Thumbs UP!Internet: October 2007 Archives
She's home at last!
Isn't she pretty?
Isn't she pretty?
Thats a Citroen C4 Coupe.
I think it looks great. Jeanine can't believe she finally agreed to buy a 3-door car. (She thinks they're impractical, bah!)
I think it looks great. Jeanine can't believe she finally agreed to buy a 3-door car. (She thinks they're impractical, bah!)
Continue reading Our new car.
Now really Microsoft?
I thought my PC was my PC, not yours. Surely I have a say in what gets installed on it?
Oh, wait, thats not what you seem to think?
So now every PC running Windows with Automatic Updates, is going to end up installing Windows Desktop Search. Then its going to start indexing. Everything.
Every drive (local and network) is going to be scanned, file by file.
Thats going to slow down the user's PC, and possibly put a very large load on their fileservers.
Nice!
I thought my PC was my PC, not yours. Surely I have a say in what gets installed on it?
Oh, wait, thats not what you seem to think?
So now every PC running Windows with Automatic Updates, is going to end up installing Windows Desktop Search. Then its going to start indexing. Everything.
Every drive (local and network) is going to be scanned, file by file.
Thats going to slow down the user's PC, and possibly put a very large load on their fileservers.
Nice!
Looks like the Authorities have been busy.
TechCrunch say that Oink is down, Tv-links is down, but Demonoid is back up again.
People are going to extreme measures to get what they want. Surely the Movie, TV and Music industries should start to realise that their old marketing models are just not working any more?
I'd rather open up iTunes and buy a track online, than hop in my car to head down to the nearest Music store and buy it there, from some rude teenager who only works there because his parents want him to.
Then, once I've got the track from iTunes, I can listen to it on my PC, my iPod, and burn it to CD for my car.
The whole DRM/no-DRM debate is bound to pop-up, in which case, I'm on the no-DRM side. (Trusted computing? What ever happened to letting the consumer have some choice?)
Which would you rather do?
I'm willing to pay for convenience and flexibility...
TechCrunch say that Oink is down, Tv-links is down, but Demonoid is back up again.
People are going to extreme measures to get what they want. Surely the Movie, TV and Music industries should start to realise that their old marketing models are just not working any more?
I'd rather open up iTunes and buy a track online, than hop in my car to head down to the nearest Music store and buy it there, from some rude teenager who only works there because his parents want him to.
Then, once I've got the track from iTunes, I can listen to it on my PC, my iPod, and burn it to CD for my car.
The whole DRM/no-DRM debate is bound to pop-up, in which case, I'm on the no-DRM side. (Trusted computing? What ever happened to letting the consumer have some choice?)
Which would you rather do?
I'm willing to pay for convenience and flexibility...
I received this today.
I'm speechless
Grandad, maybe you can enterpret this one for me.
Or perhaps you'd like to stock up on your missile stash?
I can only begin to imagine what the SPAMmer is trying to acheive with this one...
I'm speechless
Grandad, maybe you can enterpret this one for me.
Or perhaps you'd like to stock up on your missile stash?
I can only begin to imagine what the SPAMmer is trying to acheive with this one...
Continue reading Most bizarre and disturbing SPAM ever..
And after all of that, they apologised.
It shouldn't have happened in the first place, and Monster shouldn't have let it grow to the point that it got to.
But they've apologised, and all is forgiven. I don't think anyone will be forgetting about it any time soon though.
And, Grandad has his say too.
It shouldn't have happened in the first place, and Monster shouldn't have let it grow to the point that it got to.
But they've apologised, and all is forgiven. I don't think anyone will be forgetting about it any time soon though.
And, Grandad has his say too.
Okay, I wasn't going to blog about this, as I thought there was enough coverage on it already.
But Grandad just came up with this gem, which is well worth sharing.
A basic summary of events, and links after the jump.
But Grandad just came up with this gem, which is well worth sharing.
A basic summary of events, and links after the jump.
Continue reading How not to promote your business.
