"When you buy dvd, you own it and should be able to do anything with it, because you paid for it. When it comes to youtube, you didn't pay anything, but the bandwidth and the servers Google uses aren't for free. They need to be able to generate revenue somehow."
Not quite. You only own a license with a dvd, as claims the dvd makers and you "agree" to uphold that revenue stream when you break the package on the dvd. Your second point is laughable. Google does not have a right to profit. If they don't want people to view their content for free, they can put it behind a paywall like plenty of other sites.
Google is the new M$. Except that they don't fall over their own feet when they are trying to be evil and actually succeed at it, unlike m$ ever did. How so many smart people have been brainwashed to think an advertising company has their best interests at heart is the most interesting story of the last decade. They read your email, know all your searches, and have web bugs on like 90% of web pages out there. And you as an end user are not their client at all.
M$ is on our side, the consumers, this time. The enemy of mine enemy, is my friend.
You are claiming that whatever life down there has 0% chance of interacting with us in any way, possibly harmfully?
How could you possibly know so much about unknown life. You can't. You can't say the possibility of it interacting with some form of life is non exsistent. Especially if you believe in panspermia, that all life in the universe will be somewhat similar because it has somewhat similar origins.
"Everybody hates it and everybody uses it? That doesn't make any sense."
OIL, Coal, Microsoft Windows, inkjet printers, Fiat Currencies, cable television, pop with glucose/fructose. There are lots of things that people don't like, but merely put up with because they do not have (or perceive to have) a better alternative.
With a wife and child I have no problem doing everything online. We have never had cable. My wife is just about as non technical as a person can get but she has no problem using boxee to watch shows which have been auto downloaded through rss feeds. She also has no problem after i showed her, downloading torrents and finding them in a mapped network share. My son watches primarily youtube. No one watches any ads, which is the biggest reason I gave up cable over 12 years ago now.
You should give your family more credit, especially the kids. People can easily learn to click a few different buttons. There are plenty of media centre softwares that make it super easy, such as plex.
The only thing you mention which is not surmountable is sports programming which thankfully no one in my family has any interest in.
Because if its java you are at the best unknowledgable. Users generally don't have a clue that java is what they use to communicate with their office over a remote access appliance. However they do know that they took their computer to "some guy" and now they can't connect to their work network anymore and I have to clean up the mess you made.
Please only fix what is actually broken on a customers machine and don't put your own personal biases of what is "necessary" software into the equation. You obviously don't know what users do, and even THEY do not even know what they do or need. You should at least know THAT!
"I have CS6. If they came out with CS7, I'd probably wait a year (or longer) before buying it, because CS6 does everything I need. "
Ah but you mis understand how these adobe "upgrades" work. Every year or if lucky 2, they come out with a new version which is pretty much the same*. The reason why companies have to upgrade is that newer files which you would recieve from various external people (other companies) start to come in the newest format. Adobe in their wi$dom, does not preserve backwards compatibility. So if you want to read files that your printing house, corporate partnet or whatever sends you, you need to upgrade. Generally I get through about half a year (if that) before graphics department is begging to buy the new software as more and more external companies upgrade. A vicious cycle.
Been this way for years. Otherwise we would still be using cs3 or an even earlier version.
*disclaimer, I only install and purchase the software and don't use much besides premiere, but i see mostly only cosmetic differences and feature updates which could easily be a small patch, so I think the statement is valid.
"Note that this is a problem of closed source in general "
Um no, its a problem with ALL software. However cloud apps are the worst as they measure lifetimes in months and are not depending on the os becoming obsolete for the application to be obsolete.
While I agree with your sentiment, open source software, to a non developer (read 95% of people) is just as useless. If oracle decides to stop supporting mysql, how is a non programmer supposed to find and fix security problems for instance? So any non programmer has to move to a new system anyways.
Sure in theory, you have more options with OSS, such as hiring a programmer. In practice, it is usually cheaper to get a new system rather than hobble along with the old. But of course that all depends.
"Considering supply and demand, programmer salaries are too low. Ask for a raise today."
Which reinforces my point. Not everyone can afford to pay programmers, and they are not as wide spread as you make them out to be. I still have no control if someone hands me a pile of code. It might as well be ancient olmec to someone who cant afford a programmers salary or contract.
"There is little difference between extreme right wing and extreme left wing"
Well americans have never elected ralph nader so they never really had a chance to see an extreme left wing position. Even he wouldn't be "extreme" to a country like france.
Obama is at best, centre right. But I am sure you already know that as you rightly complain that obamacare is far inferior to 100% publicly funded healthcare for 100% of citizens, which is really the only real alternative. The american system for sure needs to be scrapped in favour of a national healthcare system available to everyone with no fees, as most other 1st world countries have.
So this is based on the what, 70 years of nuclear power? Spent nuclear fuel lasts for 10,000-100,000 years. How could you possibly average all the possible future effects of this. Its unknowable!
What if in 40,000 years, the spent nuclear fuel kills all of humanity? I guess we go back in time and adjust our forecast so that nuclear = infinity deaths per tw/h?
With nuclear you are creating pollution which will most likely last thousands of generations. At least with carbon products, give it a few hundred or thousand years and nature will clean it all up. Its an order of magnitude greater time scale for nature to clean the spent nuclear fuel. Not to mention people using it for weapons on purpose. People who advocate nuclear power never think of the big picture. That waste isn't going any where for a very long time.
"Like most, if not all other enviromental*sic* efforts, it's all about talk and symbolism, and very nearly nothing about actually doing the math..."
That is because the average person cannot in any way dent trans oceanic shipping burning bunker oil, or stop the americans and chinese from burning tonnes of coal per second. Of course its symbolic. Symbols are the only way for the average person to focus in on these earth sized problems. Christmas does not bring "good will to all mankind", however it may be enough to focus in on goodwill in your own life. Thus symbolism can bring a certain focus on the individual level to get people thinking about all the energy we use every day and what it would be like if it one day shut off / became unaffordable and we really did have to go without.
Symbolism is very important here precisely because we cannot do anything meaningful on an individual level to combat global climate change. It's all we have. I have never believed that one person giving up their car, or consuming no boxed foods makes a difference globally. I do not think that actual reduction in emissions is the idea behind earth hour. I think people that make that judgement are missing the point of it. Same as "buy nothing" day. Stuff will still get bought by someone, that's not the point, its symbolic. *flame hat on*
Unless you are a console developer, I would say [citation needed]. I switched to AMD cards a few years ago as all the nvidia cards I was buying crapped out after a year or less and i was sick of it. My ATI/amd cards on the other hand have been rock solid for the last few years. I think the last decent NVIDIA card I owned was an 8800, and even then the fan eventually died and the manufacturer didnt honour the double lifetime warranty as they went out of business (BFG).
Sure 10 years ago, ati drivers sucked, but don't let your biases carry forward 10 years. Catalyst control centre has gotten a lot better, and I have had zero issues with my 6750 in the two years ive owned it. Not to mention lots of other cheaper cards purchased for work. I only buy ATI now, after being brand loyal to nvidia since the geforce 256.
Plus they had all those horrible problems with solder reflow, where you have to bake your card to fix it. Then there was the horrible mess that they made of chipsets like the 780i, with similar problems. The moral of all that was that nvidia cant even get their solder forumla right! which ended up forcing them to exit the chipset business (thank god).
Windows 7 is a perfectly fine OS, as was win2k. What the heck would you stick them on? oh so user friendly and compatible linux? An overpriced quick to obsolete and oozing with vendor lock in apple device?
Its sad to say, but if openness and compatibility are your main concerns, windows is the way to go. I really would like to push linux on something other than servers but its not 100% compatible on the desktop, or even philosophically trying to be these days. Most peoples moms are not nerds, so your outdated prejudice does not apply either.
Well thats probably becuase you were using OCZ crap. I have never had a quality product from that company.
However that said, I have noticed the same thing with the crucial m4s I have. In one particular laptop, it keeps bricking drives becuase the battery doesnt hold much of a charge any more. Luckily, i can "unbrick" them by plugging in the power (but not data) for 20 minutes, then plugging in the data connection, then rebooting the machine. Has worked more than once.
and crucial has put out a bunch of firmwares trying to deal with this. Last time it happened was a few months ago. I have aprox 15 other drives deployed and it only happens to one or two of them, seems to always be in laptops or after some sort of power surge. Crucial will always RMA the drive as well the one or two times i did not get it going.
And before anyone says "why thats why I dont use SSDs, too new and unstable!" I say that I would not give up my SSD for all the scsi 15ks in the world. SSDs are the single greatest speed increase in computer performance in the last 15 years. Make backups, as you should anyways, and dont be afraid of ssds. When you fly close to the sun, you are going to get burned. Still I would rather FLY so high and roll the dice on reliability (which is still stellar in most circumstances).
Rotational hard drives are such a pain now as an OS drive, and they still die eventually. I recommend SSDs to everyone now, with the caveat above that you always need good backups.
"Anyone who can watch 5 minutes of Top Gear without realising it is a sitcom couldn't afford a Tesla anyway"
So I have never even watched "5 minutes" of the show. However anecdotally, I have heard about a few of their episodes. Such as the one where they took a toyota sr5 and basically left it in the ocean overnight. Replaced the oil, and it started up fine. This was used by several people for the justification of purchase of that particular truck, and I won't lie, got me thinking of looking around for one too.
So one need not even watch the show to be poisoned by its lies. I had no idea it was fake till the news article / lawsuit the other day where the shows people admitted it was "entertainment". How could you trust a review show after that? The way people speak so fondly of top gear, I had assumed it was a hardcore review show that really did their homework. Now I guess I think its a bunch of fakers ala fox news, which I also never watch and yet have formed an opinion on.
This is about liable, not how awesome you think the show is. Clearly the tesla brand will be damaged by a popular show "pretending" that the car sucks. The new york times article is even worse because it seems to have been done by an oil industry shill, who should obviously be fired or at the very least, never trusted to do a review ever again.
"As much as I despise the Bush administrations, they are out of power, "
Does that mean a get out of jail free card for other "retired" dictators around the world?
So in your view, someone like bush or pinochet can kill hundreds of thousands and then just get to live out their lives in peace? These monsters should live in fear for the rest of their lives. Its an absolute disgrace that they are allowed to walk free, especially george w bush. That americans especially have forgotten all the sorrow that one dumb ass has done is so sickening.
I bet this 133t haxor gets more jail time than bush ever will and that is tragic and sad. Juvenile yes, but it pales in comparison to physically destroying two countries and economically destroying a hundred others. They should be so lucky that people are just being "juvenile" to them. Shame on america and the citizens of america for not prosecuting these people properly, and once again letting script kiddies get all the glory.
"I would personally disagree that blackmailing even 350 people is worse than murder"
Ooo a thought experiment. How many people makes it worse than murder for you. 1000? 10,000? And murder "whom"? anyone?
Are 10,000 peoples lives being abused worse than killing the abuser?
I think that scammers and career thieves should be shot, personally. Fucking with hundreds or thousands of people could justify the death penalty in my opinion (if ones country has death penalty laws that is. It could always be argued that its far worse for people to be locked up for 90 years). However this person only seemed to steal pixels, so one could argue about how much harm was actually done vs being robbed at gunpoint, or some other real world crime. This is why countires have laws and theoretically a fair justice system and why the case is going to court.
"None of them even noticed that anything had changed after the uninstall."
Until they go to remote into the workplace and uhoh! cannot connect to the remote appliance!
But it cant be their computer, because their "computer literate" son just came around and gave the computer a good fixin! and there is no way he would break something as important as their ability to work from home! In fact, its probably *I* who is the idiot and our company should really hire their son instead to do all the complicated eye tee work!
I can't see the video (why slashdot has to use its own not working for me, flash player instead of youtube, who knows) and from the other posters, it sounds like its just flashy. However there is much to be said for putting down a few hundred for a good case.
About 7 years ago I purchased an thermaltake armor fulltower case ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133021 ) to replace my then aging and not enough drive bay 90s era full tower. This was probably the best decision with regards to purchasing personal equipment that I have ever made. Although the link doesnt say, I remember it costing about $180 before taxes.
This case has survived several builds. There is so much room inside I have never again had an issue with space or heat. With 13 drive bays, like 5 or 6 fan spots, a well engineered case will last you 10+ years.
At the time, I was thinking, I can't believe i just payed $200 for a bit of steel and some fans. Luckily I made the right decision and I have thanked myself every single time I go to work on the machine. No more drilling and tapping holes, trying to squeeze drives in. No heat problems, as all the drives sit in their own 5 1/4 slots with large fans blowing over all of them.
A proper case is a kind of bliss everyone should know. The case can often be an overlooked part of a system build, when really it can be argued that it is the most important component in the system.
TLDR: I cant actually see this inwin case, so I cant say if the expense is justified in this particular instance, but it certainly can be.
Yes yes, slippery slope. You are of course ideologically correct. This is the free market solution, when really we need government solutions to the scourge of advertising which blights our societies.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions as they say! But I am curious, where I am from, there are often spam calls to my telephone, offering all sorts of prizes if i give all my information to them. Should the telco not try and block these calls for the benefit of society? I am just trying to say that there are some cases where a centralized authority making decisions on my behalf are warranted. You can always switch to another ISP if you dont like these guys rules, right?
I am just happy someone is trying to do something about advertising, which governments seem unwilling to do, despite the proven societal costs in terms of malnutrition, disease and over materialism, (among the many costs). It is brain washing after all, so in the end I cannot help but support this move. The practically of The Real World(tm) wins out over ideology on this one imho. Burn advertisers burn!
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Not quite. You only own a license with a dvd, as claims the dvd makers and you "agree" to uphold that revenue stream when you break the package on the dvd. Your second point is laughable. Google does not have a right to profit. If they don't want people to view their content for free, they can put it behind a paywall like plenty of other sites.
Google is the new M$. Except that they don't fall over their own feet when they are trying to be evil and actually succeed at it, unlike m$ ever did. How so many smart people have been brainwashed to think an advertising company has their best interests at heart is the most interesting story of the last decade. They read your email, know all your searches, and have web bugs on like 90% of web pages out there. And you as an end user are not their client at all.
M$ is on our side, the consumers, this time. The enemy of mine enemy, is my friend.
You are claiming that whatever life down there has 0% chance of interacting with us in any way, possibly harmfully?
How could you possibly know so much about unknown life. You can't. You can't say the possibility of it interacting with some form of life is non exsistent. Especially if you believe in panspermia, that all life in the universe will be somewhat similar because it has somewhat similar origins.
OIL, Coal, Microsoft Windows, inkjet printers, Fiat Currencies, cable television, pop with glucose/fructose. There are lots of things that people don't like, but merely put up with because they do not have (or perceive to have) a better alternative.
With a wife and child I have no problem doing everything online. We have never had cable. My wife is just about as non technical as a person can get but she has no problem using boxee to watch shows which have been auto downloaded through rss feeds. She also has no problem after i showed her, downloading torrents and finding them in a mapped network share. My son watches primarily youtube. No one watches any ads, which is the biggest reason I gave up cable over 12 years ago now.
You should give your family more credit, especially the kids. People can easily learn to click a few different buttons. There are plenty of media centre softwares that make it super easy, such as plex.
The only thing you mention which is not surmountable is sports programming which thankfully no one in my family has any interest in.
Java or metro?
Because if its java you are at the best unknowledgable. Users generally don't have a clue that java is what they use to communicate with their office over a remote access appliance. However they do know that they took their computer to "some guy" and now they can't connect to their work network anymore and I have to clean up the mess you made.
Please only fix what is actually broken on a customers machine and don't put your own personal biases of what is "necessary" software into the equation. You obviously don't know what users do, and even THEY do not even know what they do or need.
You should at least know THAT!
Profit!
Time to buy some stock!
Ah but you mis understand how these adobe "upgrades" work. Every year or if lucky 2, they come out with a new version which is pretty much the same*. The reason why companies have to upgrade is that newer files which you would recieve from various external people (other companies) start to come in the newest format. Adobe in their wi$dom, does not preserve backwards compatibility. So if you want to read files that your printing house, corporate partnet or whatever sends you, you need to upgrade. Generally I get through about half a year (if that) before graphics department is begging to buy the new software as more and more external companies upgrade. A vicious cycle.
Been this way for years. Otherwise we would still be using cs3 or an even earlier version.
*disclaimer, I only install and purchase the software and don't use much besides premiere, but i see mostly only cosmetic differences and feature updates which could easily be a small patch, so I think the statement is valid.
Radio and television had very few mass market alternatives till at least the 1970s.
You might as well say circa 1930 that steam locomotives have had a good 60 years, and they seem pretty sustainable.
Past trends do not necessarily translate into future successes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
Lots of science type material in there, across many disciplines. And its just a great great story.
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." --Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television."
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." --Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." --Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
http://rense.com/general81/dw.htm
Um no, its a problem with ALL software. However cloud apps are the worst as they measure lifetimes in months and are not depending on the os becoming obsolete for the application to be obsolete.
While I agree with your sentiment, open source software, to a non developer (read 95% of people) is just as useless. If oracle decides to stop supporting mysql, how is a non programmer supposed to find and fix security problems for instance? So any non programmer has to move to a new system anyways.
Sure in theory, you have more options with OSS, such as hiring a programmer. In practice, it is usually cheaper to get a new system rather than hobble along with the old. But of course that all depends.
Which reinforces my point. Not everyone can afford to pay programmers, and they are not as wide spread as you make them out to be. I still have no control if someone hands me a pile of code. It might as well be ancient olmec to someone who cant afford a programmers salary or contract.
Well americans have never elected ralph nader so they never really had a chance to see an extreme left wing position. Even he wouldn't be "extreme" to a country like france.
Obama is at best, centre right. But I am sure you already know that as you rightly complain that obamacare is far inferior to 100% publicly funded healthcare for 100% of citizens, which is really the only real alternative. The american system for sure needs to be scrapped in favour of a national healthcare system available to everyone with no fees, as most other 1st world countries have.
So this is based on the what, 70 years of nuclear power? Spent nuclear fuel lasts for 10,000-100,000 years. How could you possibly average all the possible future effects of this. Its unknowable!
What if in 40,000 years, the spent nuclear fuel kills all of humanity? I guess we go back in time and adjust our forecast so that nuclear = infinity deaths per tw/h?
With nuclear you are creating pollution which will most likely last thousands of generations. At least with carbon products, give it a few hundred or thousand years and nature will clean it all up. Its an order of magnitude greater time scale for nature to clean the spent nuclear fuel. Not to mention people using it for weapons on purpose. People who advocate nuclear power never think of the big picture. That waste isn't going any where for a very long time.
That is because the average person cannot in any way dent trans oceanic shipping burning bunker oil, or stop the americans and chinese from burning tonnes of coal per second. Of course its symbolic. Symbols are the only way for the average person to focus in on these earth sized problems. Christmas does not bring "good will to all mankind", however it may be enough to focus in on goodwill in your own life. Thus symbolism can bring a certain focus on the individual level to get people thinking about all the energy we use every day and what it would be like if it one day shut off / became unaffordable and we really did have to go without.
Symbolism is very important here precisely because we cannot do anything meaningful on an individual level to combat global climate change. It's all we have. I have never believed that one person giving up their car, or consuming no boxed foods makes a difference globally. I do not think that actual reduction in emissions is the idea behind earth hour. I think people that make that judgement are missing the point of it. Same as "buy nothing" day. Stuff will still get bought by someone, that's not the point, its symbolic.
*flame hat on*
Unless you are a console developer, I would say [citation needed]. I switched to AMD cards a few years ago as all the nvidia cards I was buying crapped out after a year or less and i was sick of it. My ATI/amd cards on the other hand have been rock solid for the last few years. I think the last decent NVIDIA card I owned was an 8800, and even then the fan eventually died and the manufacturer didnt honour the double lifetime warranty as they went out of business (BFG).
Sure 10 years ago, ati drivers sucked, but don't let your biases carry forward 10 years. Catalyst control centre has gotten a lot better, and I have had zero issues with my 6750 in the two years ive owned it. Not to mention lots of other cheaper cards purchased for work. I only buy ATI now, after being brand loyal to nvidia since the geforce 256.
Plus they had all those horrible problems with solder reflow, where you have to bake your card to fix it. Then there was the horrible mess that they made of chipsets like the 780i, with similar problems. The moral of all that was that nvidia cant even get their solder forumla right! which ended up forcing them to exit the chipset business (thank god).
Windows 7 is a perfectly fine OS, as was win2k. What the heck would you stick them on? oh so user friendly and compatible linux? An overpriced quick to obsolete and oozing with vendor lock in apple device?
Its sad to say, but if openness and compatibility are your main concerns, windows is the way to go. I really would like to push linux on something other than servers but its not 100% compatible on the desktop, or even philosophically trying to be these days. Most peoples moms are not nerds, so your outdated prejudice does not apply either.
Well thats probably becuase you were using OCZ crap. I have never had a quality product from that company.
However that said, I have noticed the same thing with the crucial m4s I have. In one particular laptop, it keeps bricking drives becuase the battery doesnt hold much of a charge any more. Luckily, i can "unbrick" them by plugging in the power (but not data) for 20 minutes, then plugging in the data connection, then rebooting the machine. Has worked more than once.
and crucial has put out a bunch of firmwares trying to deal with this. Last time it happened was a few months ago. I have aprox 15 other drives deployed and it only happens to one or two of them, seems to always be in laptops or after some sort of power surge. Crucial will always RMA the drive as well the one or two times i did not get it going.
And before anyone says "why thats why I dont use SSDs, too new and unstable!" I say that I would not give up my SSD for all the scsi 15ks in the world. SSDs are the single greatest speed increase in computer performance in the last 15 years. Make backups, as you should anyways, and dont be afraid of ssds. When you fly close to the sun, you are going to get burned. Still I would rather FLY so high and roll the dice on reliability (which is still stellar in most circumstances).
Rotational hard drives are such a pain now as an OS drive, and they still die eventually. I recommend SSDs to everyone now, with the caveat above that you always need good backups.
So I have never even watched "5 minutes" of the show. However anecdotally, I have heard about a few of their episodes. Such as the one where they took a toyota sr5 and basically left it in the ocean overnight. Replaced the oil, and it started up fine. This was used by several people for the justification of purchase of that particular truck, and I won't lie, got me thinking of looking around for one too.
So one need not even watch the show to be poisoned by its lies. I had no idea it was fake till the news article / lawsuit the other day where the shows people admitted it was "entertainment". How could you trust a review show after that? The way people speak so fondly of top gear, I had assumed it was a hardcore review show that really did their homework. Now I guess I think its a bunch of fakers ala fox news, which I also never watch and yet have formed an opinion on.
This is about liable, not how awesome you think the show is. Clearly the tesla brand will be damaged by a popular show "pretending" that the car sucks. The new york times article is even worse because it seems to have been done by an oil industry shill, who should obviously be fired or at the very least, never trusted to do a review ever again.
Does that mean a get out of jail free card for other "retired" dictators around the world?
So in your view, someone like bush or pinochet can kill hundreds of thousands and then just get to live out their lives in peace?
These monsters should live in fear for the rest of their lives. Its an absolute disgrace that they are allowed to walk free, especially george w bush. That americans especially have forgotten all the sorrow that one dumb ass has done is so sickening.
I bet this 133t haxor gets more jail time than bush ever will and that is tragic and sad. Juvenile yes, but it pales in comparison to physically destroying two countries and economically destroying a hundred others. They should be so lucky that people are just being "juvenile" to them. Shame on america and the citizens of america for not prosecuting these people properly, and once again letting script kiddies get all the glory.
Ooo a thought experiment. How many people makes it worse than murder for you. 1000? 10,000? And murder "whom"? anyone?
Are 10,000 peoples lives being abused worse than killing the abuser?
I think that scammers and career thieves should be shot, personally. Fucking with hundreds or thousands of people could justify the death penalty in my opinion (if ones country has death penalty laws that is. It could always be argued that its far worse for people to be locked up for 90 years). However this person only seemed to steal pixels, so one could argue about how much harm was actually done vs being robbed at gunpoint, or some other real world crime. This is why countires have laws and theoretically a fair justice system and why the case is going to court.
Yes, Ill just go pay $5000 for a lawyer. Oh wait I am a student, so I dont have 5000 for legal consultation.
Doh!
Lawyers ain't free man. Unless you really are saying hes an idiot because he cannot afford a lawyer.
Until they go to remote into the workplace and uhoh! cannot connect to the remote appliance!
But it cant be their computer, because their "computer literate" son just came around and gave the computer a good fixin! and there is no way he would break something as important as their ability to work from home! In fact, its probably *I* who is the idiot and our company should really hire their son instead to do all the complicated eye tee work!
I can't see the video (why slashdot has to use its own not working for me, flash player instead of youtube, who knows) and from the other posters, it sounds like its just flashy. However there is much to be said for putting down a few hundred for a good case.
About 7 years ago I purchased an thermaltake armor fulltower case ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133021 ) to replace my then aging and not enough drive bay 90s era full tower. This was probably the best decision with regards to purchasing personal equipment that I have ever made. Although the link doesnt say, I remember it costing about $180 before taxes.
This case has survived several builds. There is so much room inside I have never again had an issue with space or heat. With 13 drive bays, like 5 or 6 fan spots, a well engineered case will last you 10+ years.
At the time, I was thinking, I can't believe i just payed $200 for a bit of steel and some fans. Luckily I made the right decision and I have thanked myself every single time I go to work on the machine. No more drilling and tapping holes, trying to squeeze drives in. No heat problems, as all the drives sit in their own 5 1/4 slots with large fans blowing over all of them.
A proper case is a kind of bliss everyone should know. The case can often be an overlooked part of a system build, when really it can be argued that it is the most important component in the system.
TLDR: I cant actually see this inwin case, so I cant say if the expense is justified in this particular instance, but it certainly can be.
Teen angst and celebrity gossip are considered culture, but popular movies and music are not. American society at its finest!
Yes yes, slippery slope. You are of course ideologically correct. This is the free market solution, when really we need government solutions to the scourge of advertising which blights our societies.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions as they say! But I am curious, where I am from, there are often spam calls to my telephone, offering all sorts of prizes if i give all my information to them. Should the telco not try and block these calls for the benefit of society? I am just trying to say that there are some cases where a centralized authority making decisions on my behalf are warranted. You can always switch to another ISP if you dont like these guys rules, right?
I am just happy someone is trying to do something about advertising, which governments seem unwilling to do, despite the proven societal costs in terms of malnutrition, disease and over materialism, (among the many costs). It is brain washing after all, so in the end I cannot help but support this move. The practically of The Real World(tm) wins out over ideology on this one imho. Burn advertisers burn!