True I'm a season behind. I'm only about halfway through season 1..... seems "ehh" so far. Just like that Sookie Stackhouse/vampire show is "ehh" in my opinion (also a bit demented).
TRIVIA - It takes 2 days to download GoT over dialup (70 megabyte rips).
I'm a Penn State fan but rarely see any game. I've decided they should be airing their games on Free TV, and if they are not willing then I'll just boycott. I'd do the same with NBA if I were a fan. I don't need sports.
ESPN only charges $3 per home per month. It's a shame Comcast and other government-created monopolies won't let you buy JUST that channel, plus maybe $5 for line maintenance. (Now that I think about it I think you can get ESPN for only $25 through Dish... not a bad deal if you love sports.)
>>>If you wave an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.
P.S. I just donated $90 to Clarkesworld magazine. Why? Because they gave me not just one month, but 6 YEARS of entertainment. (Including expensive narrators reading the stories to you.) All of it archived here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/
Fie on HBO, Comcast, et cetera and their ripoff ~$1100 a year cost. I'd be willing to pay a la carte service like Sirius XM has ($8 for any 40 channels of your choice) but not huge amounts. Me not rich.;-) I'll just use the freebie antenna TV. Plus hulu. Plus reading.
I have an antenna and don't miss cable at all. In fact I travel a lot and see cable almost every day in the hotel..... rarely do they have anything I want to see. Syfy used to have a great block of Stargate SG1, Atlantis, Galactica back-to-back but now it's devolved into some weird reality/gameshow/carbuilding channel. The last good show, Eureka, got canceled.
The other channels are pretty dismal too. I'm glad I don't pay for cable at home and just get my TV free (supplemented by hulu and fiction magazines). That's good.
>>>an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.
That's just nuts. The typical Cable channel only charges 50 cents per month (less for news channels, more for TNT/USA). Even expensive channels like ESPN are only $3/month. There's no way I'm paying 90 for HBO..... I see it frequently in my hotel and it rarely has anything I want to see (just the same movies again-and-again). If I want Thrones I will buy the DVD for considerably less money.
The top 3 are all "nerd" shows. No surprise they'd no how to use the internet to get what they want. How many of those 4 million will buy the Thrones DVD once it's released? I bet most of them.
Season 1 of Game of Thrones is running against: Captain America: The First Avenger Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Hugo Source Code
And just for the sake of completion: Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) âoeThe Doctor's Wifeâ (Doctor Who) âoeThe Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech,â Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon âoeThe Girl Who Waitedâ (Doctor Who) âoeA Good Man Goes to Warâ (Doctor Who) âoeRemedial Chaos Theoryâ (Community)
If the MS software is free then you really have no right to complain. It reminds me of when Fantasy & Science Magazine gave-away a free "digest" edition on amazon. As a digest, rather than get all ~15 stories/articles for free, you got 1 free story and 5-6 articles/reviews. A sampler basically. BUT people still complained about it: - "I only got one story and some other junk." Or "You have to pay $2 to get the full thing! No way." Or "Amazon says they charged my account $0.00. I thought it was free??? What dishonesty! Never deal with this company again"
The what? (looks round). I don't see that on my Win7 desktop. And yeah I still use the start button since it gives me a nice list of all my programs in one quick spot.
Doubtful. It might have more Flash or ROM storage, but not more than 512 MB RAM. For example the iPhone 3 had half of that. Anyway, I thought about adding more RAM to my desktop but I honestly thought it would die 2-3 years ago (and then I'd have wasted money). But it just keeps ticking.
I upgraded from the old Flash when youtube stopped supporting it, and the new Flash runs very poorly on my 1/2 gigabyte PC. It slowsdown Firefox 10 LTS and makes the non-google Chromium randomly freeze for 1-2 minutes (until a popup asks if I want to kill flash).
(1) What "icon" is KingBenny talking about? I don't see any.
(2) Excellent point. The Constitution provides for "limited exclusive rights" for inventors/authors to promote production, but history is now showing that it has the opposite effect of stagnating creativity (and locking-up control in a few megacorps) for 20 or 100+ years. Thomas Jefferson was right to propose amending the constitution to insert a time limit on copyrights/patents.
"Article 9. Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding -- years, but for no longer term, and no other purpose."
Aren't the patent officers supposed to investigate "prior art" before issuing the patent? Maybe like congress they just aren't doing their jobs anymore, and dumping it on the courts to nullify laws/patents.
I think I will start visiting websites I no longer use, and deactivate my accounts. If that doesn't work, I'll fill the "user profile" with a bunch of nonsense & scramble the password. It worries me that over the last ~20 years I've visited a bunch of places and left behind details about myself. I never used linked-in but I imagine if I did, I'd be in potential trouble now (leaked info).
>>>All I see is yet another "me too" product from Microsoft.
Microsoft has done that for its entire life. The only really brilliant move was to attach themselves to IBM and ride them as their PC became the defacto computer standard. Elsewhere Microsoft has copied other innovators (Apple, Commodore, Atari, etc)
Well to set the record straight: - Apple wasn't the first to develop a multimedia computer (music-quality sound and full-screen video). - Apple wasn't the first to develop preemptive multitasking for home computers. - Apple wasn't the first to develop MP3 players. - Or tablets. - Or smartphones. - Though they were the first with laptops (I'll give them credit for that).
The advantage of drop-down menus is that you can search through the list of words in 5-10 seconds. I didn't memorize the menu..... I just looked and SAW what I needed.
Who the hell knows what the unlabeled hieroglyphics in Ribbon means? Certainly not me. I didn't study egyptian. Plus a lot of the crab is hiding in a different tab. It takes several minutes to find what I want, instead of ~10 seconds.
>>>>>similar to psychohistory in Asimov's short stories. >> >>Calling Asmov's Foundation series a short story is an under statment.
No it's an ACCURATE statement. They were originally short stories published in monthly magazines (1940s). Then in the mid-50s the short stories were collected together as an anthology. They still have the same short story or novelette form they had when the magazines published them.
>>>If you don't know what ASLR or DEP are then you probably don't belong on this site at all;
Piss off. If I started rattling off acronyms from my trade (FCU,LSEQ,VHSIC) you'd probably have no idea what I'm talking about either. Not everyone is a software engineer so to expect people to know those SW-specific acronyms is bullshit.
>>>they bought TV's only to find them broken and sold "AS-IS"
First, the minimum wage people were not Circuit City employees, but employees of the liquidator that bought them out.
Second, your story is illegal. The customer is entitled to a refund if the seller does not reveal an item has a major flaw. In fact we had a case like that in my city which was reported on Local TV. The reporter contacted the government and CircuitCity's Liquidator got a call from the State General Attorney threatening to prosecute. All customers who demanded refund got them. As for me, I got those digital-to-analog TV converter boxes for $20, an HD radio for $40 (1/4 price), and a bunch of games for $5 each (1/3 price).
I used to work in a store. After dealing with literally thousands of returns, including outright scams (substituting $10 Keds for $50 EasySpirit and trying to return it), it is NOT surprising that stores have stringent policies. I also concluded that if the customer lost his receipt after just one week, he must be the biggest slob/disorganized person in the world. EVERYBODY knows you can't return something without a receipt. HANG onto it somewhere safe.... stick it in your wallet with your cash. Basically: I have zero sympathy for your story. Losing your receipt after just one day was Forrest Gump stupid.
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True I'm a season behind. I'm only about halfway through season 1..... seems "ehh" so far. Just like that Sookie Stackhouse/vampire show is "ehh" in my opinion (also a bit demented).
TRIVIA - It takes 2 days to download GoT over dialup (70 megabyte rips).
I'm a Penn State fan but rarely see any game. I've decided they should be airing their games on Free TV, and if they are not willing then I'll just boycott. I'd do the same with NBA if I were a fan. I don't need sports.
ESPN only charges $3 per home per month. It's a shame Comcast and other government-created monopolies won't let you buy JUST that channel, plus maybe $5 for line maintenance. (Now that I think about it I think you can get ESPN for only $25 through Dish... not a bad deal if you love sports.)
>>>You can watch the show on a connection as slow as dial-up if you go to Amazon
Seriously? I thought the minimum stream speed (like hulu and youtube) was 300k.
>>>If you wave an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.
P.S. I just donated $90 to Clarkesworld magazine. Why? Because they gave me not just one month, but 6 YEARS of entertainment. (Including expensive narrators reading the stories to you.) All of it archived here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/
Fie on HBO, Comcast, et cetera and their ripoff ~$1100 a year cost. I'd be willing to pay a la carte service like Sirius XM has ($8 for any 40 channels of your choice) but not huge amounts. Me not rich. ;-) I'll just use the freebie antenna TV. Plus hulu. Plus reading.
+1 for you.
I have an antenna and don't miss cable at all. In fact I travel a lot and see cable almost every day in the hotel..... rarely do they have anything I want to see. Syfy used to have a great block of Stargate SG1, Atlantis, Galactica back-to-back but now it's devolved into some weird reality/gameshow/carbuilding channel. The last good show, Eureka, got canceled.
The other channels are pretty dismal too. I'm glad I don't pay for cable at home and just get my TV free (supplemented by hulu and fiction magazines). That's good.
>>>an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.
That's just nuts. The typical Cable channel only charges 50 cents per month (less for news channels, more for TNT/USA). Even expensive channels like ESPN are only $3/month. There's no way I'm paying 90 for HBO..... I see it frequently in my hotel and it rarely has anything I want to see (just the same movies again-and-again). If I want Thrones I will buy the DVD for considerably less money.
The top 3 are all "nerd" shows. No surprise they'd no how to use the internet to get what they want. How many of those 4 million will buy the Thrones DVD once it's released? I bet most of them.
Season 1 of Game of Thrones is running against:
Captain America: The First Avenger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
Source Code
And just for the sake of completion:
Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
âoeThe Doctor's Wifeâ (Doctor Who)
âoeThe Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech,â Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon
âoeThe Girl Who Waitedâ (Doctor Who)
âoeA Good Man Goes to Warâ (Doctor Who)
âoeRemedial Chaos Theoryâ (Community)
>>>and yet people complain about its limitations.
If the MS software is free then you really have no right to complain.
It reminds me of when Fantasy & Science Magazine gave-away a free "digest" edition on amazon. As a digest, rather than get all ~15 stories/articles for free, you got 1 free story and 5-6 articles/reviews. A sampler basically. BUT people still complained about it:
- "I only got one story and some other junk."
Or "You have to pay $2 to get the full thing! No way."
Or "Amazon says they charged my account $0.00. I thought it was free??? What dishonesty! Never deal with this company again"
>>>people largely launch apps from the super bar
The what? (looks round). I don't see that on my Win7 desktop.
And yeah I still use the start button since it gives me a nice list of all my programs in one quick spot.
>>>My phone has more RAM than that.
Doubtful. It might have more Flash or ROM storage, but not more than 512 MB RAM. For example the iPhone 3 had half of that. Anyway, I thought about adding more RAM to my desktop but I honestly thought it would die 2-3 years ago (and then I'd have wasted money). But it just keeps ticking.
I upgraded from the old Flash when youtube stopped supporting it, and the new Flash runs very poorly on my 1/2 gigabyte PC. It slowsdown Firefox 10 LTS and makes the non-google Chromium randomly freeze for 1-2 minutes (until a popup asks if I want to kill flash).
(1) What "icon" is KingBenny talking about? I don't see any.
(2) Excellent point. The Constitution provides for "limited exclusive rights" for inventors/authors to promote production, but history is now showing that it has the opposite effect of stagnating creativity (and locking-up control in a few megacorps) for 20 or 100+ years. Thomas Jefferson was right to propose amending the constitution to insert a time limit on copyrights/patents.
"Article 9. Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding -- years, but for no longer term, and no other purpose."
Aren't the patent officers supposed to investigate "prior art" before issuing the patent? Maybe like congress they just aren't doing their jobs anymore, and dumping it on the courts to nullify laws/patents.
>>>I run adblock to help do my part to have Slashdot lose money for posting this drivel).
-or- You could just check the little box that says, "Disable advertising" like I did.
I thought it was determined in Apple v. Microsoft (windows) that you cannot patent or copyright the "look and feel" of software or hardware?
What's that?
I think I will start visiting websites I no longer use, and deactivate my accounts. If that doesn't work, I'll fill the "user profile" with a bunch of nonsense & scramble the password. It worries me that over the last ~20 years I've visited a bunch of places and left behind details about myself. I never used linked-in but I imagine if I did, I'd be in potential trouble now (leaked info).
>>>All I see is yet another "me too" product from Microsoft.
Microsoft has done that for its entire life. The only really brilliant move was to attach themselves to IBM and ride them as their PC became the defacto computer standard. Elsewhere Microsoft has copied other innovators (Apple, Commodore, Atari, etc)
Well to set the record straight:
- Apple wasn't the first to develop a multimedia computer (music-quality sound and full-screen video).
- Apple wasn't the first to develop preemptive multitasking for home computers.
- Apple wasn't the first to develop MP3 players.
- Or tablets.
- Or smartphones.
- Though they were the first with laptops (I'll give them credit for that).
The advantage of drop-down menus is that you can search through the list of words in 5-10 seconds. I didn't memorize the menu..... I just looked and SAW what I needed.
Who the hell knows what the unlabeled hieroglyphics in Ribbon means? Certainly not me. I didn't study egyptian. Plus a lot of the crab is hiding in a different tab. It takes several minutes to find what I want, instead of ~10 seconds.
>>>>>similar to psychohistory in Asimov's short stories.
>>
>>Calling Asmov's Foundation series a short story is an under statment.
No it's an ACCURATE statement. They were originally short stories published in monthly magazines (1940s). Then in the mid-50s the short stories were collected together as an anthology. They still have the same short story or novelette form they had when the magazines published them.
>>>If you don't know what ASLR or DEP are then you probably don't belong on this site at all;
Piss off. If I started rattling off acronyms from my trade (FCU,LSEQ,VHSIC) you'd probably have no idea what I'm talking about either. Not everyone is a software engineer so to expect people to know those SW-specific acronyms is bullshit.
>>>when you wreck the car you get nothing.
So I buy a new one. (shrug). Same thing I do when my TV or PC dies.
>>>they bought TV's only to find them broken and sold "AS-IS"
First, the minimum wage people were not Circuit City employees, but employees of the liquidator that bought them out.
Second, your story is illegal. The customer is entitled to a refund if the seller does not reveal an item has a major flaw. In fact we had a case like that in my city which was reported on Local TV. The reporter contacted the government and CircuitCity's Liquidator got a call from the State General Attorney threatening to prosecute. All customers who demanded refund got them.
As for me, I got those digital-to-analog TV converter boxes for $20, an HD radio for $40 (1/4 price), and a bunch of games for $5 each (1/3 price).
I used to work in a store.
After dealing with literally thousands of returns, including outright scams (substituting $10 Keds for $50 EasySpirit and trying to return it), it is NOT surprising that stores have stringent policies. I also concluded that if the customer lost his receipt after just one week, he must be the biggest slob/disorganized person in the world. EVERYBODY knows you can't return something without a receipt. HANG onto it somewhere safe.... stick it in your wallet with your cash.
Basically:
I have zero sympathy for your story. Losing your receipt after just one day was Forrest Gump stupid.