All this will do is reduce the number of addons available.
No it won't, it'll just reduce the number of addons spamming your message window with "OMG PLZ SEND MONEY". TFA specifically says you can solicit donations on your website for your work, you just can't charge for it or advertise in game.
My understanding of the article is that all but Samsung and Intel whiffed. Samsung had to get their controller right because a company like Apple isn't going to put up with the nonsense that usually comes to mind when people think of SSD performance, and Intel simply did a superior job on their own. Reading the article and more importantly finding out who's goofing off and letting first impressions based on a lack of extensive testing sell their products vs. who's actually making something worth buying has been extremely useful to me personally and I wager that the pretenders in the market are going to have to clean up their act, and fast.
Symantec did just outsource a bunch of their support. I wonder if they'll reconsider the move.
I was employed by a call center company to do tech support for a large ISP many years ago, and one summer they opted to get a second call center going down in Texas. Within a week there were at least one or two incidents where hard drives were reformatted just to fix stupid dialup errors, or something else went horribly wrong. Naturally, those incidents had to be reported to the company we were working for, but by no means they were going to terminate the contract they had just signed.
The short answer is no. They'll take that incident and use it as an "opportunity for training" to make sure it doesn't happen again.
He could have at least done himself a favor and downloaded the Moderus remix. I've never been a big Metallica fan but the remix is what made the album actually listenable for me, and even folks I know who are huge fans noticed the difference is night and day.
I'm frankly getting sick of these Apple "there's an app for that" ads, ads that once again twist reality to make it sound like the planets revolve around a big glowing apple rather than the sun. Pretty much every non-3G app that exists for the iPhone would be just as functional and applicable on an hx4700, but Apple doesn't want people to know that.
How is it twisting reality when you yourself just admitted that Apple does in fact have an app for reading Amazon's e-books while other platforms like your iPAQ don't? That's not Apple's problem.
Last I checked you weren't allowed the privilege of purchasing an amazon ebook without having a Kindle registered to your account.
The app registers your iPhone as a Kindle after you put in your account info. I just bought a couple books off of there and I don't own a Kindle myself.
I was concerned about the print size too, but I looked at the screenshots included with the description of the software in the App Store and I have to admit it looks pretty readable. I might give this a shot.
The immediate story (getting Kate off the hook for Pope's murder) was resolved, but the news report during the credits saying Faith and Kate were on the run is just begging for a Mirror's Edge 2.
Coulda fooled me. I'm pretty active with the Japanese community on campus where I go to school (including having a Japanese roommate) and a lot of them are going to Softbank as soon as they go back home to take advantage of the free iPhone deal.
I work for a company with a very vocal customer base and it's hilarious the important details that people will leave out (or outright lies that they'll include) when publicly denigrating the company on forums.
That's why I quit going to that site. God help you if you made a comment on a post poking holes in a complainant's story, or asked for further details because you didn't think whole story was being told. As soon as they installed a moderator and a "don't blame the OP" policy I was outta there.
Their economy is very much dependent on ours, which is why they're still buying our debts. They don't want to piss us off anymore than we want to piss them off.
Although to be frank, I doubt things would escalate to that level over this - there are bigger fish to fry right now than lost sales to a Japanese toy company that's practically printing it's own money.
That's basically saying "Unlike everyone around you, you need to hide pretty much your entire life from everyone else."
No it isn't. It's saying "I'm here to play video games with random people on the internet, not find out how many dogs you own or what you do in your bedroom because I don't give a flying fuck."
Of identifying your sexual orientation in your profile anyway? Leave that for your Facebook/Myspace profiles or your blog, or maybe even shut up about your sexual orientation like all of us straight people do about ours. Just a thought anyway.
It's not a good idea to burn bridges with an employer you've worked for for 7 years like that, especially not with the economy like it is right now. If the new job turns out not being what it's cracked up to be, a solid contact in HR or your department can be your ticket back to your old desk. Especially if the company regards you as so essential to their operations that three weeks' notice isn't enough for them to let you go gracefully.
For all we know this problem is a result of some hotshot middle manager who needs his head unstuck from his ass, and going over him on the chain of command to fix this little issue before leaving would be the best approach.
Websites aren't their strong suit. Their wiki is much better in terms of basic info on the distro, and for as slow as their website is, you can get the distro much quicker via bit torrent.
On the other hand, they're following the same tradition that has prevented me from playing every other RE game: Horrid controls.
Yup. I played Resident Evil 10 years ago and couldn't stand the controls then. I tried the RE5 demo just yesterday in fact and the controls STILL suck, just differently. Won't be buying this game.
After the whole Blagojevich thing, Illinois is really giving Florida a run for the "state which has the most incredibly stupid news events originating from it" trophy.
There are a couple of extremely useful apps, but think about it. The majority of those free or $1-$2 apps have extremely limited scope and utility, and dare I say purpose as well. Seriously, an app that animates a zippo? Lightsaber sound effects triggered by the motion sensors in the iPhone? Come on, like those are supposed to amuse anybody for longer than 5 or 6 minutes.
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All this will do is reduce the number of addons available.
No it won't, it'll just reduce the number of addons spamming your message window with "OMG PLZ SEND MONEY". TFA specifically says you can solicit donations on your website for your work, you just can't charge for it or advertise in game.
My understanding of the article is that all but Samsung and Intel whiffed. Samsung had to get their controller right because a company like Apple isn't going to put up with the nonsense that usually comes to mind when people think of SSD performance, and Intel simply did a superior job on their own. Reading the article and more importantly finding out who's goofing off and letting first impressions based on a lack of extensive testing sell their products vs. who's actually making something worth buying has been extremely useful to me personally and I wager that the pretenders in the market are going to have to clean up their act, and fast.
Walter is hilarious. "Have you checked his penis and anus yet?"
Clearly you are not aware of the Flux Capacitor app also available to jailbroken iPhones!
Symantec did just outsource a bunch of their support. I wonder if they'll reconsider the move.
I was employed by a call center company to do tech support for a large ISP many years ago, and one summer they opted to get a second call center going down in Texas. Within a week there were at least one or two incidents where hard drives were reformatted just to fix stupid dialup errors, or something else went horribly wrong. Naturally, those incidents had to be reported to the company we were working for, but by no means they were going to terminate the contract they had just signed.
The short answer is no. They'll take that incident and use it as an "opportunity for training" to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I doubt it, unless Amazon or some other company starts opening store fronts all over the US to compete with Gamestop on their turf.
He could have at least done himself a favor and downloaded the Moderus remix. I've never been a big Metallica fan but the remix is what made the album actually listenable for me, and even folks I know who are huge fans noticed the difference is night and day.
I'm frankly getting sick of these Apple "there's an app for that" ads, ads that once again twist reality to make it sound like the planets revolve around a big glowing apple rather than the sun. Pretty much every non-3G app that exists for the iPhone would be just as functional and applicable on an hx4700, but Apple doesn't want people to know that.
How is it twisting reality when you yourself just admitted that Apple does in fact have an app for reading Amazon's e-books while other platforms like your iPAQ don't? That's not Apple's problem.
Last I checked you weren't allowed the privilege of purchasing an amazon ebook without having a Kindle registered to your account.
The app registers your iPhone as a Kindle after you put in your account info. I just bought a couple books off of there and I don't own a Kindle myself.
I was concerned about the print size too, but I looked at the screenshots included with the description of the software in the App Store and I have to admit it looks pretty readable. I might give this a shot.
Mirror's Edge.
The immediate story (getting Kate off the hook for Pope's murder) was resolved, but the news report during the credits saying Faith and Kate were on the run is just begging for a Mirror's Edge 2.
Coulda fooled me. I'm pretty active with the Japanese community on campus where I go to school (including having a Japanese roommate) and a lot of them are going to Softbank as soon as they go back home to take advantage of the free iPhone deal.
I work for a company with a very vocal customer base and it's hilarious the important details that people will leave out (or outright lies that they'll include) when publicly denigrating the company on forums.
That's why I quit going to that site. God help you if you made a comment on a post poking holes in a complainant's story, or asked for further details because you didn't think whole story was being told. As soon as they installed a moderator and a "don't blame the OP" policy I was outta there.
Their economy is very much dependent on ours, which is why they're still buying our debts. They don't want to piss us off anymore than we want to piss them off.
Although to be frank, I doubt things would escalate to that level over this - there are bigger fish to fry right now than lost sales to a Japanese toy company that's practically printing it's own money.
That's basically saying "Unlike everyone around you, you need to hide pretty much your entire life from everyone else."
No it isn't. It's saying "I'm here to play video games with random people on the internet, not find out how many dogs you own or what you do in your bedroom because I don't give a flying fuck."
That's what the Consumerist does, they shame companies into a response. I suspect before long we'll hear an update on the matter.
Of identifying your sexual orientation in your profile anyway? Leave that for your Facebook/Myspace profiles or your blog, or maybe even shut up about your sexual orientation like all of us straight people do about ours. Just a thought anyway.
It's not a good idea to burn bridges with an employer you've worked for for 7 years like that, especially not with the economy like it is right now. If the new job turns out not being what it's cracked up to be, a solid contact in HR or your department can be your ticket back to your old desk. Especially if the company regards you as so essential to their operations that three weeks' notice isn't enough for them to let you go gracefully.
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For all we know this problem is a result of some hotshot middle manager who needs his head unstuck from his ass, and going over him on the chain of command to fix this little issue before leaving would be the best approach.
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Websites aren't their strong suit. Their wiki is much better in terms of basic info on the distro, and for as slow as their website is, you can get the distro much quicker via bit torrent.
On the other hand, they're following the same tradition that has prevented me from playing every other RE game: Horrid controls.
Yup. I played Resident Evil 10 years ago and couldn't stand the controls then. I tried the RE5 demo just yesterday in fact and the controls STILL suck, just differently. Won't be buying this game.
Chicago, IL 60604
After the whole Blagojevich thing, Illinois is really giving Florida a run for the "state which has the most incredibly stupid news events originating from it" trophy.
There are a couple of extremely useful apps, but think about it. The majority of those free or $1-$2 apps have extremely limited scope and utility, and dare I say purpose as well. Seriously, an app that animates a zippo? Lightsaber sound effects triggered by the motion sensors in the iPhone? Come on, like those are supposed to amuse anybody for longer than 5 or 6 minutes.
Nope. But you're probably one of the few remaining people who haven't updated their definition of "phone" yet. ;)
Ike Dubaku must have a backup somewhere. Maybe one of the leaks in the White House secured another one for him!
Maybe a combination of jailbreaking the iPod and some doohickey that plugs into the port on the bottom of it?