... Why sales are down. The ONLY big $$$ concert I ever went to was the Eagels "Hell Freezes Over Tour" 1994. I felt like a chump paying over $100 for a ticket. And the only CDs I've puchased over the past 5 years have been to fill in gaps in my existing collection. The entire record industry declared war on consumers a long time ago, yet they are complaining when the consumer is winning(avoiding their crazy $$$ schemes)? Sad. I can easily outlast the RIAA by listening to my present collection and picking up bargain bin music if need be.
I'm not the one filing complaints. If anyone is a little bitch, it's you. When the store checks my ID, they are visually checking it against the card. They are not copying the info down. Gawd you are such a douche. If they ask for you phone number, or address - of course you tell them to piss off. But if they are visually verifying that YOU are the user of the credit card and you throw a hissy fit, then YOU ARE THE PUSSY ASS BITCH.
The agent sees the person who is using the card doesn't match the stored information, and hauls you in.
That doesn't work too well in a passive setting, like along side of a road, or unmanned building entrances, etc...
On the back of my credit card, I have my endorsed name AND a note that says "please check ID". How often do you think they check my ID? Also, do you think EVERY place that is going to be using this cards has a nice pretty display to view the picture of the individuals? And if it's a simpe 96 digit number, then imagine the fun as criminals cycle thru the DB looking for people who match their general appearance. Oh what joy.
How often do we hear - "And the real world observations are EXACTLY what scientists predicted" versus "Based on these unexpected results, scientists will have to go back to the drawing board"
I'm not saying ALL grandmothers are. I'm simply saying that they are the ones who hear about some new tech from other people and go to the store to buy it. They are also the same ones who salespeople LOVE to see come in the store
For adoption, all you need is a decently priced HD-DVD/Blue-Ray player that can be sold in quantity in Best Buy. The sheeple will buy it as long as it is there and it's something new.
It hasn't hurt HDTV sales. Salesmen push whatever is best for THEM, not the consumer. Do you think your 60+ year old grandmother is going to know the difference? She just want one of those "nice" TVs. Whether she can actually view any HD content once she leaves the store is a whole other issue that does not effect the salesman commish on the TV.
Sure, the original poster will say he does the custome right, but 99% of the time, the salesman just screws his customers. Knowledge is power, and most folks will simply go into Best Buy and get whatever the salesman says to get.
508 people per square mile and 1/2 couldn't get HSIA 2 years ago, even though places like MCI/Worldcom and AOL call it home.
There are plenty of profits to be made here, just little to no desire to actually do the work. The only company I've seen put in ANY kind of effort was Adelphia cable. And they got laughably low takers because most of the time they could only produce about 300K down and 50K up if you weren't located in a brand new neighborhood. I'm guessing that if Adelphia didn't have a monopoly in the area, comcast would be a much better option. But why allow competition when politicians have money stuffed in their pockets.
True. But with the differnet situations in different countries, I just went with the BASE unit. In this case, the base unit is pretty much residential HSIA speed in the US. All other countries pretty much deal in multiples of our speeds. In same cases, as much as 30 times our speeds at less than 1/2 the price.
... The fact you STILL can't get High speed access in large portions of the US. I moved around 2 mile about 2 years ago. I used to live THREE miles East of MCI/Worldcom and AOL's world headquarters and I could NOT get HSIA. This was, at the time, the fasted growing county in the US, and I could tell you for a fact that 1/2 the homes couldnt' get HSIA.
This doesn't seem to be the problems with other countries for some reason. I guess their comunications companies actually want to make money on selling internet access, too bad ours doesn't.
When you OWN the politicians, you cna jsut sit back and charge 10 times the amount for similar service in other countries and you don't have to lift a finger to increase your service area. Why do work when you can get the politicians to pass laws allowing you to do nothing to add user access and charge out the wazzoo.
Yes and No. What were the requiremets for our next Gen. human spaceflight vehicle after the Apollo program? I can tell you that something VERY much cheaper than the complex hunk of junk known as the Space Shutle could have fulfilled all the requirements. But NASA in it's infinite wisdom gave us an albatross around out necks for 30 years. Something so complex, expensive, dangerous, etc... that has eaten up huge mounds of cash that could have gone to true science instead.
Private industry could not really get us the ISS, but private industry could get us to the ISS. This is where I see NASA failing us. Hopefully, in time, we can look back at the last 30 wasted years and say it was simply early growing pains. But human spaceflight can't take another 3 decades of spending most of our resources on building sledgehammers to kill flies - like we've been doing.
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... Why sales are down. The ONLY big $$$ concert I ever went to was the Eagels "Hell Freezes Over Tour" 1994. I felt like a chump paying over $100 for a ticket. And the only CDs I've puchased over the past 5 years have been to fill in gaps in my existing collection. The entire record industry declared war on consumers a long time ago, yet they are complaining when the consumer is winning(avoiding their crazy $$$ schemes)? Sad. I can easily outlast the RIAA by listening to my present collection and picking up bargain bin music if need be.
DIE DIE DIE you POS RIAA
Welcome to my foe list? WTF is that? You are a gawd damn Anonymous Coward, you are too much fo a pussy to put yourself out there.
That's why I don't use a loser Mastercard.
I'm not the one filing complaints. If anyone is a little bitch, it's you. When the store checks my ID, they are visually checking it against the card. They are not copying the info down. Gawd you are such a douche. If they ask for you phone number, or address - of course you tell them to piss off. But if they are visually verifying that YOU are the user of the credit card and you throw a hissy fit, then YOU ARE THE PUSSY ASS BITCH.
Yeah, nothing like wanting people to NOT make sure your credit card is being used by the right people. I hate you.
This technique was shown in Minority Report.
That doesn't work too well in a passive setting, like along side of a road, or unmanned building entrances, etc...
On the back of my credit card, I have my endorsed name AND a note that says "please check ID". How often do you think they check my ID? Also, do you think EVERY place that is going to be using this cards has a nice pretty display to view the picture of the individuals? And if it's a simpe 96 digit number, then imagine the fun as criminals cycle thru the DB looking for people who match their general appearance. Oh what joy.
How often do we hear - "And the real world observations are EXACTLY what scientists predicted" versus "Based on these unexpected results, scientists will have to go back to the drawing board"
And if you had said W, you have been modeed up to a 5 for sure.
I'm not saying ALL grandmothers are. I'm simply saying that they are the ones who hear about some new tech from other people and go to the store to buy it. They are also the same ones who salespeople LOVE to see come in the store
For adoption, all you need is a decently priced HD-DVD/Blue-Ray player that can be sold in quantity in Best Buy. The sheeple will buy it as long as it is there and it's something new.
It hasn't hurt HDTV sales. Salesmen push whatever is best for THEM, not the consumer. Do you think your 60+ year old grandmother is going to know the difference? She just want one of those "nice" TVs. Whether she can actually view any HD content once she leaves the store is a whole other issue that does not effect the salesman commish on the TV.
Sure, the original poster will say he does the custome right, but 99% of the time, the salesman just screws his customers. Knowledge is power, and most folks will simply go into Best Buy and get whatever the salesman says to get.
... as soon as the telcos start lining the politicians pockets with cash, there will be enough exceptions to keep business as usual.
Meaning, like all other seemingly good bills, it's full of flash from the outside and full of shit from the inside.
That's why I tried leaving some bread crumbs in there for people. I was specifically refering to Loudoun County Virginia - http://www.loudoun.gov/general/figures.htm
508 people per square mile and 1/2 couldn't get HSIA 2 years ago, even though places like MCI/Worldcom and AOL call it home.
There are plenty of profits to be made here, just little to no desire to actually do the work. The only company I've seen put in ANY kind of effort was Adelphia cable. And they got laughably low takers because most of the time they could only produce about 300K down and 50K up if you weren't located in a brand new neighborhood. I'm guessing that if Adelphia didn't have a monopoly in the area, comcast would be a much better option. But why allow competition when politicians have money stuffed in their pockets.
True. But with the differnet situations in different countries, I just went with the BASE unit. In this case, the base unit is pretty much residential HSIA speed in the US. All other countries pretty much deal in multiples of our speeds. In same cases, as much as 30 times our speeds at less than 1/2 the price.
... The fact you STILL can't get High speed access in large portions of the US. I moved around 2 mile about 2 years ago. I used to live THREE miles East of MCI/Worldcom and AOL's world headquarters and I could NOT get HSIA. This was, at the time, the fasted growing county in the US, and I could tell you for a fact that 1/2 the homes couldnt' get HSIA.
This doesn't seem to be the problems with other countries for some reason. I guess their comunications companies actually want to make money on selling internet access, too bad ours doesn't.
When you OWN the politicians, you cna jsut sit back and charge 10 times the amount for similar service in other countries and you don't have to lift a finger to increase your service area. Why do work when you can get the politicians to pass laws allowing you to do nothing to add user access and charge out the wazzoo.
Then the Year of Our Lord 1300 arrived and nothing since.
Meh
I pointed out the QUICKTIME specs published by Apple. Of course you can get some non H.264 High Definition content to display OK.
I point out Apple's own website and I'm a troll?
You people are loons.
Yeah, at 720p. Apple's own site says that the mini is not up to snuff for 1080p - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommenda tions.html
So in this case, it appears to really be comparing apples to oranges.
Personally, I think it looks like ass. But once you advance from the menu-less shuffle, almost anything with a menu would be an improvement.
Yes and No. What were the requiremets for our next Gen. human spaceflight vehicle after the Apollo program? I can tell you that something VERY much cheaper than the complex hunk of junk known as the Space Shutle could have fulfilled all the requirements. But NASA in it's infinite wisdom gave us an albatross around out necks for 30 years. Something so complex, expensive, dangerous, etc... that has eaten up huge mounds of cash that could have gone to true science instead.
Private industry could not really get us the ISS, but private industry could get us to the ISS. This is where I see NASA failing us. Hopefully, in time, we can look back at the last 30 wasted years and say it was simply early growing pains. But human spaceflight can't take another 3 decades of spending most of our resources on building sledgehammers to kill flies - like we've been doing.
... and you get performance at a tiny fraction of their price.
It's the best Propaganda/Misinformation outlet the US military has.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4 5/Fish_Slapping_Dance.png/180px-Fish_Slapping_Danc e.png
So I don't have to actually watch the comercial.