I recently left Verizon and switched to Virgin Mobile and picked up two LG Optimus V Android phones. They are a GREAT deal. They have a 600mhz processor and have not encountered any issues running and apps.
I'm now paying $50/month for my girlfriend and myself to have two droid phones with 300 minutes, "unlimited" data and text messages where as I was previously paying $50/month for 1 phone on Verizon with 400 minutes, unlimited text messages and no data. (That was after a 25% corporate discount!) On top of that she was paying $100 a month with T-Mobile for unlimited everything. I'm saving over $100 (between us two) and getting more useful features that I use.
If any of you are off contract (another benefit to VM -- they don't have contracts) I would strongly suggest looking at Virgin Mobile and their Android phones, I believe they have two to choose from, one from LG (which I have) and one from Samsung.
The Western Roman Empire and the Chinese Empire coexisted for centuries.
The world moves a lot faster nowadays. It may have been able to handle two mega empires simultaneously solely because of geographical limits. Natural resources were also not nearly as in demand as they are today.
I know that, google recently changed their logo which included a rotating buckyball. When you clicked on the logo, it performed a google search for "buckyball" which happened to place the BuckyBalls website very close to the top giving them a lot of exposure and sales.
I recently purchased 4 sets of BuckyBalls when they were recently on woot. I'm pretty pissed that I did now and want to show my support to Zen Magnets and buy a set of theirs. They seem to have much better quality from everything I have read and seen, and can attest to BuckyBalls "flakes" now coming off in my hand after using the magnets for about 2 weeks.
From what I have heard, this company BuckyBalls made about $500,000 in sales from the woot sale (woot actually bought more from BuckyBalls on the day of the sale because demand was so strong), and $250,000 in sales on the day Google changed its logo to honor the Buckyball. Seems they may have grown too big for their britches and feel a sense of entitlement now.
If you want to read the article, and don't have a Wall Street Journal membership, you can simply enter the article name in Google, and Wall Street Journal will let you use Google as a referrer to read the article through the paywall.
I happen to sweat a decent amount. In the summer, if I keep my phone in my pocket, it will trip the sensor. What am I supposed to do to prevent that from happening?
According to the article, the SWF can still be executed under these circumstances, but that seems implausible to me. I would think that the browser would simply invoke the jpeg handler, fail to parse the image data, and throw an error.
I don't know if gif/jpeg rules are the same. But you can upload a GIF as a JPEG, and it will still render as a GIF, even though the file is itself JPEG. In fact, even some free image hosting sites exploit this "vulnerability". If you upload a GIF to tinypic, it will rename the file and place the.jpg extension after it.
Firefox and IE seem to have no problem deciphering this so I doubt it is something that the browsers specifically disallow.
That's bullshit. It's luck. (And increasingly these days, the luck of having been born into the correct socioeconomic stratum.) The best we can do is to pursue opportunities to the utmost when they do appear and make the most of the luck we get in life.
Your statement reminded me of one of my favorite quotes.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
To make people aware of what they don't necessarily know about or necessarily need/want. Doesn't targeted marketing miss out on this aspect of advertising?
I guess I should have added that the strangest part of my experience was that I think it is weird that a family where the father pulled in $100,00+/year, which allowed the mother to stay home and "home school" the kids, didn't think to prepare their kids to be able to do the same when they grow up.
I have some first hand anecdotal evidence to present to the slashdot community.
From 5th-8th grade I was homeschooled (by choice) which in essence meant I read text books (A Becca publishing), as well as books outside of traditional text books, attended art classes, participated in tennis lessons, learned to play the trumpet, and picked up paintballing as well as maintened my own N64 fan website and learned the basics of HTML and web development.
I went back to the public school system for my high school years. At the time I had no interest in doing so, but I see the benefit it provided me now. For one, I got into college, learned to communicate with people "not like me", and even attempted, but failed (at the time) picking up girls.
My neighbors on the other hand, had 3 kids around my age and after seeing me "homeschooling" they decided it would be fun to do the same thing. Well, they didn't exactly push their kids to do anything beyond playing video games all day. I guess you could say they fit the definition of "unschooling", that is they did nothing to further their education and instead wasted away their time doing nothing "productive". They never ordered text books, or participated in any sort of standardized testing. After they were "done" with school, they didn't attempt to go to any post secondary school, and continue (to this day) to live at their parent's house.
Their oldest son (25) got engaged at 19, got a job working at a TV repair shop, and has no interest in furthering his education. He is currently living with Mommy & Daddy, along with his wife. The other two sons, have not attended college, and also still live at home.
By definition both me and my neighbors were home schooled, but I think I used home schooling as a means to learn outside the box, which to this day benefits me greatly. Whereas my neighbors used homeschooling to take their kids out of the system.
Not that this is any indication of homeschooling successes (or failures) but I am currently employed being paid well above average for my peer group. My neighbors, not so much.
One of my favorite quotes is by Mark Twain: "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education". I truly believe this, and try to follow it every day. Even though I also recognize the need to go "through the motions" of school, or the "normal" way to learn. However I don't let it stop my passions or what I believe in. I think homeschooling works on a case-by-case basis but I honestly think anyone who chooses to homeschool their kids without the intention of teaching them anything is doing them a huge disservice that will severely limit their future potential as in seen by my neighbor.
So I guess you could say, homeschooling works for some people, but horribly fails others. Next topic?
Although the ads on the "free" porn sites are obnoxious and I don't know of a quick and easy solution that combines FF's Adblock with IE's 'In-Private Browsing'.
The only spam making it past gmail in my account now are very simple plain text ads, usually with a single clickable link to a yahoo group. They are all formatted identically (text is centered) and usually the text and/or subject mentions watches, although not always.
I hope you hit the "Report Spam" button which helps with identifying future spams sent using pattern recognition.
I can't imagine a major competitor to the Apple iPhone will be allowed to do this without a lawsuit smacking them in the face. Then again, perhaps Palm wants a lawsuit to bring additional media attention to their device.
Seems like a risky move by Palm, their entire future most likely rests on this device. Without it succeeding the risk of Palm going under are pretty high. Might as well shoot for the fences I guess.
"By the masses"? You honestly think the masses use Adblock?
No, the masses don't. But the early adopters do. And the early adopters tell other people what to do on their computer.
In order for any product to be wildly successful you NEED early adopters who are ahead of the curve. This is what Adblock Plus users are. Without support for ABP you will not see a lot of the "techy" early adopters that people go to for computer advice adopting Chrome, therefore Chrome will struggle to find an audience.
Is this a company you really want to work for? Any company that promotes policies like this either internally, or suggests they should be promoted is not a company worth working for in my opinion.
You should be grateful you have a new job lined up and are able to remove yourself from such an unethical company.
In the mean time, it may be smart to try and build up some sort of evidence trail about the blackmail going on. Slip a tape recorder into your jacket pocket and record the conversations you have with the blackmailer. (If you do this, make sure you check your jurisdictions laws on secretly audio taping someone first). Print out emails sent back and forth, or even if the best you can do is just writing down what you have experienced with a date and time entry as well as the best recollection of the conversation you had. Basically do whatever you can that will help you defend your character should the issue ever arise in the future.
Boats, aircraft and women are the three things that are better to rent than to own.
I thought it was just better to have a neighbor who owns one of those - that way you get all the advantages (getting to ride in a boat, airplane or woman) without the annoyances that come along with owning one.
This will be a poorly implemented system and once they realize how many people are driving for free on the road we will be back to having attendants at the booths.
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A 1980's stereo receiver and a VHS player from the 1990's.
I recently left Verizon and switched to Virgin Mobile and picked up two LG Optimus V Android phones. They are a GREAT deal. They have a 600mhz processor and have not encountered any issues running and apps.
I'm now paying $50/month for my girlfriend and myself to have two droid phones with 300 minutes, "unlimited" data and text messages where as I was previously paying $50/month for 1 phone on Verizon with 400 minutes, unlimited text messages and no data. (That was after a 25% corporate discount!) On top of that she was paying $100 a month with T-Mobile for unlimited everything. I'm saving over $100 (between us two) and getting more useful features that I use.
If any of you are off contract (another benefit to VM -- they don't have contracts) I would strongly suggest looking at Virgin Mobile and their Android phones, I believe they have two to choose from, one from LG (which I have) and one from Samsung.
Please ban this user posting GOATSE without marking it as NSFW.
The Western Roman Empire and the Chinese Empire coexisted for centuries.
The world moves a lot faster nowadays. It may have been able to handle two mega empires simultaneously solely because of geographical limits. Natural resources were also not nearly as in demand as they are today.
Just my $.02
I solved the facebook connect issue by just creating a custom filter in my adblock settings.
*.facebook.com.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
This is a quick fix that doesn't require another plugin to be loaded into memory.
Cheers!
I know that, google recently changed their logo which included a rotating buckyball. When you clicked on the logo, it performed a google search for "buckyball" which happened to place the BuckyBalls website very close to the top giving them a lot of exposure and sales.
I recently purchased 4 sets of BuckyBalls when they were recently on woot. I'm pretty pissed that I did now and want to show my support to Zen Magnets and buy a set of theirs. They seem to have much better quality from everything I have read and seen, and can attest to BuckyBalls "flakes" now coming off in my hand after using the magnets for about 2 weeks.
From what I have heard, this company BuckyBalls made about $500,000 in sales from the woot sale (woot actually bought more from BuckyBalls on the day of the sale because demand was so strong), and $250,000 in sales on the day Google changed its logo to honor the Buckyball. Seems they may have grown too big for their britches and feel a sense of entitlement now.
http://torrentstream.org/
Works pretty well actually.
If you want to read the article, and don't have a Wall Street Journal membership, you can simply enter the article name in Google, and Wall Street Journal will let you use Google as a referrer to read the article through the paywall.
Here's the link to the Google search for you.
I happen to sweat a decent amount. In the summer, if I keep my phone in my pocket, it will trip the sensor. What am I supposed to do to prevent that from happening?
According to the article, the SWF can still be executed under these circumstances, but that seems implausible to me. I would think that the browser would simply invoke the jpeg handler, fail to parse the image data, and throw an error.
I don't know if gif/jpeg rules are the same. But you can upload a GIF as a JPEG, and it will still render as a GIF, even though the file is itself JPEG. In fact, even some free image hosting sites exploit this "vulnerability". If you upload a GIF to tinypic, it will rename the file and place the .jpg extension after it.
Firefox and IE seem to have no problem deciphering this so I doubt it is something that the browsers specifically disallow.
That's bullshit. It's luck. (And increasingly these days, the luck of having been born into the correct socioeconomic stratum.) The best we can do is to pursue opportunities to the utmost when they do appear and make the most of the luck we get in life.
Your statement reminded me of one of my favorite quotes.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
To make people aware of what they don't necessarily know about or necessarily need/want. Doesn't targeted marketing miss out on this aspect of advertising?
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (still the apotheosis of 2-d fighting; just try finding a copy on ebay)
Hmm, ok.
That was Hard...
And to think, I own this game and it is collecting dust somewhere. Perhaps I should list it on ebay and retire to some faraway country.
Without a doubt.
I guess I should have added that the strangest part of my experience was that I think it is weird that a family where the father pulled in $100,00+/year, which allowed the mother to stay home and "home school" the kids, didn't think to prepare their kids to be able to do the same when they grow up.
I have some first hand anecdotal evidence to present to the slashdot community.
From 5th-8th grade I was homeschooled (by choice) which in essence meant I read text books (A Becca publishing), as well as books outside of traditional text books, attended art classes, participated in tennis lessons, learned to play the trumpet, and picked up paintballing as well as maintened my own N64 fan website and learned the basics of HTML and web development.
I went back to the public school system for my high school years. At the time I had no interest in doing so, but I see the benefit it provided me now. For one, I got into college, learned to communicate with people "not like me", and even attempted, but failed (at the time) picking up girls.
My neighbors on the other hand, had 3 kids around my age and after seeing me "homeschooling" they decided it would be fun to do the same thing. Well, they didn't exactly push their kids to do anything beyond playing video games all day. I guess you could say they fit the definition of "unschooling", that is they did nothing to further their education and instead wasted away their time doing nothing "productive". They never ordered text books, or participated in any sort of standardized testing. After they were "done" with school, they didn't attempt to go to any post secondary school, and continue (to this day) to live at their parent's house.
Their oldest son (25) got engaged at 19, got a job working at a TV repair shop, and has no interest in furthering his education. He is currently living with Mommy & Daddy, along with his wife. The other two sons, have not attended college, and also still live at home.
By definition both me and my neighbors were home schooled, but I think I used home schooling as a means to learn outside the box, which to this day benefits me greatly. Whereas my neighbors used homeschooling to take their kids out of the system.
Not that this is any indication of homeschooling successes (or failures) but I am currently employed being paid well above average for my peer group. My neighbors, not so much.
One of my favorite quotes is by Mark Twain: "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education". I truly believe this, and try to follow it every day. Even though I also recognize the need to go "through the motions" of school, or the "normal" way to learn. However I don't let it stop my passions or what I believe in. I think homeschooling works on a case-by-case basis but I honestly think anyone who chooses to homeschool their kids without the intention of teaching them anything is doing them a huge disservice that will severely limit their future potential as in seen by my neighbor.
So I guess you could say, homeschooling works for some people, but horribly fails others. Next topic?
Although the ads on the "free" porn sites are obnoxious and I don't know of a quick and easy solution that combines FF's Adblock with IE's 'In-Private Browsing'.
Firefox 3.5 has a private browsing mode
The only spam making it past gmail in my account now are very simple plain text ads, usually with a single clickable link to a yahoo group. They are all formatted identically (text is centered) and usually the text and/or subject mentions watches, although not always.
I hope you hit the "Report Spam" button which helps with identifying future spams sent using pattern recognition.
They need to get one of those flapping NAV's to fan off their server and cool it down.
I can't imagine a major competitor to the Apple iPhone will be allowed to do this without a lawsuit smacking them in the face. Then again, perhaps Palm wants a lawsuit to bring additional media attention to their device.
Seems like a risky move by Palm, their entire future most likely rests on this device. Without it succeeding the risk of Palm going under are pretty high. Might as well shoot for the fences I guess.
"By the masses"? You honestly think the masses use Adblock?
No, the masses don't. But the early adopters do. And the early adopters tell other people what to do on their computer.
In order for any product to be wildly successful you NEED early adopters who are ahead of the curve. This is what Adblock Plus users are. Without support for ABP you will not see a lot of the "techy" early adopters that people go to for computer advice adopting Chrome, therefore Chrome will struggle to find an audience.
Just my $.02
Is this a company you really want to work for? Any company that promotes policies like this either internally, or suggests they should be promoted is not a company worth working for in my opinion.
You should be grateful you have a new job lined up and are able to remove yourself from such an unethical company.
In the mean time, it may be smart to try and build up some sort of evidence trail about the blackmail going on. Slip a tape recorder into your jacket pocket and record the conversations you have with the blackmailer. (If you do this, make sure you check your jurisdictions laws on secretly audio taping someone first). Print out emails sent back and forth, or even if the best you can do is just writing down what you have experienced with a date and time entry as well as the best recollection of the conversation you had. Basically do whatever you can that will help you defend your character should the issue ever arise in the future.
Boats, aircraft and women are the three things that are better to rent than to own.
I thought it was just better to have a neighbor who owns one of those - that way you get all the advantages (getting to ride in a boat, airplane or woman) without the annoyances that come along with owning one.
Useless comma called, he wants them all back!
Such as these products to "beat" the traffic cameras.
Photo Blocker
Photo Shield
This will be a poorly implemented system and once they realize how many people are driving for free on the road we will be back to having attendants at the booths.