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Investors find C&C trading blunders difficult to swallow - Irish, Business - Independent.ie - http://www.independent.ie/busines...
C&C sources have claimed that, when figures were being copied by a mid-level staff member from one spreadsheet to another in preparation for publication, that incorrect data was transferred.
- Sean
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"Shares in the company slumped more than 16pc to €1.85 yesterday, wiping more than €118m off its market capitalisation. Over 7.8 million C&C shares were traded in Dublin yesterday -- nearly four times the average."
- Sean
Heavy price to pay for a simple spreadsheet error...
- Sean
Live on Television: U.S. politicians confess sins | U.S. | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
Another holier-than-thou Republican jumping into bed with other men's wives! At this rate there won't be anyone left to run in 2012.
- Sean
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The Fix - Sanford: From Bad to Worse - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix...
S.C. governer dissapears for 6 days - watch as this former would-be presidential candidate dooms his own 2012 campaign before it's even started!
- Sean
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F- for Fashionable French Diary - http://www.yankodesign.com/2009...
Wow, I want one.
- Sean
Christopher Walken and Twitter - http://www.blather.net/zeitgei...
wow Christopher Walker on Twitter!
- Sean
Damage Pictures of USS Hartford (SSN 768) | USNI Blog - http://blog.usni.org/?p=1827
Anthony K. Valley ©, Sean, You. and 4 other people liked this
"Click each image to see the higher resolution photography at Navy.mil. Looks like it was a hard enough collision for the sail to get knocked to the starboard pretty good. No sailors were killed, and all sailors who were injured returned to duty"
- Jim Norris
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The stick-uppy part of a submarine is called a "sail"?
- ⓞnor
Yes. Underwater currents flow against it, generating thrust. The pilot of the submarine can change the direction of the thrust via the swashplate.
- Larry Greenfield
ohh, that's gonna end some careers.And that security guy on the sail looks like he's lugging a big ol' M60 - Navy probably doesn't see much value buying expensive new small arms for their expensive new big arms :)
- Sean
Happy St Patrick's Day - http://annierhiannon.blogspot.com/2009...
Beautiful sad story. great blogging.
- Sean
So tell us again about why the Lisbon Treaty didn’t pass… - http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2009...
Great analysis of the report re. the failure of the Lisbon Treaty. "If you don't know, Vote NO" worked a treat. Hope next time around the Govt. gets it's act together and actually explain the treaty.
- Sean
Bankers ordered to cap salary at €500,000 - http://www.independent.ie/nationa...
Mass exodus of bankers? Good riddance!!!
- Sean
Dublin from Liberty Hall - 365 - http://redmum.blogspot.com/2009...
awesome photo!
- Sean
Best Driving Instructor in Wicklow - http://www.gingerpixel.com/random...
I'll be looking this guy up when I move back to Dublin - failed my first test! :(
- Sean
New €5 Ryanair charge as check-in desks scrapped - http://www.independent.ie/nationa...
bloody ryanair adding another compulsory €5 per person charge... all my family are flying Aer Lingus direct from Dublin to Catania, so screw you, Ryanair!
- Sean
Caught Red Handed? So What? - http://fatmammycat.blogspot.com/2009...
Some judges are just mugs! Caught red-handed with a carload full of loot, and get 6 month suspended.
- Sean
Air Tragedy : Cullen Survives Assassination Attempt - http://bocktherobber.com/2009...
The hidden story behind the news! :)
- Sean
Damage by bankers 'comparable only to Cromwell' - http://www.independent.ie/nationa...
Jeez, things must be bad in the polls - now FF are piling on the bankers too. Not too long ago, they were sharing champagne cocktails in VIP enclosures are race meetings!
- Sean
You know how you meet someone smart and you don't know what they did? Discover what I learned about this guy: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Jumpitz, Timo Heuer, Gökmen Karasu and 76 other people liked this
I went home and Google'd him and learned he co-discovered the Ebola virus. Some people, when you meet them, you just know they are smart. They exude smartness. They make you feel humble without even saying a single word. I felt that around Peter Piot, I shot his badge, not to remember his face but so I would remember his name to do some research on later. I was blown away. This is the problem with Davos. You get thrust into a room with 50 interesting people and you have no idea what makes them interesting. I wish I had known more about Peter before I had met him, but there is something interesting about the serendipity of meeting someone new. Some of the most interesting people I've met have been people I've met out of the blue. How about you?
- Robert Scoble
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Interestingly enough I have dozens of experiences like this every week, without going to Davos. Especially in airplanes, because there you're forced to sit next to someone. I still remember the day I was sitting next to the CEO of REI. I've met interesting school teachers and plumbers and IT managers and tons of other people that way. Another day I met Larry Tesler, former Apple exec. Have you ever met someone who surprised you?
- Robert Scoble
It's one of my driving wishes, being able to work with and interact with smart people. And I will agree with you that the most interesting people you meet by chance - but perhaps in part it is because we would be less intrigued by the people we set out to meet, having been more prepared for them? I envy you your chance to meet and talk with people like this in Davos, make the most of it else we'll all pounce on you ;)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle: I try, but the problem is that at Davos (and all conferences, really) you meet people like Peter and you know they did something interesting with their lives but you have no idea what it is. Because you only get fleeting moments with people at conferences by the time you figure it out they usually are gone. Now the hard work begins where we try to get a second chance and an interview! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Incidentally that is perhaps one of the reasons I dont have an mp3 player and have the (very swiss/german) tendency to not sit alone at meals even when I am alone - to not isolate myself from meeting people. People are just about the most fascinating thing on earth! Even on the train / tube / plane or while waiting for something. I have learned about everything from preserving the pink...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
But Robert others must say that about you? :)
- Tina Clarke
Tina: oh, that's true.
- Robert Scoble
I met my future wife in the badly-signposted grounds of Villa Borghese - she had a map, and I needed to know where the heck the villa itself was. I had two words of Italian, she had two words of English, and the gallery was closed for the day, so we went off for a walk instead.
- Sean
By the way, I uploaded dozens of photos from Davos of people. All of whom can be found on Google. That too is something very cool that has developed in the past few years: the fact that we can learn a ton about nearly everyone. I didn't find a single person I couldn't find something about on Google.
- Robert Scoble
What if you were initially impressed with someone you met in person but couldn't find anything about them via Google?
- Mattb4rd
How far away are we from an app that will take the photo input (picture of someone's name badge) and automatically (within a minute) return information on them - bio, sites, etc
- Wayne Schulz
Mattb4rd: then I would start wondering. I would probably pull up their business card and call them and say "why can't I find anything about you on Google?" That probably would lead to an interesting conversation.
- Robert Scoble
Wow you're up early :)
- Mattb4rd
Wayne: not far at all. Evernote already does some of that. Conference presenters could include info in a QR code on the badge that could be used with a cell phone.
- Robert Scoble
I got the same feeling when I met the CEO of Parallels last year at WHD'08. There are quite some amazing people out there are ar not showcased enough. Most of them just like their privacy and are not "hungry for PR"
- Lorand R. Minyo
I was fortunate enough to have David Soul (Hutch! of the show Starsky & Hutch from the 1970's) sit next to me at an education conference in LA around 1985.... that was an amazing day! He was very friendly and did not mind me gushing over his career (I was only a teen and really loved his work). He was homeschooling his kids! I was new to the process as was he... we shared lots of feedback / ideas...very cool. I was able to share my experience as a student; and he as the parent / teacher
- Susan Beebe
If you want to find very interesting people right in your own town, head over to your local nursing home. You'll be amazed at what you'll learn and you'll feel good for doing it. You never know who you might meet and they'll be there next week if you want to go back to interview them. No need to travel around the world to find interesting people. You'll find amazing people in nursing homes who've essentially been written off by society. Seriously, try it!
- Scott Maentz
I had breakfast at a conference a couple of years back with Professor Urban Ungerstedt, a Nobel Prize committee member, who I later found out had invented an incredible medical procedure called cerebral microdialysis. Weird thing is he sought me out for some advice on one of my specialist subjects which is surely one mark of a smart person.
- Nicola Quinn
I wouldn't know where to begin, I meet interesting people all the time
- paul mooney
Really liked what you said Robert...
- Didier Lahely
Imagine if his badge had had a mobile barcode on it - the QR you mention, perhaps - which you could have snapped on your mobile device, and got profile info about him right away. No need for Googling for basic info, you would have already had that. That could have influenced what you did there and then, before you got home. Not a common standard yet, though.
- Neville Hobson
+1 for Neville's comment
- Andrew Terry
When I first started Following you on Twitter...I had NO idea who you were in the SM world..One day I addressed some comment to you...You replied to me..."Please email your comments to me so I can ignore you there just as easily as I ignore you on Twitter." Being new to Twitter, I was taken a back and my feelings were hurt. SO I Googled you. I still Followed you because I felt you had a...
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- SashaKane
The modest few, Robert.
- mandyvan
ROTFLMAO as they say: "Please email your comments to me so I can ignore you there just as easily as I ignore you on Twitter."
- Nick in Manila
SashaKane: sorry about that. I was having a bad day or something. I just wanted to get you to be public with me instead of private. I'd rather live my life completely in public, as much as possible. I really hate DMs, by the way, even though I've given up that particular fight and now try to answer them.
- Robert Scoble
That was the best part of working as a research chemist, the intelligent, motivated people I got to work with. Unfortunatly, the corperate culture and I didn't get along; and government backed research is a mind-numbing waste of time.
- Robert Hafer
Being in the music industry most of mine are "rockstars". After getting treated like crap by the band Tool (before they were really famous), me and my camera crew tucked our collective tail between our legs and started home. We stopped by a little gas station to fill up and another long haired guy was filling up too. I just started talking it up with him because I find people interesting. Turned out he was the drummer for Pearl Jam. We did an interview and previewed VS before it was mixed!
- MarkCarras
Robert, talking of virus experts, Prof Vincent Rancaniello who has done a lot of work on the polio virus is on FF - he joined the Life Science room FTW http://friendfeed.com/profvrr
- Sally Church
Sally: wow.
- Robert Scoble
It's funny when he liked an item in there http://friendfeed.com/e... I was thinking, "the name's familiar" and was Googling it then Maureen chipped in and I was like 'wow' too, it's a small world on the internets.
- Sally Church
Optical Scan Voting Shown To Be Very Accurate In Minnesota Election - http://techdirt.com/article...
"I worked for GTECH who provide the tech for the lottery in Ireland. Optical-scanned machines designed to figure out what numbers people picked by scrawling on a card, and do so accurately. Record those numbers, accurately and securely. Print a receipt (and overcome printer-related problems). Process the results. Performs lots of complicated calculations (to check for fraud, cheating, etc.) and spit out the results. Now if the lottery people can do that (and survive lawsuits, audits to the nth degree, and fierce competition) why is it so freaking hard for the elections people to do the same? Scan the card. Register the selections. Produce a paper copy. Produce a result. Get audited. Hard, but not impossible."
- Sean
Lawsuit seeks to take 'so help me God' out of inaugural - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2008...
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To be honest, I would like to see any reference removed from anything dealing with the government. Only because we are supposed to have a separation of church and state. I don't want religion dictating what I can and can't do.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
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Agreed.
- Neal Jansons
Seperation of Church and State doesn't mean removing all references of religion, as Religion doesn't equal Church. As a confirmed 'hedging-my-bets' fundamentalist, I don't see the harm. (hedging my bets in that I don't believe in any particular deity, but I'm willing to if necessary :)
- Sean
Analyst says Steve Jobs' spirit has been institutionalized - http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
Does that mean it's been locked up in a mental home??
- Sean
It means someone has figured out how to bottle lightning.
- Chris Baskind
The Steve Jobs Institute for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want to Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too ;)
- Phil G
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Goa bans Christmas beach parties http://ff.im/-lMoE - http://ff.im/-lMoE
Sean liked this
I don't know how I forgot to mention that I've been to Goa, it's beautiful. Although my ex-girlfriend was sexually assaulted by a police officer, so I won't trust them.
- Daniel W. Crompton
well we've only got the bar-owners word that the guy was a cop! Scary all the same though - remember how fast we ran! :) Still apart from that I've got good memories of Goa - remember that empty hotel that my friend hooked us up with??? And the sunburn? And the way you trashed your phone playing in the waves?? :)
- Sean
TrevorCarpenter.com » Blurb…Complete Garbage - http://www.trevorcarpenter.com/2008...
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"I ordered a 40 page, soft covered, 7 x 7 book. The first problem I saw right away was that the cover photograph I chose was significantly darker than it had been processed. Then, as I began to turn the pages, I could immediately see the binding separating to the underlying threads, right on past the alleged glue. This spreading was happening just as soon as I turned the page. There are three pages that are spread to the binding. “What’s the problem? Why not send them back?” Well, these are intended to be gifts THIS WEEKEND! For many family members, this will be the only gift we give them. We CAN’T not show up to a family gathering for Christmas, without gifts. So, we’ve decided to go ahead and give these pieces of crap, as our gift, with the hope that Blurb will rise to the occasion and repair this injustice."
- Thomas Hawk
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I hope Blurb do the right thing, and sort you out.. My experience of them has been much better.
- Chris Nixon
Hopefully this is a limited thing - I hope TC asked blurb for a refund / replace by quickest delivery.
- Phill Price
There's so much Flash crap on this blog that I can barely get the page to load...
- Andrew Villeneuve
I've never used Blurb myself, but was mildly impressed (for the price and being a huge fan of self publishing) with their sample book that they showed me when I visited them at their offices a few years back. Of course sample books and real life experiences are two different things.
- Thomas Hawk
that sucks, I haven't had any problems with Blurb (and here's my blurb; http://www.blurb.com/booksto...) and I was pretty careful to calibrate my monitor before setting the photos...
- Sean
just got my Dad's memoirs printed with them (as a present) - just text, so no color accuracy issues, but was pretty happy with it. But I was also thinking of doing a photobook too ....
- David Moore
Why is Amazon so hard to freaking use?
Christopher Harley and Stephan Miller liked this
Because a visit to Amazon is like a visit to the library. You start with one item in mind and leave with three. Roaming around aimlessly, you're bound to encounter things you never knew you needed.
- Christopher Harley
+1 Christopher Harley - it's made even worse when you have Amazon Prime. Sigh. :)
- felix
It's not hard, it's just such a convoluted site. I don't like shopping there is how you can never get back to you started.
- Anika
+1 Christopher - Amazon is like Las Vegas casinos, oh-so-easy to get into, with flashing lights and all, and oh-so-hard to get out of again, with discreet signs and high-yield machines by the door.
- Sean
Papercraft Millennium Falcon - http://www.vectorvault.com/2008...
Josh Jenkins, Sean Oliver, Kevin and 13 other people liked this
I had a Millennium Flacon as a christmas present once - what a great toy. I swapped it for a bunch of Kenner figures, worst deal of my life.
- Sean
What was your first computer and when did you get it?
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I think I was given my Acorn Electron (like BBC computer) when I was 9 years old, so about 1985 I think. It still has the best game ever on it - Bug Blaster (a Centipede clone) - I couldn't stop playing that game and regularly got stupidly high scores on it. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
The first one I ever used was a TI-99/4A. The first I ever owned was a Coleco Adam, and I think it was 1983.
- Nine
Sinclair ZX Spectrum :) My father brought it home when I was quite young, but I soon learnt how to punch in source codes for games from german computer magazines (which were the only ones available with page after page with source codes). Then Commodore 64, Amiga, etc.
- Thomas Bøhm
My very own first one was an HP that I got for college in 1995.
- Jaemi Kehoe
Apple IIgs
- Derrick
Apple IIe I think, in 87 or 88. I was six, showed a natural ability to use the computer and was entered into a summer program where I got one with learning software.
- xero
Apple II C
- cjmart
Does a Sinclair count?
- Nicola Quinn
I don't remember what exactly it was but I do remember that it had a 75 MHz Pentium processor in it. And that was back in 97 or 98 I believe.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
An off-the-shelf Pentium 2 machine of some sort. I got in the game late :) Not sure exactly when, but I believe sometime in the late '90s
- Daniel Bruce
Atari STe again - 8MHz with 512kb of memory - that's right, half a megabyte of RAM. And I built a DB of all my brothers' several hundred books on it...
- Sean
Atari 800XL. Believe it or not, we used it more as a computer than a video game system. http://www.atarimuseum.com/compute...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
The Little Professer, documented here: http://stackoverflow.com/questio... (big page, load patience required). Impressive catalog on that single stackoverflow question.
- Micah Wittman
Commodore 64 in '82.
- Akiva Moskovitz
An HP in 1994. Ah, how I miss Windows 3.1... I still remember my parents flipping out because I was "going too fast", clicking away setup alerts and installing things while they were still thumbing through the manual.
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
commodore vic-20. i think i was 6.
- tiffany
8088 in the early 90's
- Bryan Clark
An Epson, 1992-3
- Maryam Ardakani
A Texas Instrument LED watch. Well, maybe not a computer but hi tech then...
- Håkan Dahlström
Commodore 128. I think around '84-85..
- Rodfather
TRS-80 Step Dad brought it home... thought we'd like to "play" with it...and we did! He knew Cobol, Fortran, Pascal and Basic... Taught us lots of fun stuff. we even tore up punch cards for hobbies
- Susan Beebe
The Atari 800xl if that counts, if not then the Compaq Portable PC. Pics + More: http://www.dailyhaggis.com/2008...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Commodore 64.
- Thomas Hawk
My brothers had a TRS-80 that i would play Zaxxon on for hours (it was on a cassette.) It had a pretty cool multimedia game called Space Probe: Math which was based on the movie The Black Hole.
- sergiooo
a do it yourself 286 ... late 80s
- Picolo
Anyone who answers Commodore 64, I'm following right now ;) -- one of my favorite machines of all time. My first, though, was the Texas Instruments TI-994A
- Jorge Escobar
TRS-80 Model 4. mid 80s.
- Jason Shultz
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Commodore VIC-20 with a tape-drive
- meckimac
Apple II+ with (I think) 48k of RAM...was upgraded soon after to 64k. I was 9.
- Alex Scoble
first one I ever used was one of these Compaq Portable deals in the mid 80s... my dad would bring it home from work. he'd use it for CAD stuff. I would play a flight simulator game on it or mess around with DOS commands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Neil Bernhart
Amiga 500!!!!
- Simon Wicks
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- Glenn Batuyong
First one that actually could do anything was an Apple Lisa. 10MB hard drive and a 2400 BAUD modem... Did all my college papers on it. Still have it somewhere in storage!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k of memory and programs loaded from cassette!
- David Ward
Mine was a Commodore 64. Had to give it a solid whack when you turned it on so that the monitor would kick in. But I loved her!!!
- Bob Maltais
Commodore VIC-20 in 1982 (w/ tape drive), followed by C-64 in 1983 (floppy).
- Nils Sandin
A 8086 clone running DOS. Did three things with it: played games, wrote stuff on WordStar and learned how to erase a hard drive.
- Steven Perez
@Steven I erased my dad's Disk 1 of Lotus 1-2-3. He called the company up and told them what happened. They sent him a new Disk 1 at no charge. I thought that was really cool. You'd be hard pressed to find a company that would do that these days.
- Jason Shultz
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Commodore Vic-20
- Mike Reynolds
What was your first games console?
Steven Perez, Zehn, cjmart and 9 other people liked this
Atari 2600!
- Derrick
Nintendo! Man I still miss Pinball.
- Jaemi Kehoe
Intellivision
- cjmart
I didn't get into Nintendo's or Sega's so my first was actually the PlayStation. Though I had various Amiga's beforehand which were mainly used for games.
- Kol Tregaskes
Atari 5200
- Michelle Martinez
Atari 2600.
- Nine
A used Pong.
- LogEx
Pong. Then Intellivision. Then ColecoVision. Then the Atari 2600 add-on module for the ColecoVision.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Intellivision II
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
If you don´t count the wooden box my father built which we only could play "line tennis" on the tv with, my next one was actually the Playstation 3.. Quite some years with only computers in between.
- Thomas Bøhm
commodore vic20. with the cassete tape drive. played a lot of 'GORF' and 'SKIIER'
- Morgan Haley
Super Nintendo
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Atari STe with integrated 3.5" floppy drive. my mom used it for years.
- Sean
A Magnavox Console. Dunno what it was. Had a "keyboard" on it.
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
Ben, that was the Oddyssey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sega Genesis
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Atari 2600 FTW
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Pong, on a crappy TV.
- Nadine Schaeffer
Coleco Telstar Alpha: http://is.gd/bYL1
- Derrick Burns
Atari 2600
- Susan Beebe
Intellivision
- RAPatton
Atari 7800
- Maryam Ardakani
NES followed by Atari 2600 (yes, backward)
- xero
The Game Boy was my first and last console (not including the PC)
- Arthur Guy
An Atari... can't recall which one. Bunch of cartridge games like pong and F1 racing of some sorts. Really really old. Think I still might have it at my mom's place.
- Ricardo Vidal
Atari 2600... didn't get another one until XBOX!
- Patrick Lightbody
Atari - Qbert FTW !!
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
hmm ... do those little battery-operated mini arcade games count? cuz i had pac man *and* donkey kong. otherwise, my answer is a hand-me-down coleco telstar alpha that i actually received somehow in the late 1980s.
- tiffany
Sega Genesis
- Aaron Hood
Magnavox Odyssey 2
- Kevin C. Tofel
PS1
- Roberto Bonini
Sega Genesis
- Terence
Odyssey, Atari, Intellevision, NES, Sega Genesis, PS1, XBOX, XBOX360, Wii
- David Ward
Fairchild Channel F
- Rodfather
I inherited my parents' Intellivision at age four.
- Devon Campbell
First one I played was Atari, but the first one I owned was Nintendo.
- David Cook
Atari!
- Shevonne
Atari I still have it.
- Zehn
The first one I purchased was the first Nintendo. The first one I had was an old Atari 2600.
- Steven Perez
Sears Pong (branded Atari)
- 19Kilo
snes
- Alan Le
Does an Altair 8800 count? Blinkenlights FTW! LOL
- Dread Pirate PJ
Ok, seriously now, a neighbor got an Atari Pong for Christmas 1979 or 1980. They later upgraded to an Atari 2600. Through the 80s, I owned a few personal computers which I used for games maybe 60% of the time.
- Dread Pirate PJ
@koltregaskes *my* first gaming console was a NES.
- Czar
Bargain Alert - Dell 23-Inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor - €186.47 - http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna...
In Ireland and Italy, for sure, which means Dell Europe. Normal price €296.1, 20% discount plus another 10% for today only. postage included.
- Sean
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For F's sake, do people actually READ any more? Before getting slammed, maybe read my goddamned post, you moron. (Towards about 20 people so far today and counting.)
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That's the danger, people don't read carefully.
- Dominic Jones
...so you're saying you like the way people read carefully?
- WorldofHiglet
Sweet! I love seeing some attitude now and then. Let 'em have it.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Didn't read. Don't see a link, and it'd probably be too long anyway. Aren't you that guy Kmart paid to hype stuff?
- Ken Sheppardson
Those fools are making me angry! Hope they don't show up over here! - too late!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
No, I'm saying people will just take that Chris sold out for a $500 gift certificate. That's the story that sticks. Sadly.
- Dominic Jones
Read? If it's more than 140 characters it's too long. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
There are a LOT of really really bad things going on in this world. Why do people find the most inane, irrational pseudo issues to get up in arms about? *shaking head*
- BEX
Exactly Bex, I seriously don't understand what is wrong with people who love to criticize and pass judgment, yet have nothing of value to offer to the world themselves.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Ken, technically, I think he's *one* of the guys Kmart paid to hype stuff. ;-)
- Karim
yeah, I saw 'some' tweets about this one.. after a few of them, my brain (not me) understood the subject but my fingers refused to follow any pro or cons links. All these blah-blah won't change what I find interresting in what Chris and others write and share everyday. Maybe one day 'll I read a kind of abstract about the story. Maybe not. Guys, do we have to have a judgement on everything? to read everything? I hope not.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I blame Twitter and SMS :)
- Bwana ☠
Everyone in this world has something of value to offer, but many do not offer it.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Well said, MiɳiMagɘ
- Micah Wittman
People skim quickly. They probably saw the Izea logo and panicked. I read the whole thing, including your disclosure of two prior paid posts and explanation of what you're trying to do as a social media strategy consultant. (Not looking, from memory)
- Louis Gray
hahhahhhaha!!! awesome rant by Chris - EPIC!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Hey, you're supposed to be an expert at getting folks to read your stuff. Use those skills, don't blame us!
- Andy DeSoto
I'll be honest, I couldn't read the whole post. It's almost 3am and it's pretty long. I did scan it quite thouroughly, though. People are just trying to chip away at you because you're you. Haters...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
In all actuality, Chris is definitely one of the blogs I will save for the next day if it's late...and it is. So I will have to read this tomorrow :)
- Devlin Dunsmore
sorry man, I didn't read your line here, after the first 10 characters I got distracted but I'm still commenting because I want to comment... ;) reading is hard for people mate.. we get to much distracted...
- Jaap Willem
I have to confess, sometime I also read just the headline and then write a comment. Not a good manner.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
As someone who saw your jolt at PAB 2008, I am totally not surprised by your experiment. And, sadly, by the witch-hunt. nil illegitimus carborundum. And think of the boost to your T'rati ranking! ;-)
- Bob LeDrew
@Bob - are you looking over my shoulder? I was JUST there. And yes, it pushed me up another 4, which in my ranking, that's a lot of links.
- Chris Brogan
a lot of it is "holier than though" thinking. Ppl judge others on behavior and themselves on intention.
- Valeria Maltoni
Chris, the post is just way too long. As someone who has been in the social media mix for years, you should already know that people aren't going to read the whole post, especially if they already have their minds made up. I can guarantee you that some of those extremely positive comments you get are also from people who didn't read the whole post. In other matters, you took the honest road and discovered that there's still fallout. Perhaps the lesson is that we're not ready to accept paid content.
- Jennifer Van Grove
What Valeria said. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
I also wanted to add that the subject matter in general is extremely controversial right now. My post on Circle of Moms for Mashable raised a few eyebrows because I happen to be Facebook friends with the CEO. That relationship was hyped a bit to create a scandal where there really wasn't one, but the bigger questions are still important for us to think about and explore. http://www.inquisitr.com/11467...
- Jennifer Van Grove
No one told me there'd be math.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Honestly the post wasn't all that well written or engaging compared to your other stuff, but nothing deceitful about it. Newspapers and magazines do sponsored stuff all the time, even if they don't declare it (a friend spent a weekend in a top Irish spa because his girlfriend was writing a review of it for an international womans magazine). To paraphrase Michael Franti, I don't care who is paying in public, I wanna know who is paying in private...
- Sean
Good comment Sean. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Chris - you need a break. Come on out to Utah and we can go skiing together. We can get a room at a resort (just don't tell my wife - maybe separate rooms would be best), go to the spa, kick back and relax.
- Jesse Stay
Ricoh GR Digital II Review - http://www.seriouscompacts.com/2008...
Sean and Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) liked this
"Ricoh, in particular, seemed to understand that some of us were looking for compact cameras for serious photography"
- Anthony Farrior
from Bookmarklet
They've been doing some really nice compacts for a couple release generation now
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
the look is old but the software inside is great!
- Anthony Farrior
How can any camera for "serious photography" not have a view finder?
- Brian Sullivan
What about "serious photography" requires a viewfinder?
- Scott of Two Countries
Any camera that forces you to hold it out in front of you in two shaky hands to compose the picture is a fail in the serious photography department imho.
- Brian Sullivan
Ha nothing like a bit of snobbery from us DSLR 'serious photographers'... actually my best camera pre-digital was a great little Rikoh, so I know the brand already. I have to say though that I use a 'no-viewfinder' Olympus Mu which is pretty old now, and I do prefer to have a viewfinder.
- Sean
I don't think it is a dslr thing -- my first digital camera was a Sony compact -- it had a viewfinder. Buying a camera without a viewfinder is a serious error in my mind. But touting a camera without a viewfinder for "serious photography" tells me the touter is not to be taken seriously.
- Brian Sullivan
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