Bingo! I use FB, but my address & phone are blank. I see little reason for any of my FB "friends" to have that info (my RL friends already have it) and absolutely NO reason for M. Zuckerburg to have it.
I always cringe when I see this statement in a discussion about programming languages. The presence or absence of a particular feature will impact the third-party libraries you use, the code samples and tutorials you come across, and the legacy apps you inherit.
I'm an old COBOL dinosaur. COBOL has an abomination called "ALTER", which basically modifies GOTOs depending on a certain value. Nobody sane would ever use such a feature! I worked on plenty of programs written by people who were not sane. If $FEATURE exists in a language, it WILL get misused, and according to Murphy's Law, you WILL have to work on programs with $FEATURE.
I created a FaceBook account just to prevent others from doing so with my name, with no intention of using it. I never posted a thing, never "friended" anyone, never engaged in any activity whatsoever. Yet all of a sudden when I visit unrelated sites, I'm being greeted by the Facebook account name in various banners, etc. through Facebook's tracking.
Yeah, I got that the other day. I don't think I'd even logged on to FB yet that day. I was googling something, found a site, and right by its comment box was my FB pic and my RealName! I'd heard of that happening, but that's the first time I actually saw it, and it seemed weird!
I have 3 wakeup devices. My clock radio wakes me up, my wristwatch tells me to get off FB/gmail/whatever I'm wasting time with, and my iPhone tells me to get out the door.
I have 3. My olde alarm clock radio wakes me up between 5 & 6, depending on how often I hit the snooze. My wristwatch goes off at 6:15, telling me to get off Facebook and eat my breakfast. And my iPhone goes off at 6:30 telling me to get out the door.
The last time I paid for email, it sucked nearly as bad as Yahoo (which was total crap at the time). Gmail might be free, but so far it's better than anything else I tried, including paid.
I thought Money was retired in 2008. I know you couldn't purchase a 2009 version of it, as they didn't make it.
The saddest thing about that is that Money was actually one GOOD piece of software, especially compared to Quicken and the other bill management software that's been out there.
Maybe it took Chase 3 years to realize that Money was dead.
IMO, Money was about as good as Quicken. Maybe slightly better, but not enough to get me to switch.
I never watched TV on the network schedule, even before Tivo. I think my first purchase when I got my first decent job and moved out of my mom's basement was a VCR. I still haven't given up TV completely, but Netflix is looking pretty damn good to me. Even FFing past ads isn't as good as not having them to begin with.
When I upgraded to the iPhone 4, even though the Kindle ebooks I bought with the old phone appeared to be there, I couldn't open them. I had to archive them and reload them. Since I didn't have anything on incest, 1984, or Animal Farm, it wasn't a problem, but I would have been POd if a book I'd paid good money for went poof.
The cloud is a decent backup solution, but if your ONLY copy is on the cloud, you don't have a backup that you control. At least with local storage, if the cloud vanishes in a puff of smoke, I still have my copy.
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Bingo! I use FB, but my address & phone are blank. I see little reason for any of my FB "friends" to have that info (my RL friends already have it) and absolutely NO reason for M. Zuckerburg to have it.
I get strange looks when I tell someone I Binged myself.
if they can't use one specific finger to control their iDevice.
I always cringe when I see this statement in a discussion about programming languages. The presence or absence of a particular feature will impact the third-party libraries you use, the code samples and tutorials you come across, and the legacy apps you inherit.
I'm an old COBOL dinosaur. COBOL has an abomination called "ALTER", which basically modifies GOTOs depending on a certain value. Nobody sane would ever use such a feature! I worked on plenty of programs written by people who were not sane. If $FEATURE exists in a language, it WILL get misused, and according to Murphy's Law, you WILL have to work on programs with $FEATURE.
In the BluRay version, Han only shoots Greedo's foot, and he steps on Jabba's back.
is to have a crappy car. You couldn't pay a car thief to steal my old Pontiac J(unk) 2000. I know because I tried to.
I created a FaceBook account just to prevent others from doing so with my name, with no intention of using it. I never posted a thing, never "friended" anyone, never engaged in any activity whatsoever. Yet all of a sudden when I visit unrelated sites, I'm being greeted by the Facebook account name in various banners, etc. through Facebook's tracking.
Yeah, I got that the other day. I don't think I'd even logged on to FB yet that day. I was googling something, found a site, and right by its comment box was my FB pic and my RealName! I'd heard of that happening, but that's the first time I actually saw it, and it seemed weird!
I tried telling myself "wake up at 6". I woke up at 6PM.
I have 3 wakeup devices. My clock radio wakes me up, my wristwatch tells me to get off FB/gmail/whatever I'm wasting time with, and my iPhone tells me to get out the door.
I have 3. My olde alarm clock radio wakes me up between 5 & 6, depending on how often I hit the snooze. My wristwatch goes off at 6:15, telling me to get off Facebook and eat my breakfast. And my iPhone goes off at 6:30 telling me to get out the door.
The last time I paid for email, it sucked nearly as bad as Yahoo (which was total crap at the time). Gmail might be free, but so far it's better than anything else I tried, including paid.
Probably, but I still think more people on Earth speak Esperanto, if only by a small margin.
Linux really IS communist!
This is slashdot. Laws are irrelevant here. Just stick IMHO in front of everything, including this paragraph, and you'll be fine.
It might also be a good idea to state IANAL, and hope people will think it's an acronym and not a word.
Same in Kansas City. Until then, I never heard of any large business not accepting Visa or MC.
If I accidentally zap it with a static electric discharge, is it now worthless?
Yes, but these days it's worthless if you DON'T zap it.
I've finally found a purpose for all those fart apps on my iPhone.
I thought Money was retired in 2008. I know you couldn't purchase a 2009 version of it, as they didn't make it.
The saddest thing about that is that Money was actually one GOOD piece of software, especially compared to Quicken and the other bill management software that's been out there.
Maybe it took Chase 3 years to realize that Money was dead.
IMO, Money was about as good as Quicken. Maybe slightly better, but not enough to get me to switch.
Or keep it in an unencrypted spreadsheet.
And name it "passwords.xls".
Unfortunately, my first car is too well known. Everyone who knows me know it was a "!@#$-POS of a ^&*%!"
That's why I put my password list on Facebook, so I can access it from anywhere.
I never watched TV on the network schedule, even before Tivo. I think my first purchase when I got my first decent job and moved out of my mom's basement was a VCR. I still haven't given up TV completely, but Netflix is looking pretty damn good to me. Even FFing past ads isn't as good as not having them to begin with.
When I upgraded to the iPhone 4, even though the Kindle ebooks I bought with the old phone appeared to be there, I couldn't open them. I had to archive them and reload them. Since I didn't have anything on incest, 1984, or Animal Farm, it wasn't a problem, but I would have been POd if a book I'd paid good money for went poof.
The cloud is a decent backup solution, but if your ONLY copy is on the cloud, you don't have a backup that you control. At least with local storage, if the cloud vanishes in a puff of smoke, I still have my copy.
Um, yeah that wasn't me. Someone else said all that under my account. Honest!