I've worked for both corporate and franchise McDonalds in ASM positions. We get charged for the cups due to them not being straight Coke designs and for the syrup itself. Sure, its advertising, and it may be sold at cost to them, but it would still be a HUGE money loss if they supplied every McDonalds everywhere for free. It makes absolutely no fucking sense. In a convenience store, they make no money on the fountain drinks, but all the money on the single serves. That is probably why they are getting shit for free, just more advertising to push their stuff. Hell, we were getting paid for floorspace for 2 coke coolers at a local grocery store.
I know how event stuff goes. I've worked on some semi-large events (4000 person 'Private' Coachella after party being the largest). We got Red Bull and UV Vodka to supply us for the weekend for free, under the stipulation that no competitors products were there. I went home with 9x 24 packs of Red Bull and like 3 cases of UV from that show.
Yeah, that does make a huge difference. I wouldn't want to drive 70 miles to go to a store to pick up a damn phone. Its worth it though to at least give them a call to see if they can help you out on your bill and to waive the upgrade fee. I don't know about Verizon, but on T-Mobile, I've never been on hold for longer than 2-3 minutes, and I always get someone in Georgia.
If only I had mod points - I actually own one of the bootleg PSOne looking devices from some store from Hong Kong. All the classic emulation works amazing on them.
I have never had the issue of a phone being out of stock (even on G1 release day). And is driving (or hell, biking, the exercise is good for you) maybe 2-3 miles to your RadioShack, Best Buy, or just a carrier store, too much? Combine that with the in store deals that they have and the fact that sometimes they help you choose a better plan in store when you upgrade, you could be losing out on money. When I went to upgrade to my S3, the sales rep look at my usage, and told me that he was going to shift me to a new plan - Unlimited text and data (no data cap, full 4G speeds as long as I didn't tether), and set me on a 500 minute plan since I rarely go above 300 minutes. Guess what? I went from a $120/month bill to $70 (including tax and phone subsidy). The bill drops to $50 in 20 months after my contract started. The funny part is that the plan wasn't exactly listed on their site or in store pricing sheets, so he totally hooked it up for me.
But you know, you don't want physical contact with other people who can help you out. Let the computer do it all.
Ignorance. I mean no offence by that but it's true. Go to a store to buy your phone, pretend that the upgrade fee is the breaking point and start to walk, and they will wave it. He'll, I did it most of the time if the customer was nice and just asked if I could.
Let me put it this way: We both make widgets. I have all the technology to make the widget function properly and you do not. You say my widget looks too much like your widget, and its copying your desing, so you sue me and take a bunch of money out of my pocket. THEN you say you need to license my technology to make your widgets. Is it that unreasonable to assume I'd charge you a higher rate to license my product? Is that really being a jerk?
The issue here is that the same company that is suing the shit out of Samsung for "copying their ideas" are, in the same breath, bitching that Samsung will not give them fair terms in a patent pool that they have not give one damn thing to. Samsung asserted their rates due to Apple not giving anything into the FRAND pool, saying it was fair, everyone agrees but Apple, and then Obama just says "Fuck it, I Love Apple" and vetos that shit. Its more so that Apple gets a pass on the serious shit that they really should be paying for licensing vs. some frivolous design patents.
I will agree with your last paragraph though. I fail to see why 2-3 generation old phones are such a big deal. This just seems to be flames to fan the phone wars. I've loved Android since I got my G1 (release day), but both sides are looking pretty bad right now with all these damn lawsuits.
Every single AMD card I've bought in the past 4 years has come with the adapter I'm the box. I have at least 6 of them laying in my room right now. I think one didn't, and a quick call to XFX got them to ship me one out for free.
There is no blurring. As someone who has been in the scene for awhile, and also as someone who has done audio for EDM festivals, underground raves, and everything in between, let me shed some light on how it really breaks down.
Producers: A misnomer to some, but they are the people that produce music. Producers also DJ and do Live PAs to promote their music when they go do live shows.
Live PAs: This is what Deadmau5, Chemical Brothers (Live Sets, not DJ sets) and Daft Punk (though not really live) does. Basically you have all the parts of all the songs you've done and you just do a whole jam session live, constructing all the music on the fly. If done right, this is just beautiful. But Deadmau5 is an asshole and generally just blows live. Here, have a video of an old friend of mine doing a set El hypno
DJs: This is what everyone knows. Mixing some tracks together to make music.
How in the hell is this modded up? Wasn't nVidia just saying how high end part sales have been increasing, and we've been seeing more and more developers put in more work towards their PC version? Maybe Infinity Ward isnt lying and we do get CoD with much better graphics and dedicated servers this time around. Frostbite 3 engine looks fucking amazing... and it only looks that good on PC. The whole indie scene is thriving on PC right now. Please stop being one of the people chanting doom for PCs. Its been old since the 90s.
My BenQ XL2420TX says you have no idea what you're talking about. 144hz refresh rate with a 1ms response time looks crisp no matter how much stuff is moving on the screen. Even my old POS Samsung SyncMaster LCD doesn't have any ghosting or blur that you speak of (60hz, 1ms refresh time). This seems like a problem with you just buying shitty monitors. If this was a few years back, then yes, you would have a point... but even the most fickle of users (CS 1.6 professionals) have recently moved off of CRT monitors to BenQ monitors for tournaments.
If its being viewed as a regular desktop webpage, you almost never run into this problem. Certain mobile websites have it so that you are unable to zoom... atleast in the native Android browser. I ran into that problem a few times on some tech sites until I switched to Opera. Never had that problem again.
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I've worked for both corporate and franchise McDonalds in ASM positions. We get charged for the cups due to them not being straight Coke designs and for the syrup itself. Sure, its advertising, and it may be sold at cost to them, but it would still be a HUGE money loss if they supplied every McDonalds everywhere for free. It makes absolutely no fucking sense. In a convenience store, they make no money on the fountain drinks, but all the money on the single serves. That is probably why they are getting shit for free, just more advertising to push their stuff. Hell, we were getting paid for floorspace for 2 coke coolers at a local grocery store.
I know how event stuff goes. I've worked on some semi-large events (4000 person 'Private' Coachella after party being the largest). We got Red Bull and UV Vodka to supply us for the weekend for free, under the stipulation that no competitors products were there. I went home with 9x 24 packs of Red Bull and like 3 cases of UV from that show.
Yeah, that does make a huge difference. I wouldn't want to drive 70 miles to go to a store to pick up a damn phone. Its worth it though to at least give them a call to see if they can help you out on your bill and to waive the upgrade fee. I don't know about Verizon, but on T-Mobile, I've never been on hold for longer than 2-3 minutes, and I always get someone in Georgia.
If only I had mod points - I actually own one of the bootleg PSOne looking devices from some store from Hong Kong. All the classic emulation works amazing on them.
I have never had the issue of a phone being out of stock (even on G1 release day). And is driving (or hell, biking, the exercise is good for you) maybe 2-3 miles to your RadioShack, Best Buy, or just a carrier store, too much? Combine that with the in store deals that they have and the fact that sometimes they help you choose a better plan in store when you upgrade, you could be losing out on money. When I went to upgrade to my S3, the sales rep look at my usage, and told me that he was going to shift me to a new plan - Unlimited text and data (no data cap, full 4G speeds as long as I didn't tether), and set me on a 500 minute plan since I rarely go above 300 minutes. Guess what? I went from a $120/month bill to $70 (including tax and phone subsidy). The bill drops to $50 in 20 months after my contract started. The funny part is that the plan wasn't exactly listed on their site or in store pricing sheets, so he totally hooked it up for me.
But you know, you don't want physical contact with other people who can help you out. Let the computer do it all.
I was talking about in a fast food setting. Cups are $.10 and it's roughly $.05 to fill it. Well, at the rates the McDonalds I worked at got it for.
Ignorance. I mean no offence by that but it's true. Go to a store to buy your phone, pretend that the upgrade fee is the breaking point and start to walk, and they will wave it. He'll, I did it most of the time if the customer was nice and just asked if I could.
It's not like costs them much. The cup is usually more expensive than the soda.
Just remember that everyone was (more or less) playing nice until iWidgets Corp came along.
Let me put it this way: We both make widgets. I have all the technology to make the widget function properly and you do not. You say my widget looks too much like your widget, and its copying your desing, so you sue me and take a bunch of money out of my pocket. THEN you say you need to license my technology to make your widgets. Is it that unreasonable to assume I'd charge you a higher rate to license my product? Is that really being a jerk?
Isn't that a redundant phrase?
DISCLAIMER: I think that both parties are equally terrible.
The issue here is that the same company that is suing the shit out of Samsung for "copying their ideas" are, in the same breath, bitching that Samsung will not give them fair terms in a patent pool that they have not give one damn thing to. Samsung asserted their rates due to Apple not giving anything into the FRAND pool, saying it was fair, everyone agrees but Apple, and then Obama just says "Fuck it, I Love Apple" and vetos that shit. Its more so that Apple gets a pass on the serious shit that they really should be paying for licensing vs. some frivolous design patents.
I will agree with your last paragraph though. I fail to see why 2-3 generation old phones are such a big deal. This just seems to be flames to fan the phone wars. I've loved Android since I got my G1 (release day), but both sides are looking pretty bad right now with all these damn lawsuits.
Every single AMD card I've bought in the past 4 years has come with the adapter I'm the box. I have at least 6 of them laying in my room right now. I think one didn't, and a quick call to XFX got them to ship me one out for free.
There is no blurring. As someone who has been in the scene for awhile, and also as someone who has done audio for EDM festivals, underground raves, and everything in between, let me shed some light on how it really breaks down.
Producers: A misnomer to some, but they are the people that produce music. Producers also DJ and do Live PAs to promote their music when they go do live shows.
Live PAs: This is what Deadmau5, Chemical Brothers (Live Sets, not DJ sets) and Daft Punk (though not really live) does. Basically you have all the parts of all the songs you've done and you just do a whole jam session live, constructing all the music on the fly. If done right, this is just beautiful. But Deadmau5 is an asshole and generally just blows live. Here, have a video of an old friend of mine doing a set El hypno
DJs: This is what everyone knows. Mixing some tracks together to make music.
I got a ticket for failure to go minimum posted speed in California. It's apparently 15MPH below posted speeds. This is as of 2007.
Anything over 100MPH in California is reckless driving. That means you go to jail and get your car impounded.
Brainfart after a 4 hour meeting. Don't ask.
PS4 is x86 architecture with an AMD APU (7870 equivalent). So D3D SHOULD work for PS4 and Xbox One.
How in the hell is this modded up? Wasn't nVidia just saying how high end part sales have been increasing, and we've been seeing more and more developers put in more work towards their PC version? Maybe Infinity Ward isnt lying and we do get CoD with much better graphics and dedicated servers this time around. Frostbite 3 engine looks fucking amazing... and it only looks that good on PC. The whole indie scene is thriving on PC right now. Please stop being one of the people chanting doom for PCs. Its been old since the 90s.
GG /. on eating half my comment.
Where are my mod points when I need them. I figured that here on /. that people would me modding up things that prove that ap
I like my women like I like my coffee - Black and preferably fair trade.
Unless you're Invoker. Then 12. Quas-Extort Invoker is OP.
My BenQ XL2420TX says you have no idea what you're talking about. 144hz refresh rate with a 1ms response time looks crisp no matter how much stuff is moving on the screen. Even my old POS Samsung SyncMaster LCD doesn't have any ghosting or blur that you speak of (60hz, 1ms refresh time). This seems like a problem with you just buying shitty monitors. If this was a few years back, then yes, you would have a point... but even the most fickle of users (CS 1.6 professionals) have recently moved off of CRT monitors to BenQ monitors for tournaments.
If its being viewed as a regular desktop webpage, you almost never run into this problem. Certain mobile websites have it so that you are unable to zoom... atleast in the native Android browser. I ran into that problem a few times on some tech sites until I switched to Opera. Never had that problem again.