Comment Re:You can Do that? (Score 5, Funny) 445
Recently, I called Wells Fargo and told them to "Go f*** yourselves"; I didn't anticipate they would take me so literally.
Comment Re:Re:Good (Score 0, Flamebait) 598
Did you even bother to click the link? There's nothing biased about the comparison. It's not very compelling if you asked me, but it's definitely without bias.
Comment Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 1) 384
On IPhone Safari:
Step 1) Curse out loud.
Step 2) There is no step 2.
Comment Re:Why upgrade? (Score 1) 269
Better boot performance, new notification system, OpenOffice 3, Firefox 3.1, ext4.
Besides those, it's been my experience that any new version of any Linux distro, and especially Ubuntu, that each new version supports hardware that previously didn't work, or took an act of a command-line-god to get working.
My policy is, I keep the LTS release on my server, and upgrade it when a new LTS comes out. However, on my desktops and laptops, I always upgrade to the latest release. If you look at the list of new features, usually none of them would I care about on a server. The only exception in 9.04 is the inclusion of ext4, but I am taking a wait-and-see until there is more consensus that it is trustworthy.
Comment Re:Three options (Score 1) 1032
So many time consuming and expensive solutions. I've found you can actually save money by just kicking the girl and her rats out, and making her get her own g-damn apartment.
Comment Re:The two guys' bottom line is nearly correct (Score 5, Insightful) 559
I think I learned quite a bit. I learned that when you get people in front of a camera talking about your product, they don't really pay very much attention to what they are seeing. If you look like a representative of the company, most people are going to say kind things.
Which to me, says an awful lot about the Mojave Experiment. It doesn't really matter what people say they think in that setting. It matters what they think when they install the OS on their own computer, and for Vista that hasn't been very good.
It also makes me question the effectiveness of usability labs I've sat through in the process of developing software for corporations. It's a painful process, and now I wonder if it is very accurate at all.
Submission + - ESRB Demands Removal of Videos (shacknews.com)
MaJeStu writes: The ESRB has decided that even with an age gate, the trailers for D3's new game, Dark Sector, are too "offensive," and has required the publisher to have them taken down. What authority they have to force D3 to do this is still unknown, as are the possible consequences if D3 refused. Chris Remo at shacknews.com has more on the story.
Submission + - Social news site ranks stories on reads, not votes
Stony Stevenson writes: Spotplex on Monday announced a new content-aggregation site that it said will provide Digg.com-like rankings of Internet content — with a twist. Instead of requiring users to rank content, Spotplex will automatically rank it based on the number of people reading it.
Unlike Digg, content is not submitted to Spotplex by the community, rather is automatically indexed by inserting Spotplex's proprietary code within your site. The stories that get to the front-page of Spotplex aren't the ones that readers vote for, rather are the ones that the code tells the service got the most page views on your site. So much for community-powered news aggregation and promotion.
Spotplex provides internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count. In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people recommended or voted for, but a list of articles read most in a given timeframe.
Unlike Digg, content is not submitted to Spotplex by the community, rather is automatically indexed by inserting Spotplex's proprietary code within your site. The stories that get to the front-page of Spotplex aren't the ones that readers vote for, rather are the ones that the code tells the service got the most page views on your site. So much for community-powered news aggregation and promotion.
Spotplex provides internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count. In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people recommended or voted for, but a list of articles read most in a given timeframe.
Submission + - Microsoft eyes Apple with virtualization stance (arstechnica.com)
Pisces writes: Over the past several days, Microsoft flip-flopped on virtualization in Vista, with one ascribing the change in policy to concerns over DRM. A piece at Ars Technica raises another, more likely possiblity: fear of Apple. Apple is technically an OEM, and could offer copies of Vista at a discounted price. 'All of this paints a picture in which Apple could use OEM pricing to offer Windows for its Macs at greatly reduced prices and running in a VM. The latter is absolutely crucial; telling users that they need to reboot into their Windows OS isn't nearly as sexy as, say, Coherence in Parallels. If you've never seen Coherence, it's quite amazing. You don't need to run Windows apps in a VM window of Vista. Instead, the apps appear to run in OS X itself, and the environment is (mostly) hidden away. VMWare also has similar technology, dubbed Unity.' Is Microsoft terrified of a world where Windows can be virtualized and forced to take a back seat to Mac OS X or Linux?
Submission + - US based webcasters plan Day of Silence (kurthanson.com)
teh_commodore writes: Tomorrow, June 26th, thousands of US-based internet radio stations plan to turn off the music, warning listeners that silence is all they will hear after July 15, when 17 months of retroactive royalties are due to SoundExchange. Among the participants; heavyweights such as ike Yahoo! Launch, Rhapsody, and Pandora.com will silence their streams along with other Day of Silence participants like KCRW.org, Live365, MTV Online, Radioio, RadioParadise, and AccuRadio.
