However, customer comments in regards to their experience with said products are the opinions of the user. [...] Therefore, the Newegg.com site is moderated to remove any unproven biased negative comments.
Lemme see if I got this right. If a review is positive, then it's taken as FACT, but if it's negative, it's BIASED OPINION. That's some happy horseshit there.
My experiences with their prices/shipping has always been fantastic, but this is a bit disconcerting. At least they're upfront about it, I guess.
They'd like to get paid for that, and the current environment makes it easy for people to get the full benefit of their work without paying for it.
Ah, but the problem is, that's not his fucking problem. What is his problem is having to wait a few hours to listen to the latest music because his internet connection is temporarily down. Or not being able to listen to it in his car without an "authorized" piece of hardware.
There are a hundred ways DRM could be the cause of future customer aggrivation. And in their mind, all these problems with piracy are not their problem, because they were good little consumers and coughed up their hard-earned dough.
Something I learned early on in business: it can take millions of dollars to get a new customer, but a single stupid mistake to lose them forever.
What will you do when ALL the stored ask you to leave the bad at the door?
I believe the idea is that if enough people are pissed off about the idea of bag-checks, the market would be ripe for a store to come along that didn't treat its customers like criminals. Provided they marketed themselves as such, the could probably reap a tidy profit--provided they aren't innundated with shoplifters.:)
Same complaint. Usually when I'm trying to find directions I'll start off with GMaps (for the scrollability), then go to Yahoo (Mapquest) to get the exit numbers. Very annoying.
You might be interested to note that riots happen in other locations around the world other than the US. And it might also interest you to note that it doesn't take a major US sporting event to bring one about.
He's right! Sometimes all it takes is a few already rich beurocrats selling some of their nation's own natural resources, like, say, water, to overseas interests, whereby said overseas interests proceed to hike the rates so high that the poor can no longer afford it.
Hey, your population (from whom you derive your governing authority in a democracy) is rioting! Let's ignore the reason and shoot them.
"One significant problem that we found in our reviews of their players is that most movie files available online are in formats not readable by the Archos, requiring them to be laboriously converted before they could play on their devices."
If Archos would like to expand its marketshare (and survive the onslaught by Sony and, eventually Apple), they need to address this fundamental flaw with their PMP line of players.
Well, all 9 episodes could work as an arc if they're just meant to follow the Skywalker legacy. Anakin -> Luke -> Han+Leia's kids. It doesn't have the artistic integrity of "fall / redemption", but after The Phantom Menace, I doubt that's a big concern.
I just can't get over the fact that all of Darth Vader's evil, all three and a half episodes of it, all those blown up ships, lost rebel lives, hell, lost Empire lives, stems from just narrowly missing his Mom's death and the hands of (christ, it sounds so stupid) SANDPEOPLE.
Gimme a friggin' break. Maybe if she'd been killed by a Jedi, that might have worked. I still don't understand why the Jedi Council couldn't have just bought her freedom in the first place. They can afford all these fancy ships, all those hundreds of robes, they can outfit their Jedi-University with all manner of flashing-light geekiness, yet they can't friggin' buy the freedom of THE CHOSEN ONE's own mom?
Reason: because they have to deal with the worst of the worst kinds of adolescent assholery. They're strict with their rules, and there are generally no second chances. If you want your porn for free, you follow the rules; the fact that the site is so popular is a testament to how many people agree with the mods' enforcement policies.
Ford 'saves' Author from the scene by rolling up with a shopping cart full of beer to distract the workers.
Wait, if Ford walks up to Prosser et. al. with a shopping cart full of beer, what's the point of taking Arthur away to the pub in the first place? They could have just thrown back a couple of beers as muscle relaxant right then and there and avoided the whole "let's confuse Prosser" bit altogether.
Simple: Just scrub the code. Top to bottom, every single goddamned line if need be. Eliminate any possibility of a buffer overflow. Optimize routines. I'd bet Microsoft could cut the HD footprint of XP in half, double its speed and quarter the memory requirements if they spent four years and a billion bucks working on it. Create an operating system that the engineers can finally be proud of.
I would actually PAY for my copy of Windows if they did this.
Likewise, digital tuners are already mandated on TVs above a certain size.
Picked completely randomly (and quickly), here's a 46" "HD-Ready" DLP Projector from Samsung, selling for about $2600 at BestBuy. No internal ATSC tuner. Oh, but it's compatible with one. Oh yay. Another friggin' box to buy.
If the government is serious about this deadline, they'd better make a few phone calls to Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, etc. and let them know, because they sure as shit aren't going to spend the extra $5 in components to do it themselves.
And while you may enjoy the benefits of cable, I can assure you that several million poorer folks do not have that luxury. If the current administration and their heirs wish to continue appealing to "regular folk," they're going to have to delay this implementation.
Or maybe they can pass a tax cut that'll give us another $50 check to buy a compatible tuner.
Abso-fucking-lutely correct. These are the same people that think iTunes is incredible, because, Lord knows how mind-numbingly difficult it is to follow a simple friggin' naming-convention.
/Artist/Album/Track No. - Song Title.mp3, for example.
I was told in high school health class that diabities is almost 100% due to diet or lack of exersize. I am glad to see we are getting better reasons than "he's fat and does not exersize, so that is why he got sick".
Right, and you can only get AIDS if you're gay.
My best friend has diabetes that was diagnosed when he was 18. He biked the NYC 60-odd mile race every year since he was 14, was a member of the Harvard crew team, and ate better than anyone I've ever met. I always felt it unfair that he should get diabetes when the rest of us were eating junk food and sitting around all day.
While there is a definite correlation between diet & exercise (or lack thereof) and Type 2 diabetes rates, it is supremely ignorant to group everyone that suffers from the disease (particularly Type 1) as lazy fat people, of which my friend was neither.
How does this happen? Is this a problem with the immune system, or is it a problem with the pancreas?
In Type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system attacks the beta cells of the pancreas, which causes it to stop producing insulin. Your body needs insulin in order to use the sugar (glucose) that enters the bloodstream from foods.
Type 2 diabetes is a slower process where the muscle and liver cells build up resistance to insulin. Initially the body responds by pumping out more insulin, but eventually it can't produce enough to keep up and you need to supplement it.
It seems to me, though, that what a photographer might really want is a CAMERA with a nice big screen to see the pictures that have just been taken
No. A big screen to make sure you got the shot right? A professional photographer knows how to use a light meter and/or the histogram. A big LCD is for morons. What a professional photographer would like (as a professional photographer) is a giant, big-honking viewfinder, because it's damned-near impossible to quickly and accurately focus manually with the liliputian viewfinders they give you.
and with a BUILT-IN hard drive to take lots of high-quality pictures.
No again. A built-in hard drive will just weigh it down more. Have you seen how gi-normous pro cameras are these days? If you want to saddle yourself with slow-ass hard drives (instead of compact flash), you can always throw in a type-2 hard drive.
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What the hell is #4?
"Sky High" -- a kids movie with Kurt Russell.
However, customer comments in regards to their experience with said products are the opinions of the user. [...] Therefore, the Newegg.com site is moderated to remove any unproven biased negative comments.
Lemme see if I got this right. If a review is positive, then it's taken as FACT, but if it's negative, it's BIASED OPINION. That's some happy horseshit there.
My experiences with their prices/shipping has always been fantastic, but this is a bit disconcerting. At least they're upfront about it, I guess.
They'd like to get paid for that, and the current environment makes it easy for people to get the full benefit of their work without paying for it.
Ah, but the problem is, that's not his fucking problem. What is his problem is having to wait a few hours to listen to the latest music because his internet connection is temporarily down. Or not being able to listen to it in his car without an "authorized" piece of hardware.
There are a hundred ways DRM could be the cause of future customer aggrivation. And in their mind, all these problems with piracy are not their problem, because they were good little consumers and coughed up their hard-earned dough.
Something I learned early on in business: it can take millions of dollars to get a new customer, but a single stupid mistake to lose them forever.
What will you do when ALL the stored ask you to leave the bad at the door?
:)
I believe the idea is that if enough people are pissed off about the idea of bag-checks, the market would be ripe for a store to come along that didn't treat its customers like criminals. Provided they marketed themselves as such, the could probably reap a tidy profit--provided they aren't innundated with shoplifters.
Same complaint. Usually when I'm trying to find directions I'll start off with GMaps (for the scrollability), then go to Yahoo (Mapquest) to get the exit numbers. Very annoying.
You might be interested to note that riots happen in other locations around the world other than the US. And it might also interest you to note that it doesn't take a major US sporting event to bring one about.
He's right! Sometimes all it takes is a few already rich beurocrats selling some of their nation's own natural resources, like, say, water, to overseas interests, whereby said overseas interests proceed to hike the rates so high that the poor can no longer afford it.
Hey, your population (from whom you derive your governing authority in a democracy) is rioting! Let's ignore the reason and shoot them.
"One significant problem that we found in our reviews of their players is that most movie files available online are in formats not readable by the Archos, requiring them to be laboriously converted before they could play on their devices."
If Archos would like to expand its marketshare (and survive the onslaught by Sony and, eventually Apple), they need to address this fundamental flaw with their PMP line of players.
Unfortunately, the original article has disappeared into the aether, but there's an archive.org copy of what happened to the Original Microsoft 11 here:w ww.abqtrib.com/archives/business00/041200_microsof t.shtml
http://web.archive.org/web/20040202201554/http://
whats the difference between this and a wacom tablet
Well, this probably isn't owned by a crazy, quasi-religious cult leader* for starters.
*Specifically, Sun Myung Moon.
Well, all 9 episodes could work as an arc if they're just meant to follow the Skywalker legacy. Anakin -> Luke -> Han+Leia's kids. It doesn't have the artistic integrity of "fall / redemption", but after The Phantom Menace, I doubt that's a big concern.
Totally, completely agreed.
I just can't get over the fact that all of Darth Vader's evil, all three and a half episodes of it, all those blown up ships, lost rebel lives, hell, lost Empire lives, stems from just narrowly missing his Mom's death and the hands of (christ, it sounds so stupid) SANDPEOPLE.
Gimme a friggin' break. Maybe if she'd been killed by a Jedi, that might have worked. I still don't understand why the Jedi Council couldn't have just bought her freedom in the first place. They can afford all these fancy ships, all those hundreds of robes, they can outfit their Jedi-University with all manner of flashing-light geekiness, yet they can't friggin' buy the freedom of THE CHOSEN ONE's own mom?
But instead, you decided to steal it.
In what spiked Kool-Aid drinking world does this equal theft? Nothing was taken.
I believe what you meant to say was:
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
Con: the admins are arrogant assholes.
Reason: because they have to deal with the worst of the worst kinds of adolescent assholery. They're strict with their rules, and there are generally no second chances. If you want your porn for free, you follow the rules; the fact that the site is so popular is a testament to how many people agree with the mods' enforcement policies.
Or, so I've heard.
Lets just hope segment 10 wasn't eaten by the Martians!
/., but I think this may win the prize.
I've read a lot of dumb things on
For today, at least.
It was invented as a weapon of war to maim and destroy people.
Many of the most valuable inventions known to man were created for purposes of war. This in no way invalidates their usefulness in times of peace.
Ford 'saves' Author from the scene by rolling up with a shopping cart full of beer to distract the workers.
Wait, if Ford walks up to Prosser et. al. with a shopping cart full of beer, what's the point of taking Arthur away to the pub in the first place? They could have just thrown back a couple of beers as muscle relaxant right then and there and avoided the whole "let's confuse Prosser" bit altogether.
How should longhorn be better?
Simple: Just scrub the code. Top to bottom, every single goddamned line if need be. Eliminate any possibility of a buffer overflow. Optimize routines. I'd bet Microsoft could cut the HD footprint of XP in half, double its speed and quarter the memory requirements if they spent four years and a billion bucks working on it. Create an operating system that the engineers can finally be proud of.
I would actually PAY for my copy of Windows if they did this.
television as a medium doesn't survive much past the mid-21st century. Around the time of WWIII.
Cause, I'd like you to meet Effect.
So we have about 2 months to buy an OTA HDTV tuner card for our HTPCs.
Don't worry. I'm sure some enterprising Chinese manufacturers will produce cards that ignore the bit.
Likewise, digital tuners are already mandated on TVs above a certain size.
Picked completely randomly (and quickly), here's a 46" "HD-Ready" DLP Projector from Samsung, selling for about $2600 at BestBuy. No internal ATSC tuner. Oh, but it's compatible with one. Oh yay. Another friggin' box to buy.
If the government is serious about this deadline, they'd better make a few phone calls to Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, etc. and let them know, because they sure as shit aren't going to spend the extra $5 in components to do it themselves.
And while you may enjoy the benefits of cable, I can assure you that several million poorer folks do not have that luxury. If the current administration and their heirs wish to continue appealing to "regular folk," they're going to have to delay this implementation.
Or maybe they can pass a tax cut that'll give us another $50 check to buy a compatible tuner.
Abso-fucking-lutely correct. These are the same people that think iTunes is incredible, because, Lord knows how mind-numbingly difficult it is to follow a simple friggin' naming-convention.
/Artist/Album/Track No. - Song Title.mp3, for example.
I was told in high school health class that diabities is almost 100% due to diet or lack of exersize. I am glad to see we are getting better reasons than "he's fat and does not exersize, so that is why he got sick".
Right, and you can only get AIDS if you're gay.
My best friend has diabetes that was diagnosed when he was 18. He biked the NYC 60-odd mile race every year since he was 14, was a member of the Harvard crew team, and ate better than anyone I've ever met. I always felt it unfair that he should get diabetes when the rest of us were eating junk food and sitting around all day.
While there is a definite correlation between diet & exercise (or lack thereof) and Type 2 diabetes rates, it is supremely ignorant to group everyone that suffers from the disease (particularly Type 1) as lazy fat people, of which my friend was neither.
How does this happen? Is this a problem with the immune system, or is it a problem with the pancreas?
In Type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system attacks the beta cells of the pancreas, which causes it to stop producing insulin. Your body needs insulin in order to use the sugar (glucose) that enters the bloodstream from foods.
Type 2 diabetes is a slower process where the muscle and liver cells build up resistance to insulin. Initially the body responds by pumping out more insulin, but eventually it can't produce enough to keep up and you need to supplement it.
Near miss!? More like a near hit. A collision is a near-miss.
It seems to me, though, that what a photographer might really want is a CAMERA with a nice big screen to see the pictures that have just been taken
No. A big screen to make sure you got the shot right? A professional photographer knows how to use a light meter and/or the histogram. A big LCD is for morons. What a professional photographer would like (as a professional photographer) is a giant, big-honking viewfinder, because it's damned-near impossible to quickly and accurately focus manually with the liliputian viewfinders they give you.
and with a BUILT-IN hard drive to take lots of high-quality pictures.
No again. A built-in hard drive will just weigh it down more. Have you seen how gi-normous pro cameras are these days? If you want to saddle yourself with slow-ass hard drives (instead of compact flash), you can always throw in a type-2 hard drive.