When I play this on my Mac, it seems to be silent. Am I the only one who hears nothing, or is it really high pitched? I have quite a bit of hearing loss, especially in the upper ranges.
Did you get more or less than you paid for? Not quite sure.
I sure hope your purchasing people didn't blindly pay a random bill from them! Seems like a scam. You didn't order it, you shouldn't have to pay for it.
And since when do you need authorization from someone to ship them a package?
These are the same people who put cheese on burgers ordered by the lactose intolerant who have a damn good reason to say "no cheese". I wonder how long it will take someone to nearly die due to that and sue.
So you're the asshole who flies down the lane that's closing and forces me to slam on my brakes as I pass the huge flashing LED arrow and the orange and white construction barrels. Thanks, prick.
I'm not sure what's with that weird syntax, but I really think laziness is a big part of the problem. We can't be bothered to expend any effort on anyone other than ourselves. 'it's not my car, why should I go to the effort to give a damn what someone is going to have to go through now?'
At least it's gotten a lot harder to just make a wax key impression. My car won't start up without the right chip from the right key, but of course you could still drag it onto a flatbed truck and steal it that way. Sad thing these days is that people are so jaded to screaming alarms that they don't call 911 if they see a car, alarm screaming, being hauled on a flatbed. We see crime right under our noses and we're too lazy to care.
We had a laptop stolen out of a research lab here that WAS locked down with one of those. It was a Mac (most of the laptops here are) but I don't recall if it was an Al/Ti Powerbook/Macbook Pro (metal case) or older Powerbook/Macbook (plastic case).
The thief somehow either cut the lock or ripped the lock out of the case, and got away with the laptop within five minutes.
I'm pretty sure that lab doesn't leave laptops on desks in line of sight of the door anymore.
The problem is, since people find it hassle enough to deal with returns and other similar reasons to get RMAs, they don't want to have to deal with it when it's a necessity. If it's such a hassle, they're not going to want to do it when they could just put the extra away to gather dust somewhere because they've run into the hassle that is a return in the past.
If the process were totally painless and very quick and didn't require a lot of hoops to be jumped through, I think mistakes like that would be reported more often. I know I didn't want to deal with the hassle of a return, having had problems with that place's return process in the past.
Another explanation that didn't apply to my particular case below...
I don't understand why it is so hard to attempt to return something so often, especially when the mistake is so clearly the merchant's fault (managers stealing customers' returns, and corporate then supporting them!? - see the hard drive/tile story from yesterday).
I also suspect that given all the reports of people being defrauded (failing to sell what you claim to be selling is fraud) and the merchant outright refusing to make it right are leading to a lot of attitude of "they obviously don't care if they outright defraud people, why should I care about them?"
That's pretty funny. I wonder if they ever belatedly realized what you were trying to tell them. Of course, if they then tried to charge you while you weren't present, you would have been within your rights to file a chargeback.
I've never had that happen but I once did get a purchase charged to the card of whoever had checked out ahead of me. I did go back and have them fix it, and they were surprised (I think) that I reported it!
I once ordered three widgets and got six. This widget came in boxes of two. Someone at the warehouse had put three boxes of widgets in the shipping box, not three widgets.
I kept them for quite some time unopened in case they contacted me, but it would have been more hassle than worth to try to return them given how hard it is to deal with returns of mistakes that aren't a big deal.
I never heard anything and eventually used the widgets. I don't know if anyone ever noticed. It was a minor mistake, but still amusing.
I still remember it because usually the error is in THEIR favor.
Short explanation is that closed captions are easier to read (always white on a black background, usually) and are optimized for the hard of hearing (that would be me) or deaf, so they include sound effects and such that aren't included in subtitles.
Guess I'll find out when I get it. Any other "I love it" or "watch out for" comments? Does it feel cheap?
I decided to actually order shortly after making my comment. Hopefully, it'll work - if you have yours hooked up by component, have you tried enabling closed captions on your TV (make sure you pick a DVD that has them)? It'll be going back quickly if that doesn't work.
Thanks - have been looking for something that would work over component (closed captions are not sent over HDMI) but which also ignores those annoying "you can't skip this ad" restrictions. I like the look of that and (this is minor) the orange display matches my Tivo Series3. Bookmarked. The price is reasonable, too!
I mean, UNinstalling. Hello, this is 2007 and there's no edit button? And what's with this lame "to give everyone a chance to post" bullshit? It's 2007, computers can handle more than one simultaneous query.
Good luck installing the file manager. Yeah, that'll get you real far. It'd be like yanking the Finder out of my Mac (which has not and never will have a problem with this flaw...)
I never understood why DirecTV dropped Tivo. I know people who have been forced to drop their Tivos due to this shortsightedness, if they want HD channels; the Tivos got far-better reviews than DTV's homegrown boxes. Why go to the expense to change, especially after lots of satisfied customers were left with pieces of junk?
I'm trying to convince my significant other to drop DirecTV and switch to a real HD Tivo. The aggravation of the junk they push isn't worth it. There's a reason why people who have Tivos love them, even though it would be easier to just use what the TV provider pushes.
I laid down the law that if I move in with him, instead of his moving up here, we're getting cable expanded to full HD+CableCard because I refuse to give up my lifetimed series 3.
That said, while I think the Series 3 is great, the HD units are as well - less disk space, the unofficial kickstart to expand to an eSATA drive doesn't work on them yet, but $300 is a pretty good deal for the best DVR/set-top box you can get (barring the S3 of course, which I quite like and don't regret buying when I did to get the lifetime transfer deal). Unfortunately, the frustrating lack of acknowledgement that you don't have to spend $700 to get an HD TiVo is probably driving off a lot of people.
I don't know if it's FUD or ignorance, but please, people (like the OP), list the correct entry price, not one more than twice as high.
A dual tuner TiVo does NOT cost $800. Sorry. Try $300.
I've seen this before - people complain that hi-def Tivos cost too much - "I'd buy one if they cost half that" -- when in reality they are imagining a price that is twice the real price.
Have you tried changing the user agent to mimic the Googlebot? For some sites, this does work.
I agree that journal access fees are way too high. That's why I'm really hoping that PLoS takes off. It's really promising so far, and I think my lab is going to publish an article in one of their journals soon.
"However, their business model involves high volume, low price and no DR, which isn't to the liking of the major labels which most of those artists are signed to"
Amazon.com sells music from major artists in MP3 format. It can be done. Today.
Yep, it does have good stuff -- I was trying to point out the same thing you hit on, that they don't have the currently-popular stuff that people want. While it's great that they're trying to introduce people to new music (I've picked up a few new artists from eMusic during a few free trials), to do well stores have to sell what people are actually wanting to buy. Since eMusic seems to not be interested in offering the currently-popular artists of various genres, they're going to be relegated to the sidelines. I'd really like to see them become more relevant because they do it right, so I'd like to see them change that.
"If Apple crashed and burned, I'd just export the music I bought from iTunes to MP3 and then reimport it."
However would you do that? iTunes won't do it with protected tracks. If you did, though, iTunes can play MP3s without any trouble so no re-conversion would be needed.
"eMusic [emusic.com] has been going forever without any real traction"
If they offered music that more people had actually heard of, that might change. Yes, it's great to discover new music, but people also want what's already familiar, and eMusic isn't offering that. They've got half of the equation, but that's not enough for them to really take off.
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When I play this on my Mac, it seems to be silent. Am I the only one who hears nothing, or is it really high pitched? I have quite a bit of hearing loss, especially in the upper ranges.
'Cause that's not what the treaty says must be done.
Oh, I know about that... but your average crook on the street who wants a joyride probably isn't that sophisticated.
Did you get more or less than you paid for? Not quite sure.
I sure hope your purchasing people didn't blindly pay a random bill from them! Seems like a scam. You didn't order it, you shouldn't have to pay for it.
And since when do you need authorization from someone to ship them a package?
Evil? nah. Harmless? Yup. Putting food on orders that was requested to NOT be there might well be harmful, though.
These are the same people who put cheese on burgers ordered by the lactose intolerant who have a damn good reason to say "no cheese". I wonder how long it will take someone to nearly die due to that and sue.
So you're the asshole who flies down the lane that's closing and forces me to slam on my brakes as I pass the huge flashing LED arrow and the orange and white construction barrels. Thanks, prick.
I'm not sure what's with that weird syntax, but I really think laziness is a big part of the problem. We can't be bothered to expend any effort on anyone other than ourselves. 'it's not my car, why should I go to the effort to give a damn what someone is going to have to go through now?'
At least it's gotten a lot harder to just make a wax key impression. My car won't start up without the right chip from the right key, but of course you could still drag it onto a flatbed truck and steal it that way. Sad thing these days is that people are so jaded to screaming alarms that they don't call 911 if they see a car, alarm screaming, being hauled on a flatbed. We see crime right under our noses and we're too lazy to care.
We had a laptop stolen out of a research lab here that WAS locked down with one of those. It was a Mac (most of the laptops here are) but I don't recall if it was an Al/Ti Powerbook/Macbook Pro (metal case) or older Powerbook/Macbook (plastic case).
The thief somehow either cut the lock or ripped the lock out of the case, and got away with the laptop within five minutes.
I'm pretty sure that lab doesn't leave laptops on desks in line of sight of the door anymore.
The problem is, since people find it hassle enough to deal with returns and other similar reasons to get RMAs, they don't want to have to deal with it when it's a necessity. If it's such a hassle, they're not going to want to do it when they could just put the extra away to gather dust somewhere because they've run into the hassle that is a return in the past.
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If the process were totally painless and very quick and didn't require a lot of hoops to be jumped through, I think mistakes like that would be reported more often. I know I didn't want to deal with the hassle of a return, having had problems with that place's return process in the past.
Another explanation that didn't apply to my particular case below
I don't understand why it is so hard to attempt to return something so often, especially when the mistake is so clearly the merchant's fault (managers stealing customers' returns, and corporate then supporting them!? - see the hard drive/tile story from yesterday).
I also suspect that given all the reports of people being defrauded (failing to sell what you claim to be selling is fraud) and the merchant outright refusing to make it right are leading to a lot of attitude of "they obviously don't care if they outright defraud people, why should I care about them?"
That's pretty funny. I wonder if they ever belatedly realized what you were trying to tell them. Of course, if they then tried to charge you while you weren't present, you would have been within your rights to file a chargeback.
I've never had that happen but I once did get a purchase charged to the card of whoever had checked out ahead of me. I did go back and have them fix it, and they were surprised (I think) that I reported it!
I once ordered three widgets and got six. This widget came in boxes of two. Someone at the warehouse had put three boxes of widgets in the shipping box, not three widgets.
I kept them for quite some time unopened in case they contacted me, but it would have been more hassle than worth to try to return them given how hard it is to deal with returns of mistakes that aren't a big deal.
I never heard anything and eventually used the widgets. I don't know if anyone ever noticed. It was a minor mistake, but still amusing.
I still remember it because usually the error is in THEIR favor.
Short explanation is that closed captions are easier to read (always white on a black background, usually) and are optimized for the hard of hearing (that would be me) or deaf, so they include sound effects and such that aren't included in subtitles.
Guess I'll find out when I get it. Any other "I love it" or "watch out for" comments? Does it feel cheap?
I decided to actually order shortly after making my comment. Hopefully, it'll work - if you have yours hooked up by component, have you tried enabling closed captions on your TV (make sure you pick a DVD that has them)? It'll be going back quickly if that doesn't work.
Thanks - have been looking for something that would work over component (closed captions are not sent over HDMI) but which also ignores those annoying "you can't skip this ad" restrictions. I like the look of that and (this is minor) the orange display matches my Tivo Series3. Bookmarked. The price is reasonable, too!
I mean, UNinstalling. Hello, this is 2007 and there's no edit button? And what's with this lame "to give everyone a chance to post" bullshit? It's 2007, computers can handle more than one simultaneous query.
Good luck installing the file manager. Yeah, that'll get you real far. It'd be like yanking the Finder out of my Mac (which has not and never will have a problem with this flaw...)
I never understood why DirecTV dropped Tivo. I know people who have been forced to drop their Tivos due to this shortsightedness, if they want HD channels; the Tivos got far-better reviews than DTV's homegrown boxes. Why go to the expense to change, especially after lots of satisfied customers were left with pieces of junk?
I'm trying to convince my significant other to drop DirecTV and switch to a real HD Tivo. The aggravation of the junk they push isn't worth it. There's a reason why people who have Tivos love them, even though it would be easier to just use what the TV provider pushes.
I laid down the law that if I move in with him, instead of his moving up here, we're getting cable expanded to full HD+CableCard because I refuse to give up my lifetimed series 3.
That said, while I think the Series 3 is great, the HD units are as well - less disk space, the unofficial kickstart to expand to an eSATA drive doesn't work on them yet, but $300 is a pretty good deal for the best DVR/set-top box you can get (barring the S3 of course, which I quite like and don't regret buying when I did to get the lifetime transfer deal). Unfortunately, the frustrating lack of acknowledgement that you don't have to spend $700 to get an HD TiVo is probably driving off a lot of people.
I don't know if it's FUD or ignorance, but please, people (like the OP), list the correct entry price, not one more than twice as high.
A dual tuner TiVo does NOT cost $800. Sorry. Try $300.
I've seen this before - people complain that hi-def Tivos cost too much - "I'd buy one if they cost half that" -- when in reality they are imagining a price that is twice the real price.
Have you tried changing the user agent to mimic the Googlebot? For some sites, this does work.
I agree that journal access fees are way too high. That's why I'm really hoping that PLoS takes off. It's really promising so far, and I think my lab is going to publish an article in one of their journals soon.
"However, their business model involves high volume, low price and no DR, which isn't to the liking of the major labels which most of those artists are signed to"
Amazon.com sells music from major artists in MP3 format. It can be done. Today.
Yep, it does have good stuff -- I was trying to point out the same thing you hit on, that they don't have the currently-popular stuff that people want. While it's great that they're trying to introduce people to new music (I've picked up a few new artists from eMusic during a few free trials), to do well stores have to sell what people are actually wanting to buy. Since eMusic seems to not be interested in offering the currently-popular artists of various genres, they're going to be relegated to the sidelines. I'd really like to see them become more relevant because they do it right, so I'd like to see them change that.
"If Apple crashed and burned, I'd just export the music I bought from iTunes to MP3 and then reimport it."
However would you do that? iTunes won't do it with protected tracks. If you did, though, iTunes can play MP3s without any trouble so no re-conversion would be needed.
"eMusic [emusic.com] has been going forever without any real traction"
If they offered music that more people had actually heard of, that might change. Yes, it's great to discover new music, but people also want what's already familiar, and eMusic isn't offering that. They've got half of the equation, but that's not enough for them to really take off.