...One pissed off stockeroom employee at WalMart with sticky fingers can take home a free $600 worth of music downloads for his friends in his pocket without making much of a bulge.
well, I know that my SAMS CLUB ATT phone card is useless until they SCAN it at the checkout.
maybe they'll use them electronicamable doodads on these cards too.
hey, I don't really care who wins, I just want a good fight!
and how many of these pre-paid Cards will be purchased as GIFTS that never get redeemed?
they either get given to Apple users (who can't use them), or the card gets lost or accidently thrown away.
and if nothing else it builds Brand Awareness.
I can see these being printed up and used as corporate schwag, given away at trade shows to be associated with any number of other products. A one-song card could be stuck in a Cereal Box.
It "arrived" on October 06 2003 and asked about an event in April. I assumed the sender was referring to April 2004 and replied as such.
I got an angry reply telling me to "Check the Date on the Email I Sent You!"
The headers showed October 6. Nothing else! This guy thought I was JUST getting around to checking my email and was really pissed off that I took 6 months to respond to him!
flashed across the screen constantly didn't deter piracy, I don't see how a few colored blobs are going to have any effect.
Why not "personalize" each DVD that is sent out to Acadamy Members?
"Submitted for Your Consideration (insert Acadamy Member Name here)"
The Studios already spend gobs of money on advertising to try to get their pictures nominated for Acadamy Awards, how much more can it cost to personalize a few hundred DVDs?
Note to Jack Valenti: If you use this idea, you can send me personalized copies of all the films too, thank you.
Mostly they call businesses with the same line about "previously" supporting their magazine. usually it is for a Police or Fireman's "support" group, like "The Association for Retired Firefighters" (a real "charity") run out of someone's home in Peoria, IL that most likely keeps 100% of money collected, but prints up maybe one or two copies of a magazine to stay legal). I've asked for a copy of the "magazine" they "print" and they can never seem to provide one.
The ones that call regarding Police fundraisers or support groups will start off sounding very official, like you are receiving a call from the Sheriff's dept about a serious matter. Then you find out they just want a "donation" and they are willing to send an "officer" to your business to PICK IT UP IN PERSON!.
Alot of businesses just immediately cave in and pay something, they think they will get harassed by the Police if they don't pay.
Once I got a very insistant "Police representative" that- when confronted with a "NO" from me regarding "donating" said: "Are you planning to do something illegal?"
???????
There was a recent investigative news story about Telemarketers in Chicago that showed that certain Fraternal Order of Police groups HAD actually hired independent Telemarketers to "raise money" for their group. The Telemarketers kept about 90% of the money and employed ex-cons! One of the Telemarketers that was doing "work" raising money for a Fire Dept's group employed a convicted Arsonist! Apparently it is illegal in Illinois to use ex-cons for Telemarketing work or something and of course the Police Dept claimed they knew nothing about any of it.
When I called the Chicago Police and asked if I should ever consider giving money to anyone representing the Police over the phone, I was told: "NO!"
If anyone watches MI-5 (similar to "24", but involves the British Secret Service), ALL the computers in the entire MI-5 complex are ALL Apple!
Wintel laptops are used as Trojan Horses filled with C4. (no really!)
I've seen a treatment of the final episode of the show, funding is cut and a new manager is brought in who attempts to "modernize" and "standardize" the MI-5 by "upgrading" to Windows boxes.
I will not reveal the ending, but let's just say its not pretty.
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yeah, we go outside,
meet girls,....all kinds of "odd" stuff.
I don't have an Amazon wishlist You Insensitive Clod!
The "new" Longhorn Startup Sound!
I thought Mac users were the ones that belonged to a "cult"
a G4 eMac w/ LCD is $799 NEW.
and that's not a bargain basement closeout like the Dell you bought.
works with the iBook and the iPod
well, I know that my SAMS CLUB ATT phone card is useless until they SCAN it at the checkout.
maybe they'll use them electronicamable doodads on these cards too.
hey, I don't really care who wins, I just want a good fight!
they either get given to Apple users (who can't use them), or the card gets lost or accidently thrown away.
and if nothing else it builds Brand Awareness.
I can see these being printed up and used as corporate schwag, given away at trade shows to be associated with any number of other products.
A one-song card could be stuck in a Cereal Box.
very scary, to say the least. Especially trying to read the screen in the middle of the day.
now I have an iPod, and it's still scary.
But I won't read the paper, or apply makeup while driving, that's too dangerous.
what $80 MP3 player is the equivilent of the iPod?
can your $80 MP3 player also be a media card reader?
Can it also function as voice recorder?
Can your $80 MP3 player also function as a bootable external firewire Hard Drive?
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It "arrived" on October 06 2003 and asked about an event in April. I assumed the sender was referring to April 2004 and replied as such.
I got an angry reply telling me to "Check the Date on the Email I Sent You!"
The headers showed October 6. Nothing else!
This guy thought I was JUST getting around to checking my email and was really pissed off that I took 6 months to respond to him!
I thought this stuff only happened to the USPS.
"Submitted for Your Consideration",
flashed across the screen constantly didn't deter piracy, I don't see how a few colored blobs are going to have any effect.
Why not "personalize" each DVD that is sent out to Acadamy Members?
"Submitted for Your Consideration (insert Acadamy Member Name here)"
The Studios already spend gobs of money on advertising to try to get their pictures nominated for Acadamy Awards, how much more can it cost to personalize a few hundred DVDs?
Note to Jack Valenti: If you use this idea, you can send me personalized copies of all the films too, thank you.
The ones that call regarding Police fundraisers or support groups will start off sounding very official, like you are receiving a call from the Sheriff's dept about a serious matter. Then you find out they just want a "donation" and they are willing to send an "officer" to your business to PICK IT UP IN PERSON!.
Alot of businesses just immediately cave in and pay something, they think they will get harassed by the Police if they don't pay.
Once I got a very insistant "Police representative" that- when confronted with a "NO" from me regarding "donating" said: "Are you planning to do something illegal?"
???????
There was a recent investigative news story about Telemarketers in Chicago that showed that certain Fraternal Order of Police groups HAD actually hired independent Telemarketers to "raise money" for their group.
The Telemarketers kept about 90% of the money and employed ex-cons!
One of the Telemarketers that was doing "work" raising money for a Fire Dept's group employed a convicted Arsonist! Apparently it is illegal in Illinois to use ex-cons for Telemarketing work or something and of course the Police Dept claimed they knew nothing about any of it.
When I called the Chicago Police and asked if I should ever consider giving money to anyone representing the Police over the phone, I was told: "NO!"
It's not illegal though.
Wintel laptops are used as Trojan Horses filled with C4. (no really!)
I've seen a treatment of the final episode of the show, funding is cut and a new manager is brought in who attempts to "modernize" and "standardize" the MI-5 by "upgrading" to Windows boxes.
I will not reveal the ending, but let's just say its not pretty.
I was hoping it fixed the cache problem that seems to be most annoying with eBay (and a few other sites...)