now why is a company not notifying it's users in an email or in any form of the service policy change?
I mean i have 2million people to sign up to my free service, but i require a credit card to "verify" them...
then i change the TOS and charge them 100 recurring monthly....
now is it ethical, moral, legal?
Or i just pot a line in there:
"and you agree that all your good belong to us, and we can sell your sisters an wives to aliens"
I MEAN COME ON!
change a policy, but notify the users!
Also a thought: why don't just people use an irc service, on a sign-up/user id base... we could also get rid of html, smiley translation, and all that new-wave crap and just MESSAGE each other the old-skool way....
If i could convince my friends/co-workers/business partners to use IRC i would pay a small fee to have a uniq ID, and be able to use IRC-HTML cgi, use it from bitchx, mirc, whatever my OS supports, and not be worried about a transfer or a non-supported request crashing my linux/bsd whatever 3rd party client...
maybe i am just old, and like that character based thing with ansi:)
ascii art motd rulez... but explain it to average jo who uses msn to transmit confidential company data/logins
maybe run a nice script to have an index in a db on the sender/title....
or standard mailbox, and then make a bootable minilinux with pine (mozilla/whatever) on the same media (use vmware or similar to access it from non unix systems...
actually my mailbox is just a growing junk collection, and have to do something with that too... and hey, i even have stuff from the bbs times with quickmail, or bluemail.... or whatever it was called:)
or just export the mail addresses and delete the whole thing:)
except the rainy season.. on the other hand it is less painfull than the winter months of good ol' Europe....
but then again, yes.....if you run (a) business(es) online and live here, that is pretty OK.
If you have to deal with local companies and agencies, that heaven can turn into hell.... for an unpatient european like me or for an unpatient gringo (like most on./)
ICE is the name of the only telco in Costa Rica. They provide internet, phone landline and cell.
Just to give an idea, GSM network just ran out of free lines, waiting period for a landline in suburban (not off the grid) areas is 6+ months.
I am renting an office to have net, because at my place there is no landline, nor 2-way cable (so you need a modem with dial up and cable, the latter DL the phone for upstream comms)
Back to the topic: Costa Rica has ONLINE casinos, sportsbooks, bingo halls, and they ALL use VOIP. Call centers use VOIP. If you make an emergency call int he states and do not speek english, there is a chance, that the call is directed here to a translator OVER VOIP.
I use VOIP to talk to good ol' europe, since the minute rate is $1 + to e.g. Hungary, and almost 2$ the other way.
ICE people do not like to work. They like to strike, and every time they mention privatizing the company, they go to the street and there is no service (there is phone, but no customer service, so if a line breaks or whatever pain you have, you are fsckd)
Well but hey, there is no snowstorms here, just occasional quakes...
Ahm why they won't put it thru? The casino industry gives 1000s of jobs to students, so do other companyes who USE VOIP.
I am not worried... on the other hand: I just tunnel it to my server on an unusual port as it was streaming whatever, and they can come and look really close and still see nothing:)
while popups are a pain in the rear, i hate the dhtml/css techniques that place an ad anywhere inside my open window of the browser....
while the popup usually have a real wm (window manager) created border, these suckers can have a fake border that can open windows, post forms, do whatever they are programmed to do, when you just try to click the close button...
good news is that usually they mimic windows borders, so the just do not really fit into my gnome without saying "i am fake"
did i mention that these sometimes just make a mess in other browsers since lame webmasters only test them in IE ?
use links/lynx on the other hand:) if someone makes a popup for that i shake his/ger hand:)
yeyeye! or a faraday cage for my head for the daytime too...
actually as i heard the tinfoil is good for ufo mindcontrol stuff... hmm maybe i just build a dome and tinfoil + mesh-wire cover it.... but then earth radiation will reflect back at me as it was a huge dish... not good... maybe i just leave that planet alltogether..... information overload... all these signals everywhere.... and that cellphone... but wait i move to costa rica to avoid all that.. and now the local telco wants to seel me dsl.... maybe it is better than that gprs horror i'm logged on right now... but hey since it is experimental i get FREE BRAIN TUMOR with my internet:(
i am planning a house too, and i will put my bedroom in a faraday cage. cellphone signals, computer radiation, high/low voltage cabling radiation goes byebye...
if you plan it nicely you can still have your tv stuff there, just use a projector with mirrored image (back projection)
why? just think of your office, the phone in your pocket... the phones next to you...
now you sleep 6-8 hours, at least have all the bad stuff shielded from you and your family - especially small kids....
on the other hand i always wanted a sensor like in johnny mnemonic that tells me the water temperature when i open the tap:) or be able to tell the tap if i want drinking cold or showering hot.....
hmmm.. well a motion detector that places a nice red dot on anyone entering the area would be cool too...
more seriously: i really like the ideo of the house to be in different states depending on time and the number of people being home to automate lights (dicro filter is a nice touch for colour)/.. also temperature control depending on users... maybe have r2d2 bring my coffe or protein shake after my excercise
Like a year ago i was looking for a usenet based solution for a project.... a bbs/discussion board + messaging (and other stuff) with a news server as the main "engine" under the hood....
first i was asked by various friends: "what do you think ? it is not the nineties... no one uses usenet and news anymore"
then i wanted to read usenet/news... to check what was up....
free services GONE, the ones only with a web gateway offering limited amount of news... or servers also offering limited amount of newsgroups....
and I realised: usenet was dead....
but why ? really someone tell me why ? it was a beautiful service when everyone had public access from wherever...... hey there could be popular things like blog-to-news gateways, or blogs using nntp as their engine... or rss feeds......
dunno, it just plain sucks.
well maybe i am nineties...
i would still put up a bbs pcboard style with ftp virtual modem running on os/2........ but who would visit it when you have that flash enabled world of maybe not even me:)
First I thought the beauty of the net was to follow links, to get deeper and deeper, to seek more info to
Then I realised that some of my sites are penalized by search engines because people add my sites to link farms and send the typical "i added your beautiful site to my homepage where i sell viagra, please put my link whereever and reply" mail arrives and makes me MAD....
so if it is a SEO reason i can partly understand them, if it is not then DO NOT RUN a SITE if you do not want links pointing at you.
other solution: if $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is outta your domain/site ----> exit|errormessage|whatever U want
Or maybe they cannot restrict access to (supposedly) password protected areas so they tell the user not to bring links to the site ?
the information booth on the corner down the beach DOES NOT sell a valid service, only gives flyers (similar to LINKS)... and tells you what you can do when you go to the local paintball field, or to the rafting adventure, or bungie jumping.
They do not actually provide the trills of the experience, they just aggregate what could happen into tiny brochures....
similar service isn't it ? On the other hand I agree, that site is crap, and it is not acceptable business practice:)
i see "botclick refunds" even on pageseeker ppc engine
ps: the other hand wget is your friend: wget --user-agent="Whatever browser 100.1"
from any host (hey even remote controlled zombie pcs can click your ads with different versions from different countries:) noo, it is just my dirty mind, i don't do stuff like that... unless someone starts selling zombies under 0.001 apiece
yourmailwithgooglekeyword|procmail -magic -parameters | mysql_insert "output" => website with nice msql_query.... robots.txt -> do not allow googlebot.... put overture ads !
OK, now do the same with other news alert (OR include a msn rss feed, or just query with wget at insert it into a huge SEO SPAM database) put adsense + aggregate some feeds with your own php aggregator (that replaces your links with ads or just puts your affiliate ids)...
make $$ be happy...
now the problem starts when you try to advertise on PPC engines such as adwords or overture and ALL YOUR traffic comes from these similar JUNK CRAP SITES....
i am a happy affiliate, and yes, honestly i am thinking oif implementing stuff like that (not with adsense, but to improve SERPS) because i can see that the first 3 pages on all engines are ruled by these dirt result oriented automated content engines and link networks.
hmm, maybe i am an upset affiliate... because you cannot build a useful site anymore and have a profit while giving a service, you have to optimize 1 site 3 ways for 3 engines so you can keep up with these people who have 200 sites with the same content organized differently JUST for SEO...
ahm well, i also know people who buy $0.05 ads to drive traffic to sites where they host $2+ ads, and 10 of them with little/no content.
google makes a cut, and unless you bitch about the crap traffic they deliver, they do not care too much as long you do not have porn or gambling and your site looks better same/than a 5yearold's first creation with frontpage...
Ahha... well i agree that guns should be regulated and yaddayadda.... but i would not trust a gun like that...
a gun takes lotsa abuse, and if the accuracy of the scans is only 90% than it might just furtther degrade especially in situations where you really need a gun....
thos situations can be muddy, rainy, dirty, hell even bloody... and bouncy.... when you drop a 9mm probably there is no harm... try it with a mid calss few-hundred bucks paintball gun... see what happens to the electronic loader, see how electronic grips jam up in rain... and so on....
dunno i am really c omputerized person, but when i have to draw a gun i don't want to have the slightest chance that it does not scan me right... it is a little more mission critical than my pda not booting or needing a reboot...
... and I want everyone near me to wear a device that emits a thick purple smoke every time the person farts..... too much beans here in Costa Rica:)
more seriously: what about my digital camera (nikon) that does not make a sound, and almost as small as my phone ? What about non digitals, that are quiet ? seriously, what if my phone does not flash ? What if I duct-tape it so it does not flash ?
Let's just enforce more shit everywhere on people, we do not have enogh crap regulations, let's invent a few !!! yeee
once my modem just started to smell.. and i really needed net (many years ago i barely had access to broadband)... anyway it was a discovery 14.4k external.... I needed the connection fast.. so I was running back and forht the deepfreezer... then reconnect until i had to go to chill again....
after many reconnects it just started to make a wierd electric short sound, and a thick smoke told me that freezing won't help anymore.... a transformer blew.....
I also remember freeze/cooling a wifi card with no success, that one I might have fried with an always overheating vaio pcmcia socket:(
cooling a hdd: to save data... I do not want to see the condensation when you put it in a pc and turn it on next to a athlon 2800 with a slighly messed up fan... must look like the peltier-s in mid summer... loved how the whole mb just swam in water frying every single circuit exposed:)
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2 things I have to fight with:
halo 2 is soo clumsy, you feel like really wearing that 10 ton suit, while your dual wielded weapons cover 50% of the screen... ok maybe i need better than my 32'....
ATMOSPHERE: well for me atmosphere is doom 3... or chronicles of riddick... or something that you feel like smelling touching... halo and halo 2 are deserted... I just felt like walking in artificial spaces, and sterile environments.... eg sw battlefront has nicer fields and interiors than that emptiness...
Vehicle combat : just hate the idea of seeing 3rd person in a 1st person shooter...
While riddick made the mistake of 3rd personizing ladder moves... it did a good job with that robot you can climb into....
no head move: i dunno, do we just float ? like in wolfenstein3d ?
I enjoy halo 2 as a little shooting excercise, however it just does not take me there where I am with other games...
ahm yep science fiction games rule.... but wait... I am shooting big pink monsters with weapons that make "piu-piu" and emit lightgreen goo-laser...
Ohh, did not know it was 90 days. Here in central america Xboxes come chipped with 90 days, and in larger stores they come (unchipped) and 1 year warranty (I think)
Yes 90 days is a joke, but when I buy a computer I expect at least a FAN to die within a year, on the other hand when I buy an entertainment component I expect not to touch it for at least 3 years (not even open it for cleaning)
yep, they slashed all the RELEVANT results with the vanilla update, so all those who are serious now have to fight over $1+ US/click on googleads.
They make extra with adsense too...
in the meanwhile I tend to search on yahoo more and more since on google the usable results fall back on the 10+ page range many times..
I really keyword/title my sites so it is relevant to the search and content, and still I see results that are not even about the subject.... seems that they are using a "reverse ranking" the more relevant the further from the top...
yes mod me down I am just a looser whoi lost his rankings, and now I am upset....
wohohooo... time to sell passport covers that shield against rfid scans.... if all the US buys one, you can make a huge profit..... I am calling indoa right now to outsource the production of... hmmm how many passports are in the US.... whatever...
on the other hand, you can many times pinpoint an american tourist, but not a diplomat, or an important person to capture/kill (the really important ones never leave their cars/guards and WILL HAVE an EXCUSE from an RFID'd password)
ps: I hate when they think I am "gringo" I am european living in Costa Rica... but now! but now! they just scan me, and see that I am no gringo !! viva rfid:)
I remember having an alpha server under my desk at a workplace (someone ordered it and did not pay)
while my pc ran linux, for fun I had the alpha for NT and some stuff... it was relatively old (2-3 years older than the new pc's) still it was busting all the others with any application speed....
While I would use linux/unix on pc, I would really enjoy running it on "exotic" architecture....
i would keep windows on the pc, as personally i only use it for gaming (i would if i did not have a ps2 and an xbox) and for stuff that does not run on windows (some idiotic apps for idioticly crippled protocols, and some devices with a windows only driver and software)....
actually I am on the track for years to eliminate windows even from my virtual machine window, but since some service providers are so retarded that they require windows (eg my banking only works in IE, not moz, ff or opera)... i keep it in that virtual place where it belongs to...
So running it on a "nice hardware" ? NO WAY.... if some new plane sims come out, I might get a gaming PC, and run a stripped minimal install of w2k on it......
Good: i had 1 year bossing over designers and marketers (and doing some it) myself Lotsa lunch/coffee breaks, check design-approve or puke on it
Bad: if you have many techs, you might end up working your ass off correcting your people's mistakes, because at the end U are responsible
I tend to stress: people are pushing deadlines, I am ready early and go home early.... when you are like me, other people's "last minute finishes" stress you out, do not become a manager..... or find the few, that work first, party later.....
Bosses: make sure your bosses are not tech wannabes..... a boss that think he knows it all, might be worse than anything.... when they try to explain things to you, you know are totally bs.
Your crew of idiots: the marketing department... sorry.... MAKE SURE THEY DO NOT SELL STUFF THAT DOES NOT EXIST ! or cnnot be made...
I had to deal with projects that just did not have a solution, but some idiot sold it....
one of my favourites were, when they sold a 4 participant video conference solution for phone lines...... sure it worked between 2 points on ISDN and over IP it supported 4 participants (with some upgrade).... but they sold it for analog phone lines and promised high quality video + audio...
merketing person: "but you guys can installin can't you, you are so smart" us:" #$%@$#%^&@$%^"
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now why is a company not notifying it's users in an email or in any form of the service policy change?
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:) ... but explain it to average jo who uses msn to transmit confidential company data/logins
I mean i have 2million people to sign up to my free service, but i require a credit card to "verify" them
then i change the TOS and charge them 100 recurring monthly
now is it ethical, moral, legal?
Or i just pot a line in there:
"and you agree that all your good belong to us, and we can sell your sisters an wives to aliens"
I MEAN COME ON!
change a policy, but notify the users!
Also a thought: why don't just people use an irc service, on a sign-up/user id base
we could also get rid of html, smiley translation, and all that new-wave crap and just MESSAGE each other the old-skool way
If i could convince my friends/co-workers/business partners to use IRC i would pay a small fee to have a uniq ID, and be able to use IRC-HTML cgi, use it from bitchx, mirc, whatever my OS supports, and not be worried about a transfer or a non-supported request crashing my linux/bsd whatever 3rd party client
maybe i am just old, and like that character based thing with ansi
ascii art motd rulez
and just store the whole thing on cd/dvd/tape..
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... and hey, i even have stuff from the bbs times with quickmail, or bluemail .... or whatever it was called :)
:)
maybe run a nice script to have an index in a db on the sender/title
or standard mailbox, and then make a bootable minilinux with pine (mozilla/whatever) on the same media (use vmware or similar to access it from non unix systems
actually my mailbox is just a growing junk collection, and have to do something with that too
or just export the mail addresses and delete the whole thing
HAHA :) you are right my friend....
.. on the other hand it is less painfull than the winter months of good ol' Europe ....
.....if you run (a) business(es) online and live here, that is pretty OK.
.... for an unpatient european like me or for an unpatient gringo (like most on ./)
except the rainy season
but then again, yes
If you have to deal with local companies and agencies, that heaven can turn into hell
i live on a shared ip with a bunch of others :) ...
:)
:)
if they delay my packets my ssh shells and other things will be laggy too
well i can always pack my stuff and hop over the border to whatever direction
on the other hand it takes a week for them to figure out a simple problem, so delaying my packets might happen in 2010
ICE is the name of the only telco in Costa Rica.
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... on the other hand: I just tunnel it to my server on an unusual port as it was streaming whatever, and they can come and look really close and still see nothing :)
They provide internet, phone landline and cell.
Just to give an idea, GSM network just ran out of free lines, waiting period for a landline in suburban (not off the grid) areas is 6+ months.
I am renting an office to have net, because at my place there is no landline, nor 2-way cable (so you need a modem with dial up and cable, the latter DL the phone for upstream comms)
Back to the topic: Costa Rica has ONLINE casinos, sportsbooks, bingo halls, and they ALL use VOIP.
Call centers use VOIP.
If you make an emergency call int he states and do not speek english, there is a chance, that the call is directed here to a translator OVER VOIP.
I use VOIP to talk to good ol' europe, since the minute rate is $1 + to e.g. Hungary, and almost 2$ the other way.
ICE people do not like to work. They like to strike, and every time they mention privatizing the company, they go to the street and there is no service (there is phone, but no customer service, so if a line breaks or whatever pain you have, you are fsckd)
Well but hey, there is no snowstorms here, just occasional quakes
Ahm why they won't put it thru? The casino industry gives 1000s of jobs to students, so do other companyes who USE VOIP.
I am not worried
while popups are a pain in the rear, i hate the dhtml/css techniques that place an ad anywhere inside my open window of the browser....
:) if someone makes a popup for that i shake his/ger hand :)
while the popup usually have a real wm (window manager) created border, these suckers can have a fake border that can open windows, post forms, do whatever they are programmed to do, when you just try to click the close button...
good news is that usually they mimic windows borders, so the just do not really fit into my gnome without saying "i am fake"
did i mention that these sometimes just make a mess in other browsers since lame webmasters only test them in IE ?
use links/lynx on the other hand
yeyeye! ...
... hmm maybe i just build a dome and tinfoil + mesh-wire cover it .... but then earth radiation will reflect back at me as it was a huge dish ... not good ... maybe i just leave that planet alltogether ..... information overload ... all these signals everywhere .... and that cellphone ... but wait i move to costa rica to avoid all that .. and now the local telco wants to seel me dsl .... maybe it is better than that gprs horror i'm logged on right now ... but hey since it is experimental i get FREE BRAIN TUMOR with my internet :(
or a faraday cage for my head for the daytime too
actually as i heard the tinfoil is good for ufo mindcontrol stuff
i am planning a house too, and i will put my bedroom in a faraday cage.
...
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:) or be able to tell the tap if i want drinking cold or showering hot .....
.. well a motion detector that places a nice red dot on anyone entering the area would be cool too ...
...
cellphone signals, computer radiation, high/low voltage cabling radiation goes byebye...
if you plan it nicely you can still have your tv stuff there, just use a projector with mirrored image (back projection)
why? just think of your office, the phone in your pocket... the phones next to you
now you sleep 6-8 hours, at least have all the bad stuff shielded from you and your family - especially small kids
on the other hand i always wanted a sensor like in johnny mnemonic that tells me the water temperature when i open the tap
hmmm
more seriously: i really like the ideo of the house to be in different states depending on time and the number of people being home to automate lights (dicro filter is a nice touch for colour)/..
also temperature control depending on users
maybe have r2d2 bring my coffe or protein shake after my excercise
Like a year ago i was looking for a usenet based solution for a project .... ....
... to check what was up....
... ....
....
...... hey there could be popular things like blog-to-news gateways, or blogs using nntp as their engine ... ......
...
........ but who would visit it when you have that flash enabled world of maybe not even me :)
a bbs/discussion board + messaging (and other stuff) with a news server as the main "engine" under the hood
first i was asked by various friends: "what do you think ? it is not the nineties... no one uses usenet and news anymore"
then i wanted to read usenet/news
free services GONE, the ones only with a web gateway offering limited amount of news
or servers also offering limited amount of newsgroups
and I realised: usenet was dead
but why ? really someone tell me why ?
it was a beautiful service when everyone had public access from wherever
or rss feeds
dunno, it just plain sucks.
well maybe i am nineties
i would still put up a bbs pcboard style with ftp virtual modem running on os/2
First I thought the beauty of the net was to follow links, to get deeper and deeper, to seek more info to
....
....
Then I realised that some of my sites are penalized by search engines because people add my sites to link farms and send the typical "i added your beautiful site to my homepage where i sell viagra, please put my link whereever and reply" mail arrives and makes me MAD
so if it is a SEO reason i can partly understand them, if it is not then DO NOT RUN a SITE if you do not want links pointing at you.
other solution: if $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is outta your domain/site ----> exit|errormessage|whatever U want
Or maybe they cannot restrict access to (supposedly) password protected areas so they tell the user not to bring links to the site ?
makes me wonder
./ relies of people actually going to ./ and entering crap ..
:) and capitalizes on the stupidity of SE bots ...
:)
that guy copy+pastes google news alerts (or just pipes sendmail into apache
similar, but completely different
the information booth on the corner down the beach DOES NOT sell a valid service, only gives flyers (similar to LINKS) ... and tells you what you can do when you go to the local paintball field, or to the rafting adventure, or bungie jumping.
....
:)
They do not actually provide the trills of the experience, they just aggregate what could happen into tiny brochures
similar service isn't it ?
On the other hand I agree, that site is crap, and it is not acceptable business practice
respect to google for filtering bot clicks ...
... unless someone starts selling zombies under 0.001 apiece
i see "botclick refunds" even on pageseeker ppc engine
ps: the other hand wget is your friend:
wget --user-agent="Whatever browser 100.1"
from any host (hey even remote controlled zombie pcs can click your ads with different versions from different countries:)
noo, it is just my dirty mind, i don't do stuff like that
yes you are right, you have to do this :
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... got mad ... just mod me down :(
subscribe for news alerts on google
yourmailwithgooglekeyword|procmail -magic -parameters | mysql_insert "output" => website with nice msql_query
robots.txt -> do not allow googlebot
put overture ads !
OK, now do the same with other news alert (OR include a msn rss feed, or just query with wget at insert it into a huge SEO SPAM database)
put adsense + aggregate some feeds with your own php aggregator (that replaces your links with ads or just puts your affiliate ids)
make $$ be happy
now the problem starts when you try to advertise on PPC engines such as adwords or overture and ALL YOUR traffic comes from these similar JUNK CRAP SITES
i am a happy affiliate, and yes, honestly i am thinking oif implementing stuff like that (not with adsense, but to improve SERPS) because i can see that the first 3 pages on all engines are ruled by these dirt result oriented automated content engines and link networks.
hmm, maybe i am an upset affiliate... because you cannot build a useful site anymore and have a profit while giving a service, you have to optimize 1 site 3 ways for 3 engines so you can keep up with these people who have 200 sites with the same content organized differently JUST for SEO
ahm well, i also know people who buy $0.05 ads to drive traffic to sites where they host $2+ ads, and 10 of them with little/no content.
google makes a cut, and unless you bitch about the crap traffic they deliver, they do not care too much as long you do not have porn or gambling and your site looks better same/than a 5yearold's first creation with frontpage
sorry got long
Ahha ... well i agree that guns should be regulated and yaddayadda .... but i would not trust a gun like that ...
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... and bouncy .... when you drop a 9mm probably there is no harm ... try it with a mid calss few-hundred bucks paintball gun ... ... ....
... ...
a gun takes lotsa abuse, and if the accuracy of the scans is only 90% than it might just furtther degrade especially in situations where you really need a gun
thos situations can be muddy, rainy, dirty, hell even bloody
see what happens to the electronic loader, see how electronic grips jam up in rain
and so on
dunno i am really c omputerized person, but when i have to draw a gun i don't want to have the slightest chance that it does not scan me right
it is a little more mission critical than my pda not booting or needing a reboot
If they cannot protect their pix from someone jut going there and watching them then they are ultra lame !!
All pix should be served with a cgi/php/ (or whatever output your cubehead prefers ), and authentication should be checked.
Everyone knows that, instead of suing google, they should kick their tech crew's ass (and hire me)
also as mentioned : yes there is robots.txt and google obeys them (unlike other suckers)
... and I want everyone near me to wear a device that emits a thick purple smoke every time the person farts ..... too much beans here in Costa Rica :)
more seriously: what about my digital camera (nikon) that does not make a sound, and almost as small as my phone ?
What about non digitals, that are quiet ?
seriously, what if my phone does not flash ?
What if I duct-tape it so it does not flash ?
Let's just enforce more shit everywhere on people, we do not have enogh crap regulations, let's invent a few !!! yeee
once my modem just started to smell .. and i really needed net (many years ago i barely had access to broadband) ... .... .. so I was running back and forht the deepfreezer ... then reconnect until i had to go to chill again ....
.... a transformer blew .....
:(
... I do not want to see the condensation when you put it in a pc and turn it on next to a athlon 2800 with a slighly messed up fan ... must look like the peltier-s in mid summer ... loved how the whole mb just swam in water frying every single circuit exposed :)
anyway it was a discovery 14.4k external
I needed the connection fast
after many reconnects it just started to make a wierd electric short sound, and a thick smoke told me that freezing won't help anymore
I also remember freeze/cooling a wifi card with no success, that one I might have fried with an always overheating vaio pcmcia socket
cooling a hdd: to save data
2 things I have to fight with:
... ok maybe i need better than my 32' ....
... or chronicles of riddick ... or something that you feel like smelling touching ... ... I just felt like walking in artificial spaces, and sterile environments .... eg sw battlefront has nicer fields and interiors than that emptiness ...
...
... it did a good job with that robot you can climb into ....
...
.... but wait ... I am shooting big pink monsters with weapons that make "piu-piu" and emit lightgreen goo-laser ...
.... I would give it a strong 8/10 maybe
halo 2 is soo clumsy, you feel like really wearing that 10 ton suit, while your dual wielded weapons cover 50% of the screen
ATMOSPHERE: well for me atmosphere is doom 3
halo and halo 2 are deserted
Vehicle combat : just hate the idea of seeing 3rd person in a 1st person shooter
While riddick made the mistake of 3rd personizing ladder moves
no head move: i dunno, do we just float ? like in wolfenstein3d ?
I enjoy halo 2 as a little shooting excercise, however it just does not take me there where I am with other games
ahm yep science fiction games rule
dunno
Ohh, did not know it was 90 days.
Here in central america Xboxes come chipped with 90 days, and in larger stores they come (unchipped) and 1 year warranty (I think)
Yes 90 days is a joke, but when I buy a computer I expect at least a FAN to die within a year, on the other hand when I buy an entertainment component I expect not to touch it for at least 3 years (not even open it for cleaning)
how much is the in store extended warranty ?
Come on, you have guarantee don't you ?
... I think I should sue M$, I chipped my box, and now it reads pirated copies violating a bunch of laws ...
Walk in and have it changed....
lawsuit for hardware failure? What the hell is this ?
Hmm
STOP BEING DAMN STUPID !
yep, they slashed all the RELEVANT results with the vanilla update, so all those who are serious now have to fight over $1+ US /click on googleads.
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They make extra with adsense too
in the meanwhile I tend to search on yahoo more and more since on google the usable results fall back on the 10+ page range many times
I really keyword/title my sites so it is relevant to the search and content, and still I see results that are not even about the subject
seems that they are using a "reverse ranking" the more relevant the further from the top
yes mod me down I am just a looser whoi lost his rankings, and now I am upset
but wait, no
wohohooo ... time to sell passport covers that shield against rfid scans .... ..... I am calling indoa right now to outsource the production of ... hmmm how many passports are in the US .... whatever ...
... but now! but now! they just scan me, and see that I am no gringo !! viva rfid :)
if all the US buys one, you can make a huge profit
on the other hand, you can many times pinpoint an american tourist, but not a diplomat, or an important person to capture/kill (the really important ones never leave their cars/guards and WILL HAVE an EXCUSE from an RFID'd password)
ps: I hate when they think I am "gringo" I am european living in Costa Rica
I remember having an alpha server under my desk at a workplace (someone ordered it and did not pay)
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... I just loved that system :(
while my pc ran linux, for fun I had the alpha for NT and some stuff...
it was relatively old (2-3 years older than the new pc's) still it was busting all the others with any application speed....
While I would use linux/unix on pc, I would really enjoy running it on "exotic" architecture
i would keep windows on the pc, as personally i only use it for gaming (i would if i did not have a ps2 and an xbox) and for stuff that does not run on windows (some idiotic apps for idioticly crippled protocols, and some devices with a windows only driver and software)
actually I am on the track for years to eliminate windows even from my virtual machine window, but since some service providers are so retarded that they require windows (eg my banking only works in IE, not moz, ff or opera)
So running it on a "nice hardware" ? NO WAY
if some new plane sims come out, I might get a gaming PC, and run a stripped minimal install of w2k on it
those OS/2 days
I had good and bed.
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... ... sure it worked between 2 points on ISDN and over IP it supported 4 participants (with some upgrade) .... but they sold it for analog phone lines and promised high quality video + audio ...
Good: i had 1 year bossing over designers and marketers (and doing some it) myself
Lotsa lunch/coffee breaks, check design-approve or puke on it
Bad: if you have many techs, you might end up working your ass off correcting your people's mistakes, because at the end U are responsible
I tend to stress: people are pushing deadlines, I am ready early and go home early
when you are like me, other people's "last minute finishes" stress you out, do not become a manager..... or find the few, that work first, party later
Bosses: make sure your bosses are not tech wannabes
Your crew of idiots: the marketing department... sorry
MAKE SURE THEY DO NOT SELL STUFF THAT DOES NOT EXIST ! or cnnot be made
I had to deal with projects that just did not have a solution, but some idiot sold it
one of my favourites were, when they sold a 4 participant video conference solution for phone lines
merketing person: "but you guys can installin can't you, you are so smart"
us:" #$%@$#%^&@$%^"