The problem is the approach Microsoft takes is "What can we do to squeeze money out of people" rather than "What do people want and are willing to pay for." The headline 'feature' smacks of exactly that. Certainly they thought of all sorts of things, but they didn't fit in the "what's in it for us?" mentality.
The RIAA must have ben thinking "Finally! Someone who understands our point of view! OK, here what you do...."
Oddly enough I can distinctly remember when I heard about it. I had some cheap plastic thing that said made in usa and somebody "explained" the usa thing to me. This would have been sometime in the late '60s. Strange what trivial things stick in our brains. Obviously it made quite an impression on me.
Maybe you could expand a bit on Hong Kong & Japan, since those examples might be a bit more relevant.
When I was a kid "Made in Japan" meant it was something cheap and crappy. For a while some Japanese products would be labeled "Made in Usa," which apparently is a Japanese city. Just an anecdote, I know.
I always metamod down any funny posts that get marked insightful. and yet are not. The purpose of the moderation system is to improve the readability of the discussions, not reward. Karma is simply a general measure of someone's contributions. If a poster needs to be rewarded for posting something humorous then the rest of their posts are probably not all that worthwhile. My karma's been pegged at excellent for years, even though my posts are not all that insightful or informative. So it's not hard to do. The occasional offtopic mod, as this one should be, aren't going to kill it.
The only answers allowed were Agree, Disagree, and Don't Know. Your compound questions cannot be answered. Also, since each party was given the questions, any obvious bias could be removed beforehand. And in the end, all that matters is which party answered the questions most similarly to you.
Go through the survey. They have an English language version available. It seemed to me to be a very good idea.
Besides being annoying and inconvenient, it wouldn't work. By getting that alert all the time you'd simply become conditioned to click it without reading it.
I thought it was going to be addressed by making the forms non-submittable by JavaScript
It could still be done with a plain old form. I don't think it would be hard to convince plenty of myspace people to fill out a form asking if, say, Teen Heartthrob Abe Vigoda was sexy or not. Just toss some hidden fields in there. And if you make it not autofill hidden fields, then just move them offscreen, or some place not very obvious.
Either that's a subtle anti-Semitic troll, or you're a complete retard.
Pardon my not making myself abundantly clear. I guess that's a problem with us complete retards. It happened to be Israel wishing to develop it, but I didn't mean that Israel, or anyone else specifically, would use it that way. The point I was trying to make is that as technology continues to make better weapons, the cost of effective terrorism eventually drops to the point where any sufficiently disgruntled group can cause a breakdown in society.
And just to make sure it's clear - I think that would be a bad thing. And I don't think the solution, if there is one at all, is force.
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With a name like that he's in for nothing but grief.
Personally I refuse to spend any money on any Sony product.
The RIAA must have ben thinking "Finally! Someone who understands our point of view! OK, here what you do...."
And the funny thing is, if they could magically make a perfect copy of a car without taking the original, then everybody would.
Without ignorance there can be no curiosity.
And in Spanish, sed means "won't go."
Wait, that's not right. It means thirst.
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I think it would work a little bit better like this:
"Not meant as a troll or a flamebait, but you're one stupid sonofabitch." - jhylkema
Oddly enough I can distinctly remember when I heard about it. I had some cheap plastic thing that said made in usa and somebody "explained" the usa thing to me. This would have been sometime in the late '60s. Strange what trivial things stick in our brains. Obviously it made quite an impression on me.
Now there's a quote that seems destined to become somebody's sig.
When I was a kid "Made in Japan" meant it was something cheap and crappy. For a while some Japanese products would be labeled "Made in Usa," which apparently is a Japanese city. Just an anecdote, I know.
If you've got IBM's lawyers you don't need Apple's, unless maybe the IBM lawyers need somebody to carry their briefcases or something.
T o o t h.
Microsoft admits WGA failures "coming up more commonly now"
Besides all that there's the general notion that the more you treat your customers like criminals the less they'll want to do business with you.
I always metamod down any funny posts that get marked insightful. and yet are not. The purpose of the moderation system is to improve the readability of the discussions, not reward. Karma is simply a general measure of someone's contributions. If a poster needs to be rewarded for posting something humorous then the rest of their posts are probably not all that worthwhile. My karma's been pegged at excellent for years, even though my posts are not all that insightful or informative. So it's not hard to do. The occasional offtopic mod, as this one should be, aren't going to kill it.
Go through the survey. They have an English language version available. It seemed to me to be a very good idea.
Neither would pixie dust, and for the same reason.
Besides being annoying and inconvenient, it wouldn't work. By getting that alert all the time you'd simply become conditioned to click it without reading it.
Impossible - 38%
Nothing new - 38%
Other - 24%
It could still be done with a plain old form. I don't think it would be hard to convince plenty of myspace people to fill out a form asking if, say, Teen Heartthrob Abe Vigoda was sexy or not. Just toss some hidden fields in there. And if you make it not autofill hidden fields, then just move them offscreen, or some place not very obvious.
Pardon my not making myself abundantly clear. I guess that's a problem with us complete retards. It happened to be Israel wishing to develop it, but I didn't mean that Israel, or anyone else specifically, would use it that way. The point I was trying to make is that as technology continues to make better weapons, the cost of effective terrorism eventually drops to the point where any sufficiently disgruntled group can cause a breakdown in society.
And just to make sure it's clear - I think that would be a bad thing. And I don't think the solution, if there is one at all, is force.
Mine is four dimensional, because it has a clock in it. At least that's how the guy down at the store explained it.
And that's just one more market force.
And you omitted a "not."
Why? It's not that that's that odd.