It's because they're completely changing their business model. Pizza Hut is now "The Hut" and they're selling pasta and crap. Radio Shack is going to become "The Shack" and sell pizza. Now we just need to wait for a pasta joint that's going to start selling electronics and the circle will be complete.
meh. The media spends so much time propagating garbage and so little doing background research I enjoy seeing them get owned like this. If you're a little guy trying to get noticed, I see no real harm in using their stupidity to your advantage. Guerrilla marketing ftw!
Regardless of cost it's still incredibly obnoxious having to listen to that crap. Particularly when someone either already has a long message or has gone out of his way to make a short one. Does anyone ever even use those garbage options? Page them? wtf? is this the 90's? If I'd wanted to do that I would have sent him a text.
My second favorite are the menus that start with "Please listen carefully as our options have changed blah blah blah..." It seems, almost invariably, that those messages just become permanent. Someone changes the system and forgets they added that message or never bothers to update it.
Which is why those people are screwed for life. That'll be fun to explain at job interviews with background checks... If you even get a chance to explain. The whole system is so broken it's depressing. I feel sorry for the people that have gotten themselves caught up in it.
I noticed that too... They've taken a few liberties but overall I'm happy to see that they've mostly kept with the original look and feel. It looks incredible while still being true to the unique Tron environment. It's nice to see what you can do now versus then. The lighting on the suits isn't as blown out and the reflections are awesome.
Who cares what it's called!? I've just been given a scientific reason to be shallow! "I'm sorry, I can't date you. I'd be doing our race a disservice. I've got to find someone more attractive."
This is all theoretical of course... it's difficult to procreate via webcam.
They have wear leveling algorithms. Enterprises wouldn't be buying these if they didn't work.
If you're really that worried about it just throw a velociraptor or something in your machine and put your swap file on that and use the SSD for everything else.
I'm just going to go ahead and cut&paste that into craigslist and see if I get any responses. Even if you get a girl that meets 8 out of those 10... you're still well on your way to an awesome time.
I'm not going to say these people are intelligent but what happens when the next shop cracks this thing open and sees solder on there? At that point it seems pretty obvious that the conversation will go something like -
them: Oy! wtf!? Why have you been doing your own soldering work on your laptop?
customer: Why have I been doing what? huh?
them: Soldering! This - right here - why would you do that to your own machine?
customer:.... Those dirty, rat $&@*!(
Usually when a PC has a problem that inhibits operation, it's time for a new one. They've pretty much reached the point that other electronic devices have - repairs cost more in labor than a new one would cost...
If you're doing the repairs yourself what difference does labor make? You're not paying some 16 year old $50 to put in a stick of RAM (5 minutes of work) are you? Now with most laptops if you're out of the warranty and something breaks you're pretty screwed, I will give you that. Those parts are always all proprietary and insanely expensive. If you've got a desktop though, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to keep it going pretty easily for a good 4 or 5 years.
technology advances so fast that finding parts is a problem (that's what happened to the last computer I had to take behind the woodshed).
That may be true if you have to replace the motherboard but everything else is so cheap and plentiful there's no reason not to just replace that dead RAM or dying hard drive. A $20 stick of RAM is a lot cheaper than $1,000 for a new machine.
No wonder those scurvy dogs haven't gotten any work done! They're all busy drinking rum and running down wenches....or messing about on slashdot. Either way - get back to work you lazy pirates!
I agree. I was confused about why you'd bother to clarify that it's not a typo. I realize there are a lot of typos in the summaries but I don't think we all just assume that everything is a typo now.
Seriously. I don't remember how long it took but it always seemed like a/b/g came along fairly quickly. Then n was rumored for a while, then it was finally "drafted" and I got all excited and figured it was only 6 months or a year from being final.... not so much. Here we are 3 and a half years later and I still haven't bothered to buy something based on n because I've been burned too many times by things that don't quite meet the official spec.
Seriously, what about the people that have been sued that don't even own a PC? I'm also pretty sure I remember hearing about a printer being accused of illegal downloads. At this point you might as well download because you're going to get sued for it anyway.
Disclaimer: I don't download music. No, really, I don't. I'm an audio snob and 99% of digital stuff sounds like crap. Unless someone happened to rip the disc in FLAC, I'm not interested!
Actually she's planning on flying overhead in a chopper and shooting it. We she gets bored of that she'll probably upgrade to a flamethrower or a rocket launcher.
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This is just a simple way for geeks to get back their lunch money.
It's because they're completely changing their business model. Pizza Hut is now "The Hut" and they're selling pasta and crap. Radio Shack is going to become "The Shack" and sell pizza. Now we just need to wait for a pasta joint that's going to start selling electronics and the circle will be complete.
meh. The media spends so much time propagating garbage and so little doing background research I enjoy seeing them get owned like this. If you're a little guy trying to get noticed, I see no real harm in using their stupidity to your advantage. Guerrilla marketing ftw!
You can always cut elected official's salaries. I'm not sure that I've ever seen one that I thought was reasonable.
Regardless of cost it's still incredibly obnoxious having to listen to that crap. Particularly when someone either already has a long message or has gone out of his way to make a short one. Does anyone ever even use those garbage options? Page them? wtf? is this the 90's? If I'd wanted to do that I would have sent him a text.
My second favorite are the menus that start with "Please listen carefully as our options have changed blah blah blah..." It seems, almost invariably, that those messages just become permanent. Someone changes the system and forgets they added that message or never bothers to update it.
Which is why those people are screwed for life. That'll be fun to explain at job interviews with background checks... If you even get a chance to explain. The whole system is so broken it's depressing. I feel sorry for the people that have gotten themselves caught up in it.
Possibly. Just stay away from Candy Mountain.
I noticed that too... They've taken a few liberties but overall I'm happy to see that they've mostly kept with the original look and feel. It looks incredible while still being true to the unique Tron environment. It's nice to see what you can do now versus then. The lighting on the suits isn't as blown out and the reflections are awesome.
Yeah, and the reason that George Lucas continues to crap all over Star Wars. :(
Who cares what it's called!? I've just been given a scientific reason to be shallow! "I'm sorry, I can't date you. I'd be doing our race a disservice. I've got to find someone more attractive."
This is all theoretical of course... it's difficult to procreate via webcam.
Oh, you mean like the millions spent on a certain pop star's memorial in LA?
Seriously though, according to TFA it actually affects about 2% of the population. Which seems insane because I've never heard of it before.
They have wear leveling algorithms. Enterprises wouldn't be buying these if they didn't work.
If you're really that worried about it just throw a velociraptor or something in your machine and put your swap file on that and use the SSD for everything else.
I'm just going to go ahead and cut&paste that into craigslist and see if I get any responses. Even if you get a girl that meets 8 out of those 10... you're still well on your way to an awesome time.
6) Release video on Internet
7) ???
8) Profit!!
I'm not going to say these people are intelligent but what happens when the next shop cracks this thing open and sees solder on there? At that point it seems pretty obvious that the conversation will go something like -
.... Those dirty, rat $&@*!(
them: Oy! wtf!? Why have you been doing your own soldering work on your laptop?
customer: Why have I been doing what? huh?
them: Soldering! This - right here - why would you do that to your own machine?
customer:
Usually when a PC has a problem that inhibits operation, it's time for a new one. They've pretty much reached the point that other electronic devices have - repairs cost more in labor than a new one would cost...
If you're doing the repairs yourself what difference does labor make? You're not paying some 16 year old $50 to put in a stick of RAM (5 minutes of work) are you? Now with most laptops if you're out of the warranty and something breaks you're pretty screwed, I will give you that. Those parts are always all proprietary and insanely expensive. If you've got a desktop though, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to keep it going pretty easily for a good 4 or 5 years.
technology advances so fast that finding parts is a problem (that's what happened to the last computer I had to take behind the woodshed).
That may be true if you have to replace the motherboard but everything else is so cheap and plentiful there's no reason not to just replace that dead RAM or dying hard drive. A $20 stick of RAM is a lot cheaper than $1,000 for a new machine.
No wonder those scurvy dogs haven't gotten any work done! They're all busy drinking rum and running down wenches. ...or messing about on slashdot. Either way - get back to work you lazy pirates!
Pipe down clone! You're unnatural!
They'll just release it straight to DVD / Bluray, charge WOW players an extra $30 that month and then send it to them without even asking.
Grammar Nazi party over there ^.
I agree. I was confused about why you'd bother to clarify that it's not a typo. I realize there are a lot of typos in the summaries but I don't think we all just assume that everything is a typo now.
Seriously. I don't remember how long it took but it always seemed like a/b/g came along fairly quickly. Then n was rumored for a while, then it was finally "drafted" and I got all excited and figured it was only 6 months or a year from being final.... not so much. Here we are 3 and a half years later and I still haven't bothered to buy something based on n because I've been burned too many times by things that don't quite meet the official spec.
Yeah, it's like a Venn diagram of celestial bodies. Shame about Europe though... Ah well, I guess the two had to intersect somewhere!
Seriously, what about the people that have been sued that don't even own a PC? I'm also pretty sure I remember hearing about a printer being accused of illegal downloads. At this point you might as well download because you're going to get sued for it anyway.
Disclaimer: I don't download music. No, really, I don't. I'm an audio snob and 99% of digital stuff sounds like crap. Unless someone happened to rip the disc in FLAC, I'm not interested!
That might be interesting but it's so bloody small that you can't read it. Bigger version please AC. Thanks.
Actually she's planning on flying overhead in a chopper and shooting it. We she gets bored of that she'll probably upgrade to a flamethrower or a rocket launcher.