I don't see CBS complaining that they have trouble advertising on NBC. I also don't see the Toronto Sun complaining about advertising space in the Toronto Star...
Is it such a big deal that a service makes it difficult for a competitor to advertise on it?
simply rotate the device 90 degrees to watch video.
HOLY SHIT! I never thought of that!
Can you please teach me how to rotate it 90 degrees? Do you think it will also work for all those photos I have, that are on a 90 degree angle for some reason, too? They look so silly on the wall with everything sideways like that...
Lik-Sang isn't a CONSUMER, so something as simplistic as "The actual 'contract' is trading X dollars for Y products" is utter nonsense. A retail contract involves many other conditions, including when and where you can sell it. (ie: Street dates for games, not selling products meant for one region in another.) They signed a contract to get their hands on these goods, and by breaking that contract they opened themselves to the option of LEGAL recourse. (Yes, contracts are bound by law. This isn't a casual handshake.)
Small game shops buy from smaller local distributors, so their hands aren't as tied-down, but when you're dealing in volume (like Lik-Sang) you have to buy from major distributors or directly from the manufacturer itself.
"That shouldn't prevent a company from buying PS3s from other companies and selling them to whomever they want."
As I said, let's see them walk into the HK equivalent of Best Buy and ask for 5,000 PS3s... and at cost, not retail.
When it comes to stuff like this, there's business contracts involved.
Lik-Sang broke contracts, and got sued. Multiple times.
Contracts take precedent over personal freedom, otherwise everyone would break them on a whim.
For example, the business I worked for could only sell a certain company's filters in our specific region. If we had tried to sell them outside of that region, we would have been cut-off and/or sued by our supplier. It was AGREED UPON in a contract.
It sucks. Big time. But it's business. (Also, nothing's stopping some guy in one region privately selling his stuff to a guy in another region. As long as he doesn't make a business out of it.)
The discount is different for each product. (The discounted price being a "rounded" number is one clue to that.)
The discount I would get on a MacBook Pro is about 10%, but the discount I would get on other products is less than that. Some products don't have any discount, IIRC.
With Apple, if you're currently enrolled in a College or University, you can get a fairly sizable discount on all their stuff. (Depending on what you order.)
I checked out the baseline MacBook Pro, and the price went from C$2,199 to C$1,999 with my discount.
Not that I can afford one, or anything right now, of course.
It's so useless. Why in the bloody world does Aero (the UI theme) need its own bloody logo? Did Luna in XP get its own logo? It's not even well designed: It looks like curtains blowing in the wind. Can't the Windows logo suffice as an umbrella logo for everything?
One of the draws of buying music online is that you DON'T have to go to the mall. But if you have to go to the mall, or wherever, to get a card simply to buy that music, that specific draw is lost.
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I don't see CBS complaining that they have trouble advertising on NBC. I also don't see the Toronto Sun complaining about advertising space in the Toronto Star...
Is it such a big deal that a service makes it difficult for a competitor to advertise on it?
The expression "meteoric rise" bugs me. Meteors FALL. It makes about as much sense as "an explosive decline".
Do you have the awesome manly Fiskars?
The one that's spring-loaded and looks a bit like a hedge-trimmer?
One of the best $15 I ever spent.
did I mention that he was also a professional spammer?
WHY HAVE YOU DONE NOTHING!?
Stallman maintains no permanent residence outside his office at MIT's CSAIL Lab,[28] describing himself as a "squatter" on campus.
That's his lifestyle choice. (Gross as it may be.) Even burger flippers can get a basement apartment.
You're asking the wrong crowd for a mirror. One's personal appearance isn't considered with this group.
Wow, to turn it into pure black metal, they must have to measure the femtosecond using a Dethklok.
simply rotate the device 90 degrees to watch video.
HOLY SHIT! I never thought of that!
Can you please teach me how to rotate it 90 degrees? Do you think it will also work for all those photos I have, that are on a 90 degree angle for some reason, too? They look so silly on the wall with everything sideways like that...
At the risk of Godwinning this thread, Hitler was also a zealot.
So is Osama bin Laden, and Bush for that matter.
Shouldn't the user be free to restrict the use of something he makes?
What I said went completely over your head.
Lik-Sang isn't a CONSUMER, so something as simplistic as "The actual 'contract' is trading X dollars for Y products" is utter nonsense. A retail contract involves many other conditions, including when and where you can sell it. (ie: Street dates for games, not selling products meant for one region in another.) They signed a contract to get their hands on these goods, and by breaking that contract they opened themselves to the option of LEGAL recourse. (Yes, contracts are bound by law. This isn't a casual handshake.)
Small game shops buy from smaller local distributors, so their hands aren't as tied-down, but when you're dealing in volume (like Lik-Sang) you have to buy from major distributors or directly from the manufacturer itself.
"That shouldn't prevent a company from buying PS3s from other companies and selling them to whomever they want."
As I said, let's see them walk into the HK equivalent of Best Buy and ask for 5,000 PS3s... and at cost, not retail.
When it comes to stuff like this, there's business contracts involved.
Lik-Sang broke contracts, and got sued. Multiple times.
Contracts take precedent over personal freedom, otherwise everyone would break them on a whim.
For example, the business I worked for could only sell a certain company's filters in our specific region. If we had tried to sell them outside of that region, we would have been cut-off and/or sued by our supplier. It was AGREED UPON in a contract.
It sucks. Big time. But it's business. (Also, nothing's stopping some guy in one region privately selling his stuff to a guy in another region. As long as he doesn't make a business out of it.)
The discount is different for each product. (The discounted price being a "rounded" number is one clue to that.)
The discount I would get on a MacBook Pro is about 10%, but the discount I would get on other products is less than that. Some products don't have any discount, IIRC.
Yes, it will.
Was that so hard?
With Apple, if you're currently enrolled in a College or University, you can get a fairly sizable discount on all their stuff. (Depending on what you order.)
I checked out the baseline MacBook Pro, and the price went from C$2,199 to C$1,999 with my discount.
Not that I can afford one, or anything right now, of course.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of mimes.
Interface includes such complex buttons as Play/Pause and Vol Up. Hurray SanDisk!
But can you easily and quickly find and play a specific song out of 2000 that may be on there?
(Cue "But why would you WANT 2000 songs on there?")
That FUCKING "Aero Ribbon".
I hate that goddamn thing.
It's so useless. Why in the bloody world does Aero (the UI theme) need its own bloody logo? Did Luna in XP get its own logo? It's not even well designed: It looks like curtains blowing in the wind. Can't the Windows logo suffice as an umbrella logo for everything?
Someone better tell Dick Grayson (Batman's former Robin) about this acrobat killer. It may be the one that killed his parents.
About as soon as Howard Stern does.
Thanksgiving is going to be awesome this year, having a nice shiny Wii to tote to the in-law's house to show to the kids. :)
Should we notify the authorities ahead of time?
(No, the jokes won't stop.)
I've only had one beer. So far.
Analysts are up there with consultants in the league of overpopulated, under-skilled career fields.
Some are brilliant, but most are attention whoring hacks. To use two quotes to blatantly generalise:
Analysts: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" (Homer Simpson)
Consultants: "If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem." (despair.com)
Exactly. That's the point I was going to make.
One of the draws of buying music online is that you DON'T have to go to the mall. But if you have to go to the mall, or wherever, to get a card simply to buy that music, that specific draw is lost.
I always wanted to know more about Shepherd Book. People were always saying "He's not a Shepherd", but no one ever said what he actually WAS.
Insurrection was horrible.
I knew so when they started talking about their breasts.