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Stefan Hayden posted an entry on Stefan Hayden
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Ah I have to say you're lucky once again. I saw them in Toronto in May or June. They're just awesome, I can't believe they have a song in the iPhone ad. Would be nifty if they could get into an iPod ad (though I don't know how popular those are anymore :P) - Rudolf Olah
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
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"TiVo becomes the latest Silicon Valley company to resort to laying employees off as it “manages through the challenges presented by a difficult economic climate,” as well as what it, perhaps euphemistically refers to as “a rapidly evolving retail consumer market.” Perhaps “devolving” would be the more appropriate verb choice. Or does TiVo know something about other changes in consumer habits, in addition to the evidently growing consumer fad of, well, consuming less." - Chris White
I love snark. - Chris White
Do layoffs mean you maybe hired more full-timers than you should have? Perhaps the time is right for us all to become consultants. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Don't they need someone to deliver pizzas? - Mona N.
Daniel: TiVo's headcount has remained pretty steady over time. There are a lot of companies more deserving of the 'you hired too quickly and now you pay the price' snark than TiVo is. This is a sad day for TiVo and many of my friends who work there. - Kevin Fox
I ♡ TiVo. We have two, including a Series 1 and an HD. They pioneered this market and should have gotten much bigger than they have. Great product. - Louis Gray
Louis, I feel the same way. There are just a handful of products / services that are in the same class as TiVo in my book. - Mike Doeff
The problem TiVo ran into (and WebTV also) was that the cable/satellite companies control everything. Once they partnered with companies with better UIs, they created internal projects to build their own DVRs, and then ended the partnerships. Getting a box from your provider became the default compared to getting a 3rd party product. It's an unfortunate reality of business that there are strategic issues beyond user experience that determine success. It's the primary reason we haven't seen an Apple DVR. - Chris White
But we have seen an Apple phone, and arguably the situation is pretty similar there. - ⓞnor
@nor, Apple negotiated a great deal with AT&T, as far as wireless contracts go, but they still had to sign a 5-year exclusive. The cable market in particular is different because it's regional, which just becomes a huge convoluted mess. Better luck will probably come from using broadband than trying to navigate the cable twisty passages. - Chris White
@nor: By that analogy, is Android the generic mobile provider's alternative? - Kevin Fox
Tivo made it impossible for me to cancel my account with them a few years back (no option on their website, even though I had added by cc# there, and an intolerably long wait on the phone). My credit card was about to expire, so I figured it wasn't a problem (just a few extra months of billing), but then they continued to charge me even after the card expired (the new card had the same number with a different expiration date). Anyway, I don't feel too sorry for them, and I don't plan to buy from them ever again. - Paul Buchheit
Paul, the credit card companies are funny about these recurring charges. Even after I've changed numbers on the same account for fraud reasons, I've continued to get recurring charges from some companies. Luckily I've never had a problem with TiVo because I bought out the contract and then gave it away to someone. - Chris White
Just one more useless commodity that needed to bite the dust as soon as home DVR'ing with traditional services was implemented. - tony
I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy I'm seeing here for TiVo. I can understand if their CS department somehow slighted you, but I have not had that experience and I have owned 4 separate TiVo's over the years, some with lifetime subscriptions. Bottom line, the TiVo has the easiest, most powerful platform for scheduling recordings and watching TV that I have ever used. At the very least, I would hope that Scientific Atlanta, etc., would take notes but almost everything else out there is crap (cont'd) - Phil Glockner
Ah, the company that singlehandedly screwed the ad business :) - Patricia
comparatively. TiVo has fought and scraped for so long on a completely slanted playing field, and they are a true underdog. I'm glad that projects like MythTV are starting to mature, and perhaps that is the future of television, but for now I will stick to my Series3. - Phil Glockner
I wasn't snarking, just curious about business models. - Daniel J. Pritchett via fftogo
Phil, my comments weren't antipathy. I thought TiVo did a great job on user experience. What I was saying was they didn't have a strategic business advantage, and that is often what is necessary for long term success. - Chris White
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US Politics: ♣genieyclo♣ posted a message
“America, we have a Muslim President, this is sin against the L-rd! Exodus 20:3”
America, we have a Muslim President, this is sin against the L-rd! Exodus 20:3
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Kansas Preacher Pushes Obama Muslim Message WICHITA, KAN. — A Wichita, Kansas preacher says he will not remove a message on his church sign that says President-Elect Barack Obama is a Muslim. The sign is staying up despite the fact that Obama is a Christian. The sign at Spirit One Christian Center reads, “America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.” Obama supporters reportedly got into a shouting match with parishioners outside the church on Sunday. - ♣genieyclo♣
Could it be that there are too many stupid people in America for it to survive as a functioning superpower? This thought crosses my mind often these days. In the nineties I felt like we were a highly educated nation, on the cutting edge of human progress. Then the wheels fell off with the turn of the millennium. - Sean McBride
I love the "Church Without Walls" part. It's so ironic. - Glenn Batuyong
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"McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers. The indictment criticizes Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees by working through the prison companies." - Steven Perez via Bookmarklet
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a message
“semantics Definition se·man·tics (-tiks)”
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"the branch of linguistics concerned with the nature, the structure, and the development and changes of the meanings of speech forms, or with contextual meaning" - ♫ Rahsheen™
"the relationships between signs and symbols and the concepts, feelings, etc. associated with them in the minds of their interpreters; notional meaning" - ♫ Rahsheen™
Trying to figure out what all this "semantic web" stuff is about. I guess I kinda see it. - ♫ Rahsheen™
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Tad, Fool posted a message
“Dear Akiva, learning some Asp.net makes it a TON easier getting through today's technical interviews.”
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Instead of saying, "I'm really just a server guy, I don't really know all that stuff," you just answer their questions and satisfy their requirements. I'm not ever going to say again that I'm not really a web developer. I can do all that too now but I'm guessing most teams will find out that I know tons more about the server side... ("all that" not including design - I'll still say I'm not a designer). - Tad, Fool
Tad, I diigo'd all of those ASP.NET interview sites you posted awhile back and I have a huge book from SAMS (ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed). I'm actually thinking of gravitating toward UI and away from the data layer. I'd rather do UI than SQL, I've decided. SQL makes me sad. - Akiva Moskovitz
Ultimately, I just wanna write code and solve problems. If that means coding an .aspx instead of a .cs then so be it. - Tad, Fool
Tad speaks wisely...that's exactly what I want to do...I certainly have preferences (there are days I can't stand HTML/JS, and days I can't stand WinForms)...but writing code and solving problems is the best part. - Jonas Bush
SELECT this, that FROM tblAkiva WHERE misery = true ORDER BY magnitude_level; - Josh Haley
I like turtles... - Johnny Worthington
Johnny, so do I! - Mark Wilson
Tad & Akiva - this is the exact move I made just over a year ago. I went from IT Manager (dealing with IT support, servers, etc) to Web Development. Best move I've ever made. - Justin Korn
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a link
Tear tab feature in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 on Vimeo
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This is pretty slick. Do you think Chrome's ability to do this pushed Firefox to step their game up? I'd like to think that's the point of Chrome... - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet
Good point, Rahseen. I'm not downloading until it's out of beta though, I've always had issues with beta versions of FF, but this is definitely one of the things I've been looking for in FF after I saw it in Chrome...which I'm using right now :) - ♣genieyclo♣
I'd be using Chrome, but I'm on Linux and I heard support is spotty. - ♫ Rahsheen™
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Kevin Rose posted an entry on Kevin Rose
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Just wait awhile, and the cheap crap you paid too much for will come back...but this time it will be even more expensive than before. How's that for consumerism? - Fleagle
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Louis Gray posted a message
“What are some songs that you used to really like, that now, you can't stand?”
yesterday at 1:19 am - Link
For me, that would be anything from Crystal Waters. At one time, Gypsy Woman and 100% Pure Love were high on the list. I just deleted them from iTunes after years of skipping them. - Louis Gray
Also include: Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One time, they were seriously alternative. Now, I just skip or change the station. - Louis Gray
Achey Breaky Heart. Cotton-eyed Joe by Rednex. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (ok I was 8 when I last liked that one) - Phil Glockner
Sliding but not completely fired: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead. (And yes, I know these are bands and not songs) - Louis Gray
Man, I love all the songs and artists you guys mentioned. Maybe I'm still stuck in the 90s? - Jesse Stay
Yeah, RHCP seem to be rubbish these days. - Richard Bradshaw
Anything by Lamb. I wore out the first two albums and just can't stand to listen any more. - Kevin D. White
I wear my sunglasses at night, most things by Peter Gabriel. Too much play, get bored with it. - dan
Being part of the party scene here, take any new club song release, give me 3 months and I'm sick of it. - Mark Martinez
Louis, I hate you. I now have that as an earworm... la-da-dee-da-da-da, la-da-dee-da-da. ARG! - Cyndy
Most stuff by Sting - Tad, Fool
i used to love Rhianna's Umbrella song - now its turned off as soon as it starts - Stephanie Pickett
any thing by or with Kanye West... Yes he's talented but every time he issues a statement or does an interview I want to slap the taste out of is mouth. Along that line of thinking you can throw "The Puff Daddy" (or what ever the kids are calling him now) to my needs to be slapped up list... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
The eighties. All of it. - Slippy Lane
Almost everything I played when I was on the air. You think YOU'RE tired of the stuff you hear on the radio. After the 50,000th play of "Heartache Tonight," the violent thoughts begin. - Chris Baskind
No such thing! I can go the other direction, but once it's liked, it's liked forever. - Josh Haley
Most songs off the classic greatest hits albums (you know the ones I'm talking about) by the Eagles, Steve Miller, The Doors and Eric Clapton. - Jon Price
I will love Depeche Mode until the day that I die, but if I hear "Enjoy the Scilence" one more time.... - Helen Sventitsky
Finally got rid of the earworm, and thought of one. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" - Cyndy
Louis, usually every sony I like :) I have a bad habit of looping... Like, playing the song 100 - 200 times ...again and again ... eventually the magic wears off and I start hating the song :))) - Alemsah
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
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Never heard of this service...I'll have to give it a try - Justin Korn
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Tad, Fool posted a message
“I'm outta here to go get me some chicken wangs and beer. I'll be back on when I get there. laters”
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Om nom nom for me, too, Tad. - Derrick
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a link
HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community
26 minutes ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
Don’t get caught up in the COUNT; get caught up in the CONTENT! - Don’t install the Twitter application on Facebook if you send more than 10 tweets per day - Don’t publicly thank each of your followers - Don’t underestimate the power of tracking a trend - Don’t use up your entire 140 characters with a lengthy URL - Don’t worry about those who “unfollow” you - Don’t be afraid of being a “polyconversationalist” - Don’t miss out on the face-to-face - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet
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"ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta Report: ABC News has learned that Delaware's newly elected Democratic governor is planning to take the oath of office at 12:01 a.m. ET on Jan. 20, 2009, making it possible for him to name Vice President-elect Joe Biden's replacement to the United States Senate. Whether Governor-elect Jack Markell (D) gets to name Biden's Senate replacement will ultimately turn on whether the Vice President-elect makes good on his stated intention to wait until the moment he becomes Vice President to resign from the U.S. Senate. Delaware law provides that when a U.S. senator resigns before the end of his term, the state's governor appoints a replacement who remains in office until the next election which, in this case, is 2010." - Kathleen Anderson via Bookmarklet
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How to Calculate Your Real Hourly Wage - wikiHow
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I did a simpler version of this and it gave me reason to quit my last job. Just wasn't worth it. I think I was breaking even...LOL. - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a message
“You guys think micro-blogging is all about telling people what I'm doing? No. I often look at my current status or last micro-blog post to see WTF I'm supposed to be doing...”
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...I know...that's sad :( - ♫ Rahsheen™
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♫ Rahsheen™ posted a link
LiveJournal Grows Up: Moving Off Of Six Apart’s Servers | The Blog Herald
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Ah...so this move is an upgrade of sorts? Ok. I can roll with that. - ♫ Rahsheen™ via Bookmarklet
people still use livejournal? - Monique via NoiseRiver
I do. - Phil Glockner
It's become my "private" journal. That, and the Confessions room here at FF. :P - Helen Sventitsky
I just use it for OpenID. I posts to it, but I never actually go there. I guess I keep it around just because.... - ♫ Rahsheen™
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