Was I the only one who always always found TigerDirect to be kind of sleazy? I mean, even back *years* ago, they always reminded me of those skeevy camera stores that are notorious for false advertising and bait-and-switch deals.
It also ups the ante in the arms race of evolution, which isn't universally seen as a good thing.
Newsflash: Farmers and breeders have been "upping the ante of evolution" for thousands of years. Human interference in evolution has given us a LOT of beneficial improvements to plants and animals alike over the centuries (not to mention making my cute poodle possible).
The UK didn't want to get their hands dirty. They have a well-known "special relationship" with U.S. intelligence and it would be just too obvious to have them extradite directly. Sending him to Sweden first helps create the air of legitimacy to the whole con and further discredits him, by directly associating him with a rape there. Everyone involved needs to have everything have a modicum of the *appearance* of a legitimate extradition.
He skipped out when he realized that any pretense that he was going to get a fair trial, or even fair hearing, was a fucking joke. I could have saved him some money and told him that at the beginning. At least Edward Snowden has learned a valuable lesson in that regard.
Lots of people turn to raping after making speeches criticizing the primacy of the U.S. dollar, or revealing U.S. top secret documents. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if Edward Snowden weren't considering raping some poor women right now, or molesting kids, or selling secrets to the Chinese, or kicking puppies.
Why do people keep reinventing the spoon? Is it all CS-majors that feel they need to make a mark on the world?
So that they can delude themselves that their also-ran game programming language is going to catch on and become all the rage, as if all the big game developers are going to throw away their uber-expensive proprietary development environments and rewrite their engines in some shitty new open-source language that has shit for documentation, a billion bugs, no IDE support, and a micro-fraction of the libraries available for even the lamest existing language.
NASA should just be honest and hire a bunch of PR people. That's 99% of what they're going to end up doing anyway. You don't need a Ph.D. in physics to sit around in LEO on a space station, doing podcasts for schoolkids.
It might be 8+ years old at this point, but Tivo hasn't had a DVD burner in years.
Oh man, I miss my old Humax. I would have paid anything to have had an HD, cablecard ready version of that beautiful box. I've still got a ton of old DVD's I burned off that thing. I guess the good old media industry killed any hope of getting an HD version.
Funny thing is that it never even slowed me down from buying commercial DVD's. I used it mostly to archive TV specials and stuff that would have never been sold on DVD anyway. My favorite DVD's, that I still watch even today, are my copies of the National Geographic/BBC "Space Race" series, which was later basically banned in the U.S. (for daring to show the Soviet space program in a positive light and to talk about Von Braun's Nazi past). My Humax DVD's are the only legal way I can view it in the U.S. now. Even if I bought a gray-market multi-region player (and risk the MPAA kicking my door down for some DMCA violation bullshit), I still couldn't even import the America version, only the much different UK version.
The last time, I had to explain to them what a cablecard even was, go through about six different people before they finally put on a tech who knew wtf he was talking about, and then deal with hours of installation hassles (thought I could just go pick it up and install it myself--nope, gotta have a tech come do it, and it's going to take him forever to get it working too).
Now I've got to try to explain to them what a "M" cablecard is. Great.
You would think that console companies would have learned by now that being on top in one-generation and getting cocky about it is the sure road to getting your ass kicked in the next generation. Just ask Atari, Nintendo, and Sony. Nothing spells doom in the console world quite like a "We're on top now, so we can do anything we want!" attitude.
The only thing I can figure is that it's a combination of the isolated echo-chamber (where they only hear each other saying positive things) and some misguided attempt to imitate Steve Jobs' "Screw the consumer, we'll tell them what they want!" attitude (but missing the fact that Jobs had a virtual cult that would follow him anywhere).
As a publisher they feel they must prevent anything that might jeopardize that income. Most companies would not go this far, but Microsoft has a culture of "cutting off their nose to spite their face."
Actually, that USED to be Sony's reputation. In the console space at least, MS once had a very positive reputation. Lately though, the attitudes seem to have completely reversed. MS has become the arrogant, control-freak pricks and Sony is actually looking like the decent, pro-consumer company. Just bizarre.
MS used to have XNA, and basically let anyone publish on the 360 with just a $100 a year license. Not sure why they abandoned such a forward-thinking program. But it does fit in with the general MS stance of making every fucking wrong move imaginable over the last 3-4 years, and scrapping every decent idea they ever had.
Sometimes I think Blamer has secretly gone nuts, and no one has the balls to have him committed. It would certainly explain why he's absent from MS public events these days. But at least Howard Hughes was smart enough to delegate well after *he* went batshit. Balmer, by contrast, seems determined to not only collect all his urine in jars, but also to run his company off the cliff.
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I can understand how they would view the UN in such a way
Yeah, but compared to the Islamist militias, they're generally a lot lest rapey and murdery.
Tim Gurney is just one of many working on closing that gap
If they can do it with teeth, they can do it with programming too!
I just hope they do a delightful musical number, perhaps involving chimney sweeps and street urchins, to promote the initiative.
Was I the only one who always always found TigerDirect to be kind of sleazy? I mean, even back *years* ago, they always reminded me of those skeevy camera stores that are notorious for false advertising and bait-and-switch deals.
It also ups the ante in the arms race of evolution, which isn't universally seen as a good thing.
Newsflash: Farmers and breeders have been "upping the ante of evolution" for thousands of years. Human interference in evolution has given us a LOT of beneficial improvements to plants and animals alike over the centuries (not to mention making my cute poodle possible).
There is no way that Army rockets could hit a target as small as a planet.
'It is still in nascent stages but it is worthy of debate and legislation down the road.'
Translation: We do whatever the fuck we want with them. Fuck the Constitution
The UK didn't want to get their hands dirty. They have a well-known "special relationship" with U.S. intelligence and it would be just too obvious to have them extradite directly. Sending him to Sweden first helps create the air of legitimacy to the whole con and further discredits him, by directly associating him with a rape there. Everyone involved needs to have everything have a modicum of the *appearance* of a legitimate extradition.
He skipped out when he realized that any pretense that he was going to get a fair trial, or even fair hearing, was a fucking joke. I could have saved him some money and told him that at the beginning. At least Edward Snowden has learned a valuable lesson in that regard.
According to international law he has the right as someone who has been granted asylum to be given free passage to Ecuador.
Well, in that case, they should have the international cops come in and protect him.
Lots of people turn to raping after making speeches criticizing the primacy of the U.S. dollar, or revealing U.S. top secret documents. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if Edward Snowden weren't considering raping some poor women right now, or molesting kids, or selling secrets to the Chinese, or kicking puppies.
I'm on Verizon and I pay $100 a month for grandfathered unlimited data and a subsidized phone.
Yeah, just wait until you try to upgrade. You're in for some serious sticker shock.
Why do people keep reinventing the spoon? Is it all CS-majors that feel they need to make a mark on the world?
So that they can delude themselves that their also-ran game programming language is going to catch on and become all the rage, as if all the big game developers are going to throw away their uber-expensive proprietary development environments and rewrite their engines in some shitty new open-source language that has shit for documentation, a billion bugs, no IDE support, and a micro-fraction of the libraries available for even the lamest existing language.
Seriously Verizon, $120+ for a basic data/voice plan?
four are Navy test pilots
Well, it takes a lot of flight training to sit strapped in a chair while the Russians drive.
NASA should just be honest and hire a bunch of PR people. That's 99% of what they're going to end up doing anyway. You don't need a Ph.D. in physics to sit around in LEO on a space station, doing podcasts for schoolkids.
It might be 8+ years old at this point, but Tivo hasn't had a DVD burner in years.
Oh man, I miss my old Humax. I would have paid anything to have had an HD, cablecard ready version of that beautiful box. I've still got a ton of old DVD's I burned off that thing. I guess the good old media industry killed any hope of getting an HD version.
Funny thing is that it never even slowed me down from buying commercial DVD's. I used it mostly to archive TV specials and stuff that would have never been sold on DVD anyway. My favorite DVD's, that I still watch even today, are my copies of the National Geographic/BBC "Space Race" series, which was later basically banned in the U.S. (for daring to show the Soviet space program in a positive light and to talk about Von Braun's Nazi past). My Humax DVD's are the only legal way I can view it in the U.S. now. Even if I bought a gray-market multi-region player (and risk the MPAA kicking my door down for some DMCA violation bullshit), I still couldn't even import the America version, only the much different UK version.
The last time, I had to explain to them what a cablecard even was, go through about six different people before they finally put on a tech who knew wtf he was talking about, and then deal with hours of installation hassles (thought I could just go pick it up and install it myself--nope, gotta have a tech come do it, and it's going to take him forever to get it working too).
Now I've got to try to explain to them what a "M" cablecard is. Great.
It was a big enough pain in the ass trying to get *two* out of my cableco.
A decentralized social site isn't very useful if none of my friends are on it.
Hulk tired of scripts, talk. Hulk want MORE ACTION, LOUD NOISES!!!! Hulk like new Superman movie!
That can't be right. The NSA said there were fewer than 300 requests total, and they would never lie to us.
You would think that console companies would have learned by now that being on top in one-generation and getting cocky about it is the sure road to getting your ass kicked in the next generation. Just ask Atari, Nintendo, and Sony. Nothing spells doom in the console world quite like a "We're on top now, so we can do anything we want!" attitude.
The only thing I can figure is that it's a combination of the isolated echo-chamber (where they only hear each other saying positive things) and some misguided attempt to imitate Steve Jobs' "Screw the consumer, we'll tell them what they want!" attitude (but missing the fact that Jobs had a virtual cult that would follow him anywhere).
As a publisher they feel they must prevent anything that might jeopardize that income. Most companies would not go this far, but Microsoft has a culture of "cutting off their nose to spite their face."
Actually, that USED to be Sony's reputation. In the console space at least, MS once had a very positive reputation. Lately though, the attitudes seem to have completely reversed. MS has become the arrogant, control-freak pricks and Sony is actually looking like the decent, pro-consumer company. Just bizarre.
MS used to have XNA, and basically let anyone publish on the 360 with just a $100 a year license. Not sure why they abandoned such a forward-thinking program. But it does fit in with the general MS stance of making every fucking wrong move imaginable over the last 3-4 years, and scrapping every decent idea they ever had.
Sometimes I think Blamer has secretly gone nuts, and no one has the balls to have him committed. It would certainly explain why he's absent from MS public events these days. But at least Howard Hughes was smart enough to delegate well after *he* went batshit. Balmer, by contrast, seems determined to not only collect all his urine in jars, but also to run his company off the cliff.