I'm sorry but I don't think a rewards program is considered bribary. Or my local gas station has been bribing me to drink their smoothies for the past few years, or my cell phone company. Or wait valves been giving me kick backs for years in trading cards and sales. Reward programs are bribes by only the loftiest definition of the word they are designed to increase customer retention and awareness for other products they have that you might want. Very rarely does the value of anything you get exceed the money you are putting in to earn those rewards, and at no point does anyone start palming you 100 dollar bills. I'm sorry but reporting on a rewards program is about as newsworthy as reporting that they are going to be using a different kind of packing foam in their boxes, and about as morally reprehensible as a slightly eggy fart.
Oh so by that logic I guess terrorism, women's rights and the war of 1812 don't matter to you either. Just because they " don't have anything to do with programming anomalies in gps systems" how narrow minded of you
Personally I think you should bring science back to the pop culture thinking of the 50s and 60s. When science was just a tool you used to fix a problem like a hammer, or a screwdriver. We're trying so hard to get to mars now in 2016, we were there all the time in the 60s, Santa Claus even taught the local populace the meaning of Christmas. There was not a thing you couldn't throw 'Science!'tm. at to solve. And there sure were a lot less insufferably boring ted talks to listen to about it too.
Ain't that the truth. The closest I have seen to a virus transmitted by email was one idiot that got a browser hijacker off of a link he followed from a spam letter. On a related note he also had Norton installed on his pc.
Back when I used to work customer service for Verizon everything was about pushing the customers in to using alternatives like the web site to avoid ever having to call back, with the ultimate goal of never having to pay anyone for customer service again. Now obviously that was a b.s. plan and people still call the customer service but it seems companies are still trying to move forward with that idea cause in the intervening 6 years every customer service department I've called into has been less and less resourceful and less and less competent. Meanwhile every time I have a problem with a service or a device and don't want to talk to a trained ape to fix it I just post a really really rude message about how their company is awful and they should all die in a factory fire. And I get a response back with someone promising to help within the next few hours. So it goes to show customer service won't help you with anything anymore unless you hold them accountable in front of millions of potential customers.
For all I care to know maybe these musicians have a valid point and YouTube is drastically cutting into their profits. Just like how downloading off of bearshare and Kazaa was going to ruin the music industry entirely 12 years ago. But I can't help but feel like going to YouTube and telling people that their favorite content creators (a lot of which have been claiming constantly how our current copyright system is too restrictive and that fair use should be expanded) and trying to make the point that the current content ID system is too weak and needs to be restricted is just going to fall on deaf ears. Deaf racist/homophobic ears that banged your mom last night.
maybe the solution is making the computer not such a noisy behemoth in the first place. I know you said you did not want to get into liquid cooling but lately a lot of manufacturers are producing closed loop water coolers that drastically reduce noise,increase performance and are as easy to install as swapping out your existing heat sink and a fan or two. you could also look in to changing the case to something a little more low profile that would fit with the decor of the living room. like a htpc case, although they typically are a little on the small side when compared to full sized gaming rigs. take it from another happily married man compromise doesn't always have to mean giving up on what you care about to make her happy. there is always a middle ground.
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I'm sorry but I don't think a rewards program is considered bribary. Or my local gas station has been bribing me to drink their smoothies for the past few years, or my cell phone company. Or wait valves been giving me kick backs for years in trading cards and sales. Reward programs are bribes by only the loftiest definition of the word they are designed to increase customer retention and awareness for other products they have that you might want. Very rarely does the value of anything you get exceed the money you are putting in to earn those rewards, and at no point does anyone start palming you 100 dollar bills. I'm sorry but reporting on a rewards program is about as newsworthy as reporting that they are going to be using a different kind of packing foam in their boxes, and about as morally reprehensible as a slightly eggy fart.
Oh so by that logic I guess terrorism, women's rights and the war of 1812 don't matter to you either. Just because they " don't have anything to do with programming anomalies in gps systems" how narrow minded of you
Personally I think you should bring science back to the pop culture thinking of the 50s and 60s. When science was just a tool you used to fix a problem like a hammer, or a screwdriver. We're trying so hard to get to mars now in 2016, we were there all the time in the 60s, Santa Claus even taught the local populace the meaning of Christmas. There was not a thing you couldn't throw 'Science!'tm. at to solve. And there sure were a lot less insufferably boring ted talks to listen to about it too.
Ain't that the truth. The closest I have seen to a virus transmitted by email was one idiot that got a browser hijacker off of a link he followed from a spam letter. On a related note he also had Norton installed on his pc.
Well I didn't need to read this to know Norton is garbage. Don't tell me McAfee is as well.
Back when I used to work customer service for Verizon everything was about pushing the customers in to using alternatives like the web site to avoid ever having to call back, with the ultimate goal of never having to pay anyone for customer service again. Now obviously that was a b.s. plan and people still call the customer service but it seems companies are still trying to move forward with that idea cause in the intervening 6 years every customer service department I've called into has been less and less resourceful and less and less competent. Meanwhile every time I have a problem with a service or a device and don't want to talk to a trained ape to fix it I just post a really really rude message about how their company is awful and they should all die in a factory fire. And I get a response back with someone promising to help within the next few hours. So it goes to show customer service won't help you with anything anymore unless you hold them accountable in front of millions of potential customers.
For all I care to know maybe these musicians have a valid point and YouTube is drastically cutting into their profits. Just like how downloading off of bearshare and Kazaa was going to ruin the music industry entirely 12 years ago. But I can't help but feel like going to YouTube and telling people that their favorite content creators (a lot of which have been claiming constantly how our current copyright system is too restrictive and that fair use should be expanded) and trying to make the point that the current content ID system is too weak and needs to be restricted is just going to fall on deaf ears. Deaf racist/homophobic ears that banged your mom last night.
maybe the solution is making the computer not such a noisy behemoth in the first place. I know you said you did not want to get into liquid cooling but lately a lot of manufacturers are producing closed loop water coolers that drastically reduce noise,increase performance and are as easy to install as swapping out your existing heat sink and a fan or two. you could also look in to changing the case to something a little more low profile that would fit with the decor of the living room. like a htpc case, although they typically are a little on the small side when compared to full sized gaming rigs. take it from another happily married man compromise doesn't always have to mean giving up on what you care about to make her happy. there is always a middle ground.