Anti-Gmail Bill Approved:[HardOCP]
No G-Mail for Californians. Google is working on a plan right now with the legal folks in California but no headway yet. Oh well, that is about 50 million e-mail accounts the rest of us can use!
The California state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that takes aim at Google's new Gmail service, placing strict limits on e-mail providers seeking to scan customer messages for advertising and other purposes.
If you don’t like what Google, or any company for that matter, does with their software...don’t use it! No one is making you use the free 1GB e-mail service are they?
That is a bunch of crap. A company can't have a revolutionary system for email just because an anonymous system scans their email for keywords. Bull!
I just don't see how this is different then big brother having black boxes at ISPs to track all incoming and outgoing email. I just don't see how they have any room to talk.
Once I get a code to join GMail I will sure as heck sign up for an account. It soounds pretty seet. I just hope Indiana doesn't get the same heairbrain idea. I blame it all on Arnold...j/k. Posted by chris at 01:32 PM Internet • (0) Trackbacks
Getting Even Closer
Today was our senior breakfast/graduation rehearsal. It was easy for me because I was in band for 3 years and heard all the instructions to the seniors in practice. Graduation is tomorrow at 2:45. I'm glad to be out of that place. I have some fun planned for the summer. I will be moving to Muncie soon. Don't worry, the house I'm moving into a house with Comcast Cable internet. There is currently a WIFI router in the house, plus I'm bringing 2 of my own, so we'll blanket the neighborhood with WIFI 
. I'll be attending Ivy Tech for my gen ed stuff. This is good for 2 reasons. First off, Ivy Tech is a LOT cheaper than Ball State is, and also this will allow me to live off campus all four years. It's not that I can't live on campus, it's just that I don't want to.
If I can get my cemera working I'll try to shoot a few. BUt there are no gauntees.
See you on the other side. Posted by chris at 01:25 PM School • (0) Trackbacks
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
. I'll be attending Ivy Tech for my gen ed stuff. This is good for 2 reasons. First off, Ivy Tech is a LOT cheaper than Ball State is, and also this will allow me to live off campus all four years. It's not that I can't live on campus, it's just that I don't want to.If I can get my cemera working I'll try to shoot a few. BUt there are no gauntees.
See you on the other side. Posted by chris at 01:25 PM School • (0) Trackbacks
Almost Done
2 days left of school. It's about damn time! Now don't anyonw start with the "those are the best years of your life" crap. My Grade/Middle/High school years sucked more than one can imagine and it's about time they were over. I'm ready to get out of my house and live on my own, bills and all. I don't care if I am a broke ass college student, at least I'll be happier.
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Saturday, May 22, 2004
Mars Results
Do you think going to mars is a good idea?
Yes 6
No 0
Sure, as long as they stop and pick up some green cheese on the way 6
Voters this week::12
Since I'm working on my OS X install this weekend I thought I would see what you thought about the whole OSX/X86 thing. GO VOTE! Posted by chris at 11:20 PM Poll Results • (0) Trackbacks
Friday, May 21, 2004
Yes 6
No 0
Sure, as long as they stop and pick up some green cheese on the way 6
Voters this week::12
Since I'm working on my OS X install this weekend I thought I would see what you thought about the whole OSX/X86 thing. GO VOTE! Posted by chris at 11:20 PM Poll Results • (0) Trackbacks
My weekend project...
...to install Mac OS X on my Athlon.
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Say no to 3.0!
Just took a look at the pricing sceme for MT 3.0. Needless to say I will be sticking with my current 2.64 install. I run too much out of MT to pay that kind of money. Mark my words, either they fold within 2 years or they lower the price. The list of new features that I have read are BS and nothing I really need so there is no real reason to upgrade. What do you guys think.
crhileman: you did a 3.0 beta didn't you?
Phil: yes
crhileman: is it any good?
Phil: for the price? no
crhileman: figured
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Six Apart has cleared somethings up Posted by chris at 10:52 PM MT • (0) Trackbacks
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
crhileman: you did a 3.0 beta didn't you?
Phil: yes
crhileman: is it any good?
Phil: for the price? no
crhileman: figured
Hosting Matters' POV (point of view)
Six Apart has cleared somethings up Posted by chris at 10:52 PM MT • (0) Trackbacks
I see the light!
I know, I'm way behind on my blogging. Well I'm going to do a large slew of posts to try and catch up.
I've started a bioptic driving program. For my entire life I was always told that I had no chance of ever driving because of my horrible eye sight. Now to clarify; I am not blind, I am not leagally blind. I just have genitic condition that gives me bad vision as well as the disease Cone Distrophy. My sight is corrected to 20/80.
The bioptic driving program fits the driver with a visual aid allowing them to see at least 20/40 and puts them through a program of driving with a special instructor who specializes in bioptic driving. The image to the right is my bioptic aid. It is called a OcutecH VES-II it magnafies things 6X. It allows me to see 20/40. This device is used to spot objected. In other words you look through it and find what you need, look at it, then return to the lenes in the bottom (these lenses don't have any perscription in them).
The 2nd thing I use is a pair of contacts. Now you may say it's nothing new. But these contacts correct my red color blindness. I got a set of contacts to try without the red to see if the perscription was ok. It ended up being wrong in the left eye so I went this evening and got them redone, they will be in next week sometime.
I'm excited about the whole prospect of driving, something I thought that I would never be able to do and now I'm getting the chance.
"Ain't technology grand" -Computerwheely on Leoville Posted by chris at 09:17 PM Personal • (0) Trackbacks
Sunday, May 09, 2004
I've started a bioptic driving program. For my entire life I was always told that I had no chance of ever driving because of my horrible eye sight. Now to clarify; I am not blind, I am not leagally blind. I just have genitic condition that gives me bad vision as well as the disease Cone Distrophy. My sight is corrected to 20/80.
The bioptic driving program fits the driver with a visual aid allowing them to see at least 20/40 and puts them through a program of driving with a special instructor who specializes in bioptic driving. The image to the right is my bioptic aid. It is called a OcutecH VES-II it magnafies things 6X. It allows me to see 20/40. This device is used to spot objected. In other words you look through it and find what you need, look at it, then return to the lenes in the bottom (these lenses don't have any perscription in them).The 2nd thing I use is a pair of contacts. Now you may say it's nothing new. But these contacts correct my red color blindness. I got a set of contacts to try without the red to see if the perscription was ok. It ended up being wrong in the left eye so I went this evening and got them redone, they will be in next week sometime.
I'm excited about the whole prospect of driving, something I thought that I would never be able to do and now I'm getting the chance.
"Ain't technology grand" -Computerwheely on Leoville Posted by chris at 09:17 PM Personal • (0) Trackbacks
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