That would be their first clue that it's a scam. Who buys 100 computers from a "mom and pop" computer store? If I were tasked with investigating the legitmacy of claims, that would jump out at me immediately as suspicious.
I've found the Atlantic (they dropped the "monthly" I guess after going to 10 issues/year) to be the most consistently excellent general magazine around.
It seems to have a pretty intelligent, well-informed and even influential subscriber base. You can tell a lot about a magazine just by reading the letters to the editor. After it published a somewhat disparaging article ("The Fall of the House of Saud", by Robert Baer) on Saudi Arabia's ruling family, the Saudi Embassy's Propaganda Chief, err, I mean "Director of Information" wrote quite a lengthy letter to the editor contesting the article. I doubt he writes many letters to "Details", but hey, I could be wrong.
I used to subscribe to the Economist, but I could never get through an issue before the next week's came. Their often severe editorial slant bothered me at times as well.
As for Wired: at one point I viewed my subscription to Wired as some sort of geek passport, some sort of sign I'd embraced geekdom. But somewhere along the way their articles stopped holding my attention. I don't really miss it.
As a Utahn, my five wives and I make it a point to vote against Orrin when he runs for re-election, but he just enjoys too much support from "the Brethren" in the state to really be in jeopardy of losing.
There's nothing quite as disenfranchising to a voter as living in a state where the vast majority of the electorate consistently, almost numbly, votes the opposite of you...
I've noticed lately that ESPN (which was unbrowsable until I installed the AdBlock extension) has started including flash advertisements that are integrated into their normal banners.
When you go to the ESPN's NBA home page, you get a McDonald's ad for a few seconds, then it reverts to the typical ESPN banner.
This is a clever way of getting around things like AdBlock (whether that was the intent or not). Now I can either deal with the few seconds of advertising, or have a glaring white space on the page because I've blocked the entire flash element. Or not go there at all and finish my work...
I think that using vocal commands is one of the least robust, least efficient, most error-prone ways of interfacing with anything.
Just ask my dogs.
Or my wife.
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I'm pretty sure they were those abominable asexual stem-cells. They sicken me, what with all their reproducing outside the sacred bonds of marriage.
2. Fake receipt for 100 computers I bought...
That would be their first clue that it's a scam. Who buys 100 computers from a "mom and pop" computer store? If I were tasked with investigating the legitmacy of claims, that would jump out at me immediately as suspicious.
It seems to have a pretty intelligent, well-informed and even influential subscriber base. You can tell a lot about a magazine just by reading the letters to the editor. After it published a somewhat disparaging article ("The Fall of the House of Saud", by Robert Baer) on Saudi Arabia's ruling family, the Saudi Embassy's Propaganda Chief, err, I mean "Director of Information" wrote quite a lengthy letter to the editor contesting the article. I doubt he writes many letters to "Details", but hey, I could be wrong.
I used to subscribe to the Economist, but I could never get through an issue before the next week's came. Their often severe editorial slant bothered me at times as well.
As for Wired: at one point I viewed my subscription to Wired as some sort of geek passport, some sort of sign I'd embraced geekdom. But somewhere along the way their articles stopped holding my attention. I don't really miss it.
There's nothing quite as disenfranchising to a voter as living in a state where the vast majority of the electorate consistently, almost numbly, votes the opposite of you...
Our federal government? I live in Antarctica you insensitive clod!
When you go to the ESPN's NBA home page, you get a McDonald's ad for a few seconds, then it reverts to the typical ESPN banner. This is a clever way of getting around things like AdBlock (whether that was the intent or not). Now I can either deal with the few seconds of advertising, or have a glaring white space on the page because I've blocked the entire flash element. Or not go there at all and finish my work...
I think that using vocal commands is one of the least robust, least efficient, most error-prone ways of interfacing with anything. Just ask my dogs. Or my wife.
Its overworked little JVM is probably just garbage collecting...