1) You talk to the manufacturer about what you want it to do and the price point for manufacturing. They build your device and you sell it with your branding on it.
2) You talk to someone who had a manufacturer make a product for them. You tell them your price point and they rebrand some stock for you.
3) You are a manufacturer and you've decided to make a product of your own. You decide on a price point and hope your product is accepted over everyone else.
With the above information you can help yourself buy an identical (or superior) product at a lower cost by finding out that your Somy or Tobisha product is actually made by Samyung, and it just so happens that the Samyung costs 20% less than its competitors. This is extremely evident in PSUs (power supply units, look it up) and products like Apple PCs (that are made by Foxconn).
Of course, not all manufacturers sell competing products and even if they do, that doesn't necessarily mean they compete at the same level as the companies they manufacture for. An example would be "Gaming" PSU products being manufactured for a company but the manufacturer only sells server grade power supplies or "non-gaming" power supplies. Another one would be a budget product dealer's products being manufactured by a manufacturer that only sells high grade products under its brand.
After knowing all of this, there could also be a situation where the manufacturer has other child businesses to sell lower grade products or products that require a different image (one for gaming, one for shit that blows up, one for server stuff). This helps them keep the public's opinion focused on the brand of the product they bought, instead of the manufacturer and the manufacturer's other products.
Coming back to LCD TVs and monitors, you essentially have a very small amount of manufacturers making products to spec for a wide range of markets, mostly for other companies. Since the public is mentally challenged, the market is becoming more focused on shit products and mass production of low quality TN panels for the lowest price possible. At this point, it's hard to find a good quality (or I should say, higher quality) product without paying a fortune for it. Other than Sony's hideous method of displaying their pixels, every other display is essentially the same. The only differences come down to how much of a profit each company wants to make from their sales and how much their brand's image is worth (how long they plan to use that brand before closing down and opening again with a new name).
A full tower can fit many hard drives. My PC-V2100A can fit 12. A mid tower can fit around 6 drives. I really don't see the issue, though. He can just put more 3TB HDD inside of or around his case. He could even build a $200 PC, that's probably 20 times better than his current PC, and throw in a few hundred dollars worth of HDD.
Of course, he's retarded for even considering buying a hard drive at this time. He could wait until the price fixing is over in a few months and get 3TB HDDs for $150, instead of the $400 they are selling them for now.
MKV is used because it's currently the best container, there's nothing else to it. With the dumb shit you are saying, you obviously have no clue about the state of the technology.
He's not interested in who has their sites up, because they all should. He's interested in who is going to keep them up.
If every site that he's encountered as being "suspended" was using HostGator, that means he can't trust them to keep a site up. If he had seen other hosts with the same problem, especially if there were as many from other hosts, he wouldn't have found HostGator's suspended sites as peculiar.
Simple: I've never dealt with any other companies where I have paid an invoice and their system doesn't register it. Ever. ChimeHost and ServerAxis both had that problem. I tried them one after another. Their tech support is also identical. Retarded. They sound like outsourced Indian tech support that answer the phone (or emails) for multiple businesses in unrelated industries and just give out the stock replies they've been told to give.
I'm actually fairly certain that I tried to use Burst.NET as well and, although they weren't as bad as the above two, they were still useless in that they had broken install images, bad networking and generally crappy prices for the quality of their service.
If we come back to ChimeHost and ServerAxis in regards to price, they are infinitely way overpriced considering that they are shitty resellers of other shitty companies. If their tech support really isn't outsourced, it just goes to show how bad their real employees are.
I would go so far as to suggest using FDC Servers over any of the others I've mentioned in these two posts.
Wowie you are a retard. Test it on myself? No problem. No change after eating a bunch of sugar. Have you seen that 60% of the population that's obese? According to you, they wouldn't be obese. They wouldn't have been able to sit down after drinking their 2L bottle of Coke and would have burned off their excess calories. Children act crazy all of the time. They don't need sugar to do so. Sugar never affected my mood when I was a child and it doesn't now.
Maybe you need to hang out with some children to see how they normally act, without sugar. Well, maybe not, it might not be a good idea to have you near children at all.
DreamHost VPS is not a good deal. You must have a regular account with them ($9/m?) and then you are paying on top of that for the VPS. It gets expensive - especially since, at least back when they first released it, their VPS needed 2GB RAM to run Apache with no load. It was essentially unusable unless you were running lighttpd and rebooted it every so often. They may have fixed those issues in the last couple of years, but they are still way overpriced compared to hosts that won't go down every so often.
Now, when it comes to using DH shared services you are getting what you pay for. They are totally managed and highly customized. Even being as managed as they are, you can still connect with SSH or FTP (if you don't disable FTP) and do pretty much anything that doesn't require root access. The downside, of course, is that they do have issues with downtime and other users running scripts that kill your server until DH staff notices. Their unlimited* service is also as unlimited as it says. Outside of abuse issues, such as using it as a file host for your warez, or running a script that uses 90% CPU constantly, you can use it as you wish.
I should also mention that they do things by the book. Babbies sending them emails about their copyrighted pictures being on your website get ignored without a DMCA notice. If they do get a DMCA notice, they will properly contact you to handle the issue.
I could not agree more about OpenVZ. More importantly, though, is to stay away from providers that only provide OpenVZ. For example, a friend of mine signed up to ThrustVPS after I went on about how amazing their KVM server is, and he got a VZ server. As far as I can tell, that server works just as well as mine. I made a post earlier about blacklisted providers, just search the page for "blacklist". From what i can remember, those hosts only provide OpenVZ servers.
Aww, you gave it away. They are definitely the best, especially considering the price! The last time I checked, they didn't have many servers left. If you want to get on the train, get your ticket now!
If you want a good link and servers that won't blow up with your data, you pay. Linode is expensive, but you can trust it with your important data. I can only assume that your data is not important at all.
They handle a shit load over there at DreamHost. They have California government contracts, as a simple example. Their service is superb for their shared hosting. You don't put an important site on it, is all. They have had huge issues in the past but as far as I can tell, the last couple of years haven't had anything big. The biggest problem they have right now (actually, it's always been a problem) is other users running bullshit and killing your server for however long it's running. When something goes wrong at DH, you MUST put in a ticket as soon as you notice. You might not get an instant response, but you also get a discount on your next rebill for the amount of time the ticket lasted), and you might be getting them informed of the issue before they would have normally noticed it.
You should be ashamed of yourself for giving out bad advice.
Do NOT use FDC Servers. They are horrible. They are totally incompetent when it comes to keeping your VPS running. Your node will always be down and they will NOT notify you. Their staff is full of imbeciles. You will have to wait hours, if not days, for your server to come back up. They will have network connectivity issues for weeks and will not inform anyone. I don't think they even have a service outage/info page because it would be full of new updates of outages every day.
The below providers are blacklisted, especially since most of them are incompetent resellers of another provider and their billing software license is expired (either that or they are super extremely incompetent). You will not get a refund from these fools after you realize that you can't access your servers for no reason other than their links are broken because they are idiots. Of course, because their billing software is broken, or they are so totally useless as humans, if you pay with PayPal you will be able to put in a dispute and the idiots won't even reply. Probably because their mail servers are broken, or maybe they lost their passwords and are too stupid to figure out how to reset them.
DO NOT USE THESE PROVIDERS:
ChimeHost
ServerAxis
FDCServers
Profuse Solutions brands
There are more that I went through, but I can't remember them all.
What edit war? That topic was taken care of years ago, afaik. The article was fixed up, but for all I know, it could be slanted away from neutral again.
So, what are you disagreeing with? Are you saying that people don't claim articles as their own and they don't revert any new edits? That's what happens. It happens a lot. The circumcision article is a classic example of that happening.
Someone pro-mutilation comes in and edits the article how he wants it, to feel better about his situation, and reverts any edit made (edits that include citations) by opposing views. When someone decides to take it through the proper channels to expose the "owner" of the article, the owner brings in his e-friends to vote in his favour, regardless of how many citations/sources are provided, and the owner gets his way.
It's not like any of this is new. There are websites dedicated to this crap. There are multiple/. articles regarding this topic.
That the average iPhone/iPad owner probably has more money than the average smartphone owner is not news.
Actually, that is news. From the articles that have been posted in the past, it seems more like Apple product owners are constantly overdrawn due to their lack of sense and lack of money.
That's interesting because the SanDisk Sansa Clip, which is a highly recommended product, is only $40 and it has everything working great for it.
Also interesting because you can get a huge selection of Cowon PMP, which are infinitely more powerful and useful than any Apple product, for much less than the cost of an Apple product.
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1) You talk to the manufacturer about what you want it to do and the price point for manufacturing. They build your device and you sell it with your branding on it.
2) You talk to someone who had a manufacturer make a product for them. You tell them your price point and they rebrand some stock for you.
3) You are a manufacturer and you've decided to make a product of your own. You decide on a price point and hope your product is accepted over everyone else.
With the above information you can help yourself buy an identical (or superior) product at a lower cost by finding out that your Somy or Tobisha product is actually made by Samyung, and it just so happens that the Samyung costs 20% less than its competitors. This is extremely evident in PSUs (power supply units, look it up) and products like Apple PCs (that are made by Foxconn).
Of course, not all manufacturers sell competing products and even if they do, that doesn't necessarily mean they compete at the same level as the companies they manufacture for. An example would be "Gaming" PSU products being manufactured for a company but the manufacturer only sells server grade power supplies or "non-gaming" power supplies. Another one would be a budget product dealer's products being manufactured by a manufacturer that only sells high grade products under its brand.
After knowing all of this, there could also be a situation where the manufacturer has other child businesses to sell lower grade products or products that require a different image (one for gaming, one for shit that blows up, one for server stuff). This helps them keep the public's opinion focused on the brand of the product they bought, instead of the manufacturer and the manufacturer's other products.
Coming back to LCD TVs and monitors, you essentially have a very small amount of manufacturers making products to spec for a wide range of markets, mostly for other companies. Since the public is mentally challenged, the market is becoming more focused on shit products and mass production of low quality TN panels for the lowest price possible. At this point, it's hard to find a good quality (or I should say, higher quality) product without paying a fortune for it. Other than Sony's hideous method of displaying their pixels, every other display is essentially the same. The only differences come down to how much of a profit each company wants to make from their sales and how much their brand's image is worth (how long they plan to use that brand before closing down and opening again with a new name).
A full tower can fit many hard drives. My PC-V2100A can fit 12. A mid tower can fit around 6 drives. I really don't see the issue, though. He can just put more 3TB HDD inside of or around his case. He could even build a $200 PC, that's probably 20 times better than his current PC, and throw in a few hundred dollars worth of HDD.
Of course, he's retarded for even considering buying a hard drive at this time. He could wait until the price fixing is over in a few months and get 3TB HDDs for $150, instead of the $400 they are selling them for now.
MKV is used because it's currently the best container, there's nothing else to it. With the dumb shit you are saying, you obviously have no clue about the state of the technology.
He's not interested in who has their sites up, because they all should. He's interested in who is going to keep them up.
If every site that he's encountered as being "suspended" was using HostGator, that means he can't trust them to keep a site up. If he had seen other hosts with the same problem, especially if there were as many from other hosts, he wouldn't have found HostGator's suspended sites as peculiar.
Simple: I've never dealt with any other companies where I have paid an invoice and their system doesn't register it. Ever. ChimeHost and ServerAxis both had that problem. I tried them one after another. Their tech support is also identical. Retarded. They sound like outsourced Indian tech support that answer the phone (or emails) for multiple businesses in unrelated industries and just give out the stock replies they've been told to give.
I'm actually fairly certain that I tried to use Burst.NET as well and, although they weren't as bad as the above two, they were still useless in that they had broken install images, bad networking and generally crappy prices for the quality of their service.
If we come back to ChimeHost and ServerAxis in regards to price, they are infinitely way overpriced considering that they are shitty resellers of other shitty companies. If their tech support really isn't outsourced, it just goes to show how bad their real employees are.
I would go so far as to suggest using FDC Servers over any of the others I've mentioned in these two posts.
... my account at a different registrar, that is.
You can transfer it into my account for free.
Yeah, that makes sense. Oh wait, it doesn't.
Wowie you are a retard. Test it on myself? No problem. No change after eating a bunch of sugar. Have you seen that 60% of the population that's obese? According to you, they wouldn't be obese. They wouldn't have been able to sit down after drinking their 2L bottle of Coke and would have burned off their excess calories. Children act crazy all of the time. They don't need sugar to do so. Sugar never affected my mood when I was a child and it doesn't now.
Maybe you need to hang out with some children to see how they normally act, without sugar. Well, maybe not, it might not be a good idea to have you near children at all.
You won't eat blood but you'll drink the pus and [unhealthy] bacteria in the milk? You'd rather have osteoporosis over eating some blood?
DreamHost VPS is not a good deal. You must have a regular account with them ($9/m?) and then you are paying on top of that for the VPS. It gets expensive - especially since, at least back when they first released it, their VPS needed 2GB RAM to run Apache with no load. It was essentially unusable unless you were running lighttpd and rebooted it every so often. They may have fixed those issues in the last couple of years, but they are still way overpriced compared to hosts that won't go down every so often.
Now, when it comes to using DH shared services you are getting what you pay for. They are totally managed and highly customized. Even being as managed as they are, you can still connect with SSH or FTP (if you don't disable FTP) and do pretty much anything that doesn't require root access. The downside, of course, is that they do have issues with downtime and other users running scripts that kill your server until DH staff notices. Their unlimited* service is also as unlimited as it says. Outside of abuse issues, such as using it as a file host for your warez, or running a script that uses 90% CPU constantly, you can use it as you wish.
I should also mention that they do things by the book. Babbies sending them emails about their copyrighted pictures being on your website get ignored without a DMCA notice. If they do get a DMCA notice, they will properly contact you to handle the issue.
DH are good guys in the business.
I could not agree more about OpenVZ. More importantly, though, is to stay away from providers that only provide OpenVZ. For example, a friend of mine signed up to ThrustVPS after I went on about how amazing their KVM server is, and he got a VZ server. As far as I can tell, that server works just as well as mine. I made a post earlier about blacklisted providers, just search the page for "blacklist". From what i can remember, those hosts only provide OpenVZ servers.
Aww, you gave it away. They are definitely the best, especially considering the price! The last time I checked, they didn't have many servers left. If you want to get on the train, get your ticket now!
If you want a good link and servers that won't blow up with your data, you pay. Linode is expensive, but you can trust it with your important data. I can only assume that your data is not important at all.
They handle a shit load over there at DreamHost. They have California government contracts, as a simple example. Their service is superb for their shared hosting. You don't put an important site on it, is all. They have had huge issues in the past but as far as I can tell, the last couple of years haven't had anything big. The biggest problem they have right now (actually, it's always been a problem) is other users running bullshit and killing your server for however long it's running. When something goes wrong at DH, you MUST put in a ticket as soon as you notice. You might not get an instant response, but you also get a discount on your next rebill for the amount of time the ticket lasted), and you might be getting them informed of the issue before they would have normally noticed it.
Wow, they are nearly completely sold out of KVM servers. I might have to get one of their few UK servers that they have left.
See here about why you should not even load FDC's page
Stick with Linode for now.
You should be ashamed of yourself for giving out bad advice.
Do NOT use FDC Servers. They are horrible. They are totally incompetent when it comes to keeping your VPS running. Your node will always be down and they will NOT notify you. Their staff is full of imbeciles. You will have to wait hours, if not days, for your server to come back up. They will have network connectivity issues for weeks and will not inform anyone. I don't think they even have a service outage/info page because it would be full of new updates of outages every day.
The below providers are blacklisted, especially since most of them are incompetent resellers of another provider and their billing software license is expired (either that or they are super extremely incompetent). You will not get a refund from these fools after you realize that you can't access your servers for no reason other than their links are broken because they are idiots. Of course, because their billing software is broken, or they are so totally useless as humans, if you pay with PayPal you will be able to put in a dispute and the idiots won't even reply. Probably because their mail servers are broken, or maybe they lost their passwords and are too stupid to figure out how to reset them.
DO NOT USE THESE PROVIDERS:
ChimeHost
ServerAxis
FDCServers
Profuse Solutions brands
There are more that I went through, but I can't remember them all.
You are bad at guessing. Stop that.
What edit war? That topic was taken care of years ago, afaik. The article was fixed up, but for all I know, it could be slanted away from neutral again.
Yes, I've also made spelling corrections, on low profile articles, that were reverted within 30 seconds.
So, what are you disagreeing with? Are you saying that people don't claim articles as their own and they don't revert any new edits? That's what happens. It happens a lot. The circumcision article is a classic example of that happening.
/. articles regarding this topic.
Someone pro-mutilation comes in and edits the article how he wants it, to feel better about his situation, and reverts any edit made (edits that include citations) by opposing views. When someone decides to take it through the proper channels to expose the "owner" of the article, the owner brings in his e-friends to vote in his favour, regardless of how many citations/sources are provided, and the owner gets his way.
It's not like any of this is new. There are websites dedicated to this crap. There are multiple
That the average iPhone/iPad owner probably has more money than the average smartphone owner is not news.
Actually, that is news. From the articles that have been posted in the past, it seems more like Apple product owners are constantly overdrawn due to their lack of sense and lack of money.
That's interesting because the SanDisk Sansa Clip, which is a highly recommended product, is only $40 and it has everything working great for it.
Also interesting because you can get a huge selection of Cowon PMP, which are infinitely more powerful and useful than any Apple product, for much less than the cost of an Apple product.
There are a huge amount of [good] registrars out there. dynadot.com is one example.