25 Responses to “The Expert Speaks!”

1. Anonymous Says:
   May 25th, 2006 at 5:16 pm

   “I eat nothing but ham and mayonaise. It keeps my skin waxy and alluring!”

2. tom sherman Says:
   May 25th, 2006 at 7:23 pm

   to be fair, it’s probably some editor’s fuckup

3. Pete Says:
   May 25th, 2006 at 7:42 pm

   Yeah, you’re probably right.. any idea what it might have said before the editor screwed it up?

4. Pramit Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 12:23 am

   Before it went into editing, the actual quote was:

   “It’s already happening. Microsoft’s new Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) is one example. It’s a mini-tablet PC with sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Windows XP. For business travelers…”

5. Jim in Buffalo Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 7:29 am

   The dude looks like Dante from Clerks. “I’m not even supposed to BE here today!”

6. Joe Grossberg Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 8:08 am

   Meow! A hosting provider catfight!

   P.S. Spellcheck your DreamHost newsletters if you’re going to nit-pick.

7. James Rocko Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 8:49 am

   C.F. is an interesting character:
   http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=155950

8. Glen Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

   That C.F. article is inspiring….time for DreamHost to get off their high horse and sue AOL for blocking their email just like C.F. did !! What an inovator!

9. sdayman Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 2:59 pm

   Geez, Josh, don’t you own a scanner? Now I can’t read about businesses signing on for whatever he’s talking about because there’s a giant blob of flash glare on the page.

   Oh, and when I clicked the link to cihost, it took quite a while for the server to respond. About 10 seconds.

10. James Says:
    May 26th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    What’s wrong with CI Host. I have hosted with them before and had no complaints.

    Please elaborate.

    James

11. Pete Says:
    May 26th, 2006 at 9:46 pm

    You know, I timed it.. it took 9.5 seconds to load. o_O

    (insert cat scratches here)

12. Mike S Says:
    May 27th, 2006 at 1:55 pm

    James, I think the problem is that the CEO of CI Host is a little immature kid who never got smacked when he was a baby.

    It is highly unusually to sue former employees for the reasons he did. Its highly unusual to sue former employees at all, but there you have it.

    Just one question though, doesn’t his suing impede on our First Amendment Rights? Shouldn’t we be able to say certain things without fear of reprisal? This is very disturbing, especially since the people that made anti-CI remarks were just expressing their own opinions.
    That in no way violates the public-safety-can’t-shout-fire-in-a-movie-theater example, so I can’t see how they’re allowed to sue in the first place.

13. Adam Says:
    May 29th, 2006 at 10:25 am

    Watch out dream host, you guys could get sued from the big man him self! :p

    From,
    Adam – Happy Dreamhost customer :)

14. Eian Says:
    May 29th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    Personally I prefer my Sony PSP without Microsoft.

    Thanks. :)

15. phoenix Says:
    May 30th, 2006 at 7:25 am

    Glorious. :)

    As others have said (and I personally like Pramit’s unedited copy) it’s probably an editor’s mistake, but man that’s still funny. Ten bucks it said “USB” and some editor’s a complete moron.

16. Pete Says:
    May 30th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    USB is the only thing I can think of that makes even remote sense… Perhaps the dictationist mis-transcribed USP, someone changed it to PSP, then the editor put in Sony PSP..

    I thought this was a far-fetched idea until I realized that AmericanWay is the American Airlines travel magazine… computing acronyms are probably not their strong point.

    Plus, Chris seems like thet kind of guy to put an edge on his Bs.

    Ah yes, it all falls together now.

17. adm Says:
    May 30th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    i thought maybe he was being metaphorical, and editing made it unclear that he was being metaphorical, i.e., maybe he meant, “it’s as if it has a built-in PSP,” meaning you can play games on it.

    But he didn’t really answer the actual question. The question was about cellphones, but UMPCs don’t actually have cellphones built in. And neither do those Nokia tablets mentioned in brackets.

18. Greg Says:
    May 30th, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    I can only hope that once Dremhost starts to offer dedicated hosting again that Dreamhost can match, or even better beat, the pricing of CI Host.

    http://www.cihost.com/products/dedicated-hosting/linux.php

19. Rick Says:
    May 31st, 2006 at 7:26 am

    @Greg,

    Wow – I’m surprised to see CI Host dedicated hosting package.

    CI Host offers nearly 3x the diskspace and 2x the RAM that Dreamhost does for the same price ($99).

    Dreamhost, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease start offering dedicated hosting plans again, and not the affliate program with hosting.com. And at the very least, let those dedicated servers have competitive specs that at least equal that of CI Host.

    Rick

20. Erik Says:
    May 31st, 2006 at 1:02 pm

    Um, Writers don’t usually have dictationists. They *are* the dictationists in Q&A style interviews.

21. Pete Says:
    May 31st, 2006 at 6:52 pm

    Oh. Then the interviewer screwed up his own dictation?

22. Since 2000 Says:
    May 31st, 2006 at 8:08 pm

    It’s blatantly clear that dreamhost is trying to get bought out by a bigger fish. How is this clear? Look at the bottom line -holy wienerschnitzel they have explosive growth -huge subscriber base, offering more than anyone~ buy’em before someone else!~!~! They look so sweet -they even have a blog and laid back Cali newsletter -wHOOOPPPPPIeeeE or wait west coast style
    .SNnaaAAAAAaaaaAP yo_

    But the real story is [quote] ” failed to scale well with all the n00bs(s*ck_rz) ” end[/quote]

    It seems like we have wicked servers/bandwidth/diskspace/ maybe even CPU and backups but I betcha key people aren’t around any more / or hell maybe the key people just hack their way through it :) (like I would)

    Take the latest status update -gee whiz somehow 65000 ports were concurrently getting used so we stuck another box inbetween until all those get used concurrently then we’ll put a mega-punisher-enforcer-deathwwashy-slippy-snappy-concrappy something or another ./

    HACK -HACK Hack acka ackackack you outta know by now (was that billy the josh joel?

23. Pete Says:
    June 1st, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    Two words.

    “Loose association.”

24. gas Says:
    June 9th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    Yes it is really interessant!

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