For an item with a starting bid of $150,000, I would expect quite a bit more information about the sender to feel comfortable bidding on something like this. All it really says is that his handle is senloe1 and that the item location is in Woodstock, GA (which is another good question: what the #*&$#@! is this thing doing in Georgia?). Anyway, I would at least expect to see some user credentials posted in the description explaining how this guy managed to get a hold of this item in the first place? I would also expect to see a certain percentage of his proceeds being donated to some charity of some sort.
Without any of this information given, one would assume that either: (a) this is some guy selling a mock-up look-a-like of the real thing (authenticity certificates be damned) and he's trying to make a fast buck from some moron e-bayer in cyberspace, or (b) junior got the access password to daddy's ebay account again,...;-)
I think what we're seeing is that the Pioneer spacecraft has gone so far in so long that it's developed its own sentient being, it's own consciousness. It is now altering its course and sending back messages claiming to be something called, "PNEER". In a seemingly unrelated story, the Voyager spacecraft is now calling itself, "VGER".
Funding for this program is plannd to come from selling pay-per-view access to the local red light district and strip clubs in town. These cameras will also be hard-wired directly to President Clinton's office.
I wonder if the Heinz ketchup company gets a kick-back in royalties whenever John Kerry's wife's full name is mentioned on television or in the newspapers?;-)
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He has a wife. He has 1.3 million dollars (and going). I think he at least knows how to please a woman.:)
Yeah,... but he lives in Utah! Ok, change woman to women.:-)
I know some people who would be horridly offended if you were to tell them the results of every football/baseball/basketball/soccar/nascar/rugby/w ater polo/cricket/volleyball/bullfighting....
Offended? Hell, that's an understatement! If you did this in any European country with soccer (er, football?) you'd probably be killed! Seriously!
It's not/. It's the SF Gate that spoiled it for us. I heard this on the radio this morning. I suspect thousands of local morning DJs across the country probably did the same thing. Damn press! They should've kept it a secret until the show came out!
The thought of a car reading my email (er, spam?) to me while driving is rather frightening. I'm not so sure I really want to have a dry, monotonous, computer voice reading the text of a p0rn spam email to me while driving (heck, I don't think I'd want this even if I wasn't driving!!).
You can always boot from a CD-ROM as well. My HP ZD7000 notebook doesn't even have a floppy drive - and quite honestly, I don't even miss it! I have a CD-ROM rescue disk in case I need it, plus I have a multi 3-in-1 media card reader (MMC/SDcard/memory stick), so I could care less if I had a floppy. It would be a piece of hardware I simply just would never use.
Your response to this proves my point. Please note spelling grammatical errors as follows in your post:
I think you're wrong there - spelling, grammar and writing are not getting worse; it's just that the spelling, writing and grammar of the masses is now more public - when things were hand written, or machine typed; there was only one copy, and the professor had it.
Now that everything exists on the computer, whole essays are uploaded - usually poor ones, for making fun of, or as bad examples. There are still gem essays out there that get 95% with no spelling mistakes, and perfect grammar, but someone who invests 200 hours into every essay they write, most likely, does not upload it onto the internet for the world to see - What you see is the lowest common denominator made public by the miracle of communication.
Not that I'm trying to nitpick unnecessarily or anything, but your message proves that people think that just because they type things into the computer, that they don't have to worry about proofreading their document, checking basic spelling. People make careless and stupid mistakes! It's really sad!
How many students are actually going to use these as a portable hard drive? The iPod is advertised as a portable digital music device (basically a really cool walkman). The amount of students that would use these for storage of non-music I think I could count on the fingers of one hand!!
Not that I'm trying to be anti-iPod - I personally love it! But giving this to every student is a huge waste of academic money. Some schools, however, could benefit from it (individual schools, not necessarily the whole university). One of the colleges I attended had a very good art program; mainly graphic arts, but also music. Some type of mass storage device would be great for their students. But your average english or business major ain't gonna need anything larger than your standard laptop hard drive.
As much as it costs to attend Duke University (a private school, not state-supported, so the costs are quite high), those iPods are definitely not free. Nonetheless, as much as I like iPods, I can think of about a zillion things that education dollars would be better spent on than free iPods for their students (unless Apple decided to donate them to the school or something). I still think it's even sort of stupid for schools (even high schools) to give notebook PCs to all of their students. Computers are great, yes, and all students should have one. But the education money that schools have should be spent on the actual education materials rather than laptops, which undoubtedly are going to be used by the students for other things outside of education (p0rn? even AIM?). Serious students should be expected to cover at least part of the costs of their education, instead of handing everything to them on a silver platter.
I also find it rather pathetic that, while we see more and more computer technology, certain basic things, such as spelling, grammar and writing, seem to be getting worse and worse. Today's students seem to be getting a bad message that it's ok to misspell a few words or so as long as you make it look good in a powerpoint presentation or PDF file. Society's going to pay for this one,... eventually.
I'd like to see more about how they compiled those numbers. The 15% number is a bit high, although I think what they have spotted is the beginning of a trend towards non-Micro$oft browsers. One of the websites I maintain (a website for a collegiate service organization) sees about 85-90% hits from MSIE (all variants) and about 5% currently from Mozilla Firefox. The other 5-10% is from all the rest. Most of these users are average users that use pretty much whatever browser comes on their computer. There are a few techies among the group, but that's still not a huge majority (yet they are a *vocal* minority;-)... The non-techies could be persuaded switch, however, given more information about why they get so many pop-ups, spam, and other MSIE-related crap. The university I currently work for appears to be pushing towards software that reduces spybots and adware (spybot search & destroy) as well as alternative browsers such as Firefox. So the snowball has started rolling downhill... although it's still at the top and the mountain is pretty big!;-)
I think we're seeing the emergence of Firefox as a major player in the browser wars, and definitely it's going to be Bill Gates' worst nightmare over the next couple of months. But it's still very early and there's a lot of road ahead.
While it would be nice, especially on long transcontinental or intercontinental flights to be able to talk on the phone in-flight, this appears to be aimed at the business traveller that is interested in getting more work done while flying. I don't think they're really aiming at the casual conversationalist interested in talking to their friends and family. I would also be very surprised if these in-flight calls did not get charged some exorbitant fee (maybe not $30/call; but something like $3-5/call plus $1/minute after the first 10 minutes or something like that). If they didn't charge extra, then they'd have to take out the existing airphones on planes that are there now,...
Micro$oft doe$n't give a rat'$ a$$ about quality. If they did, then we wouldn't be $tuck with an operating $y$tem with more hole$ in it than $wi$$ chee$e. What they do care about, i$ quite obviou$.;-)
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Of course, a prequel would be more appropriate! And stop calling me Shirley!
Without any of this information given, one would assume that either: (a) this is some guy selling a mock-up look-a-like of the real thing (authenticity certificates be damned) and he's trying to make a fast buck from some moron e-bayer in cyberspace, or (b) junior got the access password to daddy's ebay account again,... ;-)
In short, this smells SCAM all over it!
Stupid pod engineers! Why couldn't they have just put a damn doorknob on the pod bay door, so that I can open the damn thing myself?!?!
Has anybody told that to President Bush, yet?
Yeah,... but he lives in Utah! Ok, change woman to women. :-)
Offended? Hell, that's an understatement! If you did this in any European country with soccer (er, football?) you'd probably be killed! Seriously!
Oh, my God! They killed Ken! You bastards!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/14/microsoft_ iloo_was_no_hoax/
This from a guy who said that 640K ought to be enough memory for anybody! ROFLMAO!
I think you're wrong there - spelling, grammar and writing are not getting worse; it's just that the spelling, writing and grammar of the masses is now more public - when things were hand written, or machine typed; there was only one copy, and the professor had it.
Now that everything exists on the computer, whole essays are uploaded - usually poor ones, for making fun of, or as bad examples. There are still gem essays out there that get 95% with no spelling mistakes, and perfect grammar, but someone who invests 200 hours into every essay they write, most likely, does not upload it onto the internet for the world to see - What you see is the lowest common denominator made public by the miracle of communication.
Not that I'm trying to nitpick unnecessarily or anything, but your message proves that people think that just because they type things into the computer, that they don't have to worry about proofreading their document, checking basic spelling. People make careless and stupid mistakes! It's really sad!
How many students are actually going to use these as a portable hard drive? The iPod is advertised as a portable digital music device (basically a really cool walkman). The amount of students that would use these for storage of non-music I think I could count on the fingers of one hand!!
Not that I'm trying to be anti-iPod - I personally love it! But giving this to every student is a huge waste of academic money. Some schools, however, could benefit from it (individual schools, not necessarily the whole university). One of the colleges I attended had a very good art program; mainly graphic arts, but also music. Some type of mass storage device would be great for their students. But your average english or business major ain't gonna need anything larger than your standard laptop hard drive.
I also find it rather pathetic that, while we see more and more computer technology, certain basic things, such as spelling, grammar and writing, seem to be getting worse and worse. Today's students seem to be getting a bad message that it's ok to misspell a few words or so as long as you make it look good in a powerpoint presentation or PDF file. Society's going to pay for this one,... eventually.
I think we're seeing the emergence of Firefox as a major player in the browser wars, and definitely it's going to be Bill Gates' worst nightmare over the next couple of months. But it's still very early and there's a lot of road ahead.
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