After the company has shown their disrepect for users, why did the users go back at all?
I wish people would hold companies' feet to fire more often. If the only "punishment" a company suffers after getting caught pulling shitty behavior is a few days of bad PR and having to revert the shittiness, then what's the incentive to not be shitty?
How many shitty things will they try next? How many shitty things have they done that don't rile the attention of users?
You know their shitty. I know their shitty. *They* know thier shitty, and don't care, as long as users keep coming back after a perfunctory, insincere sincere apology -- Until the next time they get caught doing something shitty.
Why do users let the cycle continue?
This is not just Newscorp I'm talking about. Consider Microsoft (Verizon phones), Sony (DRM Rootkit), etc. Yet people are lining up for the XBox and can't wait for the PS3.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I've got a PS2. The next gaming system I buy will be a Revolution. Why? Because I haven't heard of Nintendo being shitty to users. (I'm likely wrong, but then I'll have to find which one has the least amount of shittiness. But considering Sony and MS, Nintendo will have to be *really* shitty for me to not go with them.)
Same with RIAA. Why do people buy their stuff? I'll admit I'm a bit of a hypocrit here, because I broke down and bought my wife an RIAA-disc for christmas. (I got her severals CDs, only one of which has RIAA pawmarks on it.)
I'd like to own American Idiot, because its good music, but can't bring myself to giving any RIAA organization my money. (I made an exception for my wife's happiness.)
The only RIAA music I buy now is *used* CDs. With only three or four exceptions in the probably the past five years, I haven't been the original buyer of any RIAA-tainted CDs.
RIAA is shitty. Therefore, I don't give RIAA money. (Well, mostly. I try very hard.)
Microsoft is shitty. Therefore, I don't give Microsoft money. (Yay, Ubuntu! Yay, FSF!)
Disney is shitty. (Senator Disney? Copyright extensions?) Unfortunately, Disney has grudgingly gotten a few of my dollars because of the Disney Princess merchandise and videos -- the crack cocaine of 5-year-old daughters. What's a good alternative to this? Barbie. Is Mattel shitty? I don't know. Anything else?
The thing is, it takes a little work to be a fully informed consumer. Many corporations count on our ignorance. However, the internet improved user-to-user communication so much that it's hard for companies to hide their shittiness for long.
Now, if I could only stop my money from supporting the Bush administration without going to jail....
* Would like fries with that? * Would you like that app converted to AJAX? * Would you like cheese on that? * Would you like some community-based features? * Would you like to super-size that order? * Would you like a web-based API with that app?
The 600 series had rubber skin
[with electro-fabric]. We spotted
them easy. But these [T-800s]
are new. They look human.
Sweat, bad breath, everything.
Very hard to spot. I had to
wait 'til he moved on you before
I could zero him.
In all seriousness, this *could* be a skin for robots.
Seriously, I use them both equally and, frankly, IE crashes once per day while FireFox crashes _at least_ twice a day.
I find that the instability of FF is directly related to the number of extensions installed. If I surf w/ no extensions enabled, FF is rock-solid.
Some extensions are better than others. I installed FasterFox a couple days ago, and FF crashed 3 times in half an hour, so I uninstalled it. I don't want to disparage FasterFox, because I'm running so many other extensions. Its hard to tell what's causing the instability.
So, in my experience at least, if FF could figure out a way to have an extension "crash" and be removed/disabled w/o affecting the running browser, isolating the problematic extension, then the perception of instability can directed to where it needs to go -- the extension and not the browser.
Than buying an 8 track and then they come out with tape, CD etc?
Ah. *Now* I understand. The plan must be to introduce a completely new and incompatible audio file format every few years, and force people to keep re-buying the hardware and software to be able to listen to thier favorite music.
The poor kid is not going to have much contact with other kids his age. I'm guessing he's going to grow up a bit anti-social and with a lack of understanding of general social rules and rituals.
There's always slashdot, where he will be among his own kind.
Sun's Java license forbids distribution together with competing technology, like the GNU Compiler Collection. For obvious reasons, most GNU/Linux distributions choose GCC over Java.
How 'bout the Google Toolbar? Can I distribute Java with that??
Why is it that for Linux to succeed Microsoft must fail and vice versa? Surely there's room for both of them in the market and competition is a healthy thing to prevent stagnation. No one looks for ATi to destroy Nvidia or wants Sony to put Nintendo out of the market so why the constant desire to see Microsoft fail?
But the inverse *is* true, from MS's point-of-view. For MS to succeed, Linux *must* fail. For MS to succeed, Sony and Nintento *must* fail. MS doesn't want a 'healthy technology ecosystem' -- it wants destroy every thing that isn't MS.
While 50% of the people who use Photoshop can very probably do the exact same things with the GIMP, for the 50% who really push Photoshop there is no substitute. And, as you climb higher on that curve to the people who are really stretching Photoshop on a daily basis (mainly very high level retouchers/digital artists) it is quite literally the only tool for the job.
Wow, so you implying that fully *half* of the current Photoshop installed base has paid hundreds of dollars for a product that adequately serves their needs, when they could have use Gimp for free and accomplished the same task? Thanks!
What is Adobe going to do when that half of their user base wakes up are starts using the free alternative? Raise prices on the other half say photoshop is the only tool for the job?
Slashdot Mirror
The incentive would to be very careful about not being shitty in the first place.
After the company has shown their disrepect for users, why did the users go back at all?
I wish people would hold companies' feet to fire more often. If the only "punishment" a company suffers after getting caught pulling shitty behavior is a few days of bad PR and having to revert the shittiness, then what's the incentive to not be shitty?
How many shitty things will they try next? How many shitty things have they done that don't rile the attention of users?
You know their shitty. I know their shitty. *They* know thier shitty, and don't care, as long as users keep coming back after a perfunctory, insincere sincere apology -- Until the next time they get caught doing something shitty.
Why do users let the cycle continue?
This is not just Newscorp I'm talking about. Consider Microsoft (Verizon phones), Sony (DRM Rootkit), etc. Yet people are lining up for the XBox and can't wait for the PS3.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I've got a PS2. The next gaming system I buy will be a Revolution. Why? Because I haven't heard of Nintendo being shitty to users. (I'm likely wrong, but then I'll have to find which one has the least amount of shittiness. But considering Sony and MS, Nintendo will have to be *really* shitty for me to not go with them.)
Same with RIAA. Why do people buy their stuff? I'll admit I'm a bit of a hypocrit here, because I broke down and bought my wife an RIAA-disc for christmas. (I got her severals CDs, only one of which has RIAA pawmarks on it.)
I'd like to own American Idiot, because its good music, but can't bring myself to giving any RIAA organization my money. (I made an exception for my wife's happiness.)
The only RIAA music I buy now is *used* CDs. With only three or four exceptions in the probably the past five years, I haven't been the original buyer of any RIAA-tainted CDs.
RIAA is shitty. Therefore, I don't give RIAA money. (Well, mostly. I try very hard.)
Microsoft is shitty. Therefore, I don't give Microsoft money. (Yay, Ubuntu! Yay, FSF!)
Disney is shitty. (Senator Disney? Copyright extensions?) Unfortunately, Disney has grudgingly gotten a few of my dollars because of the Disney Princess merchandise and videos -- the crack cocaine of 5-year-old daughters. What's a good alternative to this? Barbie. Is Mattel shitty? I don't know. Anything else?
The thing is, it takes a little work to be a fully informed consumer. Many corporations count on our ignorance. However, the internet improved user-to-user communication so much that it's hard for companies to hide their shittiness for long.
Now, if I could only stop my money from supporting the Bush administration without going to jail....
* Would like fries with that?
* Would you like that app converted to AJAX?
* Would you like cheese on that?
* Would you like some community-based features?
* Would you like to super-size that order?
* Would you like a web-based API with that app?
He (they) must not being doing a good job with thier "blatant plagarism" -- their slash rating is below average. Slash Rating
This is the skin of the T-600.
The 600 series had rubber skin
[with electro-fabric]. We spotted
them easy. But these [T-800s]
are new. They look human.
Sweat, bad breath, everything.
Very hard to spot. I had to
wait 'til he moved on you before
I could zero him.
In all seriousness, this *could* be a skin for robots.
I can pay a buck for the Sunday paper and get a tree trunk's worth of printed ads.
And the *only* circular I look through is Best Buy's. My wife looks through Michael's (arts and crafts chain store). That's it.
The giant phone-book-sized Sunday paper is 90% unread/untouched in my house.
Seriously, I use them both equally and, frankly, IE crashes once per day while FireFox crashes _at least_ twice a day.
I find that the instability of FF is directly related to the number of extensions installed. If I surf w/ no extensions enabled, FF is rock-solid.
Some extensions are better than others. I installed FasterFox a couple days ago, and FF crashed 3 times in half an hour, so I uninstalled it. I don't want to disparage FasterFox, because I'm running so many other extensions. Its hard to tell what's causing the instability.
So, in my experience at least, if FF could figure out a way to have an extension "crash" and be removed/disabled w/o affecting the running browser, isolating the problematic extension, then the perception of instability can directed to where it needs to go -- the extension and not the browser.
Unfortunately, the book spends far too much time slurring Microsoft and Bill Gates.
That's not a bug -- that's a feature!
May I point out that Canvas tag is only supported in Firefox 1.5, and not the current stable release 1.0.7.
/troll && /funny
No, you may not. And you get points off for using a period instead of a question mark.
However, my question is this: Is the canvas tag standards-compliant?
*will look up later*
Than buying an 8 track and then they come out with tape, CD etc?
Ah. *Now* I understand. The plan must be to introduce a completely new and incompatible audio file format every few years, and force people to keep re-buying the hardware and software to be able to listen to thier favorite music.
Very clever.
The poor kid is not going to have much contact with other kids his age. I'm guessing he's going to grow up a bit anti-social and with a lack of understanding of general social rules and rituals.
There's always slashdot, where he will be among his own kind.
Microsoft claims another victim.
nvu.com
Sun's Java license forbids distribution together with competing technology, like the GNU Compiler Collection. For obvious reasons, most GNU/Linux distributions choose GCC over Java.
How 'bout the Google Toolbar? Can I distribute Java with that??
You guys better buy that DVD.
Looking forward to it.
They are not--and will not--be available for purchase by individuals.
/.ed for me. Does it say *why* that the case?
Page is
Why not include a file manager and image editor while we're at it?
Good point. I'll add it to the list. Thanks.
In the west you dont even know when "public opinion is being guided" in supposed national interest.
Speak for yourself. It's pretty obvious.
This is a pefect template for the the FEC to use when they decide to regulate political blogs. Free speech is guaranteed through censorship.
Why is it that for Linux to succeed Microsoft must fail and vice versa? Surely there's room for both of them in the market and competition is a healthy thing to prevent stagnation. No one looks for ATi to destroy Nvidia or wants Sony to put Nintendo out of the market so why the constant desire to see Microsoft fail?
But the inverse *is* true, from MS's point-of-view. For MS to succeed, Linux *must* fail. For MS to succeed, Sony and Nintento *must* fail. MS doesn't want a 'healthy technology ecosystem' -- it wants destroy every thing that isn't MS.
I remember distictively when Firefox first came out, the users were bragging they were leet.
I remember that, too. During recess, they would all gather around the swing set and the teeter-totter and tease us:
We are lee-et and you-ou're no-ot.
Neiner, neiner, nei-ner!.
We use firefox and you-ou do-on't.
Neiner, neiner, nei-ner.
And the Principal never did anything.
Good times.
While 50% of the people who use Photoshop can very probably do the exact same things with the GIMP, for the 50% who really push Photoshop there is no substitute. And, as you climb higher on that curve to the people who are really stretching Photoshop on a daily basis (mainly very high level retouchers/digital artists) it is quite literally the only tool for the job.
Wow, so you implying that fully *half* of the current Photoshop installed base has paid hundreds of dollars for a product that adequately serves their needs, when they could have use Gimp for free and accomplished the same task? Thanks!
What is Adobe going to do when that half of their user base wakes up are starts using the free alternative? Raise prices on the other half say photoshop is the only tool for the job?
The only reason I don't use the gimp is because I can't be bothered to learn a new interface.
How would you feel about making a change?
Although details are sketchy, Microsoft has announced a royalty free OPEN technology called Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere.
Color me skeptical, but I'll believe that when I see it.
sales of MythTV increased for the 99th straight quarter at the new increased price of $0.00
What!? That's more than 10 times what I paid for it six months ago!