If they were truly like GoDaddy, they'd publicly state they were no longer supporting the $2 charge, but wouldn't actually say they weren't going to do it.
Because you know that ads on TV are going to put the product in the best possible light, and use false imagery to try to trick you into wanting the product. Or, if you don't know this, you could.
Note, both are misleading. Pretending to be a satisfied customer on an Internet posting is simply MORE misleading, and therefore different, from showing a bunch of skinny women drinking beer.
It's been proven by mid-level bureaucrats that spending money on expensive vanity projects generates wealth and jobs!
Heck, at the end of my block the city used federal stimulus money to build a dog park. It created a fourth of a dozen part-time jobs (running the toll-booth thing) paid for by money the city doesn't have. A win all around!
Could be worse, they could have only hired a sixth of a dozen, or even a twelfth of a dozen.
Send them an email, carboned to every email address for everybody in the company you can find. That email says something along the lines of:
I am getting a large amount of spam emails from your company. I have tried normal channels to get them to stop, but they have actually gotten worse. I am appealing to you to put a halt to these emails. I will forward you examples of the emails I have received.
Then set up an auto-forward rule that forwards every single spam to that same list, with the text:
Here is an example of the spam I am receiving from your company. As I acquire more examples, I will forward them on as well.
If rooted, you can run wifi tethering app and conceal said fact from your wireless provider
I and 2 others I know all tether our android phones without rooting them and without paying that stupid tethering fee to Verizon. Look into AziLink (free) and EasyTether (easy).
Both require you turn on USB Debugging, but neither require root access.
Not to self-promote (or self-congratulate) but I wrote a story 5 years ago about just this subject, and even produced it as an audio play. It's free to listen at http://planetretcon.com/blog/?p=32
I even set the story in 2011, though my reasoning was that 2011 was 5 years in the future from the time of production. The software works after some initial bugs, but there's just one final bug they can't correct.
I came on here to say this. I can dial my phone at work without looking at it because my left hand just knows where the buttons are. Likewise, i can do number entry all day (well, for a few minutes... before my brain turns to jelly) because my right hand knows where those keys are.
Bonus: With my left hand on the home row, and my right on the number pad, I can key hexadecimal numbers without thinking, as well.
When I moved 2.5 years ago, I never bothered turning on cable (or phone, but that's a different story) in the new place. It was weird because I had just bought a 45 inch TV and it suddenly became a big Xbox monitor. I hooked my PC to the TV (VGA port FTW) and started streaming Hulu and Netflix (been a subscriber since 2003).
A month later I bought a dedicated HTPC, installed XBMC and Hulu Desktop on it, hooked it up with the wonderful USB-UART infrared reader and the free/libre EventGhost software to control everything, bought a cheap universal remote, and I've never been happier.
I easily watch more TV now than I ever did when I had cable. Hulu makes it so easy, Netflix has a great selection if you're not dedicated to watching a specific title, and with XBMC I can watch any of the hundreds of DVDs I've bought. I went from 300 channels of nothing to having more to watch than I have time for.
And all for a total cost of maybe 3 months of cable. 2.25 years ago I broke even and it's been gravy ever since.
(go left from panama, you'll hit a cloud with w hole, and a bit further left, another cloud with a hole. These two clouds and the region around them are pixel copies of each other. That was pointed to in a comment on gizmodo)
Panama? I only see an image of Africa and Asia. Is there a link to this image of the Americas?
Many companies allow the entire Internet, and then blacklist sites that seem to be taking an inordinate amount of productive time from their employees.
This could simply be the MIS guy doing his job, by keeping the employees doing theirs.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I've been using it since Sarge, and am generally happy with it, but I have never, ever thought that the Linux community in general loved it and thought it was the most wonderful thing ever. In fact, what this blog* says about this "new" opinion of Ubuntu is what I thought was the opinion of it all along.
*At least, the first page of the blog. I like how they question Ubuntu's business decisions as looking at the bottom line and not caring about users, when they split a blog post over 3 pages to generate extra ad views.
You just have a different opinion what is useful than many people. Most people have no need to rename a thousand files at once. They need to create a few new ones, find a few old ones, send one here or there, and be done with it.
Which is why those people use Windows (or Mac) and we use Linux.
Like grcumb, I don't give a shit about market share. Taking that further, I don't give a shit about if Cannonical gives a shit about market share. I want an easy to use Linux distro and for me, that's Ubuntu. When something else comes along that is easier, I may move to it. I may not, if Ubuntu doesn't get significantly worse than it is now. And, for the record, I don't think it's bad at all right now.
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If they were truly like GoDaddy, they'd publicly state they were no longer supporting the $2 charge, but wouldn't actually say they weren't going to do it.
It's more like gas (and time) is so expensive that you'd be a fool to drive somewhere to pay a bill.
I personally just tell my bank how much to pay Verizon, and they cut a check, for free. I get the convenience of online pay without this stupid fee.
I hope his wife doesn't get mad! /I know, shame on me for Ring TFA.
Because you know that ads on TV are going to put the product in the best possible light, and use false imagery to try to trick you into wanting the product. Or, if you don't know this, you could.
Note, both are misleading. Pretending to be a satisfied customer on an Internet posting is simply MORE misleading, and therefore different, from showing a bunch of skinny women drinking beer.
It's been proven by mid-level bureaucrats that spending money on expensive vanity projects generates wealth and jobs!
Heck, at the end of my block the city used federal stimulus money to build a dog park. It created a fourth of a dozen part-time jobs (running the toll-booth thing) paid for by money the city doesn't have. A win all around!
Could be worse, they could have only hired a sixth of a dozen, or even a twelfth of a dozen.
Send them an email, carboned to every email address for everybody in the company you can find. That email says something along the lines of:
I am getting a large amount of spam emails from your company. I have tried normal channels to get them to stop, but they have actually gotten worse. I am appealing to you to put a halt to these emails. I will forward you examples of the emails I have received.
Then set up an auto-forward rule that forwards every single spam to that same list, with the text:
Here is an example of the spam I am receiving from your company. As I acquire more examples, I will forward them on as well.
I bet they'll stop in a few days.
And here I'm not buying a MotoDroid 3 because it doesn't have 64GB support, and I'm hoping that the Droid 4 will. /not your typical user
If rooted, you can run wifi tethering app and conceal said fact from your wireless provider
I and 2 others I know all tether our android phones without rooting them and without paying that stupid tethering fee to Verizon. Look into AziLink (free) and EasyTether (easy).
Both require you turn on USB Debugging, but neither require root access.
I also wouldn't use a sandwich to play a video game. Doesn't mean sandwiches don't have a place in my life.
Not to self-promote (or self-congratulate) but I wrote a story 5 years ago about just this subject, and even produced it as an audio play. It's free to listen at http://planetretcon.com/blog/?p=32
I even set the story in 2011, though my reasoning was that 2011 was 5 years in the future from the time of production. The software works after some initial bugs, but there's just one final bug they can't correct.
If the phone took as long as it wanted to do the pulses, then the speed you hit the buttons doesn't matter...
I came on here to say this. I can dial my phone at work without looking at it because my left hand just knows where the buttons are. Likewise, i can do number entry all day (well, for a few minutes... before my brain turns to jelly) because my right hand knows where those keys are.
Bonus: With my left hand on the home row, and my right on the number pad, I can key hexadecimal numbers without thinking, as well.
@Qwikster on Twitter is not being actively used. Fro all I know, Reed Hastings owns it.
While Indiana's an extreme example, there are places all over the world where the hour could change during your commute.
How many Libraries of Congress can Stanford now download per second?
14,400 Toyotas' worth
Then we be glad we tested it on a little asteroid, kick back, and watch an awesome meteor shower?
To me it sounds like the only thing dangerous here is driving a Prius.
So only one out of every 500 or so will explode? /but I don't wanna explode!
I have seen ads for Maker's Mark, and I've also had the pleasure of drinking it. It is a fine bourbon. Not the best, but far, far from the worst.
And it's assuredly good enough to not want to cater to the crowd that will be impressed by it working just as well as gasoline.
When I moved 2.5 years ago, I never bothered turning on cable (or phone, but that's a different story) in the new place. It was weird because I had just bought a 45 inch TV and it suddenly became a big Xbox monitor. I hooked my PC to the TV (VGA port FTW) and started streaming Hulu and Netflix (been a subscriber since 2003).
A month later I bought a dedicated HTPC, installed XBMC and Hulu Desktop on it, hooked it up with the wonderful USB-UART infrared reader and the free/libre EventGhost software to control everything, bought a cheap universal remote, and I've never been happier.
I easily watch more TV now than I ever did when I had cable. Hulu makes it so easy, Netflix has a great selection if you're not dedicated to watching a specific title, and with XBMC I can watch any of the hundreds of DVDs I've bought. I went from 300 channels of nothing to having more to watch than I have time for.
And all for a total cost of maybe 3 months of cable. 2.25 years ago I broke even and it's been gravy ever since.
(go left from panama, you'll hit a cloud with w hole, and a bit further left, another cloud with a hole. These two clouds and the region around them are pixel copies of each other. That was pointed to in a comment on gizmodo)
Panama? I only see an image of Africa and Asia. Is there a link to this image of the Americas?
That didn't bother me at all. It was the Internet Protocol equivalent of a "555" prefix in a phone number.
What bothered me was that they hid a link in all those web pages as a tiny image that NOBODY NOTICED AT ALL.
The rest of the movie is a blur, and I have no plans to fix that hole in my memory.
Many companies allow the entire Internet, and then blacklist sites that seem to be taking an inordinate amount of productive time from their employees.
This could simply be the MIS guy doing his job, by keeping the employees doing theirs.
Since when is Ubuntu the "good linux"?
I was thinking the exact same thing. I've been using it since Sarge, and am generally happy with it, but I have never, ever thought that the Linux community in general loved it and thought it was the most wonderful thing ever. In fact, what this blog* says about this "new" opinion of Ubuntu is what I thought was the opinion of it all along.
*At least, the first page of the blog. I like how they question Ubuntu's business decisions as looking at the bottom line and not caring about users, when they split a blog post over 3 pages to generate extra ad views.
You just have a different opinion what is useful than many people. Most people have no need to rename a thousand files at once. They need to create a few new ones, find a few old ones, send one here or there, and be done with it.
Which is why those people use Windows (or Mac) and we use Linux.
Like grcumb, I don't give a shit about market share. Taking that further, I don't give a shit about if Cannonical gives a shit about market share. I want an easy to use Linux distro and for me, that's Ubuntu. When something else comes along that is easier, I may move to it. I may not, if Ubuntu doesn't get significantly worse than it is now. And, for the record, I don't think it's bad at all right now.