Lighten up and stop faulting people for having different interests.
At least these people have a hobby they care about and can share. I bet these people are quite passionate about their form of racing. As serious as it needs to be for safety, it is also very much about having fun and the bringing together of two great passtimes...drinking with your buds and pushing limits! It probably started as a joke and look what it has become!
I wish I had the time and know-how to do something like this!
This whole idea that some or most people don't remember to or bother completing the rebate process just doesn't sit well with me. I would venture to say that most people chose to buy the item because of the post-rebate price and remember to send in the form so that they ultimately receive that very price.
Although I don't like how long they take, I have never not submitted the rebate. Each year, I have to send in for my $5.00 TaxCut Deluxe rebate. $4.63 is a pretty good return on a 37-cent investment. The state edition rebate nets me $19.58 and the e-filing rebate $14.58. Money is money!
Western Digital has been offering $30 rebates on their hard disks nonstop for years. Allowing the store to discount the item at the time of the purchase would remove the rebate processing cost and hassle.
It would be a MAJOR draw for store and manufacturers to offer instant rebates. They would just have to handle the reimbursement on the backend. I would love to see this.
Although the polls may show that a majority of the US approve of the war with Iraq, this will not save Bush and Republicans in general in 2004. They will lose there asses, because they will have done do nothing to repair the US economy all while spending billions on the war and the rebuilding of Irag.
Yes, boring television is indeed boring. So watching it on any screen would still be boring.
Regardless of whether or not the high-speed access is included, the price was a carefully calculated figure based on many different factors. Desired profit for hotel, share due to ISP, and average bandwidth usage per room are just some of these.
The cost formula would no longer fit if the average bandwidth usage jump considerably, because hotel guests had started watching television streams via the net. The hotels would have to adjust the price or start restricting what can be done via the in-room connection.
Your hotel wouldn't allow this for very long unless you were paying for the extra bandwidth you are sucking. So, don't expect for this to happen and last. Besides, why would you want to watch a show on such a small screen? TV's are always 19-inch or larger at the hotels I use.
IMHO, restricting what I time-shift is a bad idea. My schedule does always fit that of television, so I tend to miss programs that would like to watch. After all, this is why I want the PVR in first place, not commercial-skip. My VCR skips commercials automatically now.
Implementing PVR-like functionality at the server is perhaps worst, because Time Warner already has problems with handling the VOD load in my area(Charlotte, NC). We actually switched back to renting movies, because the iControl fails so much. Movies are often not available and pixelating is a common problem as well.
Phone books...man don't get me started. They should only go out to those who specificly request and pay a s*** load for them. I very rarely use a phone book, because I am able to look things up online and call 411 without of killing a tree.
I hate how it is a huge waste of paper. I also hate all of the junk mail I continuously receive for the same reason.
Around here, there are area phone books independent of the bigger Bellsouth edition, and we do get all of them. A couple of weeks ago, each house in my neighborhood was left two, not one, two of one of these area books. It must have been 300 pages. Why would any house need two? They both went directly into my recycling bin as I brought in from the curb.
Yet people continue to steal music via P2P all because they justify doing so based on the high cost. I second your thought. The right to steal is never there regardless of what is being taken.
Quite a lot of things such as this are sold everyday. We have stores that sell drug paraphernalia like water bongs, yet smoking and possessing marijuana is illegal. They claim it is for tobacca. Yeah, right!
The law would normally make it illegal to use, not to possess or sell since it could also be used as door stop or paper weight.
Both the plastic guns I had and this tank simulate actual real life devices, so they are the same in my mind. They are both intended for pretending in play.
As a kid, I learned that real guns were not for play and when used can result in serious injury and death. With this, I CHOOSE to not use them in a hazardous way. It's all about the choices we make in life.
Yeah, I play "guns" all the time as a kid, and have never wanted to buy a real one, nor have I ever wanted to use one for anything. Man, those were the days!
Today's kids play with real guns, because their parents were to damn scared of hurting their feelings by saying no and setting real rules!
In 1985, the same question was probably asked after the Challenger explosion. NASA needs to do exactly what NASA did then.
The Columbia tragedy was unfortunate side-effect of life, and life is full of risk. People will not suddenly stop wanting to be astronauts. NASA is a lot more than trips in to space.
They need to not forget those who have given their life to the cause and then continue on in their name.
I drive a lot for work and listen to the radio or CDs a lot as a result. Even though radio sucks because of how short their play lists are, paying $10 bucks for satelite radio is still not worth it as long as I can surf stations. The hassle of hearing "Hero" from the Spiderman soundtrack yet again is less of a problem than satelite radio is a good deal. And I actually like it and the bands Saliva and Nickelback.
I'd like to hear more local and regional bands. In my market, those radio stations that actually have locals-only segments broadcast it when I am not as well as very few other people are listening. I would also like to hear more variety from the bands they do feature. If I like a song, I tend to buy the band's CD. I'd like to hear more of what's on the CD.
Just change PCI to PeeSeeEye and stop using the logo if it had been in use. People familiar with the site won't care and most will understand why the change was made.
If you are paying $20 US on average per CD then you must buy only from music stores in shopping malls. Audio CDs are always priced high there. I buy most of my CDs at a 5 location regional chain(http://www.manifestdisc.com) and the rest at Best Buy or a similar store.
I have very close to 300 CDs, and all were purchased new for less than $20 on average over the past decade with the majority in the past 5 years. At the stores mentioned above, debut releases from new bands are quite often sold for $6 - $10 a disc.
I don't think Steve Case will be happy in this new role and bet he will move on soon. You never know what he'll do. Perhaps he wanted to take the company somewhere the rest of the senior management didn't want to go. I say that we all need to keep our eye open for the next AOL, because he probably won't be happy with anything else.
Yeah, I was using AOL for too much money per month and after 1.5 years, switched to a local dial-up ISP to save money. Once the Web opened up, I became increasingly less interested in AOL's internal services and content, so I decided to had no reason to stick with it when I could get the same for less.
My first subscription online service was AOL and I joined on Xmas '93 and stayed with them for maybe 1.5 years before moving to a local PPP ISP for $35/month. Prior to that I was dialing into BBS's like most of us old school kids.
If it had not been for AOL, the Internet may never have entered the mainstream quite like it has, and I'm certain that it would not be as wide spread as it is today.
I've probably posted this before. Microsoft is a cash cow, and this allows them to burn hundreds of millions of dollars while attempting move to the top spot of yet another market. Although, IMHO, this is wrong, it should be legal. This is and should be a free market.
Collectively, Microsoft's commercial competitors probably have the same capability. If the industry really wants to have a fair chance against Microsoft in a free market, then they need to move to a new game plan. They need to band together against the bully and fight outside the court room.
The big kids like SUN, IBM, NOVELL, HP, etc need to contribute to a cash fund so that the little cash-strapped guys can also weather the storm. The group will have to forego profit and perhaps individual gain until Microsoft submits.
Will this ever happen? No, each company is too damn greedy to work together. Each company really wants the market for itself. Each company would rather have the governments of the world shut down Microsoft and hand over everything to it.
Consumers, both big and small, don't have to buy anything. In the US we still have the option to say no thanks!
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Man,
Lighten up and stop faulting people for having different interests.
At least these people have a hobby they care about and can share. I bet these people are quite passionate about their form of racing. As serious as it needs to be for safety, it is also very much about having fun and the bringing together of two great passtimes...drinking with your buds and pushing limits! It probably started as a joke and look what it has become!
I wish I had the time and know-how to do something like this!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
.
Dear world,
This whole idea that some or most people don't remember to or bother completing the rebate process just doesn't sit well with me. I would venture to say that most people chose to buy the item because of the post-rebate price and remember to send in the form so that they ultimately receive that very price.
Although I don't like how long they take, I have never not submitted the rebate. Each year, I have to send in for my $5.00 TaxCut Deluxe rebate. $4.63 is a pretty good return on a 37-cent investment. The state edition rebate nets me $19.58 and the e-filing rebate $14.58. Money is money!
Western Digital has been offering $30 rebates on their hard disks nonstop for years. Allowing the store to discount the item at the time of the purchase would remove the rebate processing cost and hassle.
It would be a MAJOR draw for store and manufacturers to offer instant rebates. They would just have to handle the reimbursement on the backend. I would love to see this.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
.
As the cost drops, the quality will eventually suffer. Today's computers and the like are perfect examples of this rule.
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
Although the polls may show that a majority of the US approve of the war with Iraq, this will not save Bush and Republicans in general in 2004. They will lose there asses, because they will have done do nothing to repair the US economy all while spending billions on the war and the rebuilding of Irag.
-Slashdot Junky
Yes, boring television is indeed boring. So watching it on any screen would still be boring.
Regardless of whether or not the high-speed access is included, the price was a carefully calculated figure based on many different factors. Desired profit for hotel, share due to ISP, and average bandwidth usage per room are just some of these.
The cost formula would no longer fit if the average bandwidth usage jump considerably, because hotel guests had started watching television streams via the net. The hotels would have to adjust the price or start restricting what can be done via the in-room connection.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear yourself,
You should really proofread what you type, because you tend to leave out words.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Your hotel wouldn't allow this for very long unless you were paying for the extra bandwidth you are sucking. So, don't expect for this to happen and last. Besides, why would you want to watch a show on such a small screen? TV's are always 19-inch or larger at the hotels I use.
IMHO, restricting what I time-shift is a bad idea. My schedule does always fit that of television, so I tend to miss programs that would like to watch. After all, this is why I want the PVR in first place, not commercial-skip. My VCR skips commercials automatically now.
Implementing PVR-like functionality at the server is perhaps worst, because Time Warner already has problems with handling the VOD load in my area(Charlotte, NC). We actually switched back to renting movies, because the iControl fails so much. Movies are often not available and pixelating is a common problem as well.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Perhaps Microsoft has secretly invested in Adobe, and this move is yet another to rid the world of all things not Microsoft.
Again, can we all say "greed"?
-Slashdot Junky
Read the subject. Can we all now say "greed"?
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
Phone books...man don't get me started. They should only go out to those who specificly request and pay a s*** load for them. I very rarely use a phone book, because I am able to look things up online and call 411 without of killing a tree.
I hate how it is a huge waste of paper. I also hate all of the junk mail I continuously receive for the same reason.
Around here, there are area phone books independent of the bigger Bellsouth edition, and we do get all of them. A couple of weeks ago, each house in my neighborhood was left two, not one, two of one of these area books. It must have been 300 pages. Why would any house need two? They both went directly into my recycling bin as I brought in from the curb.
What a waste!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
.
Davmoo,
Yet people continue to steal music via P2P all because they justify doing so based on the high cost. I second your thought. The right to steal is never there regardless of what is being taken.
-Slashdot Junky
Wegian Warrior,
Quite a lot of things such as this are sold everyday. We have stores that sell drug paraphernalia like water bongs, yet smoking and possessing marijuana is illegal. They claim it is for tobacca. Yeah, right!
The law would normally make it illegal to use, not to possess or sell since it could also be used as door stop or paper weight.
-Slashdot Junky
Both the plastic guns I had and this tank simulate actual real life devices, so they are the same in my mind. They are both intended for pretending in play.
As a kid, I learned that real guns were not for play and when used can result in serious injury and death. With this, I CHOOSE to not use them in a hazardous way. It's all about the choices we make in life.
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
Yeah, I play "guns" all the time as a kid, and have never wanted to buy a real one, nor have I ever wanted to use one for anything. Man, those were the days!
Today's kids play with real guns, because their parents were to damn scared of hurting their feelings by saying no and setting real rules!
-Slashdot Junky
We would then have to park it in the driveway!
-Slashdot Junky
Why not just buy the artist's CD online at your local music store?
-Slashdot Junky
Dear world,
In 1985, the same question was probably asked after the Challenger explosion. NASA needs to do exactly what NASA did then.
The Columbia tragedy was unfortunate side-effect of life, and life is full of risk. People will not suddenly stop wanting to be astronauts. NASA is a lot more than trips in to space.
They need to not forget those who have given their life to the cause and then continue on in their name.
Later,
The still shocked Slashdot Junky
.
Dear World,
I drive a lot for work and listen to the radio or CDs a lot as a result. Even though radio sucks because of how short their play lists are, paying $10 bucks for satelite radio is still not worth it as long as I can surf stations. The hassle of hearing "Hero" from the Spiderman soundtrack yet again is less of a problem than satelite radio is a good deal. And I actually like it and the bands Saliva and Nickelback.
I'd like to hear more local and regional bands. In my market, those radio stations that actually have locals-only segments broadcast it when I am not as well as very few other people are listening. I would also like to hear more variety from the bands they do feature. If I like a song, I tend to buy the band's CD. I'd like to hear more of what's on the CD.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
Just change PCI to PeeSeeEye and stop using the logo if it had been in use. People familiar with the site won't care and most will understand why the change was made.
Greed, it's all because of greed!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
If you are paying $20 US on average per CD then you must buy only from music stores in shopping malls. Audio CDs are always priced high there. I buy most of my CDs at a 5 location regional chain(http://www.manifestdisc.com) and the rest at Best Buy or a similar store.
I have very close to 300 CDs, and all were purchased new for less than $20 on average over the past decade with the majority in the past 5 years. At the stores mentioned above, debut releases from new bands are quite often sold for $6 - $10 a disc.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
I don't think Steve Case will be happy in this new role and bet he will move on soon. You never know what he'll do. Perhaps he wanted to take the company somewhere the rest of the senior management didn't want to go. I say that we all need to keep our eye open for the next AOL, because he probably won't be happy with anything else.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Yeah, I was using AOL for too much money per month and after 1.5 years, switched to a local dial-up ISP to save money. Once the Web opened up, I became increasingly less interested in AOL's internal services and content, so I decided to had no reason to stick with it when I could get the same for less.
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
My first subscription online service was AOL and I joined on Xmas '93 and stayed with them for maybe 1.5 years before moving to a local PPP ISP for $35/month. Prior to that I was dialing into BBS's like most of us old school kids.
If it had not been for AOL, the Internet may never have entered the mainstream quite like it has, and I'm certain that it would not be as wide spread as it is today.
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
Give the babysitter a code once and grant and disable access as needed. It could even be handed to her directly.
-Slashdot Junky
Dear World,
I've probably posted this before. Microsoft is a cash cow, and this allows them to burn hundreds of millions of dollars while attempting move to the top spot of yet another market. Although, IMHO, this is wrong, it should be legal. This is and should be a free market.
Collectively, Microsoft's commercial competitors probably have the same capability. If the industry really wants to have a fair chance against Microsoft in a free market, then they need to move to a new game plan. They need to band together against the bully and fight outside the court room.
The big kids like SUN, IBM, NOVELL, HP, etc need to contribute to a cash fund so that the little cash-strapped guys can also weather the storm. The group will have to forego profit and perhaps individual gain until Microsoft submits.
Will this ever happen? No, each company is too damn greedy to work together. Each company really wants the market for itself. Each company would rather have the governments of the world shut down Microsoft and hand over everything to it.
Consumers, both big and small, don't have to buy anything. In the US we still have the option to say no thanks!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky