So that was Rupert Murdoch's plan for making money with Facebook - sue spammers. And here I thought he was stupid for buying it thinking he would never make a ton of money from it.
Having a non-Unicode-capable page in 2009 is like having one that is optimized for Netscape 0.9,
Damn it! It took me this long to get used to Netscape 0.8, and now you want me to upgrade again? No way! All of my Geocities and Angelfire pages load perfectly.
I had no idea that not loving something entitled you to a full refund. Good to know, because there isn't enough feelings of entitlement in this world.
You know, there are things such as review web sites, reviews on television, newspapers, magazines, talking to friends about what they thought, etc., you know, all those things that have been around and people were doing prior to widespread adaptation of the internet. Or if you really wanted to try before you buy - video stores, netflix, etc. allow you to watch before committing to buying. Of course on the flip side, prior to the internet people had to hook two VCRs together to dub tapes, but at least then at the very minimum you had to buy blank tapes to make copies. So copying movies isn't anything new, but I don't recall any 9 year old kids able to buy 2 VCRs and blank tapes to do so back then. You needed a minimum investment, and a little technical know how. On the other hand now...
thought the Arpanet was there so I could play Zork
Ah, the Original Adventure. XYZZY. I think it took me weeks of trying to map out the damn maze of twisty little paths to get by that part. There was that and black box, and the star trek game too ("hunt the klingons" maybe was it's name? or at least that was what everyone called it). So I guess I could say I have been computer gaming for about 30 some odd years, even before home computers. At the time I didn't care why it existed, only that it let me play games. But it was all over when I got my first 300 baud modem and discovered the rest of the world of computing.
You are preaching to the choir here. I think diamonds are about as awesome as glass (well, probably less because nobody has workers that are basically slaves mining for glass). My whole point was that DeBeers has a campaign to make people think diamonds are a rare and valuable commodity. You and I know they are not. The funny thing is that when presented with the fact that flawless diamonds can be made in labs, suddenly it was the small flaws and "uniqueness" that makes mined diamonds more valuable. Nice try again DeBeers.
So is every other business. Maybe they should wisely spend their security budget, and stop wasting money for things/policies that don't actually make anyone safer. Or maybe they should realize that for years and years they were doing great and maybe it wasn't so smart to not invest back in to the security infrastructure. If they had been slowly spending to increase actual security, they would not have all been hit with big bills in the post-9/11 scramble to pretend to have adequate security systems.
I know. I can't wait to peddle my Anti-Apocalypse Charms at the screening of 2012. I have had one for the last few years, and no apocalypse. It really works! And the best part is if it doesn't work, I still wont have to refund anybody's money!
The airlines are trying to protect their profits, not their customers. Of course it is all feel-good security theater, real security isn't cost effective. But as long as the illusion of safety exists, Joe Sixpack will continue flying.
Yeah, And don't even get me started on the DeBeers campaigns - "Is 6 months salary too much to pay for an engagement ring?" well, in a word - yes. Especially for a falsely inflated value item like a diamond that has an artifical price due to careful control of the supply. If DeBeers released all the diamonds they have stored in their warehouses, diamonds would be as cheap as the rest of the semi-precious stones are.
No, you know in theory which one you think you would choose, but until it actually happened, all you can do is guess about what you would do. In life or death situations, your rationale may change.
Seriously, many Christian holidays were created to replace pagan rituals, so why wouldnt they klept the Mayan "endgame" as well?
Probably because nobody started talking about 2012 being the end of the world until the 1980s? honestly this has nothing to do with Christians putting religious holidays around known pagan holidays. Besides, Hallmark has invented more holidays to sell greeting cards than the Catholic church has invented in centuries...
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Perhaps you are too educated for your own good.
Brilliant! That should be his show's motto.
So that was Rupert Murdoch's plan for making money with Facebook - sue spammers. And here I thought he was stupid for buying it thinking he would never make a ton of money from it.
And as long as that one person isn't you, you get some knowledge without taking any risk. Not a bad deal.
Having a non-Unicode-capable page in 2009 is like having one that is optimized for Netscape 0.9,
Damn it! It took me this long to get used to Netscape 0.8, and now you want me to upgrade again? No way! All of my Geocities and Angelfire pages load perfectly.
No. Why do you ask?
Why would you throw out a perfectly good working PC, just because it didn't have USB 2.0? I seriously doubt he bought the PC new very recently.
Finally, someone who gets it! Now can you please explain that to all your other non-English speaking brethren, because we only speak English here..
I had no idea that not loving something entitled you to a full refund. Good to know, because there isn't enough feelings of entitlement in this world.
You know, there are things such as review web sites, reviews on television, newspapers, magazines, talking to friends about what they thought, etc., you know, all those things that have been around and people were doing prior to widespread adaptation of the internet. Or if you really wanted to try before you buy - video stores, netflix, etc. allow you to watch before committing to buying. Of course on the flip side, prior to the internet people had to hook two VCRs together to dub tapes, but at least then at the very minimum you had to buy blank tapes to make copies. So copying movies isn't anything new, but I don't recall any 9 year old kids able to buy 2 VCRs and blank tapes to do so back then. You needed a minimum investment, and a little technical know how. On the other hand now...
Well, I didn't know Gary Glitter was an illegal downloader. Get him!
Reminds me of the time I was at the Science Museum in Minnesota and they had an exhibit from the Museum of Bad Science (or something like that).
It is the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. (It used to be housed in St. Anthony Main, but when that clsoed they moved it to the Science Museum.)
I know what you mean. I had a friend who talked on the cell phone all the time, and then 7 years later - BAM - herpes.
Proving once again that porn is the reason technology moved forward.
thought the Arpanet was there so I could play Zork
Ah, the Original Adventure. XYZZY. I think it took me weeks of trying to map out the damn maze of twisty little paths to get by that part. There was that and black box, and the star trek game too ("hunt the klingons" maybe was it's name? or at least that was what everyone called it). So I guess I could say I have been computer gaming for about 30 some odd years, even before home computers. At the time I didn't care why it existed, only that it let me play games. But it was all over when I got my first 300 baud modem and discovered the rest of the world of computing.
It's interesting that the first ARPAnet line was no faster than a modern dialup modem (53-56 kbit/s).
Well, internet porn was limited to ascii art at the time, so it didn't need to be all that fast.
Sure, but you can't snort ink.
You are preaching to the choir here. I think diamonds are about as awesome as glass (well, probably less because nobody has workers that are basically slaves mining for glass). My whole point was that DeBeers has a campaign to make people think diamonds are a rare and valuable commodity. You and I know they are not. The funny thing is that when presented with the fact that flawless diamonds can be made in labs, suddenly it was the small flaws and "uniqueness" that makes mined diamonds more valuable. Nice try again DeBeers.
So is every other business. Maybe they should wisely spend their security budget, and stop wasting money for things/policies that don't actually make anyone safer. Or maybe they should realize that for years and years they were doing great and maybe it wasn't so smart to not invest back in to the security infrastructure. If they had been slowly spending to increase actual security, they would not have all been hit with big bills in the post-9/11 scramble to pretend to have adequate security systems.
I know. I can't wait to peddle my Anti-Apocalypse Charms at the screening of 2012. I have had one for the last few years, and no apocalypse. It really works! And the best part is if it doesn't work, I still wont have to refund anybody's money!
The airlines are trying to protect their profits, not their customers. Of course it is all feel-good security theater, real security isn't cost effective. But as long as the illusion of safety exists, Joe Sixpack will continue flying.
They wouldn't care because I borrowed it from their helmets.
Yeah, And don't even get me started on the DeBeers campaigns - "Is 6 months salary too much to pay for an engagement ring?" well, in a word - yes. Especially for a falsely inflated value item like a diamond that has an artifical price due to careful control of the supply. If DeBeers released all the diamonds they have stored in their warehouses, diamonds would be as cheap as the rest of the semi-precious stones are.
No, you know in theory which one you think you would choose, but until it actually happened, all you can do is guess about what you would do. In life or death situations, your rationale may change.
Seriously, many Christian holidays were created to replace pagan rituals, so why wouldnt they klept the Mayan "endgame" as well?
Probably because nobody started talking about 2012 being the end of the world until the 1980s? honestly this has nothing to do with Christians putting religious holidays around known pagan holidays. Besides, Hallmark has invented more holidays to sell greeting cards than the Catholic church has invented in centuries...
Collage? Is that some sort of art school?
Carefully. And you?