This dude has captured the Zen essence of performance. Pure Genius!
See for yourself, leave a comment.
The song in the vid is "Hollywood Swinging" by Kool and the Gang.
It was also remade as "Feel So Good" by Mase.
"If someone is not happy on Friday, there is something seriously wrong with them." -Pizza place dude
So here is what Amazon offers, $150 off, sounds pretty good huh.
Not so fast kid, there are some rules… and they don't quite make sense. You have to keep the phone for 6 months. OK, thats cool. Amazon gets 3-4 months to send you the rebate, that sucks, but OK, you can live with that. But wait, they have this little statement "After meeting retention period qualifications please allow 12 - 15 weeks for processing", so maybe you have to wait 8-9 months to get your rebate.
Here's the kicker, you have about one month to send the rebate request in, or no rebate! Make sense to you? Me neither. Lets explore why.
You have to keep the phone 6 months to get the rebate, but you have to send the rebate request within 1 month of getting the phone. It doesn't make sense, but there's an excellent reason for this clause. Simply stated, a significant percentage of people will not send in the rebate request because they were lead to believe they only had 1 month to do it. They are still entitled to the rebate, but they don't send it in late or demand it. If you asked Amazon, they'd probably say that the one month send in rule allows them to process and keep up with the changing rebates, but that would be bullshit. They have been selling phones for years and know EXACTLY what percentage of people don't send in the rebate on time. That is my guess why they lowered the time, it used to be 2-3 months, now it's 1 month.
They would love for you to buy the phone seeing the great (rebated) price and they would love it even MORE if you forgot to send in the rebate. In fact, they bank on it ;)
But of course, if you call them later and demand the rebate, they roll over like a friendly puppy. I bought a RAZR from them, didn't send in the rebate, called them 11 months after I bought the phone, spoke to a supervisor and demanded the rebate. They sent me a check no questions asked. Why? Because they are, in my opinion, wide open to a class-action lawsuit for millions of dollars and know it. ;)
Technically, they probably aren't doing anything illegal, but in a civil court the 6 month/1 month contractual contradiction would be thrown out and they would have to pay millions back to deceived customers!
A dude calling AOL and trying to cancel his account.
It is hilarious and frightening at the same time.
Trying to get two women in bed is like trying to walk two dogs at one time… it's difficult and the leashes get tangled.
Someone passed two tests today to be a Veritas Certified High Availability Professional… Yes beotches!
I am in Veritas Clustering class at the moment in NYC and writing this post on my new smartphone, the Motorola Q. That’s pretty cool, in a nerdy kind of way.
But you can’t upload photos with the Q ie browser. I’m gonna have to look into that.
Being a UNIX admin is cool. You're an expert in a valuable technical niche that's highly in demand. You don't compete with college grads for jobs because they don't teach enterprise UNIX in colleges.
So the bottom line is you're highly paid and in demand… until shit like this happens. When Sun lays off people it sucks because no hot-shot UNIX admin wants to compete with hundreds of laid off Sun Unix admins for jobs.
Unfortunately those are the breaks when you make your living working for other people. Market forces and Sun layoffs can jeopardize your livelihood. What's a nerd to do?
The long awaited Motorola Q is coming out now! next week on Verizon(maybe.) It runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and is currently the thinnest qwerty phone in the world at 11.5mm (the razr is 13.9mm closed.) The display is 320×240 pixels 65k TFT, which should be decent for web surfing.
The price will be $500-$700 with a contract and your signature in blood.
Holy Shit its going to be $200 with a 2 year contract and your soul available May 31st on Verizon's website and June 5th in their stores. God help you if you don't get one!
I ordered mine this morning by calling Verizon and paid an extra $50 to have a one year contract. Its not bad as phones go, you can buy movie tickets on it and read email and IM if you download Agile Messenger. It's got good voice recognition and a very large bright display. I can recommend it. But remember, it doesn't have the cool touch screen hence no stylus.