and Samsung will not allow us to replace with a new set, only a refurb set. Someone paying $2500.00 for a set that dies in 20 days get's pissed when we have to give them a refurb. they deserve a brand new set. Out of the last 20 sets installed here, 11 have been replaced for defects. And these are the commercial grade sets not the consumer sets. They have a very high failure rate, and some of the failures are intermittent, like not coming on all the time, or a shutdown when it has a wonky video resolution and refuse to turn back on unless you yank the power plug for 10 minutes.
Samsungs have a really high failure and firmware bug rate. Plus the integration of them in a fully controlled system is a nightmare compared to the others. Even sony is better when it comes to controlling it with crestron or AMX.
Incorrect unless you are talking a 1,000,000 book printing order for a best seller. MOST books published are short runs that are only 10,000 -50,000 printed and can run up to 50% of the cost if there is ANY color pages inside. small cheap paperback with color cover are cheapest and if under 500 pages can be as cheap as 25% of the book cost in shorter runs. This is for crappy Perfectbound and in the typical paperback size called "royal".
I know because I have published 2 books. unless you are a NYT best seller your book printing and shipping charges from publisher and logistics in the warehouse are high.
Lenin was not poor. Everyone in the cabinet in the USSR were not poor.
In fact the poor to rich ratio in the Former U.S.S.R. was pretty darn close to what it is in the United States right now. From where I am standing, Both Communism and what we call Capitalism are 100% identical in screwing the public to favor the top elite.
In fact show me ONE form of government that is fair. Because I cant find one that exists ANYWHERE on this planet.
Choice is available for the rich or the educated. I can easily crack the DRM on their books so their lockdown does not stop me and I am not rich (By USA standards, I'm filthy rich by world standards). Problem is the rich are scared that you can be poor and educated.
Because eventually the poor that get educated will learn they are getting the poop end of the stick.
This is barring systems set in place to distract the poor and make them complacent.
Television, the lottery and welfare are designed to protect the rich from getting killed in their mansions (Yes your 3800sq foot home in an exclusive neighborhood IS a Mansion) by the poor.
Works great. It indexes my 2TB of movies and Tv shows... although I am trimming the TV shows down, no reason to watch season 1 episode 3 of glee more than once.
Plus how often do you REALLY need to sit down and watch " the last 3 Sigoruny Weaver" movies.. you browse by Genre 99.99783% of the time. People all claim they want to search video content by director, actor,etc but in reality they never use that. And yes I know what I am talking about I have installed and helped with several hundred installs ofhttp://www.kaleidescape.com/ media systems... after a year you discover that by title and by genre are the ONLY search methods used. These are owned by people far FAR richer than all of you here on slashdot combined and have very little time to waste.. they dont search by director or actor ever.
Honestly step one is to be realistic about your media organization. Do not go nuts and cross reference on everything...
"Show me all the films that had a Audi R6 in it", "show me all films that were shot on a Tuesday in France when it was raining....."
Honestly I do not log into most websites, so why should they "encrypt it"?
if you are not logging in, then who cares if it's encrypted.
Also I have seen very good login systems that are encrypted from client to server that use a JS client side encryption system and it does not use cookies to keep you logged in. Unfortunately most web developers are lazy and dont do a nice secure non https login and session system. https is the fix for lazy cookie session status.
Not all of them. You can get some android phones that do not have the DRM in the bootloader. I bought a friend a HTC desire from europe and we were able to flash it to google pure and clean android 2.2 without any effort, no drm to work around at all and no sim lock at all.
"Here's why: In the US, the only way to get a phone is through a carrier. "
Correction, for the LAZY that is the only way. LAZY people will not spend time buying a unlocked OEM phone. Or the poor trying to look like rich people by doing the rent to own phone plan.
I buy ALL my phones unlocked out of the box, and yes you can even get a iphone 4 that way out of the box. no they are not cracked by someone, these are phones that are unbranded or for a market that allows freedom instead of fascist dictatorship. A european iphone 4 works perfectly here and is sim unlocked. Nokias are all unlocked as well as many of the android phones.
But doing this takes 1-2 hours in the evening chasing down what I want and having the cash on hand to buy it. But then I also dont go to best buy and listen to the uneducated idiots telling me that i need 640hz 4dtv with hyper led low distortion optics. I research my purchases and make informed buying decisions.
I can kill your iphone's battery in 2 hours not using it.
the iphone sucks when it's on a fringe service area. they get physically hot as they dump all the battery into the transmitter going full boat trying to keep in contact with the marginal cell service tower that is 40 mile away.
But then this will do the same to any other phone. the blackberry I carry also dies withing 2 hours from a full charge in the same location.
N900 is a 3 year old phone. call me when Nokia makes a modern version.... of which they will not because they are now a all Microsoft shop. Nokia's dead man, the body just hasn't stopped moving.
I'm an integrator and I will NOT touch Samsung and LG. Samsung plasmas and LCD's are utter garbage, more returns on those than anything else. LG cant make a set to save their life anymore, they are going back to the Goldstar mentality. Their sets used to have a edid table that had hundreds of entries, now they have 10. no real reason to reduce functionality of the sets other than being douchebags.
Panasonic is the only maker of TV's right now that dont completely suck, and I'm waiting for them to cross over the suckage line shortly.
I get decent quality stuff on the midgrade lenses for the price the optometrist pays.. whenever I get a new set of glasses, I order 3 more sets from this place.
Nothing like having 2 sets of spares and one set of "grunge glasses" to use when getting sweaty or really dirty to keep the expensive nice ones looking new.
Decent anti glare will last forever unless you clean with sandpaper.
The cheap crap that is on the garbage lenses (yes if you paid less than $260.00 a lens your glasses are garbage) does wear off and smear and scratch easily. but the good stuff on the high end super thin lenses is a miracle. I even have the dirt repelling coating and it's amazing how much cleaner the lenses stay.
winning super lotto numbers would be easier to send and cause a larger ripple.
Winner X now has to share winnings with false winner Y, money used will not go the same paths and changes will ripple out. Winner Y's changes would have never happened and ripple could be HUGE if the money was used to change a dramatic event, or tiny if the money was used to buy massive amounts of coke and hookers.
You sent the message, you received the message but did not act on the message and therefore you never sent the message so you would never have received the message to ignore and not send the......AAAAAAGH!
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Failures.
and Samsung will not allow us to replace with a new set, only a refurb set. Someone paying $2500.00 for a set that dies in 20 days get's pissed when we have to give them a refurb. they deserve a brand new set. Out of the last 20 sets installed here, 11 have been replaced for defects. And these are the commercial grade sets not the consumer sets. They have a very high failure rate, and some of the failures are intermittent, like not coming on all the time, or a shutdown when it has a wonky video resolution and refuse to turn back on unless you yank the power plug for 10 minutes.
Samsungs have a really high failure and firmware bug rate. Plus the integration of them in a fully controlled system is a nightmare compared to the others. Even sony is better when it comes to controlling it with crestron or AMX.
Incorrect unless you are talking a 1,000,000 book printing order for a best seller. MOST books published are short runs that are only 10,000 -50,000 printed and can run up to 50% of the cost if there is ANY color pages inside. small cheap paperback with color cover are cheapest and if under 500 pages can be as cheap as 25% of the book cost in shorter runs. This is for crappy Perfectbound and in the typical paperback size called "royal".
I know because I have published 2 books. unless you are a NYT best seller your book printing and shipping charges from publisher and logistics in the warehouse are high.
I do know what the costs are and printing and logistics are 50% of the cost of the book.
Because I can strip the DRM convert it to epub and remove their ability to steal the book back from me.
Every ebook I purchase is cracked and striped of DRM to protect myself.
Lenin was not poor. Everyone in the cabinet in the USSR were not poor.
In fact the poor to rich ratio in the Former U.S.S.R. was pretty darn close to what it is in the United States right now. From where I am standing, Both Communism and what we call Capitalism are 100% identical in screwing the public to favor the top elite.
In fact show me ONE form of government that is fair. Because I cant find one that exists ANYWHERE on this planet.
Choice is available for the rich or the educated. I can easily crack the DRM on their books so their lockdown does not stop me and I am not rich (By USA standards, I'm filthy rich by world standards). Problem is the rich are scared that you can be poor and educated.
Because eventually the poor that get educated will learn they are getting the poop end of the stick.
This is barring systems set in place to distract the poor and make them complacent.
Television, the lottery and welfare are designed to protect the rich from getting killed in their mansions (Yes your 3800sq foot home in an exclusive neighborhood IS a Mansion) by the poor.
Honestly, if Amazon wants to be hostile, out a link on the websites to point users how to crack the DRM and continue lending their books.
Screw amazon if they want to be jerks.
XBMC
Works great. It indexes my 2TB of movies and Tv shows... although I am trimming the TV shows down, no reason to watch season 1 episode 3 of glee more than once.
Plus how often do you REALLY need to sit down and watch " the last 3 Sigoruny Weaver" movies.. you browse by Genre 99.99783% of the time. People all claim they want to search video content by director, actor,etc but in reality they never use that. And yes I know what I am talking about I have installed and helped with several hundred installs ofhttp://www.kaleidescape.com/ media systems... after a year you discover that by title and by genre are the ONLY search methods used. These are owned by people far FAR richer than all of you here on slashdot combined and have very little time to waste.. they dont search by director or actor ever.
Honestly step one is to be realistic about your media organization. Do not go nuts and cross reference on everything...
"Show me all the films that had a Audi R6 in it", "show me all films that were shot on a Tuesday in France when it was raining....."
Honestly I do not log into most websites, so why should they "encrypt it"?
if you are not logging in, then who cares if it's encrypted.
Also I have seen very good login systems that are encrypted from client to server that use a JS client side encryption system and it does not use cookies to keep you logged in. Unfortunately most web developers are lazy and dont do a nice secure non https login and session system. https is the fix for lazy cookie session status.
Because you are not the customer. They do not care about you at all.
At most you are an annoyance.
the carriers are their customer.
Not all of them. You can get some android phones that do not have the DRM in the bootloader. I bought a friend a HTC desire from europe and we were able to flash it to google pure and clean android 2.2 without any effort, no drm to work around at all and no sim lock at all.
"Here's why: In the US, the only way to get a phone is through a carrier. "
Correction, for the LAZY that is the only way. LAZY people will not spend time buying a unlocked OEM phone. Or the poor trying to look like rich people by doing the rent to own phone plan.
I buy ALL my phones unlocked out of the box, and yes you can even get a iphone 4 that way out of the box. no they are not cracked by someone, these are phones that are unbranded or for a market that allows freedom instead of fascist dictatorship. A european iphone 4 works perfectly here and is sim unlocked. Nokias are all unlocked as well as many of the android phones.
But doing this takes 1-2 hours in the evening chasing down what I want and having the cash on hand to buy it. But then I also dont go to best buy and listen to the uneducated idiots telling me that i need 640hz 4dtv with hyper led low distortion optics. I research my purchases and make informed buying decisions.
I can kill your iphone's battery in 2 hours not using it.
the iphone sucks when it's on a fringe service area. they get physically hot as they dump all the battery into the transmitter going full boat trying to keep in contact with the marginal cell service tower that is 40 mile away.
But then this will do the same to any other phone. the blackberry I carry also dies withing 2 hours from a full charge in the same location.
N900 is a 3 year old phone. call me when Nokia makes a modern version.... of which they will not because they are now a all Microsoft shop. Nokia's dead man, the body just hasn't stopped moving.
I'm an integrator and I will NOT touch Samsung and LG. Samsung plasmas and LCD's are utter garbage, more returns on those than anything else. LG cant make a set to save their life anymore, they are going back to the Goldstar mentality. Their sets used to have a edid table that had hundreds of entries, now they have 10. no real reason to reduce functionality of the sets other than being douchebags.
Panasonic is the only maker of TV's right now that dont completely suck, and I'm waiting for them to cross over the suckage line shortly.
Then buy the stuff we use for motorcycle helmets. I use "cat crap" and it's fantastic.
http://www.zennioptical.com/
I get decent quality stuff on the midgrade lenses for the price the optometrist pays.. whenever I get a new set of glasses, I order 3 more sets from this place.
Nothing like having 2 sets of spares and one set of "grunge glasses" to use when getting sweaty or really dirty to keep the expensive nice ones looking new.
Decent anti glare will last forever unless you clean with sandpaper.
The cheap crap that is on the garbage lenses (yes if you paid less than $260.00 a lens your glasses are garbage) does wear off and smear and scratch easily. but the good stuff on the high end super thin lenses is a miracle. I even have the dirt repelling coating and it's amazing how much cleaner the lenses stay.
spit is the least of your worries, you know how much piss and ass matter is in that water?
winning super lotto numbers would be easier to send and cause a larger ripple.
Winner X now has to share winnings with false winner Y, money used will not go the same paths and changes will ripple out. Winner Y's changes would have never happened and ripple could be HUGE if the money was used to change a dramatic event, or tiny if the money was used to buy massive amounts of coke and hookers.
time in YOUR dimension is linear.. Stop forcing your assumptions on the universe!
But that creates a paradox.
You sent the message, you received the message but did not act on the message and therefore you never sent the message so you would never have received the message to ignore and not send the......AAAAAAGH!
But boy you could utterly screw up the timeline by simply piping twitters' raw feed back in time.
Want to see fragmentation??!?! I'll show you fragmentation!
All I know is that we need to just keep Scott Backula away from it.
RUBBER: a sentient tire causes peoples heads to explode... THIS IS A MUST SEE!
Honestly wierd enough to really make you want to see it.