I had this happen to me on a website where I was already a customer.
It really startled the hell out of me the first time. Anyway, I was at the site because I was looking through their help files to resolve a problem I was having. Once it became clear that I had already given them money and was looking for help, the guy just vanished.
So not only did they interupt me when I was fine on my own, they left me with a bad feeling knowing they are clearly more interested in getting new customers than helping old ones.
Just because I need to xerox something doesn't mean I have to use that company. The world needed a verb that means `to look for something on the internet' and now it has one.
This is bad, bad news. Now the game is one day closer to being finished which means it's one day closer to when I can buy it, which means it's one day closer to the day I won't be able to leave my computer ever again.
Blizzard game are like the purest of drugs. I got hooked on WarCraft I by a free demo in the store (the first one is always free) and I've been a junkie ever since.
My lowest moment ever was turning down sex with my girlfriend the first week that Warcraft III came out because I didn't want to step away from the game. I fear it will be even worse with World of Warcraft. : (
"People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no worse than they see the stars," he said.
I know I can barely see the stars at all in the city. Is this only going to work to advertise to rural areas?
I hope they are not visible from the city. Given that most advertisers' target audience is young and urban, not being able to see the ads in sky from the city would be a major disincentive.
The day I look up at the moon from the streets of London and see a pepsi logo will be one of the saddest of my life.
Can ANYONE explain the latest craze about social networks like Orkut or Friendster?
While I can't answer why it's a craze right now, I can tell you why I personally like using Orkut.
I've always liked the idea of bulletin boards and discussion groups on the internet, but I found them less than engaging in practice. The main reason for this for me was because they were faceless. I could never remember if I had replied to HMN22's comments before or not -- I could never get a sense of the personalities I was interacting with.
On the communities in Orkut, I can see a picture of the person next to each comment they make. That is a world of difference for me. Now I can much more easily remember if I've interacted with that person before. Also, I can check out their profile and get more of a sense of who they are.
But as I said, that's just why I like it -- I'm sure many others have very different reasons.
I've found that there are very few original thoughts or ideas, and very few people who come up with them. It isn't a matter of plagerism. It's just that there are only so many viable ideas out there. And the more that are already taken, the harder it is to come up with a new one. If you reach too far just to have an original thought, then you end up a wacko.
It's like my physics teacher said, `It was a lot easier to be a science teacher in the past.'
I don't do it on my blog, but I hear that a popular way for bloggers to pretend to be in the know is to use the Technorati Current Events list to find things to post about. Then they pretend as though they found it themselves or an insider on the event emailed them the link.
Americans more ignorant about the American politcal system than Europeans?
As an American living in London I can say from first had experience this is true.
I remember having a conversation with a friend from France when she was explaining to me the details of the California recall vote. At which point I admitted to her that I knew absolutely nothing about the French political system. Do they have a King? I wouldn't know.
To my surprise, she wasn't the least bit surprised. She made a comment that I will always remember. "The politics of the United States affects the rest of the world, but the politics of the rest of the world does not affect the United States."
Anyone else get the feeling that there weren't many people who entered? I love creative commons, but I do not think that these videos are very impressive.
Boy, I'd love to be the author of that article. He just keeps making money selling it over and over again. In addition the paper's owners must take note of his name when it draws a metric herd of slashdotters.
Slashdot Mirror
I had this happen to me on a website where I was already a customer.
It really startled the hell out of me the first time. Anyway, I was at the site because I was looking through their help files to resolve a problem I was having. Once it became clear that I had already given them money and was looking for help, the guy just vanished.
So not only did they interupt me when I was fine on my own, they left me with a bad feeling knowing they are clearly more interested in getting new customers than helping old ones.
-Colin
Now I'll have to say `just browsing' on every webpage I visit and in every brick and morter store I visit.
Thanks a lot.
-Colin
Just because I need to xerox something doesn't mean I have to use that company. The world needed a verb that means `to look for something on the internet' and now it has one.
-Colin
Anyone else think slashdot should always include a BitTorrent seed when pointing to a huge file?
-Colin
It wasn't a proud moment, but it happened.
Remarkably, we stayed togeather for a long time afterward. I was very lucky. : )
This is bad, bad news. Now the game is one day closer to being finished which means it's one day closer to when I can buy it, which means it's one day closer to the day I won't be able to leave my computer ever again.
Blizzard game are like the purest of drugs. I got hooked on WarCraft I by a free demo in the store (the first one is always free) and I've been a junkie ever since.
My lowest moment ever was turning down sex with my girlfriend the first week that Warcraft III came out because I didn't want to step away from the game. I fear it will be even worse with World of Warcraft. : (
-Colin
But all the major location based services only work in the US.
I declair a race: First one to search the world.
Ready...
Set...
Go!
-Colin
For comparison, the dumbed down movie versions are:
1) They cannot hurt us
2) They must do what we say.
3) They can defend themselves.
Asimov also had a Zeroth Law: A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
The movie's Zeroth Law is: Rules are made to be broken.
: (
-Colin
In addition, to the higher standard of living in Indian, they had the opportunity to buy a house (impossible in Britain on their wages) and a family
How much would it cost to buy a family in Britain as opposed to India?
-Colin
"People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no worse than they see the stars," he said. I know I can barely see the stars at all in the city. Is this only going to work to advertise to rural areas?
I hope they are not visible from the city. Given that most advertisers' target audience is young and urban, not being able to see the ads in sky from the city would be a major disincentive.
The day I look up at the moon from the streets of London and see a pepsi logo will be one of the saddest of my life.
-Colin
Trust me you are the soap opera for my office :)
How do you mean that? -Colin
Shouldn't this violate some sort of International Space Law?
Even if if didn't violate a law, there are some things so repugnant that they shouldn't be done.
-Colin
Can ANYONE explain the latest craze about social networks like Orkut or Friendster?
While I can't answer why it's a craze right now, I can tell you why I personally like using Orkut.
I've always liked the idea of bulletin boards and discussion groups on the internet, but I found them less than engaging in practice. The main reason for this for me was because they were faceless. I could never remember if I had replied to HMN22's comments before or not -- I could never get a sense of the personalities I was interacting with.
On the communities in Orkut, I can see a picture of the person next to each comment they make. That is a world of difference for me. Now I can much more easily remember if I've interacted with that person before. Also, I can check out their profile and get more of a sense of who they are.
But as I said, that's just why I like it -- I'm sure many others have very different reasons.
-Colin
Great, the last thing I want is to have to ignore a friend request from Hamlet on Orkut. That guy is so whiney and needy.
Now if only I could think of a clever way to start emailing Juliet.
-Colin
see Shakespeare in an entirely new light.
No thanks. My high school english classes did a good job of making sure that I'd never enjoy classic works.
There's no way to make someone hate reading faster than english classes.
-Colin
I've found that there are very few original thoughts or ideas, and very few people who come up with them. It isn't a matter of plagerism. It's just that there are only so many viable ideas out there. And the more that are already taken, the harder it is to come up with a new one. If you reach too far just to have an original thought, then you end up a wacko.
It's like my physics teacher said, `It was a lot easier to be a science teacher in the past.'
-Colin
I don't do it on my blog, but I hear that a popular way for bloggers to pretend to be in the know is to use the Technorati Current Events list to find things to post about. Then they pretend as though they found it themselves or an insider on the event emailed them the link.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein.
Nobody wants electronic voting without a verifiable system of reciepts.
I can think of one guy.
Americans more ignorant about the American politcal system than Europeans?
As an American living in London I can say from first had experience this is true.
I remember having a conversation with a friend from France when she was explaining to me the details of the California recall vote. At which point I admitted to her that I knew absolutely nothing about the French political system. Do they have a King? I wouldn't know.
To my surprise, she wasn't the least bit surprised. She made a comment that I will always remember. "The politics of the United States affects the rest of the world, but the politics of the rest of the world does not affect the United States."
-Colin
I slept with your wife.
Anyone else get the feeling that there weren't many people who entered? I love creative commons, but I do not think that these videos are very impressive.
-Colin
And a thousand nerds stand by ready to be the first to get gandalf@googlemail.com and billg@googlemail.com.
-Colin
Boy, I'd love to be the author of that article. He just keeps making money selling it over and over again. In addition the paper's owners must take note of his name when it draws a metric herd of slashdotters.
::Walks off to write an article about virii::
-Colin
First time from wired... it's a story.
Second time on NYT... it's a dupe.
Third time on the observer... it's a trupe?
-Colin