Tag: Rant
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Amazon’s Insulting Kindle Replacement Offer [Rant]
Normally, I try to keep Global Geek News as much of an upbeat and happy place for geeks and nerds to visit as possible, but I have to rant about the horrible Amazon customer support experience I just had. I almost never take the opportunity to rant on here (I don’t think I have done…
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In Rock, Paper, Scissors, Rock always wins [pic]
All of my life, I have wondered exactly how paper can beat rock in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. I’ve seen a lot of tough rocks in my time that can shred paper easily so I never really cared for the game because of that. I understand why the game exists but you would…
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Twitter believes we are too stupid for @ replies
Greetings Readers! Normally I am fast asleep at the time that I am writing this, but it is quite warm here and I can’t sleep when it is hot. Not being able to sleep, I decided to browse the new posts on my Google Reader. After sifting through all of the stuff I don’t care…
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Time Warner Cable, Screwing their Customers 1GB at a Time.
Greetings readers! As I’m sure many of you tech blog lovers have heard, Time Warner Cable is starting a test of metered bandwidth this week in Beaumont, Texas. At the low end, users will pay $29.95 per month for service at a speed of 768 kilobits per second, with a 5GB monthly cap. At the…