something doesn't sound right about making an internet call to a local BBS in the name of making a non-internet routed data transfer. if you're going over the internet anyway (Skype), it seems like you're ruining the purpose of involving a BBS in the grandparent's scheme :
What I have been waiting to see make a comeback is the good old fashioned POTS modem. With all the internet wire-tap laws being generally weaker than the phone tapping laws, it would _really_ make sense to transfer authentications (etc) through a old-fashioned BBS style "drop sites" that were not really on the net.
That boom comes from buyers like Roberta Gray, who threw away most of her old clothes to make room for a new wardrobe from Greenloop, a boutique in Portland, Ore. A newly converted vegetarian and yogi, Gray, 43, wanted clothes that matched her healthier lifestyle. "When I buy things there, they last," she says. "They're of good quality, and I feel good about that."
it seems like her old wardrobe was lasting just fine until she threw them out!
it will quickly be turned into a plug-in for Jack-FM style radio software to automatically create the playlists that they're shuffling through. how long until we've turned music creation into a million monkeys problem, where we randomly arrange notes, check it's favorability against this software, and roll it out into the market?
when i was a kid, my parents actually wanted to watch the good TV, so my nintendo or atari was always hooked up to the TV in their bedroom. i'm sure there are plenty of HD-owning households that will do the same, and so the actual percentage of people playing these new consoles on an HD TV might be smaller than the % ownership.
If a users sees an Application (including plugins) requesting this sort of permission that should really ring alarm bells. Only things like new drivers (e.g. for that new camera you just bought) should be asking for things like that.
iTunes patches seem to bring up the permission box every time:P
they obviously weren't thinking ahead. if they had changed their name to WWG or WWD they would have been able to get website hits not only from the people who knew that they changed their name, but the people that didn't know it and are poor typists
i can put on a fake smile with the best of them. i'm pretty sure that having all your coworkers smiling creepily is not a better thing than normal moodiness
i'm hoping for some sort of response that generates *any* laugh. it's strange that so much effort on Yahoo's part couldn't generate any bit of humor, but maybe it's funnier if you can see the whole picture and not just what that article uncovered.
mixing up "their" and "they're" was pretty common before the interweb. unless someone is typing "u", "ur" and "teh" it's not fair to assume their brain is fried from chatrooms
If Sony wants to charge 8, I'm willing to bet Apple will charge less ($4.99? $3.99?) for a movie
i heard they were going to let you download just the movie chapters that you want for $1 per scene! no longer must you feel the need to buy all the filler crap that they use to take up the space between the good parts of movies (e.g. Star Wars dialogue, "Pizza Guy ringing the doorbell, haggling for payment"), just buy the parts you want and stitch them together into your own director's cut
A rule of thumb that always seems to work well is that if somebody has had such little exposure to a concept that they can't even spell it right, then they aren't qualified to comment on it.
next your gonna tell us that we shouldn't listen to Bush when he talks about nucular energy
that's assuming that there's not some minimal file that will satisfy the standards, that the squatters can just copy onto their spot to hold it just like before
Well, the some of the smartest brains in the world have been employed to produce catchy tunes, jingles, and slogans for years. This is just an evolution.
seems like more of a compensation. if most marketers are like the ones i've met, even a half-baked AI will seem like a genius comparatively
i'm eagerly awaiting the day when we pay them money and don't get to even use the software at all. they'll just tell us we had a good time with it and that we're eagerly awaiting the next version.
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i was able to get them to come out to my apartment for a DSL install, but :
1. it took three appointments of letting them in to check the junction box to see that i *could* get DSL (two appointments they missed and the third they showed up half hour late for their 2-4 hour window) 2. the tech who showed up to do the install was clearly unfamiliar with a PC beyond the little icon that starts up freecell 3. they removed my existing ISP setup during the install (this is important, because they ultimately failed to install the new service) 4. they removed every icon from my quickstart group (because he wanted it to reboot faster while he was installing) 5. he never got it to work, but suggested that i ask someone from work to help, but couldn't leave any of the equipment like the modem because it wasn't a finished install 6. they still proceeded to bill me for service even though it never got installed!
anyone that's lived in one of their markets can tell you that SBC is incredibly inept, yet somehow they keep growing and taking over new markets. are the other carriers that much worse?
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it will quickly be turned into a plug-in for Jack-FM style radio software to automatically create the playlists that they're shuffling through. how long until we've turned music creation into a million monkeys problem, where we randomly arrange notes, check it's favorability against this software, and roll it out into the market?
People ask us how we make money giving away Wi-Fi. the answer? volume.
except that according to NTP, RIM didn't invent it
just to illustrate how far we've come, here's a picture of the old flat-screen 1-D monitors :
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when i was a kid, my parents actually wanted to watch the good TV, so my nintendo or atari was always hooked up to the TV in their bedroom. i'm sure there are plenty of HD-owning households that will do the same, and so the actual percentage of people playing these new consoles on an HD TV might be smaller than the % ownership.
they obviously weren't thinking ahead. if they had changed their name to WWG or WWD they would have been able to get website hits not only from the people who knew that they changed their name, but the people that didn't know it and are poor typists
not that i can see. only Indecision 2004 has been released on DVD by Comedy Central.
i can put on a fake smile with the best of them. i'm pretty sure that having all your coworkers smiling creepily is not a better thing than normal moodiness
i'm hoping for some sort of response that generates *any* laugh. it's strange that so much effort on Yahoo's part couldn't generate any bit of humor, but maybe it's funnier if you can see the whole picture and not just what that article uncovered.
mixing up "their" and "they're" was pretty common before the interweb. unless someone is typing "u", "ur" and "teh" it's not fair to assume their brain is fried from chatrooms
Hershey's appears to be a public company, so i think that's another big, independent player in chocolate sales
maybe it's counting upwards like the gmail capacity, he's still sending spam as we speak!
that's assuming that there's not some minimal file that will satisfy the standards, that the squatters can just copy onto their spot to hold it just like before
i'm eagerly awaiting the day when we pay them money and don't get to even use the software at all. they'll just tell us we had a good time with it and that we're eagerly awaiting the next version.
i was able to get them to come out to my apartment for a DSL install, but :
1. it took three appointments of letting them in to check the junction box to see that i *could* get DSL (two appointments they missed and the third they showed up half hour late for their 2-4 hour window)
2. the tech who showed up to do the install was clearly unfamiliar with a PC beyond the little icon that starts up freecell
3. they removed my existing ISP setup during the install (this is important, because they ultimately failed to install the new service)
4. they removed every icon from my quickstart group (because he wanted it to reboot faster while he was installing)
5. he never got it to work, but suggested that i ask someone from work to help, but couldn't leave any of the equipment like the modem because it wasn't a finished install
6. they still proceeded to bill me for service even though it never got installed!
anyone that's lived in one of their markets can tell you that SBC is incredibly inept, yet somehow they keep growing and taking over new markets. are the other carriers that much worse?