They'll put a bunch of quirky geniuses to work on the project, but they won't really understand what they're woring on. They'll build a super-laser and pass their class!
And then... they'll figure out that they've been duped into building a weapon and redirect the laser test to pop and shitload of popcorn in the prof's house. The house will overflow with popcorn and children will play in it without getting cut by glass and nails and stuff from the torn apart house.
The switch was called a "drop-out" and they worked really well for bass guitars. Adrian Legg uses these gadgets a lot in his playing and achieves some amazing sounds by adjusting the tunings quickly as he plays.
I disagree about the alternate tunings, though. Lots of current rock bands have abandoned standard tuning (eadgbe). Many simply use drop-D tuning, and others tune a half or whole step down all the way across. All for the effect of a fat low-end that makes the kiddies scream.
I'm not a Mac user, but if you buy a new Mac (with a Mac OS, obviously), won't is have iTunes and iPhoto and the rest of the i-programs installed on it?
If so, I don't really get how Microsoft's bundling of WMP with Windows is any different.
This could produce some interesting performance data for the support tech. If they can use it as a 'satisfaction rating' along with call time and all the other metrics they track in big support shops, maybe it could identify the good and bad support people. There's bound to be a lot of difference between individual callers, but if the data is normalized over a few thousand calls, it should keep things 'fair'.
Of course, this assummes that a happy-sounding customer is a satisfied customer. For instance, if a support person had a think accent, was curt, was cursed with an unpleasant voice - whatever. You probably can't dump a guy because he has a bad voice, but you might be able to if you could prove that he isn't as effective as the rest of the phone jockeys.
Happens all the time. That's why they pull back performance on the GTO (the old ones and the new ones) and even their other "specialty" performance cars like the Grand National GNX.
I disagree about the Chevette, though (I know that Chevette quality isn't really your point). I had mine in Michigan and the body panels rusted pretty quickly (I had to weld in new shock towers and floorboards), but that 1.3L "Iron Duke" and 4-speed manual were an extremely reliable combination. This was a car they practically gave away. I believe it was a pretty good value.
Technically, the Pinto's (just the wagon's) didn't "Blow Up". The fuel tank would rupture and generally result in a horrible fire.
Now, the Yugo assured that you would never get laid again. At least with the Pinto, you could take your shot with that beautiful nurse in the burn unit.
I was a Pontiac/Cadillac mechanic in the late mid-to-late 80's and had to work on many a Fiero. That model had, by far, the most (and most involved) recalls. Every time a Fiero would come to the shop, we'd end up replacing shift linkages, exhaust hangers and my favorite - heat insulation between the engine and the back wall. Fiero's had a nasty history with burning up when the material behind the passenger compartment would catch on fire.
The coolest thing about these cars were the seats with the speakers built in. Didn't sound spectacular, but that was a cool gimmick for the time.
For better security, I would suggest automating the whole process a bit further, get out of the room and see the results when done... but may be I'm just paranoid...
You'll never get a Darwin Award with that attitude, loser!
Once we went over there and found she had hidden a knife under one of her table-cloths, and once she even ran away because she thought one of us was going to blow up her house.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you...
Gerrymandering is important not for getting a slam-dumk for a particular district, but rather having majority support in most districts. Therefore making the goal more about diluting support in areas with strong opposition by including area where you have 'votes to spare'. When this happens, you don't have a square voting area. The telltale sign of Gerrymandering is that the voting areas will look strange on a map. With little offshoots or slow, meandering stripes into other areas.
Being that the term is named after Eldridge Gerry, the first guy to exploit this, and he signed the US Constitution... Yeah. It's not exactly a new phenomenon.
It will cost them more. For about a second. I went through this sort of mess with SpeakEasy, and when I told the customer service rep that I thought that I wasn't being treated fairly, she informed me that I should take the issue to court - and that, in the meantime, they would charge me late fee's (my beef was about being told to pay for something I never got), throw my name to their collection agency (which would result in fucked credit that I would have to struggle to sort out even if I was found to be right all along) and, of course, they would countersue for any legal and administrative expenses they incured.
This was their FIRST REACTION to my suggestion that there might be an error. A scare tactic that worked (because I was about to go house shopping and having fucked credit would have been a terrible problem). So I payed the $200 and cancelled my service. For cancelling, I received a bill for $250 for bailing on my contract. Payed that too. All that for 3 months of DSL that worked an hour a day if I was lucky.
Not too bad if they become, essentially, your backups.
With better home networking infrastructure (IBM coined it as ubiquitous computing) you take the music home, rip to your computer and then push it from your computer to your iPod, home theater, car, etc.
You think they get free: a) Studio Time b) Engineers c) Promotion d) Management e) Administration
Add to those all the other costs of doing business - even if the result is a PRODUCT that doesn't take up physical space on a shelf... It has to cost something.
It's up to the market to decide what consumers will pay. If that number is lower than the cost to produce the product, the companies would stop making them. Consumers are buying this product at the current market price. So lowing the price would be retarded for music companies (from the musicians to the retailers, etc.)
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They'll put a bunch of quirky geniuses to work on the project, but they won't really understand what they're woring on. They'll build a super-laser and pass their class!
And then... they'll figure out that they've been duped into building a weapon and redirect the laser test to pop and shitload of popcorn in the prof's house. The house will overflow with popcorn and children will play in it without getting cut by glass and nails and stuff from the torn apart house.
And then Laslo will win lots of cool prizes.
The switch was called a "drop-out" and they worked really well for bass guitars. Adrian Legg uses these gadgets a lot in his playing and achieves some amazing sounds by adjusting the tunings quickly as he plays.
I disagree about the alternate tunings, though. Lots of current rock bands have abandoned standard tuning (eadgbe). Many simply use drop-D tuning, and others tune a half or whole step down all the way across. All for the effect of a fat low-end that makes the kiddies scream.
I'm not a Mac user, but if you buy a new Mac (with a Mac OS, obviously), won't is have iTunes and iPhoto and the rest of the i-programs installed on it?
If so, I don't really get how Microsoft's bundling of WMP with Windows is any different.
That reminds me. I've got to run out and get a Cantonese keyboard first thing in the morning.
This could produce some interesting performance data for the support tech. If they can use it as a 'satisfaction rating' along with call time and all the other metrics they track in big support shops, maybe it could identify the good and bad support people. There's bound to be a lot of difference between individual callers, but if the data is normalized over a few thousand calls, it should keep things 'fair'.
Of course, this assummes that a happy-sounding customer is a satisfied customer. For instance, if a support person had a think accent, was curt, was cursed with an unpleasant voice - whatever. You probably can't dump a guy because he has a bad voice, but you might be able to if you could prove that he isn't as effective as the rest of the phone jockeys.
Nothing can stop my TCP/IP over Carrier Pigeons!
'cept a hungry kitty cat.
You sure you learned anything?
Happens all the time. That's why they pull back performance on the GTO (the old ones and the new ones) and even their other "specialty" performance cars like the Grand National GNX.
I disagree about the Chevette, though (I know that Chevette quality isn't really your point). I had mine in Michigan and the body panels rusted pretty quickly (I had to weld in new shock towers and floorboards), but that 1.3L "Iron Duke" and 4-speed manual were an extremely reliable combination. This was a car they practically gave away. I believe it was a pretty good value.
Technically, the Pinto's (just the wagon's) didn't "Blow Up". The fuel tank would rupture and generally result in a horrible fire.
Now, the Yugo assured that you would never get laid again. At least with the Pinto, you could take your shot with that beautiful nurse in the burn unit.
I was a Pontiac/Cadillac mechanic in the late mid-to-late 80's and had to work on many a Fiero. That model had, by far, the most (and most involved) recalls. Every time a Fiero would come to the shop, we'd end up replacing shift linkages, exhaust hangers and my favorite - heat insulation between the engine and the back wall. Fiero's had a nasty history with burning up when the material behind the passenger compartment would catch on fire.
The coolest thing about these cars were the seats with the speakers built in. Didn't sound spectacular, but that was a cool gimmick for the time.
Gary: Should we give her a brain...?
Wyatt: Sure! We can play chess with her!
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you...
Great point. That's why our (Western) porn industry is having such a hard time. Same old plots.
1. Several 35-year-old cheerleaders enter the room
2. They make out
3. Someone pulls out a gigantic purple dildo
4. Bwah-chicha-ba-wah...
Not quite right.
Gerrymandering is important not for getting a slam-dumk for a particular district, but rather having majority support in most districts. Therefore making the goal more about diluting support in areas with strong opposition by including area where you have 'votes to spare'. When this happens, you don't have a square voting area. The telltale sign of Gerrymandering is that the voting areas will look strange on a map. With little offshoots or slow, meandering stripes into other areas.
Being that the term is named after Eldridge Gerry, the first guy to exploit this, and he signed the US Constitution... Yeah. It's not exactly a new phenomenon.
It will cost them more. For about a second. I went through this sort of mess with SpeakEasy, and when I told the customer service rep that I thought that I wasn't being treated fairly, she informed me that I should take the issue to court - and that, in the meantime, they would charge me late fee's (my beef was about being told to pay for something I never got), throw my name to their collection agency (which would result in fucked credit that I would have to struggle to sort out even if I was found to be right all along) and, of course, they would countersue for any legal and administrative expenses they incured.
This was their FIRST REACTION to my suggestion that there might be an error. A scare tactic that worked (because I was about to go house shopping and having fucked credit would have been a terrible problem). So I payed the $200 and cancelled my service. For cancelling, I received a bill for $250 for bailing on my contract. Payed that too. All that for 3 months of DSL that worked an hour a day if I was lucky.
Fuckers.
Better yet, a mix of TopCoder and SourceForge...
Cool idea, but I think that might fall under the entrapment category.
That's what Post-It Notes and that plastic frame around the monitor glass are for. Er - em...
All they need now is the power to arrest. It's sickening what's been done. Too many corrupt politicians and judges...
I hope Element Computer sell a million of the suckers so they can upgrade their web servers.
Nice error message, though. I always like to see the failed SQL statement. Helps me as much as the next potential constomer...
Not too bad if they become, essentially, your backups.
With better home networking infrastructure (IBM coined it as ubiquitous computing) you take the music home, rip to your computer and then push it from your computer to your iPod, home theater, car, etc.
Are you drunk?
You think they get free:
a) Studio Time
b) Engineers
c) Promotion
d) Management
e) Administration
Add to those all the other costs of doing business - even if the result is a PRODUCT that doesn't take up physical space on a shelf... It has to cost something.
It's up to the market to decide what consumers will pay. If that number is lower than the cost to produce the product, the companies would stop making them. Consumers are buying this product at the current market price. So lowing the price would be retarded for music companies (from the musicians to the retailers, etc.)
Just image a Beowulf cluster of iShits...