They sent it without the OS on it on request and the machine booted into a message saying such (duh?). I never asked about a refund since the machine itself only cost $600 and change.
I would tell if I actually had a choice to buy the OS but can't check the invoice since their server (.NET) is down and I tossed the paper invoice.
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Two things with it though. I got two disk drives, one that booted into a message that no OS was installed and the second was clean. The disk geometry was different between the two exact same drives. (The disk dup they did on the first for the No OS msg likely) Real great when you are doing RAID 1. Also, the thing only comes with PCIx 64 bit slots. There is a 32 bit slot not advertised but it is there. Don't expect to use it. It is backwards. Doh! Must be why it is not advertised.
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But the real kick is in scraping your knee-pads at high-speed turns...
That's what race tracks are for. Where the environment is controlled and you will not kill yourself.
Guys like you are the reason my friggn' insurance is so damn high on my GSXr. $350(US) liability, $100 fire and theft, $1100 collision (which I don't have) on a bike I paid $6,000 for.
...who can't afford the time and the resources for filters and sysadmins to install the freebie solutions. Yeah,/.'rs are capable of doing this stuff in their sleep (myself included) but most small businesses don't have the resources of MSNBC and other Fortune 500s.
Anyhow, the only workers inundated with spam are going to be those who post to internet sites and/or those who are responsible for reading email that comes into public email addresses (ie; webmaster, info, sales, etc). I am not surprised by the results.
This is what I do but it is the principle of the whole thing. I stopped using their email function when I realized it was going into their servers (and I would eventually be charged). Despite that, I continue to get "reminders" that there is an open invoice that needs to be collected. I received payment on it months ago (but never re-connected to their service) so clearly they are retaining and tracking my invoices. They are scum and I have almost finished a scathing letter to their CS/execs but I doubt it will do any good.
No, in fact all it is doing is taking our problem and making it someone elses. I have two degrees in ES and have some knowledge on the subject. What happens is we send our old crap over to asia where a bunch of dirt poor people who pick through piles of smashed electronics for the precious metals. These piles are generally uncovered and on top of dirt. The process of smashing the electronics allows rain water to filter through the piles sending a toxic coctail leeching into the ground water. For the priviledge of having their ground water contaminated for centuries, they are paid pennies a day.
Exporting != solving.
Yeah, but I wouldn't run a server on a Mac when I can get the same thing, minus the memory hogging GUI for free. One will be in the server closet and one out on the office floor. I give that union a better chance than any marriage proposal on "The Bachelor"!
the apple of apple's eye: ellen feiss her pc crashed, she made the switch, and now she's famous. meet the internet's latest it girl.
By Zachary Frechette Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds, with one notable exception: Some guy in Holland is wearing a T-shirt with her face on it right now. Actually, a lot of people are wearing that shirt with her picture or drinking coffee from a similarly themed mug purchased on one of Ellen's numerous fan sites. After appearing in a "Switch" ad for Apple computer (www.apple.com/switch/ads), Feiss quickly became an Internet celebrity, spawning stories in newspapers from coast to coast and sparking discussion in chat rooms across the world. There was even a look-alike contest held outside Amsterdam, although most of the entrants were men. Some have argued she seems a bit too, um, light-headed in her commercial, but that hasn't stopped Leno and Letterman from trying to book her (actually, it probably helped). As a sophomore in high school, Ellen still isn't quite sure what to make of her 15 minutes, but between meetings with her agent and MTV executives, she took some time to answer questions for Post-.
How did you get involved with the Apple switch campaign in the first place? It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.
Is the story you told true? Oh yeah, it's definitely true.
What was the paper about? It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really, really good paper.
Did Apple compensate you for the commercial at all? I'm not actually sure how much I got paid because it was in installments, and the whole contract was dealt with by my parents, so I'm not actually sure. Oh, and I got an iPod. It's like the coolest thing ever.
What was the initial response of your friends and family to the commercial? They all freaked out. I called my dad while I was at the set because I had to get him to say that he was my guardian and it was OK for me to do it, and he didn't believe me that I was going to do it. So they all freaked out when they found out I got the ad.
Did you get a lot of phone calls after it aired? Yeah, a lot of old camp friends, actually.
When did you start getting the sense you were becoming a celebrity beyond the commercial itself? I was on vacation in Arizona this summer, and when I left everything was fine. It was kind of like, "Oh this is cool, I'm in a commercial," but that's it. And so we left. When we get back two weeks later, it's like a bombard, it was so big. I have like 20 messages on the answering machine from different people telling me about this, random people like people who work with my parents and all these other people. I get back and I'm in The New York Times, and I'm in the L.A. Times, and Letterman wants me on his show, Leno wants me on his show. I'm like, "I just got back from vacation!" It's funny because I get back, and the New York Times is like, "Ellen is unreachable for comment because she's supposedly on vacation," and I was like, "How do they even know this?" It was really kind of scary, actually, a little overwhelming at first.
So do you have any interest in doing Leno or Letterman? I was offered to, but I decided not to because I thought it wouldn't be so much "Who are you, Ellen Feiss?" It would be more like, "Are you a stoner?" blah blah blah. I did get other offers besides that that I'm getting into. MTV wants to talk to me. They're doing a pilot on me. The guy's going to come to my house in two weeks and interview me, and then show it to the CEO of MTV. I got a lot of crazy offers. I thought if I went on Letterman, it would be like I go on Letterman, and then I go on "Regis and Kelly," and then I go on Channel 5 News, and then it would kind of fizzle out pathetically. MTV's a little cooler.
Any idea what the MTV show would be about? No, he has no idea. He just said he liked the ads and said I was a cute kid.
Do you think this has the potential to jump-start a career in entertainment? I don't know. I also got a call from the Farrelly Brothers. They were like, "You know we really like your ad," so they wrote down my name or something. I have an agent now. This guy writes me down -- the producer of all the Farrelly brothers movies -- and he's like this kid is whatever whatever, this ad is pretty funny, so he writes my name down and he's trying to get in contact with my agent. Since I didn't have an agent at that point... well it's a kind of confusing story, but anyway, they wanted me to be in one of their movies, but since they found out how old I was they don't think I can be in one. Supposedly, though, my agent is "floating my image," quote unquote. I don't know what the hell that means.
So have you made a bunch of new friends at school? No, it isn't that weird. I get a lot of really obvious comments from people like "Did you know that there are mugs with your face on them?" and I'm like, "No I didn't; why don't you tell me about that?" Just comments like that. It's like, "Thanks for telling me about that."
Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts? Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives. I don't know, it was kind of bizarre at first. I went to my Web site but I decided not to read any of the comments because I thought it would be too weird. I heard about some of them, though, so I was like, "Weeell, I'm not going to read those."
Did you hear about the look-alike contest in Holland? I did! I saw the pictures, too. It was really funny.
Did you have a favorite picture? The toothless old man was hands down the best, but no one actually looked anything like me.
Has Apple tried to contact you since all this happened? They contacted me to supposedly advise me. They were like, "We don't really want you to take this anywhere," but I decided to get an agent anyway. I went to Macworld in July. It seems like the kind of thing where if you're not in the biz.... I thought it was the most boring thing. I got shuttled down to New York, and I got VIP seating, and I was like, "Wow, I'm at the Oscars or something," but then I was like, "No, I'm at Macworld." I met Steve Jobs. He called me by my first name -- clever, huh? It was brief.
Do you have a favorite switch ad besides your own? Probably Hamilton, just because I know him, and I saw him make it. It was so funny. Me and Hamilton have decided that our new nemesis is Jeremiah Cohick. He's our age, and he's trying to steal our limelight! We decided we don't like him. We're out to get him.
Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial? It doesn't really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial -- I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That's why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me.
Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude? No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.
zach frechette '04 forgot to ask if ellen knows janie porche's phone number.
It's/.'d already so I have no idea what the application for this plane is but I suspect military based on the secrecy of the project. That said, most new govt built planes have a few shared characteristics. The most relevant here is they are fly by wire since they posses the aerodynamics of rocks. The F177a stealth F/B is a great example of a plane that could not fly without the intervention of a computer to make thousands of adjustments a second. In this case the design was for the stealth capabilities but also the F16/18's are not terribly aerodynamic either and have low wing thickness. As a result of these aerodynamic features the stall speed is very high and requires thrust in most circumstances. I do not pretend to understand this fully but apparently these aerodynamic "features" (in this case not a codeword for bug...) allow for amazing manuevuers such as the Mig29's 45 angle of attack. see here and here
and it's ability to do a tail-slide (when the nose is actually behind the tail while the plane is moving forward or graphically like this \ moving > slightly) This was performed at a show in 1998 (see here)
...they already do this with Media Player, a flagship software piece.
FYI: So does the new Real One. Play an MP3 and it phones home. Haven't found a way to turn it off outside of not using it to play anything unless I absolutely have to.
Maybe. It has been over four years and I could have it wrong. But, I don't particularly care for TNG and I do not have a VCR so I would imagine I went looking for DS9 on DVD. I may have found TNG and have my($self) all confused...
I believe the first season has been out on DVD for some time now. I rememeber when I moved from NY to RI the local stations did not have it so I looked into purchasing the series on DVD and they only had the first season. To add salt in the wound, there were only one/two episodes per disc and they were 19.95 per disc. No set. I fgured it would probably cost upwards of $2K for the whole series at that rate (if it had been available). What a rip off that was. Someone there was greedy. Glad to see they are finally releasing it in a more sane config.
...due to the recent FCC decision to allow digital radio. Why would someone upgrade their radio to deal with this when they can upgrade to one that handles digital. It would be like upgrading from 8-track to audio tape when CDs are just being released. Also, they would have to get FCC approval as well. Not a quick proposition.
I have had Vision since about a week after it came out. Originally I had a 2meg limit but when this new promo came out I was automatically upgraded. I called and asked if it was permanent and they said as long as I do not change my plan after the last of this year (when the promo ends). FWIW.
I think they realized that they need to get the geeks on board as early adopters and they will recomend to friends the service. What better way to get geeks on board?
I do not know if there is some high water mark limit like 20 as I did not ask.
I hope Judge Kollar-Kotelly reads it!
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Maybe she will understand how badly she screwed up!
I can not stress this enough, but if we do not buy them, they will eventually break down and concede or go out of business. The later being the preferred...
If you look at their service map of the Boston area (it is relatively good coompared with their coverage in the rest of the nation) you will see they favor the interstates and main roads. Same as in Houston and other places I have been so far. They have to get away from the idea that cars are where people use their phones. Especially with data services.
...yet Arrow proved that the only voting system that always satisfies [rules of intuitiveness] is a dictatorship, where a single person's preferences determine the outcome.
It appears W agrees...
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
Lets face it, the system will never change since the people charged with changing it would not benefit and would possibly lose out in the end. Hence this final quote:
There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. -John Quincy Adams
Gasoline is not pressurized (OK, mildly so in modern fuel systems) and will ignite if leaked out onto the pavement. Thing is, since it is not highly pressurized the tank can warp and deform without rupturing. And if it does rupture, the gas leaks out relatively slowly and pools. Gases do not behave that way.
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I would tell if I actually had a choice to buy the OS but can't check the invoice since their server (.NET) is down and I tossed the paper invoice.
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Two things with it though. I got two disk drives, one that booted into a message that no OS was installed and the second was clean. The disk geometry was different between the two exact same drives. (The disk dup they did on the first for the No OS msg likely) Real great when you are doing RAID 1. Also, the thing only comes with PCIx 64 bit slots. There is a 32 bit slot not advertised but it is there. Don't expect to use it. It is backwards. Doh! Must be why it is not advertised.
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That's what race tracks are for. Where the environment is controlled and you will not kill yourself.
Guys like you are the reason my friggn' insurance is so damn high on my GSXr. $350(US) liability, $100 fire and theft, $1100 collision (which I don't have) on a bike I paid $6,000 for.
How is going to anything like the first three???
Anyhow, the only workers inundated with spam are going to be those who post to internet sites and/or those who are responsible for reading email that comes into public email addresses (ie; webmaster, info, sales, etc). I am not surprised by the results.
At least with XML based formats in greater fashion these days your data is only a Perl script away...
This is what I do but it is the principle of the whole thing. I stopped using their email function when I realized it was going into their servers (and I would eventually be charged). Despite that, I continue to get "reminders" that there is an open invoice that needs to be collected. I received payment on it months ago (but never re-connected to their service) so clearly they are retaining and tracking my invoices. They are scum and I have almost finished a scathing letter to their CS/execs but I doubt it will do any good.
No, in fact all it is doing is taking our problem and making it someone elses. I have two degrees in ES and have some knowledge on the subject. What happens is we send our old crap over to asia where a bunch of dirt poor people who pick through piles of smashed electronics for the precious metals. These piles are generally uncovered and on top of dirt. The process of smashing the electronics allows rain water to filter through the piles sending a toxic coctail leeching into the ground water. For the priviledge of having their ground water contaminated for centuries, they are paid pennies a day.
Exporting != solving.
Is the story you told true?
Oh yeah, it's definitely true. No it was not made up. It is just that easy to find people who have Windows horror stories.
Yeah, but I wouldn't run a server on a Mac when I can get the same thing, minus the memory hogging GUI for free. One will be in the server closet and one out on the office floor. I give that union a better chance than any marriage proposal on "The Bachelor"!
the apple of apple's eye: ellen feiss
... well it's a kind of confusing story, but anyway, they wanted me to be in one of their movies, but since they found out how old I was they don't think I can be in one. Supposedly, though, my agent is "floating my image," quote unquote. I don't know what the hell that means.
.... I thought it was the most boring thing. I got shuttled down to New York, and I got VIP seating, and I was like, "Wow, I'm at the Oscars or something," but then I was like, "No, I'm at Macworld." I met Steve Jobs. He called me by my first name -- clever, huh? It was brief.
her pc crashed, she made the switch, and now she's famous. meet the internet's latest it girl.
By Zachary Frechette
Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds, with one notable exception: Some guy in Holland is wearing a T-shirt with her face on it right now. Actually, a lot of people are wearing that shirt with her picture or drinking coffee from a similarly themed mug purchased on one of Ellen's numerous fan sites. After appearing in a "Switch" ad for Apple computer (www.apple.com/switch/ads), Feiss quickly became an Internet celebrity, spawning stories in newspapers from coast to coast and sparking discussion in chat rooms across the world. There was even a look-alike contest held outside Amsterdam, although most of the entrants were men. Some have argued she seems a bit too, um, light-headed in her commercial, but that hasn't stopped Leno and Letterman from trying to book her (actually, it probably helped). As a sophomore in high school, Ellen still isn't quite sure what to make of her 15 minutes, but between meetings with her agent and MTV executives, she took some time to answer questions for Post-.
How did you get involved with the Apple switch campaign in the first place?
It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.
Is the story you told true?
Oh yeah, it's definitely true.
What was the paper about?
It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really, really good paper.
Did Apple compensate you for the commercial at all?
I'm not actually sure how much I got paid because it was in installments, and the whole contract was dealt with by my parents, so I'm not actually sure. Oh, and I got an iPod. It's like the coolest thing ever.
What was the initial response of your friends and family to the commercial?
They all freaked out. I called my dad while I was at the set because I had to get him to say that he was my guardian and it was OK for me to do it, and he didn't believe me that I was going to do it. So they all freaked out when they found out I got the ad.
Did you get a lot of phone calls after it aired?
Yeah, a lot of old camp friends, actually.
When did you start getting the sense you were becoming a celebrity beyond the commercial itself?
I was on vacation in Arizona this summer, and when I left everything was fine. It was kind of like, "Oh this is cool, I'm in a commercial," but that's it. And so we left. When we get back two weeks later, it's like a bombard, it was so big. I have like 20 messages on the answering machine from different people telling me about this, random people like people who work with my parents and all these other people. I get back and I'm in The New York Times, and I'm in the L.A. Times, and Letterman wants me on his show, Leno wants me on his show. I'm like, "I just got back from vacation!" It's funny because I get back, and the New York Times is like, "Ellen is unreachable for comment because she's supposedly on vacation," and I was like, "How do they even know this?" It was really kind of scary, actually, a little overwhelming at first.
So do you have any interest in doing Leno or Letterman?
I was offered to, but I decided not to because I thought it wouldn't be so much "Who are you, Ellen Feiss?" It would be more like, "Are you a stoner?" blah blah blah. I did get other offers besides that that I'm getting into. MTV wants to talk to me. They're doing a pilot on me. The guy's going to come to my house in two weeks and interview me, and then show it to the CEO of MTV. I got a lot of crazy offers. I thought if I went on Letterman, it would be like I go on Letterman, and then I go on "Regis and Kelly," and then I go on Channel 5 News, and then it would kind of fizzle out pathetically. MTV's a little cooler.
Any idea what the MTV show would be about?
No, he has no idea. He just said he liked the ads and said I was a cute kid.
Do you think this has the potential to jump-start a career in entertainment?
I don't know. I also got a call from the Farrelly Brothers. They were like, "You know we really like your ad," so they wrote down my name or something. I have an agent now. This guy writes me down -- the producer of all the Farrelly brothers movies -- and he's like this kid is whatever whatever, this ad is pretty funny, so he writes my name down and he's trying to get in contact with my agent. Since I didn't have an agent at that point
So have you made a bunch of new friends at school?
No, it isn't that weird. I get a lot of really obvious comments from people like "Did you know that there are mugs with your face on them?" and I'm like, "No I didn't; why don't you tell me about that?" Just comments like that. It's like, "Thanks for telling me about that."
Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts?
Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives. I don't know, it was kind of bizarre at first. I went to my Web site but I decided not to read any of the comments because I thought it would be too weird. I heard about some of them, though, so I was like, "Weeell, I'm not going to read those."
Did you hear about the look-alike contest in Holland?
I did! I saw the pictures, too. It was really funny.
Did you have a favorite picture?
The toothless old man was hands down the best, but no one actually looked anything like me.
Has Apple tried to contact you since all this happened?
They contacted me to supposedly advise me. They were like, "We don't really want you to take this anywhere," but I decided to get an agent anyway. I went to Macworld in July. It seems like the kind of thing where if you're not in the biz
Do you have a favorite switch ad besides your own?
Probably Hamilton, just because I know him, and I saw him make it. It was so funny. Me and Hamilton have decided that our new nemesis is Jeremiah Cohick. He's our age, and he's trying to steal our limelight! We decided we don't like him. We're out to get him.
Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial?
It doesn't really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial -- I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That's why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me.
Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude?
No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.
zach frechette '04 forgot to ask if ellen knows janie porche's phone number.
Or it could be the new frontier in warfare is urban in nature. By 2020 80% of the world's population will be living in urbanized areas...
It's /.'d already so I have no idea what the application for this plane is but I suspect military based on the secrecy of the project. That said, most new govt built planes have a few shared characteristics. The most relevant here is they are fly by wire since they posses the aerodynamics of rocks. The F177a stealth F/B is a great example of a plane that could not fly without the intervention of a computer to make thousands of adjustments a second. In this case the design was for the stealth capabilities but also the F16/18's are not terribly aerodynamic either and have low wing thickness. As a result of these aerodynamic features the stall speed is very high and requires thrust in most circumstances. I do not pretend to understand this fully but apparently these aerodynamic "features" (in this case not a codeword for bug...) allow for amazing manuevuers such as the Mig29's 45 angle of attack. see here and here
and it's ability to do a tail-slide (when the nose is actually behind the tail while the plane is moving forward or graphically like this \ moving > slightly) This was performed at a show in 1998 (see here)
FYI: So does the new Real One. Play an MP3 and it phones home. Haven't found a way to turn it off outside of not using it to play anything unless I absolutely have to.
Maybe. It has been over four years and I could have it wrong. But, I don't particularly care for TNG and I do not have a VCR so I would imagine I went looking for DS9 on DVD. I may have found TNG and have my($self) all confused...
I believe the first season has been out on DVD for some time now. I rememeber when I moved from NY to RI the local stations did not have it so I looked into purchasing the series on DVD and they only had the first season. To add salt in the wound, there were only one/two episodes per disc and they were 19.95 per disc. No set. I fgured it would probably cost upwards of $2K for the whole series at that rate (if it had been available). What a rip off that was. Someone there was greedy. Glad to see they are finally releasing it in a more sane config.
...due to the recent FCC decision to allow digital radio. Why would someone upgrade their radio to deal with this when they can upgrade to one that handles digital. It would be like upgrading from 8-track to audio tape when CDs are just being released. Also, they would have to get FCC approval as well. Not a quick proposition.
It is good stuff, you send it to the email address it should go to: tannaz.haddadi@mail.house.gov
Probably an aid or something.
They are still selling it in the online store I see when I log in ro my account.
I have had Vision since about a week after it came out. Originally I had a 2meg limit but when this new promo came out I was automatically upgraded. I called and asked if it was permanent and they said as long as I do not change my plan after the last of this year (when the promo ends). FWIW.
I think they realized that they need to get the geeks on board as early adopters and they will recomend to friends the service. What better way to get geeks on board?
I do not know if there is some high water mark limit like 20 as I did not ask.
Maybe she will understand how badly she screwed up!
I can not stress this enough, but if we do not buy them, they will eventually break down and concede or go out of business. The later being the preferred...
If you look at their service map of the Boston area (it is relatively good coompared with their coverage in the rest of the nation) you will see they favor the interstates and main roads. Same as in Houston and other places I have been so far. They have to get away from the idea that cars are where people use their phones. Especially with data services.
It appears W agrees...
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." - George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
Lets face it, the system will never change since the people charged with changing it would not benefit and would possibly lose out in the end. Hence this final quote:
There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. -John Quincy Adams
Fair enough. I always preffered the Queen's english for clarity but I grew up just outside NYC and talk like I have marbles in my mouth...
Gasoline is not pressurized (OK, mildly so in modern fuel systems) and will ignite if leaked out onto the pavement. Thing is, since it is not highly pressurized the tank can warp and deform without rupturing. And if it does rupture, the gas leaks out relatively slowly and pools. Gases do not behave that way.