I agree with you 100%. There seems to be this strong urge to bitch these days rather than just not coming to/. if they're not happy with it. If Coke changes formulas and now tastes funny, these people would likely continue to drink Coke and bitch about the funny taste. Folks, just stop drinking Coke!
If you have a problem with a site, just don't visit it! Stop bitching, it's Taco's site, he can do whatever the hell he likes. If you don't like it, fine, just don't come here.
Ignore these customers and state "We don't fix modified Fords" to stop people sending modified units back, incurring the wrath of the customer base
But if the warranty expressedly states, "Modifying the engine will void the warranty," then this is exactly what Ford should do. Those upset users should be upset at themselves for breaking their own car. Sheesh. This isn't a problem with other things in life... Correct me if I'm wrong, but Apple voids the warranty if you crack the case and tinker with it (and you are not one of their certified technicians). I've never seen a C!Net article reading, "Apple gives the OK to tinker with Apples, but the warranty will be voided," and I've never seen a/. article on said unseen C!Net article.
Maybe I am not a big enough geek, but I don't see why this is/. worthy. Assume for the moment that TiVo did have an anti-hacking rule... ok, don't buy TiVos... there's no reason to buy one and then bitch about it. Oh well....
Buy a TiVo, you are paying your own money... you decide to tinker with it... why would the TiVo folks have any say in the matter? Don't you buy a TiVo? You aren't renting it, correct? I don't see why TiVo would have any stance on this. It would be like Ford saying, "We don't have any problem with people changing their own oil filters." That being said, why again is this news?
Perhaps the reason AOL doesn't care about Netscape is because Netscape sucks. Hard. It's difficult to convince people to use your service when the browser you offer them sucks. Hard.
I suppose, then, that you don't live off of royalties from IP you've created? It's a lot easier to denounce IP rights when you are not putting food on the table with the money made from IP...
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It's time for some games to start supporting multiple monitors for different displays
Is it really, though? Why should game developers spend any decent amount of time on a feature that only a tiny fraction of a percentage of the users would benefit from? Seems like it would drive the prices of the games up and stretch out the release date...
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If you could somehow squish the N monitors together, then it would be cool, but those damned borders on each monitor make it difficult on my eyes. I could not imagine playing with more than one monitor unless you could seemlessly connect the various monitors...
I don't really understand why people want to get a book online
Folks may not necessarily want to... however, if King only offers that option, whatcha gonna do? Also, what if you enjoy reading stuff that publishing houses won't touch?
Apparently the humor of my post was lost on you... (read the bazillion posts before mine, people saying, "How did I get porn spam, I don't visit porno sites...")
I would bet Hotmail sells the email addresses. Sure, I've given out my email address to several porn sites, but I've always been very sure to uncheck the box that says, "Subscribe me to the prono mailing list." (Everytime, I swear!) And still... I get porn spam! Egad, it must be Microsoft selling my Hotmail email addy....
Before WWII was over, after a war our country demobilized... a lot. Maybe we shouldn't be the World's police force... Maybe we should set an example by cutting back our military presence and increasing our humanitarian presence...
Why the hell did you spend money on that computer, money on isp charges, and money on a kitchen table, chairs, and maybe a tv/vcr?!?
Because I am a selfish bastard, thinking only of myself. One thing I don't spend my money on, though, is means to kill my neighbor.
In any case I think it's funny how much we spend on defense as compared to other programs. Furthermore, I didn't say that we should spend everything on feeding hungry people, I just argued why not cut the defense budget a bit and help out others? Rather than spending money on killing, why don't we spend it on helping? You are trying to turn my statement into a black and white argument. It's not... I'm not saying either spend everything on defense or everything on helping other people... I'm saying, just cut back a bit on defense and reallocate that money to help folks.
Why not cut something that is really not needed... the defense budget! One less bomber could feed so many hungry people. One less aircraft carrier could provide thousands of scholarships for at risk children.
And if one of these towers were accidentally destroyed by some geek weilding a backhoe, we'd definitely have a cass for mass-geek-backhoe-training (MGBT).
The article is about how networks naturally become scale-free. Take out the "top" 4% of nodes in an exponential network and you've accomplished nothing... the network still operates at 96% efficiency.
The article, IMHO, was about the tendency for networks in nature to become scale-free. Imagine if your brain cells were arranged in an exponential network... each time you bumped your head or chugged a beer you might loose a percentage of your total intellectual capacity! That would suck. Since your brain is a scale-free network, such activities lead to a much less dramatic loss... the brain is neat, too, because the network can rewire itself in case of damage or even practice. For example, cab drivers have, on average, more connections in the part of their brain responsible for navigation and spatial abilities than do non-cab drivers.
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He was also voted Employee of the Month @ Springfield Nuclear Plant (before the whole space fiasco involving the Mutant Space Ants).
If you have a problem with a site, just don't visit it! Stop bitching, it's Taco's site, he can do whatever the hell he likes. If you don't like it, fine, just don't come here.
This is why I like Kuro5hin.org so much... There the users decide if a story gets posted or not... If only it was back up... :-(
But if the warranty expressedly states, "Modifying the engine will void the warranty," then this is exactly what Ford should do. Those upset users should be upset at themselves for breaking their own car. Sheesh. This isn't a problem with other things in life... Correct me if I'm wrong, but Apple voids the warranty if you crack the case and tinker with it (and you are not one of their certified technicians). I've never seen a C!Net article reading, "Apple gives the OK to tinker with Apples, but the warranty will be voided," and I've never seen a /. article on said unseen C!Net article.
Maybe I am not a big enough geek, but I don't see why this is /. worthy. Assume for the moment that TiVo did have an anti-hacking rule... ok, don't buy TiVos... there's no reason to buy one and then bitch about it. Oh well....
Does reinstating apartheid involve TiVo somehow?
Buy a TiVo, you are paying your own money... you decide to tinker with it... why would the TiVo folks have any say in the matter? Don't you buy a TiVo? You aren't renting it, correct? I don't see why TiVo would have any stance on this. It would be like Ford saying, "We don't have any problem with people changing their own oil filters." That being said, why again is this news?
It seems more stable on Windows, but, as we all know, IE loads a lot faster and, IMHO, IE just renders the HTML into a nicer-looking document.
Perhaps the reason AOL doesn't care about Netscape is because Netscape sucks. Hard. It's difficult to convince people to use your service when the browser you offer them sucks. Hard.
I suppose, then, that you don't live off of royalties from IP you've created? It's a lot easier to denounce IP rights when you are not putting food on the table with the money made from IP...
Is it really, though? Why should game developers spend any decent amount of time on a feature that only a tiny fraction of a percentage of the users would benefit from? Seems like it would drive the prices of the games up and stretch out the release date...
If you could somehow squish the N monitors together, then it would be cool, but those damned borders on each monitor make it difficult on my eyes. I could not imagine playing with more than one monitor unless you could seemlessly connect the various monitors...
Folks may not necessarily want to... however, if King only offers that option, whatcha gonna do? Also, what if you enjoy reading stuff that publishing houses won't touch?
Apparently the humor of my post was lost on you... (read the bazillion posts before mine, people saying, "How did I get porn spam, I don't visit porno sites...")
I would bet Hotmail sells the email addresses. Sure, I've given out my email address to several porn sites, but I've always been very sure to uncheck the box that says, "Subscribe me to the prono mailing list." (Everytime, I swear!) And still... I get porn spam! Egad, it must be Microsoft selling my Hotmail email addy....
And how many computers do you have to buy to use a Hotmail or Mail.com account? Zero...
The only reason I let the USPS pick up my mail is because they're the only ones who are legally allowed to take/put things from/in my mailbox!
Before WWII was over, after a war our country demobilized... a lot. Maybe we shouldn't be the World's police force... Maybe we should set an example by cutting back our military presence and increasing our humanitarian presence...
Because I am a selfish bastard, thinking only of myself. One thing I don't spend my money on, though, is means to kill my neighbor.
In any case I think it's funny how much we spend on defense as compared to other programs. Furthermore, I didn't say that we should spend everything on feeding hungry people, I just argued why not cut the defense budget a bit and help out others? Rather than spending money on killing, why don't we spend it on helping? You are trying to turn my statement into a black and white argument. It's not... I'm not saying either spend everything on defense or everything on helping other people... I'm saying, just cut back a bit on defense and reallocate that money to help folks.
Your attempt at humor has failed... quite miserably too...
Why not cut something that is really not needed... the defense budget! One less bomber could feed so many hungry people. One less aircraft carrier could provide thousands of scholarships for at risk children.
Was he performing doctor duties or just pumping gas?
And if one of these towers were accidentally destroyed by some geek weilding a backhoe, we'd definitely have a cass for mass-geek-backhoe-training (MGBT).
All it would take is a couple of H-Bombs or a supernova.
The article, IMHO, was about the tendency for networks in nature to become scale-free. Imagine if your brain cells were arranged in an exponential network... each time you bumped your head or chugged a beer you might loose a percentage of your total intellectual capacity! That would suck. Since your brain is a scale-free network, such activities lead to a much less dramatic loss... the brain is neat, too, because the network can rewire itself in case of damage or even practice. For example, cab drivers have, on average, more connections in the part of their brain responsible for navigation and spatial abilities than do non-cab drivers.