It’s about sudo-celebrity tech journalists self promoting themselves and their other sudo-celebrity friends and showing the world just how cool they are. They aren’t in it for the tech… they’re in it to be celebrities… I wouldn’t trust a thing out of 80% of their mouths.
I can’t believe it. It’s been a bad month for Canadians. Rogers is testing a system that lets them embed content on any website they want, that is being navigated to on their network. Essentially users will get a nice little box of goodies telling them they’ve almost reached their bandwidth limit. Great, right? WRONG! What’s next? Ads for rogers, ad campaigns based on statistics gathered from this embedded code? Who the hell do they think they are? I can’t wait to get the hell away from rogers. As soon as my plan is done for my cellphone I’m getting the hell out of there. I hope you all do the same. Rogers can go to hell.
From a web designers perspective, I’m screwed. I’m going to be getting calls non stop from clients asking me why this is on their website, and how I can remove it. Great. They won’t take no for an answer, and I’ll be left with a big freakin headache that can’t be rectified. Dear god, please someone with money sue them out of this practice. Google? Microsoft? Apple? ANYONE? We need some real politicians with balls that will stand up against this shit. Yeah, I’m looking at you Mr. Minister, if you want my vote in the next election grow a set of balls. You can read the article here
According to wired magazine the new batch of Western Digital hard drives come with built in copy protection that thwart you from sending file of the mp3, divx, and mov variety across a network: both local and external. I’m not shitting you. Not only do I have to deal with the MPAA, and the RIAA trying to make it illegal for me to back up my legal content, but now I have to deal with hardware companies who have jumped in the sac with them. I have a media server in my house where I keep backups of all the media I own. I stream from this one server to all the other machines in my house. If I were to use these drives, I wouldn’t be able to send backups from my laptop to say…my desktop…across the local area network. It’s officially here people, fascism… corporation’s making laws, and furthering their own interests, instead of people making laws to keep corporations in check. It makes me sick to my stomach. But, there is a little bit of information in that article that gave me a chuckle. Apparently you can circumvent the whole thing by not installing their “required” software. I never install hardware software for hard drives, and I don’t know why anyone would. So, again, this is the case where the law abiding citizens get screwed, and the real “pirates” go on pillaging. RIAA/MPAA/Western Digital… can you please, for the love of all that is holy, stop screwing the average citizen with your shoddy software, and crappy attempts at locking down your media. Hackers, and pirates will continue to find ways around your stupid as DRM. Hell, anyone with half a brain can find out a way around it if they really wanted to, so stop hiring monkeys to write your code, and start fixing the problem by abandoning your draconian policy change plans on file sharing, and actually coming to terms with the new digital age. GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
This article really has be freaked out. What the hell is wrong with this country? When did we loose our backbones? The people at the battle of Yrpes, and Vimy ridge would be disgusted at the lack of Canadian balls in standing up to pathetic american corporations, who are so far removed from reality, that they are running themselves right into the ground. Read the rest of this entry »
This is for all you yankee’s who tell me I can’t say “about” properly.Listen Here
So, I think I just stumbled upon another reason why Microsoft sucks hard. I had sent a transparent png to a client at his request so he could use his logo in a word file he was putting together. I just received and email telling me that it’s not transparent at all, and that instead of transparency it loads a grey box around his logo. Do any of you know anything about transparency issues in Microsoft word? Let me know, josh [ dot ] schnell [at]gmail[dot]com. Thanks!
I finally got around to checking the documentation of the new phone that was sent out because of my ongoing debacle. I should reiterate that because of the amount of problems i’ve had with the phone they decided they’d send me a new one without having to resign and update my contract. Well…guess what. In bold letters, I read today, “Your new three year plan* has started”… uggh… NO!
So, once again I got on the phone and called their help line. I asked to be transferred immediately to customer relations. Luckily, I was transferred to a super nice lady, unlike last time, who was really helpful. They put my contract back to a 2008 end date… Thank GOD! Thanks goes out to Anne (621362) for making this easy to deal with. I wish your company employed more people like you, and less like Sunny (the last lady), if they did, I might even be willing to resign a new contract, but they dont…so I won’t.
Man, this is turning into an anti-rogers blog! hopefully that end’s soon.
As most of you are aware I am taking my final courses through an online program with Athabasca University. I generally love it, but every so often I come across something that really pisses me off. Read the rest of this entry »
So, most of you probably read my last post regarding rogers wireless from back in June, and the run around I’m getting almost monthly. Well… I’m back in it today! So, the last post ended with me sending in my phone for a second straight time to have it repaired, and that’s where we resume this sad tale of deceit! So, upon returning it a second time to be fixed, it came back and worked resonablely well…for three days! Read the rest of this entry »
Millions of people write essays every day, and most cite sources to reaffirm their points. Most students even get access to journal databases as part of their “tuition” fees. Now, if I wanted to quote an article verbatim and legitimately, how would I do that with a pdf in front of me? Copy and paste of course! Read the rest of this entry »
