If a popup annoys me enough, I find the advertisers website, click to their "Contact Us," and send them a scathing note about why I and my kith and kin will not buy their product or service.
I do not know if it does any good, but it makes me feel better.:-)
I did that with Mapblast a few years ago, and got a very nice note in return explaining the situation. Of course, now Mapblast is out of business. Oh, well.
I know the NYT is into everything, but as a writer, it bothers me that one of the nations premiere papers are moving significantly away from their base operation. Printing news is not simply disseminating facts.
The New York Times has been in other things besides its base operation for decades. It already has a medium-sized group of broadcasting (TV and radio) stations, and I think it had some investments in cable or TV production houses at one time.
Expanding its internet presence would seem to be the logical next step for a media company, and one that just about every other large newspaper has already taken. Think about the Chicago Tribune, and all of its TV, radio, internet, and other properties (like KTLA, the WB network, Superstation WGN, CareerBuilder.com, Tribune Studios, etc...) You don't want to have all of your eggs in one basket. What if one day we find out that newspaper ink causes cancer?
> The sad thing is, that because of vested interests (read: public school teacher unions), the parents are going to continue paying for this system they oppose.
Fortunately it was free of charge, so the payments won't be very high.
Free of charge? What planet do you live on where textbooks grow on trees? Here in America, parents pay thousands and thousands of dollars in property taxes to support their local public schools. They also pay federal taxes to pay for other people's public schools. I imagine it's similar in other countries, because I haven't heard of any place where money is free. Money doesn't magically appear in government treasuries. It comes out of the taxpayers -- and one way or another from your wallet.
Wow. I don't think you wiped that statistic after you pulled it out of your ass, because it stinks. Care to cite a source for this?
Speaking as someone who is frequently notified of child molestations and predators because of my line of work, I can say that in my experience you are absolutely wrong about this. Of the 20 or 30 cases that come to my attention each week maybe 1 or 2 are cases where the child knows the abductor/molestor.
...and the sheer speed from my ISP (Verizon still carries news) tells me that they definitely have a beefy news server...
Lucky stiff. I have Verizon Avenue, and they specifically DON'T support newsgroups at all. If it wasn't free (via my landlord) I would defect to another ISP.
Yeah. Corporations are evil. They're all formed by the devil. Let's get rid of them all. Let's start with such evil corporationas the World Wildlife Fund, and The United Way, and the Salvation Army, and Goodwill Industries. Corporations are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm)
people realize that having sattelite radio is stupid when you can have have 2+ weeks worth of songs that are replayable, searchable, and pauseable. I'll take an MP3 player over even the most tricked out sattelite radio.
Wow. Do you have a link to that cool MP3 player that lets me listen to the BBC World Service, and CNN, and PRI, and Radio Budapest and 24-hour local traffic and weather like I can on my Sirius radio? No? Then STFU.
And I believe that by putting the birds is LEO, you can put cheaper, less powerful transmitters on them and still get the same coverage and strength as a geostationary satellite.
People who know more about satellites than just Dish Network understand that this sort of configuration isn't all that rare.
I once saw an animation that showed the Sirius satellites' orbits and what territory they could cover. It appeared from the display that you could use your radio anywhere from the North Pole to Brazil. I know a guy pretty far north in Canada who uses a Sirius radio from the states, and has the account billed to a friend who he pays each month. I'm not sure what the XM footprints are, but I don't think you'd get as big a sweep from two birds in geostationary. I could be very wrong, however.
Here in Wisconsin XM radio (my dad has it in his car) dies anytime there is any sort of obstruction
Those of us who live in civilization get great satellite radio reception because there are terrestrial repeaters in urban areas. I'm four blocks from the Sears Tower in Chicago, and the Sirius reception is fantastic. I've been told there's a Sirius repeater up there. In fact, the reception is so good that I actualy have my antenna wadded up in a bundle of wires behind my stereo nowhere near the window, and I still get three out of three bars. I bet those people in the Amazon.com reviews who are complaining about the bad reception they get from their XM MyFi's probably live in the hinterland, as well.
I did 18 months in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and another year in Green Bay. Now that I live in the city, I really understand why people live in the city. Improved radio reception is one of those many benefits.
Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
I'm glad they fixed this one. I've been burned by this more than a few times. Once I lost an entire Pages document because I closed my Powerbook when I went to make a sandwich.
I'm just waiting for all the faux cranky old men Slashdotters to come out of the woodwork and inform us all that "maps aren't what the internet is for" and preach that Google is bad because they can't view the maps in Lynx, so it's a violation of some 1970's edict they heard about when they were kids in the 90's.
Damned straight. Corporations like the World Wildlife Fund and The United Way and the Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm).
I've heard rumors that Vontage is none too hip to this idea. While the advertise the fact that you can make a call from *anywhere* with an internet connection I've been told they crack down if you use the service too much i.e. if you were to buy a box with a New York number and use it only in London.
As usual, rumors are wrong. When I signed up with Vonage the first time a few years ago, the web site specifically touted the ability to take your Vonage box with you on vacation to other countries and use your home phone number.
I recently signed up with Vonage again, and the ability to have a London phone number ring in my Chicago office has helped my European sales.
You're probably going to be modded into oblivion for that, but good for you for standing up for what you believe.
In Houston a few years ago a cop was shot at a sleazy motel on the Southwest Freeway. He repeatedly called for help, but the person handling his radio traffic at dispatch was hard of hearing and kept sending ambulances to the wrong location. The cop died because help didn't come in time. During the investigation it was revealed that the city knew the dispatcher couldn't hear, but didn't fire or reassign him for fear of a lawsuit.
If you work for a large company, you might be able to get a deal. My company (which will remain nameless) has its own section of the Apple Store online where employees get discounts on personal purchases. And if I can't wait 1-3 days for free shipping, I can always go into a local Apple store and flash my employee ID and get the discount. (I do this all the time now, even for small purchases just to see what the discount is).
The reason I bring this up is that it's often not well publicised within companies. I dropped $4,000 on my 17" Powerbook and accompanying software. Three months later I was transfered to another office in another state where they were more with-it and knew about the discount, but it was too late for me. I could have saved like $600 if I had known about it at my last office.
Agreed. I thought Sidetrack was a neat idea, but unfortunately, it proved too unstable for continued use.
I wonder if the Apple implementation is software or hardware, and if those of us with older machines will be able to take advantage of it in some future update, or Tiger.
There used to be an old DOS program that did just this. Press [SPACE] and it would generate five very real looking American names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Don't like them? Press [SPACE] again and get five more. It was really quite useful.
In my office (about 200 people) there are probably 15 smokers, and of those only three or four do it on company time.
I've always felt that if the company allows smokers to have smoke breaks on company time, it should also allow heroin junkies to have breaks to shoot up on company time. It's just one addiction versus another.
On a more personal note, I think the company should also allow me to have Twinkie breaks on company time, and supply me with Twinkies. Everyone has a monkey on their back. Each one is a little different.
Maybe in Austria? Whenever I go, I'm always surprised by the number of people who smoke in the workplace. And not just in offices. In shops, computer stores, even in grocery stores I've seen workers going about their business while happily puffing on a cancer stick. As an American, I've had "smoking is bad" pounded in my brain so deeply that it takes a while to get used to seeing people smoking in public places like that.
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If a popup annoys me enough, I find the advertisers website, click to their "Contact Us," and send them a scathing note about why I and my kith and kin will not buy their product or service.
:-)
I do not know if it does any good, but it makes me feel better.
I did that with Mapblast a few years ago, and got a very nice note in return explaining the situation. Of course, now Mapblast is out of business. Oh, well.
I know the NYT is into everything, but as a writer, it bothers me that one of the nations premiere papers are moving significantly away from their base operation. Printing news is not simply disseminating facts.
The New York Times has been in other things besides its base operation for decades. It already has a medium-sized group of broadcasting (TV and radio) stations, and I think it had some investments in cable or TV production houses at one time.
Expanding its internet presence would seem to be the logical next step for a media company, and one that just about every other large newspaper has already taken. Think about the Chicago Tribune, and all of its TV, radio, internet, and other properties (like KTLA, the WB network, Superstation WGN, CareerBuilder.com, Tribune Studios, etc...) You don't want to have all of your eggs in one basket. What if one day we find out that newspaper ink causes cancer?
some people feel happy by making other people miserable.
You just described my mother-in-law.
> The sad thing is, that because of vested interests (read: public school teacher unions), the parents are going to continue paying for this system they oppose.
Fortunately it was free of charge, so the payments won't be very high.
Free of charge? What planet do you live on where textbooks grow on trees? Here in America, parents pay thousands and thousands of dollars in property taxes to support their local public schools. They also pay federal taxes to pay for other people's public schools. I imagine it's similar in other countries, because I haven't heard of any place where money is free. Money doesn't magically appear in government treasuries. It comes out of the taxpayers -- and one way or another from your wallet.
90% of child molesters are known by the children.
Wow. I don't think you wiped that statistic after you pulled it out of your ass, because it stinks. Care to cite a source for this?
Speaking as someone who is frequently notified of child molestations and predators because of my line of work, I can say that in my experience you are absolutely wrong about this. Of the 20 or 30 cases that come to my attention each week maybe 1 or 2 are cases where the child knows the abductor/molestor.
...and the sheer speed from my ISP (Verizon still carries news) tells me that they definitely have a beefy news server...
Lucky stiff. I have Verizon Avenue, and they specifically DON'T support newsgroups at all. If it wasn't free (via my landlord) I would defect to another ISP.
Corporations are evil...[blah blah blah]
Yeah. Corporations are evil. They're all formed by the devil. Let's get rid of them all. Let's start with such evil corporationas the World Wildlife Fund, and The United Way, and the Salvation Army, and Goodwill Industries. Corporations are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm)
people realize that having sattelite radio is stupid when you can have have 2+ weeks worth of songs that are replayable, searchable, and pauseable. I'll take an MP3 player over even the most tricked out sattelite radio.
Wow. Do you have a link to that cool MP3 player that lets me listen to the BBC World Service, and CNN, and PRI, and Radio Budapest and 24-hour local traffic and weather like I can on my Sirius radio? No? Then STFU.
And I believe that by putting the birds is LEO, you can put cheaper, less powerful transmitters on them and still get the same coverage and strength as a geostationary satellite.
People who know more about satellites than just Dish Network understand that this sort of configuration isn't all that rare.
I once saw an animation that showed the Sirius satellites' orbits and what territory they could cover. It appeared from the display that you could use your radio anywhere from the North Pole to Brazil. I know a guy pretty far north in Canada who uses a Sirius radio from the states, and has the account billed to a friend who he pays each month. I'm not sure what the XM footprints are, but I don't think you'd get as big a sweep from two birds in geostationary. I could be very wrong, however.
Here in Wisconsin XM radio (my dad has it in his car) dies anytime there is any sort of obstruction
Those of us who live in civilization get great satellite radio reception because there are terrestrial repeaters in urban areas. I'm four blocks from the Sears Tower in Chicago, and the Sirius reception is fantastic. I've been told there's a Sirius repeater up there. In fact, the reception is so good that I actualy have my antenna wadded up in a bundle of wires behind my stereo nowhere near the window, and I still get three out of three bars. I bet those people in the Amazon.com reviews who are complaining about the bad reception they get from their XM MyFi's probably live in the hinterland, as well.
I did 18 months in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and another year in Green Bay. Now that I live in the city, I really understand why people live in the city. Improved radio reception is one of those many benefits.
My uncle makes a hobby of finding airplanes which have crashed
OT, but still -- Coolest. Hobby. Evar. Is there a web site?
Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
I'm glad they fixed this one. I've been burned by this more than a few times. Once I lost an entire Pages document because I closed my Powerbook when I went to make a sandwich.
I'm just waiting for all the faux cranky old men Slashdotters to come out of the woodwork and inform us all that "maps aren't what the internet is for" and preach that Google is bad because they can't view the maps in Lynx, so it's a violation of some 1970's edict they heard about when they were kids in the 90's.
Damned straight. Corporations like the World Wildlife Fund and The United Way and the Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm).
I've heard rumors that Vontage is none too hip to this idea. While the advertise the fact that you can make a call from *anywhere* with an internet connection I've been told they crack down if you use the service too much i.e. if you were to buy a box with a New York number and use it only in London.
As usual, rumors are wrong. When I signed up with Vonage the first time a few years ago, the web site specifically touted the ability to take your Vonage box with you on vacation to other countries and use your home phone number.
I recently signed up with Vonage again, and the ability to have a London phone number ring in my Chicago office has helped my European sales.
You're probably going to be modded into oblivion for that, but good for you for standing up for what you believe.
In Houston a few years ago a cop was shot at a sleazy motel on the Southwest Freeway. He repeatedly called for help, but the person handling his radio traffic at dispatch was hard of hearing and kept sending ambulances to the wrong location. The cop died because help didn't come in time. During the investigation it was revealed that the city knew the dispatcher couldn't hear, but didn't fire or reassign him for fear of a lawsuit.
Actually, I was serious. I put in "Hit men" not "Hit-men". They give different results. I just tried it again and at the top of the list was this:
Show only: Attorneys - Theaters Live Productions
When I put in "Hit Men" in the search box and "Chicago, IL" in the location box it gives me listings for attorneys.
Looks like it works!
If you work for a large company, you might be able to get a deal. My company (which will remain nameless) has its own section of the Apple Store online where employees get discounts on personal purchases. And if I can't wait 1-3 days for free shipping, I can always go into a local Apple store and flash my employee ID and get the discount. (I do this all the time now, even for small purchases just to see what the discount is).
The reason I bring this up is that it's often not well publicised within companies. I dropped $4,000 on my 17" Powerbook and accompanying software. Three months later I was transfered to another office in another state where they were more with-it and knew about the discount, but it was too late for me. I could have saved like $600 if I had known about it at my last office.
Agreed. I thought Sidetrack was a neat idea, but unfortunately, it proved too unstable for continued use. I wonder if the Apple implementation is software or hardware, and if those of us with older machines will be able to take advantage of it in some future update, or Tiger.
There used to be an old DOS program that did just this. Press [SPACE] and it would generate five very real looking American names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Don't like them? Press [SPACE] again and get five more. It was really quite useful.
In my office (about 200 people) there are probably 15 smokers, and of those only three or four do it on company time.
I've always felt that if the company allows smokers to have smoke breaks on company time, it should also allow heroin junkies to have breaks to shoot up on company time. It's just one addiction versus another.
On a more personal note, I think the company should also allow me to have Twinkie breaks on company time, and supply me with Twinkies. Everyone has a monkey on their back. Each one is a little different.
Microsoft and Verizon: "Two great evils that work great together."
Makes me want to eat a peanut butter cup.
Maybe in Austria? Whenever I go, I'm always surprised by the number of people who smoke in the workplace. And not just in offices. In shops, computer stores, even in grocery stores I've seen workers going about their business while happily puffing on a cancer stick. As an American, I've had "smoking is bad" pounded in my brain so deeply that it takes a while to get used to seeing people smoking in public places like that.
At least this 1984 video shows the desktop widgets that Apple stole from Konfabulator in 2004. Wish I had a time machine, too.