I just don't get it. Corporations exist for one reason, to bring value to their shareholders. Selling you a product is just a side effect of that. If people continue to buy a product that is crappy and broken the corporations does not care. I work for a bank and I greatly feel we do a dis-service to our customers. the right5 thing to do it to close up ship and tell them you could get a better banking experience ANYWHERE else. But we do not, we lie and cheat them and they give us money.
Once you get over "corporations care" and they learn that they solely exist to make money, you would if you owned stock in these companies, then you will see no problem.
I have no clue what a neo-libertarian is, but I know libertarians want full free enterprise with government out of business. They believe the government has nothing to do with the economy, but most people think that they congress critters can regulate them into a good paying job.
... the the US government trying to control our lives and social engineer everything. DST should be totally removed. Hawaii and Arizona don't observe it! I could have told them it would not have saved power. My lights are on in the morning now! Mark my words, one day the US government will fail and I can tell all those dumb ass mother fuckers who think voting democrat or republican REALLY matters that I was right all along.
Sure it's easy to "get out" Don't buy the content, I don't. I rent from Netflix and for the price of 1 DVD I get like 20 per month. If I want to watch it again I just rent it again and wait 1 day. I see almost NO point in buying DVDs. The same goes for music. People buy on iTunes. Ok that is lame, you do not own it. I would rather do a subscription model. I don't buy music either, the radio is good enough for me and when a commercial comes on I switch channels.
In my experiences. I hate the SiteKey. I called and tried to opt out. I told them I was smart enough not to get duped by a phishing site. they refused, said it was part of it now.
My other experience was with my 70 year old father. He had no idea why he had blueberries, of how the picture got there even. He would not have cared what picture is there. He does not read the fine print, he just clicks and clicks to get in. I told him. You don't see blueberries, don't put in your password.
Overall I think it is a novel idea, but just like passwords, it will not work very well.
Too bad the cables are covered in asbestos!!! Muhahahhaa.
I don't get it, are we not bombarded with radio waves. AM/FM Radio, cell phones, cordless phones. Natural occurring radio waves? I though it was just something in the environment we learned to harness.
I love TiVo's interface and teh 30-second skip "hack". I will not take a PVR AND a Cable box. So several years ago I got a Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV/Tivo unit and loved every minute of it, it was bliss. Hacked in a larger drive and the varible bit rate recording, two tuners!
I have seen ReplayTV and Cox's (Scientific Atlantic) and they but suck interface wise. My wife love the 30 second skip, so she would like Replay's commercial skip, but the TiVo interface takes the cake.
So I move to where I cannot have a dish so I get Cox and buy a second hand Series 2 Tivo. Love it, but in a larger drive, Only hate the single tuner. So now i can get DirecTV but they ditched TiVo, and they new DVR sucks ass too. What was wrong, TiVo licening fees to high? Looked at Dish, their DVR sucks too.
So am in the market for a second DircTV Tivo, even though they no longer support it (they got to support their current customers) and my wife sees this new Series 3 and says we should just get that and stick with basic cable.
We use Dell at work, excellent customer support, but we are business level where we get parts replaced in 4 hours. I have no idea on the Home side, but i hope it is good since my Father just bought a Dell.
Also with people saying "I hope they die and go out of business" need to realize the more the better. Competion really helps inovation. Look at Microsoft, wiht barely little compention things go crappy. they STOPPED working on IE for gawd's sake. Now that Firefox is creating competion they fired up IE dev again. Also look at Mac OSX. I hated apple back in the System7 thru OS9 days. I think these OSes sucked. I would take my windows anyday. I am now jeolous of my Mac friends that run UNIX stuff right on their laptop and do not have to fight their OS. All becasuse they had to innovate to survive. And soon they will make MS start to innovate again. First step should be a UNIX/Linux kernel. That would help greatly.
As far as I know Intel gives companies a break if they use the logo. For example the CPU cost $20 each, but if you put our logo on the box it is $18 each. I know also that if on commericals if they put the logo and chime in they get a chunk of money to help pay for the commercial.
So A: Apple pays more per CPU, or B: it was part of the deal years ago for Intel to get into Apple's pants.
Intel, AMD I could care less who I buy. Who ever gives me more bang for the buck. Usually that was AMD in the past for me. I am glad Apple is moving to a more mainstream CPU since it will have more R&D behind it and lower manufacturing costs since they push more units.
All the MPAA and RIAA is doing, is making more people turn away from TV and movies and music. For example I am already turned off of music. I am supposed to by a CD, well I listen to most of my music in the car, so the CD is in the car, getting wreaked and melted, etc. No thanks. Since I paid for a "license" to the CD if it gets reacked I should be able to get it replaced for a small fee, like $2, but no I have to buy a whole new one.
I like movies a lot, but I own only a few DVDs. Why do I want to see the same movie over and over again, unless it is Office Space, that never gets old. TV has me really bummed for all the commerical...and I got to pay out the ass for cable with 60 channels of crap and only 3 channels I actually watch, and those are TiVo'ed. Wihtout TiVo I would probally never watch TV.
So really all they are doing is turning a next generation into non-media people. In the long run they will be losing money.
I don't see any reason why I cannot pay a monthly fee and be able to watch anything at anytime. I pay Netflix about $20 a month for the last 7 years for something close to this. They carry everything. Now i just need a Netflix that really uses the Net and simply streams Movies, TV, etc to me. And since most good TV shows end up on DVD anyways, no need for TV anymore. No need for Cable/Satelite either. High speed Internet and DVD on demand service, if it is the right price.
I agree, I first used one of these at Hoover Dam and it stunck. Not all the urine slides down, there is always a fine coat and it smelled like the piss on the floor does. I hate them.
I have to agree, but to a point. I also used to boycott Amazon due to there lame patents. I used to be a big Sony man, everything I owned was Sony. they made some good stuff. sony TV, Surround sound, Car stereo, etc. Now they are just overpriced.
For example when I got the last TV it came down to a Sony Wega or a Panasonic Tau. Both had the flat CRT and all the specs lined up really well. The difference. Sony was several hundred dollars more. $500 for the panasonic, $750 for the Sony. The last thing I bought Sony was my DirecTiVo, SAT-T60.
I will not go all the way to "Boycott Sony" as with every purchase I will evaluate all the choices, but things like this really but a bad mark on them.
I block ads for 3 reasons 1. I dislike clutter and junk. I visit a webpage for the content. Not the crap floating around trying to sell me something. 2. Spyware relief. This was a bigger issue when I was using IE, but I noticed all my spyware was coming from these banner ads. They either tried to install some ActiveX or exploited some hole to install it without asking. for example on my Father's compter. Every month he would have 30 new spyware apps installed. Once I install this hosts file, I see one or none installed. 3. I rarly is never buy anything because of an ad. If I want something I will go out and get it. I guess ads are only good for one thing... telling me of something that I never new existed. That might be fine for some closed off old grandma but I am pretty much in the know.
I also dislike Spam for obvious reasons, but hate junk mail and phone calls. I either throw junk mail on the floor in the post office or save it and return it in the pre paid envelopes. Since the post office got paid to give me the junk I figure they can pay someone to throw it in the trash. On TV I have TiVo so I can skip threw the commercials in a few seconds. No TiVo in the bedroom and we scream becasue our eyes bleed from the crappy commercials. I also do not answer my door. Anyone who knows me knows to call first. Evry time I opened the door when it was not expected it was someone selling or pushing something. They get the door slammed in their face.
They still have those automated check outs at Home Depot and I love them!! Of course they only have 1 real person checkout open at the same time. And What I find odd, and they do this at banks is have like 15 checkout counters/teller windows but at the busiest time only have like 2 or 3 cashiers/tellers. It is like they want you to think they have capicity to serve, too bad the cashiers cost too much. I think those automated check outs are the way of the future. One cashier served counters. I have had issues but was helped promptly. Shoot event he 2 by 4s had bar codes on them.
This guy is my friend, ex-roommate. He did get the idea ofr our friend tom who is a big ebayer who order too many fed ex boxes by mistake and made the first desk. Jose moved from So Cal to AZ just a few months ago, he has nothing but some clothes and a few computers and that damn lamp. I was wiht him when he bought it at Staples. He was probally bored and that is why he made the furniture, another frined though it was cool and told him he should post the pictures. Fed Ex found out about it the first day and sent him a letter.
I know the full story, most of it is on his website or the wired artitcle or the Make article. Some is a little sanatized since there is no reason to reveal everything to the public.
He is a nice guy, does get laid on occassion (I have heard it myself, old roomate), he does have a good job, the reason he moved to AZ but he does pay double rent as he is holding his bargin with the other od the old roomates till the lease is up. But a 90% increase in salary from his just in So Cal vs the one in AZ made it worth it.
I bought my daughter a windows CE handheld, an old used one off of eBay for $30. About a month later i found it in her backback withe the screen smashed. She had put it in the back pocket of the backpack and it got crushed.
She was 13 at the time by the way.
So I am glad I did not spend several hundred on it and made me realize she is not responsable enoug to handle the delicate nature of it.
She has a desktop computer, shoot my Son has been using a desktop since he was 2. But the portables are just not tough enough.
I think I will never buy her a laptop, she will need to fork over the money herself, that way she will know how much it cost and respect it.
I find sex as not harmful but I do find violence and even sports competition as harmful to my kids. So it is all in the eye of the beholder. When my son is old enough to beat up cops wiht a bat he is old enough to get some "hot coffee".
Oh well I did not know that. So that totally throws out my argument. EVERYTHING on the disc, not just the game. Too bad for Rockstar, well done games and now they are going to get fucked.
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I just don't get it. Corporations exist for one reason, to bring value to their shareholders. Selling you a product is just a side effect of that. If people continue to buy a product that is crappy and broken the corporations does not care. I work for a bank and I greatly feel we do a dis-service to our customers. the right5 thing to do it to close up ship and tell them you could get a better banking experience ANYWHERE else. But we do not, we lie and cheat them and they give us money.
Once you get over "corporations care" and they learn that they solely exist to make money, you would if you owned stock in these companies, then you will see no problem.
I have no clue what a neo-libertarian is, but I know libertarians want full free enterprise with government out of business. They believe the government has nothing to do with the economy, but most people think that they congress critters can regulate them into a good paying job.
... the the US government trying to control our lives and social engineer everything. DST should be totally removed. Hawaii and Arizona don't observe it! I could have told them it would not have saved power. My lights are on in the morning now! Mark my words, one day the US government will fail and I can tell all those dumb ass mother fuckers who think voting democrat or republican REALLY matters that I was right all along.
Lame!!!
Sure it's easy to "get out" Don't buy the content, I don't. I rent from Netflix and for the price of 1 DVD I get like 20 per month. If I want to watch it again I just rent it again and wait 1 day. I see almost NO point in buying DVDs. The same goes for music. People buy on iTunes. Ok that is lame, you do not own it. I would rather do a subscription model. I don't buy music either, the radio is good enough for me and when a commercial comes on I switch channels.
Ya and CD-RWs really caught on too.
In my experiences. I hate the SiteKey. I called and tried to opt out. I told them I was smart enough not to get duped by a phishing site. they refused, said it was part of it now.
My other experience was with my 70 year old father. He had no idea why he had blueberries, of how the picture got there even. He would not have cared what picture is there. He does not read the fine print, he just clicks and clicks to get in. I told him. You don't see blueberries, don't put in your password.
Overall I think it is a novel idea, but just like passwords, it will not work very well.
Too bad the cables are covered in asbestos!!! Muhahahhaa.
I don't get it, are we not bombarded with radio waves. AM/FM Radio, cell phones, cordless phones. Natural occurring radio waves? I though it was just something in the environment we learned to harness.
viceroy: "Is that legal?"
palpatine: "I will make it legal!"
I love TiVo's interface and teh 30-second skip "hack". I will not take a PVR AND a Cable box. So several years ago I got a Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV/Tivo unit and loved every minute of it, it was bliss. Hacked in a larger drive and the varible bit rate recording, two tuners!
I have seen ReplayTV and Cox's (Scientific Atlantic) and they but suck interface wise. My wife love the 30 second skip, so she would like Replay's commercial skip, but the TiVo interface takes the cake.
So I move to where I cannot have a dish so I get Cox and buy a second hand Series 2 Tivo. Love it, but in a larger drive, Only hate the single tuner. So now i can get DirecTV but they ditched TiVo, and they new DVR sucks ass too. What was wrong, TiVo licening fees to high? Looked at Dish, their DVR sucks too.
So am in the market for a second DircTV Tivo, even though they no longer support it (they got to support their current customers) and my wife sees this new Series 3 and says we should just get that and stick with basic cable.
We use Dell at work, excellent customer support, but we are business level where we get parts replaced in 4 hours. I have no idea on the Home side, but i hope it is good since my Father just bought a Dell.
Also with people saying "I hope they die and go out of business" need to realize the more the better. Competion really helps inovation. Look at Microsoft, wiht barely little compention things go crappy. they STOPPED working on IE for gawd's sake. Now that Firefox is creating competion they fired up IE dev again. Also look at Mac OSX. I hated apple back in the System7 thru OS9 days. I think these OSes sucked. I would take my windows anyday. I am now jeolous of my Mac friends that run UNIX stuff right on their laptop and do not have to fight their OS. All becasuse they had to innovate to survive. And soon they will make MS start to innovate again. First step should be a UNIX/Linux kernel. That would help greatly.
As far as I know Intel gives companies a break if they use the logo. For example the CPU cost $20 each, but if you put our logo on the box it is $18 each. I know also that if on commericals if they put the logo and chime in they get a chunk of money to help pay for the commercial.
So A: Apple pays more per CPU, or B: it was part of the deal years ago for Intel to get into Apple's pants.
Intel, AMD I could care less who I buy. Who ever gives me more bang for the buck. Usually that was AMD in the past for me. I am glad Apple is moving to a more mainstream CPU since it will have more R&D behind it and lower manufacturing costs since they push more units.
All the MPAA and RIAA is doing, is making more people turn away from TV and movies and music. For example I am already turned off of music. I am supposed to by a CD, well I listen to most of my music in the car, so the CD is in the car, getting wreaked and melted, etc. No thanks. Since I paid for a "license" to the CD if it gets reacked I should be able to get it replaced for a small fee, like $2, but no I have to buy a whole new one.
I like movies a lot, but I own only a few DVDs. Why do I want to see the same movie over and over again, unless it is Office Space, that never gets old. TV has me really bummed for all the commerical...and I got to pay out the ass for cable with 60 channels of crap and only 3 channels I actually watch, and those are TiVo'ed. Wihtout TiVo I would probally never watch TV.
So really all they are doing is turning a next generation into non-media people. In the long run they will be losing money.
I don't see any reason why I cannot pay a monthly fee and be able to watch anything at anytime. I pay Netflix about $20 a month for the last 7 years for something close to this. They carry everything. Now i just need a Netflix that really uses the Net and simply streams Movies, TV, etc to me. And since most good TV shows end up on DVD anyways, no need for TV anymore. No need for Cable/Satelite either. High speed Internet and DVD on demand service, if it is the right price.
I love Courier, what else is there? UW? The maildir format is pretty awesome.
I agree, I first used one of these at Hoover Dam and it stunck. Not all the urine slides down, there is always a fine coat and it smelled like the piss on the floor does. I hate them.
I have to agree, but to a point. I also used to boycott Amazon due to there lame patents. I used to be a big Sony man, everything I owned was Sony. they made some good stuff. sony TV, Surround sound, Car stereo, etc. Now they are just overpriced.
For example when I got the last TV it came down to a Sony Wega or a Panasonic Tau. Both had the flat CRT and all the specs lined up really well. The difference. Sony was several hundred dollars more. $500 for the panasonic, $750 for the Sony. The last thing I bought Sony was my DirecTiVo, SAT-T60.
I will not go all the way to "Boycott Sony" as with every purchase I will evaluate all the choices, but things like this really but a bad mark on them.
The job of the Census is to count the people, nothing more, nothing less. This lame ass "survey" crap has got to stop.
On my computers I block ads with a hosts file. I use http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html/ and update it every few months.
I block ads for 3 reasons
1. I dislike clutter and junk. I visit a webpage for the content. Not the crap floating around trying to sell me something.
2. Spyware relief. This was a bigger issue when I was using IE, but I noticed all my spyware was coming from these banner ads. They either tried to install some ActiveX or exploited some hole to install it without asking. for example on my Father's compter. Every month he would have 30 new spyware apps installed. Once I install this hosts file, I see one or none installed.
3. I rarly is never buy anything because of an ad. If I want something I will go out and get it. I guess ads are only good for one thing... telling me of something that I never new existed. That might be fine for some closed off old grandma but I am pretty much in the know.
I also dislike Spam for obvious reasons, but hate junk mail and phone calls. I either throw junk mail on the floor in the post office or save it and return it in the pre paid envelopes. Since the post office got paid to give me the junk I figure they can pay someone to throw it in the trash. On TV I have TiVo so I can skip threw the commercials in a few seconds. No TiVo in the bedroom and we scream becasue our eyes bleed from the crappy commercials. I also do not answer my door. Anyone who knows me knows to call first. Evry time I opened the door when it was not expected it was someone selling or pushing something. They get the door slammed in their face.
Ya and 47% of statistics are made up on the fly.
They still have those automated check outs at Home Depot and I love them!! Of course they only have 1 real person checkout open at the same time. And What I find odd, and they do this at banks is have like 15 checkout counters/teller windows but at the busiest time only have like 2 or 3 cashiers/tellers. It is like they want you to think they have capicity to serve, too bad the cashiers cost too much. I think those automated check outs are the way of the future. One cashier served counters. I have had issues but was helped promptly. Shoot event he 2 by 4s had bar codes on them.
I know the full story, most of it is on his website or the wired artitcle or the Make article. Some is a little sanatized since there is no reason to reveal everything to the public.
He is a nice guy, does get laid on occassion (I have heard it myself, old roomate), he does have a good job, the reason he moved to AZ but he does pay double rent as he is holding his bargin with the other od the old roomates till the lease is up. But a 90% increase in salary from his just in So Cal vs the one in AZ made it worth it.
I bought my daughter a windows CE handheld, an old used one off of eBay for $30. About a month later i found it in her backback withe the screen smashed. She had put it in the back pocket of the backpack and it got crushed.
She was 13 at the time by the way.
So I am glad I did not spend several hundred on it and made me realize she is not responsable enoug to handle the delicate nature of it.
She has a desktop computer, shoot my Son has been using a desktop since he was 2. But the portables are just not tough enough.
I think I will never buy her a laptop, she will need to fork over the money herself, that way she will know how much it cost and respect it.
I think Automatic Updates ONLY do Critial Updates. Which excludes updates to programs or new features.
Which is fine by me. Patch the security wholes without bugging me, just my style.
"The more they over think the plumbing, the easier it is to plug up the drain."
In other words, I think if they do this it will cause more problems then it is worth. I live by KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, in my coding style.
I find sex as not harmful but I do find violence and even sports competition as harmful to my kids. So it is all in the eye of the beholder. When my son is old enough to beat up cops wiht a bat he is old enough to get some "hot coffee".
Oh well I did not know that. So that totally throws out my argument. EVERYTHING on the disc, not just the game. Too bad for Rockstar, well done games and now they are going to get fucked.