I don't know a single person who buys a Lexus or Acura and thinks they're getting a better car than a Toyota or Honda.
Typically they think (correctly), that they're getting more bells and whistles than with the Toyota or Honda. Some of those bells and whistles may (depending on which ones you chose) improve performance.
(Disclaimer: I own an Acura TSX. I bought it because there is no equivalent Honda in the US, and because it contains features not available in lower-cost models. Sure, they're frivolous features, but I enjoy them.)
Boxee circumvents the website, it does not display the site as web browser does. [...] I am not sure if you understand the difference between a media browser and a web browser.
I'm not sure you understand the web.
Actually, let me rephrase that. I'm sure you do not understand the web.
"Content providers" provide tagged data which the client can proceed to display as it wishes. The client can aggregate the content. It can neglect or ignore or modify styles and layout. It can selectively display only portions of the content. It can give approximately two shits about the server owner's "business plan".
Regardless if you manage to circumvent DRM and or advertising, someone is paying for this content. Your unauthorized use of the content will mean the loss of jobs for someone else.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Boxee neither circumvents DRM (for sane definitions of DRM), nor circumvents advertising.
It seems to me that you're contradicting yourself.
Which do you value? Changing out the content, or changing out the engine?
Why should the HUD ever change for a series of games with the same mechanics? If the gameplay is good, new content should win over new gameplay every time.
Why should a third party (Firefox/Flash Player/Opera/etc...) be able to hijack Hulu's content for free?
Hulu is a website. Websites don't get to pick which browsers or platforms users view from. They can protest, and try feeble technological blocking methods, but the web is a client-agnostic platform and in the end Hulu and their providers are going to need to come to terms with that or die off.
Pay-per-view is a great model for this stuff, but there's too much "pay" per unit of "view".
Would I be willing to part with $1 to watch a bit of TV in the evening. Sure. $2? Maybe... $5? Starting to push it... But what's a bit of TV? If I watch a couple times a week, a bit of TV is probably 2-3 hours.
Would I be willing to pay $1 for a 20 minute show, and rack up $6-10 for watching for an evening? Certainly not. $0.99/show for one-time is way over priced. Get it down to $0.25 and we'll talk. If you get to re-watch, the value goes up, but there's a very limited number of shows I'd ever care to re-watch, much less pay for the privilege.
Why would you pay $600/year for cable? If the price got that high, I'd cancel in a second. TV just isn't worth that much. Median income in the US after taxes is $55k. TV is worth more than 1% of your salary, even with ads in it? I don't think it is.
I don't think the original poster correctly framed the spirit of his question....
Why doesn't the front page filter out the display of the 'story' tag?
(Can't help but stick this in here: Why did the horrendously buggy and unusable new default user page go live? A lot of the stuff on there just seems random. Is the number in the speech bubble at the top the number of total comments in the thread the user last posted in? Why? Why the terrible CSS for the top item? Why are the comment titles formatted differently there than everywhere else? Why the redundant 'comments' slashbox on the right with the same content as the left half of the page? Why remove the menus that are on the right side of every other page on the site?)
Likewise, people go into debt to go to school because of child labor bans
People go into debt to pay for school because the education isn't provided for them, and, since the financing is far too easily available, schools feel free to charge students as much as they can possibly borrow.
I made $10,000/summer working between years of college. You'd think that would be enough to pay for school, but I had to get another $10k in scholarships and $7k in loans per year. A significant portion of that money (my money) was used to pay for the school's graduate program, where most of the students are paid to attend.
If you're at a party and someone who is notorious for crashing parties and telling the host that random people (who may or may not actually be at the party) are hitting on his wife tells the host you're hitting on his wife, does he have to give you a jury trial before he throws you out?
It depends. Is the notorious person actually right the vast majority of the time, except for a few highly publicized errors?
The RIAA wouldn't have gotten away with it's crap for so long if there weren't an undercurrent of truth to it's statements. People who actually violate copyrights through file sharing are helping the RIAA get away with their unconscionable tactics.
When they came for the child-pornographers, I remained silent; 'cause otherwise it would be taken as proof that I was a child-pornographer.
Then they locked up the drug dealers, I remained silent; 'cause otherwise it would be taken as proof that I was a drug dealer.
Then they came for the file-sharers, I did not speak out; 'cause otherwise it would be taken as proof that I was a file-sharer.
When they came for me, there was no one to speak out for me
Fixed that for you.
There are no winners in a witch-hunt, but one thing is for certain. The people who are quickest to stand up for the witches will themselves be called a witch.
These issues are a symptom. We need to fix them one rung farther up the chain.
So you have four competing options, and you're bitching?
You don't even know what AT&T offers, but you're sure that it's even more Comcastic than Comcast?
If you have verizon DSL in your area, you should consider getting a business line. They're not significantly more expensive than residential lines, they have a SLA, and they wouldn't dream of pulling shit like this on their business customers.
Let me guess. Your logic here goes something like this:
Somebody smarter than me once pointed out that a certain "slippery slope" argument was a fallacy, thus all "slippery slope" arguments must be a fallacy.
Almost every study done has shown that red-light cameras increase rear-end accidents at intersections. (And every time somebody brings this up, people start complaining about who's fault it is. It doesn't matter who's fault it is.)
These things don't save lives, they make self-important people who think they're better drivers than everybody else on the road feel good. We should expect personal responsibility. We should make it more difficult to obtain a license. However, "trust, but verify" is just a diplomatic way of saying "we don't trust you at all". It should be reserved for our enemies, not for our citizens.
Besides, people who run a red light because they aren't paying attention are going to run the red whether there's a camera there or not.
The name should reflect the spirit of exploration and cooperation embodied by the space station, and follow in the tradition set by Node 1- Unity- and Node 2- Harmony.
This actually works the same on both Windows and *nix (with the exception of changing the / with \)
On Windows 'cd \directory' is different from 'cd directory'. One takes you to '<current drive>:\directory', and the other takes you to '<current directory>\directory'.
On *nix, 'cd/directory' takes you to '(root)/directory', and 'cd directory' takes you to '(current directory)/directory'
The '.' and '..' directory entries also function the same way.
Trains were a good idea when it made sense to consolidate the power generation in one place. There's no need to do that anymore, so there's no reason to restrict ourselves to the same schedule and compartment as everybody else on the train. There's nothing wrong with having tracks (instead of roads), and automatic guidance on major routes, but the only people who think a train is a good idea either happen to want to go somewhere that is very near a stop, or think it's a good idea to tell other people how to live (treat people as a population instead of as individuals...). Why can't we have short-range electric vehicles that "clip in" to the (electrified) rail for long-distance major routes? We have to build infrastructure anyway, 'cause trains simply don't go everywhere they need to right now, plus that would solve the problem of traveling the last few miles from where the track ends.
Bose gear isn't any more crappy than high-end gear.
It is more crappy. And more expensive than a lot of it too.
There's more to high end audio than snake oil vendors hocking shit to moron audiophiles for too much. There's vendors that sell high quality stuff for about what you'd pay for mediocre mainstream Sony or Aiwa gear too.
You're just enjoying playing "holier than thou" too much realize/admit it. (And thus are the same as the idiots who pay $1000 for a wood knob, and insist it makes their sound 'warmer').
Don't count on it. There won't be enough cable to trail...
The operating distances are too short to matter for most of the US (geographically speaking), and drop non-linearly to less than 10% of max performance when the distance is doubled.
They should ditch this crap, and give people the fiber that we already paid for. Tarring and Feathering for CEOs of US telecom companies that even think FTTN.
I am saying good gear (as good as or better than extremely expensive gear) can be had for a moderate price. Audiophiles shit on it because it is not a certain brand and did not require a second mortgage.
You're just plain wrong. You can get shitty low-end gear that costs too much, or you can do some research and get something that sounds great in the same price-range. Yeah, there's crazy expensive gear like the headphones in this article, and you'd have to be an idiot to waste the cash.. But there's also some great gear out there for reasonable prices for people who actually like sound quality, and not conspicuous consumption.
Right, and they all call the region "The Bay Area", like it's the only bay, or bay-area in the whole world, and we should all know they're talking about that one.
Based on personal experience, I'd say that less than 99% of CS101 students know where the power switch is... (Less than 200 students in my first CS class, two didn't know how to turn on the lab machines.)
Look, maybe it makes you feel better to sling petty insults. Maybe it makes you feel like your penis is bigger than it really is. Who knows. The fact of the matter is, though, that you're using a petty insult to cover up for the fact that you're full of crap.
People always say this, but are any other companies any better? The answer is no.
My comprehension of your quote is as follows: "Bose makes crappy, overpriced gear, but so does every other high-end audio company."
That's what you meant, right? It's certainly what you wrote. So I replied. By saying that other high end audio companies make gear that is both not-crappy, and not-overpriced.
But somebody who would buy good gear that doesn't cost very much is a "fucking moron" in your book, I suppose.
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I don't know a single person who buys a Lexus or Acura and thinks they're getting a better car than a Toyota or Honda.
Typically they think (correctly), that they're getting more bells and whistles than with the Toyota or Honda. Some of those bells and whistles may (depending on which ones you chose) improve performance.
(Disclaimer: I own an Acura TSX. I bought it because there is no equivalent Honda in the US, and because it contains features not available in lower-cost models. Sure, they're frivolous features, but I enjoy them.)
I'm not sure you understand the web.
Actually, let me rephrase that. I'm sure you do not understand the web.
"Content providers" provide tagged data which the client can proceed to display as it wishes. The client can aggregate the content. It can neglect or ignore or modify styles and layout. It can selectively display only portions of the content. It can give approximately two shits about the server owner's "business plan".
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Boxee neither circumvents DRM (for sane definitions of DRM), nor circumvents advertising.
It seems to me that you're contradicting yourself.
Which do you value? Changing out the content, or changing out the engine?
Why should the HUD ever change for a series of games with the same mechanics? If the gameplay is good, new content should win over new gameplay every time.
I bet you're one of those people who like to learn to read all over again every time a new book comes out too.
Why should a third party (Firefox/Flash Player/Opera/etc...) be able to hijack Hulu's content for free?
Hulu is a website. Websites don't get to pick which browsers or platforms users view from. They can protest, and try feeble technological blocking methods, but the web is a client-agnostic platform and in the end Hulu and their providers are going to need to come to terms with that or die off.
See, that's the problem.
Pay-per-view is a great model for this stuff, but there's too much "pay" per unit of "view".
Would I be willing to part with $1 to watch a bit of TV in the evening. Sure. $2? Maybe... $5? Starting to push it... But what's a bit of TV? If I watch a couple times a week, a bit of TV is probably 2-3 hours.
Would I be willing to pay $1 for a 20 minute show, and rack up $6-10 for watching for an evening? Certainly not. $0.99/show for one-time is way over priced. Get it down to $0.25 and we'll talk. If you get to re-watch, the value goes up, but there's a very limited number of shows I'd ever care to re-watch, much less pay for the privilege.
Why would you pay $600/year for cable? If the price got that high, I'd cancel in a second. TV just isn't worth that much. Median income in the US after taxes is $55k. TV is worth more than 1% of your salary, even with ads in it? I don't think it is.
I don't think the original poster correctly framed the spirit of his question....
Why doesn't the front page filter out the display of the 'story' tag?
(Can't help but stick this in here: Why did the horrendously buggy and unusable new default user page go live? A lot of the stuff on there just seems random. Is the number in the speech bubble at the top the number of total comments in the thread the user last posted in? Why? Why the terrible CSS for the top item? Why are the comment titles formatted differently there than everywhere else? Why the redundant 'comments' slashbox on the right with the same content as the left half of the page? Why remove the menus that are on the right side of every other page on the site?)
People go into debt to pay for school because the education isn't provided for them, and, since the financing is far too easily available, schools feel free to charge students as much as they can possibly borrow.
I made $10,000/summer working between years of college. You'd think that would be enough to pay for school, but I had to get another $10k in scholarships and $7k in loans per year. A significant portion of that money (my money) was used to pay for the school's graduate program, where most of the students are paid to attend.
Because clearly it's the developers that set those goals, and not the management.... I wish I lived in your world....
Seriously, the management gets to take all the credit for the shiny. Why not the blame too?
Ugh. I lost part of my point in the rambling:
No. No he doesn't.
It depends. Is the notorious person actually right the vast majority of the time, except for a few highly publicized errors?
The RIAA wouldn't have gotten away with it's crap for so long if there weren't an undercurrent of truth to it's statements. People who actually violate copyrights through file sharing are helping the RIAA get away with their unconscionable tactics.
Fixed that for you.
There are no winners in a witch-hunt, but one thing is for certain. The people who are quickest to stand up for the witches will themselves be called a witch.
These issues are a symptom. We need to fix them one rung farther up the chain.
So you have four competing options, and you're bitching?
You don't even know what AT&T offers, but you're sure that it's even more Comcastic than Comcast?
If you have verizon DSL in your area, you should consider getting a business line. They're not significantly more expensive than residential lines, they have a SLA, and they wouldn't dream of pulling shit like this on their business customers.
Let me guess. Your logic here goes something like this:
Almost every study done has shown that red-light cameras increase rear-end accidents at intersections. (And every time somebody brings this up, people start complaining about who's fault it is. It doesn't matter who's fault it is.)
These things don't save lives, they make self-important people who think they're better drivers than everybody else on the road feel good. We should expect personal responsibility. We should make it more difficult to obtain a license. However, "trust, but verify" is just a diplomatic way of saying "we don't trust you at all". It should be reserved for our enemies, not for our citizens.
Besides, people who run a red light because they aren't paying attention are going to run the red whether there's a camera there or not.
Chances of it being named "Colbert"? Nil.
This actually works the same on both Windows and *nix (with the exception of changing the / with \)
On Windows 'cd \directory' is different from 'cd directory'. One takes you to '<current drive>:\directory', and the other takes you to '<current directory>\directory'.
On *nix, 'cd /directory' takes you to '(root)/directory', and 'cd directory' takes you to '(current directory)/directory'
The '.' and '..' directory entries also function the same way.
Hah! I get it!
It's funny because, unlike you, she's not a virgin!
Trains were a good idea when it made sense to consolidate the power generation in one place. There's no need to do that anymore, so there's no reason to restrict ourselves to the same schedule and compartment as everybody else on the train. There's nothing wrong with having tracks (instead of roads), and automatic guidance on major routes, but the only people who think a train is a good idea either happen to want to go somewhere that is very near a stop, or think it's a good idea to tell other people how to live (treat people as a population instead of as individuals...). Why can't we have short-range electric vehicles that "clip in" to the (electrified) rail for long-distance major routes? We have to build infrastructure anyway, 'cause trains simply don't go everywhere they need to right now, plus that would solve the problem of traveling the last few miles from where the track ends.
How long can we keep this up.
I know what your point is, and you're wrong.
It is more crappy. And more expensive than a lot of it too.
There's more to high end audio than snake oil vendors hocking shit to moron audiophiles for too much. There's vendors that sell high quality stuff for about what you'd pay for mediocre mainstream Sony or Aiwa gear too.
You're just enjoying playing "holier than thou" too much realize/admit it. (And thus are the same as the idiots who pay $1000 for a wood knob, and insist it makes their sound 'warmer').
Don't count on it. There won't be enough cable to trail...
The operating distances are too short to matter for most of the US (geographically speaking), and drop non-linearly to less than 10% of max performance when the distance is doubled.
They should ditch this crap, and give people the fiber that we already paid for. Tarring and Feathering for CEOs of US telecom companies that even think FTTN.
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You're just plain wrong. You can get shitty low-end gear that costs too much, or you can do some research and get something that sounds great in the same price-range. Yeah, there's crazy expensive gear like the headphones in this article, and you'd have to be an idiot to waste the cash.. But there's also some great gear out there for reasonable prices for people who actually like sound quality, and not conspicuous consumption.
Right, and they all call the region "The Bay Area", like it's the only bay, or bay-area in the whole world, and we should all know they're talking about that one.
Based on personal experience, I'd say that less than 99% of CS101 students know where the power switch is... (Less than 200 students in my first CS class, two didn't know how to turn on the lab machines.)
Look, maybe it makes you feel better to sling petty insults. Maybe it makes you feel like your penis is bigger than it really is. Who knows. The fact of the matter is, though, that you're using a petty insult to cover up for the fact that you're full of crap.
My comprehension of your quote is as follows: "Bose makes crappy, overpriced gear, but so does every other high-end audio company."
That's what you meant, right? It's certainly what you wrote. So I replied. By saying that other high end audio companies make gear that is both not-crappy, and not-overpriced.
But somebody who would buy good gear that doesn't cost very much is a "fucking moron" in your book, I suppose.