Isn't any pre-election article about one candidate also pretty much an article about their opponent(s)?
If I read an article about Candidate A concerning Issue X, isn't that article likely to mention Candidate B's stance on Issue X as well?
What if one candidate simply had more reportable news?
Simply having a greater number of stories written about you means absolutely nothing. If I'm a staunchly against Candidate A, it doesn't really matter how many stories I read about Candidate A's support of issues I disagree with... I'm still going to disagree with them. The Washington Post, I would say, has a fairly informed readership. There aren't many people that read it that are going to be making up their mind so close to an election.
I have always recommended AVG to my friends who can't or aren't smart enough to use something other than Windows. If AVG has all of a sudden become one of the bad guys, what free antivirus solution is out there?
I call 911 on a regular basis to report out of control drivers and street fights (I live in Boston, there are tons of both of these). All my Verizon phones (I've had three) go into "Emergency Mode" when you call 911 and stay in this mode for several minutes after the conversation has ended then make a loud chirp when going back into non-emergency mode.
Two semi-related notes... first, a couple months ago my battery died when I was reporting a street fight. When I checked my voicemail after it was done charging I had an irate message from a cop yelling, "DO NOT HANG UP ON THE BOSTON POLICE!" and threatening me with arrest!
Second... on Nokia candy bar phones when the keypad is locked you can key in 911 and it'll automatically come out of the locked mode. Also, 112 does the same. Can anyone tell me what 112 is?
He comes into work one day and you can tell by looking at him that he's pissed. He goes into the break room to get ready for the shift so I go back there and ask him what's wrong.
He says, "I'm need a new ****ing computer." I ask why... "because the one I have now is too slow. I can't use the web because I get hundreds of popups." I tell him that's a pretty easy thing to fix and off to burn a CD and write up some directions for him. He tells me that won't work... again, I ask why. "Because I'm ****ing sick of Microsoft." I tell him I totally understand that, but that his problem with the pop-ups is pretty easy to fix. He says, "No, it's not. I click on all the Windows that ask me if I want to remove the viruses from my computer and they are always charging me $20-$40 per virus. I spent almost $400 last week!"
Another computer savvy employee had joined the conversation by this point and we both looked at each other in complete disbelief. The guy wasn't joking...
A couple years back, about once a month several hundred (if not thousand) accounts would have their password changed to something random and make it impossible for users to log in. This happened for several months in a row. I knew probably a dozen people affected by it. Since AIM is a free service and most AIM users weren't AOL customers (at least in the sense that they weren't PAYING MONEY to AOL), AOL didn't do anything about it. At first I thought it was Pidgin (GAIM at that time) related, but that turned out not to be the case.
Perhaps ICQ users are simply more vocal about it... but this isn't a new problem.
Uhm... I didn't mean that the government at some point wouldn't be able to read my opinion... I meant that at some point I wouldn't be allowed to have an opinion.
Sorry to jump on somebody elses post... but can anyone speak to the quality of hardware based devices that can rip CDs straight to FLAC format such as the products offered by olive.us?
Most hardware devices I've seen either a) can't rip, b) can't convert to FLAC, c) can't burn CDs from FLAC, or d) are just wireless devices to send the audio back to your computer's crappy speakers.
Anyone know of any other great sounding devices that rip, convert, and burn?
Lying is one thing... but... if somebody is posting stuff that isn't true, isn't the nature/purpose of wikipedia for somebody to come along and edit it? If somebody is posting something that isn't referenced, isn't it correct to reference it for them?
If somebody is correctly referencing their truthful edits it doesn't really matter what their credentials are.
It's not new... they just reintroduced this feature. It's been gone for a couple months now.
It's like when mapquest discontinued their road trip planner and then brought it back and marketed it as being something AMAZING!#!!
I've seen a dozen different videos of this nature on YouTube and even before the site's existence. There have been many of kids beat boxing, among other things.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. How does it work? Not very well at all should be the answer. I don't see anything that even resembles fancy technology. I just called my girlfriend over to watch the video because I thought it would be something neat and when it was over she just gave me a look like I farted in church.
I think that a lot of "social interaction" over the internet is much more about quantity than quality. My girlfriend's dad's girlfriend's son (no, I'm not joking) is 12 years old and was bragging about how many MySpace friends he had after spent three entire days sitting in front of a computer while we were at a beach house on the Maine coast (and not swimming, surfing, kayaking, or spending any time enjoying the outdoors). He told me he had 350 friends... when I asked how many he knew in person he said "ten or twenty" but that he knew all 350 of them really well. This is a bit of an extreme example, but it's an important one, and one that I believe exists to varying degrees in most social interaction that happens on the net.
When BBSs were alive I think the social interaction they provided was of a higher calibur... you had a relatively small group of people discussing a wide range of topics. The internet has flipped that, now you have an enormous group of people discussing extremely narrow topics. That's not really good for anyone.
They have almost a month to get their vaporizer working again and turn this thing back into another neverending promise.
I strongly believe in this company... and I believe they can find a way to delay it, production problems, website problems. Please, Infinium Labs, don't disappoint me now!
I went to a ton of stores in Scarborough/South Portland today and had no luck... Walmart, Target, Gamestop, Toys R Us, Best Buy, and Circuit City. Shucks. I used to live in Redmond... oh well.;)
I just happened to be at both Walmart and Target last night and didn't see them. Not that I was specifically looking for them, but I need to get one before an oversees flight that leaves on the day they are supposed to be released.
I'm certainly going to look again today though. Can't wait.
So, a lot of these are actually really strange: the helmet, the giant arrow, etc... but the winner being a foot mouse? There's nothing strange at all about a foot mouse, have the authors completely forgotten that not everyone has arms or has control of their arms? I know the article is supposed to be humorous, but when I see a foot mouse I don't think, "haha what the hell?!" I think, "ugh... that's kinda depressing."
Yahoo and Google are the only search engines that are considered successful right now... Altavista, WebSpider, A9... these have all fallen by the wayside. Why? None of them have two letter Os next to each other. Accoona does. I predict it will be a smashing success.
Simple test... create a new image, use the ellipse select tool to create a circle, stroke that circle. Look how absolutely nasty and NOT SMOOTH the stroke is. If GIMP can't handle a simple operation like stroke how on earth is it supposed to make people think it can compete with Photoshop?
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What if all those stories were negative?
Isn't any pre-election article about one candidate also pretty much an article about their opponent(s)?
If I read an article about Candidate A concerning Issue X, isn't that article likely to mention Candidate B's stance on Issue X as well?
What if one candidate simply had more reportable news?
Simply having a greater number of stories written about you means absolutely nothing. If I'm a staunchly against Candidate A, it doesn't really matter how many stories I read about Candidate A's support of issues I disagree with... I'm still going to disagree with them. The Washington Post, I would say, has a fairly informed readership. There aren't many people that read it that are going to be making up their mind so close to an election.
I have always recommended AVG to my friends who can't or aren't smart enough to use something other than Windows. If AVG has all of a sudden become one of the bad guys, what free antivirus solution is out there?
I call 911 on a regular basis to report out of control drivers and street fights (I live in Boston, there are tons of both of these). All my Verizon phones (I've had three) go into "Emergency Mode" when you call 911 and stay in this mode for several minutes after the conversation has ended then make a loud chirp when going back into non-emergency mode.
Two semi-related notes... first, a couple months ago my battery died when I was reporting a street fight. When I checked my voicemail after it was done charging I had an irate message from a cop yelling, "DO NOT HANG UP ON THE BOSTON POLICE!" and threatening me with arrest!
Second... on Nokia candy bar phones when the keypad is locked you can key in 911 and it'll automatically come out of the locked mode. Also, 112 does the same. Can anyone tell me what 112 is?
Anyone care to explain how this acronym works?
He comes into work one day and you can tell by looking at him that he's pissed. He goes into the break room to get ready for the shift so I go back there and ask him what's wrong.
He says, "I'm need a new ****ing computer."
I ask why...
"because the one I have now is too slow. I can't use the web because I get hundreds of popups."
I tell him that's a pretty easy thing to fix and off to burn a CD and write up some directions for him.
He tells me that won't work... again, I ask why.
"Because I'm ****ing sick of Microsoft."
I tell him I totally understand that, but that his problem with the pop-ups is pretty easy to fix.
He says, "No, it's not. I click on all the Windows that ask me if I want to remove the viruses from my computer and they are always charging me $20-$40 per virus. I spent almost $400 last week!"
Another computer savvy employee had joined the conversation by this point and we both looked at each other in complete disbelief. The guy wasn't joking...
A couple years back, about once a month several hundred (if not thousand) accounts would have their password changed to something random and make it impossible for users to log in. This happened for several months in a row. I knew probably a dozen people affected by it. Since AIM is a free service and most AIM users weren't AOL customers (at least in the sense that they weren't PAYING MONEY to AOL), AOL didn't do anything about it. At first I thought it was Pidgin (GAIM at that time) related, but that turned out not to be the case.
Perhaps ICQ users are simply more vocal about it... but this isn't a new problem.
Uhm... I didn't mean that the government at some point wouldn't be able to read my opinion... I meant that at some point I wouldn't be allowed to have an opinion.
It's ironic that your opinion is being read over the Internet.
Don't worry, that'll be fixed soon enough.
That's it...
Ok... the DS is a huge huge success... but PSP? It shouldn't even be in the same paragraph as the DS. It's sales are terrible.
Sorry to jump on somebody elses post... but can anyone speak to the quality of hardware based devices that can rip CDs straight to FLAC format such as the products offered by olive.us?
Most hardware devices I've seen either a) can't rip, b) can't convert to FLAC, c) can't burn CDs from FLAC, or d) are just wireless devices to send the audio back to your computer's crappy speakers.
Anyone know of any other great sounding devices that rip, convert, and burn?
Lying is one thing... but... if somebody is posting stuff that isn't true, isn't the nature/purpose of wikipedia for somebody to come along and edit it? If somebody is posting something that isn't referenced, isn't it correct to reference it for them?
If somebody is correctly referencing their truthful edits it doesn't really matter what their credentials are.
It's not new... they just reintroduced this feature. It's been gone for a couple months now. It's like when mapquest discontinued their road trip planner and then brought it back and marketed it as being something AMAZING!#!!
> Because wii hate you.
Wii hate you? Wasn't that on the jersey of an XFL player?
I've seen a dozen different videos of this nature on YouTube and even before the site's existence. There have been many of kids beat boxing, among other things.
Mute City from F-Zero for SNES
Mario Circuit 1 from Mario Kart for SNES
This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. How does it work? Not very well at all should be the answer. I don't see anything that even resembles fancy technology. I just called my girlfriend over to watch the video because I thought it would be something neat and when it was over she just gave me a look like I farted in church.
I think that a lot of "social interaction" over the internet is much more about quantity than quality. My girlfriend's dad's girlfriend's son (no, I'm not joking) is 12 years old and was bragging about how many MySpace friends he had after spent three entire days sitting in front of a computer while we were at a beach house on the Maine coast (and not swimming, surfing, kayaking, or spending any time enjoying the outdoors). He told me he had 350 friends... when I asked how many he knew in person he said "ten or twenty" but that he knew all 350 of them really well. This is a bit of an extreme example, but it's an important one, and one that I believe exists to varying degrees in most social interaction that happens on the net.
When BBSs were alive I think the social interaction they provided was of a higher calibur... you had a relatively small group of people discussing a wide range of topics. The internet has flipped that, now you have an enormous group of people discussing extremely narrow topics. That's not really good for anyone.
They have almost a month to get their vaporizer working again and turn this thing back into another neverending promise.
I strongly believe in this company... and I believe they can find a way to delay it, production problems, website problems. Please, Infinium Labs, don't disappoint me now!
I went to a ton of stores in Scarborough/South Portland today and had no luck... Walmart, Target, Gamestop, Toys R Us, Best Buy, and Circuit City. Shucks. I used to live in Redmond... oh well. ;)
I just happened to be at both Walmart and Target last night and didn't see them. Not that I was specifically looking for them, but I need to get one before an oversees flight that leaves on the day they are supposed to be released.
I'm certainly going to look again today though. Can't wait.
Anyone remember when the winner of this award was ACTUALLY weird? jodi.org perhaps? Most of these sites seem to be net.humor sites.
So, a lot of these are actually really strange: the helmet, the giant arrow, etc... but the winner being a foot mouse? There's nothing strange at all about a foot mouse, have the authors completely forgotten that not everyone has arms or has control of their arms? I know the article is supposed to be humorous, but when I see a foot mouse I don't think, "haha what the hell?!" I think, "ugh... that's kinda depressing."
Yahoo and Google are the only search engines that are considered successful right now... Altavista, WebSpider, A9... these have all fallen by the wayside. Why? None of them have two letter Os next to each other. Accoona does. I predict it will be a smashing success.
Simple test... create a new image, use the ellipse select tool to create a circle, stroke that circle. Look how absolutely nasty and NOT SMOOTH the stroke is. If GIMP can't handle a simple operation like stroke how on earth is it supposed to make people think it can compete with Photoshop?