This just means that I have to do actual 9 to 5ish work while launching this summer, that's all. In the end though, ALL the rewards will be mine, so I'm not too worried about it.
No as well, but frankly I expected it (as my idea really has very little programming in it). For a form letter, the email they sent was pretty well written. I feel more challenged after reading it, and fully plan on making some serious money and turning around and sending them an email of how successful I was, and what exactly they missed out on.
Haha, brilliant!
The problem is, you need at least one person (someone who has deciding power) to be impressed enough with your pure stubborn flippancy to let you in even after having been rejected.
If anyone actually went through with it I'd like their chances. If you have that kind of chutzpah why stop there? Hit up every other VC/Angel in the area and something will stick.
I was wondering how long it would take for something like this to go into effect--the school I'm currently attending (University at Buffalo, in NY) started an text message alert system last September.
It's good to know that all of the major cell phone companies have jumped on board (or claim to expect to, which I suppose is largely different from actually doing so), though I'm curious as to the balance between executives wanting to gripe about the bottom line, and not wanting to seem "unAmerican".
But if we toppled this horribly useless company, how could we laugh at the jokes based on it (think How I Met Your Mother: "Yes, I received your submissions Barney, and no, we will not be attending any parties in your pants." "But you enjoyed the evite, right? That was an ACTUAL picture of my pants.")?
In all seriousness, however, I'm a big fan of Facebook event creator. And as most of my friends are on Facebook, it saves me a lot of time and hassle to try to figure out everyone's phone number/address/email--just type in approximately the first four letters of their name, select them from the now extremely narrowed down list of friends with those four letters in their name, and tada! You have just completed what used to be several hours worth of work.
Now if only we could get our parents and distant relatives on, so we don't have to send all those wedding invitations by mail.
Cute. I'm kind of irritated, I want to get a new laptop but I'm going to have to go through and get rid of Vista, as it's the standard Windows operating system now...
And I can't stand it.
Anyone else also boycotting Microsoft Office 2007?
I don't see having to "get rid of" vista as that big a deal. It's probably not that hard to install whatever operating system you'd rather have. If you were objecting to paying for it, that might get you a little more sympathy here.
Lenovo offers some[0] Thinkpad models with SuSE preloaded. Apples all come with OS X. Those are probably the most popular laptops among news.yc members. Dell offers Ubuntu on certain home models and Redhat on certain business models. I think a few other manufacturers will sell you a laptop with something other than Windows. It's also still possible to find XP on a machine or two.
[0] Unfortunately, it's only a few specific models.
I beta tested MS Office 2007. I actually liked it. The new UIs for Word and Excel are much better than the old UIs. My XP machine is dead though, so I now use my Mac for everything.
Just buy from somewhere that is know to offer a refund on the Windows tax easily, provides their systems with no OS preloaded or something like the Dell Ubuntu offerings.
"SMS messages are transfered over air made of solid gold."
Hahaa, brilliant!
So that's why I've been paying insane amounts for texting...
@ breck: I have semi-unlimited texting with Verizon, it's free to send or receive from Verizon customers (which is why I got it, I was tired of yelling at my friends for sending me texts like, "im bored. whatre you doing later" and "idk my bff jill?"--almost all of them have Verizon). It is exactly ten dollars a month right now, and I only get a hundred or so texts to and from other companies. A truly unlimited texting plan is somewhere in the area of $50.00 a month, I believe. Don't quote that, my internet is being ridiculously slow and I'm not about to wait for it to load the Verizon Wireless page to check.
@ tptacek: I may complain about Verizon, but it's only because I love them. Why, you ask? Two reasons. One, my close friends all use Verizon, so texting them costs me nothing, and costs THEM nothing as well. Two, I have brand name loyalty and know it. It is MY network and so, logically, it is better than everyone else's.
Haha.
Seriously though, if there WAS a better network I could switch to, as well as have all my friends and family switch to, I would do it in an instant. The problem that I have right now, is that even if I were to pay less money, switching over to something like Cricket, my friends would all end up paying MORE money because I'm no longer on their network. Which probably means that while I have unlimited texting to whoever I want, no one will want me to send them messages, because it's costing them money. And if no one is sending me messages, and I am not sending anyone else messages, what is the point of having unlimited texting?
