Americans are complicit in all their government does since they do not stop it.
I do what I can: I vote for candidates who are not from the demonstrably corrupt main parties, or who have a proven track record of doing good (despite their party allegiance). As such, I reject your accusation that I am complicit in my government's actions.
It's in the games section. It is legitimate news about a game which many are excited for. What the fuck do you want from them, to not report game news just because it's free advertising for the developer?
Oh, please. It would be a "vapor announcement" if it wasn't going to come out. There's a small chance of that, granted, but let's be realistic: this game is not getting canceled. It will be released, which makes it not vaporware by definition.
Zero is a remarkably small (and, as it turns out, incorrect) number. I don't really have the ambition to find a list of everyone who is on D3, but Chris Metzen is involved, and he was involved with D2 as well. So in short... you're wrong.
And even if what you say were true, so what? Not being on the original staff does not mean that the team can't understand what made the original great and work to iterate on it. It happens all the time in the industry.
Yet meting out harsh punishment does nothing for the victim (except make them feel better for spite's sake, which is not something I'm prepared to declare a desirable goal). There should be enough of a punishment to be a deterrent, but beyond that, it's just being cruel to the criminal for no gain (worse, you run the risk of creating a career criminal if you harass them too much, making it impossible for them to reform).
I'm all for deterrence, but deterrence does not have to mean that you go overboard on your criminals in righteous anger. And according to your original claim, that means I don't have compassion for the victims, which is sheer bullshit.
How come the bleeding hearts never bleed for the victims, but always for the criminals?
With all due respect, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. The "bleeding hearts", as you call them, are simply trying to make sure that everyone gets treated fairly. This includes the victims, too. Just because someone isn't willing to cut off someone's head to satisfy your sense of spite doesn't mean they don't care about the victims.
You, like almost everyone else who replied to me, are forgetting that this story is specifically about NOT buying from that sort of company. I have yet to encounter the manufacturer of computer parts (and since I build my own, I do need to RMA parts from time to time) that wastes time like that. They know that if you were competent enough to install their product in the first place, you're competent enough to have done the proper troubleshooting.
I think you might be mistaken about what Steve Jobs is trying to control. The handset market? Sure.The desktop market?.. Not as much as you'd like to lead us to believe.
Don't kid yourself. The only reason for that is that the genie is already out of the bottle there; if Steve Jobs could exert the same level of control over that, he would.
Yeah, unfortunately Motorola seems hell bent on fucking up their Android installs. The Droid was (and is) fantastic, my phone has no crapware and no restrictions on what I can do. The later models, not so much.
Yeah, but that is what most people mean when they paint Android as being open. Very few people care about the fact that Android is open source, most people care about the fact that it freely allows development.
The difference is that with most Android installations (and indeed, all to my knowledge, but there may be some I haven't heard of), you can install what you want right off the bat. If you don't like the content available on the Android Market, you can check the box to allow you to install non-Market apps. There is absolutely no reason Apple couldn't do this, while still preserve their "user experience".
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Thank you for demonstrating why I prefer being single. If I can't have a girlfriend/wife who is laid back about stuff, I won't have one at all.
First of all, if you're dragging Dell into this (and other PC manufacturers), that's not the terms of the discussion. We're specifically discussing not buying from them. Yes, in those cases you can get quite a bit of grief (in fact, this is why I started building my own PCs rather than buying for my personal use). But you're vastly exaggerating how long completing an RMA takes. I have done it, more than once, in less than 5 minutes for my hardware at home. Generally, if you buy a motherboard (or something similar), the manufacturer is willing to assume you have the competence to troubleshoot yourself (after all, you were competent enough to INSTALL it).
Hell, even with big-box manufacturers you're vastly exaggerating. We use HP at work currently. I registered for an account on their IT resource site (itrc.hp.com), and I can submit cases. I simply say that I need a certain part, they will ship me the part no questions asked a good 60% of the time. The rest of the time, it's just a few quick emails back and forth (that I do during downtime while I wait for other work to finish) where I confirm that yes, I went through the proper troubleshooting steps. Only once, in hundreds of warranty cases, have I had the tech support person waste a lot of my time.
If your suppliers are treating you like that, you need new ones. The suppliers I work with, both for individual parts and for computer systems, know when they are dealing with a competent person and when they're dealing with a clueless user, and know how to calibrate their process accordingly.
I build my own PCs for home use, I have never had an issue with having to deal with tech support. In my experience, companies who make motherboards and shit assume that if you know enough to buy a motherboard and install it, you can troubleshoot competently.
As someone who sends parts back to HP/Dell for warranty replacements, I can guarantee you that is false. It takes me, as I said, 5 minutes to RMA the part and 5 minutes to pack it in a box and stick it at the front desk to get picked up by UPS (who comes every day). At MOST. The only one of your examples I don't handle is the "chatting with the UPS guy for 10 minutes" part, and he comes every day, so he's gonna chat with her whether we ship parts out or not.
They're far more expensive in terms of price per GB, but cheaper in absolute price. Last time we ordered replacement hard drives at work, 80 GB were at the cheapest price point, but there were also 120 GB for the same price so there was no reason to get the 80.
If that's true, I want to work where you work, because you're paying your techs exorbitant amounts. Let's say you pay $40/hour (which is still high for that job, but I digress). It will take all of 5 minutes of your tech's time (if that) to go to the manufacturer's web site and submit an RMA for that part. Another 5 minutes to pack the old part up and ship it. That means that, even if you pay your techs a hell of a lot of money, their time for one part costs you $6.66. Buying any part new will cost you more than that, so RMA is a good deal. Since you say it's not, I can only conclude that the place you work pays an exorbitant amount of money to their techs.
And that "I know better" attitude is precisely why the university is going to be putting this program in place. To say nothing of the reputation damage, HIPAA violations ain't cheap. So your "this data cost money" argument falls completely flat when doing nothing can cost money as well.
Well, it's technically multi-tiered, although two tiers which are very close in price but vastly different in what you get doesn't fit the spirit of the term "multi-tiered". And they certainly don't "charge bandwidth hogs accordingly", considering that if they did that, they would be charging you for bandwidth at the same rate that you get it on your plan (instead of the crazy jacked-up rates that they actually charge).
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It's Blizzard. You know that isn't forthcoming until about a month before release!
Americans are complicit in all their government does since they do not stop it.
I do what I can: I vote for candidates who are not from the demonstrably corrupt main parties, or who have a proven track record of doing good (despite their party allegiance). As such, I reject your accusation that I am complicit in my government's actions.
It's in the games section. It is legitimate news about a game which many are excited for. What the fuck do you want from them, to not report game news just because it's free advertising for the developer?
Oh, please. It would be a "vapor announcement" if it wasn't going to come out. There's a small chance of that, granted, but let's be realistic: this game is not getting canceled. It will be released, which makes it not vaporware by definition.
Zero is a remarkably small (and, as it turns out, incorrect) number. I don't really have the ambition to find a list of everyone who is on D3, but Chris Metzen is involved, and he was involved with D2 as well. So in short... you're wrong.
And even if what you say were true, so what? Not being on the original staff does not mean that the team can't understand what made the original great and work to iterate on it. It happens all the time in the industry.
Yet meting out harsh punishment does nothing for the victim (except make them feel better for spite's sake, which is not something I'm prepared to declare a desirable goal). There should be enough of a punishment to be a deterrent, but beyond that, it's just being cruel to the criminal for no gain (worse, you run the risk of creating a career criminal if you harass them too much, making it impossible for them to reform).
I'm all for deterrence, but deterrence does not have to mean that you go overboard on your criminals in righteous anger. And according to your original claim, that means I don't have compassion for the victims, which is sheer bullshit.
How come the bleeding hearts never bleed for the victims, but always for the criminals?
With all due respect, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. The "bleeding hearts", as you call them, are simply trying to make sure that everyone gets treated fairly. This includes the victims, too. Just because someone isn't willing to cut off someone's head to satisfy your sense of spite doesn't mean they don't care about the victims.
You, like almost everyone else who replied to me, are forgetting that this story is specifically about NOT buying from that sort of company. I have yet to encounter the manufacturer of computer parts (and since I build my own, I do need to RMA parts from time to time) that wastes time like that. They know that if you were competent enough to install their product in the first place, you're competent enough to have done the proper troubleshooting.
I think you might be mistaken about what Steve Jobs is trying to control. The handset market? Sure.The desktop market? .. Not as much as you'd like to lead us to believe.
Don't kid yourself. The only reason for that is that the genie is already out of the bottle there; if Steve Jobs could exert the same level of control over that, he would.
Yeah, unfortunately Motorola seems hell bent on fucking up their Android installs. The Droid was (and is) fantastic, my phone has no crapware and no restrictions on what I can do. The later models, not so much.
Yeah, but that is what most people mean when they paint Android as being open. Very few people care about the fact that Android is open source, most people care about the fact that it freely allows development.
The difference is that with most Android installations (and indeed, all to my knowledge, but there may be some I haven't heard of), you can install what you want right off the bat. If you don't like the content available on the Android Market, you can check the box to allow you to install non-Market apps. There is absolutely no reason Apple couldn't do this, while still preserve their "user experience".
Thank you for demonstrating why I prefer being single. If I can't have a girlfriend/wife who is laid back about stuff, I won't have one at all.
Bah! I don't care for your silly rew- he catches bubbles, you say?? Tell me more.
First of all, if you're dragging Dell into this (and other PC manufacturers), that's not the terms of the discussion. We're specifically discussing not buying from them. Yes, in those cases you can get quite a bit of grief (in fact, this is why I started building my own PCs rather than buying for my personal use). But you're vastly exaggerating how long completing an RMA takes. I have done it, more than once, in less than 5 minutes for my hardware at home. Generally, if you buy a motherboard (or something similar), the manufacturer is willing to assume you have the competence to troubleshoot yourself (after all, you were competent enough to INSTALL it).
Hell, even with big-box manufacturers you're vastly exaggerating. We use HP at work currently. I registered for an account on their IT resource site (itrc.hp.com), and I can submit cases. I simply say that I need a certain part, they will ship me the part no questions asked a good 60% of the time. The rest of the time, it's just a few quick emails back and forth (that I do during downtime while I wait for other work to finish) where I confirm that yes, I went through the proper troubleshooting steps. Only once, in hundreds of warranty cases, have I had the tech support person waste a lot of my time.
If your suppliers are treating you like that, you need new ones. The suppliers I work with, both for individual parts and for computer systems, know when they are dealing with a competent person and when they're dealing with a clueless user, and know how to calibrate their process accordingly.
How does he do it, folks? Simple! He's fueled by the souls of the damned!
I build my own PCs for home use, I have never had an issue with having to deal with tech support. In my experience, companies who make motherboards and shit assume that if you know enough to buy a motherboard and install it, you can troubleshoot competently.
As someone who sends parts back to HP/Dell for warranty replacements, I can guarantee you that is false. It takes me, as I said, 5 minutes to RMA the part and 5 minutes to pack it in a box and stick it at the front desk to get picked up by UPS (who comes every day). At MOST. The only one of your examples I don't handle is the "chatting with the UPS guy for 10 minutes" part, and he comes every day, so he's gonna chat with her whether we ship parts out or not.
Yeah, you should have no problem with that.
They're far more expensive in terms of price per GB, but cheaper in absolute price. Last time we ordered replacement hard drives at work, 80 GB were at the cheapest price point, but there were also 120 GB for the same price so there was no reason to get the 80.
If that's true, I want to work where you work, because you're paying your techs exorbitant amounts. Let's say you pay $40/hour (which is still high for that job, but I digress). It will take all of 5 minutes of your tech's time (if that) to go to the manufacturer's web site and submit an RMA for that part. Another 5 minutes to pack the old part up and ship it. That means that, even if you pay your techs a hell of a lot of money, their time for one part costs you $6.66. Buying any part new will cost you more than that, so RMA is a good deal. Since you say it's not, I can only conclude that the place you work pays an exorbitant amount of money to their techs.
And that "I know better" attitude is precisely why the university is going to be putting this program in place. To say nothing of the reputation damage, HIPAA violations ain't cheap. So your "this data cost money" argument falls completely flat when doing nothing can cost money as well.
Well, it's technically multi-tiered, although two tiers which are very close in price but vastly different in what you get doesn't fit the spirit of the term "multi-tiered". And they certainly don't "charge bandwidth hogs accordingly", considering that if they did that, they would be charging you for bandwidth at the same rate that you get it on your plan (instead of the crazy jacked-up rates that they actually charge).
All I can think of is that it has something to do with the difference between countably and uncountably infinite. Even so... damn.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. How does that work?