Yes, they are. Otherwise this story wouldn't exist. Why? Because they like money, and don't give a fuck. Of course they should not accept any non-printable characters.
Registrars are pretty much only half a step above the spammers in terms of ethics / shittiness.
1: Nobody with a brain ever fucking paid more than $50 for a game. I don't give a shit if it was Chrono Trigger or some allegedly expensive N64 game. All you had to do was look in the Sunday newspaper, find an ad for the game from some shop listing it for $50, and then take the ad to your retailer of choice for a price match. Invariably there was a shop selling the game for $50, or at least erroneously advertising that they did.
2: Video games are software. The market has fucking exploded since the 80s and 90s. The sheer volume of sales should mean prices would be a fraction of what they were before. While games have gotten more expensive to make, the expensive cartridges are gone, the instruction manuals are black and white, short, and even disappearing, and many games are delivered digitally. The per unit cost of a game has fallen dramatically. If your $100,000,000 game bombs, then perhaps you should have focused on making a good game instead of advertising and hype.
3: "Adjusted for inflation..." is just a bad troll. Until my salary is adjusted for inflation, the phrase is just a fucking insult.
1: I'm not breaking any EULA - I bought retail upgrade keys, not OEM keys.
2: The bullshit h4rrh4r is spreading is bullshit. He refers specifically to the OEM System Builder Kit licenses. These are priced the same as regular OEM licenses, which do NOT have to be resold to others.
Land's End uses the same quality materials and same processes as their competition.
They simply have more.
With regards to WalMart forcing manufacturers to drop prices annually, the trend has simply been to loosen quality control tolerance. This is why WalMart has a ridiculous return policy. They know they're forcing manufacturers to let defective product through. They're banking (correctly) on the majority of people not returning the subpar items.
At WalMart, you can return nearly anything they sell, in any condition. I believe the only exceptions are the obvious ones - alcohol, prescription drugs, and food you bought out of the McDonald's that happens to be in the same building.
Indeed, rejects from shit destined for Land's End or some other label will be sold off to other stores.
You can buy a major label and pay tons of money. Or you can go to WalMart or some such and get the exact same thing for far, far less. Hell, at Ross, you get the exact same items, that were destined to be the exact same brand, you just have to put up with a minor, typically cosmetic, defect.
There's no difference between the clothing industry and the pharmaceutical industry (buying generics), or the cable industry (Monoprice vs retail), or the bottled water industry (filtered tap water vs filtered tap water vs filtered tap water).
Brushed imported Peruvian cotton vs what, exactly? What do you think WalMart uses? (The exact same shit, but it costs less because they're not trying to convince you Peruvian cotton is magical). The machines that take the raw cotton and create useful fabric do the same exact shit your expensive clothes had done to them.
Theory vs reality? Here's some reality. You don't even know that what you're describing is called pilling. You have ZERO knowledge of the textile industry. Your label clothes last longer because you treat them better, and you want to believe they're better.
Google makes money by pushing ads through. Every ad it rejects, every warning it throws up to users, and every advertiser it cuts off, means less money for Google.
We already know it is ABSOLUTELY NOT the case that: "Any ad web site that starts serving malware (either deliberatly or because of a hack) would have their ads removed from display until they fix their site to stop serving malware."
Compromised sites are compromised in the first place because of malicious ads. Their incentives to keep clean are protecting the site itself from denial of service/information theft, and keeping users of the site happy. Indeed, the best way to keep your site safe and secure is to NOT HOST ANY ADS WHATSOEVER.
Making a profit by selling a product is one thing. Using patents to cut everyone else out of the market, giving yourself a monopoly and thus pricing as high as you like is another.
I wouldn't care if they were doing this just with toothbrushes, but when they are doing it with things like medicines it becomes serious.
So basically, you position is: They can sell things for a profit, as long as I can legally copy everything they do. Let them pay for all the billions in R&D, I'll come along and copy the results, and do it for less. Oh, and I don't care for certain things, but for other certain things I do. Basically, I haven no principles - I only care about what personally affects or offends me.
I'm just going to call bullshit on everything you just said.
Land's End and Walmart use the EXACT SAME CHINESE SWEATSHOPS to produce their goods. They use the EXACT SAME MATERIALS. The use the EXACT SAME PROCESS. They likely use the EXACT SAME WORKERS.
How are they really going to prevent it from happening? They can stop it after they know about it, but they couldn't prevent it without requiring human review of every single ad is created.
Protip: Every single fucking ad they push through their network SHOULD BE HUMAN-REVIEWED.
Why do you think the fucking internet is so insecure? 99% of all active shitware originates from MALICIOUS ADS.
There's a difference. Patent advocates are in the business of conspiring against the public to line their own pockets. The FSF represents public interests and has nothing to hide. Crashing the patent troll party makes a much more powerful statement, imo.
So is everybody you buy something from, ever. Protip: People who sell things like to make money.
You should also consider the price of the motherboard. Core i7 motherboards are very expensive.
You should also consider the price of the motherboard upgrade when Intel changes the socket for no fucking reason, with no forward/backward compatibility, every other Tuesday.
I feel more bad for suppliers/retailers who have stuff in stock. When companies semi-announce a future price drop from $800 to sub-$250 that has to kill sales. The only way those vendors/suppliers are going to sell the chips they bought for $800 is to sell them as if they had paid $250. I realize this is an age-old problem with technology, but it just struck me as a startling drop in this case.
Do you really think the stores aren't given plenty of advance notice or buyback offers?
And smaller shops don't order in large enough quantity to be hurt too much, and they don't have customers who know the MSRP of the specific CPU in the PC / parts bundle they're getting.
Core i7-970 processor, which is priced at $885 per 1,000 units
Somebody is marking those things way up by the time they get to my local store.
$899.99 through newegg. With a free piece of shit game no one cares about.
$15 / $885 = 1.7%.
So it's pretty obvious - INTEL is the one marking up these prices. No major shop pays anywhere close to that $885 figure. And no smaller shop has to either if they "just sign here" and agree to flog only Intel chips.
My last few purchases have been Intel chips, because of the whole "Core 2 Duo > Anything AMD has" thing. But the prices have been jacked up sky fucking high, the sockets have changed way too often with no backwards compatibility, and the performance difference isn't all that great.
And don't forget Intel's latest rapejobs: "Yes this chip has virtualization instructions. No you can't use them." "Download an upgrade to your CPU today! Only $49.99!!!"
I'm going back to AMD, and I'm taking everyone I build / recommend for with me.
If I really want my encodes to go faster, I'll buy a dual-socket mobo and drop 2 AMD cpus in there, and still save money.
I find that figure remarkable being as there have only been about 50 million iPhones (counting all generations) sold worldwide, according to Apple's quarterly reports.
Is that it? And Stevie thinks he can contend with Nintendo in the gaming space?
I just assumed it was in the hundreds of millions. EL OH EL.
No, no. You have it all wrong. HTML5 is going to save the internet from bloat and security problems.
Also, with HTML5, videos might play in webages if you have the appropriate codec the site's content was encoded with, and your browser can tap into it properly.
It's just like the tag which worked decades ago, but it's new and therefore magically better.
Slashdot Mirror
Structures are built right side up.
They won't survive if you pick them up from the top.
Shit will break off and fall to the ground.
The building will twist and break in the wind.
People will die.
How about you RTFA?
And registrars are not even allowed to disallow certain characters.
RTFA.
And registrars are not even allowed to disallow certain characters.
Yes, they are. Otherwise this story wouldn't exist.
Why? Because they like money, and don't give a fuck.
Of course they should not accept any non-printable characters.
Registrars are pretty much only half a step above the spammers in terms of ethics / shittiness.
1) Only people without a brain. Like I said, price matching. And yes, on launch day.
2) Market growth has far out-paced production cost increases.
3) Nope.
1: Nobody with a brain ever fucking paid more than $50 for a game. I don't give a shit if it was Chrono Trigger or some allegedly expensive N64 game. All you had to do was look in the Sunday newspaper, find an ad for the game from some shop listing it for $50, and then take the ad to your retailer of choice for a price match. Invariably there was a shop selling the game for $50, or at least erroneously advertising that they did.
2: Video games are software. The market has fucking exploded since the 80s and 90s. The sheer volume of sales should mean prices would be a fraction of what they were before. While games have gotten more expensive to make, the expensive cartridges are gone, the instruction manuals are black and white, short, and even disappearing, and many games are delivered digitally. The per unit cost of a game has fallen dramatically. If your $100,000,000 game bombs, then perhaps you should have focused on making a good game instead of advertising and hype.
3: "Adjusted for inflation..." is just a bad troll. Until my salary is adjusted for inflation, the phrase is just a fucking insult.
1: I'm not breaking any EULA - I bought retail upgrade keys, not OEM keys.
2: The bullshit h4rrh4r is spreading is bullshit. He refers specifically to the OEM System Builder Kit licenses. These are priced the same as regular OEM licenses, which do NOT have to be resold to others.
3: Derp.
Land's End uses the same quality materials and same processes as their competition.
They simply have more.
With regards to WalMart forcing manufacturers to drop prices annually, the trend has simply been to loosen quality control tolerance. This is why WalMart has a ridiculous return policy. They know they're forcing manufacturers to let defective product through. They're banking (correctly) on the majority of people not returning the subpar items.
At WalMart, you can return nearly anything they sell, in any condition. I believe the only exceptions are the obvious ones - alcohol, prescription drugs, and food you bought out of the McDonald's that happens to be in the same building.
Indeed, rejects from shit destined for Land's End or some other label will be sold off to other stores.
You can buy a major label and pay tons of money.
Or you can go to WalMart or some such and get the exact same thing for far, far less. Hell, at Ross, you get the exact same items, that were destined to be the exact same brand, you just have to put up with a minor, typically cosmetic, defect.
There's no difference between the clothing industry and the pharmaceutical industry (buying generics), or the cable industry (Monoprice vs retail), or the bottled water industry (filtered tap water vs filtered tap water vs filtered tap water).
Brushed imported Peruvian cotton vs what, exactly?
What do you think WalMart uses? (The exact same shit, but it costs less because they're not trying to convince you Peruvian cotton is magical). The machines that take the raw cotton and create useful fabric do the same exact shit your expensive clothes had done to them.
Theory vs reality?
Here's some reality.
You don't even know that what you're describing is called pilling.
You have ZERO knowledge of the textile industry.
Your label clothes last longer because you treat them better, and you want to believe they're better.
There is a clear conflict of interest.
Google makes money by pushing ads through.
Every ad it rejects, every warning it throws up to users, and every advertiser it cuts off, means less money for Google.
We already know it is ABSOLUTELY NOT the case that:
"Any ad web site that starts serving malware (either deliberatly or because of a hack) would have their ads removed from display until they fix their site to stop serving malware."
Compromised sites are compromised in the first place because of malicious ads. Their incentives to keep clean are protecting the site itself from denial of service/information theft, and keeping users of the site happy.
Indeed, the best way to keep your site safe and secure is to NOT HOST ANY ADS WHATSOEVER.
Making a profit by selling a product is one thing. Using patents to cut everyone else out of the market, giving yourself a monopoly and thus pricing as high as you like is another.
I wouldn't care if they were doing this just with toothbrushes, but when they are doing it with things like medicines it becomes serious.
So basically, you position is:
They can sell things for a profit, as long as I can legally copy everything they do. Let them pay for all the billions in R&D, I'll come along and copy the results, and do it for less.
Oh, and I don't care for certain things, but for other certain things I do. Basically, I haven no principles - I only care about what personally affects or offends me.
So this is the reason Zen Magnets are out of stock?
I'm just going to call bullshit on everything you just said.
Land's End and Walmart use the EXACT SAME CHINESE SWEATSHOPS to produce their goods. They use the EXACT SAME MATERIALS. The use the EXACT SAME PROCESS. They likely use the EXACT SAME WORKERS.
Rule of Slashdot #0: You and people like you are not representative of the larger population.
That's rule #17.
Rule #0 is http://goat.cx/
How are they really going to prevent it from happening? They can stop it after they know about it, but they couldn't prevent it without requiring human review of every single ad is created.
Protip: Every single fucking ad they push through their network SHOULD BE HUMAN-REVIEWED.
Why do you think the fucking internet is so insecure? 99% of all active shitware originates from MALICIOUS ADS.
There's a difference. Patent advocates are in the business of conspiring against the public to line their own pockets. The FSF represents public interests and has nothing to hide. Crashing the patent troll party makes a much more powerful statement, imo.
So is everybody you buy something from, ever.
Protip: People who sell things like to make money.
3- The AMD motherboards are more likely to work with future CPUs (Intel has already changed sockets between Nehalem and Sandy Bridge... again).
It's been "tock-tock-tock" from Intel, instead of "tick-tock-tick". Stop changing the fucking socket you tools!
You should also consider the price of the motherboard. Core i7 motherboards are very expensive.
You should also consider the price of the motherboard upgrade when Intel changes the socket for no fucking reason, with no forward/backward compatibility, every other Tuesday.
That's all very well, but how many bangs could a bangbuck buck if a bangbuck could bang bucks?
Between 0 and infinity.
If a bangbuck could buck bangs, then it would be between 1 and infinity.
I feel more bad for suppliers/retailers who have stuff in stock. When companies semi-announce a future price drop from $800 to sub-$250 that has to kill sales. The only way those vendors/suppliers are going to sell the chips they bought for $800 is to sell them as if they had paid $250. I realize this is an age-old problem with technology, but it just struck me as a startling drop in this case.
Do you really think the stores aren't given plenty of advance notice or buyback offers?
And smaller shops don't order in large enough quantity to be hurt too much, and they don't have customers who know the MSRP of the specific CPU in the PC / parts bundle they're getting.
That's for sure.
From TFA:
Somebody is marking those things way up by the time they get to my local store.
$899.99 through newegg.
With a free piece of shit game no one cares about.
$15 / $885 = 1.7%.
So it's pretty obvious - INTEL is the one marking up these prices. No major shop pays anywhere close to that $885 figure. And no smaller shop has to either if they "just sign here" and agree to flog only Intel chips.
My last few purchases have been Intel chips, because of the whole "Core 2 Duo > Anything AMD has" thing. But the prices have been jacked up sky fucking high, the sockets have changed way too often with no backwards compatibility, and the performance difference isn't all that great.
And don't forget Intel's latest rapejobs:
"Yes this chip has virtualization instructions. No you can't use them."
"Download an upgrade to your CPU today! Only $49.99!!!"
I'm going back to AMD, and I'm taking everyone I build / recommend for with me.
If I really want my encodes to go faster, I'll buy a dual-socket mobo and drop 2 AMD cpus in there, and still save money.
Then stop being WRONG.
OEM licenses sold by Newegg, etc. are NOT restricted to PCs destined for resale.
You're talking SPECIFICALLY abou tthe OEM System Builder Kit Licenses.
You've copy-pastad that post several times, yet you're just flat out wrong, and you've been called out on it by other posters.
I find that figure remarkable being as there have only been about 50 million iPhones (counting all generations) sold worldwide, according to Apple's quarterly reports.
Is that it?
And Stevie thinks he can contend with Nintendo in the gaming space?
I just assumed it was in the hundreds of millions.
EL OH EL.
No, no. You have it all wrong.
HTML5 is going to save the internet from bloat and security problems.
Also, with HTML5, videos might play in webages if you have the appropriate codec the site's content was encoded with, and your browser can tap into it properly.
It's just like the tag which worked decades ago, but it's new and therefore magically better.
And I got a Windows 7 Home Premium key, AND a Windows 7 Professional key, for $30.
What's your point? That it costs too much to use Windows according to the license? Then don't use it.