its also very interesting to read the comments above, while some are interesting others seem to jump to the defence of "we are still bigger/better", i think anyone can spot the american posters with ease.
it seems to me that the average (and i dont mean everyone!) american has a hard time accepting they are not the world, the ignorance of some people really astounds me, accept that america does not own everything, look round your house and see all those japanese items like your TV/DVD player? read underneath about 1/2 your household appliances and you will see "made in china/taiwan", you guys send billions abroad every year which will hurt your economy and you wonder why its struggling? sure it makes the rich exec's get million dollar bonuses as they have saves the company money, but in the long term your draining money from your own country
side note: its interesting to have an article on here thats not just another IP rant that means little to nothing to us non us readers, get back to the good old days!
personally i'm a gameboy fan myself, can't beat a 20 minute stint of tetris on the loo, then you need another 5 to lie down till the pins 'n needles stop.
God damn these "million dollar homepage" spawns (and no i'm not even going to look at this one). I work for a web hosting company and if I have seen one in the last week I have seen 10...
Also to the trumped up dude (cant be bothered to look up the post), this is a techie news site, so you are expected to be a techie to read/understand what its on about, further we techie people expect spelling and grammar checkers to go over everything we type, as this does not happen when we click submit it confuses us, and we cant go back and edit our comments anyway.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY THOUGH. AT LEAST WE DONT TYPE IN ALL UPPERCASE LIKE YOUR AVERAGE AOL USER. LOL.
How many people have a store card? I mean c'mon, people whinge about google's policy, what about the personalised offers you get from tesco on products you purchase regularly (or are similar to)?
Every time you swipe your tesco store card they know where you live, what you bought, when was the last time you bought it, but who cares enough to complain? Nobody. If you don't like this you dont hand over your card at the till. People who are really that concerned about this kind of thing need to start taking responsability for their own online actions.
And on topic, I can't really blame them for putting in advertising, its more the hyping up that annoys me, these "security firms" like to make their own news, just like some popular UK Newspaper journalists sneaking a box marked "bomb" into Parliament ... when companies/newpapers start making their own breaking-super-important-life-altering-news you know its not with the time to read.
is this home or work? i turn my home computer off, several reasons including room heating ;) and bills, but my work computer is on 24/7 because of nightly updates/AV checks etc.
or you should put all children into boxes, leave theme there with enough stimulation and tools to learn stuff and leave them till they are fully grown.
actually amazon have a fairly good affiliate scheme, if it works on the same principal then they are making their money out of amazon by selling you the coupons. probably not quite a much money, but it may encourage you to use it more which offsets the amount.
Actually I wrote a website specifically for mobile phones [gx20.com if its still working - looks different when viewed on phone though] about the time they implemented this porn feature, i used to test the site regularly after making changes, after which they decided to block the whole site.
eventualy got to speak to someone and they listed about 3 url's on the site that contained adult images, a couple were simple topless women [phone backgrounds], so you have to be over 18 to see a topless woman??? most of the images people wanted were women in skimpy clothing, and if you cant give people what they want [within reason] whats the point?
so that pissed me right off, i then moved to 3, now i can't even see my own site at all as 3 wont let you browse anything other than their own stupid content - grr!
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its also very interesting to read the comments above, while some are interesting others seem to jump to the defence of "we are still bigger/better", i think anyone can spot the american posters with ease.
it seems to me that the average (and i dont mean everyone!) american has a hard time accepting they are not the world, the ignorance of some people really astounds me, accept that america does not own everything, look round your house and see all those japanese items like your TV/DVD player? read underneath about 1/2 your household appliances and you will see "made in china/taiwan", you guys send billions abroad every year which will hurt your economy and you wonder why its struggling? sure it makes the rich exec's get million dollar bonuses as they have saves the company money, but in the long term your draining money from your own country
side note: its interesting to have an article on here thats not just another IP rant that means little to nothing to us non us readers, get back to the good old days!
Clause 15 is just great ... (as Daniel Morritt)
"BSA reserves its right to deny the payment of a Reward or to revoke the Reward Program at any time and without notice and for any reason."
wow, what a getout! how about "meh, we dont feel like it today" as a reason?
Gameboy (as Daniel)
personally i'm a gameboy fan myself, can't beat a 20 minute stint of tetris on the loo, then you need another 5 to lie down till the pins 'n needles stop.
Re: BRIILANT.. (as Daniel)
I wonder if i should be reading this from work? What the hell I only have 5 more days of my notice to work!
Re: Million Dollar Path - (as Daniel)
God damn these "million dollar homepage" spawns (and no i'm not even going to look at this one). I work for a web hosting company and if I have seen one in the last week I have seen 10...
Also to the trumped up dude (cant be bothered to look up the post), this is a techie news site, so you are expected to be a techie to read/understand what its on about, further we techie people expect spelling and grammar checkers to go over everything we type, as this does not happen when we click submit it confuses us, and we cant go back and edit our comments anyway.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY THOUGH. AT LEAST WE DONT TYPE IN ALL UPPERCASE LIKE YOUR AVERAGE AOL USER. LOL.
Re: If Google really cared (as Daniel)
How many people have a store card? I mean c'mon, people whinge about google's policy, what about the personalised offers you get from tesco on products you purchase regularly (or are similar to)?
Every time you swipe your tesco store card they know where you live, what you bought, when was the last time you bought it, but who cares enough to complain? Nobody. If you don't like this you dont hand over your card at the till. People who are really that concerned about this kind of thing need to start taking responsability for their own online actions.
Re: Security advertising (as Daniel)
Ads! Maybe this in itself is worth a new article!
Re: Whatever (as Daniel)
Huh?
And on topic, I can't really blame them for putting in advertising, its more the hyping up that annoys me, these "security firms" like to make their own news, just like some popular UK Newspaper journalists sneaking a box marked "bomb" into Parliament ... when companies/newpapers start making their own breaking-super-important-life-altering-news you know its not with the time to read.
Home/Work (as Daniel Morritt)
is this home or work? i turn my home computer off, several reasons including room heating ;) and bills, but my work computer is on 24/7 because of nightly updates/AV checks etc.
the results are going to be a bit ambiguous.
Re: No Subject Given (as Daniel Morritt)
quiet you fool! we can make a fortune on cupuacu [amazonlink.org] chocolate.
Re: It's all about the crossales (as Daniel)
or BT can phone your parents up and ask if they are interested in broadband, as novice users they say "oh, yes, this sounds interesting".
next month they wonder why their phone bill is "a little bit higher".
frikken idiots, surely they need something more than a phonecall?
Re: Background Information (as Daniel)
or you should put all children into boxes, leave theme there with enough stimulation and tools to learn stuff and leave them till they are fully grown.
Re: For What It's Worth (as Daniel)
google has also made some people reallly realllllly rich, which is what companies are supposed to do.
Re: What Coinstar gets out of it. (as Daniel)
actually amazon have a fairly good affiliate scheme, if it works on the same principal then they are making their money out of amazon by selling you the coupons. probably not quite a much money, but it may encourage you to use it more which offsets the amount.
No Subject Given (as Daniel)
microsoft mikerowesoft, you use someone elses name [or near enough] they get angry and sue. simple.
the only real winners are the lawyers, man did we all pick the wrong careers.
Re: Background Information (as Daniel)
Actually I wrote a website specifically for mobile phones [gx20.com if its still working - looks different when viewed on phone though] about the time they implemented this porn feature, i used to test the site regularly after making changes, after which they decided to block the whole site.
eventualy got to speak to someone and they listed about 3 url's on the site that contained adult images, a couple were simple topless women [phone backgrounds], so you have to be over 18 to see a topless woman??? most of the images people wanted were women in skimpy clothing, and if you cant give people what they want [within reason] whats the point?
so that pissed me right off, i then moved to 3, now i can't even see my own site at all as 3 wont let you browse anything other than their own stupid content - grr!