I never said anyone would sign for an SMS. What I said was that there's a difference between SMS and registered mail - people have to sign for registered mail. When you pick up a piece of registered mail, you have to give your signature and a proof of id. I think you mixed up parts of 2 threads.
Rule #1 when it comes to legal stuff - NEVER VOLUNTEER! ANYTHING!
Heck, one time it took them 11 months to serve me (they wanted me to "come pick it up" and I told them "ho ho ho - I'm leaving the country at 5.45 tomorrow morning and won't be back for a month. You want me to come pick it up when I get back - you PAY me to pick it up." 11 months. What a freaking joke. And in the end it was just a waste of time anyway - by the time we got to court, 14 months later, they had "lost the file."
If its not so urgent that they're not going to send someone to arrest you, I want to have something in writing so I can have as much info as possible before I talk to anyone. You're not going to get that with a text message. Only an idiot would argee to this.
There is the one in a million chance that a cosmic ray or some 'uncatchable' impurity in the silicon refining process made your computer do something crazy,
Okay, 1 in a million. So a 1 ghz machine should be prone to 1,000 errors a second. We've just invented the next generation of Microsoft FUD - "Its not our software - its yur hardware."
There's a difference between registered mail service (someone has to sign for it) and SMS - which is not even guaranteed to be received (read your terms of service - you pay for them attempting to transmit your message, whether it was received or not).
Yo forgot "most blatant attempt to get some dumb-ass VC to throw money their way", and "Oops - forgot to update the web site" awards.
From their web site:
We anticipate the release of an ultra-limited edition line of Needies in November 2005. We do not yet have pricing information but we will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Manufacturers and distributors: please feel free to contact us.
Just e-mail: info@needies.com
If you'd like to hear more about Needies as we develop them, please sign up for
the Needies mailing list.
Don't send them your email. Go to their site instead http://www.needies.com/contact.php? and enter someone else's email address to get them on the needies mailing list.
And yes, I just did president@whitehouse.gov - hopefully Bush will declare war on them.
Consider yourself lucky... I had to stop half-way through (Suse Openlinux/Firefox).
By the way - this toy is NOT original or new. About a decade ago, one of my nieces had a stuffed toy that, if you didn't pick it up every few minutes, would start complaining.
If they try to sell these as "original", they may end up having to change their name from "Co-dependant Designs" to "Co-defendant Designs".
There hasn't been another since 9/11 because the terrorists got really lucky AND had inside help from both the airline industry and the White House.
2 years before, newscasts had revealed that $200 per airliner was all that was needed to secure the cabin, that it had been recommended, and that the airlines were balking at the cost.
The White House - Bush ignored plain and clear warnings. He NEEDED a crisis to remove attention to his lack of moral authority or capability to lead. Thats not counting the other evidence that 9/11 had a lot more inside help than we're being told.
Absolutely right. The picture/caption posting will last right up until someone posts a manager inserting its head up its own ass.
That's because that's considered leaking secrets on how they're managing the war on terror. Don't you know you're helping the terrorists by discussing it? Please take a number and line up for the next bus to gitmo.
Still, I would like to eat one just to add it to my list of animals whose flesh I have made part of myself. So far I have eaten cow, pig, chicken, duck, deer, reindeer, whale, kangaroo, pigeon, cornish hen, and ostrich. I need to eat more!
Just eat a cheap hotdog - you'll be able to add all sorts of organic flesh to your list with every bite.
Yes, the body does maintain a "library" of antibodies keyed to the proteins on the surface of viruses it has overcome in the past.
The problem is that at one point there may be a "protein envelope" that the immune system cannot match up to, in which case resistance is not just futile - its impossible. Think of a new flu that the body can't manufacture a "key" to fit into the protein coat of the virus - a vaccine won't help.
Installing Google Desktop on any machine that has HIPPA protected data going through it was a stupid move in the first place. What were you/they thinking???
One of my friends was living here illegally (he came in on a visitor's visa and never left). His brother ratted him out to immigration. The inspector who came couldn't believe that the guys' brother would pull a stunt like that, and told him that his best bet was to get married. He knew a woman who accepted $4,000 in return for a quickie wedding, with the understanding that, after he received his citizenship papers, they'd get divorced.
He's now a Canadian citizen, married to someone else.
Similarly, I know a woman who was engaged to a guy in the states, and was living down there illegally for a year before they got married. She came back to Canada for a week, and US immigration refused to let her back into the States. Net result - the guy flew up here, married her, and they returned to the US.
While my "rules" were tongue-in-cheek, they are also true.
I know a couple from the 3rd world who divorced, went to the US, "married" family friends, got citizenship, then divorced, all 4 "married" others they wanted to bring in, got citizenship for them as well, then they all divorced and married their former spouses, then sponsored other family members. Last I heard, they had managed to bring in 51 family members over the course of a decade.
For people who are desperate, this isn't "that extreme" a solution.
The Wikipedia is wrong - AJAX can be implemented by the use of a separate frame (not just an iframe) to do the data exchange, and having the javascript then update the apps window without refreshing it. This is another area where Microsoft is now claiming to have "invented" something when they didn't.
Or did microsoft invent frames and javascript, which are all you need?
AJAX does NOT require the httpxmlrequest object. It doesn't require an iframe. It doesn't require a java applet. Any means of passing xml data between the client and server, in an async fashion, and then using javascript to modify the document/app, meets the definition of AJAX.
Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
Get rid of the X, and you can pass any sort of data, even binary.
You don't know what the word average means do you?
Oh, I certainly do, but you don't seem to - you confuse it in your next sentence with a snapshot of the market in general, without realizing why the market is doing a specific thing at this time.
They might want a small unobtrusive computer, but they want it with a BIG display and a BIG hard drive and a BIG keyboard and a BIG chunk of ram and BIG sound. Nobody wants a 14.1" screen for $2000.00. This product is a dud before it gets to market.
The "desktop replacement" market is a compromise. As for computers that are unobtrusive, or better yet, stylish, they can always buy a Mac. Or they can stuff the "beige box" in a closet. Do the whole "home server/gateway" thing. Or stick it anywhere else out of sight.
For long periods of computing, they're better off with a desktop and a separate laptop, not a single "desktop replacement". For the same price as that "desktop replacement", they can have both, with a lot fewer compromises. If they're not the type that is into those "long periods of computing", they're better off with a cheaper laptop with a bigger screen, etc. Like I said, this product is a dud.
Considering that the poster I was replying to said they felt the target market wasn't "laptop" but "desktop replacement", yep.
This isn't a laptop, it's a desktop replacement.
Its overpriced and underpowered.
Computers are all over the place. I can access my data from anywhere. Why should I have to settle for a cruddy, overpriced "desktop replacement" that has much less drive space (I've got 2/3 of a terrabyte) and much less display space (I'm using dual 19-inchers) running a much less capable OS (I'm using Suse OpenLinux) that costs much less and is much cheaper to upgrade?
Ahh, but yur reasoning only works half the time - half the people take longer than 7 years to move, so it will apply, for example, to someone who moves in 10 years, but last moved 3 years ago.
The average is just that - an average. We can't ignore all the other cases. After all, if I have one foot in a bucket of ice-cold water, and one foot in boiling-hot water, I'm certainly not, on average, comfortable.
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You - But people sign for it the normal way
I never said anyone would sign for an SMS. What I said was that there's a difference between SMS and registered mail - people have to sign for registered mail. When you pick up a piece of registered mail, you have to give your signature and a proof of id. I think you mixed up parts of 2 threads.
Rule #1 when it comes to legal stuff - NEVER VOLUNTEER! ANYTHING!
Heck, one time it took them 11 months to serve me (they wanted me to "come pick it up" and I told them "ho ho ho - I'm leaving the country at 5.45 tomorrow morning and won't be back for a month. You want me to come pick it up when I get back - you PAY me to pick it up." 11 months. What a freaking joke. And in the end it was just a waste of time anyway - by the time we got to court, 14 months later, they had "lost the file."
SCO has one right idea - delay delay delay.
Again, let them send it by snail mail.
If its not so urgent that they're not going to send someone to arrest you, I want to have something in writing so I can have as much info as possible before I talk to anyone. You're not going to get that with a text message. Only an idiot would argee to this.
For civil complaints, you can hire the police to serve the papers
Are you sure you don't mean a bailiff or process server?
There is the one in a million chance that a cosmic ray or some 'uncatchable' impurity in the silicon refining process made your computer do something crazy,
Okay, 1 in a million. So a 1 ghz machine should be prone to 1,000 errors a second. We've just invented the next generation of Microsoft FUD - "Its not our software - its yur hardware."
There's a difference between registered mail service (someone has to sign for it) and SMS - which is not even guaranteed to be received (read your terms of service - you pay for them attempting to transmit your message, whether it was received or not).
So just deny you ever received it.
You may want to download 9 coronas.
This one had the same voice for the whole phrase, not just the name.
It was painful to watch, as everyone else here can attest to.
If you go to the website, you'll see that they're just trying to raise $$$. I put George Bush on their "subscribe to email" list. He's pretty needy.
Yo forgot "most blatant attempt to get some dumb-ass VC to throw money their way", and "Oops - forgot to update the web site" awards.
From their web site:
Don't send them your email. Go to their site instead http://www.needies.com/contact.php? and enter someone else's email address to get them on the needies mailing list.
And yes, I just did president@whitehouse.gov - hopefully Bush will declare war on them.
The video was a fake. The toy addressed its creator by name. It was obvious at that point it was nothing more than somebody using a "Mr. Microphone."
Considering that ID requires circular logic ...
Consider yourself lucky ... I had to stop half-way through (Suse Openlinux/Firefox).
By the way - this toy is NOT original or new. About a decade ago, one of my nieces had a stuffed toy that, if you didn't pick it up every few minutes, would start complaining.
If they try to sell these as "original", they may end up having to change their name from "Co-dependant Designs" to "Co-defendant Designs".
There hasn't been another since 9/11 because the terrorists got really lucky AND had inside help from both the airline industry and the White House.
2 years before, newscasts had revealed that $200 per airliner was all that was needed to secure the cabin, that it had been recommended, and that the airlines were balking at the cost.
The White House - Bush ignored plain and clear warnings. He NEEDED a crisis to remove attention to his lack of moral authority or capability to lead. Thats not counting the other evidence that 9/11 had a lot more inside help than we're being told.
That's because that's considered leaking secrets on how they're managing the war on terror. Don't you know you're helping the terrorists by discussing it? Please take a number and line up for the next bus to gitmo.
Just eat a cheap hotdog - you'll be able to add all sorts of organic flesh to your list with every bite.
Yes, the body does maintain a "library" of antibodies keyed to the proteins on the surface of viruses it has overcome in the past.
The problem is that at one point there may be a "protein envelope" that the immune system cannot match up to, in which case resistance is not just futile - its impossible. Think of a new flu that the body can't manufacture a "key" to fit into the protein coat of the virus - a vaccine won't help.
Don't be ridiculous. He'll say "We're looking for Big Bird. We believe he's holed up in the Canary Islands, so we're invading Iran."
Turns out Bush got the same advisor as O. J. "I will search every golf course for Nicole's killers" Simpson.
Guess they left out the <humour> meta-data tags.
It is that easy. Its done all the time.
One of my friends was living here illegally (he came in on a visitor's visa and never left). His brother ratted him out to immigration. The inspector who came couldn't believe that the guys' brother would pull a stunt like that, and told him that his best bet was to get married. He knew a woman who accepted $4,000 in return for a quickie wedding, with the understanding that, after he received his citizenship papers, they'd get divorced.
He's now a Canadian citizen, married to someone else.
Similarly, I know a woman who was engaged to a guy in the states, and was living down there illegally for a year before they got married. She came back to Canada for a week, and US immigration refused to let her back into the States. Net result - the guy flew up here, married her, and they returned to the US.
While my "rules" were tongue-in-cheek, they are also true.
I know a couple from the 3rd world who divorced, went to the US, "married" family friends, got citizenship, then divorced, all 4 "married" others they wanted to bring in, got citizenship for them as well, then they all divorced and married their former spouses, then sponsored other family members. Last I heard, they had managed to bring in 51 family members over the course of a decade.
For people who are desperate, this isn't "that extreme" a solution.
You had me going until the "mother-in-law" bit ... :-)
Merry Christmas, happy holiday, etc.
The Wikipedia is wrong - AJAX can be implemented by the use of a separate frame (not just an iframe) to do the data exchange, and having the javascript then update the apps window without refreshing it. This is another area where Microsoft is now claiming to have "invented" something when they didn't.
Or did microsoft invent frames and javascript, which are all you need?
AJAX does NOT require the httpxmlrequest object. It doesn't require an iframe. It doesn't require a java applet. Any means of passing xml data between the client and server, in an async fashion, and then using javascript to modify the document/app, meets the definition of AJAX.
Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
Get rid of the X, and you can pass any sort of data, even binary.
Oh, I certainly do, but you don't seem to - you confuse it in your next sentence with a snapshot of the market in general, without realizing why the market is doing a specific thing at this time.
They might want a small unobtrusive computer, but they want it with a BIG display and a BIG hard drive and a BIG keyboard and a BIG chunk of ram and BIG sound. Nobody wants a 14.1" screen for $2000.00. This product is a dud before it gets to market.
The "desktop replacement" market is a compromise. As for computers that are unobtrusive, or better yet, stylish, they can always buy a Mac. Or they can stuff the "beige box" in a closet. Do the whole "home server/gateway" thing. Or stick it anywhere else out of sight.
For long periods of computing, they're better off with a desktop and a separate laptop, not a single "desktop replacement". For the same price as that "desktop replacement", they can have both, with a lot fewer compromises. If they're not the type that is into those "long periods of computing", they're better off with a cheaper laptop with a bigger screen, etc. Like I said, this product is a dud.
Considering that the poster I was replying to said they felt the target market wasn't "laptop" but "desktop replacement", yep.
Its overpriced and underpowered.
Computers are all over the place. I can access my data from anywhere. Why should I have to settle for a cruddy, overpriced "desktop replacement" that has much less drive space (I've got 2/3 of a terrabyte) and much less display space (I'm using dual 19-inchers) running a much less capable OS (I'm using Suse OpenLinux) that costs much less and is much cheaper to upgrade?
Ahh, but yur reasoning only works half the time - half the people take longer than 7 years to move, so it will apply, for example, to someone who moves in 10 years, but last moved 3 years ago.
The average is just that - an average. We can't ignore all the other cases. After all, if I have one foot in a bucket of ice-cold water, and one foot in boiling-hot water, I'm certainly not, on average, comfortable.