An ethics column in Aspen Colorado. Oh what the idle rich do speculate about. And here I am trying to make ends meet and make medical bills. Oh no - ethics and ATMs from the land of 50 million dollar plus mansions. That's fucking news!
Oh thank god it's about education and not jobs. Because we have great cushions in America for those who don't want a career path. Just look at our Medicare! And food stamps!
I would have said mp3, but apple's default (and what I encode at because 160kbs AAC sounds a hell of a lot better than an mp3 at 160kbs) is AAC so I said iTunes. You can now spew to your hearts content.
I'm sorry but selling to investors and what shipped is the change I'm describing and IS a mid-stride correction. I don't claim that it was the wrong one (in fact it was very right, the marketing on the other hand of the computer was very wrong - but apart from the C64 I don't think Commodore ever did effective marketing (and no the William Shatner ads for the Vic 20 don't count)), but it was a change of direction. Remember these are the same folk that were selling Joysticks (and a foot-board peripheral if I'm nost mistaken) to finance operations for a time.
(steps way from this window for a sec...)
Just checked Wiki on the Joyboard it was from Amiga - has a curious tie-in to the guru meditation error - fun-ny!
Good post. You should join-up. And I don't say that often. More often than Digg - which is to say never on Digg, but good post.
The mention on them using their phones as their primary browser explains all the asian footage I saw on Youtube of Japanese customers (in the SF Bay Area) going nuts over the Safari browser. I've got an iPhone and I'll be the first to admit that - as a Mac user - the features are a bit anti-climactic because the interface works "just like a Mac". Neat, but nothing I'm not used to already. Now - if I'd never used a Mac, and was browsing on a mobile client in the same way for the first time - then I'd probably have to change undergarments.
I also think the iphone version of Seepod.com is so cool it hurts.
It's worse than that. If you try to send the max size the Razr camera can take - Verizon won't transfer it. But hey - you can enjoy them on a 1.5 inch screen forever.
Seriously after doing your inbounds like email - and pausing, cueing, and playing messages like an iTune (non linear: rewind, replay a snip from any part of the message etc) - you'll never want to go back. It feels like going from an ipod interface back to cranking up the 78rpm victrola in comparisson.
re:"This is kind of similar to the iPhone not being capable of using a mp3 as its ringtone. I'm sorry, but the capability is there, its a fucking iPod. I'm sure att has some plan in the future to roll out some sort of ringtone buying plan."
This wasn't broadly mentioned in the media but there was in fact a direct "quote" from Jobs on this. During an interview from Steven Levey from Newsweek / MSNBC.com after the into, Levey opined "it would be nice if this could play music as ringtones" Steve's response was two fingers being rubbed together. Obviously AT&T - while not being as horribly restrictive as Verizon is calling shots in this department as every vendor out there regards ringtones as "revenue channels".
But they did open the iPhone to other nonrestrictive features in other respects (unlimited data plan included was a nice start - I think only T-mobile has that, and non-linear voicemail is so cool it hurts. I noticed NO ONE bragging their Nokia xj79111 has this feature. I can't stand even using other voicemail systems now) and I think we'll see new features introduced as negotiations continue.
re:" One exceptional system, designed from the ground up as a top-notch computing, video and music machine."
I thought it was common knowledge that the Amiga was designed to be a game machine and had it's mission statement changed mid-stride. Not that there's anything wrong with that mind you. But I don't think any dellusions about Cray wanna be's donning dark sunglasses and screaming in triumph that they're on a mission from god to make the ultimate computer is going to score you any points in the historical accuracy department. (longest run on sentence today - BOYA!)
These are "purists" defined by marketing babble trumped out for a slow news day.
What - you didn't get the fucking memo? Here's your talking points the next time someone asks you to talk to the general public. Human resources demands it.
Didn't you hear? Because we have a marketplace other than scams. The summ total internet output I've seen to date from Nigeria - IS - scams. Obviously routed to other locations.
I was so hoping that Bush would blow a fuse and send a few dozen missiles to Nigeria but so far this doesn't seem to be feasible. I've set my router to block all amsterdam (thanks for the tip) and Nigerian traffic.
I've also sent word to one of my ISP's (a small one that's privately held) that this also might be a good idea.
Feel free to do the same. If Nigerians found out that no one was listening to them - at all - EVER. Perhaps that might be a better tool for change than missles.
Actually in the Sunday business section of the NYT they were on about how Africa has only 4% coverage as far as the internet.
Oddly enough - and I'm quite serious - they mentioned the countries along the northern coasts, and south africa (the country - not the general region). Not one - NOT ONE WORD - about Nigeria.
SSSoooooo please - someone - ANYONE - tell me. HOW are these (insert 500 mindblowingly creative and vulagar epithets here - and a few involving fetuses in microwave ovens just for good measure) Nigerians getting out so much email with so little fucking connectivity?
Cause I for one WANT TO KNOW. Why can't we just block the whole country? The whole goddamn country? Just shunt the whole IP prefix off the map? Tell the routers that it's a ping flood and dump the bozos?
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An ethics column in Aspen Colorado. Oh what the idle rich do speculate about. And here I am trying to make ends meet and make medical bills. Oh no - ethics and ATMs from the land of 50 million dollar plus mansions. That's fucking news!
Hey Slashdot - go fuck yourself.
Oh thank god it's about education and not jobs. Because we have great cushions in America for those who don't want a career path. Just look at our Medicare! And food stamps!
oh hell they have designer handbags that hold 11.
I would have said mp3, but apple's default (and what I encode at because 160kbs AAC sounds a hell of a lot better than an mp3 at 160kbs) is AAC so I said iTunes. You can now spew to your hearts content.
Sorry for the double reply but this nice hack came out if you want to plumb your iPhone and put in your own ringtones:
t ic_easy_iPhone_ringtone_installation
http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/IFuntas
Disclaimer be careful etc.
I'm sorry but selling to investors and what shipped is the change I'm describing and IS a mid-stride correction. I don't claim that it was the wrong one (in fact it was very right, the marketing on the other hand of the computer was very wrong - but apart from the C64 I don't think Commodore ever did effective marketing (and no the William Shatner ads for the Vic 20 don't count)), but it was a change of direction. Remember these are the same folk that were selling Joysticks (and a foot-board peripheral if I'm nost mistaken) to finance operations for a time.
(steps way from this window for a sec...)
Just checked Wiki on the Joyboard it was from Amiga - has a curious tie-in to the guru meditation error - fun-ny!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyboard
Good post. You should join-up. And I don't say that often. More often than Digg - which is to say never on Digg, but good post.
The mention on them using their phones as their primary browser explains all the asian footage I saw on Youtube of Japanese customers (in the SF Bay Area) going nuts over the Safari browser. I've got an iPhone and I'll be the first to admit that - as a Mac user - the features are a bit anti-climactic because the interface works "just like a Mac". Neat, but nothing I'm not used to already. Now - if I'd never used a Mac, and was browsing on a mobile client in the same way for the first time - then I'd probably have to change undergarments.
I also think the iphone version of Seepod.com is so cool it hurts.
re: pulling photos off
It's worse than that. If you try to send the max size the Razr camera can take - Verizon won't transfer it. But hey - you can enjoy them on a 1.5 inch screen forever.
Verizon - making your life easier - for us.
Nonlinear voicemail. Got that?
Seriously after doing your inbounds like email - and pausing, cueing, and playing messages like an iTune (non linear: rewind, replay a snip from any part of the message etc) - you'll never want to go back. It feels like going from an ipod interface back to cranking up the 78rpm victrola in comparisson.
re:"This is kind of similar to the iPhone not being capable of using a mp3 as its ringtone. I'm sorry, but the capability is there, its a fucking iPod. I'm sure att has some plan in the future to roll out some sort of ringtone buying plan."
This wasn't broadly mentioned in the media but there was in fact a direct "quote" from Jobs on this. During an interview from Steven Levey from Newsweek / MSNBC.com after the into, Levey opined "it would be nice if this could play music as ringtones" Steve's response was two fingers being rubbed together. Obviously AT&T - while not being as horribly restrictive as Verizon is calling shots in this department as every vendor out there regards ringtones as "revenue channels".
But they did open the iPhone to other nonrestrictive features in other respects (unlimited data plan included was a nice start - I think only T-mobile has that, and non-linear voicemail is so cool it hurts. I noticed NO ONE bragging their Nokia xj79111 has this feature. I can't stand even using other voicemail systems now) and I think we'll see new features introduced as negotiations continue.
Why suspect? It's not. Try it in your browser now - you'll at least get a redirect if it's there. Oops - it's not.
/iphone was not found on this server.
http://maps.google.com/iphone
Error
Not Found
The requested URL
Nice troll though.
troll - oh that's funny. Noobish mod not a film buff I'm guessing.
(cough cough) REPO MAN (cough cough)
(cough cough) Minor good film thread (cough cough)
(cough cough)Offtopic I could get - but TROLL (cough cough) moron (cough)
And I always assumed it was a herding instinct.
re:"but officials insist the law is not intended to strangle internet freedom."
And then I'll ram by ovapositer down your throat and lay my eggs in your chest - but I'm not an alien!
re:" One exceptional system, designed from the ground up as a top-notch computing, video and music machine."
I thought it was common knowledge that the Amiga was designed to be a game machine and had it's mission statement changed mid-stride. Not that there's anything wrong with that mind you. But I don't think any dellusions about Cray wanna be's donning dark sunglasses and screaming in triumph that they're on a mission from god to make the ultimate computer is going to score you any points in the historical accuracy department. (longest run on sentence today - BOYA!)
Screw this thread. Let's go out and do some crimes. Like - let's order sushi and not pay!
These are "purists" defined by marketing babble trumped out for a slow news day.
What - you didn't get the fucking memo? Here's your talking points the next time someone asks you to talk to the general public. Human resources demands it.
Think fuckhead above your post has been getting Herbal Viagra ads back in the 1970s from America?
Hello again Nigeria. FUCK OFF!
So - uh - much dancing go on up there in Lapland? What's the density of gorgeous blondes who dance really well in Lapland?
Just asking, Giggity giggity.
re:"Japan is 337/km per square kilometer.
Germany is 230.9/km per square kilometer."
Psst - don't get them started on "Leibenstraum". Ok? Just, just don't. Bad Idea.
Didn't you hear? Because we have a marketplace other than scams. The summ total internet output I've seen to date from Nigeria - IS - scams. Obviously routed to other locations.
I was so hoping that Bush would blow a fuse and send a few dozen missiles to Nigeria but so far this doesn't seem to be feasible. I've set my router to block all amsterdam (thanks for the tip) and Nigerian traffic.
I've also sent word to one of my ISP's (a small one that's privately held) that this also might be a good idea.
Feel free to do the same. If Nigerians found out that no one was listening to them - at all - EVER. Perhaps that might be a better tool for change than missles.
Why hello Nigeria - FUCK OFF!
Actually in the Sunday business section of the NYT they were on about how Africa has only 4% coverage as far as the internet.
Oddly enough - and I'm quite serious - they mentioned the countries along the northern coasts, and south africa (the country - not the general region). Not one - NOT ONE WORD - about Nigeria.
SSSoooooo please - someone - ANYONE - tell me. HOW are these (insert 500 mindblowingly creative and vulagar epithets here - and a few involving fetuses in microwave ovens just for good measure) Nigerians getting out so much email with so little fucking connectivity?
Cause I for one WANT TO KNOW. Why can't we just block the whole country? The whole goddamn country? Just shunt the whole IP prefix off the map? Tell the routers that it's a ping flood and dump the bozos?
You posted this twice on the same thread?
What are you some kind of troll?
Get the fuck back to Digg where you can play with your fucking LOLCATS all day.
I think the person whose implying that his 'nads are as big as two cats stuffed down his pants to accent his missing hand-hook - has issues.
That's just a theory.