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Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » The Pizza Cutter Fork

dponce80 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:59:03 -0000

No you retardo. You don't get the idea. Imagine you're on a sofa. No table in front of you. On your right, you put you piping hot pizza on a plate. On your left is your gal. In your left hand is a beer. You've got no place to put your beer down, it would just fall on the sofa. How are you going to eat the pizza now, without this thing? You can't ask her to hold it for you, how lame is that? You can't take it in your hand, it's too hot.

Get it?

It's great!

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Zaphod, Multiple Clipboards For All Of Windows

dponce80 — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:54:06 -0000

That's funny... I can't remember Zaphod having three arms, and I read the book two months ago. I must really be getting stupider by the day. In any case, no, it's not really necessary. Then again, what other things aside from maybe air, water and food are necessary? :) I guess it'll make some people's lives just a little bit easier, for whatever that's worth.

Re: The $100,000 Banner

dponce80 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:52:23 -0000

No updates on the week-end my friend. Oh no. Come back on Monday :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » System Requirements Test Site

dponce80 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:56:35 -0000

There's more to why it might fail than whether you have a good enough processor. Things like HHD space, or RAM, or the speed of your graphics card might come into play.

Carefully read what it tells you. One of the listed items should tell you what exactly about your rig is causing it to fail.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » System Requirements Test Site

dponce80 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:18:52 -0000

Lol, are you serious? It told you your CPU failed, even though you have a PIV and it only needs a PIII? Holy crap, if that's true, you're right, this thing sucks!

Are you sure you have a PIV? :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » System Requirements Test Site

dponce80 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:34:15 -0000

Aw... I just figured these little turds out! They'll try to make you believe your PC is out of shape only so they can peddle some stuff. That's low!

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Help Wanted

dponce80 — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:09:05 -0000

Hey guys, thanks for the input. Lemme get on the record here. Yes, a Slashdotting or Digging would bring in more than $25. But I'm running a business here, and more importantly, this is my only source of income. So, no, I won't give all the cash I make away. What sense does that make?

And yes, there's a ton of ads. I'm aware, and it pisses even me off. I have to draw a line between too many that it turns people off, and too little so that I can't devote as much time to the site as I want because I have to work. I also happen to go to college full time, and yes, even sleep now and then.

I have made sure to stay away from the more annoying ads, like pop-overs/unders, flashing free iPods and other really lucrative, but immensely annoying ads. I have tried to make sure to identify ads and separate them from content. I make sure to keep some sort of professional integrity. No one pays me to say something nice about their product, and if I ever ask you to click on something that might bring me profit, I try as much as possible to make that clear.

I have looked at other, high traffic sites and tried to reproduce the same content to ad ratio. While I don't presume to bring the same type of quality content as Boingboing or Engadget, I certainly don't have more ads than them.

That said, ads piss me off too. So I'm sorry for them. But it's the only way that I can justify spending so much time working on this site.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Compucars, Sportscar Shaped PC

dponce80 — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:25:12 -0000

Hi Bruce, thanks for your comment. Not sure that I like what you seem to be insinuating. Just so you know, it does happen, quite often, that tips get sent this way. And unless the tipster wants credit, there won't be any source. You could, of course, ask TRFJ where they got the story...

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Friday’s Posts

dponce80 — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:42:58 -0000

Hi Harry, I appreciate your input. and I'd like to make it better. Aside from the infrequent posts, is there anything else that you feel is making this site suck?

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » TopDesk 1.4 Bring “Expose” Functionality To Windows

dponce80 — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:59:54 -0000

If you believe alt-tab to be anything like Expose, then you've obviously never tried Expose. Try it, then come back and tell me if you think it's just as good.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Move Over Windows Vista, TopDesk 1.4.1 Is In Town

dponce80 — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:20:35 -0000

That feature will still work, only you have to press "Ctrl+f" to activate it. then it'll find as you type.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Panasonic Makes Dinner Infra-Ready A Lot Faster

dponce80 — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:22:59 -0000

You're completely right, man. That banner will go, to be replaced by shorter lived small banner ads to compensate the advertisers who already signed up. And the redesign, well... I haven't said anything, becuase, like you said, I already sound like the boy who cried wolf. I'm in talks with (yet another) someone, and I'll eventually post a firm date. The thing about redesiging, at least properly, is that it ain't cheap. If you want it done a certain way, and professionally, it's always in the four figures. At least form my experience. But I may have found someone. So for now, keep coming for the content. But when it's out, you can come for the content and the pretty site. :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Airing Dirty Laundry: Engadget’s Exclusionist Tactics Are NOT An Isolated Incident

dponce80 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:00:27 -0000

Ellie, I believe I've gone as far as I'm willing to go publicly. To make the decision to air all this in front of people is not a small one, and you have to make decisions about how much information is enough, and how much is too much. While the extra info I have IS pertinent, what I have said so far should be sufficient.

In a way, I feel that my mentioning this "extra info" has been a mistake. People are pouncing on it, and blowing it out of proportion, as if I had some sort of smoking gun that I'm, for some devious reason, purposely hiding. It's nothing of the sort. If it was pivotal to the case, ugly as I feel it is, I would have mentioned it. It's just a few more little details that, when considered as part of a greater context, help paint a slightly clearer picture.

If you wish to know more, you may contact me directly, and we can discuss this privately. The email is always "editor" at this domain. Only know that I have every intention to keep what I tell you private.

And Vinny, when you learn to adopt a tone that isn't agressive and confrontational, maybe I'll pay attention to you. I "noticed" you in the digg comments just fine, I'm just choosing to ignore you.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Hydrofoil Water Scooter

dponce80 — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:33:29 -0000

I don't answer all comments, Shari. A lot of trolls around, and there's no point feeding them.

But to address what you're saying, the truth is that you've put your finger on a pretty gray area of blogging ethics. I mean, just WHO do you credit? The site you found the story on? Or the site that did the research, and originated the story? Or the site that cleaned up a crappy JPEG to make us enjoy the news item more?

To make things worse, as you pointed out with Uncrate, sometimes if you find a story, the site doesn't provide you with a direction to go to. In these cases, unless you've stumbled across the news item elsewhere before, there's really no way for you to know who to credit aside from the site you first found it on.

Also, as Bruce pointed out, there IS the faraway possibility that the person did originate the story on their own, though, as you've pointed out through your research, this doesn't seem to be the case with Uncrate. Sadly.

So, the question becomes: do you simply ignore the story, because it comes from a site you've branded as unethical? In my opinion, it depends. It depends on just what site it is. Some sites, smaller ones, have less of a responsibility to be ethical in my eyes (of course, in theory, everyone does, but in my reality, I ask myself "Who cares?" Obviously, you do, and maybe I should re-evaluate my standards.)

Nevertheless, you're left with a situation where you have to weigh the "loss" you incur from refraining to write an article about something, against the somewhat less tangible moral benefit you gain from avoiding sending traffic to a site that you've decided didn't deserve it.

In the end (and it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise), we're really all in it for the money. Sure, we love entertaining others, and being read, but we put enormous amounts of time and effort in doing this, and most of us don't expect to do it for free.

Don't get me wrong, there certainly are exceptions, and I'd be curious to know just what proportion of bloggers do this for fun, and what proportion do it for financial gain.

In any case, Shari, thank you for pointing this out to me. To be honest, I hadn't even noticed. I can't promise you that I'll change anything, but I'm open to the idea.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Change On The Horizon

dponce80 — Fri, 19 May 2006 21:18:57 -0000

Fixed. Thanks a lot, man!

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Cellphone Features: Reader Input Sought

dponce80 — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:59:10 -0000

It's beggining to sound like "some guy" was on to something. The notion that people don't want all of these features is looking more and more (at least, from our small statistically insignificant sample) like an expression of the frustration at the poor implementation that many feel.

So, could we sum it up by saying that we'd rather have a simple phone that works well, than a fancy phone that doesn't?

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » The PQI U510 Reviewed. Verdict: Not too shabby

dponce80 — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:56:29 -0000

engrish

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Jacob Jensen Jabra JX10

dponce80 — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:24:58 -0000

Yes, just another headphone. The thing is, Jensen's not just another product designer. Stuff he comes out with is usually very slick. My point was that if you're going to get a headset, why not get one that actually looks cool, as opposed to a mechanical ear tumor.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » The Experimental Open Mic Friday

dponce80 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:46:58 -0000

@ Sleepybluekitty. But, like deBeers likes to remind everyone, diamonds last forever. Doesn't it make more sense to drop $6k on something that isn't going to be obsolete in five year's time?

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » GearLive At Tom Bihn HQ

dponce80 — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:07:54 -0000

MM, you're totally right. No more TB for a LOONG time. Though, for the record, we're not sucking up to them to get free bags. Hell, I think we can get a "free bag" without sucking up now. But, this article IS sucking up to the guys at GearLive. Simply because we think they do a kickass job with their Bleeding Edge TV vlog, and this seemed like an appropriate way to show that.

So... I officially declare a mention ban on all things Tom Bihn for at least... well, at least a long while.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Mobile Software Translates English To Japanese Via Camera Scanning

dponce80 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:56:32 -0000

ya, you're right. I fixed it.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » (Video) Chrysler Tomahawk V10 Production-Ready Motorcycle

dponce80 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:42:52 -0000

I sure as hell hope so.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Xogen Technologies’ Scam, Electrolysis By Any Other Name

dponce80 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:07:24 -0000

um, guys, Chase and Tommy especially, I hate to break it to you, but you're the ones that are missing the point. It's physically impossible to get more out of a system, than what you put in. That sort of claim is called Free Energy, and it goes against the most fundamental laws of the universe.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Limoseen - The Electronic Meet & Greet Board

dponce80 — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:54:30 -0000

Lol... well, uh, just Google "goatse"... and you should be on your way to understanding. It's a net geek thing... which we all are. ;)

Re: 7 Ways To Kill Yourself With Technology

dponce80 — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:18:29 -0000

That's quite enough of that, you freaks!

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Welcome To Our New Server

dponce80 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:49:07 -0000

Hi Ketyung. It's been about a week, and so far so good. Can't vouch for them in the future, but no complaints for me yet,

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » It’s Time For Another Move

dponce80 — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:57:16 -0000

I'm on a VPS. And yeah, it does make a huge difference. Being with a VPS is like being in a box, with no room for scaling. Basically my traffic exceeds my resources, I'm screwed. So... I'll be moving. Again, but this time I'll try The Grid. Though cheaper, it should technically be better since there's room to grow. At least, that's the theory. But this is ridiculous.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Uncle Oinker’s Bacon Mints

dponce80 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:18:10 -0000

Holy crap dude, that comment made me pee myself

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Another Move

dponce80 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:04:31 -0000

Here's me testing comments

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Another Move

dponce80 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:24:20 -0000

Yeah, really, guys, we could have just pressed a button, and no one would have been the wiser. We let you in on these things for a variety of reasons. One, a few thousand of you testing things for us is definitely better than three of us looking around to make sure nothing's broken. Two, we think you might benefit from our mistakes, and not have to go through the same hassles yourselves.

When we got the Dedicated Virtual package at Media Temple, it seemed like a no-brainer. We were coming from a $8 a month(or something like that) shared hosting from Bluehost (before that, it was the unmentionable Dreamhost), and we thought that $75 a month was definitely, without question give us more horsepower. Well, it turns out we were wrong, and there was no way to test this before doing the switch: the problem only occurred once traffic started coming into the new server.

The DV server is nice, but it's a (virtual) box with limited resources, and getting more resources cost a lot more. The Grid, on the other hand, should in theory be better able to handle our traffic, since it scales and distributes the computing power over hundreds of servers when needed. But that's in theory, and we've heard a few horror stories from Media Temple. So, let me say here, there's a decent chance we'll be moving again.

But, maybe this time we won't tell anyone. :)

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Tritton AXPC 5.1 USB Gaming Headset Reviewed. Verdict: Surprisingly Good for the Price

dponce80 — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:08:21 -0000

Guys, this isn't an ad. Every now and then, Ian comes in and writes an article for us. It's always a little teaser for the longer review article that sits on his own site. I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » The Trekstor MovieStation Stores Movies, Playsback In HD

dponce80 — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:14:01 -0000

That's true, but that thing is not HD. It only outputs with composite cables, so it wont work. I want to do all this:
1. Upscale DVDs up to 1080i
2. Plays Divx, Xvid, upscaled
3. I dont want to burn every movie

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Microsoft Surface: “It’s Real And It’s Spectacular!”

dponce80 — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:04:56 -0000

I bet there are. There's enough people in America with that kind of money But the point is: what will you DO with this at home? When all the applications that are on it, at first, will be for commercial use... I guess you can use it to place your dinner orders for your wife to cook...

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Epoq MP4 Video Watch Poses As A Metal Dress Watch

dponce80 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:16:45 -0000

Andrew... you didn't just say you didn't want to watch Transformers, did you? My goodness, writing for me has rendered you coldhearted and senseless... what have I done? Lol, Andrew, I promise not you beat you with that stick anymore.... Leave the dark side. Leave it now!

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Voice Posts On OhGizmo: An Explanation, A Disclaimer And An Example

dponce80 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:33:56 -0000

Chas man, I'm glad you like it. I have to agree, this thing rocks. It's funny that an ad campaign could be this much fun.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » FM/Toshiba Battle Royale Is A New Kind Of Marketing, Happens To Be Fun

dponce80 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:12:10 -0000

Fazal, could you kindly repost your reply to Chas... It got caught in my spam filter, and accidentally deleted. My apologies

Re: Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology

dponce80 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:03:27 -0000

Hey everyone. THere used to be a bunch of comments here. But we were hacked. We're working to reload the database, but that could take a while. In the meantime, please keep arguing. :)

Re: Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?

dponce80 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:05:04 -0000

Hi. I'm one of John Battelle's authors, part of Federated Media. We've been blogging for a good two years now. The site's ohgizmo.com. Even though we may seem like "yet another gadget blog", if you do give the site a quick visit, you'll see there's more to it than regular, mainstream gadgets.

Thanks for the opportunity.