1. various bottles and cans of beer I've had lying around the computer room;
2. a box of about 1000 feet of Cat 5, some used;
3. a box of Hammermill paper, for inkjet printers;
4. various sodapop products (Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, RC Edge);
5. a Motor Trend magazine from 1998;
6. the barcode from the back of an X10 device (went to www.radioshack.com);
7. various UPS and FedEx shipping labels I still have lying around;
8. various barcodes I made with my labelmaker -- mostly words and sentences;
9. one of those barcode stickers the airlines use to more easily lose your luggage.
So, in reality, I won't use it for much else. If they want to sell my name and give me special deals for beer, soda, or inkjet paper, I'm all for it!
I had an idea this was going to happen when I first got this doodad, so I scanned accordingly. And like all things, I got bored quickly with it. Now it provides a nice nightlight for the otherwise dark computer room.
Now, though, I'll probably De:Claw it so I can have fun mucking up their records!
Mike, you and those of your ilk need a life, don't you.
Honestly, how many people do you think you are going to change by preaching repeatedly about the "evils of television?"
All of your kind -- I'm including the vegans, fur advocates and anyone else who thinks their cause should be the world's cause -- need to loosen up and live your life instead of telling me how I should live mine.
Just remember, when you die, you'll be just like the rest of us -- dead. And those fancy words you used won't mean a damn thing.
The growing nouveau riche (I think I spelled that correctly) population (read Dot-Com Millionaires) should very well vote Republican. After all, 1 of every 5 Republicans is a multi-millionaire.
Even if you are still part of the commonfolk (I won't attempt to spell the French word for that), if you expect to be wealthy one day,... well... you know what I'm going to say.
Things I have bought and will continue to buy on the Internet:
Things not specific to me. eg: DVDs, CDs, from anyplace with free shipping and no tax.
Things I will never buy on the Internet: Clothing, shoes, things I need to see in order for me to like.
I definitely would not shop from a website if PRICE+SHIPPING > PRICE+LOCAL_TAX. I go for the "overall spending of less money" than not paying tax.
What the stores need to do is compete price-wise with the Internet stores (Reel.Com, DVDwave.com, CDnow.com, take your pick). If I can pick up a movie for $12.99 with even $1 shippping from Reel.com, why on EARTH would I go to Wal-Mart, BestBuy, CircuitShitty, etc and buy it for $20 plus tax?
But instead, the American Way is Whine, Bitch and Complain and keep funding your cause until You get your way.
Unfortunately the consumer gets raped in the ass in the end.
I'm sorry, but how can we *really* tell if these people are telling us the truth?
Pretty soon I predict the title of one of these articles here on/. will be:
DoubleClick DoubleBack DoubleCross.
Until then, I still fill out form with incorrectly spelled information so I know where companies get my name.
(I even got a chain letter a-la MAKE MONEY FAST style in the US-Mail. I sent it off to the Postmaster who I could only assume would be interested.:-) )
Thinking of all the of-working-age, able-bodied, non-farming individuals in the United States, I have to agree that the number is near the 33 to 35 hour range.
Sure, you have the break-neck houred people who work 168 hours a week, but you also have the part-timers, moms (or dads) that take a job while the kids are at school for a couple hours a day, a couple days a week - for maybe 10 hours a week for "spending money."
There are the salaried people who don't care if their job isn't done at the end of 8 hours. They'll start it tomorrow when they get it promptly at 9. If they get in before 9, they'll leave before 5. (Assuming 8h/5d week. There are some who do 10h/4d weeks as well.)
And I can only believe I left out a great deal of people who work less than 40 hours a week to fulfill their job.
I work only 40 hours a week. Everyone here works 40 hours a week. The whole company works 40 hours a week (rotating shifts where necessary). Then again, the company for which I work has been around since the late 1800's and is not a technical company.
Ameritech has no unlimited local calling, and the Chicago area has poor DSL and ISDN access.
For as long as I remember (like 10 years) Ameritech (Illinois Bell) has always had untimed calls for calls less than 8 miles from your C.O.
I'm *always* connected via 56K modem. Each call is no more than 5 cents for connection costs, then untimed.
As for ISDN and ADSL, take another look at Chicago and its suburbs -- $49.95 for ADSL is the going rate (must be less than 18K feet from the CO though).
Local regulations require that Ethernet cable be strung through metal conduit, which is very labor intensive (read: expensive) and not neccesary.
Not *always* true. I just had a house built and nothing except electric was in conduit... not phone, not coax, nothing except hot wires. It might be a Chicago city code though -- I moved to the suburbs.
The good thing about Chicago city code now is that all new construction MUST have a dedicated parking location for at least one car/one bedroom or two car/two bedroom (I think)... so parking your ride is no longer a problem if you live in the City.
Sorry... nothing real to add here, except maybe to clear up some misinformation you had.
After writing what I did, I thought about it for a while, and then read this reply.
Real estate is more of a cut-throat, live-on-commission, always-having-to-work job. But it is almost instantly gratifying and correlated to the pay you receive and the time you put in -- Lawyers, doctors, etc, (read: professions that consumers want instant-access to).
I see that happening, but I also see my worst fear happening: sitting on the beach on a Sunday morning on Oahu, then getting paged in my eyeball by my job telling me that I have to work on my vacation.
The flip side is, however, more attractive...
I'm sitting on the beach on a Sunday morning on Oahu, I get paged in my eye telling me to fix something at my job on the mainland and I never once ever see the office. The beach is my office, and I'm never cooped up in a cube ever again.
There are probably many reasons that people want this...
1) They *NEED* to feel important. If they miss a second, it will thoroughly impact the rest of their life. I say screw that. If it is that important, leave me a voice mail and I'll eventually get to it.
2) They *WANT* to be on the hemorraging edge of technology. Who cares if it is functional, attractive or what-not. Again, this will lend the need to being noticed and feeling important. Why do people *need* cell phones and land-line phones? At first, it's "the bigger the better." Remember bag phones? It was to get noticed. Now cell phones are sold on every street corner, people don't need to be seen that much, so they're smaller. Mine is 6 ounces and fits in a shirt pocket.
1. Chalk up the US$4K to "learning experience"... I've spent more than that failing out of classes.
2. Register races.to it's a little catchier, ain't it? You can register it through register.com. It seems "racesnow.com" is taken now. Registered on December 11... looks like he's out of luck again.
It's easier to look for a solution when you ain't crying or screaming "foul." Although I feel bad for this guy, playing victim and doing nothing about it isn't going to get anyone ahead.
but corel was one of "those stocks" that just kept popping into and leaving my mind up until a month ago. i was along the lines of "what have they done lately?" and "what are they going to do next?" couldn't really answer those questions at the time.
all the best of luck with corl for you, though, AC! your current 1500% is a truck-load better than the 300% my friends and family got in on!:-)
OK.. I've held this in long enough. Sorry if it was said before here in this thread. Mark this up, mark it down, do whatever you want to do, moderators.
First off, to those at the RIAA. Fuck you. Got it? Just go fuck yourselves. You feel so big and powerful there in your goddamned ivory tower like pope of the fucking parade. You just don't get the idea, do you?
Second, you're saying NAPSTER ("program", "this program") is pirating MP3's. Whatever. Are you smoking crack over there? This is among the idiocy I hear from Anti-Gun advocates (the retort, PEOPLE KILL) well, PEOPLE TRADE MP3's! Can't you see the fucking difference you bunch of fucking fuckwits? Do you have your head planted so far up your ass you don't know what's what? If you do this, I want to see the governments of the WORLD to SUE the FOLLOWING COMPANIES: SONY, RCA, MAGNAVOX, TOSHIBA, EMERSON, and any other COMPANY THAT SELLS VIDEO MONITORS! You know people look at KIDDIE PORN on those things! Also I want them to sue all the KEYBOARD MANUFACTURERS for contributing to the HACKING COMMUNITY! If no one had a KEYBOARD the WHITEHOUSE, CIA, and every other place on the INTERNET would have not been hacked. Kevin Mitnick who? we would be saying.
SUE THE GOVERNMENT FOR INVENTING ARPANET!
NEXTLY, SUE ALL THE MODEM MANUFACUTERS! Same reason. SUE THE PHONE COMPANIES!!! Same reason.
Fuck you, RIAA. You think you know it all. Come to grips with yourself and get a goddamned clue. The more negative publicity you give yourself, the more people are going to screw you over.
Deal with 30 production web servers getting over 10 million hits a day, testing, evaluating, purchasing and installing software, hardware, then tell me you can't have enough:-)
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Things I've scanned:
1. various bottles and cans of beer I've had lying around the computer room;
2. a box of about 1000 feet of Cat 5, some used;
3. a box of Hammermill paper, for inkjet printers;
4. various sodapop products (Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, RC Edge);
5. a Motor Trend magazine from 1998;
6. the barcode from the back of an X10 device (went to www.radioshack.com);
7. various UPS and FedEx shipping labels I still have lying around;
8. various barcodes I made with my labelmaker -- mostly words and sentences;
9. one of those barcode stickers the airlines use to more easily lose your luggage.
So, in reality, I won't use it for much else. If they want to sell my name and give me special deals for beer, soda, or inkjet paper, I'm all for it!
I had an idea this was going to happen when I first got this doodad, so I scanned accordingly. And like all things, I got bored quickly with it. Now it provides a nice nightlight for the otherwise dark computer room.
Now, though, I'll probably De:Claw it so I can have fun mucking up their records!
-m
Mike, you and those of your ilk need a life, don't you.
Honestly, how many people do you think you are going to change by preaching repeatedly about the "evils of television?"
All of your kind -- I'm including the vegans, fur advocates and anyone else who thinks their cause should be the world's cause -- need to loosen up and live your life instead of telling me how I should live mine.
Just remember, when you die, you'll be just like the rest of us -- dead. And those fancy words you used won't mean a damn thing.
-m
The growing nouveau riche (I think I spelled that correctly) population (read Dot-Com Millionaires) should very well vote Republican. After all, 1 of every 5 Republicans is a multi-millionaire.
... well... you know what I'm going to say.
Even if you are still part of the commonfolk (I won't attempt to spell the French word for that), if you expect to be wealthy one day,
-m
for me to totally despise and hate deja.com.
First the god-awful redesign into a portal and now this.
Who knows what else there was that I didn't see.
Fuck 'em with a big spiny pole.
-m
Things I have bought and will continue to buy on the Internet:
Things not specific to me. eg: DVDs, CDs, from anyplace with free shipping and no tax.
Things I will never buy on the Internet:
Clothing, shoes, things I need to see in order for me to like.
I definitely would not shop from a website if PRICE+SHIPPING > PRICE+LOCAL_TAX. I go for the "overall spending of less money" than not paying tax.
What the stores need to do is compete price-wise with the Internet stores (Reel.Com, DVDwave.com, CDnow.com, take your pick). If I can pick up a movie for $12.99 with even $1 shippping from Reel.com, why on EARTH would I go to Wal-Mart, BestBuy, CircuitShitty, etc and buy it for $20 plus tax?
But instead, the American Way is Whine, Bitch and Complain and keep funding your cause until You get your way.
Unfortunately the consumer gets raped in the ass in the end.
-m
Yeah, right.
/. will be:
:-) )
Sure.
Uh-huh.
We believe you!
I'm sorry, but how can we *really* tell if these people are telling us the truth?
Pretty soon I predict the title of one of these articles here on
DoubleClick DoubleBack DoubleCross.
Until then, I still fill out form with incorrectly spelled information so I know where companies get my name.
(I even got a chain letter a-la MAKE MONEY FAST style in the US-Mail. I sent it off to the Postmaster who I could only assume would be interested.
Thanks for reading.
-m
I saw this article at the Chicago Sun Times today, March 2nd and it shows the lengths someone has gone about getting a patent on herself.
-m
My 40 minute train ride every morning would feel that much longer without a newspaper.
For 35 cents, 5 days a week ($1.75), I get entertainment and information and news in one tidy little package.
Would I get a Pilot or some other similar device to read news when it becomes available?
Not a chance.
Newspapers, like I said cost me less than $2 a week. 52 weeks a year and I've only spent $104.
If I lose a paper, I won't get upset. I can buy another.
If I break a paper (rip, tear, mutilate), I won't get upset. I can buy another.
...and so on...
Mr Katz has the wrong question for commuters as I see it though. The correct question should be from the tech companies as in:
"What can we do to get a larger audience away from newspapers?"
Answers:
Make whatever it is durable and inexpensive.
-m
Thinking of all the of-working-age, able-bodied, non-farming individuals in the United States, I have to agree that the number is near the 33 to 35 hour range.
Sure, you have the break-neck houred people who work 168 hours a week, but you also have the part-timers, moms (or dads) that take a job while the kids are at school for a couple hours a day, a couple days a week - for maybe 10 hours a week for "spending money."
There are the salaried people who don't care if their job isn't done at the end of 8 hours. They'll start it tomorrow when they get it promptly at 9. If they get in before 9, they'll leave before 5. (Assuming 8h/5d week. There are some who do 10h/4d weeks as well.)
And I can only believe I left out a great deal of people who work less than 40 hours a week to fulfill their job.
I work only 40 hours a week. Everyone here works 40 hours a week. The whole company works 40 hours a week (rotating shifts where necessary). Then again, the company for which I work has been around since the late 1800's and is not a technical company.
-m
Can't do it again. It failed the first time because the ignorant masses found it unfunny therefore the Network Clods found it unprofitable.
Same reason why "The Critic" found it's way into the trash bin, and unfortunately I think "Family Guy" is wandering that way as well.
We must warp to the speed of LINT!
Yes! YES! Of course! The Speed of... what?
Lint! Ever wonder why after you wash your clothes you always find lint in your pockets?
Uh.. I guess.
IT'S THAT FAST!!!!!
-m
If you have the means, here is an action to define "irony"...
Send the package to:
Jack Valenti
c/o Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
15503 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, California 91436
Ameritech has no unlimited local calling, and the Chicago area has poor DSL and ISDN access.
For as long as I remember (like 10 years) Ameritech (Illinois Bell) has always had untimed calls for calls less than 8 miles from your C.O.
I'm *always* connected via 56K modem. Each call is no more than 5 cents for connection costs, then untimed.
As for ISDN and ADSL, take another look at Chicago and its suburbs -- $49.95 for ADSL is the going rate (must be less than 18K feet from the CO though).
Local regulations require that Ethernet cable be strung through metal conduit, which is very labor intensive (read: expensive) and not neccesary.
Not *always* true. I just had a house built and nothing except electric was in conduit... not phone, not coax, nothing except hot wires. It might be a Chicago city code though -- I moved to the suburbs.
The good thing about Chicago city code now is that all new construction MUST have a dedicated parking location for at least one car/one bedroom or two car/two bedroom (I think)... so parking your ride is no longer a problem if you live in the City.
Sorry... nothing real to add here, except maybe to clear up some misinformation you had.
-m
After writing what I did, I thought about it for a while, and then read this reply.
Real estate is more of a cut-throat, live-on-commission, always-having-to-work job. But it is almost instantly gratifying and correlated to the pay you receive and the time you put in -- Lawyers, doctors, etc, (read: professions that consumers want instant-access to).
I see that happening, but I also see my worst fear happening: sitting on the beach on a Sunday morning on Oahu, then getting paged in my eyeball by my job telling me that I have to work on my vacation.
The flip side is, however, more attractive...
I'm sitting on the beach on a Sunday morning on Oahu, I get paged in my eye telling me to fix something at my job on the mainland and I never once ever see the office. The beach is my office, and I'm never cooped up in a cube ever again.
Talk about a paradox.
-m
Definitely. These things will be great for the workplace if called-for.
I just have questions for people who would walk around by choice with these things -- on vacation, or in a restaurant, or out fishing, or not at work.
-m
You're definitely not alone!
There are probably many reasons that people want this...
1) They *NEED* to feel important. If they miss a second, it will thoroughly impact the rest of their life. I say screw that. If it is that important, leave me a voice mail and I'll eventually get to it.
2) They *WANT* to be on the hemorraging edge of technology. Who cares if it is functional, attractive or what-not. Again, this will lend the need to being noticed and feeling important. Why do people *need* cell phones and land-line phones? At first, it's "the bigger the better." Remember bag phones? It was to get noticed. Now cell phones are sold on every street corner, people don't need to be seen that much, so they're smaller. Mine is 6 ounces and fits in a shirt pocket.
Sad? Yes.
-m
1. Chalk up the US$4K to "learning experience"... I've spent more than that failing out of classes.
2. Register races.to it's a little catchier, ain't it? You can register it through register.com. It seems "racesnow.com" is taken now. Registered on December 11... looks like he's out of luck again.
It's easier to look for a solution when you ain't crying or screaming "foul." Although I feel bad for this guy, playing victim and doing nothing about it isn't going to get anyone ahead.
Time to move on now... learn and grow.
-m
how true!
:-)
but corel was one of "those stocks" that just kept popping into and leaving my mind up until a month ago. i was along the lines of "what have they done lately?" and "what are they going to do next?" couldn't really answer those questions at the time.
all the best of luck with corl for you, though, AC! your current 1500% is a truck-load better than the 300% my friends and family got in on!
-m
I actually "called it" and told everyone to buy CORL at 11 3/8.
:-) )
Everyone bought it except me, though. Spread the wealth, is what I say...
(Don't forget to save your money for TransMeta!
-m
OK.. I've held this in long enough. Sorry if it was said before here in this thread. Mark this up, mark it down, do whatever you want to do, moderators.
First off, to those at the RIAA. Fuck you. Got it? Just go fuck yourselves. You feel so big and powerful there in your goddamned ivory tower like pope of the fucking parade. You just don't get the idea, do you?
Second, you're saying NAPSTER ("program", "this program") is pirating MP3's. Whatever. Are you smoking crack over there? This is among the idiocy I hear from Anti-Gun advocates (the retort, PEOPLE KILL) well, PEOPLE TRADE MP3's! Can't you see the fucking difference you bunch of fucking fuckwits? Do you have your head planted so far up your ass you don't know what's what? If you do this, I want to see the governments of the WORLD to SUE the FOLLOWING COMPANIES: SONY, RCA, MAGNAVOX, TOSHIBA, EMERSON, and any other COMPANY THAT SELLS VIDEO MONITORS! You know people look at KIDDIE PORN on those things! Also I want them to sue all the KEYBOARD MANUFACTURERS for contributing to the HACKING COMMUNITY! If no one had a KEYBOARD the WHITEHOUSE, CIA, and every other place on the INTERNET would have not been hacked. Kevin Mitnick who? we would be saying.
SUE THE GOVERNMENT FOR INVENTING ARPANET!
NEXTLY, SUE ALL THE MODEM MANUFACUTERS! Same reason. SUE THE PHONE COMPANIES!!! Same reason.
Fuck you, RIAA. You think you know it all. Come to grips with yourself and get a goddamned clue. The more negative publicity you give yourself, the more people are going to screw you over.
Signing this only reinforces my beliefs.
-m, a very disgruntled non-AC.
This patenting/suing/injuncting crap is just like a game of Jinx!
All these obviously repressed corporate types are doing nothing but childrens games -- only this time they expect their Coke at the end.
(Jinx - owe me a Coke!)
-m
They should all dot-com their names.
What's the mall going to do, tell the stores they can't put their names on the door?
So now what would be better... a non-descript sign promoting a website, or a 20 foot-long sign, lit up like a casino, on the outside of the store?
-m
Deal with 30 production web servers getting over 10 million hits a day, testing, evaluating, purchasing and installing software, hardware, then tell me you can't have enough :-)
-m
(All prices in USD)
Garmin GPS III Plus receiver (between 350 and 500, depending on where you buy).
Any DVD - no more than $25.
Toshiba TW65X81 or DW65X81 television to watch above dvd's - 4999 for TW, 5800 for DW.
Nokia 8860 - around 800-900
New Car - expensive
Another New Car - expensive
Luxury Car - more expensive
In lieu of computer, please send the TV. I have enough computers.
-m
Thanks I had lost that list and only remembered the one I posted!
-m