This is really going to undermine the people that blog about how much Mountain Dew they drink. Now we'll think they were being paid. Bah. They're not "up all night coding/playing Quake" or whatever. They really do sleep 8 hours a night.
I get sick of hearing about "oh, no liner notes." Half of the local artists around here never bothered to spend the money on anything more than a 1 page liner note/j-card anyway. They just slapped lame artwork and a band photo on a j-card and called it good.
Somehow, I really don't see the big value..
Also, your "indie store" might not be so "indie" after all... check into it.
I am *very* happy with Vonage. Very very happy. I've never had any call problems at all. the price is excellent. With relatives out of town, I've saved a ton in long distance fees. Also, I'm not getting hit with a big pile of taxes. There's sales tax, that's IT. My old SBC bill was about 45% in taxes. Now I pay only like $5 more and get *all* of the useful features.
Vonage now supports fax machines as well. Oh, and "Virtual Numbers." I live in the East SF Bay. I have family in Northern CA. Now I can get a number in the 530 area code, and my family can call *me* and not run up long distance charges. I could pick up a Florida NPA/NXX as well, for only $4.99/mo.
Vonage rocks. I pray to god that the Bells don't ever cause their demise.
"Craig uses the analogy of the telephone: You can unplug a telephone and move it to another room and plug it in, and 99.9999 per cent of the time it will work. When we use it, we are pretty sure that we know who we are talking to, and we know we'll get a bill at the end of the month and we know what rate we'll be charged at"
No, we don't know that. That man has obviously never seen the wiring in my apartment building. I'm lucky if I screw in a light bulb and have it work.
And as for the bill? I scrapped my landline and went with Vonage because I *never* knew what the bill was going to be. The list of 9 different taxes varied every month.
What's the point? Us humans have a hard enough time trying to read 5yr old DAT tape half the time! Great. Aliens are going to find that disc and will have to travel billions of miles just to find a Radio Shack.
Damn it, if Microsoft is going to collect information on software on my machine, the least that the bastards could do is give me the latest patches for Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology. Geez!
Now I have to go download them myself. Thanks a lot, Microsoft.
They bought Bungie and axed Halo for the Mac (I don't care to hear "It's coming soon" because damn it, it's not here and by the time it gets here, it'll be a day late and a dollar short) and now they're buying Connectix?
This sucks. Really bad. Sorry, but I really don't trust Microsoft to suddenly make Virtual PC a whole lot better.
I used to watch a DHL mechanic drain 5-10 gallons out of each B727 wing tank and run it right over to his big ass Ford truck. He mixed it in with the regular gas in the truck and he was a happy camper.
I have, and yes, it was a sales pitch. On Sunday afternoons, our Network Operations emergency phone (a cell phone, too) would get a similar call - "Please call 1-800-xxx-xxxx on Monday to discuss an urgent matter..."
It was some place selling carpet cleaning services.
"threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with this""
No, let's not let the lawyers get involved. THey make enough per hour as it is - we don't need to pay anyone $250/hr to play Unreal Tournament for "case notes."
Wait.. then again, lawyers in Unreal Tournament games. Hrm. It could be an all-out fragfest on a level that nobody could have ever imagined before. I like that idea!
Odd. We call them every month to pay the bill and never have more than a 2 minute hold time, and changing packages is a breeze. We got Netflix and dropped HBO - the bill that came out 1 week later reflected the changes and new invoice amount.
I like DirecTV. I hate SBC. Let's keep them seperate..
Take a look around and see how many office mates make personal phone calls from work. I've worked with people that made 5-10 personal calls every single day. Now, take a look at how many services have moved over to the web. Airline reservations, hotel bookings, banking and much more can be done over the web.
I think that companies are really making too big of a deal out of "lost production because of internet usage."
Place the blame where it should be placed - on the employee whos productivity suffers.
I am getting SICK of having my CREDIT REPORT used for a character profile. Have bad credit? Can't rent an apartment. Rental history and job becomes totally irrelevant at that point, unfortunately. Yes, I tried the "I'll give you 3x the deposit" bit, but when you're in a tight rental market, all you hear is "No, I'm sorry." and they move on to the next applicant. Barganing with a landlord doesn't happen in the Silicon Valley anymore. If you do get a place, it's probably in a complex that isn't nearly as nice as you wanted - or could afford.
How about insurance? Why does an *auto insurance company* need to check my credit report? There is no reason. So, I couldn't pay some bills that I racked up with I was 19yrs old, that's supposed to mean that I'm a crappy driver now, 7 years later? No, I don't think so. My credit report has absolutely nothing to do with my driving history and the two should never be put together.
I think that if a utility company can report non-payment to your credit agency, it should also be required to post the positive payments as well. It's bullshit that it's difficult to get positive references reported but it's a drop of a hat to get negative references reported. Oh, and negative references (that i paid off already) remaining on the report for 7 years? Absurd. They should be removed in no longer than 3 years. I paid the bills, but they were reported anyway. They should not be able to screw me for 7 years over a late phone bill.
I totally disagree with an employer "judging character" by using your credit report. Aren't these the same jobs that say it's against company policy to discuss pay rates with other employees? You can't say how much you make, but the Boss can know that you had a car repossessed 5 years before? Sorry, pal. I don't think so.
Oh, yes.. yes they most definately do. An office I rented in downtown Sacramento had an alarm system that would trip off sometimes - the Sacramento Police Department would come out to investigate, would find nothing (because it was a false alarm) and would promptly send a bill for the time it took to respond to the false alarm. Fortunately, I wasn't required to pay them because the alarm was managed by the building owner, so I passed the bill along to them.
So, yes, the police department really *does* send out bills.:-)
"Peace - countries with close business ties almost never go to war."
India & Pakistan seem pretty mad at each other these days.. we're cool with both of them but what happens if they go to war with each other? All of those jobs that moved to India get wiped out when the first nuclear bomb hits...
Does anyone know how easy it'd be to move to India? I'd move there too if it meant that I could keep my job. That should be an option - don't just lay me off so you can move my call center job to India, but give me the option of moving over there and giving me an appropriate salary. Living abroad is cool. I'd enjoy it.
"The announcement is not exactly well received by Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade. Great, another place to go complain about Duke Nukem not being out yet"
Who cares? Should we stop making gaming sites because Gabe & Tycho at Penny Arcade might not like it? Come on.. who cares?
This sounds like petty high school behavior to me.
Call it a "stupid game" or whatever you want, but god help me, I hope that Oakland doesn't burn down tonight. With a homocide rate of 113 last year, losing the Superbowl could prove to be disastrous!
Oh.. wait.. Tampa Bay:41, Oakland:21.
If you'll excuse me, I'll be somewhere safer..like Wyoming.:)
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This is really going to undermine the people that blog about how much Mountain Dew they drink. Now we'll think they were being paid.
Bah. They're not "up all night coding/playing Quake" or whatever. They really do sleep 8 hours a night.
Damn posers.
I get sick of hearing about "oh, no liner notes." Half of the local artists around here never bothered to spend the money on anything more than a 1 page liner note/j-card anyway. They just slapped lame artwork and a band photo on a j-card and called it good.
Somehow, I really don't see the big value..
Also, your "indie store" might not be so "indie" after all... check into it.
Go ahead. Steal my identity. You'll have to pay me to give the damn thing back to me. Hah!
Kind of hard to reply to an AC, but. :P
I am *very* happy with Vonage. Very very happy. I've never had any call problems at all. the price is excellent. With relatives out of town, I've saved a ton in long distance fees.
Also, I'm not getting hit with a big pile of taxes. There's sales tax, that's IT. My old SBC bill was about 45% in taxes. Now I pay only like $5 more and get *all* of the useful features.
Vonage now supports fax machines as well. Oh, and "Virtual Numbers." I live in the East SF Bay. I have family in Northern CA. Now I can get a number in the 530 area code, and my family can call *me* and not run up long distance charges. I could pick up a Florida NPA/NXX as well, for only $4.99/mo.
Vonage rocks. I pray to god that the Bells don't ever cause their demise.
"Craig uses the analogy of the telephone: You can unplug a telephone and move it to another room and plug it in, and 99.9999 per cent of the time it will work. When we use it, we are pretty sure that we know who we are talking to, and we know we'll get a bill at the end of the month and we know what rate we'll be charged at"
No, we don't know that. That man has obviously never seen the wiring in my apartment building. I'm lucky if I screw in a light bulb and have it work.
And as for the bill? I scrapped my landline and went with Vonage because I *never* knew what the bill was going to be. The list of 9 different taxes varied every month.
What's the point? Us humans have a hard enough time trying to read 5yr old DAT tape half the time!
Great. Aliens are going to find that disc and will have to travel billions of miles just to find a Radio Shack.
Damn it, if Microsoft is going to collect information on software on my machine, the least that the bastards could do is give me the latest patches for Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology. Geez!
Now I have to go download them myself. Thanks a lot, Microsoft.
They bought Bungie and axed Halo for the Mac (I don't care to hear "It's coming soon" because damn it, it's not here and by the time it gets here, it'll be a day late and a dollar short) and now they're buying Connectix?
This sucks. Really bad. Sorry, but I really don't trust Microsoft to suddenly make Virtual PC a whole lot better.
I hope that I'm wrong about this.
It's more useful to launch prison inmates into orbit.
;)
Maybe we can launch them towards Mars so they can colonize it. Hey, it worked for Australia, didn't it? It's a cool place!
I have always thought "Penny Arcade" sucked ass and has never been funny, but you don't see anybody trying to rally people on Slashdot about it.
:-)
;)
If it's not funny to you, that's ok. Really. Just read something that *does* make you laugh.
I'm sure that people laugh at "Family Circus" too, but I'm not one of them. *shrug* Just pass it on and read Garfield instead.
And your source is....?
:-)
There are probably a lot more places using SA than you think..
I used to watch a DHL mechanic drain 5-10 gallons out of each B727 wing tank and run it right over to his big ass Ford truck.
He mixed it in with the regular gas in the truck and he was a happy camper.
I have, and yes, it was a sales pitch. On Sunday afternoons, our Network Operations emergency phone (a cell phone, too) would get a similar call - "Please call 1-800-xxx-xxxx on Monday to discuss an urgent matter..."
It was some place selling carpet cleaning services.
"threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with this""
No, let's not let the lawyers get involved. THey make enough per hour as it is - we don't need to pay anyone $250/hr to play Unreal Tournament for "case notes."
Wait.. then again, lawyers in Unreal Tournament games. Hrm. It could be an all-out fragfest on a level that nobody could have ever imagined before. I like that idea!
Odd. We call them every month to pay the bill and never have more than a 2 minute hold time, and changing packages is a breeze. We got Netflix and dropped HBO - the bill that came out 1 week later reflected the changes and new invoice amount.
I like DirecTV. I hate SBC. Let's keep them seperate..
Take a look around and see how many office mates make personal phone calls from work.
I've worked with people that made 5-10 personal calls every single day.
Now, take a look at how many services have moved over to the web. Airline reservations, hotel bookings, banking and much more can be done over the web.
I think that companies are really making too big of a deal out of "lost production because of internet usage."
Place the blame where it should be placed - on the employee whos productivity suffers.
I am getting SICK of having my CREDIT REPORT used for a character profile.
Have bad credit? Can't rent an apartment. Rental history and job becomes totally irrelevant at that point, unfortunately. Yes, I tried the "I'll give you 3x the deposit" bit, but when you're in a tight rental market, all you hear is "No, I'm sorry." and they move on to the next applicant. Barganing with a landlord doesn't happen in the Silicon Valley anymore. If you do get a place, it's probably in a complex that isn't nearly as nice as you wanted - or could afford.
How about insurance? Why does an *auto insurance company* need to check my credit report? There is no reason. So, I couldn't pay some bills that I racked up with I was 19yrs old, that's supposed to mean that I'm a crappy driver now, 7 years later? No, I don't think so. My credit report has absolutely nothing to do with my driving history and the two should never be put together.
I think that if a utility company can report non-payment to your credit agency, it should also be required to post the positive payments as well. It's bullshit that it's difficult to get positive references reported but it's a drop of a hat to get negative references reported.
Oh, and negative references (that i paid off already) remaining on the report for 7 years? Absurd. They should be removed in no longer than 3 years. I paid the bills, but they were reported anyway. They should not be able to screw me for 7 years over a late phone bill.
I totally disagree with an employer "judging character" by using your credit report. Aren't these the same jobs that say it's against company policy to discuss pay rates with other employees? You can't say how much you make, but the Boss can know that you had a car repossessed 5 years before?
Sorry, pal. I don't think so.
Oh, yes.. yes they most definately do.
:-)
An office I rented in downtown Sacramento had an alarm system that would trip off sometimes - the Sacramento Police Department would come out to investigate, would find nothing (because it was a false alarm) and would promptly send a bill for the time it took to respond to the false alarm.
Fortunately, I wasn't required to pay them because the alarm was managed by the building owner, so I passed the bill along to them.
So, yes, the police department really *does* send out bills.
"Peace - countries with close business ties almost never go to war."
India & Pakistan seem pretty mad at each other these days.. we're cool with both of them but what happens if they go to war with each other? All of those jobs that moved to India get wiped out when the first nuclear bomb hits...
I wish it was that easy.
Does anyone know how easy it'd be to move to India? I'd move there too if it meant that I could keep my job. That should be an option - don't just lay me off so you can move my call center job to India, but give me the option of moving over there and giving me an appropriate salary.
Living abroad is cool. I'd enjoy it.
... and very very very few spammers ever follow it. They just add "This email not intended for residents of CA" or some crap to the email.
you know, my favorite part of Half-Life is running around in the tutorial and blowing up the vending machines.
If I could run around in a video game and blow an Arby's to smithereens, I'd be all for "product placement."
"Place" them right in my sights and let me at it. Muah!..
So, which IP block do we need to drop into the DENY rules now?
:P
Anybody know?
"The announcement is not exactly well received by Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade. Great, another place to go complain about Duke Nukem not being out yet"
Who cares? Should we stop making gaming sites because Gabe & Tycho at Penny Arcade might not like it? Come on.. who cares?
This sounds like petty high school behavior to me.
Call it a "stupid game" or whatever you want, but god help me, I hope that Oakland doesn't burn down tonight. With a homocide rate of 113 last year, losing the Superbowl could prove to be disastrous!
:)
Oh.. wait.. Tampa Bay:41, Oakland:21.
If you'll excuse me, I'll be somewhere safer..like Wyoming.