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 A personal annoyance is when people pull out their cell phones and record live events instead of just enjoying the moment. It seems that we are training ourselves to record everything in fear of “losing” it somehow. Memories, especially shared memories, are often much better than the reality of the event. It is sad [...] The makers of CleverBot appear enamored with their bit of software. CleverBot is claimed to be rated at 59% human with regard to the Turing test. A computer would pass the Turing test if, during a natural language conversation, the computer’s responses would be indistinguishable from that of a human being. The reason CleverBot’s makers [...] Browsing apps is pretty frustrating now. With 500,000 apps in the app store, old fashioned, simple, one-size-fits-all browsing techniques are not really good enough. The categorization and search-string filter system is way too primitive. Apple is going to have to do something to keep up with that scale. Microsoft is up to 30,000 apps [...] I’m fascinated by people who self-sabotage by treating CL as if it were a newspaper classified section where you are charged per word. Here’s an example: 500 b.o. reduced to 350 clean machine need work send phone number# labor day special 350 c
This is the image provided Really? Does this guy [...] Is Java continually checking for updates even though you have repeatedly told it not to? I personally can’t stand it when programs assign too much importance to themselves. I really don’t care if Java ever updates itself again. Do you know why? There is NEVER any visible added value to the end user! It’s [...]  Tags: automatic, frustrating, java, never stays checked, problem, updates Category: Complaint, Lessons by SteveMore than a year ago I wrote a review of a restaurant on Yelp that still occasionally draws feedback. I railed against pretentious menus filled with words that no average person will understand or otherwise identify within the context of food. I was reminded of this when I stumbled across this snippet of menu [...] We recently bought something online via Gymboree and were charged taxed on the item. This had never happened before so my wife sent an email to Gymboree asking why they charged tax on a tax-free item. We received a canned response stating that they are required to collect tax because they have stores in [...]
Obnoxious Warner Bros. I rented Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 from Netflix the other day. When I went to watch it I was shocked to find that my MENU button had been disabled! They even disabled the STOP button so I couldn’t stop the DVD from playing! They were actually [...] According to NPR, we are spending more than $20 BILLION for air conditioning in Afghanistan. As they point out in their article, this is “more than NASA’s budget”. Ugh. I just can’t stand stuff like this. Would my life be any different at all if we didn’t have armies in Afghanistan and Iraq? It [...] Amazon.com has immediately terminated all affiliate contracts with CT residents due to the online taxes provision of the latest CT budget approved by Governor Malloy. Other companies have, or will, follow suit. Thank you Governor Malloy for instantaneously destroying all CT-based online affiliate businesses. Well done, sir. Way to cripple your citizens’ ability to [...] |
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