By the time that happens, it's highly likely that the item in question isn't going to have a market for it.
Loom at it this way: There's a reason why there are a lot of people around today who can credibly authenticate either a real/fake centuries-old Rembrandt painting or Stradivarius violin, and get paid somewhat handsomely to do so.
If the ROM contents are cloned, would you care to explain what is so different from the original cartridge to justify the prices?
For the same reason a poster of the Mona Lisa is worth much less than the actual Mona Lisa.
In this particular case, I'm not 100% certain the analogy holds up, but I think you two are discussing different aspects.
It all depends on what you are actually buying... if you're buying it to play the game, then a repro cartridge and the original are of equal value. If you're buying it for purely aesthetic purposes, or for bragging rights (...umm, really?), then it would make a huge difference.
All that said and done, who the hell is paying for this authentication? Ultimately, the buyer, natch, but is eBay (and the "authenticator") charging the seller or the buyer for this service?
In this case, the USSR is correct in its naming, and in calling itself socialist. Socialism is defined (among other things) as, ( and I quote ):
any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
...and if the USSR was good at anything (besides purges), it was good at government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Regardless of who was behind Wikileaks documents related to US politics, they were almost entirely anti-Democrat.
Like it's the RNC's fault that they weren't stupid enough to 1) hang an unsecured private MS Exchange server directly on the public Internet, 2) fall for a monumentally stupid phishing scam, and 3) use email to coordinate some stupefyingly shady shit (colluding with the media and vice-versa, screwing over Sanders and his voters, etc.)
I mean, come on... if the RNC had even thought of doing anything like any of that, you can bet your ass that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC... all of them would be announcing it from the rooftops and covering it ad nauseum the whole election.
Instead, all this stuff gets revealed about the DNC, and the majority of media in response pooh-poohs it, then keeps it as quiet as humanly possible.
Unless you're a frothing partisan, you cannot think that there's anything right about any of that kind of behavior.
And by the way, Anonymous (not Russia per se) and a leaker within the DNC were the ones behind it. Assange himself even said as much. Anonymous stated from the get-go that because of various shady doings by Clinton and her confederate Wasserman-Schulz (Sanders' fucking in the primaries being among those doings) that they would actively go after Clinton with everything they had.
True, but what happens when/if the paper chase ends up at some offshore VPN or open proxy that doesn't keep logs? Pretty sure that if someone is going to go to the trouble of crafting/sending this tweet, they're going to have enough working neurons to cover that much of their tracks.
I dunno... it certainly seems that way, especially when you consider that Macs (or rather, OSX-running stuff) represent what, 10-20% of their revenue nowadays, when compared to iPads and etc?
But then, if you look at the population at large, we're seeing a somewhat similar trend.
You and I (and anyone who loves to tinker with stuff) are decrying the lack of ports, lack of upgradeability, etc... meanwhile, Joe Sixpack never bothers to do much more than occasionally up the RAM on his laptop, his wife dumped her laptop for an iPad/tablet years ago, and a *huge* percentage of folks do nearly everything on their smartphones nowadays.
Port usage is different too among most consumers - most folks have long ago begun switching to bluetooth and wifi to connect stuff. Printers nowadays are wifi-connected, so what's the point of having a dedicated printer cable port? Geek sticks? Okay, we'll still need a USB port.. but that's about it. Camera/SD cards? USB adapter, as always, or just use the USB cable, or...
Makes perfect sense to the average consumer, who doesn't have a lot of use for the holes in their laptop, and isn't going to bother with upgrades beyond maybe a bigger hard drive a couple of years down the road - when it comes time to buy a new laptop. I don't blame them, either - there haven't been any real advances in performance over the past, what, decade? At least when it comes to the trinity (CPU, RAM, Disk), it's been incremental at best.
This presents a problem for the tinkering crowd. I can't just buy a baseline MBP and bump the disk and RAM when I get home. I can't plug in all my old shit like I used to. Unlike most consumers, I actually use the built-in Ethernet port once in awhile on my 2012-era MBP (occasionally troubleshooting the home router/sat-link ISP). Stuff like that. But then, I see my own home rigs changing: the laptop I sit in front of connects to boxes I've rigged as servers: media, storage, what-have-you. Given this, I don't mind so much if I can't do as much with the laptop nowadays. If I want to do gaming or some real demanding thing, I can turn to my fire-breathing dual-boot (Hackintosh/Linux) desktop - either by sitting in front of it, or by using RDP, or...
I think it's part and parcel of Apple's response to usage patterns among the general public (not the geeks, but the general public), which makes more sense to them, at least financially.
He recognized what he did, he recognized his error.
You grossly misspelled "He recognized that he got caught red-handed" up there.
Sorry, but there's no trust to be salvaged from that one.
(...and why the fuck was a CEO even given database/middleware access, anyway? Doesn't he have more important shit to do, like you know, run the company?)
Good Lord... half of Seattle doesn't take AMEX due to the higher-than-otherwise merchant fees, and they focus their money on *this*?
Ugh.
I don't mind that they do nice things for their employees, but a potential problem: should AMEX come into financial troubles, the incentive to offshore/contract employees (and use them as replacements for the existing ones who get fired or laid off) will now get much bigger if the money flow ever gets tight (or the board decides they really need to bump the stock price by end-of-quarter...)
Well, they call them limos, but they're still rented.
Besides, even the rich like to yap at parties about having participated in certain trends and fashions; what better than to tell your zillionaire friends how you "got in touch with the common folk" by taking an Uber?
TBH, I would much prefer that *only* verified buyers review an item.
Yeah, I admit that the joke reviews are often seriously great comedy, but honestly - verified buyers only means that potential buyers will know one way or the other if the thing is worthwhile. This is especially true when it comes to anything political, or anything sold by Twitter's Target Of The Week - hordes of frothing people with a keyboard and a bad case of butthurt (or worse, SJW fever) flood the item with bad reviews, even though they've never paid money for the thing.
Tell you what - go to Newegg's mobile site sometime. It's one of the better mobile sites for buying stuff, but I still hate using it, so I don't. Besides the mobile site (most typical ones, anyway) often being very slow to load fully (even on 4G with full bars), having to scroll like crazy just to narrow the filtering options down is a raging PITA sometimes. It's a much, much faster and smoother experience on the laptop (even over Satellite Internet, FFS).
Many mobile sites are like this if the products they sell are even halfway as complex.
Sure, buying a T-shirt (choosing color, size, maybe long/short sleeve options) on the phone is drop-simple, but buying something with a lot of different options (like a laptop for instance) gets to be a bit of a rough experience, enough that I don't even bother unless I have a lot of time/battery to waste on it.
I don't blame Newegg (or similar) per se, because getting the UX right on a tiny screen is hard work as it is - it gets exponentially harder when the complexity of the purchase goes up. I do however blame the fact that a lot of this can be alleviated with a bit of cooperation by the carriers (seriously, Verizon - upgrade your shiz once in awhile and stop oversubscribing), and a bit of skull sweat on the part of the site designers.
Some ideas (aimed at no one in particular)? * stop using so many fucking scripts/cookies/trackers/etc on the site - each one takes time to load, and mobile bandwidth often sucks. The longer it takes for the thing to load, the greater the chance your user will tell you to piss off and not make the purchase. * clean up the interface (...more!) * spend more than five minutes accounting for smaller screens. Not everyone has a tablet - sized phone, FFS.
Slashdot Mirror
...or "iFrame"?
(/me ducks and runs like hell, laughing maniacally...)
Problem is, it was never covered (at least not any more than a passing mention at most) on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC...
Only the farther-right sites really went into any detail at all.
Henceforth it is decreed that no government record or communication shall exceed 140 characters.
For most civilian functions of government, I could actually live with that...
Thanks, headline, for getting that song stuck in my $#&ing head...
"We get signal"
"...what?"
"Main screen turn on."
"It's you."
"How are you gentlemen. All your base are belong to us..."
My municipal water system is cheaper and far more reliable than my internet service...
Two problems with your assertion:
1) If governments tightly regulated ISP pricing and behavior like they do the local water utility, you might have had a workable analogy.
2) Two words: Flint, Michigan.
By the time that happens, it's highly likely that the item in question isn't going to have a market for it.
Loom at it this way: There's a reason why there are a lot of people around today who can credibly authenticate either a real/fake centuries-old Rembrandt painting or Stradivarius violin, and get paid somewhat handsomely to do so.
For the same reason a poster of the Mona Lisa is worth much less than the actual Mona Lisa.
In this particular case, I'm not 100% certain the analogy holds up, but I think you two are discussing different aspects.
It all depends on what you are actually buying... if you're buying it to play the game, then a repro cartridge and the original are of equal value. If you're buying it for purely aesthetic purposes, or for bragging rights (...umm, really?), then it would make a huge difference.
All that said and done, who the hell is paying for this authentication? Ultimately, the buyer, natch, but is eBay (and the "authenticator") charging the seller or the buyer for this service?
In this case, the USSR is correct in its naming, and in calling itself socialist. Socialism is defined (among other things) as, ( and I quote ):
...who gets to fine C-SPAN?
Neither did socialism.
The United Soviet Socialist Republic would like to disagree with your statement. ;)
Actually, the RNC wasn't hacked. Neither was Trump.
If they were, where's the proof (and no, some say-so from an unnamed source does not count. Show me a dropbox URL, or at least something similar.)
Regardless of who was behind Wikileaks documents related to US politics, they were almost entirely anti-Democrat.
Like it's the RNC's fault that they weren't stupid enough to 1) hang an unsecured private MS Exchange server directly on the public Internet, 2) fall for a monumentally stupid phishing scam, and 3) use email to coordinate some stupefyingly shady shit (colluding with the media and vice-versa, screwing over Sanders and his voters, etc.)
I mean, come on... if the RNC had even thought of doing anything like any of that, you can bet your ass that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC... all of them would be announcing it from the rooftops and covering it ad nauseum the whole election.
Instead, all this stuff gets revealed about the DNC, and the majority of media in response pooh-poohs it, then keeps it as quiet as humanly possible.
Unless you're a frothing partisan, you cannot think that there's anything right about any of that kind of behavior.
And by the way, Anonymous (not Russia per se) and a leaker within the DNC were the ones behind it. Assange himself even said as much. Anonymous stated from the get-go that because of various shady doings by Clinton and her confederate Wasserman-Schulz (Sanders' fucking in the primaries being among those doings) that they would actively go after Clinton with everything they had.
True, but what happens when/if the paper chase ends up at some offshore VPN or open proxy that doesn't keep logs? Pretty sure that if someone is going to go to the trouble of crafting/sending this tweet, they're going to have enough working neurons to cover that much of their tracks.
I dunno... it certainly seems that way, especially when you consider that Macs (or rather, OSX-running stuff) represent what, 10-20% of their revenue nowadays, when compared to iPads and etc?
But then, if you look at the population at large, we're seeing a somewhat similar trend.
You and I (and anyone who loves to tinker with stuff) are decrying the lack of ports, lack of upgradeability, etc... meanwhile, Joe Sixpack never bothers to do much more than occasionally up the RAM on his laptop, his wife dumped her laptop for an iPad/tablet years ago, and a *huge* percentage of folks do nearly everything on their smartphones nowadays.
Port usage is different too among most consumers - most folks have long ago begun switching to bluetooth and wifi to connect stuff. Printers nowadays are wifi-connected, so what's the point of having a dedicated printer cable port? Geek sticks? Okay, we'll still need a USB port.. but that's about it. Camera/SD cards? USB adapter, as always, or just use the USB cable, or...
Makes perfect sense to the average consumer, who doesn't have a lot of use for the holes in their laptop, and isn't going to bother with upgrades beyond maybe a bigger hard drive a couple of years down the road - when it comes time to buy a new laptop. I don't blame them, either - there haven't been any real advances in performance over the past, what, decade? At least when it comes to the trinity (CPU, RAM, Disk), it's been incremental at best.
This presents a problem for the tinkering crowd. I can't just buy a baseline MBP and bump the disk and RAM when I get home. I can't plug in all my old shit like I used to. Unlike most consumers, I actually use the built-in Ethernet port once in awhile on my 2012-era MBP (occasionally troubleshooting the home router/sat-link ISP). Stuff like that. But then, I see my own home rigs changing: the laptop I sit in front of connects to boxes I've rigged as servers: media, storage, what-have-you. Given this, I don't mind so much if I can't do as much with the laptop nowadays. If I want to do gaming or some real demanding thing, I can turn to my fire-breathing dual-boot (Hackintosh/Linux) desktop - either by sitting in front of it, or by using RDP, or...
I think it's part and parcel of Apple's response to usage patterns among the general public (not the geeks, but the general public), which makes more sense to them, at least financially.
We paying reddit users want his head on a pike; fire his ass
To be fair, the users are paying (advertisers), albeit with their eyeballs...
Depends on the infraction. Pretty sure that a CEO would be punished for doing something illegal with a child just as much as the janitor would...
In this case though, actively nuking a company's reputation from orbit (which is what he did) is more than plenty of reason needed to fire the CEO.
He recognized what he did, he recognized his error.
You grossly misspelled "He recognized that he got caught red-handed" up there.
Sorry, but there's no trust to be salvaged from that one.
(...and why the fuck was a CEO even given database/middleware access, anyway? Doesn't he have more important shit to do, like you know, run the company?)
You will pay. You will not complain. You have no rights against the all-powerful CORPORATION. Unless you incorporate yourself.
I'm not free to cut the cord?
...or switch to Satellite TV (which I've done for *years* now... )
Good Lord... half of Seattle doesn't take AMEX due to the higher-than-otherwise merchant fees, and they focus their money on *this*?
Ugh.
I don't mind that they do nice things for their employees, but a potential problem: should AMEX come into financial troubles, the incentive to offshore/contract employees (and use them as replacements for the existing ones who get fired or laid off) will now get much bigger if the money flow ever gets tight (or the board decides they really need to bump the stock price by end-of-quarter...)
Well, they call them limos, but they're still rented.
Besides, even the rich like to yap at parties about having participated in certain trends and fashions; what better than to tell your zillionaire friends how you "got in touch with the common folk" by taking an Uber?
Actually, there are exceptions to this. See also The Glitch Mob
TBH, I would much prefer that *only* verified buyers review an item.
Yeah, I admit that the joke reviews are often seriously great comedy, but honestly - verified buyers only means that potential buyers will know one way or the other if the thing is worthwhile. This is especially true when it comes to anything political, or anything sold by Twitter's Target Of The Week - hordes of frothing people with a keyboard and a bad case of butthurt (or worse, SJW fever) flood the item with bad reviews, even though they've never paid money for the thing.
It's not just pinch and zoom...
Tell you what - go to Newegg's mobile site sometime. It's one of the better mobile sites for buying stuff, but I still hate using it, so I don't. Besides the mobile site (most typical ones, anyway) often being very slow to load fully (even on 4G with full bars), having to scroll like crazy just to narrow the filtering options down is a raging PITA sometimes. It's a much, much faster and smoother experience on the laptop (even over Satellite Internet, FFS).
Many mobile sites are like this if the products they sell are even halfway as complex.
Sure, buying a T-shirt (choosing color, size, maybe long/short sleeve options) on the phone is drop-simple, but buying something with a lot of different options (like a laptop for instance) gets to be a bit of a rough experience, enough that I don't even bother unless I have a lot of time/battery to waste on it.
I don't blame Newegg (or similar) per se, because getting the UX right on a tiny screen is hard work as it is - it gets exponentially harder when the complexity of the purchase goes up. I do however blame the fact that a lot of this can be alleviated with a bit of cooperation by the carriers (seriously, Verizon - upgrade your shiz once in awhile and stop oversubscribing), and a bit of skull sweat on the part of the site designers.
Some ideas (aimed at no one in particular)?
* stop using so many fucking scripts/cookies/trackers/etc on the site - each one takes time to load, and mobile bandwidth often sucks. The longer it takes for the thing to load, the greater the chance your user will tell you to piss off and not make the purchase.
* clean up the interface (...more!)
* spend more than five minutes accounting for smaller screens. Not everyone has a tablet - sized phone, FFS.
Yes, sure, that's great, I hope you enjoyed typing that on your iphone.
My LG G3 is not an iPhone ;)
...how many of them took advantage of the refund policy?