Isn't this like searching my mail and stamping an add on my birthday card? If they are smart about cost cutting get rid of the junk. I don't need your webspace, or your email, or your start page, or much of the other junk you provide. Give me net access like you used to.
I think I see a Google Power Plant (beta) coming in the future (between servers, cooling and now plug in cars, their electric bill will be huge). To subscribe to Google Power Plant you must be invited by a friend (who get's 6 invitations). Your bill will come with targeted ads if they notice you use power at night you will get ads for sleep aids, if you use it during the day you will get ads for work at home jobs, if your power usage spikes at 5:30 they will assume you are cooking dinner and send out some grocery ads.
I pay $15 total (taxes, fees and junk) for my ATT phone line. I tried to fight the 911 fee since I don't have a phone hooked up to the line but ATT can't change that. ATT has cheap phone service with limited calls that's all you need for DSL. I get DSL for about $30. Cheapest in the area.
I have ATT (one other choice in the area is accounts managed by Comcast so internet alone would run $80 a month). The trick is to get the lowest possible phone line you only get a few calls a month with it which is fine (you can use vonage, grandcentral or other such services). They of course will jerk you around and try to sell you more phone service than you need. I got signed up with no problems but the installation tech didn't show up during his 4 hour window. So I called told them I was going back to work and he couldn't show up until after 4 and he needed to call before he came. He didn't call when he showed up but he did call to ask why I wasn't there for my appointment. I told him to call his office they had a message for him. I eventually got the installation fee waved after a few trips between billing, customer service and a large conference call with people from 3 different departments. Back when I signed up they were offering a cash card to offset the installation fee (so yes I got free installation and the card) when I signed up I was told I would get a $100 card. When I got the form for the card it was only for $50 I called and complained. They said they would credit my account for $50 (I made the CS worker stay on the line while I checked my online bill). I filled the card form out mailed it in and eventually received a $100 card (plus the credit). When I signed up they said I could combine my billing with my Cingular phone and monthly discount. When I called to get that they said they couldn't since I didn't actually have an ATT phone number, I protested and they said I still had a Bell number it hadn't been switched to ATT. That call ended in a conference call between them, me and Cingualr, they could do nothing. A few weeks later I was at the Cingular store so I asked, they lady there said she couldn't help that ATT in our state couldn't combine and she was receiving about 10 complaints a day.
I want my gmail to have a new button, "opt-out." This way when I get sick of having your stupid weekly update and don't remember my password to your site I can hit opt out and gmail does the work I don't want to do.
The flood is central to the issue for several reasons.
1) It gives an explanation for how and why dino bones are where they are. As the rain started it washed the top layer of soil down the hills dinosaur in low lying areas they were buried, hours later the top soil was all washed off so they next layer of dirt was washed down and caught more animals. It's kind of a progressive landslide. (I don't have the facts of the argument correct but the idea is there *I think)
2) Diamonds, Coal and other old stuff the flood purports to explain. There is a concept which says diamonds and coal can be quickly created. We (by we I mean not me) can make pseudo diamonds in the lab. The argument says that given the proper pressure coal can be created quickly. I've heard some example of Mount St. Helens pete being turned to coal in a short period of time because of the heat, pressure and whatever else. Pretty much if we have enough pressure and material coal can be created in a short period of time. Washington DC is occasionally cited as an example, many folks will say that stalactites take hundreds of years to form but legend has it that there are some big ones under dc because of all the calcium that runs off their fancy buildings. They point being given the right conditions coal forms quickly.
3) A huge flood explains the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is seen as a dirt bathtub drain for a whole bunch of floodwater so when we drain a north America sized bathtub through the Arizona landscape we get 1 grand canyon in a short period of time.
4) We wouldn't have "Even Almighty" be without the flood so the flood must be true.
Some one drew a stick figure of me hunting a buffalo now people will know I'm not a vegetarian.
Someone learned language and give me a name now people can talk to me.
Someone name the area I live in now people can find me.
Someone gave my street a name now people know what road I live on.
Someone gave my house a number now people can know where I live.
Someone invented the yellow pages now they can easily find my address.
Someone invented reverse phone number look up now I can't keep my number secrete.
Someone took my picture and put it on the internet with my name now people will know what a guy named Tom was doing.
Someone took a satellite picture of my house and put it on the internet now people will know I don't garden.
Someone took a picture of the front of my house and posted it on the internet a year later, you can see my cat, I better tell the news so I can keep my privacy.
This situation and uproar only proves Google's dominance in the search map market. Microsoft has a service like this (http://preview.local.live.com/) A9.com used to have a service just like this.
I'm not sure what function this service offers (besides hours of mindless fun looking for year old crime and other funny moments in the life of strangers, which is reason enough for me). It may serve just as much of a function to hide the photos except for key spots on driving directions. Ie. Turn left at the Wal-Mart and show a photo of what you would see or pass the cvs and show a photo.
If a book is burnt in the woods and no one sees the flames does it really burn?
If some guy was burning a bunch of floppy disks it wouldn't make the news. If he was burning a bunch of VHS or cassette tapes it wouldn't even make the news. When I first heard this story I said, this is stupid no one will get the point. I was wrong, people have got the point, look how many places this has shown up, digg,/., CNN, Foxnews, Drudgereport, NYT...his point to read more books is getting out there but I do think it will have no effect. I think it brings out a large prejudice to the burning of books. People see this as some violation of the rules. Anything can be burnt except books, flags, effigies, and my Starbucks coffee.
It's over $100 dollars you've got to add tax + the cost of a phone line. I currently have ATT internet it runs over $30 since I have to get their phone line at $7 + $7 tax. I bought the cheap package for both phone and net. Does this thing dial home over through a modem like some boxes do? If it does I would have to upgrade my phone account to allow more than 10 outgoing calls.
A bright pink helicopter would be fun maybe tie-dye. Then everyone would try calling their friends and saying I'm looking at a bright pink helicopter but their phones won't work because the pink helicopter would be jamming their singles.
I don't see a treadmill workstation as a workable idea. I can't read when I run, no matter how nice the treadmill. I can when I ride the stationary bike. So I just don't imagine a bunch of business folk standing for 8 hours a day walking on a treadmill bouncing up and down. I would go for the idea if it were a stationary bike or something I could just kick back on when I'm exhausted.
Her school is doing nothing more than punishing her except it happens to be near graduation. There isn't a free for all buffer around graduation if you violate the school policies close to graduation you may well get punished just like it was the middle of the year and get kicked out. I can't speak for her schools but there are schools that kick students out for having pictures like hers, she did something that would have gotten her kicked out if it was seen in October and now that it's May she is getting punished for it. The punishment shouldn't change because it's close to graduation. School policy doesn't read no drinking between September and March in April its ok to drink since we won't be able to punish you in the same way we could in October. She did something that was a violation of policy and the school is carrying out a standard punishment.
Yes a few questions are raised:
1) Is a myspace photo of you being a drunken pirate equal to promoting underage drinking?
2) Is a myspace photo of you being a drunken pirate equal to public intoxication?
3) How should colleges handle discipline shortly before graduation? If I get drunk in October I would get kicked out of school but what should happen 5 days before graduation if I get drunk?
Wouldn't a better model involve a tie into a service which updates ads every time you plug the music player in? I could see starting to hate a song if it has some annoying car ad before it. It would be nice for the downloader's and the advertisers to change things up every few days.
1. You can now more easily sell your boss on Linux machines. You finally have a dealer he trusts so you can say look boss they have these machines that are less expensive and the same quality product with a different OS. This will save on licensing fees and in other areas. We should buy this next time we upgrade.
2. The average bargain tech user may buy. The college kid who just wants to write papers and surf facebook and wants to spend as little as possible.
3. Universities who need computers for students to just write papers.
4. Me. I'm concerned about cost, security and ease of use (for the wife's sake)
5. It may nudge Linux into an ease of use war leading to more drivers, and more software that is compatible with MS style formats (realplayer, windows media, office...etc)
6. It could awaken companies to make software for more than windows and Mac (when they bother)
It will need to be a ground roots effort. I will encourage my friends to buy one of these when the time comes and I will buy one.
I don't think this is a good idea. I'm a big fan of simplification but I think this is a bad thing to simplify. And don't get me wrong I think more people need to vote but I think online voting would create a system where more peopled voted (the good) but more people who don't care about the system would vote (the bad). I think by forcing people to go to polling places they are showing that they do care and appreciate the system, I think if the online voting was allowed everyone would vote so we would get the 55% of regular voters who care enough to put some effort into the vote and then 45% of voters who are willing to give a vote as much time as it takes to/. headlines.
Hey I'm going build a wifi controller for this so I won't need a computer; It will have a few sticks one that makes the left wheels turn one the right. Then I can control it from my couch I'm going to call it the Remote Controlled Car.
I like the idea here but I'd have to say it's not a robot until it can process some form of independent thinking. From what it sounds like it just takes my commands and sends back video. I have to control it so if I want it to go find my book I still have to drive it around the house and identify watch a video as I identify my book. When it can learn to drive around the house on its own (like that robo vacuum) it will be a robot when, it can drive around the house and pick out object I'll buy it. But right now the only thing to see here is a nice interface which hopefully can be modified to control any number of devices I can plug a wifi connector into.
Good first step but it needs a brain and something practical to be great. When we have a open source program that lets it avoid obstacles on it's own I'll be more interested. It needs to beat out the Lego Mindstorm.
At the top of this are national chain banks. At one of them if you use FF to register for your online account it gives you a security error message saying you need to us IE for security reasons or some such garbage. Now rewind 10 minutes when I signed into my wife's account in FF which was perfectly fine. I could sign in when using FF but couldn't register. That made me worry, about my security and how little they care about it if FF isn't secure don't let me use it at all. Sure you would loose me as a customer but be consistent.
Ohh i have a good idea why doesn't the government stick it's nose into private business. Maybe Google should investigate every time congress doesn't do something they way they want. If people don't want Google to use the old images they won't use Google maps for that area and Google will get the picture (get it picture as in satellite picture) and make a change.
I'm sure there are reasons. Does Google have updated road maps? if not then their hybrid maps won't work at all well. Are the old images clearer? are they easier to view? is debris cluttering up the new photos?
Maybe Circuit City could cut costs by firing all the employees that stand around and do nothing. The past 4 times I've been there I've seen multiple employees standing in a circle talking or playing catch with a promotional stress ball. It took 3 employees to replace the ink in a printer. So part of me agrees that laying off their high paid employees is fine, why pay employees a good amount if they are going to do nothing. If you need people to baby sit your store higher lower wage workers. If you want good employees higher good employees and pay them well. In 4 trips to CC I bought nothing because I felt I was being charged so they could have employees do nothing; fire a few and lower your prices. Then higher back the good ones.Don't fire good or deserving employees just to save money have a good reason. Fire employees who are a waste for you and the customers then re-evaluate.
Are we going to have a pay a Linux tax? Or more appropriately a non-windows tax because Dell will have to spend extra money on supporting Linux systems and users.
I started using firefox, then thunderbird, then gaim, then AVG, then Zone Alarm before I new it the only MS junk I had installed was office (wife needs publisher and uses Word and work) and XP. I've tried to get rid of windows (I've filed 3 separate times. I got Ubuntu working but my lexmark printer wouldn't work (grrr). So it was back to windows. I would agree open aps is the first step in switching to linux os but things need to be plug and play, I need to install it as easily as windows and have it run as easily. I and others can't waste a day trying to get more than half a document to print.
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err... It's an add-on like we download for firefox. They aren't ads they are add-ons nifty new features being stamped on my birthday cards.
Isn't this like searching my mail and stamping an add on my birthday card? If they are smart about cost cutting get rid of the junk. I don't need your webspace, or your email, or your start page, or much of the other junk you provide. Give me net access like you used to.
I think I see a Google Power Plant (beta) coming in the future (between servers, cooling and now plug in cars, their electric bill will be huge). To subscribe to Google Power Plant you must be invited by a friend (who get's 6 invitations). Your bill will come with targeted ads if they notice you use power at night you will get ads for sleep aids, if you use it during the day you will get ads for work at home jobs, if your power usage spikes at 5:30 they will assume you are cooking dinner and send out some grocery ads.
I pay $15 total (taxes, fees and junk) for my ATT phone line. I tried to fight the 911 fee since I don't have a phone hooked up to the line but ATT can't change that. ATT has cheap phone service with limited calls that's all you need for DSL. I get DSL for about $30. Cheapest in the area.
I have ATT (one other choice in the area is accounts managed by Comcast so internet alone would run $80 a month). The trick is to get the lowest possible phone line you only get a few calls a month with it which is fine (you can use vonage, grandcentral or other such services). They of course will jerk you around and try to sell you more phone service than you need. I got signed up with no problems but the installation tech didn't show up during his 4 hour window. So I called told them I was going back to work and he couldn't show up until after 4 and he needed to call before he came. He didn't call when he showed up but he did call to ask why I wasn't there for my appointment. I told him to call his office they had a message for him. I eventually got the installation fee waved after a few trips between billing, customer service and a large conference call with people from 3 different departments. Back when I signed up they were offering a cash card to offset the installation fee (so yes I got free installation and the card) when I signed up I was told I would get a $100 card. When I got the form for the card it was only for $50 I called and complained. They said they would credit my account for $50 (I made the CS worker stay on the line while I checked my online bill). I filled the card form out mailed it in and eventually received a $100 card (plus the credit). When I signed up they said I could combine my billing with my Cingular phone and monthly discount. When I called to get that they said they couldn't since I didn't actually have an ATT phone number, I protested and they said I still had a Bell number it hadn't been switched to ATT. That call ended in a conference call between them, me and Cingualr, they could do nothing. A few weeks later I was at the Cingular store so I asked, they lady there said she couldn't help that ATT in our state couldn't combine and she was receiving about 10 complaints a day.
I want my gmail to have a new button, "opt-out." This way when I get sick of having your stupid weekly update and don't remember my password to your site I can hit opt out and gmail does the work I don't want to do.
The flood is central to the issue for several reasons. 1) It gives an explanation for how and why dino bones are where they are. As the rain started it washed the top layer of soil down the hills dinosaur in low lying areas they were buried, hours later the top soil was all washed off so they next layer of dirt was washed down and caught more animals. It's kind of a progressive landslide. (I don't have the facts of the argument correct but the idea is there *I think) 2) Diamonds, Coal and other old stuff the flood purports to explain. There is a concept which says diamonds and coal can be quickly created. We (by we I mean not me) can make pseudo diamonds in the lab. The argument says that given the proper pressure coal can be created quickly. I've heard some example of Mount St. Helens pete being turned to coal in a short period of time because of the heat, pressure and whatever else. Pretty much if we have enough pressure and material coal can be created in a short period of time. Washington DC is occasionally cited as an example, many folks will say that stalactites take hundreds of years to form but legend has it that there are some big ones under dc because of all the calcium that runs off their fancy buildings. They point being given the right conditions coal forms quickly. 3) A huge flood explains the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is seen as a dirt bathtub drain for a whole bunch of floodwater so when we drain a north America sized bathtub through the Arizona landscape we get 1 grand canyon in a short period of time. 4) We wouldn't have "Even Almighty" be without the flood so the flood must be true.
There is some evidence of very large flood in the region mentioned. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/09/13/great.fl ood.finds.ap/index.html
Some one drew a stick figure of me hunting a buffalo now people will know I'm not a vegetarian. Someone learned language and give me a name now people can talk to me. Someone name the area I live in now people can find me. Someone gave my street a name now people know what road I live on. Someone gave my house a number now people can know where I live. Someone invented the yellow pages now they can easily find my address. Someone invented reverse phone number look up now I can't keep my number secrete. Someone took my picture and put it on the internet with my name now people will know what a guy named Tom was doing. Someone took a satellite picture of my house and put it on the internet now people will know I don't garden. Someone took a picture of the front of my house and posted it on the internet a year later, you can see my cat, I better tell the news so I can keep my privacy. This situation and uproar only proves Google's dominance in the search map market. Microsoft has a service like this (http://preview.local.live.com/) A9.com used to have a service just like this. I'm not sure what function this service offers (besides hours of mindless fun looking for year old crime and other funny moments in the life of strangers, which is reason enough for me). It may serve just as much of a function to hide the photos except for key spots on driving directions. Ie. Turn left at the Wal-Mart and show a photo of what you would see or pass the cvs and show a photo.
If a book is burnt in the woods and no one sees the flames does it really burn? If some guy was burning a bunch of floppy disks it wouldn't make the news. If he was burning a bunch of VHS or cassette tapes it wouldn't even make the news. When I first heard this story I said, this is stupid no one will get the point. I was wrong, people have got the point, look how many places this has shown up, digg, /., CNN, Foxnews, Drudgereport, NYT...his point to read more books is getting out there but I do think it will have no effect. I think it brings out a large prejudice to the burning of books. People see this as some violation of the rules. Anything can be burnt except books, flags, effigies, and my Starbucks coffee.
It's over $100 dollars you've got to add tax + the cost of a phone line. I currently have ATT internet it runs over $30 since I have to get their phone line at $7 + $7 tax. I bought the cheap package for both phone and net. Does this thing dial home over through a modem like some boxes do? If it does I would have to upgrade my phone account to allow more than 10 outgoing calls.
A bright pink helicopter would be fun maybe tie-dye. Then everyone would try calling their friends and saying I'm looking at a bright pink helicopter but their phones won't work because the pink helicopter would be jamming their singles.
I don't see a treadmill workstation as a workable idea. I can't read when I run, no matter how nice the treadmill. I can when I ride the stationary bike. So I just don't imagine a bunch of business folk standing for 8 hours a day walking on a treadmill bouncing up and down. I would go for the idea if it were a stationary bike or something I could just kick back on when I'm exhausted.
Her school is doing nothing more than punishing her except it happens to be near graduation. There isn't a free for all buffer around graduation if you violate the school policies close to graduation you may well get punished just like it was the middle of the year and get kicked out. I can't speak for her schools but there are schools that kick students out for having pictures like hers, she did something that would have gotten her kicked out if it was seen in October and now that it's May she is getting punished for it. The punishment shouldn't change because it's close to graduation. School policy doesn't read no drinking between September and March in April its ok to drink since we won't be able to punish you in the same way we could in October. She did something that was a violation of policy and the school is carrying out a standard punishment. Yes a few questions are raised: 1) Is a myspace photo of you being a drunken pirate equal to promoting underage drinking? 2) Is a myspace photo of you being a drunken pirate equal to public intoxication? 3) How should colleges handle discipline shortly before graduation? If I get drunk in October I would get kicked out of school but what should happen 5 days before graduation if I get drunk?
Wouldn't a better model involve a tie into a service which updates ads every time you plug the music player in? I could see starting to hate a song if it has some annoying car ad before it. It would be nice for the downloader's and the advertisers to change things up every few days.
1. You can now more easily sell your boss on Linux machines. You finally have a dealer he trusts so you can say look boss they have these machines that are less expensive and the same quality product with a different OS. This will save on licensing fees and in other areas. We should buy this next time we upgrade. 2. The average bargain tech user may buy. The college kid who just wants to write papers and surf facebook and wants to spend as little as possible. 3. Universities who need computers for students to just write papers. 4. Me. I'm concerned about cost, security and ease of use (for the wife's sake) 5. It may nudge Linux into an ease of use war leading to more drivers, and more software that is compatible with MS style formats (realplayer, windows media, office...etc) 6. It could awaken companies to make software for more than windows and Mac (when they bother) It will need to be a ground roots effort. I will encourage my friends to buy one of these when the time comes and I will buy one.
I don't think this is a good idea. I'm a big fan of simplification but I think this is a bad thing to simplify. And don't get me wrong I think more people need to vote but I think online voting would create a system where more peopled voted (the good) but more people who don't care about the system would vote (the bad). I think by forcing people to go to polling places they are showing that they do care and appreciate the system, I think if the online voting was allowed everyone would vote so we would get the 55% of regular voters who care enough to put some effort into the vote and then 45% of voters who are willing to give a vote as much time as it takes to /. headlines.
Hey I'm going build a wifi controller for this so I won't need a computer; It will have a few sticks one that makes the left wheels turn one the right. Then I can control it from my couch I'm going to call it the Remote Controlled Car. I like the idea here but I'd have to say it's not a robot until it can process some form of independent thinking. From what it sounds like it just takes my commands and sends back video. I have to control it so if I want it to go find my book I still have to drive it around the house and identify watch a video as I identify my book. When it can learn to drive around the house on its own (like that robo vacuum) it will be a robot when, it can drive around the house and pick out object I'll buy it. But right now the only thing to see here is a nice interface which hopefully can be modified to control any number of devices I can plug a wifi connector into. Good first step but it needs a brain and something practical to be great. When we have a open source program that lets it avoid obstacles on it's own I'll be more interested. It needs to beat out the Lego Mindstorm.
Don't we pretty much have this with think free?
At the top of this are national chain banks. At one of them if you use FF to register for your online account it gives you a security error message saying you need to us IE for security reasons or some such garbage. Now rewind 10 minutes when I signed into my wife's account in FF which was perfectly fine. I could sign in when using FF but couldn't register. That made me worry, about my security and how little they care about it if FF isn't secure don't let me use it at all. Sure you would loose me as a customer but be consistent.
Does type- O blood come from people with the O face... O...O...O
Ohh i have a good idea why doesn't the government stick it's nose into private business. Maybe Google should investigate every time congress doesn't do something they way they want. If people don't want Google to use the old images they won't use Google maps for that area and Google will get the picture (get it picture as in satellite picture) and make a change. I'm sure there are reasons. Does Google have updated road maps? if not then their hybrid maps won't work at all well. Are the old images clearer? are they easier to view? is debris cluttering up the new photos?
Maybe Circuit City could cut costs by firing all the employees that stand around and do nothing. The past 4 times I've been there I've seen multiple employees standing in a circle talking or playing catch with a promotional stress ball. It took 3 employees to replace the ink in a printer. So part of me agrees that laying off their high paid employees is fine, why pay employees a good amount if they are going to do nothing. If you need people to baby sit your store higher lower wage workers. If you want good employees higher good employees and pay them well. In 4 trips to CC I bought nothing because I felt I was being charged so they could have employees do nothing; fire a few and lower your prices. Then higher back the good ones.Don't fire good or deserving employees just to save money have a good reason. Fire employees who are a waste for you and the customers then re-evaluate.
Are we going to have a pay a Linux tax? Or more appropriately a non-windows tax because Dell will have to spend extra money on supporting Linux systems and users.
I started using firefox, then thunderbird, then gaim, then AVG, then Zone Alarm before I new it the only MS junk I had installed was office (wife needs publisher and uses Word and work) and XP. I've tried to get rid of windows (I've filed 3 separate times. I got Ubuntu working but my lexmark printer wouldn't work (grrr). So it was back to windows. I would agree open aps is the first step in switching to linux os but things need to be plug and play, I need to install it as easily as windows and have it run as easily. I and others can't waste a day trying to get more than half a document to print.