Doesn't change a thing. He wants a resolution. A phone call will lead to one. Thus, he should make a phone call. If he cannot, he surely has someone in the US (or whatever region the system was purchased from) that could place the call on his behalf.
It's not difficult. The first answer to "I want something..." should be "So ask for it.", and not "Chargeback! Email carpet bomb! Consumerist!"
There's no DRM in your.wav. There's no DRM in your.mp3. There's no DRM in the CD you burned. There's no DRM in anything that you didn't buy from a DRM-using source. There's no DRM in anything you didn't yourself digitally lock down. There's no DRM in the way to lock you out of content you yourself created, unless you're such a fucking moron that you're going to DRM yourself out of your own content.
But.. You are dumb enough to ask this question. It is entirely possible you are dumb enough to choose to store all your content, that you yourself created, in signed, encrypted, restricted use Windows Media 10 files.
I don't mind in-page ads of any sort nearly as much as I mind the new windows. The in-window ads aren't any more effort to work around, unless they block the content of the page (which is becoming more common, unfortunately).
The problem with popups wasn't the one new window.. It's playing Whack-A-Mole with the 32 pops spawned by that one.
The Napster model is a subscription to put as much music as you want on your player.
Not, "Buy the songs, then pay us $15 to play it." Rather, "Subscribe to the service, and throw as much music as you want on your player." You're not buying the music, even in the CD/ITMS sense of, "I paid for the right to play this song as much as I want."
If you haven't seen them, you certainly haven't been looking too much. Short of boards that cater to niche markets, 6 PCI slots seems to be the standard these days.
Actually, looks like the 7 cents a song part is wrong. 0.07 cents per song per listener. My mistake - works out to 70 cents per thousand listeners per song.
No, you goons. The reference is to when The X-Files site showed pictures of The Lone Gunmen on their site for one of the episodes (The last?). After they died. Spoiling the suprise of them coming back.
I'd imagine a good portion of it were people trying to get to the Google cache of CNN, hoping they were updating it more often (which they did start doing)
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
You forget the purpose of the +1 bonus. It's not to be left on all the time, but only used on comments that deserve a +1 off the bat. At the very least, this post doesn't qualify. Therefore, the comment IS overrated, and deserving of a -1 moderation because of it.
The +1 bonus is NOT a "Hey, I'm better than everyone!". It's a slight bonus to being a well-behaved member of Slashdot, which are few and far between. There's an expectation that you use the +1 accordingly.
Actually, yes I would have made the EXACT SAME comment. Why?
I wasn't paying attention to your login. I stopped looking at usernames here over 2 years ago, when "Linus Torvalds" posted here more often than Anonymous Coward.
My comment was more a dig at the average idiot I take calls from, who DO purchase modems based on color. I had a customer throw a fit because we didn't offer any sort of translucent modem to match their iMac.
I started MY experience with cable modem internet access over 5 years ago, in Las Vegas with a properietary Com21 ComPort modem. Not a problem.
Each market is different. Sounds to me, though, like it was poor implementation of the GI equipment (keep in mind GI also makes the majority of your cable boxes, and the GI/Motorola Surfboard series of cable modems).
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I'm Linus Torvalds, pouring hot grits down a petrified Natalie Portman's pants, and then placing a penis bird on her.
movement with a new invention, Eyeballs. Use them. They're free, and meant for watching your crotchspawn.
I've not donated for QuestHelper for the same reason I haven't for Auctioneer:
You're too aggressive about soliciting those donations. Just like I don't respond to beggars in game, I don't respond to begging add-ons in game.
Remember, this is the site that's decided that Ubuntu 7.04 is twice as fast as any other version of Ubuntu. Take what they say with a good healthy dose of skepticism.
Yep. I saw it.
Doesn't change a thing. He wants a resolution. A phone call will lead to one. Thus, he should make a phone call. If he cannot, he surely has someone in the US (or whatever region the system was purchased from) that could place the call on his behalf.
It's not difficult. The first answer to "I want something..." should be "So ask for it.", and not "Chargeback! Email carpet bomb! Consumerist!"
I'd suggest you first pick up a telephone and have a real-time conversation with somebody.
The dumbest, most misguided argument ever.
.wav. There's no DRM in your .mp3. There's no DRM in the CD you burned. There's no DRM in anything that you didn't buy from a DRM-using source. There's no DRM in anything you didn't yourself digitally lock down. There's no DRM in the way to lock you out of content you yourself created, unless you're such a fucking moron that you're going to DRM yourself out of your own content.
There's no DRM in your
But.. You are dumb enough to ask this question. It is entirely possible you are dumb enough to choose to store all your content, that you yourself created, in signed, encrypted, restricted use Windows Media 10 files.
There's actually a website dedicated to this in Everquest - www.eqecon.com
500 real servers with real bandwith, versus Timmy and Jane and 50000 others in Mom's basement on their async DSL and cable..
I'll take the 500 real servers.
Hah. The parent post is brought to you by the letters I, B and M, and the year 1994.
The only major issue with abruptly removing power to the HD or PC is if there were writes in cache waiting to be written to disk.
I don't mind in-page ads of any sort nearly as much as I mind the new windows. The in-window ads aren't any more effort to work around, unless they block the content of the page (which is becoming more common, unfortunately).
The problem with popups wasn't the one new window.. It's playing Whack-A-Mole with the 32 pops spawned by that one.
Invalid item in the bagging area. Please remove invalid item...
*Removes item*
Please return item to the bagging area.
*Returns item*
Invalid item in the bagging area...
*Gets up and wanders off to the real checkers, since the 'operator' is too busy filing their nails.*
There are many containers (which is what your .ogm was, just a container) capable of holding multiple audio streams and soft subtitles.
The Napster model is a subscription to put as much music as you want on your player.
Not, "Buy the songs, then pay us $15 to play it." Rather, "Subscribe to the service, and throw as much music as you want on your player." You're not buying the music, even in the CD/ITMS sense of, "I paid for the right to play this song as much as I want."
Actually, who knows what sort of spyware type stuff will come on these closed PCs?
Mac wins.
I was going to throw in my.. Ahem.. Addition to the pissing match, but it seems I was preemptively trumped. Oh well.
If you haven't seen them, you certainly haven't been looking too much. Short of boards that cater to niche markets, 6 PCI slots seems to be the standard these days.
Actually, looks like the 7 cents a song part is wrong. 0.07 cents per song per listener. My mistake - works out to 70 cents per thousand listeners per song.
They're based on $0.07 per song, AND $0.70/1000 listeners per song.
No, you goons. The reference is to when The X-Files site showed pictures of The Lone Gunmen on their site for one of the episodes (The last?). After they died. Spoiling the suprise of them coming back.
I'd imagine a good portion of it were people trying to get to the Google cache of CNN, hoping they were updating it more often (which they did start doing)
You would probably be happy with Slackware - www.slackware.com. Install only what you need.
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
You forget the purpose of the +1 bonus. It's not to be left on all the time, but only used on comments that deserve a +1 off the bat. At the very least, this post doesn't qualify. Therefore, the comment IS overrated, and deserving of a -1 moderation because of it.
The +1 bonus is NOT a "Hey, I'm better than everyone!". It's a slight bonus to being a well-behaved member of Slashdot, which are few and far between. There's an expectation that you use the +1 accordingly.
Actually, yes I would have made the EXACT SAME comment. Why?
I wasn't paying attention to your login. I stopped looking at usernames here over 2 years ago, when "Linus Torvalds" posted here more often than Anonymous Coward.
My comment was more a dig at the average idiot I take calls from, who DO purchase modems based on color. I had a customer throw a fit because we didn't offer any sort of translucent modem to match their iMac.
I started MY experience with cable modem internet access over 5 years ago, in Las Vegas with a properietary Com21 ComPort modem. Not a problem.
Each market is different. Sounds to me, though, like it was poor implementation of the GI equipment (keep in mind GI also makes the majority of your cable boxes, and the GI/Motorola Surfboard series of cable modems).