Gimmie a break. There's another kind of freedom: the freedom to get shit done without having to wrestle with the operating system. Remember that when you think about OSX. No slaves here, just someone getting the job done.
That might constitute a bad example. I think that record companies distributed Heavy Metal bands on vinyl far longer than any other genre because the improved quality of CDs just didn't make any discernable difference to either the listeners or to the music.
Let's face it: primarily the record companies moved us all to CDs to allow them to let slide their back catalog of LPs and secondarily because CD sound is better.
Jeez, how far up your butt did you have to reach for that? The first CD my roommate bought back in 1984 was "Animalize" by Kiss. When CDs first started coming out, 80's heavy metal was king. Heavy metal CDs were no more scarce than any other genre at the dawn of the format.
Second, the record companies didn't move us to CDs, we moved there all by ourselves. US record companies couldn't keep up with the demand because they didn't think the format was going to take off like it did. There wasn't a conspiracy (at first;-). CDs sounded SO MUCH better than the crappy vinyl pressings that were out there so we loved them. The $11.99 price tag didn't hurt, either.
FWIW, when I sell electronics on eBay I state in the item description that people with less than 2 (YMMV) feedback will have their bids cancelled so don't even bother bidding. Electronics really attracts deadbeat bidders for some reason. Since I've started doing that, no problems.
I don't hold eBay liable for fraudulent transactions. However, if evidence of fraud is presented to them and they do nothing, THEN I hold eBay liable. That was the real thrust of the articles: eBay is allegedly letting power sellers slide even when given evidence of fraud.
I've bought tech several times at eBay and have had excellent experiences and gotten great deals. You have to be aware that fraud is a very real possibility in that category, though. Do your research on the seller and use an escrow service on expensive items. It's not foolproof but it's worked for me so far. Caveat emptor and whatnot.
...one would think it obvious that the resources it would cost Ebay as a company to have to keep track of, let alone take action upon, the constant fraud cases would be immense.
No sympathy. It's called "the cost of doing business."
Read the articles. eBay does have the power to do something about bad sellers when evidence is presented to them. They are allegedly not always doing what they should when those bad sellers are also power sellers. You did read the articles, didn't you?
...I felt really bad about telling my friend that her money disappeared into a bottomless pit.
How did your friend feel when she found out that there were escrow services she could have used for big ticket auctions and that you didn't recommend them to her?
Did you even read the articles? The main thrust is that eBay is not doing what they can do (like disabling accounts) even when there is strong evidence of fraud. eBay controls the cash flow to themselves from power sellers--again, read the articles.
Hiawatha Bray, writing for The Boston Globe, has posted his review. It starts off as a comparison to OS X and touches a bit on Linux's problems in the desktop market.
I wonder what people who think the First Amendment should be chipped away at would think if the discussion was, instead, about the Second Amendment. My guess is that they would suddenly become great defenders of their constitutional rights and go on about how it keeps the government in check...
Agreed. The pre-Green Card Lawyers days of Usenet (i.e. pre-spam) were glory days. It didn't have to do with free access or getting shells on other machines (because I had shell access from the work machine where I was reading newsgroups;-). It had to do with contributing to discussions. You can find the same sort of thing here on/. but the topics were much broader with the whole Usenet. Then again, there are web sites for anything. The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.
Heaven forbid you hire a programmer with managerial aspirations. If you did that you might end up technically competent managers, and we all know programmers don't want those.
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No, not kidding. When you saw the first flight on CNN in '89, that really was the first flight.
Given that the B-2 didn't fly until 1989, I'd drop that estimate down to 13 years.
Click here for the correct URL (there's a space in the one above).
This could help push Apple back to a respectable market share over a couple of years.
Be fair, Apple is already the "largest Unix vendor in the world." That's pretty respectable.
Gimmie a break. There's another kind of freedom: the freedom to get shit done without having to wrestle with the operating system. Remember that when you think about OSX. No slaves here, just someone getting the job done.
Jeez, how far up your butt did you have to reach for that? The first CD my roommate bought back in 1984 was "Animalize" by Kiss. When CDs first started coming out, 80's heavy metal was king. Heavy metal CDs were no more scarce than any other genre at the dawn of the format.
Second, the record companies didn't move us to CDs, we moved there all by ourselves. US record companies couldn't keep up with the demand because they didn't think the format was going to take off like it did. There wasn't a conspiracy (at first ;-). CDs sounded SO MUCH better than the crappy vinyl pressings that were out there so we loved them. The $11.99 price tag didn't hurt, either.
From the iPod specs:
IOW, iPod's had it all along.
FWIW, when I sell electronics on eBay I state in the item description that people with less than 2 (YMMV) feedback will have their bids cancelled so don't even bother bidding. Electronics really attracts deadbeat bidders for some reason. Since I've started doing that, no problems.
I don't hold eBay liable for fraudulent transactions. However, if evidence of fraud is presented to them and they do nothing, THEN I hold eBay liable. That was the real thrust of the articles: eBay is allegedly letting power sellers slide even when given evidence of fraud.
I've bought tech several times at eBay and have had excellent experiences and gotten great deals. You have to be aware that fraud is a very real possibility in that category, though. Do your research on the seller and use an escrow service on expensive items. It's not foolproof but it's worked for me so far. Caveat emptor and whatnot.
No sympathy. It's called "the cost of doing business."
Read the articles. eBay does have the power to do something about bad sellers when evidence is presented to them. They are allegedly not always doing what they should when those bad sellers are also power sellers. You did read the articles, didn't you?
How did your friend feel when she found out that there were escrow services she could have used for big ticket auctions and that you didn't recommend them to her?
Did you even read the articles? The main thrust is that eBay is not doing what they can do (like disabling accounts) even when there is strong evidence of fraud. eBay controls the cash flow to themselves from power sellers--again, read the articles.
Absolutely insane that you people have zero regard for artists rights...
What artist will be harmed by "Steamboat Willie" falling into the public domain?
Here's the relevant doc. VERY handy.
If your web hosting service doesn't allow you to redirect from a .htaccess file, it's time to find a new service, IMHO.
Hiawatha Bray, writing for The Boston Globe, has posted his review. It starts off as a comparison to OS X and touches a bit on Linux's problems in the desktop market.
In other words: Who cares what Linus calls the OS? Even smart people can be wrong.
Substitute "Stallman" for "Linus" and you sum up my feelings exactly.
But FOLLOWING the Constitution is more important than 1 life, or 3000 lives, or 100,000,000 lives. Yes, I really mean that.
The Constitution is not a license to chuck common sense and the respect for life out the window. Enjoy your world, whatever the color of its sky.
I wonder what people who think the First Amendment should be chipped away at would think if the discussion was, instead, about the Second Amendment. My guess is that they would suddenly become great defenders of their constitutional rights and go on about how it keeps the government in check...
Agreed. The pre-Green Card Lawyers days of Usenet (i.e. pre-spam) were glory days. It didn't have to do with free access or getting shells on other machines (because I had shell access from the work machine where I was reading newsgroups ;-). It had to do with contributing to discussions. You can find the same sort of thing here on /. but the topics were much broader with the whole Usenet. Then again, there are web sites for anything. The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.
IBM says that the PCs are sent to Envirocycle, which claims on its home page that it "provides a complete closed loop recycling."
When do I get to put DBD::Oracle on my Mac? That's what this Perl guy wants to know.
So you only want managers who can't code?
<sarcasm>Heaven forbid you hire a programmer with managerial aspirations. If you did that you might end up technically competent managers, and we all know programmers don't want those.
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