FYI that's not the worst, but my guess is you get connected to the debt department if you enter an account number which is delinquent or whatever, thereby bypassing the beleaguered support folks.
Throughout 2003 and 2004 I had a cellphone account with AT&T Wireless here in Seattle.
Everytime my bill would show up with more charges than I expected (i.e. every month) I'd call the 800 number and would have to listen to many many many minutes of a woman with a croaky "I'm so up-beat and busy I'm losing my voice" voice talk about all the really great services that AT&T Wireless had to offer, all put to some jangly disgusting up-beat "boy band" pop soundtrack.
They used the same voice and music for almost two years and I swear it nearly drove me insane.
The problem was there was no way to avoid having to listen to croaky becuase you had to listen attentively for a human to pick up the call and feebly attempt to fix the problem.
Sometimes I'd have to listen to this stuff for 20 or thirty minutes at a time.
There is a happy ending however. AT&T Wireless got bought by Cingular and the croaky voice, and music, have gone forever because all the bugs with my bill seem to have been fixed so I don't have to call anymore.
Manga produced by American artists is about as realistic as the Hollywod versions of "punks", "drug addicts" and "street kids" they put in family movies.
A recent interview with the BBC has Napster's CEO Duea quoted as saying "The dream is that Napster would work on any PC, any player in any territory and work seamlessly,"
Some dream! Let's face it, it's a great dream if you have a PC, but it still doesn't work on a Mac.
Here's what you get if you want to check out Napster from a Mac:
"We're sorry, Napster is not currently compatible with your operating system.
Napster is currently compatible with Windows XP/2000, Windows 95, Windows NT and the Mac OS are not supported at this time."
at this time meaning since NAPSTER was "reborn" as a legitimate company. So I guess Duea's dream is alive for PC users but dead for all those looser Mac users. What gives NAPSTER? Sounds like you're just a Windows pimp whoring WMA!
What about my super cool iPod. Do your NAPSTER format files, oops sorry, Microsoft format files work on it?
"14. Does Napster work with iPod?
Apple has chosen to keep both the iPod and iTunes closed off from Napster and every other digital music service. Napster's philosophy is different. A Napster Membership gives you more ways to discover and enjoy music on more players. Click here for more information."
How about:
"15. Does Napster work on a Mac?
Napster and Microsoft has chosen to keep both Napster, DRM Enhanced WMA files and over 300 other music stores closed off from the Mac."
This brings to mind the latest iTunes compatible communication device from Motorola which doesn't have a headphone socket. Instead it is rumored to require a bluetooth device with which to experience the stereo audio feed.
If it ends up never having a stereo socket, and subsequent devices don't have an audio output either, we could be seeing the beginnings of a closed system which stops "pirates" in their tracks by sending audio directly to a device which lives inside your ears.
Although there are bluetooth products out there which have audio out, they may soon start becoming scarce if this is indeed how the industry intends to keep music in a closed loop.
"I have this fear that (in true horror movie fashion) that I will look over at the window (dark outside of course) and there will be nothing there, look away and then look back to someone (thing) pressed against the glass."
Call me fickle, but all I can imagine pressing against the window is SpongeBob SquarePants giving me one of his big goofy grins!
"I believe the engine room is pretty thoroughly closed off. We went everywhere we possibly could in the ship, and didn't manage to get anywhere near the engine room. I know, I wanted to get there, too. Who knows, maybe someone will find the right unlocked door sometime... keep trying!"
I had a strange engine room experience once, although not exactly paranormal.
I was travelling to Rotterdam from England on a ship with a band I was in at the time. About halfway across me and the drummer decided to go exploring, so off we went with bottles of beer in hand and several more in a bag (we'd been drinking most of the morning on our way to the ferry terminal so were quite plastered to begin with).
After a while we found ourselves down in the engine room, next to the actual engines, and spent a while looking around at all the machinery. We got lost and finally found a stairwell and started going up.
A couple of gantries and tight stairwells later we realized we were totally lost and couldn't go very far horizontally, so kept going up.
We finally came to a metal door set into the ceiling at the top of a flight of stairs, opened it and suddenly clouds of thick black smoke started filling the space we were in, but we could see daylight and decided to hussle up the stairs and through the door because the smoke was very acrid and, quite frankly, we panicked.
After a few moments coughing and wiping our teary eyes we realized we were standing right next to an array of squat chimneys surrounded by a shoulder high metal wall. We were at the very top of the ship. And upon looking over the wall we noticed the ship had just docked.
That was quite a shock.
We finally made it all the way back to where our tour bus was still parked, because luckily they hadn't started offloading the vehicles, and clambered in as if nothing had happened. We were greeted with much laughter and a mirror so we could see our pitch black and grimy faces staring back.
"All you need is to scan anything that they have printed and copy the hidden code on the page and then use image software to overlay that code onto your own page image and print it using a printer that doesn't embed its own code"
Create multiple layers in photoshop, each with its own secret code. Be sure to title each layer with a name so you don't send Nancy down when it was Joe who looked at you funny that morning last week.
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FYI that's not the worst, but my guess is you get connected to the debt department if you enter an account number which is delinquent or whatever, thereby bypassing the beleaguered support folks.
Throughout 2003 and 2004 I had a cellphone account with AT&T Wireless here in Seattle.
Everytime my bill would show up with more charges than I expected (i.e. every month) I'd call the 800 number and would have to listen to many many many minutes of a woman with a croaky "I'm so up-beat and busy I'm losing my voice" voice talk about all the really great services that AT&T Wireless had to offer, all put to some jangly disgusting up-beat "boy band" pop soundtrack.
They used the same voice and music for almost two years and I swear it nearly drove me insane.
The problem was there was no way to avoid having to listen to croaky becuase you had to listen attentively for a human to pick up the call and feebly attempt to fix the problem.
Sometimes I'd have to listen to this stuff for 20 or thirty minutes at a time.
There is a happy ending however. AT&T Wireless got bought by Cingular and the croaky voice, and music, have gone forever because all the bugs with my bill seem to have been fixed so I don't have to call anymore.
Thank you to whoever fixed my bill.
"I pick mine up in two days. Christ, I'm so excited."
Like Christ gives a fuck!
"Timeo danao et dona ferentes?"
I'm not sure, and the worst part is they painted the whole thing yellow!
"And make no mistake, we are in what future scholars will call the dark ages."
And those scholars will be in what future scholars will call the mauve ages.
The FTC doesn't allow watch marketers to label watches as being waterproof.
Even my fancy Tag Heuer diving watch isn't called waterproof, even though I've washed the pots a few times while wearing it and it still works.
So it's not surprising that Apple isn't calling its new code tamper proof anytime soon.
Manga produced by American artists is about as realistic as the Hollywod versions of "punks", "drug addicts" and "street kids" they put in family movies.
A recent interview with the BBC has Napster's CEO Duea quoted as saying "The dream is that Napster would work on any PC, any player in any territory and work seamlessly,"
Some dream! Let's face it, it's a great dream if you have a PC, but it still doesn't work on a Mac.
Here's what you get if you want to check out Napster from a Mac:
"We're sorry, Napster is not currently compatible with your operating system.
Napster is currently compatible with Windows XP/2000, Windows 95, Windows NT and the Mac OS are not supported at this time."
at this time meaning since NAPSTER was "reborn" as a legitimate company. So I guess Duea's dream is alive for PC users but dead for all those looser Mac users. What gives NAPSTER? Sounds like you're just a Windows pimp whoring WMA!
What about my super cool iPod. Do your NAPSTER format files, oops sorry, Microsoft format files work on it?
"14. Does Napster work with iPod?
Apple has chosen to keep both the iPod and iTunes closed off from Napster and every other digital music service. Napster's philosophy is different. A Napster Membership gives you more ways to discover and enjoy music on more players. Click here for more information."
How about:
"15. Does Napster work on a Mac?
Napster and Microsoft has chosen to keep both Napster, DRM Enhanced WMA files and over 300 other music stores closed off from the Mac."
This brings to mind the latest iTunes compatible communication device from Motorola which doesn't have a headphone socket. Instead it is rumored to require a bluetooth device with which to experience the stereo audio feed.
If it ends up never having a stereo socket, and subsequent devices don't have an audio output either, we could be seeing the beginnings of a closed system which stops "pirates" in their tracks by sending audio directly to a device which lives inside your ears.
Although there are bluetooth products out there which have audio out, they may soon start becoming scarce if this is indeed how the industry intends to keep music in a closed loop.
"I have this fear that (in true horror movie fashion) that I will look over at the window (dark outside of course) and there will be nothing there, look away and then look back to someone (thing) pressed against the glass."
Call me fickle, but all I can imagine pressing against the window is SpongeBob SquarePants giving me one of his big goofy grins!
"I believe the engine room is pretty thoroughly closed off. We went everywhere we possibly could in the ship, and didn't manage to get anywhere near the engine room. I know, I wanted to get there, too. Who knows, maybe someone will find the right unlocked door sometime... keep trying!"
I had a strange engine room experience once, although not exactly paranormal.
I was travelling to Rotterdam from England on a ship with a band I was in at the time. About halfway across me and the drummer decided to go exploring, so off we went with bottles of beer in hand and several more in a bag (we'd been drinking most of the morning on our way to the ferry terminal so were quite plastered to begin with).
After a while we found ourselves down in the engine room, next to the actual engines, and spent a while looking around at all the machinery. We got lost and finally found a stairwell and started going up.
A couple of gantries and tight stairwells later we realized we were totally lost and couldn't go very far horizontally, so kept going up.
We finally came to a metal door set into the ceiling at the top of a flight of stairs, opened it and suddenly clouds of thick black smoke started filling the space we were in, but we could see daylight and decided to hussle up the stairs and through the door because the smoke was very acrid and, quite frankly, we panicked.
After a few moments coughing and wiping our teary eyes we realized we were standing right next to an array of squat chimneys surrounded by a shoulder high metal wall. We were at the very top of the ship. And upon looking over the wall we noticed the ship had just docked.
That was quite a shock.
We finally made it all the way back to where our tour bus was still parked, because luckily they hadn't started offloading the vehicles, and clambered in as if nothing had happened. We were greeted with much laughter and a mirror so we could see our pitch black and grimy faces staring back.
Rock And Roll!!!
hey, those emorangers are pretty cool. I'm gonna send that link to my 6 yr old!
The space shuttle is essentially a capsule also, albeit with a pair of wings.
This really blows my mind. Seeing the center of our Galaxy like this, the point we're all spinning around.
Did anyone figure out where the center of the Universe is yet?
Buy A Cover Fucka'
"What a chicken shit way to attack my post."
It ceased to be your post when you clicked Submit!
Even if I wanted to use Napster on my Mac I couldn't, so it's certainly not getting anywhere near my PC on principal!
This post nails it for me, but no mod points - boo!
How do get Captain Jack from Dr Who?
What world?
"All you need is to scan anything that they have printed and copy the hidden code on the page and then use image software to overlay that code onto your own page image and print it using a printer that doesn't embed its own code"
Create multiple layers in photoshop, each with its own secret code. Be sure to title each layer with a name so you don't send Nancy down when it was Joe who looked at you funny that morning last week.
I print everything upside down!
I'll need them to get rid of the calculator with a multiplication sign so small it looks like a dot!
"They've even got metal detectors for the entrances."
Those are to stop people with iPods from watching "Lost" while Bill is on stage trying to sell Microsoft XP Media Edition!
What's next: "mirrormirrordot.org - solving the mirrordot.org effect"