As I recall, XM Radio and Sirius did pay a good deal of money to broadcast in the 2.4GHz band, so obviously satellite radio is the winner in this case.:-P (which is quite fine with me, 'cause I love my XM radio)
I can recall during the Windows XP beta watching random shit appear on my screen and I could never figure out what was going on. I finally posted a message in a beta newsgroup to report the problem - and they told me it was the voice recognition. There were NO noticable indicators to indicate that it was enabled and caused me many hours of grief and a broken foot (from kicking the computer so many times).
Teachers thought kids shooting rubber bands across the classroom was bad before, wait till those little rascals get their hands on this! It'll be hell on earth!
Over a year ago, I got hired at a Lone Star Steakhouse in Louisiana. I knew it was going to be a pretty bad job from the start, as the only reason I was hired was because our waiter quit and left my family high and dry - leaving the manager to deal with us. Well everything was just spiffy when I first started, but then the manager was replaced with a guy I humbily call "Ruthless Toothless", also known as Ruben Delany.
Ruben, could at most, be considered the king of the asshole managers. He considered himself to be perfect, higher up in the scale of life than his employees. But in fact, he was actually a 40-year old fatass who was kicked out of his house when he was in the 9th grade, hence he didn't even complete high school.
Well, I took advantage of this fact and used my phreaking skillz to monitor his phone calls, and I stumbled upon something. I caught Ruben talking to a chick, kinda sexy talk ya know. Turned out he was cheating on his wife. Well, I exposed that I knew this fact to him.... and got myself a considerable raise. When I left the location, I was the highest paid hourly employee in the entire DISTRICT.
After a year, I finally quit. But it was indeed the best revenge against a horrible boss.
Well, unlike most dot-coms, they're actually a business, they actually make a profit, and they provide a service. It goes against the commandments of dot-coms! Is the resurrection coming soon???
Its kind of interesting to know that many beta testers (including myself) for Windows XP suggested MS make it harder for people to get into the boxes on store shelves, as this is a typical way for Joe Script-Kiddie/Best Buy Employee to get CD keys, or used to be. Don't they have those impossible to break plastic packages now ?
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OK, when your local radio station plays 4 minutes of music and then 18 minutes of commercials, don't complain.
As I recall, XM Radio and Sirius did pay a good deal of money to broadcast in the 2.4GHz band, so obviously satellite radio is the winner in this case. :-P (which is quite fine with me, 'cause I love my XM radio)
I can recall during the Windows XP beta watching random shit appear on my screen and I could never figure out what was going on. I finally posted a message in a beta newsgroup to report the problem - and they told me it was the voice recognition. There were NO noticable indicators to indicate that it was enabled and caused me many hours of grief and a broken foot (from kicking the computer so many times).
Teachers thought kids shooting rubber bands across the classroom was bad before, wait till those little rascals get their hands on this! It'll be hell on earth!
Over a year ago, I got hired at a Lone Star Steakhouse in Louisiana. I knew it was going to be a pretty bad job from the start, as the only reason I was hired was because our waiter quit and left my family high and dry - leaving the manager to deal with us. Well everything was just spiffy when I first started, but then the manager was replaced with a guy I humbily call "Ruthless Toothless", also known as Ruben Delany.
Ruben, could at most, be considered the king of the asshole managers. He considered himself to be perfect, higher up in the scale of life than his employees. But in fact, he was actually a 40-year old fatass who was kicked out of his house when he was in the 9th grade, hence he didn't even complete high school.
Well, I took advantage of this fact and used my phreaking skillz to monitor his phone calls, and I stumbled upon something. I caught Ruben talking to a chick, kinda sexy talk ya know. Turned out he was cheating on his wife. Well, I exposed that I knew this fact to him.... and got myself a considerable raise. When I left the location, I was the highest paid hourly employee in the entire DISTRICT.
After a year, I finally quit. But it was indeed the best revenge against a horrible boss.
I saw something about this a couple of months ago on ABC's Nightly News. Aparentally the "Earth Day" 25 million years ago was only 22-23 hours.
If only the government stopped covering up the existance of alien-beings would this be useful! :-P
Well, unlike most dot-coms, they're actually a business, they actually make a profit, and they provide a service. It goes against the commandments of dot-coms! Is the resurrection coming soon???
Its kind of interesting to know that many beta testers (including myself) for Windows XP suggested MS make it harder for people to get into the boxes on store shelves, as this is a typical way for Joe Script-Kiddie/Best Buy Employee to get CD keys, or used to be. Don't they have those impossible to break plastic packages now ?
Just the thought of AOL buying RedHat scares me. Imagine, thousands of AOLamers on Linux using AOL..... scary.