Advertisers have already shown a genuine disreguard for my limited bandwidth and screen real estate. They will over-utilize popups, Flash, and other tools to gnaw into the meat of the user experience like a pack of rabid badgers in a hen house.
I don't need your wireless experience, thank you very much.
In every instance, except video monitors, the actual usable value meets or exceeds the advertised value. Why is that? Why is the tube industry so intent on deceptive practices? Doesn't this bother anyone? How can they get away with it? If they were a mutual fund advertising "22.2% returns", there would be a million people lined up behind a class action suit.
Armed with the knowledge that video monitor vendors lie about numbers, I guess we should be powering our 120 VAC monitors with 220 VAC, right?
Hmmm, 220. Very deadly. You go first.
Are you proposing that since someone, somewhere knows that a particular vendor is lying about a particular number, it's Ok for the vendor to lie? Sorry, but I don't buy it. Nor will I ever buy Viewsonic again.
Yea, I bought a Viewsonic once. Once. For $925, I got a 17 inch monitor that turned out to be a 15.4 inch monitor. Funny how the video industry seems to be overly generous when putting tape measure to tube. Must be a guy thing.
So now we get to find out how consumers will react when their TV GP faults in the middle of watching Survivor VII, Big Brother X, or Oprah on Diet XX. And that's just the first MS-powered home appliance.
Microsoft Microwave has caused an exception 4675636B4D53 in module DOOR_OPEN_DETECT.DLL
Please leave the room now and turn off the power to the unit from your dwelling's main circuit breaker.
American's expectations for reliable, functional, secure systems have been destroyed by Microsoft. I can't wait until they revamp the air traffic control system.
Well, dahling, I just don't know how the common folk can survive in those tiny hovels. Really I don't. 5,000 square feet? Are you serious? Dear, our bedroom is 5,000 square feet. Did you know that many of the peasants only have one or two bathrooms? Really! How primative. They might as well live in a cave. See you at the polo match later? Ta!
FYI: Scott Jones is the dude behind Gracenote's transition to fee-based CDDB lookups.
15 hours a day, huh? Sounds 'bout right. Only spending 8 hrs a day playing quake and reading slashdor? So how'd ya like to be Joe Whopper Flopper for those 8 hours? Aren't you even slightly grateful to have a job? You're probably not in high tech, and definitely not in the disk drive biz.
I suggest you scale back your work week to something your delicate constitution can handle. Screw the profit-sharing, let's go snow boarding.
This is all just JVC marketing hype which ignores two important principles:
1. JVC products are absolute dogcrap. 2. Other companies have tried the "partially written, unreadable sector" approach before. They didn't succeed either.
Well, that leaves OGG and WMA. Now MS can help the Windows crowd by herding 'em to WMA, with lots of nice DRM. Jack "Actually, I own ALL the music" Valenti is peeing his pants he's so happy : "One down and one to go". Fraunhoffer has a case for scanning everyone's computer to see if they have one of those fully automatic MP3 assault codecs.
I have seen The Future, and it is analogue.
How to convert that pesky $100 million into a much more managable $1 million.
Step 1. Put it into a Linux company
You're done! There, wasn't that easy? And notice how it compliments the seat cushions.
Next week, we'll show you how to use your personal contacts and insider information to convert that $1 million right back into $100 million! Stay tuned!
You were a lot nicer than I was prepared to be. This "Waaaaaa!!!! I want my " attitude is why we have politicians demanding blowjobs from interns and CEOs bu**-f**king their shareholders. Sometimes I'm so embarrased to be an American.
A little delayed gratification never hurt anyone.
Here's an impossible goal:
"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
-President Kennedy's Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs. May 25, 1961
Asking for the impossible will cause frustration for those who can't comprehend anything beyond the status quo. Sometimes, non-linear thinking must be initiated by an appropriately directed kick in the butt.
How much of the info on the Internet is copied or repeated from other web pages vs. how much is original? A link to info does not count as copy or repetition.
How much of what appears on the Internet is crap (using the movie "Battlefield Earth" as the "10" on a scale of 1 to 10). I already have an estimate of this, and things ain't lookin' good.
Slashdot Mirror
Advertisers have already shown a genuine disreguard for my limited bandwidth and screen real estate. They will over-utilize popups, Flash, and other tools to gnaw into the meat of the user experience like a pack of rabid badgers in a hen house. I don't need your wireless experience, thank you very much.
In every instance, except video monitors, the actual usable value meets or exceeds the advertised value. Why is that? Why is the tube industry so intent on deceptive practices? Doesn't this bother anyone? How can they get away with it? If they were a mutual fund advertising "22.2% returns", there would be a million people lined up behind a class action suit.
Armed with the knowledge that video monitor vendors lie about numbers, I guess we should be powering our 120 VAC monitors with 220 VAC, right?
Hmmm, 220. Very deadly. You go first.
Are you proposing that since someone, somewhere knows that a particular vendor is lying about a particular number, it's Ok for the vendor to lie? Sorry, but I don't buy it. Nor will I ever buy Viewsonic again.
Yea, I bought a Viewsonic once. Once. For $925, I got a 17 inch monitor that turned out to be a 15.4 inch monitor. Funny how the video industry seems to be overly generous when putting tape measure to tube. Must be a guy thing.
Where's the comparison with Merant Dimensions, some of the Rational products, or TeamTrack???
Where's the beef???
Microsoft Microwave has caused an exception 4675636B4D53 in module DOOR_OPEN_DETECT.DLL
Please leave the room now and turn off the power to the unit from your dwelling's main circuit breaker.
American's expectations for reliable, functional, secure systems have been destroyed by Microsoft. I can't wait until they revamp the air traffic control system.
FYI: Scott Jones is the dude behind Gracenote's transition to fee-based CDDB lookups.
15 hours a day, huh? Sounds 'bout right. Only spending 8 hrs a day playing quake and reading slashdor? So how'd ya like to be Joe Whopper Flopper for those 8 hours? Aren't you even slightly grateful to have a job? You're probably not in high tech, and definitely not in the disk drive biz. I suggest you scale back your work week to something your delicate constitution can handle. Screw the profit-sharing, let's go snow boarding.
This is all just JVC marketing hype which ignores two important principles:
1. JVC products are absolute dogcrap.
2. Other companies have tried the "partially written, unreadable sector" approach before. They didn't succeed either.
Well, that leaves OGG and WMA. Now MS can help the Windows crowd by herding 'em to WMA, with lots of nice DRM. Jack "Actually, I own ALL the music" Valenti is peeing his pants he's so happy : "One down and one to go". Fraunhoffer has a case for scanning everyone's computer to see if they have one of those fully automatic MP3 assault codecs.
I have seen The Future, and it is analogue.
Thanks for the info! Would French work? It frequently uses alternation (consonant-vowel-consant-vowel) in spoken context.
How to convert that pesky $100 million into a much more managable $1 million.
Step 1. Put it into a Linux company
You're done! There, wasn't that easy? And notice how it compliments the seat cushions.
Next week, we'll show you how to use your personal contacts and insider information to convert that $1 million right back into $100 million! Stay tuned!
You were a lot nicer than I was prepared to be. This "Waaaaaa!!!! I want my " attitude is why we have politicians demanding blowjobs from interns and CEOs bu**-f**king their shareholders. Sometimes I'm so embarrased to be an American.
A little delayed gratification never hurt anyone.
Here's an impossible goal: "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish." -President Kennedy's Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs. May 25, 1961 Asking for the impossible will cause frustration for those who can't comprehend anything beyond the status quo. Sometimes, non-linear thinking must be initiated by an appropriately directed kick in the butt.
How much of the info on the Internet is copied or repeated from other web pages vs. how much is original? A link to info does not count as copy or repetition.
How much of what appears on the Internet is crap (using the movie "Battlefield Earth" as the "10" on a scale of 1 to 10). I already have an estimate of this, and things ain't lookin' good.