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According to a report in ZDNet Microsoft designed User Account Control (UAC) in the Vista version of windows to deliberately annoy users. “The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users–I’m serious,” Cross is reported as saying last April at the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco. “Most users had [...]
I like iPods. They are expensive, but you know what you are getting. They are simple to use and the iTunes interface is a seamless way to get media onto the device. You don’t have to buy music from iTunes, but if you want to it is well priced, offers instant gratification, and is very [...]
At risk of stepping on the toes of Jim Evans, our wonderful English language columnist (see SMART TALK on our Entertainment page), I’m going to rant about one of my pet peeve’s, something that is getting worse and worse as far as I can tell. Did you notice it in the previous sentence? There should [...]
Television is bad enough with seasons you can’t figure out and an excess of commercials. But for sports-impaired people like me, the next two weeks are going to make my cable bill seem like flushing money down the toilet. My family normally records what we want to watch on a DVR and wait for shows we like to collect. But when there’s nothing to collect, what’s a couch potato to do?
It seems as if the networks just give up when an event like the Olympics is shown. The other major broadcast networks just show repeats, hoping that we desperate CPs (Couch Potatoes) will watch shows we didn’t want to watch the first time. But I usually don’t want to watch shows that I don’t want to watch, no matter when they are shown. Call me crazy — I’d rather read a book than watch something I don’t want to watch. Then again, they’ve been showing reruns of ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ recently… Read More…
August 7, 2008
At the beginning of this month I got a press release from ‘Peace Now Ithaca’ that invited people to come downtown for a rally with street puppets and balloons to celebrate US Congressman Maurice Hinchey co-sponsoring to the House bill bringing 35 articles of impeachment against George Bush. Congress voted 251 to 166 to refer the bill to committee. Am I missing something? Isn’t Mr. Bush leaving the White House in five months?
People who don’t like our current president say that there is a moral imperative to impeach him. I would argue that if this were about a moral imperative they would have done it at least four years ago. Doing it now reads more like a political imperative at a time when even the candidate of the party the President belongs to traditionally distances him or herself from that administration’s policies. To me the issue is money. I don’t mind spending money on moral imperatives. But spending tax dollars on political ones really ticks me off! Read More…
July 25, 2008
