that's what I don't get. They lowered the price for insertion fees and raised the final value fees. That way power sellers will lose a LOT less money when they list a thousand items and only 10% of them sell. Plus since gallery pics are pretty much mandatory if you ever want anyone to look at your item and bandwidth is cheaper, they lowered the price on them or made them free or something. It was a fantastic idea that benefits mostly power sellers. I don't get it. If anyone knows what they're bitching about besides glitches, please do post it.
FYI I'm against power sellers. They're impossible to communicate with, they don't know anything about the items they're selling, and they take forever to ship items. If you want exactly what you want and want it fast, you gotta buy it from someone with under 250 feedback. The only thing I can think of that power seller would be pissed about is not being able to leave negative feedback for buyers anymore. But you know what, when I leave negative feedback because one of those idiots shipped me the wrong item 2 weeks later, I don't have to fear retribution anymore. That was the best update out of them all and if power sellers don't like it, too bad!
If someone would have made a cheap combo player fast enough that could play both formats, they could have both been making profits instead of one losing money and the other probably still losing money from so many bribes. It's sort of like a betting on a drag race and then spending $20,000 to upgrade your car while the other guy spends $25,000 and the bet is only $1000 so that's all you win. By the time they start turning a profit on blu-ray, the next format will be released.
hey, I didn't pick them lol. I work for Tek Systems, a contractor they used. Actually I just did a short inventory project for IBM before they take over. And you know what, to work 4 days at a place where I had been working for 12 weeks before, they made me do a background and drug test and read a bunch of ridiculous corporate crap. I think I don't want to work with or anywhere near IBM again.
the originators should have no reason to sell this technology. The more crackers that use it for their purposes, the more likely antivirus companies are going to take notice and take more immediate, drastic steps to stop it. If it's just one group using one new rootkit that's different than a bunch of people using it for all different stuff. Btw that sounded so racist lol. CRACKER!
they're talking about knock off products, not plain old fakes. They could be Taliban members sending you gerbil food for all you know with those blogs advertising their crap. That's right, I'm breaking that story right here, right now. The Taliban sells fake gerbil food Viagra on blogs. Anyway, this was way more deceptive too. Marketing people are evil bastards with no morals and I think they should all go to hell. That's my solution. Oh and the students should be expelled for being such douchebags.
hey come on now, Microsoft is all about following standards...as long as they make the standards. Anyway I don't really get this. Why would they want to run any mode that renders an element differently than it was intended to? Do they think they can do better than the web designer that made the page? I get pissed if a browser moves an element by a pixel on pages I make! It's complete common sense to want to render it...you know...correctly.
at my old work, because of their intranet pages, they haven't gone to IE7 yet lol. It looked like a basic html page to me so I dunno what the problem was. I think the IT staff is a bunch of morons and before you're like "nah ah!" they're all getting fired in March. That's right, all of them. They're ACS people and they're gone. They're bringing in IBM people to replace them. Lol anyway, yeah I didn't really buy that scared of the EU crap. What does the EU care about IE following standards? Anything to make IE worse should delight them cuz it'll help break up the semi-monopoly.
I told my parents, when I move out I'm only going to live in a place that's got broadband. So I'm not moving to Mars until they got broadband! And none of that 8 minute ping time stuff. I can't play Starcraft like that. Run the backbone through a wormhole!
Ignore all the other speculators. If you just watch the movie, you'll notice they they interlaced it so they could double the resolution without really doubling the amount of data. Every other line of pixels is in every other frame so it basically looks like crap. This isn't going to go over very well. I HATE interlaced videos! Because of interlaced videos, there have been whole shows about mysterious creatures called rods that fly at like 800 MPH and come from another dimension wooooo. Turns out they're just interlaced video camera artifacts of moths and stuff. Plus did I mention it looks like blurry crap?
I don't care about squabbling about who's better, I care about proprietary, not easily replaceable parts. Whatever moron at HP said "hey, let's start putting specialized hardware in our computers" should be fired. It's like with Dell's crap that you can't replace with standard parts so that they can charge 3x the real price to buy replacement parts from them directly. Guess how much a replacement motherboard was for a 6 year old Dell Dimension? $130! (I bought one used on ebay for $50 though)
The best solution is to either build your own personal jetpack/flying car or set up a wormhole station to transport people anywhere on the planet instantly:) I've never been on an airplane so maybe someone could explain this to me. How hard is it to get on a place? You line up, give em your ticket, get on the plane, throw your bags overhead, and sit down in your seat. That's all they do in the movies (my only reference) so what's so slow about that? Is it all in the security checkpoints? I keep hearing that's where all the slowdown is.
you know, I was going to say that in all seriousness. I mean it makes sense that you'd want to waste all the energy you can and make it super inefficient because then you're using more heat energy to do less. But then I realized that inefficiency would cause the unused energy to be released as heat:-P
Anyway, this is the best idea ever! Using heat to run a heat dissipater...genius! Someone should have thought of this 5 years ago!
so that's the actual charge of a quark! I KNEW IT! Wouldn't that be funny if it was too:P then again we don't really have a basis to guess and may not have a compatible unit of measure so let's just say it's 42 lol.
A bus in the sky? Seriously. Okay everyone erase that from your memory and pretend it said IBM Bladecenter in the sky. That would be way more accurate. If you take the bus analogy any further, you'd be paying to install really nice rims and a new motor and a sweet subwoofer and stereo system in a bus and then you're just an idiot and quite possibly a redneck if you do that.
Btw I have a slightly different opinion. Satellites suck. Well at least data ones do. Weather and imagining and all that makes sense. The lag time is awful, the bandwidth is expensive and narrow, and Anderson Cooper keeps talking over the Iraqi reporters because of the delay and we just can't have that. What we need is to lay down 100x the amount of fiber under the oceans and between countries so we can cut out the satellites. Other than that, hey send a mini shuttle up there to dock onto it and install a national weather serive, Sirius, and GPS module at once when the companies rent it. That's not a bad idea. Next is rental space billboards!
Yeah colleges "allow" piracy but isn't that sort of picking on the last man in the chain? Why doesn't the RIAA go to the real, actual source of the problem. No, I don't mean the internet in general. I think we all know that the real people responsible for securing their products from being pirated have failed miserably and need to pay up for all the damage their neglegence has caused. The RIAA should sue the RIAA. Seriously, it's your own damn fault. It's like if this was early Star Trek and they were selling gold bars and suddenly a technology came along where you could lock onto and transport objects from a distance (transporters) and their gold just kept disappearing. So logically they ran around the market, beating random people in the head with clubs instead of putting up a jamming field. Yeah, it's totally like that.
yeah, that's exactly what I was expecting! I thought it would be like the imfamous Vista network connection limited to 10% while playing a song thing or whatever. And then I read it and was like oh whatever.
So they wrote some code for Safari that makes it fast and didn't share it. Cry me a river. Let me tear this apart piece by piece. It's not secret. Obviously someone just found out about it and could have at any point. All you'd have to do is run some utilities that analyze a program while it's running, except who the hell makes utilities like that (or any software really) for Macs? And obviously it's not the OS making it slower, it's the OS and the programmers of the disadvantaged software not making it faster. Next, there's the fact that someone could potentially use their own technology to make a browser faster instead of whining about not being able to use someone else's code. I don't remember having to disclose all your APIs in great detail being a common practice with non open source stuff, especially operating systems! And then there's the fact that the article is actually complaining about Apple making something in their OS faster by using their own shortcuts. Holy shit. You know what, then let's slow Safari on down to the level of the other browsers so it's fair so the article's author can be happy.
Well why should they share the money when a good portion of it was gotten from people that didn't even download music from a copyrighted artist? You don't give money to artists if there was no damage. Logically what should be done is the RIAA should go to hell.
No, I don't agree. Mosquitos needed to develop specialized feet, a reproductive system that uses blood, an anticoagulating agent and dispersal system, and a big needle nose all at once. Any of those seperately and they'd be dead. And how do you do gender co-dependent traits slowly? The very first animal to ever use sexual reporduction had to have very specific, matching, complicated male and female mutations within the same generation. If just one mutated, it'd be unable to reproduce without a counterpart.
you forgot one thing you also need. The power of gravity is different at different altitudes. So they can measure it all they want, it's still going to change. Who thinks they were smart enough to remember that? I sure don't think so.
and some people are thick skulled cynics who never stop complaining.
Anyway, this article was disappointed. I haven't even heard of the first two. I was hoping they'd try to explain multi-mutation dependent animals like the moquitos and how codependent opposite gender traits evolved simultaneously. But I guess they're conveniently ignoring those as usual.
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Hey that's funny, it doesn't talk about any of that on Jimmy Wales' wikipedia page...hmmm
that's what I don't get. They lowered the price for insertion fees and raised the final value fees. That way power sellers will lose a LOT less money when they list a thousand items and only 10% of them sell. Plus since gallery pics are pretty much mandatory if you ever want anyone to look at your item and bandwidth is cheaper, they lowered the price on them or made them free or something. It was a fantastic idea that benefits mostly power sellers. I don't get it. If anyone knows what they're bitching about besides glitches, please do post it.
FYI I'm against power sellers. They're impossible to communicate with, they don't know anything about the items they're selling, and they take forever to ship items. If you want exactly what you want and want it fast, you gotta buy it from someone with under 250 feedback. The only thing I can think of that power seller would be pissed about is not being able to leave negative feedback for buyers anymore. But you know what, when I leave negative feedback because one of those idiots shipped me the wrong item 2 weeks later, I don't have to fear retribution anymore. That was the best update out of them all and if power sellers don't like it, too bad!
If someone would have made a cheap combo player fast enough that could play both formats, they could have both been making profits instead of one losing money and the other probably still losing money from so many bribes. It's sort of like a betting on a drag race and then spending $20,000 to upgrade your car while the other guy spends $25,000 and the bet is only $1000 so that's all you win. By the time they start turning a profit on blu-ray, the next format will be released.
hey, I didn't pick them lol. I work for Tek Systems, a contractor they used. Actually I just did a short inventory project for IBM before they take over. And you know what, to work 4 days at a place where I had been working for 12 weeks before, they made me do a background and drug test and read a bunch of ridiculous corporate crap. I think I don't want to work with or anywhere near IBM again.
the originators should have no reason to sell this technology. The more crackers that use it for their purposes, the more likely antivirus companies are going to take notice and take more immediate, drastic steps to stop it. If it's just one group using one new rootkit that's different than a bunch of people using it for all different stuff. Btw that sounded so racist lol. CRACKER!
they're talking about knock off products, not plain old fakes. They could be Taliban members sending you gerbil food for all you know with those blogs advertising their crap. That's right, I'm breaking that story right here, right now. The Taliban sells fake gerbil food Viagra on blogs. Anyway, this was way more deceptive too. Marketing people are evil bastards with no morals and I think they should all go to hell. That's my solution. Oh and the students should be expelled for being such douchebags.
hey come on now, Microsoft is all about following standards...as long as they make the standards. Anyway I don't really get this. Why would they want to run any mode that renders an element differently than it was intended to? Do they think they can do better than the web designer that made the page? I get pissed if a browser moves an element by a pixel on pages I make! It's complete common sense to want to render it...you know...correctly.
at my old work, because of their intranet pages, they haven't gone to IE7 yet lol. It looked like a basic html page to me so I dunno what the problem was. I think the IT staff is a bunch of morons and before you're like "nah ah!" they're all getting fired in March. That's right, all of them. They're ACS people and they're gone. They're bringing in IBM people to replace them. Lol anyway, yeah I didn't really buy that scared of the EU crap. What does the EU care about IE following standards? Anything to make IE worse should delight them cuz it'll help break up the semi-monopoly.
I told my parents, when I move out I'm only going to live in a place that's got broadband. So I'm not moving to Mars until they got broadband! And none of that 8 minute ping time stuff. I can't play Starcraft like that. Run the backbone through a wormhole!
Ignore all the other speculators. If you just watch the movie, you'll notice they they interlaced it so they could double the resolution without really doubling the amount of data. Every other line of pixels is in every other frame so it basically looks like crap. This isn't going to go over very well. I HATE interlaced videos! Because of interlaced videos, there have been whole shows about mysterious creatures called rods that fly at like 800 MPH and come from another dimension wooooo. Turns out they're just interlaced video camera artifacts of moths and stuff. Plus did I mention it looks like blurry crap?
I don't care about squabbling about who's better, I care about proprietary, not easily replaceable parts. Whatever moron at HP said "hey, let's start putting specialized hardware in our computers" should be fired. It's like with Dell's crap that you can't replace with standard parts so that they can charge 3x the real price to buy replacement parts from them directly. Guess how much a replacement motherboard was for a 6 year old Dell Dimension? $130! (I bought one used on ebay for $50 though)
The best solution is to either build your own personal jetpack/flying car or set up a wormhole station to transport people anywhere on the planet instantly :) I've never been on an airplane so maybe someone could explain this to me. How hard is it to get on a place? You line up, give em your ticket, get on the plane, throw your bags overhead, and sit down in your seat. That's all they do in the movies (my only reference) so what's so slow about that? Is it all in the security checkpoints? I keep hearing that's where all the slowdown is.
you know, I was going to say that in all seriousness. I mean it makes sense that you'd want to waste all the energy you can and make it super inefficient because then you're using more heat energy to do less. But then I realized that inefficiency would cause the unused energy to be released as heat :-P
Anyway, this is the best idea ever! Using heat to run a heat dissipater...genius! Someone should have thought of this 5 years ago!
it was a direct quote from the Slashdot April Fools SQL on Rails story's video :P I know it makes no sense as an SQL statement :P
it's impossible to be a "previous co-founder" without a time machine. You're always the co-founder no matter if you're still with the company or not.
so that's the actual charge of a quark! I KNEW IT! Wouldn't that be funny if it was too :P then again we don't really have a basis to guess and may not have a compatible unit of measure so let's just say it's 42 lol.
A bus in the sky? Seriously. Okay everyone erase that from your memory and pretend it said IBM Bladecenter in the sky. That would be way more accurate. If you take the bus analogy any further, you'd be paying to install really nice rims and a new motor and a sweet subwoofer and stereo system in a bus and then you're just an idiot and quite possibly a redneck if you do that.
Btw I have a slightly different opinion. Satellites suck. Well at least data ones do. Weather and imagining and all that makes sense. The lag time is awful, the bandwidth is expensive and narrow, and Anderson Cooper keeps talking over the Iraqi reporters because of the delay and we just can't have that. What we need is to lay down 100x the amount of fiber under the oceans and between countries so we can cut out the satellites. Other than that, hey send a mini shuttle up there to dock onto it and install a national weather serive, Sirius, and GPS module at once when the companies rent it. That's not a bad idea. Next is rental space billboards!
Yeah colleges "allow" piracy but isn't that sort of picking on the last man in the chain? Why doesn't the RIAA go to the real, actual source of the problem. No, I don't mean the internet in general. I think we all know that the real people responsible for securing their products from being pirated have failed miserably and need to pay up for all the damage their neglegence has caused. The RIAA should sue the RIAA. Seriously, it's your own damn fault. It's like if this was early Star Trek and they were selling gold bars and suddenly a technology came along where you could lock onto and transport objects from a distance (transporters) and their gold just kept disappearing. So logically they ran around the market, beating random people in the head with clubs instead of putting up a jamming field. Yeah, it's totally like that.
yeah, that's exactly what I was expecting! I thought it would be like the imfamous Vista network connection limited to 10% while playing a song thing or whatever. And then I read it and was like oh whatever.
So they wrote some code for Safari that makes it fast and didn't share it. Cry me a river. Let me tear this apart piece by piece. It's not secret. Obviously someone just found out about it and could have at any point. All you'd have to do is run some utilities that analyze a program while it's running, except who the hell makes utilities like that (or any software really) for Macs? And obviously it's not the OS making it slower, it's the OS and the programmers of the disadvantaged software not making it faster. Next, there's the fact that someone could potentially use their own technology to make a browser faster instead of whining about not being able to use someone else's code. I don't remember having to disclose all your APIs in great detail being a common practice with non open source stuff, especially operating systems! And then there's the fact that the article is actually complaining about Apple making something in their OS faster by using their own shortcuts. Holy shit. You know what, then let's slow Safari on down to the level of the other browsers so it's fair so the article's author can be happy.
hey, it's you again! I missed you so much lol. I see you have a degree in copy and pasting. Well you know what, for all you know I am a physicist.
Well why should they share the money when a good portion of it was gotten from people that didn't even download music from a copyrighted artist? You don't give money to artists if there was no damage. Logically what should be done is the RIAA should go to hell.
No, I don't agree. Mosquitos needed to develop specialized feet, a reproductive system that uses blood, an anticoagulating agent and dispersal system, and a big needle nose all at once. Any of those seperately and they'd be dead. And how do you do gender co-dependent traits slowly? The very first animal to ever use sexual reporduction had to have very specific, matching, complicated male and female mutations within the same generation. If just one mutated, it'd be unable to reproduce without a counterpart.
you forgot one thing you also need. The power of gravity is different at different altitudes. So they can measure it all they want, it's still going to change. Who thinks they were smart enough to remember that? I sure don't think so.
and some people are thick skulled cynics who never stop complaining.
Anyway, this article was disappointed. I haven't even heard of the first two. I was hoping they'd try to explain multi-mutation dependent animals like the moquitos and how codependent opposite gender traits evolved simultaneously. But I guess they're conveniently ignoring those as usual.