Then you should do something about your social situations.
Among other things, I sell consumer electronics. I will not escape the retards looking to Apple so they can revolutionize the revolution with their revolutionary products, by the grace of Steve Jobs (God's other son), for some time.
It's quite annoying to have to pretend that a potential customer isn't a mouth-breathing moron that, based on their reasoning, is choosing an iDevice solely because their neighbor has one and OMG if they don't get one, too, then he wins whatever fucking competition these idiots think they're playing at.
There are Fandroids out there, too, and I've met them as well, but they are outnumbered by the iDiots by about 1000:1. Anyone that sells consumer electronics (outside of perhaps some butthurt Apple Store employees) will tell you that it really is almost cult-like, the way iDevices are revered among people.
The only ones that talk constant about "magical", "revolutionary", "innovative",... - with the exception of a marketing movie when a new product has introduced - are people that are riding the iHate wave. I don't see a lot of normal people talking in such terms.
Then you either live in a small pocket of technological illiterati, are legally deaf, or deliberately ignoring it, because I hear that kind of shit all the fucking time out of retards that honestly believe Steve Jobs invented the modern era single-handedly.
Whether due to incompetence or malice, it still screams Caveat Emptor, and most people should know better. Even before this particular story broke, how many/.'ers were considering buying network hardware from this company? Probably not many. Most reasonable people can see a deal that is too good to be true.
I highly doubt the motivations behind the low price of Linux as compared to the low price of these Chinese shit-tier routers are one and the same, which I'm betting you damn well know yourself, but if you want to play the 'feigned ignorance' game, you go for it buddy.
Would you buy electronics out of the back of a van? It could be legit, amirite?
You get what you pay for. Who would trust this craptastic bargain basement shit anyway? When something is being sold for a much lower price then competing products, there is a reason for it.
Are you kidding? The Olympics is a hugely political event. It's not about the medals, it's about beating the U.S. and the West to prove that their way of doing things is better. Just like the U.S.S.R. back in it's day.
They played games in the 2008 Gymnastics competition with their 14^H^H16 year old Gymnasts, so I don't doubt for a second they're playing games now.
No, but to ignore the fishy bullshit they've pulled in the past is retarded, too. If you believe they're on the up and up, that's fine, but forgive us for a little incredulity when they've demonstrated that they'll play games like this before.
If you take that approach, then you can prevent the kind of stupid laws that want to turn universities into more "business-like" entities, if anything they are TOO MUCH like private enterprize already, they OUGHT to operate as a public service. Nobody ever asks if a neighbourhood playground makes MONEY - we just build them because it's better to live in a world with them than a world without them. That is what science should be. A neighbourhood playground.
The court stated that Zeidenberg could have rejected the terms of the contract and returned the software.
Good luck finding any software retailer that will allow you to return opened software, of course. Is the manufacturer even legally required to compensate the purchaser in a case such as that? Seems like the consumer is screwed either way...
Dude's broke. He'll be living off his salary as an ESPN analyst.
Clearly our definitions of "broke" are vastly dissimilar.
Let me know when he's working at fucking Walmart shagging carts for $8 bucks an hour wondering how he's going to pay for health insurance and food at the same time.
You go ahead and show me all the hardware that requires Windows 8. I'll wait.
What major video and battery life upgrades are present in Windows 8 that necessitates the move to that OS? The only people that are going to be stuck dealing with Windows 8 are the morons that just had to go out and get the newest shiny for no other reason than having the newest shiny. For obvious reasons, they don't count in this discussion. So who does that leave? Who is going to be forced to upgrade? Nobody.
Who is holding a gun to people's heads forcing them to buy a new laptop? On top of that, who is forcing people to buy a laptop with Windows 8 on it? There were XP laptops available online all over the place for years after Vista came out. You can still buy new laptops with XP on them now. Go search Amazon right now for proof. So what's the urgency to upgrade? Are people afraid they won't be able to get a Windows 7 machine in the years to come? Who put that stupid idea into their heads?
Is there some new technology that people need? Not that I can tell. Are the specs on the new hardware likely to be that much better than the specs of the models preinstalled with Windows 7 have? Doubt it. So why the fucking urgency to upgrade?
Computers aren't throwaway electronics, like tablets and cell phones, and that's honestly the only reason I can fathom that people are pulling their hair out right now over Windows 8 and their upgrade options. It's like someone put this idea in their head that they have to fucking upgrade. Are they afraid Windows 7 won't be 'snappy' enough? Afraid that a software patch is going to bloat up their Win7 install so bad that their 2-year-old laptop won't be viable anymore? Who is spreading this absolute nonsense?
I'm going to continue using Windows 7 until either Windows 9 comes out or a Linux based system becomes a viable alternative for a current gaming machine, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop me, nor is there anything anyone can do to stop anyone else, either. To do so would be to alienate half their customer base who won't be upgrading, no matter what. That's reality.
That's also why I'm not running around worried about the sky falling down around me. Nobody needs Windows 8. Problem solved.
I believe Google Drive can do this as well. I know for a fact that you can also do this with Google+, but I'm betting the 17 people actively using G+ already know this.
Why the fuck do they have to switch from what they're using now anyway? Is there some law against using an older version of an OS when the new one comes out or something?
There's all this hysteria right now, "Oh noes! What are we going to do?!?! Windows 8 sucks!!!! We're so screwed!!!!!!! How will we ever upgrade?!?!?!!?!"
Non-retarded answer: Don't fucking upgrade. Keep on trucking using Windows 7. Seeing as how it's the modern day Windows XP, and will likely have a significant market share a decade after it's release (just like Windows XP did), it will continue to be supported by any non-retarded hardware or software producer for many years yet. There's no fucking reason to upgrade at all. Shit, how many people out there are still using XP and getting by these days, and how old is that now, 12 years old or something?
I'm all for transitioning the less technologically inclined to Linux, don't get me wrong; the more people switch (especially non-techies) the more attention the platform will get for development, particularly in the gaming arena, which is solely needed. What I just can't understand is all this urgency to switch now. Windows 8 sucks. Fine. So don't use it. Problem solved.
Besides, when Windows 8 flops (and it will) we'll be up to Windows 9 that much sooner, and it'll be a moot point anyway. By the time Windows 7 is starting to really show it's age, there will likely be a much less shit-tastic Windows version out there to upgrade to, and if not, then maybe it really will finally be "the year of the linux desktop". Either way, I think it's safe to breathe a little.
Yet, amazingly, when competitors come in the service miraculously improves? Boy, that's not coincidental or anything...
When a company is granted a local monopoly on service, they should no longer get to treat all issues purely in terms of dollars and cents. If they can't keep up with the current pace of technology, then they do not deserve their monopoly and the lines need to be opened up to those that can so we have a truly competitive market. They can't fucking have it both ways.
Yeah, I try to go the UVerse route as well (I check every couple months or so) and they're not in my area yet, either (but they do cover people a few blocks from my house on the other side of a major roadway...I can see them doing their installs from my driveway as the tears of envy and bitterness spill down my cheeks). Verizon FiOS has also been rumored to be coming in here for years now and they still haven't shown up, either.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've had someone tell me of a positive experience they've had with Charter, as compared to the countless negative ones. I've got chat transcripts of my support issues going back for 5 years; I have to contact them at least 3-4 times a year for service issues. Once a real competitor comes in here I'm calling Charter and dismissing their fucking service with prejudice. Probably explains why they're pushing so hard for people to sign 2-year contracts for service nowadays...because they're sure as shit not going to maintain a customer base based on loyalty alone. I wouldn't be surprised if half their techs jumped ship along with the customers, to be honest.
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Then you should do something about your social situations.
Among other things, I sell consumer electronics. I will not escape the retards looking to Apple so they can revolutionize the revolution with their revolutionary products, by the grace of Steve Jobs (God's other son), for some time.
It's quite annoying to have to pretend that a potential customer isn't a mouth-breathing moron that, based on their reasoning, is choosing an iDevice solely because their neighbor has one and OMG if they don't get one, too, then he wins whatever fucking competition these idiots think they're playing at.
There are Fandroids out there, too, and I've met them as well, but they are outnumbered by the iDiots by about 1000:1. Anyone that sells consumer electronics (outside of perhaps some butthurt Apple Store employees) will tell you that it really is almost cult-like, the way iDevices are revered among people.
The only ones that talk constant about "magical", "revolutionary", "innovative", ... - with the exception of a marketing movie when a new product has introduced - are people that are riding the iHate wave. I don't see a lot of normal people talking in such terms.
Then you either live in a small pocket of technological illiterati, are legally deaf, or deliberately ignoring it, because I hear that kind of shit all the fucking time out of retards that honestly believe Steve Jobs invented the modern era single-handedly.
How long before this becomes reality?
Whether due to incompetence or malice, it still screams Caveat Emptor, and most people should know better. Even before this particular story broke, how many /.'ers were considering buying network hardware from this company? Probably not many. Most reasonable people can see a deal that is too good to be true.
Yeah, exactly the same, except for all the deliberately inserted vulnerabilities. What a bargain!
I highly doubt the motivations behind the low price of Linux as compared to the low price of these Chinese shit-tier routers are one and the same, which I'm betting you damn well know yourself, but if you want to play the 'feigned ignorance' game, you go for it buddy.
Would you buy electronics out of the back of a van? It could be legit, amirite?
You get what you pay for. Who would trust this craptastic bargain basement shit anyway? When something is being sold for a much lower price then competing products, there is a reason for it.
Are you kidding? The Olympics is a hugely political event. It's not about the medals, it's about beating the U.S. and the West to prove that their way of doing things is better. Just like the U.S.S.R. back in it's day.
They played games in the 2008 Gymnastics competition with their 14^H^H16 year old Gymnasts, so I don't doubt for a second they're playing games now.
No, but to ignore the fishy bullshit they've pulled in the past is retarded, too. If you believe they're on the up and up, that's fine, but forgive us for a little incredulity when they've demonstrated that they'll play games like this before.
Just like their star gymnast in 2008, He Kexin was 16 when she competed?
Sorry, but I didn't buy it then, nor do I buy it now.
Yeah, but believe me, if a spectator goes to do it everyone gets all bitchy about it. Where's the fairness in that?
If you take that approach, then you can prevent the kind of stupid laws that want to turn universities into more "business-like" entities, if anything they are TOO MUCH like private enterprize already, they OUGHT to operate as a public service. Nobody ever asks if a neighbourhood playground makes MONEY - we just build them because it's better to live in a world with them than a world without them. That is what science should be. A neighbourhood playground.
Good analogy. I like the cut of your jib, sir.
Dude, what are you talking about? We're all fucking old.
Does that mean Apple owes its existence to Microsoft?
I just felt a great disturbance in the Apple fandom, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
It's time to start trolling the trollers.
If I wanted that I'd just go to 4chan.
The court stated that Zeidenberg could have rejected the terms of the contract and returned the software.
Good luck finding any software retailer that will allow you to return opened software, of course. Is the manufacturer even legally required to compensate the purchaser in a case such as that? Seems like the consumer is screwed either way...
Dude's broke. He'll be living off his salary as an ESPN analyst.
Clearly our definitions of "broke" are vastly dissimilar.
Let me know when he's working at fucking Walmart shagging carts for $8 bucks an hour wondering how he's going to pay for health insurance and food at the same time.
You jest, but I've heard people say shit just like that. It's a "status symbol", remember?
You go ahead and show me all the hardware that requires Windows 8. I'll wait.
What major video and battery life upgrades are present in Windows 8 that necessitates the move to that OS? The only people that are going to be stuck dealing with Windows 8 are the morons that just had to go out and get the newest shiny for no other reason than having the newest shiny. For obvious reasons, they don't count in this discussion. So who does that leave? Who is going to be forced to upgrade? Nobody.
Who is holding a gun to people's heads forcing them to buy a new laptop? On top of that, who is forcing people to buy a laptop with Windows 8 on it? There were XP laptops available online all over the place for years after Vista came out. You can still buy new laptops with XP on them now. Go search Amazon right now for proof. So what's the urgency to upgrade? Are people afraid they won't be able to get a Windows 7 machine in the years to come? Who put that stupid idea into their heads?
Is there some new technology that people need? Not that I can tell. Are the specs on the new hardware likely to be that much better than the specs of the models preinstalled with Windows 7 have? Doubt it. So why the fucking urgency to upgrade?
Computers aren't throwaway electronics, like tablets and cell phones, and that's honestly the only reason I can fathom that people are pulling their hair out right now over Windows 8 and their upgrade options. It's like someone put this idea in their head that they have to fucking upgrade. Are they afraid Windows 7 won't be 'snappy' enough? Afraid that a software patch is going to bloat up their Win7 install so bad that their 2-year-old laptop won't be viable anymore? Who is spreading this absolute nonsense?
I'm going to continue using Windows 7 until either Windows 9 comes out or a Linux based system becomes a viable alternative for a current gaming machine, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop me, nor is there anything anyone can do to stop anyone else, either. To do so would be to alienate half their customer base who won't be upgrading, no matter what. That's reality.
That's also why I'm not running around worried about the sky falling down around me. Nobody needs Windows 8. Problem solved.
I believe Google Drive can do this as well. I know for a fact that you can also do this with Google+, but I'm betting the 17 people actively using G+ already know this.
That sure didn't last long.
I remember the first time I did acid, too.
Why the fuck do they have to switch from what they're using now anyway? Is there some law against using an older version of an OS when the new one comes out or something?
There's all this hysteria right now, "Oh noes! What are we going to do?!?! Windows 8 sucks!!!! We're so screwed!!!!!!! How will we ever upgrade?!?!?!!?!"
Non-retarded answer: Don't fucking upgrade. Keep on trucking using Windows 7. Seeing as how it's the modern day Windows XP, and will likely have a significant market share a decade after it's release (just like Windows XP did), it will continue to be supported by any non-retarded hardware or software producer for many years yet. There's no fucking reason to upgrade at all. Shit, how many people out there are still using XP and getting by these days, and how old is that now, 12 years old or something?
I'm all for transitioning the less technologically inclined to Linux, don't get me wrong; the more people switch (especially non-techies) the more attention the platform will get for development, particularly in the gaming arena, which is solely needed. What I just can't understand is all this urgency to switch now. Windows 8 sucks. Fine. So don't use it. Problem solved.
Besides, when Windows 8 flops (and it will) we'll be up to Windows 9 that much sooner, and it'll be a moot point anyway. By the time Windows 7 is starting to really show it's age, there will likely be a much less shit-tastic Windows version out there to upgrade to, and if not, then maybe it really will finally be "the year of the linux desktop". Either way, I think it's safe to breathe a little.
Yet, amazingly, when competitors come in the service miraculously improves? Boy, that's not coincidental or anything...
When a company is granted a local monopoly on service, they should no longer get to treat all issues purely in terms of dollars and cents. If they can't keep up with the current pace of technology, then they do not deserve their monopoly and the lines need to be opened up to those that can so we have a truly competitive market. They can't fucking have it both ways.
Yeah, I try to go the UVerse route as well (I check every couple months or so) and they're not in my area yet, either (but they do cover people a few blocks from my house on the other side of a major roadway...I can see them doing their installs from my driveway as the tears of envy and bitterness spill down my cheeks). Verizon FiOS has also been rumored to be coming in here for years now and they still haven't shown up, either.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've had someone tell me of a positive experience they've had with Charter, as compared to the countless negative ones. I've got chat transcripts of my support issues going back for 5 years; I have to contact them at least 3-4 times a year for service issues. Once a real competitor comes in here I'm calling Charter and dismissing their fucking service with prejudice. Probably explains why they're pushing so hard for people to sign 2-year contracts for service nowadays...because they're sure as shit not going to maintain a customer base based on loyalty alone. I wouldn't be surprised if half their techs jumped ship along with the customers, to be honest.