AOL tried hiding addresses with their keywords and look how dumb their user base got. I still see idiot AOL users who have no freaking clue what a URL is.
Sorry but I don't like searching for every single thing when I already know the address. This is just dumb. Far too much emphasis place on searching these days. I rarely need to search anymore as I've been online long enough to basically know where most of the important stuff is.
Just an attempt to generate hits for google here. I dumped Chrome for Firefox the other day for reasons like this. Google controls enough, it's time to take them down a notch. They make some cool stuff but I'm not willing to tie so much into one company.
As long as 1% of the total population controls 90% of the wealth, there is no such thing as competition or free market capitalism.
I like competition and I dislike government intrusion but there is a reason FOR government and that is to protect it's citizens, that includes protection from economic crimes as well as physical ones.
The middle class is shrinking regardless of which ideology is popular that month. People are losing their homes left and right, jobs are going over seas and yet still so many people are ignorant to the real issues.
Deregulating natural monopolies doesn't solve the problem. It just hands a blank check to a corporation chosen by the government to fuck it's customers however it chooses.
Free market is an oxymoron to anyone that actually understands what the two words mean.
The Garden of Eden, should you believe such a place existed was actually in modern day Iraq. It's fairly well established that's where it is, biblically speaking and if you believe in it.
I've had similar experience with Sprint in Boise Idaho, I get 4g in most places but its spotty and not altogether reliable. 3g works most everywhere (this is because Sprint and Verizon share all the same towers).
My experience with Sprint customer service however is atrocious. They have lied to me for 4 months straight when processing my rebate. I have yet to get it. I have faxed it 4 times, mailed it 3 times spoken to 7 different supervisors I don't know how many agents....... God awful customer service on every single level.
I did however switch fromt he Evo to the Epic 4g. The Evo felt too big in my hands and the epic slider keyboard is superb.
I did some work for Verizon customer service and they were terrible. I'm so jaded by phone companies right now I'm on the verge of going back 80 years and giving up phones altogether. Want to talk to me? Email me. Or if I feel like dealing with it I may fire up skype, but don't count on it.
Move along, nothing to see. Seriously, don't like what Murdoch is doing? Click elsewhere. This isn't rocket science.
Hell you can even make a competitor to BSkyB if you like. The rampant Murdoch hatred is just so irrational. No one is forcing you to watch/read. Get the fuck over it.
To work for Verizon in the customer care department, the one that handles billing issues, you must go through 6 weeks of training on billing etc. Of the people I've seen complete that 6 weeks of training I've seen maybe 2 who understood it and that was only because they previously worked at banks doing call center work.
I work for Verizon and can honestly say that the majority of the call center people don't understand how this crap works. How could the layperson possibly have a chance at understanding it?
Between overages, billing cycles and proration, the average consumer doesn't have a chance. Seeing it from the inside I can tell you first hand, Verizon likes it this way.
After 9-11 a lot of people asked where the Muslims were who were against such violence. While this ridiculous book burning is no 9-11 terrorist act, we can sit and ask where all the Christians are who are against this.
Counter protests by Christians here would go a long way to showing just how backwards this pastor is and just how out of touch with the teachings of Christ he is.
I'd love to see the look on his face as his meager 50 church goers start burning books while 10,000 Christians sat and watched his shame in action.
It's junk. I'm sorry to say it, I had high hopes but the thing is an overpriced etch-a-sketch. My netbook does everything the iPad does but 100 times better and at less than half the cost, plus it include a keyboard and much larger hard drive and all the inputs and outputs I require.
All this hype over the iPad is mind boggling. I just don't get it.
Imagine going out in public and voicing your opinion, then immediately after having 30 people stand in line to punch you in the face for it.
This is essentially what is happening online and to an extent has always happened. I've been online since 1993 and remember it being the same way back then. Anonymity + opinions = abuse.
The fact that it's politics today just reflects that it was politics back with Bush. The right is getting back at the left for the vitriolic rhetoric they laid on Bush/Cheney/Palin. You could call it karma if you want I guess.
I mostly abstain from posting on the net these days. I like to read comments but I don't post often for this very reason. It's not that I care about being modded down for my opinions so much as I just no longer see the value in it. Comments on websites are often a cesspool of illiterate, bigoted, biased crap.
I guess what I am getting at is, this is nothing new. Not sure why this is suddenly in the forefront again but it does seem cyclical, every few years it comes up again and people act all butt hurt for a while, then the pendulum swings their way again and the complaints go away.
If by agenda you mean offer the fastest free services possible then yes. I don't understand why people such as you feel the need to tear down anything they see as successful. You are under no obligation to use Google services. Don't like what they offer, there are plenty of alternatives.
This is just smart business practices by Google. Every company I know tries to do this exact same thing to limit latency and speed up services. It's just the smart thing to do. Pity you're unable to see that and instead rant on about the evils of big companies. Must really suck being you.
Why are you comparing rooting an Android with the iPhone being locked onto a single carrier? They are completely different issues.
The only reason to even bother rooting an android phone is to enable tethering. Something 99% of the public can't even define or explain.
Jailbreaking an iPhone or getting it to another carrier is a far more realistic and desirable goal for people. The fact you can ONLY get an iPhone if you sign up with AT&T is a major issue.
I know iPhone fans like their phone a great deal but Apple is killing their own device by locking it into AT&T's network. I know ONE person with an iPhone now. Everyone else I know is switching to Android phones for this very reason.
I myself would have considered an iPhone if it weren't for AT&T. There is a big difference between rooting a device and not even being able to get it because you can't/won't switch to the lone carrier allowed to sell it.
How productive must the executives be to justify the salaries? Seeing as it was them who negotiated the 66 million to begin with I would say there were quite productive indeed.
I'll never understand people like you that constantly whine about other peoples salaries. 1) it isn't any of your business how much they make, 2) if they didn't deserve it the board wouldn't be giving it, 3) if they grab more than they earn the company dies and the code base is free so no real loss.
Honestly, are people like you so petty that you must constantly whine that you don't make as much as someone else? Be happy they are making money, they will continue to do so and we'll all benefit as a result. If you really must insist on this socialist idea of spreading the wealth then by all means, move to Cuba and see how productive they are there.
I couldn't disagree more. I'm from CA and have thus experienced shallowness on a level virtually unheard of anywhere else on Earth. I know at least 7 girls right now who seriously will not date a guy that doesn't drive a Porche or otherwise expensive car. Cars are status symbols and most women, whether they admit it or not, are all about status symbols. They want the successful, hot guy with the SUV and sports car because it represents financial security.
There is a reason you don't see hot women with couch potatoes unless the couch potato is rich as fuck. Every single date I've been on, the first two questions EVERY woman asks, "What do you do for a living?" and "How much do you make?"
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The idiot users were to stubborn to learn how to use it so they gave up and dropped millions on windows
How is intel delaying 3.0 when it's already out on pretty much every new motherboard out there? Get your facts straight you friggin drama queen
Yes, they were designed to be typed by humans. That's why we have DNS, otherwise we would just use the friggin numbers.
AOL tried hiding addresses with their keywords and look how dumb their user base got. I still see idiot AOL users who have no freaking clue what a URL is.
Sorry but I don't like searching for every single thing when I already know the address. This is just dumb. Far too much emphasis place on searching these days. I rarely need to search anymore as I've been online long enough to basically know where most of the important stuff is.
Just an attempt to generate hits for google here. I dumped Chrome for Firefox the other day for reasons like this. Google controls enough, it's time to take them down a notch. They make some cool stuff but I'm not willing to tie so much into one company.
For the same reason "life isn't fair"
As long as 1% of the total population controls 90% of the wealth, there is no such thing as competition or free market capitalism.
I like competition and I dislike government intrusion but there is a reason FOR government and that is to protect it's citizens, that includes protection from economic crimes as well as physical ones.
The middle class is shrinking regardless of which ideology is popular that month. People are losing their homes left and right, jobs are going over seas and yet still so many people are ignorant to the real issues.
Deregulating natural monopolies doesn't solve the problem. It just hands a blank check to a corporation chosen by the government to fuck it's customers however it chooses.
Free market is an oxymoron to anyone that actually understands what the two words mean.
I'm geekier than you :)
The Garden of Eden, should you believe such a place existed was actually in modern day Iraq. It's fairly well established that's where it is, biblically speaking and if you believe in it.
I've had similar experience with Sprint in Boise Idaho, I get 4g in most places but its spotty and not altogether reliable. 3g works most everywhere (this is because Sprint and Verizon share all the same towers).
My experience with Sprint customer service however is atrocious. They have lied to me for 4 months straight when processing my rebate. I have yet to get it. I have faxed it 4 times, mailed it 3 times spoken to 7 different supervisors I don't know how many agents....... God awful customer service on every single level.
I did however switch fromt he Evo to the Epic 4g. The Evo felt too big in my hands and the epic slider keyboard is superb.
I did some work for Verizon customer service and they were terrible. I'm so jaded by phone companies right now I'm on the verge of going back 80 years and giving up phones altogether. Want to talk to me? Email me. Or if I feel like dealing with it I may fire up skype, but don't count on it.
Move along, nothing to see. Seriously, don't like what Murdoch is doing? Click elsewhere. This isn't rocket science.
Hell you can even make a competitor to BSkyB if you like. The rampant Murdoch hatred is just so irrational. No one is forcing you to watch/read. Get the fuck over it.
No advertised data cap you mean. They do in fact cap 3G at 5GB a month. They just don't tell you about it. No cap is on 4G yet but it's coming.
I have the Epic and love it but Sprint is a telcom just like all the others. Do not ever forget it.
To work for Verizon in the customer care department, the one that handles billing issues, you must go through 6 weeks of training on billing etc. Of the people I've seen complete that 6 weeks of training I've seen maybe 2 who understood it and that was only because they previously worked at banks doing call center work.
I work for Verizon and can honestly say that the majority of the call center people don't understand how this crap works. How could the layperson possibly have a chance at understanding it?
Between overages, billing cycles and proration, the average consumer doesn't have a chance. Seeing it from the inside I can tell you first hand, Verizon likes it this way.
Verizon will allow you to block data entirely.
This is exactly what Sprint does. Mine is capped at 350$ and that is it. I like it that way and never have to worry about a 1k bill.
I work for Verizon and I get service through Sprint. You can infer from that what you will.
After 9-11 a lot of people asked where the Muslims were who were against such violence. While this ridiculous book burning is no 9-11 terrorist act, we can sit and ask where all the Christians are who are against this.
Counter protests by Christians here would go a long way to showing just how backwards this pastor is and just how out of touch with the teachings of Christ he is.
I'd love to see the look on his face as his meager 50 church goers start burning books while 10,000 Christians sat and watched his shame in action.
It's junk. I'm sorry to say it, I had high hopes but the thing is an overpriced etch-a-sketch. My netbook does everything the iPad does but 100 times better and at less than half the cost, plus it include a keyboard and much larger hard drive and all the inputs and outputs I require.
All this hype over the iPad is mind boggling. I just don't get it.
As long as passwords remain the central method of authentication, this will continue.
Imagine going out in public and voicing your opinion, then immediately after having 30 people stand in line to punch you in the face for it.
This is essentially what is happening online and to an extent has always happened. I've been online since 1993 and remember it being the same way back then. Anonymity + opinions = abuse.
The fact that it's politics today just reflects that it was politics back with Bush. The right is getting back at the left for the vitriolic rhetoric they laid on Bush/Cheney/Palin. You could call it karma if you want I guess.
I mostly abstain from posting on the net these days. I like to read comments but I don't post often for this very reason. It's not that I care about being modded down for my opinions so much as I just no longer see the value in it. Comments on websites are often a cesspool of illiterate, bigoted, biased crap.
I guess what I am getting at is, this is nothing new. Not sure why this is suddenly in the forefront again but it does seem cyclical, every few years it comes up again and people act all butt hurt for a while, then the pendulum swings their way again and the complaints go away.
If by agenda you mean offer the fastest free services possible then yes. I don't understand why people such as you feel the need to tear down anything they see as successful. You are under no obligation to use Google services. Don't like what they offer, there are plenty of alternatives.
This is just smart business practices by Google. Every company I know tries to do this exact same thing to limit latency and speed up services. It's just the smart thing to do. Pity you're unable to see that and instead rant on about the evils of big companies. Must really suck being you.
Why are you comparing rooting an Android with the iPhone being locked onto a single carrier? They are completely different issues.
The only reason to even bother rooting an android phone is to enable tethering. Something 99% of the public can't even define or explain.
Jailbreaking an iPhone or getting it to another carrier is a far more realistic and desirable goal for people. The fact you can ONLY get an iPhone if you sign up with AT&T is a major issue.
I know iPhone fans like their phone a great deal but Apple is killing their own device by locking it into AT&T's network. I know ONE person with an iPhone now. Everyone else I know is switching to Android phones for this very reason.
I myself would have considered an iPhone if it weren't for AT&T. There is a big difference between rooting a device and not even being able to get it because you can't/won't switch to the lone carrier allowed to sell it.
Why would girls leave the internet because Blizzard changed their forums?
Not quite sure what the relation is. Blizzard != The Internet
How productive must the executives be to justify the salaries? Seeing as it was them who negotiated the 66 million to begin with I would say there were quite productive indeed.
I'll never understand people like you that constantly whine about other peoples salaries. 1) it isn't any of your business how much they make, 2) if they didn't deserve it the board wouldn't be giving it, 3) if they grab more than they earn the company dies and the code base is free so no real loss.
Honestly, are people like you so petty that you must constantly whine that you don't make as much as someone else? Be happy they are making money, they will continue to do so and we'll all benefit as a result. If you really must insist on this socialist idea of spreading the wealth then by all means, move to Cuba and see how productive they are there.
Privoxy does the trick with Chrome. It's not perfect but if you like the speed and minimalist interface, Privoxy solves the adblock issue.
God forbid users run "their own software"
I'd hate to work in your company if you're that anal about what users are doing in their USER space.
I couldn't disagree more. I'm from CA and have thus experienced shallowness on a level virtually unheard of anywhere else on Earth. I know at least 7 girls right now who seriously will not date a guy that doesn't drive a Porche or otherwise expensive car. Cars are status symbols and most women, whether they admit it or not, are all about status symbols. They want the successful, hot guy with the SUV and sports car because it represents financial security.
There is a reason you don't see hot women with couch potatoes unless the couch potato is rich as fuck. Every single date I've been on, the first two questions EVERY woman asks, "What do you do for a living?" and "How much do you make?"