I dunno about that...my phone would be seeing my middle finger an awful lot..
And how does it know that it's YOUR finger? What happens if you have your phone out and someone starts pointing at it excitedly. Your phone could go bonkers and call random numbers in Moscow!
Well, a lot of people started up "Mac news sites" so they could try and get free media badges for the MWSF keynotes. As a result, Apple has clamped down big time on media passes.
People now pretty much expect that MWSF will be the big product announcements and they *do* hold off major purchases until the show. If their much-rumoured product doesn't materialize, people then feel disappointed and proceed to whine about Apple for weeks afterwards.
Hang out at an Apple Store sometimes. I can't remember how many times I've heard stuff like "Oh, thinksecret says they're going to speedbump the PowerBooks to the G5 at MWSF... just wait until then!" and other similar comments.
The rumor mill is one that would be best cut off.. seriously.
"Designed With Exquisite Finesse Most low-cost PC manufacturers slap together Frankenstein machines by hacking away features from the high end (of three years ago, anyway) and putting the warmed-over parts in ill-fitting cheap plastic boxes. They don't really have a choice, since they don't design any of the parts, from operating system to motherboard. That's why most budget PC cases seem to be littered with a mish-mash of uncoordinated stickers from every component vendor on the planet."
Apple's server offerings have always been pretty good. I had some porno on my old G3/266 running 9.x and AppleShare IP 6.x get listed on www.thehun.net before. The box got the crap smacked out of it, but faithfully served up porno long after the traffic died off.
(fyi, getting listed on thehun.net is almost *worse* than a/. effect - perverts galore!)
No, it wasn't the boonies. It was a pretty big area even back then. Bedroom community for the huge Financial District in San Francisco, right along the BART lines. In fact, this area (Pleasant Hill & Walnut Creek) were the testbed for the entire BART system.
Ok, I live in Pleasant Hill, CA. Look on a map - it's East of San Francisco by about 20 miles. The average income in the area is $60,000+ - over 20% of the population makes over $100,000.
I cannot get DSL in my apartment complex. I can get a cable modem from Comcast, but that's it. Astound Broadband has tried to service this area but was shut out by Comcast. My friend down the street is in the Walnut Creek city limits. We're all on the same SBC fiber ring. Her DSL line cannot carry data reliably if it's set to 1.5mbit. Speakeasy has backed her down to 768kbps, but is still charging the same. She called Comcast and Astound - *neither* can service her with a cable modem.
We're *not* in the boonies out here. So why the hell can't we get decent service? It doesn't make any sense to me, and when asked, the SBC & Comcast sales drones just say "planning on servicing that area soon..." (repeat every 6 months)
1 person in ZIP 94523 sure as hell doesn't mean that everyone is happy - or can even get decent service at all. Stupid FCC.
Try getting your returns after the tax season. You can't. So if you print out copies but they are lost/destroyed, you're basically fucked. Happened to me this last year.. now I'm going to get to re-file Federal. Fortunately I don't owe anything.
There's a friggin 24/7 coffee shop in MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN but I cannot find *any* here in the goddamn SILICON VALLEY. There is something seriously wrong with this picture.:P
"Heart of technology" my ass. This dump sucks. I'm going to Wisconsin!
You're certainly right - my point was that sometimes it's not so easy to ignore blogs because there are so many of them with that trackback feature, that it's becoming very easy for them to clutter up search engines. It's even worse when you are looking for something and find nothing but blogs linking to "it" ("it" being an article you're looking for) but "it" is now a 404. Example: Dell put up a funny ad. Lots and lots of bloggers were posting about it and linking to the LA Times website. Well, the LA Times expired that image. None of the bloggers mirrored it, so now they're all linking to something that isn't there anymore.
"Adware provider Claria supports the California legislation, according to D. Reed Freeman, chief privacy officer, because the confusion between spyware and adware has eroded consumer confidence and stifled the adware industry."
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heh, the first time that damn Soviet Russia joke has made me laugh. Good one. ;)
I dunno about that...my phone would be seeing my middle finger an awful lot..
And how does it know that it's YOUR finger? What happens if you have your phone out and someone starts pointing at it excitedly. Your phone could go bonkers and call random numbers in Moscow!
Well, a lot of people started up "Mac news sites" so they could try and get free media badges for the MWSF keynotes.
As a result, Apple has clamped down big time on media passes.
People now pretty much expect that MWSF will be the big product announcements and they *do* hold off major purchases until the show. If their much-rumoured product doesn't materialize, people then feel disappointed and proceed to whine about Apple for weeks afterwards.
Hang out at an Apple Store sometimes. I can't remember how many times I've heard stuff like "Oh, thinksecret says they're going to speedbump the PowerBooks to the G5 at MWSF... just wait until then!" and other similar comments.
The rumor mill is one that would be best cut off.. seriously.
because all corporations love kids that have no problems blabbing about their to-be-released products to increase banner ad revenue. What a winner!
"Designed With Exquisite Finesse
Most low-cost PC manufacturers slap together Frankenstein machines by hacking away features from the high end (of three years ago, anyway) and putting the warmed-over parts in ill-fitting cheap plastic boxes. They don't really have a choice, since they don't design any of the parts, from operating system to motherboard. That's why most budget PC cases seem to be littered with a mish-mash of uncoordinated stickers from every component vendor on the planet."
heh. I like that bit.
Apple's server offerings have always been pretty good. I had some porno on my old G3/266 running 9.x and AppleShare IP 6.x get listed on www.thehun.net before. The box got the crap smacked out of it, but faithfully served up porno long after the traffic died off.
/. effect - perverts galore!)
(fyi, getting listed on thehun.net is almost *worse* than a
My g/f got a cable modem. I couldn't think of anything catchy to call the SSID on the WAP I put at her place, so I chose something vile:
"56k AOL dialup"
Nobody will ever bother with it now!
For those of you that just cannot get enough bling bling... we bring to do, "Das blinken RAM!"
No, it wasn't the boonies. It was a pretty big area even back then. Bedroom community for the huge Financial District in San Francisco, right along the BART lines. In fact, this area (Pleasant Hill & Walnut Creek) were the testbed for the entire BART system.
Certainly wasn't the boonies, even 20 years ago.
Ok, I live in Pleasant Hill, CA. Look on a map - it's East of San Francisco by about 20 miles. The average income in the area is $60,000+ - over 20% of the population makes over $100,000.
I cannot get DSL in my apartment complex. I can get a cable modem from Comcast, but that's it. Astound Broadband has tried to service this area but was shut out by Comcast.
My friend down the street is in the Walnut Creek city limits. We're all on the same SBC fiber ring. Her DSL line cannot carry data reliably if it's set to 1.5mbit. Speakeasy has backed her down to 768kbps, but is still charging the same. She called Comcast and Astound - *neither* can service her with a cable modem.
We're *not* in the boonies out here. So why the hell can't we get decent service? It doesn't make any sense to me, and when asked, the SBC & Comcast sales drones just say "planning on servicing that area soon..." (repeat every 6 months)
1 person in ZIP 94523 sure as hell doesn't mean that everyone is happy - or can even get decent service at all.
Stupid FCC.
"There are no past tax returns currently associated with this user ID."
:|
Mine aren't there. It offers to help me start a 2004 return, though.
Forget that - I'm just going to go to a human accountant.
Try getting your returns after the tax season. You can't. So if you print out copies but they are lost/destroyed, you're basically fucked. Happened to me this last year.. now I'm going to get to re-file Federal. Fortunately I don't owe anything.
"A disruption in communication can mean only one thing.... invasion"
Uh oh, it's coming!
I'll have to check the place out one of these days. ;)
Dude, if I had a +10 Informative, you'd get it. I'm going to go check that out as it's right on my way to work. :D
There's a friggin 24/7 coffee shop in MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN but I cannot find *any* here in the goddamn SILICON VALLEY. There is something seriously wrong with this picture. :P
"Heart of technology" my ass. This dump sucks. I'm going to Wisconsin!
If I go into a coffee shop that I haven't been in before, I'll ask the barista if it's cool to use an outlet.
They've always responded with "Oh, sure, no problem!" so far.
Starbucks usually has outlets available anyway. Guess I'm not "stealing" energy. heh.
You're certainly right - my point was that sometimes it's not so easy to ignore blogs because there are so many of them with that trackback feature, that it's becoming very easy for them to clutter up search engines. It's even worse when you are looking for something and find nothing but blogs linking to "it" ("it" being an article you're looking for) but "it" is now a 404. Example: Dell put up a funny ad. Lots and lots of bloggers were posting about it and linking to the LA Times website. Well, the LA Times expired that image. None of the bloggers mirrored it, so now they're all linking to something that isn't there anymore.
:|
It's just kind of annoying overall.
... when you're doing a Google search and blogs are cluttering up the first 200 pages of results, it's kind of hard to just "ignore them."
Ah ha! Found the shirts.. :D
http://www.cafepress.com/blogwhine
When I worked for AT&T, we were told that customers didn't like "bundling" and having all of the stuff on one big bill.
Fast forward only 5 years and guess what? Bundling is once again alive & well at SBC!
Give it a few years, people will be sick of SuperBigCorp again.. heh
The anti spyware didn't do a very good job of stopping the spies from getting out screenshots, dang it...
"Adware provider Claria supports the California legislation, according to D. Reed Freeman, chief privacy officer, because the confusion between spyware and adware has eroded consumer confidence and stifled the adware industry."
From the marketing scum themselves: clickz.com
They're trying to convince us that adware is ok, but spyware isn't. How much do y'all want to bet that we see more "adware" companies popping up now?
I think CAN-SPAM trumped the California law, unfortunately.. can't go after the spammers directly now.