Buy.com still sucks

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This really, really sucks

This really, really sucks 09/05/2004 10:12 PM
This really, really sucks On Saturday night after their Houston show, Engine Down's van and trailer were stolen from the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn on NW Freeway in Houston. All of their gear, 3 laptop computers, cameras, merchandise and personal items are all gone. If you want to help them out at all, click here.

I got a Mac and it sucks

I got a Mac and it sucks 03/08/2004 11:11 PM
I just spent an hour on the phone with my father-in-law failing to help him find his email client. It used to be there, but it vanished from the tool bar at the bottom. Now we can't get it back. None of the Finder options seem to actually help us find anything. I know it's there. I know it's "easy." But it sure ain't intuitive. Anyone want to give me the most basic instruction about how to find things on the !@#$% Mac, OS X? As Dr. Dean would say, "Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhh!" [Ten minutes later] I can't even walk my father-in-law...

It sucks

It sucks 11/11/2003 10:33 AM
It sucks to be wounded.

Matrix 3 sucks

Matrix 3 sucks 11/05/2003 07:05 PM
I feel so burned. I can't believe I (called in sick to go see) went to Matrix Revolutions. IMO, they shouldn't have made it into a franchise, as the first Matrix was just fine as a stand-alone movie.

Disco Sucks!

Disco Sucks! 07/14/2004 11:57 AM
25 years ago a Chicago radio disc jockey had an idea for a promotional event. Steve Dahl invited his listeners to bring a disco record to a double-header White Sox game. Between games he was going to blow them up. What happened was a full scale riot that caused the White Sox to forfeit and disco to die.

Poverty sucks!

Poverty sucks! 03/06/2004 01:54 AM

Why Applecare Sucks

Why Applecare Sucks 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
(PJ Doland via MyAppleMenu)

Moving Sucks

Moving Sucks 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
Now I remember why I waited 4+ years to move again. So much unpacking to do. So very much. But hey, at least the 3Mbit DSL is working and the wireless works well too! Sunday I head down to SoCal for about a day and a half. More on that when I return from the trip....

Spyware Sucks!

Spyware Sucks! 04/19/2004 08:25 PM

"dotCanada sucks"

"dotCanada sucks" 04/20/2004 10:17 PM

Spellex-Anywhere SUCKS!

Spellex-Anywhere SUCKS! 07/05/2004 07:35 AM

I did a stupid thing earlier this week I purchased a spell checker to use for online spell checking being I could not get Firefox's spell checker to work. I went googling and thought I found a good program I should have run it a couple of days. What a piece of crap. When it is running it seems to want to own the clipboard and not give it back. It doesn't recognize when I have put the cursor in a different window. The list goes on. I will be invoking their 30 day satisfaction guaranteed clause. Anyone have a good suggestion for a spell checker to use with Firefox

School sucks...

School sucks... 05/09/2004 02:07 PM
Monroe County Family Court Judge Marilyn O'Connor ruled March 31 that two parents "should not have yet another child which must be cared for at public expense."
Unconstitutional? Maybe. But not sufficiently so for the NY ACLU to say much anything about it. Maybe the Judge could have recommended the same sex-ed scheme that shows, in parts of England and Wales where it [called A Pause] was trialled in 104 schools, sexual intercourse among 16-year-olds fell by up to 20 per cent. Now that may mean we have to have more discussion of oral and manual, with less genital-genital emphasis. Anything that promotes the right to say 'no' amongst vulnerable young folks is alright by me.

ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!

ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS! 05/12/2004 08:23 AM
How do I turn on the screensaver with a key combination!?! I don't want to use the hot corners (I already have them overloaded with Exposé and I want to have the top left corner free so I don't have to worry about counting pixels when I try and access the Apple menu), but so far the best way to lock the Powerbook is to go and turn the lid down and then back up again. which turns on the screen saver (and stops iTunes, BTW, since the computer goes to sleep for a second).

I know there are Mac people reading me, so please: tell me which key combination I have to use, or which freeware application I have to install to just be able to press Apple-F12 to lock the computer! I've been trying to find the info from Google, but apparently I haven't been able to figure out the right keywords.

Frustrated now!

(Sorry for the headline, just wanted to grab your attention there. My Mac Powerbook does NOT suck, it is a wonderful little machine and I grow more attached to it every day. It is by far the best computer I've ever owned. I just need this one thing to make it perfect. Please?)

Passym sucks

Passym sucks 01/22/2004 03:17 AM

Tonight is my second night in an Embassy Suites with Passym Wireless internet access, and I have to say that Passym really sucks.

Connectivity is just horrible. I don't know why the service sucks so badly... it might be because I'm in a corner room (they're larger at the Embassy Suites) or it might be because I'm using a Macintosh, but neither of those two things should be reasons that the connectivity sucks so badly...

Maybe there are too many people using the service to keep up with what I want to do, but that shouldn't be a problem. I've normally stayed in Wyndham and Marriot hotels with Wayport access, and even though most of the time those hotels only provide wired access, they always worked just fine. I could connect to my office's VPN at the most complicated end of connectivity issues, and I could definitely send email through my own servers, but with this silly Passym service, I can't connect to the VPN and I can't even send email through my own service... and the speeds are terribly slow compared to what I expect them to be... especially at $10/day.

The worst part is that to get technical support, I'm supposed to email their support@ email address... no one here at the hotel knows anything about the service from a technical/troubleshooting stand-point, and I can't get email out through my email client. Good thing I have a webmail client set up on my server...

So, next time I stay in a hotel, I'll ask them if they have internet access, and I'll ask who the provider is. If it's Passym, I'll choose a different hotel if internet connectivity will be a need.

“Your Company Sucks!”

“Your Company Sucks!” 06/02/2004 02:32 AM
CustomInk.com publishes uncensored customer satisfaction reviews to create a sales bonanza [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

"Technorati sucks"

"Technorati sucks" 08/01/2004 08:33 AM

Pep boys sucks

Pep boys sucks 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Tucson reservist loses job when Navy calls Automotive supply chain Pep Boys fired a Tucson store manager because his military Reserve duties took him away from work, according to a federal lawsuit filed here. Read the article. It’s heart-wrenching nonsense...

Flickr Sucks!

Flickr Sucks! 12/19/2004 03:52 PM
Flickr Sucks!

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Why JSP Sucks So Hard

Why JSP Sucks So Hard 12/19/2002 11:43 PM
once again my UI engineers will be taking perfectly good HTML written in Dreamweaver and tearing it apart, throwing out some of it and rewriting other parts of it, just to make it work with the JSP they're writing. Once they're done, the HTML author will have absolutely no clue what the page does any more, and will have no desire or ability to edit it. When we insist that no really we need this redesigned, we'll spend twice as long doing it (doubling our costs, negative ROI, bad technology choice, yadda yadda yadda) since the HTML author will need that long to write in sample data and then have the JSP author tear it out again. -- Marc Hedlund

Is Adam Bosworth saying the same thing?

Sometimes it sucks to be a Geek

Sometimes it sucks to be a Geek 09/20/2004 02:53 AM

My wife and I went to a work related party last night which turned out to be pretty boring. So much for the $70.00 spent on tickets. We left early and knew that the sitter was good to go decided to drop in on a friend of hers.

We get to her house and I am admiring her house and see a big Master Degree in Education hanging over her computer. I was surprised to see it actually as we have known her for a while and she had never mentioned it. Anyway to make a long story short she says hey my PC is having problems can you look at it.

You guessed it 2 hours later and much under breath cursing I give up and tell her I need to take it home or we can just pull the restore disk out and start from scratch. I get this deer in the headlights look when I explain that her computer has been hijacked and is infected with nearly every piece of spyware known to man.

1. Virus Definitions 2 years old
2. She had never run Windows Update.
3. Systems is plugged directly into cable modem
4. No Spyware detection software
5. No Firewall

Remember now she has a Masters Degree in Education. She commented I should open a business and fix peoples computers like hers. I guess my 21+ years working with advanced electronics now makes me qualified to fix computers. I suppose I could charge her $750.00 for a days worth of work. All I could do was smile and say drop it by the house and I will get it fixed for you...

All my wife could say when we left was sorry. I hate stupid educated people. Sometimes being a geek sucks.

Viral Sucks

Viral Sucks 12/22/2003 05:18 PM
Internet Works Dec 22 2003 4:55PM ET

Software that Sucks

Software that Sucks 01/07/2004 07:04 PM
?How sad to see two leading Democrats fall for, even feed the lie that they can create user-oriented software?

Polling sucks

Polling sucks 03/15/2003 06:27 PM
Actually, I'd go further than that--a system that polls has something about it that's fundamentally broken. Now, occasionally (very occasionally)...

Sucks Sites Get Some More Support

Sucks Sites Get Some More Support 04/05/2005 04:42 AM
The issue of so-called "suck s sites" has come up plenty of times before. Someone upset by something a company did puts up a website all about how that company "sucks" and (almost invariably) the company proceeds to sue the person for trademark infringement, thereby guaranteeing that their heavy handed tactics get more attention. A smarter move might be to actually address the issues on the site or simply leave it alone, but somehow many corporate lawyers just can't resist. While some of these sites have been awarded to the companies, it looks like the courts are increasingly realizing that people have the right to criticize companies online. The latest such decision, about someone angry with a hair-replacement service, has some great quotes from the court explaining why this isn't trademark infringement (though, the court also chose to go the pun route with phrases like "bald-faced" and "splitting hairs"). "The Supreme Court has made it clear that trademark infringement law prevents only unauthorized uses of a trademark in connection with a commercial transaction in which the trademark is being used to confuse potential consumers. Kremer's use of the Bosley Medical mark simply cannot mislead consumers into buying a competing product -- no customer will mistakenly purchase a hair replacement service from Kremer under the belief that the service is being offered by Bosley." Once again, the courts have been called in to explain that a trademark doesn't mean you control every instance of the trademark -- but just those where someone is trying to mislead and confuse potential customers. You would think that lawyers (you know, experts in the law) would understand this concept by now. Update: Apparently, confusion over this matter is fairly common. Even the AP's "legal affairs writer" seems to think copyright and trademarks are interchangeable terms.

The orange XML icon sucks

The orange XML icon sucks 06/16/2004 01:03 PM

I'm not a fan of the orange XML icon, even though I use it on my categories page. I love the concept of a universally recognised icon for RSS feeds, but XML is simply the wrong acronym to put on it. Don't think it's liable to cause confusion? Check out this excerpt from Journalism.co.uk (emphasis mine):

The Guardian is planning to launch more XML-based services in the next few months, adding to the news feed services the site already provides to both commercial clients and individual readers.

XML, also known as RSS, is a method of streaming information from a website. Many sites now offer a free XML feed enabling readers to receive headlines from news sites via a desktop software program. XML also avoids problems involved with sending email newsletters, such as junk mail and out-of-date addresses.

Doh!

This game fucking sucks

This game fucking sucks 06/26/2004 03:44 PM
Game PR Catchphrases: What They Really Mean

Quote: “Downloadable content available through our website!"
Indicates: There's going to be new levels, new maps, new everything after the game is out, making the purchase fully worth your $50.
True Meaning: We'll fix the game breaking bug about 3 weeks after the game's out, hope you guys aren't on 56K because it'll be a 186 MB patch. Also, hopefully this game will have some devoted mod/map makers, because the publisher isn't going to release shit. But there are some cool wallpapers to download!
by Corin Tuckers Stalker and Ryan "OMGWTFBBQ" Adams, from Something awful

Verdict on JoyBee 720: It Sucks

Verdict on JoyBee 720: It Sucks 03/17/2005 03:51 AM

Dapreview got their hands on the BenQ JoyBee 720 at this year's CeBIT, and they appear to be full of almost nothing but complaints. Though the unit brings back a flash media expansion slot, they say the size of the unit itself and retroness of its internal menus strike a fatal blow. I guess you can't really tell from the picture, but the unit does appear to be pretty enormous.

CeBIT 2005: great expectations, big let-down - BenQ JoyBee 720 [dapreview]

Google support sucks

Google support sucks 12/17/2004 06:36 PM
Google's support department could use some help - I sent them this request (emphasis added) From: Luke Hutteman To: 'groups-support@google.com' Subject: Google groups & groups beta Why are google groups requests handled by groups-beta.google.com (again) ? If groups-beta is no longer beta, please put this functionality at the groups.google.com url. If it is still a beta, please allow the old... (315 words)

india sucks at the olympics

india sucks at the olympics 08/23/2004 02:21 AM
the reason i sucked in gym class was because i was honoring my heritage

John Carmack: "This sucks."

John Carmack: "This sucks." 07/29/2004 01:15 PM
Creative and id Software struck a deal to incorporate EAX ADVANCED HD into the Doom 3 engine under suspicious circumstances.

Beyonce, Your Mix Tape Sucks

Beyonce, Your Mix Tape Sucks 05/27/2004 06:28 PM
The perils of iTunes celebrity playlists. By Dan Kois, Slate (via MyAppleMenu)

"Dennis Miller sucks"

"Dennis Miller sucks" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

HTML Sucks Completely 0.933

HTML Sucks Completely 0.933 01/11/2004 01:34 PM
An (X)HTML preprocessor.

Enterpise software sucks.

Enterpise software sucks. 12/18/2003 03:48 PM
Salesforce.com files for IPO After ditching its Salesforce.com rival, Sales.com, Siebel is now doing a complete U-turn with its own...

Tivo Sucks Like Audible.com

Tivo Sucks Like Audible.com 04/22/2004 01:29 PM
A while back I ranted about Audible.com making account cancellation difficult. Well, our friends over at Tivo are no better. After browsing around their "customer service" site it became apparent that they were more than willing to take more of my money on-line, but heaven forbid they let me cancel service. Instead I found a page that explains that I must call Tivo to arrange for that. Nowhere on the page do they provide justification for this inconvenience, of course....

HTML Sucks Completely 0.932

HTML Sucks Completely 0.932 12/23/2003 02:15 PM
An HTML preprocessor.

WinAmp randomizer sucks...

WinAmp randomizer sucks... 09/01/2004 11:33 AM
I just wanted to post that the randomizer for playlists in WinAmp sucks. It's always been a problem. I have...

XHTML For Syndication Sucks

XHTML For Syndication Sucks 12/03/2002 11:46 AM

I've been reading a lot lately about using XHTML instead of RSS for syndication of a web site in a news aggregator. The statement is this:

All that would be needed is standardization of names and classes for page elements like DIVs and headers. A post/entry title would always be an H3, with a class set to "title", for example. Permanent links would always be P tags with their classes set to "permalink". Simple.

To me, this is not only a terrible idea, but a lazy idea. (But, then again, I could be speaking hastily.) How hard is it to create an RSS file? How hard is it to setup MT? Why would I want to give up the right to name my .title class .blogtitle or .articletitle? I like RSS, it works well, and is automatically generated for me, as well as for everybody who has a use for it.

So I guess the whole point of using XHTML for syndication is to get away from having to type in http://noeljackson.com/index.xml instead of just pointing your aggregator to the base URL (http://noeljackson.com). But wait a sec isn't that what the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.noeljackson.com/index.xml" /> tag is for?

The only plus is not having to maintain multiple files. But the same problem occurs, you have to mark-up your XHTML according to someone elses specs, just like with RSS. Except with RSS you can separate your content from your design, which makes RSS syndication faster than XHTML and to me it seems like a "cleaner" idea. I don't know about you, but I definitely don't want to see XHTML become the next syndication form. Don't hate me for saying that, but I just think there are better ways to do it. Having pure XML and an XSLT stylsheet for XHTML and RSS seems like the best way to do it to me. I just wish XSLT stylesheets could be easier to implement on the client side. Oh bother, I sure hope RSS sticks around.

HTML Sucks Completely 0.935

HTML Sucks Completely 0.935 05/20/2004 10:03 PM
An (X)HTML preprocessor.
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