Actually, in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act makes it illegal for any company to void your warranty if you open up a device and repair it yourself, or have a third party do so. Or using third party replacement parts. It covers any item that costs over $15. But since most people don't know this, most companies have gotten away with it.
34 percent of Americans believe it would cost $5,000
What they don't mention is that, that's what the average cost will be per year for ransomware when some teenager in Romania hacks your thermostat and demands payment to turn the heat off in the middle of summer, or it on in the winter. Or the hacker in China that demands payment to stop turning you lights off in the evening, and strobing them while you're trying to sleep.
I have a dedicated theater room in my basement with no windows, 7.2 surround, acoustic treatment, etc.
1. The big screen. There's something to be said about watching visual storytelling on a three-story screen, particularly when the film really takes advantage of the format.
OK, my screen isn't that large, but it takes up as much, or more of my field of vision than what the comfortable viewing distance does at a commercial theater.
2. People everywhere. A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
I have enough room to seat as many people as I care to. And I can throw them out if they annoy me. Plus most of my friends are more enjoyable to watch a move with as they tend to have a similar sense of humor. Do you know how annoying it is to be at a movie and not find dick and fart jokes particularly funny, but then be the only one in the audience to notice a really funny joke?
3. Focus. Even people who try their hardest to give a movie their undivided attention on a living-room screen have fallen victim to temptations like "Well, I'm just sitting here, I might as well pay the electric bill."
I have no lights on when watching a movie, and no easly way of doing bills. If the movie doesn't hold my attention enough that I don't feel like doing bills, it's not worth my time to watch it.
4. Relentlessness. Part of the advantage of that kind of focus is that movies that are tense, scary, or deeply emotional can cast much more of a spell over you when you don't have the option to pause or turn away from the worst, then rewind later to catch it safely out of context.
So it keeps your attention more when you have to miss 5 minutes of it because you need to use the bathroom? Or can't rewind it to catch something that you misunderstood?
And hearing people slurping the last little bit of their gallon drink through a straw during those quiet emotional times really sets the mood.
5. A massive speaker system.
My wife couldn't care less about technology and sound, but the last time I took her to the movies, she actually complained that the sound wasn't as good as at home. That's when I knew I was done upgrading my audio. I usually watch movies with the volume at about 25% of what my system is capable of. I've had it up to 80% without any distortion, but frankly it's not comfortable after 50%. So, in my case, it's the opposite.
6. Previews.
Bluray discs come with previews. I watch them about half of the time when I get a new disc.
7. Disruption. A problem with watching movies at home is that it makes the film-watching experience blur into the same experience as surfing cable channels, running a Netflix comedy show in the background while you do dishes, or half-assedly watching an Adventure Time marathon while stoned.
I don't typically watch TV shows in the theater room. Though I have. When the STTNG boxset was on sale for $60 I bought it. A lot of older shows that were on film, really look great on bluray.
8. Alone time. Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
Excited audience= loud, annoying and disruptive.
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
Yes, a 1500 calorie sugar drink along with a 1000 calorie bucket of popcorn and 800 calorie nachos is just what you want while sitting on your ass for two hours in the dark. I'm pretty sure I could roll a barrel of soda into my basement if I wanted to.
10. Bragging rights.
Bragging rights for what? spending $50 to sit in a sticky seat surrounded by yapping teens on their cell phone while consuming enough calories for the entire day in sugar and fat? Awesome.
Or you could just not get a puppy, I've never seen any other small animal teething or have as many issues as puppies.
Then you haven't owned any small animals or don't have a kid that has had pet rodents. I had ferrets years ago, they can destroy some stuff. My daughter had a pet rat. That thing could shred just about anything non-metal, and be very quick about it. Rodent's teeth continually grow their entire life, so they have to keep them worn. So they will chew on just about anything. Puppies eventually grow up.
...tried to do something different, something bold
...that we do bold work.
So iPhones are all about courage, while Mac Pro is all about being Bold. I'm sensing a theme here. Perhaps their iMacs should have valor, iPad tenacity, and earpods should have balls.
From what I understand the privacy rules set forth by the FCC under president Obama haven't gone into effect yet. So I'm not sure what's changed from what we have today. Granted, it's a crap thing to do, but ISP's have had the ability to do this for as long as they've existed as far as I know.
Hasn't Google and Facebook been monetizing their users in a similar way? And would have been able to continue to do so even if the privacy rules were left in place? If my ISP is going to make money off of me, I should at least get a discount on my monthly bill though. That's the biggest difference I can see. I actually pay my ISP, where I use Google for free.
The Republican party no longer even pretends to give a shit about the poor and middle class
Are you saying they're more honest? Both parties suck. But is it really any better to get fucked over by Democrats that tell you they care about about the poor and middle class? The only time either party really claims to care is during an election cycle when they want your votes and campaign contributions. Once in office, you better grab your ankles no matter which party it is.
There are more than a few Tesla-bashers who complain extensive auto experience that have been saying that selling the base model at even $45k would be barely profitable, if at all.
If there's one thing I learned from the dot com bust; it's if you're losing money on each unit sold, you just need to sell more of them and make it up on volume.;-)
By both revenue and market cap, Costco is roughly 70-80x the size of the golf company. Costco's net income alone is higher than both Acushnet's revenue and their market cap. Costco has essentially unlimited resources available to fight any litigation, meaning this case will be decided on the merits if Costco wants it to be.
I saw a documentary about 10 years ago. Apparently Costco has it's own law-school too.
Yes, the answer to violence is usually more violence.
Unfortunately, in many cases, yes it is. Not everyone on this planet belives in tolerance, or that peace through compromise is a good thing. While I very much wish this wasn't the case, I also understand that wishes are not reality.
Too much Hollywood. I can't be the only person on/. that remembers Aloha Air 243
You're not going to get a large enough explosion out of a device the size of an iPad that's going to blow any where near the 1/3 of the top off of a 737 like there was in that case. That flight was at 24k feet. The only person who was "sucked out" of the plane was a flight attendant who I believe was standing under the part that came off of the plane. There were injuries, but the plane landed. While the pressure is certainly different at high altitude, it's not like these planes are flying in the vacuum of space.
In my area, I cannot get internet only from Comcast/XFinity. "That service is not offered in my area."
You're being lied to. They tried to tell me the same thing too. They also still offer the truly basic cable with 12 or 15 channels too. But you practically have to put the manager in a stranglehold to get them to offer it.
As it stands, I could get some cable plan with 100 channels (or something more) for about $10 more per month more than I'm paying right now, if I bundled it with internet. By bundling them, my internet price literally drops by half (with no special promotional rate). But even at $10 per month, it's simply not worth it for me.
I'd switch to a different ISP, if I could get one that was even close to my current speeds. But there's no other option in my area. So I'm stuck with Comcast.
Actually what's more effective is a failed bombing attempt. It avoids the retaliation, but leave all of the fears, and proves how ineffective the TSA really is. As a bonus, billions of dollars will be spent on ways of detecting how it was done, and it will never have to be tried again.
If the point is to spread terror, the destroying an aircraft seems to be more effective than blowing up a queue. Not only is the visual of an aircraft crashing to the earth more vivid, but it demonstrates that security itself is ineffective.
There is rarely a visual of an aircraft crashing to earth. Frankly, the visual of the aftermath of a small detonation inside a structure looks far more ominous than aircraft debris scattered in the woods. And if it occurs over water, there isn't much to see.
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Humble people may make better business leaders, but that doesn't mean it is true for political leaders
Lincoln and Eisenhower were both considered to be very humble.
Actually, in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act makes it illegal for any company to void your warranty if you open up a device and repair it yourself, or have a third party do so. Or using third party replacement parts. It covers any item that costs over $15. But since most people don't know this, most companies have gotten away with it.
If Cassini smashes into Saturn and later probes find water bears on Enceladus, then that will be historic news
Why? Because they were smart enough to use the escape pods? Or that NASA built water bear escape pods into Cassini in the first place?
34 percent of Americans believe it would cost $5,000
What they don't mention is that, that's what the average cost will be per year for ransomware when some teenager in Romania hacks your thermostat and demands payment to turn the heat off in the middle of summer, or it on in the winter. Or the hacker in China that demands payment to stop turning you lights off in the evening, and strobing them while you're trying to sleep.
Because I could program my light to come on anytime the temperature rises above 72F. I bet your house can't do that.
No, it can't. But why would I want it to?
1. The big screen. There's something to be said about watching visual storytelling on a three-story screen, particularly when the film really takes advantage of the format.
OK, my screen isn't that large, but it takes up as much, or more of my field of vision than what the comfortable viewing distance does at a commercial theater.
2. People everywhere. A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
I have enough room to seat as many people as I care to. And I can throw them out if they annoy me. Plus most of my friends are more enjoyable to watch a move with as they tend to have a similar sense of humor. Do you know how annoying it is to be at a movie and not find dick and fart jokes particularly funny, but then be the only one in the audience to notice a really funny joke?
3. Focus. Even people who try their hardest to give a movie their undivided attention on a living-room screen have fallen victim to temptations like "Well, I'm just sitting here, I might as well pay the electric bill."
I have no lights on when watching a movie, and no easly way of doing bills. If the movie doesn't hold my attention enough that I don't feel like doing bills, it's not worth my time to watch it.
4. Relentlessness. Part of the advantage of that kind of focus is that movies that are tense, scary, or deeply emotional can cast much more of a spell over you when you don't have the option to pause or turn away from the worst, then rewind later to catch it safely out of context.
So it keeps your attention more when you have to miss 5 minutes of it because you need to use the bathroom? Or can't rewind it to catch something that you misunderstood?
And hearing people slurping the last little bit of their gallon drink through a straw during those quiet emotional times really sets the mood.
5. A massive speaker system.
My wife couldn't care less about technology and sound, but the last time I took her to the movies, she actually complained that the sound wasn't as good as at home. That's when I knew I was done upgrading my audio. I usually watch movies with the volume at about 25% of what my system is capable of. I've had it up to 80% without any distortion, but frankly it's not comfortable after 50%. So, in my case, it's the opposite.
6. Previews.
Bluray discs come with previews. I watch them about half of the time when I get a new disc.
7. Disruption. A problem with watching movies at home is that it makes the film-watching experience blur into the same experience as surfing cable channels, running a Netflix comedy show in the background while you do dishes, or half-assedly watching an Adventure Time marathon while stoned.
I don't typically watch TV shows in the theater room. Though I have. When the STTNG boxset was on sale for $60 I bought it. A lot of older shows that were on film, really look great on bluray.
8. Alone time. Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
Excited audience= loud, annoying and disruptive.
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
Yes, a 1500 calorie sugar drink along with a 1000 calorie bucket of popcorn and 800 calorie nachos is just what you want while sitting on your ass for two hours in the dark. I'm pretty sure I could roll a barrel of soda into my basement if I wanted to.
10. Bragging rights.
Bragging rights for what? spending $50 to sit in a sticky seat surrounded by yapping teens on their cell phone while consuming enough calories for the entire day in sugar and fat? Awesome.
Or you could just not get a puppy, I've never seen any other small animal teething or have as many issues as puppies.
Then you haven't owned any small animals or don't have a kid that has had pet rodents. I had ferrets years ago, they can destroy some stuff. My daughter had a pet rat. That thing could shred just about anything non-metal, and be very quick about it. Rodent's teeth continually grow their entire life, so they have to keep them worn. So they will chew on just about anything. Puppies eventually grow up.
The new Mac Pro will grab users by the pussy.
I'm pretty sure someone can claim prior art on that one. ;-)
...we wanted to do something bold
...that we do bold work.
So iPhones are all about courage, while Mac Pro is all about being Bold. I'm sensing a theme here. Perhaps their iMacs should have valor, iPad tenacity, and earpods should have balls.
It worked for Morbius too. The body transplant, not so much.
I should be able to safely hide behind a screen name without my ISP guessing things about my life.
Well it looks like you're in luck. They won't have to guess, they can rummage through everything you do online.
If you ever find a bottle with a genie in it, do yourself a favor, put it back and run away. ;-)
I'm pretty sure I made that point in my last sentence. I don't use Facebook.
From what I understand the privacy rules set forth by the FCC under president Obama haven't gone into effect yet. So I'm not sure what's changed from what we have today. Granted, it's a crap thing to do, but ISP's have had the ability to do this for as long as they've existed as far as I know.
Hasn't Google and Facebook been monetizing their users in a similar way? And would have been able to continue to do so even if the privacy rules were left in place? If my ISP is going to make money off of me, I should at least get a discount on my monthly bill though. That's the biggest difference I can see. I actually pay my ISP, where I use Google for free.
The Republican party no longer even pretends to give a shit about the poor and middle class
Are you saying they're more honest? Both parties suck. But is it really any better to get fucked over by Democrats that tell you they care about about the poor and middle class? The only time either party really claims to care is during an election cycle when they want your votes and campaign contributions. Once in office, you better grab your ankles no matter which party it is.
There are more than a few Tesla-bashers who complain extensive auto experience that have been saying that selling the base model at even $45k would be barely profitable, if at all.
If there's one thing I learned from the dot com bust; it's if you're losing money on each unit sold, you just need to sell more of them and make it up on volume. ;-)
By both revenue and market cap, Costco is roughly 70-80x the size of the golf company. Costco's net income alone is higher than both Acushnet's revenue and their market cap. Costco has essentially unlimited resources available to fight any litigation, meaning this case will be decided on the merits if Costco wants it to be.
I saw a documentary about 10 years ago. Apparently Costco has it's own law-school too.
Yes, the answer to violence is usually more violence.
Unfortunately, in many cases, yes it is. Not everyone on this planet belives in tolerance, or that peace through compromise is a good thing. While I very much wish this wasn't the case, I also understand that wishes are not reality.
Too much Hollywood. I can't be the only person on /. that remembers Aloha Air 243
You're not going to get a large enough explosion out of a device the size of an iPad that's going to blow any where near the 1/3 of the top off of a 737 like there was in that case. That flight was at 24k feet. The only person who was "sucked out" of the plane was a flight attendant who I believe was standing under the part that came off of the plane. There were injuries, but the plane landed. While the pressure is certainly different at high altitude, it's not like these planes are flying in the vacuum of space.
Sounds like you're a bit too familiar with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
Apparently it will be "Lufthansa in the Sky with Diamonds"
I shall name my cuntry Seamenland.
So joining the navy will be compulsory then?
but what aboot Pingu ? does no-one care about Penguins??
I think they're more concerned with Pengwings.
In my area, I cannot get internet only from Comcast/XFinity. "That service is not offered in my area."
You're being lied to. They tried to tell me the same thing too. They also still offer the truly basic cable with 12 or 15 channels too. But you practically have to put the manager in a stranglehold to get them to offer it.
As it stands, I could get some cable plan with 100 channels (or something more) for about $10 more per month more than I'm paying right now, if I bundled it with internet. By bundling them, my internet price literally drops by half (with no special promotional rate). But even at $10 per month, it's simply not worth it for me.
I'd switch to a different ISP, if I could get one that was even close to my current speeds. But there's no other option in my area. So I'm stuck with Comcast.
But the Greek shall inherit the Earth...
usually in plots about 6x6x3'
Actually what's more effective is a failed bombing attempt. It avoids the retaliation, but leave all of the fears, and proves how ineffective the TSA really is. As a bonus, billions of dollars will be spent on ways of detecting how it was done, and it will never have to be tried again.
If the point is to spread terror, the destroying an aircraft seems to be more effective than blowing up a queue. Not only is the visual of an aircraft crashing to the earth more vivid, but it demonstrates that security itself is ineffective.
There is rarely a visual of an aircraft crashing to earth. Frankly, the visual of the aftermath of a small detonation inside a structure looks far more ominous than aircraft debris scattered in the woods. And if it occurs over water, there isn't much to see.