True, though I'm pretty sure 99.9% of the population doesn't like random pop ups flying all over their screen. Opera and Mozilla have had a pop up blocker built in for years. Why hasn't IE followed suit? (rhetorical... please don't answer that... )
Pop ups have been a huge problem for users for YEARS and IE has NEVER addressed the issue... that's bad software development.
Considering I'd give IE a 0.5/5.0, there's no debate. The point is to use either of these before you use IE. The failure to patch IE after the Russian hacking debacle was the last straw. All users at my work are now on Firefox or Opera.
Also, I have a lot of "non-techie" friends. You should see the amount of adware/spyware littered on these computers. It makes me sick, and it's all IE's fault (pop-up > get scared > *click* > install > forget > go back to "pop-up"... go to site > install under users' radar > repeat... I'm sick of it). IE sucks.
That's funny, but brings up a good question. Can consumers buy these disks? If so, is there anything that distinguishes these disks from others?
I hate to be at work, pull a disk from the "community cake stack", burn important files to it before I go on a business trip, then realize that they're the 8 hr disks.
They should be required to print some warning on them like they do with cigarettes.
Does this mean cell phone use in the NYC subway system is not far behind? I hate the guy on R who gets that single bar at 34th and decides to exploit it for all of 23 seconds.
"HELLO?"
"HELLO!!!??!??"
"YEAH, I'M ON THE SUBWAY!!!"
"HELLO????!!!"
"SUB!!!! WAY!!!!"
"HELLO????!??"
What prevents the owner of 867-5309 to just agree to forward all calls to the winning bidder? Maybe even transfer the account into the winner's name? We've had satellite offices close and have forwarded the phone/fax numbers to our numbers with no problems whatsoever.
Perhaps he should re-list it without saying he'll transfer "ownership" of the number, but everything else.
he kinda has a point about people taking care of their machines:
A few years ago I was involved in a study to see why some firms experience failure rates that exceed 30 percent for laptop computers, and it came down to the fact that people simply were abusing their machines.
I know a bunch of accounting/business type people who work for big 5 firms and get pretty nice ThinkPads to work with. They treat them like complete sh1t because they look cheap with the boring black square box.
My father is a recently retired physician. He would always tell me to *never* enter the profession due to today's extremely litigious environment. Everybody's always looking to get their piece of the hospital because they see some random medical malpractice story on 20/20. I can't count the number of times my father had to be in court to testify on the behalf of the hospital. He was never involved in a case that didn't go in the Hospital's favor, but going to court on a regular basis is never in the job description. And the insurance costs are pretty ridiculous... I think he had to forfeit around 1/3 of his salary (after taxes, of course) to pay for malpractice insurance alone. It's pretty insane.
So, naturally, I decided to enter the safe, lucrative field of IT:(
Those are like the Darwin Awards filtered for Disney Resorts. Can't blame Disney for their customers being idiots. You can blame them, however, for their roller coaster developers being retards.
I was in the same boat, researching alternatives to TiVo, until Time Warner (very quietly) came out with their own DVR service in my area.
Only $9 extra a month, and *no added cost* for the DVR itself. I just had to exchange converters.
Of course, not all of the bells and whistles of TiVo, mythTV, snapstream - favorites, suggestions, online and WAP enabled phone access, etc - but it's worth it... at least until you find a reason to spend the extra $xxx.xx for the added features of the other guys.
agree for the most part, but how do you know you don't like the commercial until you've seen it once already? i.e. if you see the carrot top commercial come on, you think "I hate this... especially when he goes 'you just dial down the center, 1-800-C-A-L-L-A-T-T'"
at that point, it's too late... they got ya. Can't delete or fast forward that out of your head.
Whatever about 917, my point is that 212 is definitely NOT used for cell phones, so being able to transfer it to a wireless account seems like pretty big news, especially if it's a well established and published number as many are in the City.
Since I'm in a high rise with strict restrictions on placing things outside of my window, all I have to do is get this and sit in the car every Sunday to watch football.
Slashdot Mirror
True, though I'm pretty sure 99.9% of the population doesn't like random pop ups flying all over their screen. Opera and Mozilla have had a pop up blocker built in for years. Why hasn't IE followed suit? (rhetorical... please don't answer that... )
Pop ups have been a huge problem for users for YEARS and IE has NEVER addressed the issue... that's bad software development.
Considering I'd give IE a 0.5/5.0, there's no debate. The point is to use either of these before you use IE. The failure to patch IE after the Russian hacking debacle was the last straw. All users at my work are now on Firefox or Opera.
Also, I have a lot of "non-techie" friends. You should see the amount of adware/spyware littered on these computers. It makes me sick, and it's all IE's fault (pop-up > get scared > *click* > install > forget > go back to "pop-up"... go to site > install under users' radar > repeat... I'm sick of it). IE sucks.
That's funny, but brings up a good question. Can consumers buy these disks? If so, is there anything that distinguishes these disks from others?
I hate to be at work, pull a disk from the "community cake stack", burn important files to it before I go on a business trip, then realize that they're the 8 hr disks.
They should be required to print some warning on them like they do with cigarettes.
Does this mean cell phone use in the NYC subway system is not far behind? I hate the guy on R who gets that single bar at 34th and decides to exploit it for all of 23 seconds.
"HELLO?"
"HELLO!!!??!??"
"YEAH, I'M ON THE SUBWAY!!!"
"HELLO????!!!"
"SUB!!!! WAY!!!!"
"HELLO????!??"
I remember really enjoying Golgo 13, Bionic Commando, and Ninja Gaiden (sp?) growing up.
Remake these games with new graphics, and the cycle continues...
The MPAA has to have the worst website I've ever seen. The flash intro alone is just pathetic.
I could write a better website during my lunch hour.
Unfortunately, Atlantic City still had power and all NJ Transit buses were running.
I lost $300.
The terrorists were Saudis? Let's go to Iraq!
We just landed on Mars? Let's go to the moon!
why would your anchor text not say UCLA? It's not like we wouldn't find out....
What prevents the owner of 867-5309 to just agree to forward all calls to the winning bidder? Maybe even transfer the account into the winner's name? We've had satellite offices close and have forwarded the phone/fax numbers to our numbers with no problems whatsoever.
Perhaps he should re-list it without saying he'll transfer "ownership" of the number, but everything else.
As a fellow New Yorker, I am thoroughly pissed off that I didn't think of this first.
oops. I'll ask slashdot to compile my posts from now on...
I'm shocked to find out that there is profanity in the comments/code. Anybody know specifically what they say? Seems a bit unprofessional.
M$ Programmer: Well, nobody's going to read this anyway, so "\\f*ck this bullsh*t"
For personal projects, this is fine (I've vented a bit in my personal coding projects), but I would never do anything like that at work...
he kinda has a point about people taking care of their machines:
A few years ago I was involved in a study to see why some firms experience failure rates that exceed 30 percent for laptop computers, and it came down to the fact that people simply were abusing their machines.
I know a bunch of accounting/business type people who work for big 5 firms and get pretty nice ThinkPads to work with. They treat them like complete sh1t because they look cheap with the boring black square box.
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to use real people?
They're saying mad-scientist-esque things like "I think it will be perfect again" and calling rocks "Cake."
They've officially lost it.
My father is a recently retired physician. He would always tell me to *never* enter the profession due to today's extremely litigious environment. Everybody's always looking to get their piece of the hospital because they see some random medical malpractice story on 20/20. I can't count the number of times my father had to be in court to testify on the behalf of the hospital. He was never involved in a case that didn't go in the Hospital's favor, but going to court on a regular basis is never in the job description. And the insurance costs are pretty ridiculous... I think he had to forfeit around 1/3 of his salary (after taxes, of course) to pay for malpractice insurance alone. It's pretty insane.
:(
So, naturally, I decided to enter the safe, lucrative field of IT
Those are like the Darwin Awards filtered for Disney Resorts. Can't blame Disney for their customers being idiots. You can blame them, however, for their roller coaster developers being retards.
nobody was hurt.
right after the holiday season?
I was in the same boat, researching alternatives to TiVo, until Time Warner (very quietly) came out with their own DVR service in my area.
Only $9 extra a month, and *no added cost* for the DVR itself. I just had to exchange converters.
Of course, not all of the bells and whistles of TiVo, mythTV, snapstream - favorites, suggestions, online and WAP enabled phone access, etc - but it's worth it... at least until you find a reason to spend the extra $xxx.xx for the added features of the other guys.
agree for the most part, but how do you know you don't like the commercial until you've seen it once already? i.e. if you see the carrot top commercial come on, you think "I hate this... especially when he goes 'you just dial down the center, 1-800-C-A-L-L-A-T-T'"
at that point, it's too late... they got ya. Can't delete or fast forward that out of your head.
Whatever about 917, my point is that 212 is definitely NOT used for cell phones, so being able to transfer it to a wireless account seems like pretty big news, especially if it's a well established and published number as many are in the City.
NYC has a dedicated area code of 917 for cell phones... does this mean I can take the (very highly) coveted 212 number and go wireless with it?
Now I can get DirectTV with the Sunday Ticket!
Since I'm in a high rise with strict restrictions on placing things outside of my window, all I have to do is get this and sit in the car every Sunday to watch football.
All I need now is a car...