Your comment is funny considering Intel is bending over backwards to provide other laptop makers the parts to build cheap Macbook air clones (Otherwise known as Ultrabooks)
Anecdote is anecdote, but I have never had an issue returning stuff to Fry's, My volume of sales is pretty high, they can see it when doing the return and im sure that reflects how they handle my requests. My only issue with Fry's was when i returned something as defective and I saw the kid put it in the "return to shelf' bins. I had to remind him that I was returning it as manufacturer defective.
Erotic asphyxia is not 'weird', only dangerous. Its not any weirder then bare hand rock climbing, or entering the death zone on Mt Everest. Its a thrill seeking activity. For the record, I have never engaged in it, but i get the 'erotic' psychology of it
Loved my Palm Pre Plus, but it is a fumbling , sputtering idiot compared to the iphone. My girl cant even use her stone stock Pre as a music player because it skips. The phone functionality was never given absolute top priority, so pressing buttons lagged, or other weird stuff. I liked the IDEAS in the Pre, the execution was something else entirely. It worked, but not great and certainly not as smooth as what we have now.
I really want a Google Glass (on my RX glasses) setup just so I can take pictures in places people say i cant. Sorry Mr. Tour Guide, its a medical device.
Yeah, those silly japanese and their fear of radiation. Its totally unfounded. No Fat Man or Little Boy could possibly understand why the Japanese have an extraordinary fear of nuclear energy.
I agree, to an extent. I do think it is a pre-emptive move against Microsoft's gaming pillar. At the very worst, it gives Valve a HUGE bargaining chip over M$ (fuck it, it applies here). Best case scenario, Valve rolls out their own hardware spec, the Steambox reference design, running Valve Linux. A lot of people are lining up to fuck M$ in the ass, and its starting to become really obvious.
yes yes, i knew someone would mention that. I figured it was obvious enough to not have to mention specifically. I dont mind movies being advertised to me on my movie box, esp in the way we are describing. What I hate is text ads for Woolite on my Tivo when i press pause while watching Big Bang.
I get why people like libraries, and they have their place, just not IN PLACE OF the normal file system. Libraries SHOULD NOT be nearly as prominent as they are in the explorer window.
The main issue with Vista was the idiocy between intel and Microsoft. Intel begged MS to lower the base system requirements of what it meant to be Vista certified. The result was an untested OS, on hardware that should have never been Vista certified. This decision created a huge snowball effect. Vista was not terrible on good, robust, stable hardware (it wasnt especially polished either). What earned it the ire of everyone can mostly be traced to Intel foisting inadequate hardware on us and MS allowing it. Everything else that was wrong with Vista was greatly magnified by these events.
NOt only that, but the REASONS why they are doing it are jsut as ire-inspiring. They want to be just like apple with a locked down platform so they are forcing Metro to be center stage. It has nothing to do with advancing the art of computing and everything to do with being able to sell 1s and 0s on an ongoing basis.
You are not thinking fourth dimensionally at all. Their position in the universe alone makes them unique. Every electron is sourced from the results of the big bang. Every electron can trace its origin back to that point, and the path that the electron took since that time is absolutely unique. Interchangeable (which is what you are really saying above) is not the same as absolutely identical. The electrons I am using to send this message to you are as ancient as the universe itself and each one took a different path to get here. Pauli exclusion proves what im saying. No two particles can exist in the same space, at the same time, ever. Thus all particles are unique if only by position.
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Your comment is funny considering Intel is bending over backwards to provide other laptop makers the parts to build cheap Macbook air clones (Otherwise known as Ultrabooks)
God forbid they should go broke tending to the health of their nation. Yes, its much better to fritter that money away on defense instead. /s
Steve, its no secret that taxation is theft at gunpoint. What are you going to do about it, bitch? Seriously grow up.
Anecdote is anecdote, but I have never had an issue returning stuff to Fry's, My volume of sales is pretty high, they can see it when doing the return and im sure that reflects how they handle my requests. My only issue with Fry's was when i returned something as defective and I saw the kid put it in the "return to shelf' bins. I had to remind him that I was returning it as manufacturer defective.
Intel marketing is not why they are top of the heap. They make a better product by almost any metric.
If they havent been convicted in a court of law, they are not yet a criminal, they are the accused.
Erotic asphyxia is not 'weird', only dangerous. Its not any weirder then bare hand rock climbing, or entering the death zone on Mt Everest. Its a thrill seeking activity. For the record, I have never engaged in it, but i get the 'erotic' psychology of it
More like [gavel BANG!] 'Payment Processing has already deducted the funds from your account'
its an edge case, but the inferencing is pretty strong. " I know what is being referred to, and no true scotsman would call it that."
What seals it is use of the word 'respect'. Her usage implies that anyone who would happen to refer to the product as 'Itanic' was contemptuous.
You have no hope of making a Creationist understand, for it is not truth they seek, but comfort.
Your wit repulses me.
Loved my Palm Pre Plus, but it is a fumbling , sputtering idiot compared to the iphone. My girl cant even use her stone stock Pre as a music player because it skips. The phone functionality was never given absolute top priority, so pressing buttons lagged, or other weird stuff. I liked the IDEAS in the Pre, the execution was something else entirely. It worked, but not great and certainly not as smooth as what we have now.
" 'I understand the reference they are making and I don’t like it. It is not done by anyone I like or respect.'"
'No true scotsman' argument
We have been calling it Itanic since day one, if people she knows or like aren't using that term, then shes in an echo chamber
I really want a Google Glass (on my RX glasses) setup just so I can take pictures in places people say i cant. Sorry Mr. Tour Guide, its a medical device.
Yeah, those silly japanese and their fear of radiation. Its totally unfounded. No Fat Man or Little Boy could possibly understand why the Japanese have an extraordinary fear of nuclear energy.
The author's intent and the readership's interpretation need not agree.
I agree, to an extent. I do think it is a pre-emptive move against Microsoft's gaming pillar. At the very worst, it gives Valve a HUGE bargaining chip over M$ (fuck it, it applies here). Best case scenario, Valve rolls out their own hardware spec, the Steambox reference design, running Valve Linux. A lot of people are lining up to fuck M$ in the ass, and its starting to become really obvious.
yes yes, i knew someone would mention that. I figured it was obvious enough to not have to mention specifically. I dont mind movies being advertised to me on my movie box, esp in the way we are describing. What I hate is text ads for Woolite on my Tivo when i press pause while watching Big Bang.
I get why people like libraries, and they have their place, just not IN PLACE OF the normal file system. Libraries SHOULD NOT be nearly as prominent as they are in the explorer window.
The main issue with Vista was the idiocy between intel and Microsoft. Intel begged MS to lower the base system requirements of what it meant to be Vista certified. The result was an untested OS, on hardware that should have never been Vista certified. This decision created a huge snowball effect. Vista was not terrible on good, robust, stable hardware (it wasnt especially polished either). What earned it the ire of everyone can mostly be traced to Intel foisting inadequate hardware on us and MS allowing it. Everything else that was wrong with Vista was greatly magnified by these events.
NOt only that, but the REASONS why they are doing it are jsut as ire-inspiring. They want to be just like apple with a locked down platform so they are forcing Metro to be center stage. It has nothing to do with advancing the art of computing and everything to do with being able to sell 1s and 0s on an ongoing basis.
You can photograph the Eiffel Tower at night, what you cant do is profit from it. Its an important distinction.
You are not thinking fourth dimensionally at all. Their position in the universe alone makes them unique. Every electron is sourced from the results of the big bang. Every electron can trace its origin back to that point, and the path that the electron took since that time is absolutely unique. Interchangeable (which is what you are really saying above) is not the same as absolutely identical. The electrons I am using to send this message to you are as ancient as the universe itself and each one took a different path to get here. Pauli exclusion proves what im saying. No two particles can exist in the same space, at the same time, ever. Thus all particles are unique if only by position.
Well that was unexpected!
Agent K, is that you?