It seems they want to build in a revenue stream so I wonder if they will be rolling out additional upgrades. So you buy this upgrade now, but in 3 months there will be an additional upgrade to increase performance another 10%.
It's like the DLC for games model. Buy the game. A few months later buy the DLC. A few months after that buy DLC #2, etc...
I dunno. I'm looking at it as if I bought a desktop computer that has 4 gigs of ram inside, but reports only 3 gig. Then dell sells me an upgrade that turns on the 4th gig.
When I got the new laptop it didn't seem as responsive as I thought it should be. Maybe I was right. They gave me a crippled CPU that I need to unlock the performance on? "Increasing the cache" sounds like a totally bogus upgrade btw. I'm going to be pretty pissed knowing that the full cache wasn't being used on the machine I bought.
My impression was that Borders focused more on non-books than B&N. They usually had a music section, dvd section, probably other stuff. I didn't wander much past the books. Never understood who would by a DVD set at Borders when usually there was an adjacent store like Best Buy where you could get it for a little less (not to mention Amazon for a lot less).
Borders would routinely email out 40% coupons on any one item if you signed up for their free "Border's card." It made the books essentially the same price as Amazon.
Employers would rather hire someone who already has a job, and because so few jobs are being created, they have plenty of those people to choose from. Nor are they entirely irrational. Research shows that long-term unemployment takes a toll on skills, industry knowledge, and psychological well-being--what economists call "human capital".
Someone else posted below that the terms include a catchall at the end, Terms of Service, section 11 "Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers" number 13 "We may reject or remove any ad for any reason."
Like I said in another comment, you may as well be signing a blank piece of paper.
But this guy himself was not advertising a competitor per se any more than if he advertised his company site which linked to a Google Site. Or am I not understanding it correctly?
Thinking about it a bit more, don't you find it problematic that you aren't so much agreeing to terms as you are signing a blank piece of paper? That is what it amounts to from the person agreeing to terms. No real appeal process either. Reminds me a bit about the libertarian law blogger who had her account suspended by Google a while back: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/120678/
Someone can probably google up a better link on that. It's interesting reading, not least of all because she is a libertarian.
What is irksome is when companies have terms of service but then ignore them or rewrite them on a whim if it happens that the terms are beneficial to someone other than themselves.
Perhaps you are grandfathered in? I got a TD Bank checking account a few years back where the main feature of the account was that it had no minimum balance. A few months later they added a minimum balance which I never realised until I saw that I had been dinged with multiple low balance fees on a statement I happened to check. The terms on this account I have seem to change month to month. Now I watch it like a hawk whereas before I was under the impression I could drop money into it every once and a while and it would be there and grow little by little as I saved.
This is a new thing. My previous laptop was the cheapest option available from Dell, an Inspiron B130. It had a great keyboard and a better touchpad than the Inspiron N5510 I just bought. It's ridiculous that I'd need to spend $400 more or so just to get a keyboard that isn't crap.
Slashdot Mirror
I had no idea the Clip+ was supported. Thanks.
That isn't how I read it. This is being rolled out for i3 processors first.
It seems they want to build in a revenue stream so I wonder if they will be rolling out additional upgrades. So you buy this upgrade now, but in 3 months there will be an additional upgrade to increase performance another 10%.
It's like the DLC for games model. Buy the game. A few months later buy the DLC. A few months after that buy DLC #2, etc...
No, you need to purchase an upgrade card.
That's an interesting motive about keeping AMD afloat through artificial means. Someone mod this guy up.
I dunno. I'm looking at it as if I bought a desktop computer that has 4 gigs of ram inside, but reports only 3 gig. Then dell sells me an upgrade that turns on the 4th gig.
Seems sleazy and wrong to me.
I've never be charged for a firmware upgrade to my Sansa Mp3 player.
When I got the new laptop it didn't seem as responsive as I thought it should be. Maybe I was right. They gave me a crippled CPU that I need to unlock the performance on? "Increasing the cache" sounds like a totally bogus upgrade btw. I'm going to be pretty pissed knowing that the full cache wasn't being used on the machine I bought.
Ditto here in Boston.
I think seti@home does do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astropulse
Gamers got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!
Way better than Notepad++. Way better.
My impression was that Borders focused more on non-books than B&N. They usually had a music section, dvd section, probably other stuff. I didn't wander much past the books. Never understood who would by a DVD set at Borders when usually there was an adjacent store like Best Buy where you could get it for a little less (not to mention Amazon for a lot less).
Borders would routinely email out 40% coupons on any one item if you signed up for their free "Border's card." It made the books essentially the same price as Amazon.
Read this. Seems relevant.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/create-a-special-job-credit-for-the-long-term-unemployed/241989/
Because everyone at the time was saying that owning a home was a good investment?
It was more than being down. She freaked out because they deleted her archives and wouldn't restore them.
Someone else posted below that the terms include a catchall at the end, Terms of Service, section 11 "Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers" number 13 "We may reject or remove any ad for any reason."
Like I said in another comment, you may as well be signing a blank piece of paper.
But this guy himself was not advertising a competitor per se any more than if he advertised his company site which linked to a Google Site. Or am I not understanding it correctly?
Thinking about it a bit more, don't you find it problematic that you aren't so much agreeing to terms as you are signing a blank piece of paper? That is what it amounts to from the person agreeing to terms. No real appeal process either. Reminds me a bit about the libertarian law blogger who had her account suspended by Google a while back: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/120678/
Someone can probably google up a better link on that. It's interesting reading, not least of all because she is a libertarian.
What is irksome is when companies have terms of service but then ignore them or rewrite them on a whim if it happens that the terms are beneficial to someone other than themselves.
Perhaps you are grandfathered in? I got a TD Bank checking account a few years back where the main feature of the account was that it had no minimum balance. A few months later they added a minimum balance which I never realised until I saw that I had been dinged with multiple low balance fees on a statement I happened to check. The terms on this account I have seem to change month to month. Now I watch it like a hawk whereas before I was under the impression I could drop money into it every once and a while and it would be there and grow little by little as I saved.
Why don't robots count?
This is a new thing. My previous laptop was the cheapest option available from Dell, an Inspiron B130. It had a great keyboard and a better touchpad than the Inspiron N5510 I just bought. It's ridiculous that I'd need to spend $400 more or so just to get a keyboard that isn't crap.
Off topic, but damn do I hate the new trend of chiclet keyboards on laptops. Typos up 800%.