analyze which ads are switched off, and figure out who should be fired
I ff through ads, but sometimes backup and watch an ad that catches my eye, like a new movie trailer (300!), or anything else that makes me say wtf? Heck, sometimes I forget to ff at all. (I really need to shut the damn thing off.)
Let Darwin decide which ads get watched instead of being ff'd through. Make 'em good enough (no Head On ads) and maybe I'll rarely ff.
but nowadays "decimated" means something a lot more drastic
Literally, I believe it means to reduce to a tenth part, or by 90%. The music industry may have taken some hard times, but has their business declined by 90% since 1999? Even the RIAA would not claim that. Dvorak, you keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Sorry, some of us are just not that self-important that we need to be a button away from the latest phone call
Sorry, but I got a cellphone after Screw-U (I mean, U-Haul) left me stranded with one of their trailers on the side of the interstate for more than 9 hours. (This, after a state trooper called them for me, informed them of my predicament, and the turdburger on duty at U-Haul decided it wasn't HIS problem. The douchebag who FINALLY sent a repair truck (the next morning, after unhooking my load at great risk, and driving to a payphone) was rude and sarcastic ("You did what? Oh, THAT was a great idea!"). Never again, when hell freezes over, etc.)
Everytime I see their trucks I keep hoping to see their company do an Enron, and their executive team come down with some chronic skin rash while languishing in PMITA prison.
The only reason SCO comes out against free, open hotspots is because
And because otherwise they might let their douchebag license lapse. It was that or start drowning puppies for fun and profit. (OK, just for fun!) But PETA can be such a PITA...
It's the lie that's right up there with "I'm resigning to spend more time with my family" not "...because I got caught with my pecker in the snack machine."
Then don't tell my modem! It can connect at 50K pretty reliably when my cable company is not having a bad packet day. Of course, I do this to test modems, not because I need dial-up. I even have my Vonage box working with my DirecTivo for its once every few months call out. (After a while, I get tired of it whining at me...)
What's been pissing me off lately is that some calls that are supposed to forward, don't. (I have calls forwarded to my cellphone, and because of the My Circle with Alltel, all calls to Vonage, even those not in my Ten Numbers, count as a free call.) My phone will ring, and I'll see the number on caller-id, but nothing forwards. And there will be no record of the incoming call on Vonage's records. Or some people will report getting "All circuits busy" or "This line is disconnected" messages when they call me.
I've spoken to their tech support, but the problem has always already been fixed, and always will never happen again (it does). Of course, this is after wasting my time with the same diagnostic hokey-pokey as the last time.
I realize not everything is their fault, but at least with a landline, if you have a problem, Bellsouth (or whoever) can't point fingers at somebody else. I had to prove to my cable company once that their routers were dropping packets and causing my Vonage service to drop every third word I spoke.
Reduced crap? I bought an Asus laptop last week, with XP Pro, and there didn't seem to be a whole lot of crap on it. The only thing I had to remove was Norton Insecurity 2006. The recovery CD was not the best I have ever seen, tho... even for a recovery CD. (Really would prefer just the Windows CD and a disk with all my drivers.)
there was a permanent display of historic scientific apparatus, like a Wimshust Generator about 20 feet in diameter
I hear you. In a museum, those computer kiosks need to be restricted just to the kinds of things it is not practical to demonstrate "live" on-site. Like a Tokamak reactor. Otherwise, you might just as well have stayed home and surfed the same content there.
Imagine going to a live concert, but you get the seats so far from the stage, that you have to watch it on the video screen, with piped-in music. It's kinda like that.
More importantly, it's a toaster that comprises a series of tubes... an international series of tubes.
Even if it passes, and doesn't get smacked down by the Supreme Court, it is unenforcable anywhere but in the US. I suppose these congressbastards think they OWN the whole Interweb?!?
So, is viewing playboy.com NSFW at the corporate offices of Playboy Enterprises? How would their official corporate Sexual Harassment policy handle this? To my understanding, viewing of stuff in the workplace which can be found offensive to others, is said to create a "hostile work environment" which people have used as a basis for lawsuits.
Perhaps the "Yeah, but..." argument is that it can't be hostile if viewing the materials is essential to your performance of your job. For example, a detective reviewing child porn tapes for evidence collection.
I've always thought that having to find enough space on your surge protector for all your gadgets' power bricks is just stupid. We need a system where you can just buy one "brick" (one brick to rule them all), and manufacturers just provide the DC power cable which plugs into one of the many standardized ports on this brick.
If we could use a system like this to consolidate our gadget power requirements, we could save a lot of money in electricity every year by reducing the number of wasteful DC transformers. (And yes, I know about universal power bricks with an assortment of plugs. Not what I'm talking about.)
The closest approach to this would be one of these AC to USB connector gadgets. Of course this is no good for devices without the capability to charge over USB.
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I ff through ads, but sometimes backup and watch an ad that catches my eye, like a new movie trailer (300!), or anything else that makes me say wtf? Heck, sometimes I forget to ff at all. (I really need to shut the damn thing off.)
Let Darwin decide which ads get watched instead of being ff'd through. Make 'em good enough (no Head On ads) and maybe I'll rarely ff.
Literally, I believe it means to reduce to a tenth part, or by 90%. The music industry may have taken some hard times, but has their business declined by 90% since 1999? Even the RIAA would not claim that. Dvorak, you keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Sorry, but I got a cellphone after Screw-U (I mean, U-Haul) left me stranded with one of their trailers on the side of the interstate for more than 9 hours. (This, after a state trooper called them for me, informed them of my predicament, and the turdburger on duty at U-Haul decided it wasn't HIS problem. The douchebag who FINALLY sent a repair truck (the next morning, after unhooking my load at great risk, and driving to a payphone) was rude and sarcastic ("You did what? Oh, THAT was a great idea!"). Never again, when hell freezes over, etc.)
Everytime I see their trucks I keep hoping to see their company do an Enron, and their executive team come down with some chronic skin rash while languishing in PMITA prison.
Was that Gerald's brother? Right nice of him to do that...
I'm thinking of a picture of a house cat walking on a railing toward a seated bald eagle. Caption is: "THIS ought to be good."
Never really expected to see those words (U2, Spiderman, Broadway) in the same sentence. Now I have.
Did they mention anything about the offworld colonies? (A new life awaits you?)
And because otherwise they might let their douchebag license lapse. It was that or start drowning puppies for fun and profit. (OK, just for fun!) But PETA can be such a PITA...
People who lack this, don't exist. At least on this planet.
It's the lie that's right up there with "I'm resigning to spend more time with my family" not "...because I got caught with my pecker in the snack machine."
Then don't tell my modem! It can connect at 50K pretty reliably when my cable company is not having a bad packet day. Of course, I do this to test modems, not because I need dial-up. I even have my Vonage box working with my DirecTivo for its once every few months call out. (After a while, I get tired of it whining at me...)
What's been pissing me off lately is that some calls that are supposed to forward, don't. (I have calls forwarded to my cellphone, and because of the My Circle with Alltel, all calls to Vonage, even those not in my Ten Numbers, count as a free call.) My phone will ring, and I'll see the number on caller-id, but nothing forwards. And there will be no record of the incoming call on Vonage's records. Or some people will report getting "All circuits busy" or "This line is disconnected" messages when they call me.
I've spoken to their tech support, but the problem has always already been fixed, and always will never happen again (it does). Of course, this is after wasting my time with the same diagnostic hokey-pokey as the last time.
I realize not everything is their fault, but at least with a landline, if you have a problem, Bellsouth (or whoever) can't point fingers at somebody else. I had to prove to my cable company once that their routers were dropping packets and causing my Vonage service to drop every third word I spoke.
Reduced crap? I bought an Asus laptop last week, with XP Pro, and there didn't seem to be a whole lot of crap on it. The only thing I had to remove was Norton Insecurity 2006. The recovery CD was not the best I have ever seen, tho... even for a recovery CD. (Really would prefer just the Windows CD and a disk with all my drivers.)
In situations like this, I usually divert power from the transporter room to the shields...
Try SymNRT. Symantec publishes it to remove their software that is too borked up to uninstall the normal way. Go to www.symantec.com/symnrt.
What's the last thing many engineers do? "...And then he flicked the ignition switch."
I hear you. In a museum, those computer kiosks need to be restricted just to the kinds of things it is not practical to demonstrate "live" on-site. Like a Tokamak reactor. Otherwise, you might just as well have stayed home and surfed the same content there.
Imagine going to a live concert, but you get the seats so far from the stage, that you have to watch it on the video screen, with piped-in music. It's kinda like that.
More importantly, it's a toaster that comprises a series of tubes... an international series of tubes.
Even if it passes, and doesn't get smacked down by the Supreme Court, it is unenforcable anywhere but in the US. I suppose these congressbastards think they OWN the whole Interweb?!?
If it's a quantum chip, maybe it exists and doesn't exist.
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We need to find the exception which negates the rule. I propose we spend some tax dollars to find the matching pair of snow flakes.
Perhaps the "Yeah, but..." argument is that it can't be hostile if viewing the materials is essential to your performance of your job. For example, a detective reviewing child porn tapes for evidence collection.
So, when the laptops get lost, the password to the FDE will be conveniently found on a Post-It note stuck to the side of the screen.
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If we could use a system like this to consolidate our gadget power requirements, we could save a lot of money in electricity every year by reducing the number of wasteful DC transformers. (And yes, I know about universal power bricks with an assortment of plugs. Not what I'm talking about.)
The closest approach to this would be one of these AC to USB connector gadgets. Of course this is no good for devices without the capability to charge over USB.
Microsoft patents war. World peace descends as the whole world is tied up in litigation.