Except you used to leave letters in a box, not at a post office.
Not that I see much purpose for sending letters at all nowadays. Regardless we kinda don't have any post offices longer either, just "service offices" at random stores and what not but I guess you could leave the letters there.
But if you have to go there with the letter and show the SMS it's not that much different from buying a stamp. Somewhat more convenient but not as convenient as dropping in the box I guess.
Who said anything about not being able to use postboxes? I mean, wouldn't it be the same issue if you posted a letter without stamps or correct amount of stamps as posting a letter without or with an incorrect code? Your letter will either just get returned or trashed.
I never bought into Applethink, and after every product annoucement I falsely predict they've finally blown it and nobody will "fall for it" this time. Meanwhile they're approaching $100e9 and probably wouldn't give my resume a second look. You win.
This is why I enjoy watching all the Steve Jobs keynotes. The whole culture and sect like mentality behind Apple and its fanbase is not only hilarious, but very interesting to watch. Apple use weasel words constantly to give people (and its fans especially) that they are still the underdog company (in comparison to Microsoft of course).
Notice how Jobs almost always says 'we think this solution is the best' and 'we think this phone is the best ever'. The whole manipulation of words is amazing to watch. You may think this is purely something that happens, I am certain that this has been undertaken carefully by Apples marketing department (which I have an idea that Jobs leads).
Remember when rumours was roaming everywhere that Jobs would no longer attends Apple-events? Gosh, it was like the worst nightmare to all Apple fans!
A shorter alternative to this way of thinking about Apple and predicting their results is to just assume consumers are stupid and they like shiny things. And if it has a real brand on it, even better. Microsoft, HP, Dell, Lenovo and so on are not regarded as 'real brands' to most consumers. Apple is in Gucci-league.
Thank you. The unintional misspelling of their name probably let to the wrong results online. Though, I did find caro.net, which seems to be a datacentre.
My point remains regarding whether it is a hoax. I doubt the owner of torrent-finder purchased a machine at a datacentre to successfully carry out the hoax.
So even if they are crooks, and does host porn and other dodgy sites. The conclusion should be that either the government is lending servers for their ceases from crooks (which would not seem unreasonable) or this was committed by hackers who liked to pose as government officials (though, I doubt how they got it through ICANN in that regard, if the owner is to be believed).
I did. And torrent-finder.info resolves to 208.101.51.56, while torrent-finder.com resolves to 74.81.170.110.
On first inspection, those two IPs seems to be very distant from one another IP-block-wise, but you never know with the internet, so both got a whois, and apparently 208.101.51.56 is owned by Softlayer (as a poster prior to me mentions), while 74.81.170.110 is owned by Caroline Internet, Ltd.
So maybe the guy changed the IP for his.com-address and bought hosting somewhere else? I don't know what this Caroline Internet, Ltd. But if he did buy a virtual machine at a datacentre, then I will say 'will played, good sir!' That is a lot of a bucks spend to fake a site takeover.
If you can only call, talk and hang up, it doesn't appear very useful to me. Listening would be a nice addition, and receiving calls as well...
From TFS:
Only capable of making and receiving calls, John's Phone is dubbed the world's simplest mobile phone, specifically designed for anti-smartphones users.
Before long we're going to need complete isolation suits before we can commit a crime.
Surely you are more clever than that. Everyone knows that as the equipment of law enforcement become more and more sophisticated, the trick is not to circumvent them, but to exploit them. What if you made some careful plants of other people's DNA? What would the robot do? Frame someone!
Hell, you could even make a double-bluff and plant extraordinary evidence of yourself there, that law enforcement would think, 'oh, it can't possibly be him, he's not that clumsy; he must have been framed!'. The options are endless!
Ballmer using words like 'hardcore' makes me feel the same as when my Grampa would talk about 'the Googles' or any other time a male-menapausal coot tries to use 'cool' words to 'relate' to 'todays youth'
You do realize that the current interpretation of the word 'hardcore' has been used by the youth for at least 50 years, maybe longer? Ballmer is not using the word to sound cool to you, he is using the word he used in the 1960s to sound cool to his older brother.
You do realise that as we grow older, our vocabulary often shift to a more 'civilised' manner, where words like 'hardcore' become utilised in a more precise meaning (such as pornography) and certainly not something that you are about tablets. I should say. How many of the same people from the 1960s use 'groovy' today?
I spotted a post on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago which pointed out a couple of advantages of exploring the asteroid belt as a rich source of minerals and possible mining. On this strength of that brief but well worded comment I did some research myself and right now I'm currently reading the only book I could find that seemed accessible enough to a person with limited knowledge of space mining and the possibilities therein: (Mining the Sky by John S. Lewi).
Fry: Wow! Mining a comet! That sounds fun.
Farnsworth: Yes, there's no safer occupation than mining. Especially when you're perched on a snowball whipping through space at a million miles an hour. [He mimes a snowball whipping through space at a million miles an hour.] Safe!
How do you feel about that Apple logo (or two) on your keyboard? How about the upper left corner of your screen?
There is no Apple logo on the keyboards any more. But since there is only one button on the iPhone or this Windows Phone thingie, he wonders why they made that decision. On a keyboard or in the upper left corner of your screen, it is supposed to make it out among many buttons. There it makes sense. Or are you just trolling?
I don't think anyone with a gaming system will be interested, but everyone else may be. Some games like RPGs can be played acceptably with a little lag, and I wouldn't mind being able to see some nice graphics on my Eee PC when I'm away from home.
Uhm, yeah, I'm gonna give you that, that would be awesome, but as you can tell from the minimum recommended system requirements, that ain't going to happen:
PC: Windows® 7 or Vista (32 or 64-bit) or XP (32-bit)
Mac: Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Processor: Dual-core CPU
Screen Resolution: 1280x720
Internet Connection: 5 Mbps located inside the contiguous United States (wired connection required)
So I am going to assume your Eee does not have a dual-core CPU, a x720 screen resolution or always a wired connection, which means netbooks aren't welcome. But maybe they'll fix that in the future. So you can even play them on your iPad.
So... he's saying, 'you already have latency, would more latency hurt?' In addition, if I need this kind of gear (9ms monitor and 1ms mouse), which I do not assume to be cheap, doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of not going buying a game rig?
So even if their latency is low, I am still not buying the argument that I need better gear. I do realise there are input latencies and all, but does not add to the experience! I think the latency on my current hardware is justifiable because I cannot observe it, but add another system of latency, and chances are I might.
And since this service ain't exactly offering Civ4, I am going with that you want your mouse to click and action happening at the same time.
Ugh, IBM PC/2! PS/2 is the connectors, PC/2 was the overall product, PS/2 does not include a computer, it's just a connector. Or wait, are you saying they are going to stare at a PS/2 connector?
From the article regarding the European retailers' rumoured price tag:
At least three Swedish retailers – including Game - have attached a 1,499 Swedish Kronor ($197 / £133) price tag to the standalone version of the Xbox 360 product, reports Kotaku.
With the current follow up from TFA:
The figure for the standalone unit is significantly higher than a previous sub-£50 estimate, but less than pricing recently suggested by European retailers.
So, I'm gonna throw it out there and suggest that none of these people are close to journalists. If they were, they would know that these products are often a lot more price-y in Europe than in the United States. Add to that, Scandinavia has the highest cost of living in the world on average. So that would make sense for the Natal to cost $197 in Sweden.
So how in the hell did anyone think that the price tag of this product in Sweden would have anything to do with its price tag in say... the United States? If this is the journalism rising in the place of newspapers, then I want print back!
Firefox could only dream of having as much market share as IE
Dream? It's not that much a fevered dream any longer, it is closing in on reality, ever since 2007, IE's market share has only gone one way. And with Chrome and Safari in the mix as well, IE's market share won't go up any time soon.
For a second I thought that this was hyperbole, but then I realized it's actually true. Seeing as the original starcraft was released in 1998, it'd make the parent 24 years old.
God that's scary.
It's like waiting for Futurama to come back.
Wait a minute, 27 July? Isn't that when Comic-Con takes place? Coincidence?!
Umm, not in single player, you cannot. Only Silent Hunter 3 has a decent single player campaign from the Germans' side. I don't really care about multiplayer when it comes down to it.
While yeah, this story might seem rather pointless, it does come in a context that seems important. Well, interesting at least.
The whole controversy between Activision and Infinity Ward is hilarious at best. Also terrible, but hey.
Now I wanna stress that I am not really a fan of Call of Duty, I liked the first one, but then... it became kinda meh, because even when the first one was out, the Second World War was already getting used to the limit. I guess people really love that war. But I suppose it made sense. It had excitement, deception, treason, spying, first real airborne warfare, crazy leaders, ideologies, a Europe in changing and the setting for a new world order. Blimey!
But despite all that, I still find the First World War much more interesting, not for the war itself, but for the whole political affairs behind it. It was complicated shit. In WW2, some guy just wanted some revenge over some other war because some people did something. Woosh. What excitement.
But I digress. People have been wondering if Infinity Ward, in its current sorry state, would even be able to provide a new title of its best selling franchise. Sure it would, Activision would force it upon it. But I will make a quick prediction. It's going to suck.
Now give me a real game, and here I am talking about Victoria 2 which is coming out this Late Summer/Early Autumn.
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Except you used to leave letters in a box, not at a post office.
Not that I see much purpose for sending letters at all nowadays. Regardless we kinda don't have any post offices longer either, just "service offices" at random stores and what not but I guess you could leave the letters there.
But if you have to go there with the letter and show the SMS it's not that much different from buying a stamp. Somewhat more convenient but not as convenient as dropping in the box I guess.
Who said anything about not being able to use postboxes? I mean, wouldn't it be the same issue if you posted a letter without stamps or correct amount of stamps as posting a letter without or with an incorrect code? Your letter will either just get returned or trashed.
I never bought into Applethink, and after every product annoucement I falsely predict they've finally blown it and nobody will "fall for it" this time. Meanwhile they're approaching $100e9 and probably wouldn't give my resume a second look. You win.
This is why I enjoy watching all the Steve Jobs keynotes. The whole culture and sect like mentality behind Apple and its fanbase is not only hilarious, but very interesting to watch. Apple use weasel words constantly to give people (and its fans especially) that they are still the underdog company (in comparison to Microsoft of course).
Notice how Jobs almost always says 'we think this solution is the best' and 'we think this phone is the best ever'. The whole manipulation of words is amazing to watch. You may think this is purely something that happens, I am certain that this has been undertaken carefully by Apples marketing department (which I have an idea that Jobs leads).
Remember when rumours was roaming everywhere that Jobs would no longer attends Apple-events? Gosh, it was like the worst nightmare to all Apple fans!
A shorter alternative to this way of thinking about Apple and predicting their results is to just assume consumers are stupid and they like shiny things. And if it has a real brand on it, even better. Microsoft, HP, Dell, Lenovo and so on are not regarded as 'real brands' to most consumers. Apple is in Gucci-league.
Thank you. The unintional misspelling of their name probably let to the wrong results online. Though, I did find caro.net, which seems to be a datacentre.
My point remains regarding whether it is a hoax. I doubt the owner of torrent-finder purchased a machine at a datacentre to successfully carry out the hoax.
So even if they are crooks, and does host porn and other dodgy sites. The conclusion should be that either the government is lending servers for their ceases from crooks (which would not seem unreasonable) or this was committed by hackers who liked to pose as government officials (though, I doubt how they got it through ICANN in that regard, if the owner is to be believed).
This is a hoax. Whois the IP's involved.
I did. And torrent-finder.info resolves to 208.101.51.56, while torrent-finder.com resolves to 74.81.170.110.
On first inspection, those two IPs seems to be very distant from one another IP-block-wise, but you never know with the internet, so both got a whois, and apparently 208.101.51.56 is owned by Softlayer (as a poster prior to me mentions), while 74.81.170.110 is owned by Caroline Internet, Ltd.
So maybe the guy changed the IP for his .com-address and bought hosting somewhere else? I don't know what this Caroline Internet, Ltd. But if he did buy a virtual machine at a datacentre, then I will say 'will played, good sir!' That is a lot of a bucks spend to fake a site takeover.
If you can only call, talk and hang up, it doesn't appear very useful to me. Listening would be a nice addition, and receiving calls as well...
From TFS:
Only capable of making and receiving calls, John's Phone is dubbed the world's simplest mobile phone, specifically designed for anti-smartphones users.
You can always vote for a third party and waste your vote!
God, I love first past the post...
I thought it meant 'unpaid' or 'paid less than required'. At least, that's its meaning in Danish ('afspiste').
Before long we're going to need complete isolation suits before we can commit a crime.
Surely you are more clever than that. Everyone knows that as the equipment of law enforcement become more and more sophisticated, the trick is not to circumvent them, but to exploit them. What if you made some careful plants of other people's DNA? What would the robot do? Frame someone!
Hell, you could even make a double-bluff and plant extraordinary evidence of yourself there, that law enforcement would think, 'oh, it can't possibly be him, he's not that clumsy; he must have been framed!'. The options are endless!
Ballmer using words like 'hardcore' makes me feel the same as when my Grampa would talk about 'the Googles' or any other time a male-menapausal coot tries to use 'cool' words to 'relate' to 'todays youth'
You do realize that the current interpretation of the word 'hardcore' has been used by the youth for at least 50 years, maybe longer? Ballmer is not using the word to sound cool to you, he is using the word he used in the 1960s to sound cool to his older brother.
You do realise that as we grow older, our vocabulary often shift to a more 'civilised' manner, where words like 'hardcore' become utilised in a more precise meaning (such as pornography) and certainly not something that you are about tablets. I should say. How many of the same people from the 1960s use 'groovy' today?
I spotted a post on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago which pointed out a couple of advantages of exploring the asteroid belt as a rich source of minerals and possible mining. On this strength of that brief but well worded comment I did some research myself and right now I'm currently reading the only book I could find that seemed accessible enough to a person with limited knowledge of space mining and the possibilities therein: (Mining the Sky by John S. Lewi).
Fry: Wow! Mining a comet! That sounds fun.
Farnsworth: Yes, there's no safer occupation than mining. Especially when you're perched on a snowball whipping through space at a million miles an hour. [He mimes a snowball whipping through space at a million miles an hour.] Safe!
Two things:
A. Should be 'FTFM', unless you refer to yourself as 'you' and B. 'on spy' is a more obscure sex position. So the former question is still accurate.
How do you feel about that Apple logo (or two) on your keyboard? How about the upper left corner of your screen?
There is no Apple logo on the keyboards any more. But since there is only one button on the iPhone or this Windows Phone thingie, he wonders why they made that decision. On a keyboard or in the upper left corner of your screen, it is supposed to make it out among many buttons. There it makes sense. Or are you just trolling?
I don't think anyone with a gaming system will be interested, but everyone else may be. Some games like RPGs can be played acceptably with a little lag, and I wouldn't mind being able to see some nice graphics on my Eee PC when I'm away from home.
Uhm, yeah, I'm gonna give you that, that would be awesome, but as you can tell from the minimum recommended system requirements, that ain't going to happen:
So I am going to assume your Eee does not have a dual-core CPU, a x720 screen resolution or always a wired connection, which means netbooks aren't welcome. But maybe they'll fix that in the future. So you can even play them on your iPad.
So... he's saying, 'you already have latency, would more latency hurt?' In addition, if I need this kind of gear (9ms monitor and 1ms mouse), which I do not assume to be cheap, doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of not going buying a game rig?
So even if their latency is low, I am still not buying the argument that I need better gear. I do realise there are input latencies and all, but does not add to the experience! I think the latency on my current hardware is justifiable because I cannot observe it, but add another system of latency, and chances are I might.
And since this service ain't exactly offering Civ4, I am going with that you want your mouse to click and action happening at the same time.
So with all this nonsense of 3D and voice commands with the new Xbox, if they are moving this to Windows, how do I press the 'any key'?
Windows, press any key.
But the body tracking from the Kenict or whatever research development lead to this head tracking. Also, will the text be 3D?
If you are going to be an ass while also being wrong, can you wait for me to haul my PS/2 out and drop it on you? It's only a model 80.
Sure, I always wanted to own one. Especially now that I know its name.
Wrong then, but I'll gladly admit that. Rather than being a troll. I guess I expected higher of IBM.
IBM PS/2.
Ugh, IBM PC/2! PS/2 is the connectors, PC/2 was the overall product, PS/2 does not include a computer, it's just a connector. Or wait, are you saying they are going to stare at a PS/2 connector?
From the article regarding the European retailers' rumoured price tag:
At least three Swedish retailers – including Game - have attached a 1,499 Swedish Kronor ($197 / £133) price tag to the standalone version of the Xbox 360 product, reports Kotaku.
With the current follow up from TFA:
The figure for the standalone unit is significantly higher than a previous sub-£50 estimate, but less than pricing recently suggested by European retailers.
So, I'm gonna throw it out there and suggest that none of these people are close to journalists. If they were, they would know that these products are often a lot more price-y in Europe than in the United States. Add to that, Scandinavia has the highest cost of living in the world on average. So that would make sense for the Natal to cost $197 in Sweden.
So how in the hell did anyone think that the price tag of this product in Sweden would have anything to do with its price tag in say... the United States? If this is the journalism rising in the place of newspapers, then I want print back!
Excuse me?
Firefox could only dream of having as much market share as IE
Dream? It's not that much a fevered dream any longer, it is closing in on reality, ever since 2007, IE's market share has only gone one way. And with Chrome and Safari in the mix as well, IE's market share won't go up any time soon.
It's IE9. And it won't support it either. Microsoft is only pushing for HTML5 without the Canvas tag. It might be too difficult to program, I guess.
Hey, here's an idea, Microsoft, use Webkit instead!
Real men use ed.
For a second I thought that this was hyperbole, but then I realized it's actually true. Seeing as the original starcraft was released in 1998, it'd make the parent 24 years old. God that's scary.
It's like waiting for Futurama to come back.
Wait a minute, 27 July? Isn't that when Comic-Con takes place? Coincidence?!
Umm, not in single player, you cannot. Only Silent Hunter 3 has a decent single player campaign from the Germans' side. I don't really care about multiplayer when it comes down to it.
While yeah, this story might seem rather pointless, it does come in a context that seems important. Well, interesting at least.
The whole controversy between Activision and Infinity Ward is hilarious at best. Also terrible, but hey.
Now I wanna stress that I am not really a fan of Call of Duty, I liked the first one, but then... it became kinda meh, because even when the first one was out, the Second World War was already getting used to the limit. I guess people really love that war. But I suppose it made sense. It had excitement, deception, treason, spying, first real airborne warfare, crazy leaders, ideologies, a Europe in changing and the setting for a new world order. Blimey!
But despite all that, I still find the First World War much more interesting, not for the war itself, but for the whole political affairs behind it. It was complicated shit. In WW2, some guy just wanted some revenge over some other war because some people did something. Woosh. What excitement.
But I digress. People have been wondering if Infinity Ward, in its current sorry state, would even be able to provide a new title of its best selling franchise. Sure it would, Activision would force it upon it. But I will make a quick prediction. It's going to suck.
Now give me a real game, and here I am talking about Victoria 2 which is coming out this Late Summer/Early Autumn.