totally went to a web forum and downloaded info about HEY GET YOUR FREE MAC MICRO HERE something having to do with Korea. Comments?"
Nice FUD. TurboTax exports my tax records to PDF* every year, so I don't need to have the program installed from year to year.
I'd like to try an open source tax program. Where can I find one?
* Intuit includes a PDF export feature in the Windows version and Apple includes print-to-PDF in Mac OS X.
QIF is a VERY limited format. I track a lot of things in Quicken (401(k), stocks, assets) that can't be exported in QIF.
It's all just the same, since GnuCash is a usability nightmare (even when compared to Quicken and its lousy interfaces) and won't connect to any bank at all.
Web "standards" exist only in the minds of geeks. The W3C honestly doesn't care what your web browser does; it just publishes recommendations that are purposefully vague. You can never, ever be guaranteed of pixel-perfect compatibility across multiple browsers.
Many web sites look ugly in Firefox, and that's fine by me as long as I can read them. (I miss Opera's one-click option to toggle a custom style sheet for particularly ugly pages; perhaps someone has hacked up a mediocre extension to mimic this functionality in Firefox.) I wouldn't consider a web site to be "broken" until I am unable to navigate through it using whatever smashed-together UI scheme the designer chose. Some of those work with IE, some of them use IE-specific JavaScript, and others are specific to Firefox (because they use cool CSS voodoo majik).
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I hear push technology is coming back!
With no wireless and less space than a Nomad, I'm not surprised that most geeks consider the iPod to be "lame."
Well actually I was hinting at HP's ink cartridge business ("HP's exclusive brand of printer supply") but you're right about Sony.
Don't worry. It's being made by HP. Knowing their recent reputation, I expect that the camera would randomly seize up; that after 90 minutes on hold, an incomprehensible tech support robot will not be able to help you; and that every few weeks you'd be expected to pay $50 for a tiny canister of HP's exclusive brand of film.
User: Slashdot renders wrong in your browser
Weenie: Well Slashdot is idiot because they do not code to XHTML 1.1 Strict with CSS3 like everybody else does.
User: Oh that makes sense then.
Weenie: Please sign my Internet petition to force them to use valid web juice or I will boycott them.
User: OK I'm hanging up now.
Oh, good. Now my business plan for the Differential Titration Channel has legs. I thought nobody in their right mind would watch that shit 24 hours a day. Thank you Slashdot!
I thought you couldn't sue on the basis of look and feel. That was supposed to be the reason why every Linux distribution can include themes such as "poor copy of Aqua," "poor copy of Windows 95," etc. As long as neither party co-opts the other's corporate logo or other trademarked elements, it's fine.
And if Google were to trademark its very simple search result design, I think Slashdot users would have every right to throw a fit.