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Thanks for not spreading this over 5 pages.
Thanks for not spreading this over 5 pages.
where's vista?
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@Hawk07: a la Bankrate LOL.
Ain't such a bad year imo. I, for one, feel that it could've been much worse.
Is it just me, or is JetBlue using their runway debacle as an excuse to consolidate half-full flights? I live in NYC and fly out of JFK all the time. If the sky is even vaguely cloudy, JetBlue starts canceling flights left and right. And it's odd, because they'll cancel one flight but leave earlier and later flights intact, regardless of the actual weather conditions at the time. A less cynical person would think they're just trying to avoid paying the refunds to customers that they've promised, but I have a feeling they're turning this to their own advantage, taking two half-full flights and turning them into one full flight.
And really, what's more inconvenient to a customer, sitting on the runway for an hour, or having your flight canceled altogether (and not having an alternate flight available that day, which has also happened to me). Gee thanks JetBlue, instead of just annoying me, now you're ruining my entire trip. Good job.
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What about Circuit City firing all its competant employees in favor of cheap ones?
I think that Vista AND Leopard both deserve to be here.
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the top 3 are certainly the top 3 of the year.
let's hope 2008 is a whole lot better!
Vista many years in the making... Tho the launch was this year, it belongs in a top 10 list of all time blunders in all recorded history.
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I'm surprised #8 isn't higher up if only because it actually put the company in question out of business. But the top 4 are spot on.
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These summaries are ok, but it'd be good if there were some sort of longer articles easily availible for more information....say with some sort of link system to connect to them.
as we all know, one person = 20 billion people, so 40 billion people were upset this year!
Holy crap, did anybody watch that Geek Squad profile on 60 Minutes last night? It was a total P.R. piece without an inch of investigative reporting.
60 Minutes reeks.
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This is quite a challenge to 2008. The gauntlet has been thrown.
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\"It may not be until 20 years from now that we know the true impact, when we start wondering why national IQ levels have dropped 45 points.\"
Must have been lead in the toys since the 70's at least because there are a lot of stupid people still out there.
I think lead is not dropping IQ points as much as it is killing off the common sense and decency parts of the brain.
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@Bay State Darren: Nah, I added them in. Not enough time to do so before heading out to Fox this morning.
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I actually had someone approach me with a story that would have been in the top 5... damn attorney-client priviledge.:/
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So I guess we can all thank Mattel for making Idiocracy look like a documentary in a couple decades?
Totally off-topic, but I used to have the same eraser . . . I miss the 80's.
Hard to believe Sony's Root Kit DRM kerfuffle isn't up there. The impact from it, exposing customers to potential security breaches, and giving the anti-DRM camp some heavy ammunition is quite the tech story for 2007.
I read somewhere that Best Buy actually helped someone during a customer service call. I also heard that direct TV had one succesfull installation, and that someone was actually able to complete a call on the Sprint network. So it really wasn't such a bad year.