I actually met the guy. He looks exactly like me and has a tall lean build just like me as well. Here's the story best as i can type it. This absolutely true but no one really believes me so i don't tell it anymore to avoid the 'yep, you've finally gone nutzo looks'.
In the early '90s i moved up to Toronto, where after work i would often go to a well known local bar. It was a bit of a rough one, no real problems tho with cheap beer and good country music. Some months later a girl i had never met before comes up to me and says her guy friend looks exactly like me and he wants to see me. I just figured sure honey, i hear all kinds of crazy ass talk in this bar, so of course i just forgot about it.
A couple weeks later i'm back at the bar after work and this guy walks up and says something like, "hey we look exactly alike, i look just like you". I looked up and holy smokes he did too!!, Kinda weird, felt like i was looking into a live mirror. Well it was interesting for a few minutes until it turned out we were quite people different people. I am a basic working stiff, no angel but i stay mostly within the law. No jail time ever, just fines and silly stuff when i was younger.
My Evil Twin not so much. Turns out he is a thug type, and attempted to strong arm me for my ID. He was gonna beat me if i didn't hand it over. There was brief face off (no pun intended) after i refused and he eventually walked out empty handed. Never saw him again, tho i regularly went to the same bar for a couple years following.
Story doesn't end yet. About a year or two after this, I had moved to a different part of town and was walking home past the shops on a main street when i saw three or four guys about my age hanging around in front of a shop. They sorta looked at me as walked and as i looked over, one guy jumps up and says "hey!, how's it going?". I says "pretty good" and kept walking, but he steps up and says to me, "I remember you from the Don Jail" (the major detention jail in Town), and "yah, you're all right" then proceeds to ask me if want to buy any pills. I just said nope, i'm broke, gotta meet the old lady and kept on walking.
That's the story.I never knew his name, so i can't google him, but I do often wonder what's up with the guy now. Is he serving time or maybe changed his ways and became a priest? Likely he's dead by now i think. I am 58, so it's very possible but if he's still around i wonder if we still look alike..
Good call. Added Google SSL to the search bar. I use https://encrypted.google.com/ as my normal Google page. Main reason for that is i prefer the results opened a new tab rather then showing in whatever page i happen to search from, or having open a new tab.
At one of the sweat shop outsourced technical call centers i worked at, we had various "aux codes" after you logged into the phone, which were used for different off phone activities. Research, tech lead, training, etc were different codes. Aux 1 was for total paid breaks, of which we had 30 min for an 8 to 10 hour shift. You must smoke, chat, handle your personal needs, etc within the time. Once they implemented "paid by the switch" any aux 1 over that meant unpaid time. You also received disciple, from a warning up to termination, if you were not within required metrics on our daily/weekly/monthly reports. I was young and pretty hardy, quickly moved up to top pay with tons of OT, but it became brutal as they clamped down. Sad to say, but most of us were never so happy when that company finally closed the location, moving it out of the country.
I read mostly at day (inside or outside). E-ink rules for that. However i picked up a cool case for my Kobo with a nice attached light. It is great! Once you figure the angle to light the screen with no reflection, I can read for hours. Plus it protects the device.
If I was one read in the dark most of the time, then perhaps i would consider a TFT/LCD device. Also just to read stuff on the iPad seems excessively costly..
I will wait and see. As suggested previously, its just a mater of convergence. Be nice to have it all.
Hmm, this kind of reminds me of the first gen Cell Phone browsers, when you had to access WAP sites to get content. (I supported those buggers for years) Eventually smart sites would just redirect based on the browser. Then the "mobile browsers" got better. Seemed OK for a while.
I think it's a similar threshold to cross, once the hardware and content converge. So around that time, the content providers will have no choice but to comply, or vice versa. Not to mention the certain increase in mobile bandwidth and capabilities. Not everyone connects to any bandwidth worth mentioning today.
Try viewing web sites with a stock browser (of your choice, any OS) on a computer unless you add every darn proprietary thing, just not feasible or workable. E-Ink, (I like it) great for text, especially on the new ones. Hey, these are readers, not really "web devices".... yet.
Now every darn web site (not an HTML comment, ahem) requires so many add-ons, it’s stupid; but your right in a certain way, we now have expectations that mobile browsing on any device should have the same experience as your computer per se, or whatever your expectations are.
Most e-Readers are just readers providing simple reading content, that's all; however they are evolving fast and the content providers will follow the flow. The current web access is there only to obtain content (just like ring tones, etc) IMHO. No one wants simple B/W web sites (wake up):) E-ink is very cool and easy on the eye(s) for text.
If you want to browse the web on a device in your hand in color, with bells and whistles; meaning you want it all, then give it some time. Much more interesting to me is to see how this will develop in terms of what we get/want. Really this is the big question, which I am certain will soon to be analyzed here and elsewhere soon.
It is also interesting to note (IIRC) that 'red' is one of the hardest colors to determine distance. This means that, yes while we see it and register it quickly; it is difficult to determine how far away the light it is (distance) based on luminance.
This was determined some years ago during studies regarding red automobile brake lights and traffic lights, and no i don't have time to reference this, so maybe someone else will review.
I dont understand why you would pick on this TV-B-Gone device.
I recently steped on the remote to an old TV in my Basement - So i picked up a $4.00 uni-remote and in about 30 seconds i had full control of the TV by presing the buttion several times using the seach feature.
I noticed this pixilation while Googling my old stomping ground of Windsor, Ontario Canada. Take look at the area surrounding and including the Ambassador Bridge and you will find the resolution is quite low. (Longitude: -834'28" Latitude: 4218'44")
My guess is any 'terrorist sensitive' location is out of reach with Google Maps/Earth.
This technology is also used with submarines delivering an ICBM missile. They use this "bubble tech" to get the missile out of the water with minimal effort (reduced friction), and the rocket kicks in once the missile is above the water and actually in the air.
So while not "new" per se, it is nice to see it being used for something like reducing transportation/shipping cost.
Granted the 850 band is a big factor in building penetration, however another significant factor is simply the level of coverage in a given area. For example, T-Mobile quantifies their coverage as Fair, Good, and Great. Typically the only difference between good and great may be data transfer speeds, especially with EDGE compatible devices. However in a Fair coverage area, they do not guaranty any signal inside a building, residential or otherwise, and they put that into your contract (always read the fine print).
These totally remind me of casters on my chair. As such I would like to put 5 of these (running in syncro)on my office chair. Then i could grab a coffee or go to the can with out getting up from my chair.
Or perhaps even better, install one or two of these units on an unwitting co-workers chair and let the fun begin...
Well Martha had a few appeals left and may still see her conviction overturned or be given a lesser sentance.
However martha chose to do her time and get it over with as a business decision. The uncertainy of the trial and appeals were afecting her stock (it has since tripled)and company name. That said, she may have still had to so the time anyway. Frankly I admire her for just taing here medicine and getting the messiness out of the way.
But if a 'Card reader and camera" scam is used and the crooks then create an ATM card and use your PIN to withdrawl your money; everytime i have heard about this the bank refunds the amount taken in the theft.
This seems to be the same sort of thing, some kind of "mechanism" used to do the scam and the average end user really cant do a heck of a lot to prevent it....
Your Right they bypass the BES and go directly over the blackberry DES encrypted network. However when you connect your device to your work computer to synchronies contacts app'ts email etc, then BES admins can get copies of all your email and pin2pin messages app;ts notes, as well as copies of email you may have sent/ recieved using another message service such as BWC.
Thye have a heck of lot of contol over the device and security when using a full out BES setup
So you go into a Wall-Mart with no receipt and a product Wall mart does not sell now and never ever had in stock... Then how the heck do they decided how much money to "refund" you ?? Is it a barter session ? or do we check some other stores catalogues, or what ?
This seems more like a fencing operation to me. Drag in a TV you just ripped off get the full cost of it if bought new.
This is a crazy scenario if I ever heard of one....
From the web site "Register now and you will be one of the first to know when the new BlackBerry 7100t is available for sale. Plus you'll be entered for a chance to win a Bluetooth wireless headset, the ultimate accessory for your new phone."
Yes, i was quite insulted also, no self respecting Canuck is going to tow less then a 12 pack while out Tubing...showing a 6 pack !! sheesh i drink that for breakfast before i hit the shower.
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I actually met the guy. He looks exactly like me and has a tall lean build just like me as well. Here's the story best as i can type it. This absolutely true but no one really believes me so i don't tell it anymore to avoid the 'yep, you've finally gone nutzo looks'.
In the early '90s i moved up to Toronto, where after work i would often go to a well known local bar. It was a bit of a rough one, no real problems tho with cheap beer and good country music. Some months later a girl i had never met before comes up to me and says her guy friend looks exactly like me and he wants to see me. I just figured sure honey, i hear all kinds of crazy ass talk in this bar, so of course i just forgot about it.
A couple weeks later i'm back at the bar after work and this guy walks up and says something like, "hey we look exactly alike, i look just like you". I looked up and holy smokes he did too!!, Kinda weird, felt like i was looking into a live mirror. Well it was interesting for a few minutes until it turned out we were quite people different people. I am a basic working stiff, no angel but i stay mostly within the law. No jail time ever, just fines and silly stuff when i was younger.
My Evil Twin not so much. Turns out he is a thug type, and attempted to strong arm me for my ID. He was gonna beat me if i didn't hand it over. There was brief face off (no pun intended) after i refused and he eventually walked out empty handed. Never saw him again, tho i regularly went to the same bar for a couple years following.
Story doesn't end yet. About a year or two after this, I had moved to a different part of town and was walking home past the shops on a main street when i saw three or four guys about my age hanging around in front of a shop. They sorta looked at me as walked and as i looked over, one guy jumps up and says "hey!, how's it going?". I says "pretty good" and kept walking, but he steps up and says to me, "I remember you from the Don Jail" (the major detention jail in Town), and "yah, you're all right" then proceeds to ask me if want to buy any pills. I just said nope, i'm broke, gotta meet the old lady and kept on walking.
That's the story .I never knew his name, so i can't google him, but I do often wonder what's up with the guy now. Is he serving time or maybe changed his ways and became a priest? Likely he's dead by now i think. I am 58, so it's very possible but if he's still around i wonder if we still look alike..
Spocking $5 dollar bills has been going on for some time. I saw my first one late 1990s in Toronto..
F' beta.
Yep, i don't often comment, but that thing called /.BETA is hard to look at..No way i want that in my casual browsing future...
Good call. Added Google SSL to the search bar. I use https://encrypted.google.com/ as my normal Google page. Main reason for that is i prefer the results opened a new tab rather then showing in whatever page i happen to search from, or having open a new tab.
The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
At one of the sweat shop outsourced technical call centers i worked at, we had various "aux codes" after you logged into the phone, which were used for different off phone activities. Research, tech lead, training, etc were different codes. Aux 1 was for total paid breaks, of which we had 30 min for an 8 to 10 hour shift. You must smoke, chat, handle your personal needs, etc within the time. Once they implemented "paid by the switch" any aux 1 over that meant unpaid time. You also received disciple, from a warning up to termination, if you were not within required metrics on our daily/weekly/monthly reports. I was young and pretty hardy, quickly moved up to top pay with tons of OT, but it became brutal as they clamped down. Sad to say, but most of us were never so happy when that company finally closed the location, moving it out of the country.
I read mostly at day (inside or outside). E-ink rules for that. However i picked up a cool case for my Kobo with a nice attached light. It is great! Once you figure the angle to light the screen with no reflection, I can read for hours. Plus it protects the device.
If I was one read in the dark most of the time, then perhaps i would consider a TFT/LCD device. Also just to read stuff on the iPad seems excessively costly ..
I will wait and see. As suggested previously, its just a mater of convergence. Be nice to have it all.
Cum se cum sa
Hmm, this kind of reminds me of the first gen Cell Phone browsers, when you had to access WAP sites to get content. (I supported those buggers for years) Eventually smart sites would just redirect based on the browser. Then the "mobile browsers" got better. Seemed OK for a while.
I think it's a similar threshold to cross, once the hardware and content converge. So around that time, the content providers will have no choice but to comply, or vice versa. Not to mention the certain increase in mobile bandwidth and capabilities. Not everyone connects to any bandwidth worth mentioning today.
Try viewing web sites with a stock browser (of your choice, any OS) on a computer unless you add every darn proprietary thing, just not feasible or workable.
E-Ink, (I like it) great for text, especially on the new ones. Hey, these are readers, not really "web devices".... yet.
Now every darn web site (not an HTML comment, ahem) requires so many add-ons, it’s stupid; but your right in a certain way, we now have expectations that mobile browsing on any device should have the same experience as your computer per se, or whatever your expectations are.
Most e-Readers are just readers providing simple reading content, that's all; however they are evolving fast and the content providers will follow the flow. The current web access is there only to obtain content (just like ring tones, etc) IMHO. No one wants simple B/W web sites (wake up) :) E-ink is very cool and easy on the eye(s) for text.
If you want to browse the web on a device in your hand in color, with bells and whistles; meaning you want it all, then give it some time. Much more interesting to me is to see how this will develop in terms of what we get/want. Really this is the big question, which I am certain will soon to be analyzed here and elsewhere soon.
It is also interesting to note (IIRC) that 'red' is one of the hardest colors to determine distance. This means that, yes while we see it and register it quickly; it is difficult to determine how far away the light it is (distance) based on luminance.
This was determined some years ago during studies regarding red automobile brake lights and traffic lights, and no i don't have time to reference this, so maybe someone else will review.
I dont understand why you would pick on this TV-B-Gone device.
I recently steped on the remote to an old TV in my Basement - So i picked up a $4.00 uni-remote and in about 30 seconds i had full control of the TV by presing the buttion several times using the seach feature.
This is not unusual or even new...
Totally OT, but hey, I enjoyed your great line, and assuming this quote is public domain *crouch*, I plan to use it frequently both here and at home.
This one:
"but facts don't change themselves to suit a like"
I could not find "a Goggle" for it, so thanx for a great line.
hmmmm, your right! I should have double checked the location.
I was looking at this about three or four months ago and at that time the area right around the bridge on the Canadian side was limited in resolution.
Perhaps the location was recently updated, but only the area around the bridge itself was like this.
Same with the BlueWater Bridge in Sarnia/Point Edward, but both are fine now.
Perhaps a policy change?
I noticed this pixilation while Googling my old stomping ground of Windsor, Ontario Canada.
Take look at the area surrounding and including the Ambassador Bridge and you will find the resolution is quite low. (Longitude: -834'28" Latitude: 4218'44")
My guess is any 'terrorist sensitive' location is out of reach with Google Maps/Earth.
This technology is also used with submarines delivering an ICBM missile. They use this "bubble tech" to get the missile out of the water with minimal effort (reduced friction), and the rocket kicks in once the missile is above the water and actually in the air.
So while not "new" per se, it is nice to see it being used for something like reducing transportation/shipping cost.
Granted the 850 band is a big factor in building penetration, however another significant factor is simply the level of coverage in a given area. For example, T-Mobile quantifies their coverage as Fair, Good, and Great. Typically the only difference between good and great may be data transfer speeds, especially with EDGE compatible devices. However in a Fair coverage area, they do not guaranty any signal inside a building, residential or otherwise, and they put that into your contract (always read the fine print).
Check out the coverage levels at http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/?class=coverage.
Pentium 4 and Athlon ...
These totally remind me of casters on my chair.
As such I would like to put 5 of these (running in syncro)on my office chair. Then i could grab a coffee or go to the can with out getting up from my chair.
Or perhaps even better, install one or two of these units on an unwitting co-workers chair and let the fun begin...
Well Martha had a few appeals left and may still see her conviction overturned or be given a lesser sentance.
However martha chose to do her time and get it over with as a business decision. The uncertainy of the trial and appeals were afecting her stock (it has since tripled)and company name. That said, she may have still had to so the time anyway.
Frankly I admire her for just taing here medicine and getting the messiness out of the way.
But if a 'Card reader and camera" scam is used and the crooks then create an ATM card and use your PIN to withdrawl your money; everytime i have heard about this the bank refunds the amount taken in the theft.
This seems to be the same sort of thing, some kind of "mechanism" used to do the scam and the average end user really cant do a heck of a lot to prevent it....
Your Right they bypass the BES and go directly over the blackberry DES encrypted network.
However when you connect your device to your work computer to synchronies contacts app'ts email etc, then BES admins can get copies of all your email and pin2pin messages app;ts notes, as well as copies of email you may have sent/ recieved using another message service such as BWC.
Thye have a heck of lot of contol over the device and security when using a full out BES setup
This does seem a bit odd at least.
So you go into a Wall-Mart with no receipt and a product Wall mart does not sell now and never ever had in stock... Then how the heck do they decided how much money to "refund" you ?? Is it a barter session ? or do we check some other stores catalogues, or what ?
This seems more like a fencing operation to me. Drag in a TV you just ripped off get the full cost of it if bought new.
This is a crazy scenario if I ever heard of one....
http://www.getmoreblackberry.com/
From the web site
"Register now and you will be one of the first to know when the new BlackBerry 7100t is available for sale. Plus you'll be entered for a chance to win a Bluetooth wireless headset, the ultimate accessory for your new phone."
Another classic one is "tuna" and "tuna fish"
:)
Candians say "i'll have a tuna sandwich"
Americans say "i'll have a tuna fish sandwich"
I guess we Canadians inherently know that tuna is a fish
Major Search Engines report that out of their 5.5% Internet traffic usage, 98% of that was used to search for Porn....
Yes, i was quite insulted also, no self respecting Canuck is going to tow less then a 12 pack while out Tubing...showing a 6 pack !! sheesh i drink that for breakfast before i hit the shower.