You haven't the first clue about whether I'm a "fucking idiot" or not. I doubt very seriously that any company is perfect. I'm certain that many of them have some things they wouldn't want aired out in the press. I don't do business with Microsoft because they have been convicted of doing a number of things that are illegal and I think their overall strategy is not good for the industry as a whole. I don't spend my money on anything that Disney produces because they seem to feel that their cartoon rat and it's associated copyright is more important than letting any number of other works enter the public domain. In this world one of the few ways you can actually voice your disapproval of a corporations behaviour is with your money.
I don't buy anything from Wal-Mart because frankly I prefer to shop at Target. In my area it's a better store IMO. I don't buy things from Nike because I couldn't care less what some guy who plays basketball for a living wears and I think their shoes are overpriced.
You don't know enough about me to make the assertion that I'm a "fucking idiot". I on the other hand can safely say that you are rude and ignorant. This you have clearly demonstrated.
And so I cannot in good conscience upgrade my existing VPC5. I cannot condone their business practices so they get none of my money. Disney's in the same boat with me.
Besides I just got finished telling the kid (13 year old son) that he could pick from GameCube or Playstation 2 but no X-Box was entering our home so I guess it's time for me to back that up.
You are correct in that there are a number of things in there other than lime, silica, and sand but that would make me ask the question "But does there have to be?"
Wood, bricks, and mortar. If he simply used real natural wood, basic clay bricks, and a standard simple mortar he would get the desired effects I think. I don't know if those are even available today without an additive here or a treatment there but that would be an answer I think.
having said that it seems like the hardest part of all of this would be making sure the contractor was in fact only using the materials you specified. I mean, who's going to check it? You? In this scenario you're the guy who gets sick around the stuff so that's not going to be any fun. On top of that would you know what you were looking at and if you did could you be there during the entire construction to make sure?
...and he further stated "So now you send me back right? Like in the deal!"
I would think that this would depend on one thing
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Whether or not gravity was working on that day or not.
Ok, so imagine that this thing breaks about halfway up. The portion connected to the ground stays put or maybe it collapses in which case you've got no problem since it's built over the ocean and like you say it's not going to collapse onto anything (except perhaps the poor bastards getting ready to send their load up the elevator).
The portion that's no longer connected to the ground would then be in a very low orbit wouldn't it? It's going to come back down though where would depend on a number of factors. I don't know enough to speak intelligently on what those are so I'm going to have to pass this on to someone more knowledgable than I am.
But I imagine it would come back down. How much debris would we be talking about? How far away from it's orginal anchor spot would it get before it came down? How much of it could we expect to burn up?
It's something I don't want to be "down wind" of I know that much.
Like I said, I'm probably way off base with my thinking here. I'm just pointing out that the original poster got my wheels turning and that was interesting. I know enough to know that I don't know what I'm talking about here. I have however enjoyed reading both of the replies I got to this.
That's kind of interesting if you think about it. From everything I understand (my understanding being subjective) what you say is correct. If so think about what came out of your basic hunter/gatherer civilizations. Just about every one had a fairly rich pantheon of gods and a culture that, to my way of thinking at least, seemed to be brimming with imagination.
Then you head towards your agricultural civs and people start to embrace a monotheistic religon and everything narrows in terms of what they believe. It gets even tighter when you get to the industrial revolution.
Then if you look at how we all get a large portion of our collective imagination fed to us by a relative handful of individuals who make their living doing this from writing books, making movies and television shows it kind of makes you think. It's like we can collectively imagine more because we've got a group of people helping us do it. Writing things that fire our imaginations and creating things we can watch that help us see the possibilities. It may appear to us that we've got enough free time to dream up what will be and to build up expectations but most of it's borrowed and adapted to what we want.
I'm probably way off base with my thinking but good post. It got me thinking which should count for something.
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Granted, the mouse that Microsoft makes is of equal quality to any other name brand mouse of reasonable quality I can think of. Let us go back to the days when each system you bought came with a mouse that was slightly different though.
You've seen them of course. Compaq mice, Gateway mice, and HP mice. Many others and most, if you flipped them over were made by Logitech as I recall. Not all of course but many of them.
Then a few years ago something happened that was worth noticing. Computer makers (practically all of them) began throwing in a standard Microsoft mouse (sometimes with their name on it "DELL by Microsoft" is sitting on the one right in front of me at this moment, often in the color the CPU and keyboard were made in).
I personally don't think that all these computer makers started doing this because the Microsoft mouse was better than the one they were using before this time. It seems unlikely that they would all come to this conclusion at the same time.
I think it's possible that the Microsoft mouse was cheaper maybe or that they were going to get a better deal on their Windows licenses if they went that way.
This is what I suspect. I of course have no evidence of this but I know that I used a couple of different brands of mice in the years before I started getting handed mountains of MS Mice every time we bought computers where I work. Then after a while I got to where nothing else felt quite right. I actually tried to go back and use one of my old Logitech 3-button mice once and found the experience almost painful. Is it muscle memory? I don't know.
Anyway I'm thinking that if the MS Mouse was cheaper than it was in all likelyhood cheaper because Microsoft was losing money on it (which they could afford to do thanks to their enormous income from Windows) or it was in some way negotiated as part of the license deal. They make a good mouse true but I don't think for a second they have the share of the "mouse market" they posess right now without their income from Windows and/or their leverage with the PC makers.
Maybe that's just part of the present day "don't trust MS in anything thinking" but it feels right.
Well see there lies the problem. If the cabinets don't make any money then you won't be able to give them away to arcade owners even at very low prices much less get them to pay for the games.
Arcade owners will put what makes money on the floor. If it means they have 40 boxes out there that are all practically the same game then that's what they will do. They want a franchise and something that does "x" number of dollars/week in their best locations.
They aren't going to be interested in being Microsofts "good positioning" if the games suck. Sure if they are good games and they are reliable then everybody wins but if MS is going into this with the same POV as your post (It's a good, cheap way to advertise) then the games will suck and the arcades will not buy many of them once that becomes apparent.
I'm all for it. More MS money diverted from something serious.
Microsoft is in fact very much the 800 pound gorilla when they have a chance to use their Windows/Office monopoly against you but when they have to go stand on equal footing with someone and compete they are so friggin lost it's really kind of comical.
At one time I think this (Arcade games influencing what kind of console games people bought) was true but this is grossly out of date IMO. If anything then today it's the reverse of that.
e.) The service doesn't rely on you getting the downloads from a bunch of leeches who share ten files and spend the evening hammering your machine to get what they want.
That alone should make the addition of a.99 fee palitable. I'd much rather deal with a service that was interested in keeping my business than my fellow man. On Kazaa I've noticed that there are piles of people out there who share squat but leech like a mutha. Oddly enough the number of files they are sharing often does not increase no matter how much the suck off of your shared folder. Then you've got your people who are sharing everything you are looking for at the quality you want it but appear to be sending it out from a soup can and a string. Just sitting there teasing you. Or how about the guy who waits until your download is a couple seconds from being done before shutting off his machine and flipping you the finger.
Oh yeah, a company charging a REASONABLE rate for this kind of thing would make money. Not a doubt in my mind.
Considering that you have email, which you can connect to a pager in case they aren't there, the telephone (ah, old faithful) with voicemail which also can be paging you in case you miss an important call, your cell phone which many of us have permanently attached to our ears, and the list goes on and on and on....
Personally were I running a business this is about the last thing in the world I would bother spending any money on. That's just me though. Maybe there is some great benefit to this that I don't see. Someone make me a case for why I would need to spend some money on something like this. I'm curious here. Doubtlessly there's got to be something I'm missing.
Gee lemme see here....did that, did that too, did that third thing as well, managed to somehow figured out that I needed to hit enter/return......waited for results.....got porceline figure. Hmmm, Terry Tate made sense, what went wrong?
Could it be that Amazon had the page for what I was looking for fucked up? Yeah, that also sounds reasonable. I bet that's it. They need Terry Tate, Office Linebacker working for them. I bet he could get that page fixed in no time.
I could have been more eloquent in my complaint but it hardly calls for sarcasm. I went there looking for something (and no, I don't really give a shit what my friends think of my listening taste, once you get past 30 or so that becomes less important to you) and got a screwed up page. I then went looking around and found the new arrangement much less useful to me than the previous setup.
First impressions. If you don't think they're important (and you happen to be Amazon,com) then watch and see how many items I purchase from your website in the future.
And I'm a friggin "Troll" for posting my experience dealing with Amazon? Go figure?
Since CDNOW went away and was absorbed by "the collective". They took one of the best sites for music I could find and turned it into a useless pile of dung. I did a search for a song I wanted and ended up getting a page trying to sell me a porceline figurine.
Fuck Amazon.com
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And really man, it was just in jest. We all throw out those spelling errors when posting but sometimes, every once in a while, someones spelling error actually spells something else.
I read your post (agree with you by the way) and read it as "prelaced" and then got this mental picture of someone lacing up their ink cartridges. That was funny.
I remember every single person who has transgressed against me going back almost to grade school. I keep a list with regularly updated address information and some basic statistics like hair color, height, weight, and likelyhood to be wearing body armor.
Ok, not really. Just kidding there (hiding list under keyboard) but I do remember some of the ones who were better at it. I'm not into revenge but to put it nicely I wouldn't piss in their mouths if their throats were on fire.
Something about what I just wrote reminds me of an Adam Sandler movie. I think it was Billy Madison where he calls the guy he picked on and apologizes years later. The guy thanks him and then scratches his name off of a list of people he's planning to kill. Hilarious stuff.
Re:Alex should have just waited
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In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood (from the movie "Unforgiven")
Absolutely, positively no kidding on this one. I simply don't see any reason for them to barrell head first into the 4-5Ghz range when they've outpaced virtually everyones need.
I've got two machines I use at home and three I use at work. At home it's a PowerMac Quicksilver 2x1Ghz and an HP 7950 with a single AMD 1.2Ghz. At work I'm using an AMD 1.2Ghz clone, a Dell GX260 with a 2Ghz Pentium 4, and an old Pentium 200 clone box to run the one DOS program our entire operation (and for all I know "Universe") depends on. Dropping the DOS box I got four machines all well behind the curve in terms of clockspeed and not one of them is even close to being "too slow". In fact the Dell replaced a clone PIII 733 that wasn't even sweating. I just flat out don't need anything faster to run what I do.
(In order for the preceeding line to even remotely amusing you must use your best Yul Brynner voice and think of the Chuck Heston movie "The Ten Commandments". Then it works, kind of)
Episode was called Dopplegangland and yeah, even real world Willow noticed that Vampire Willow was gay. They did the goodbye hug thing and Vamp Willow grabbed her ass. Later she said something about thinking that in the other world "I'm kind of gay".
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You haven't the first clue about whether I'm a "fucking idiot" or not. I doubt very seriously that any company is perfect. I'm certain that many of them have some things they wouldn't want aired out in the press. I don't do business with Microsoft because they have been convicted of doing a number of things that are illegal and I think their overall strategy is not good for the industry as a whole. I don't spend my money on anything that Disney produces because they seem to feel that their cartoon rat and it's associated copyright is more important than letting any number of other works enter the public domain. In this world one of the few ways you can actually voice your disapproval of a corporations behaviour is with your money.
I don't buy anything from Wal-Mart because frankly I prefer to shop at Target. In my area it's a better store IMO. I don't buy things from Nike because I couldn't care less what some guy who plays basketball for a living wears and I think their shoes are overpriced.
You don't know enough about me to make the assertion that I'm a "fucking idiot". I on the other hand can safely say that you are rude and ignorant. This you have clearly demonstrated.
And so I cannot in good conscience upgrade my existing VPC5. I cannot condone their business practices so they get none of my money. Disney's in the same boat with me.
Besides I just got finished telling the kid (13 year old son) that he could pick from GameCube or Playstation 2 but no X-Box was entering our home so I guess it's time for me to back that up.
It's a shame, I really enjoyed VPC too.
No not really. Actually his misinformation is merely average.
Frankly I don't see how something like this gets modded as "Flaimbait". Some good points in the link provided and it made sense to me.
You are correct in that there are a number of things in there other than lime, silica, and sand but that would make me ask the question "But does there have to be?"
Wood, bricks, and mortar. If he simply used real natural wood, basic clay bricks, and a standard simple mortar he would get the desired effects I think. I don't know if those are even available today without an additive here or a treatment there but that would be an answer I think.
having said that it seems like the hardest part of all of this would be making sure the contractor was in fact only using the materials you specified. I mean, who's going to check it? You? In this scenario you're the guy who gets sick around the stuff so that's not going to be any fun. On top of that would you know what you were looking at and if you did could you be there during the entire construction to make sure?
Tough nut to crack here.
Whether or not gravity was working on that day or not.
Ok, so imagine that this thing breaks about halfway up. The portion connected to the ground stays put or maybe it collapses in which case you've got no problem since it's built over the ocean and like you say it's not going to collapse onto anything (except perhaps the poor bastards getting ready to send their load up the elevator).
The portion that's no longer connected to the ground would then be in a very low orbit wouldn't it? It's going to come back down though where would depend on a number of factors. I don't know enough to speak intelligently on what those are so I'm going to have to pass this on to someone more knowledgable than I am.
But I imagine it would come back down. How much debris would we be talking about? How far away from it's orginal anchor spot would it get before it came down? How much of it could we expect to burn up?
It's something I don't want to be "down wind" of I know that much.
Like I said, I'm probably way off base with my thinking here. I'm just pointing out that the original poster got my wheels turning and that was interesting. I know enough to know that I don't know what I'm talking about here. I have however enjoyed reading both of the replies I got to this.
That's kind of interesting if you think about it. From everything I understand (my understanding being subjective) what you say is correct. If so think about what came out of your basic hunter/gatherer civilizations. Just about every one had a fairly rich pantheon of gods and a culture that, to my way of thinking at least, seemed to be brimming with imagination.
Then you head towards your agricultural civs and people start to embrace a monotheistic religon and everything narrows in terms of what they believe. It gets even tighter when you get to the industrial revolution.
Then if you look at how we all get a large portion of our collective imagination fed to us by a relative handful of individuals who make their living doing this from writing books, making movies and television shows it kind of makes you think. It's like we can collectively imagine more because we've got a group of people helping us do it. Writing things that fire our imaginations and creating things we can watch that help us see the possibilities. It may appear to us that we've got enough free time to dream up what will be and to build up expectations but most of it's borrowed and adapted to what we want.
I'm probably way off base with my thinking but good post. It got me thinking which should count for something.
Granted, the mouse that Microsoft makes is of equal quality to any other name brand mouse of reasonable quality I can think of. Let us go back to the days when each system you bought came with a mouse that was slightly different though.
You've seen them of course. Compaq mice, Gateway mice, and HP mice. Many others and most, if you flipped them over were made by Logitech as I recall. Not all of course but many of them.
Then a few years ago something happened that was worth noticing. Computer makers (practically all of them) began throwing in a standard Microsoft mouse (sometimes with their name on it "DELL by Microsoft" is sitting on the one right in front of me at this moment, often in the color the CPU and keyboard were made in).
I personally don't think that all these computer makers started doing this because the Microsoft mouse was better than the one they were using before this time. It seems unlikely that they would all come to this conclusion at the same time.
I think it's possible that the Microsoft mouse was cheaper maybe or that they were going to get a better deal on their Windows licenses if they went that way.
This is what I suspect. I of course have no evidence of this but I know that I used a couple of different brands of mice in the years before I started getting handed mountains of MS Mice every time we bought computers where I work. Then after a while I got to where nothing else felt quite right. I actually tried to go back and use one of my old Logitech 3-button mice once and found the experience almost painful. Is it muscle memory? I don't know.
Anyway I'm thinking that if the MS Mouse was cheaper than it was in all likelyhood cheaper because Microsoft was losing money on it (which they could afford to do thanks to their enormous income from Windows) or it was in some way negotiated as part of the license deal. They make a good mouse true but I don't think for a second they have the share of the "mouse market" they posess right now without their income from Windows and/or their leverage with the PC makers.
Maybe that's just part of the present day "don't trust MS in anything thinking" but it feels right.
Well see there lies the problem. If the cabinets don't make any money then you won't be able to give them away to arcade owners even at very low prices much less get them to pay for the games.
Arcade owners will put what makes money on the floor. If it means they have 40 boxes out there that are all practically the same game then that's what they will do. They want a franchise and something that does "x" number of dollars/week in their best locations.
They aren't going to be interested in being Microsofts "good positioning" if the games suck. Sure if they are good games and they are reliable then everybody wins but if MS is going into this with the same POV as your post (It's a good, cheap way to advertise) then the games will suck and the arcades will not buy many of them once that becomes apparent.
I'm all for it. More MS money diverted from something serious.
Microsoft is in fact very much the 800 pound gorilla when they have a chance to use their Windows/Office monopoly against you but when they have to go stand on equal footing with someone and compete they are so friggin lost it's really kind of comical.
At one time I think this (Arcade games influencing what kind of console games people bought) was true but this is grossly out of date IMO. If anything then today it's the reverse of that.
Add one more thing to your list.
.99 fee palitable. I'd much rather deal with a service that was interested in keeping my business than my fellow man. On Kazaa I've noticed that there are piles of people out there who share squat but leech like a mutha. Oddly enough the number of files they are sharing often does not increase no matter how much the suck off of your shared folder. Then you've got your people who are sharing everything you are looking for at the quality you want it but appear to be sending it out from a soup can and a string. Just sitting there teasing you. Or how about the guy who waits until your download is a couple seconds from being done before shutting off his machine and flipping you the finger.
e.) The service doesn't rely on you getting the downloads from a bunch of leeches who share ten files and spend the evening hammering your machine to get what they want.
That alone should make the addition of a
Oh yeah, a company charging a REASONABLE rate for this kind of thing would make money. Not a doubt in my mind.
Considering that you have email, which you can connect to a pager in case they aren't there, the telephone (ah, old faithful) with voicemail which also can be paging you in case you miss an important call, your cell phone which many of us have permanently attached to our ears, and the list goes on and on and on....
Personally were I running a business this is about the last thing in the world I would bother spending any money on. That's just me though. Maybe there is some great benefit to this that I don't see. Someone make me a case for why I would need to spend some money on something like this. I'm curious here. Doubtlessly there's got to be something I'm missing.
Actually all I was thinking was that you could "GIVE EM' THE PAIN! THE PAIN TRAIN'S COMING! WHOOOO WOOOO!"
Not rebuild their site. But I guess that would work too.
Gee lemme see here....did that, did that too, did that third thing as well, managed to somehow figured out that I needed to hit enter/return......waited for results.....got porceline figure. Hmmm, Terry Tate made sense, what went wrong?
Could it be that Amazon had the page for what I was looking for fucked up? Yeah, that also sounds reasonable. I bet that's it. They need Terry Tate, Office Linebacker working for them. I bet he could get that page fixed in no time.
I could have been more eloquent in my complaint but it hardly calls for sarcasm. I went there looking for something (and no, I don't really give a shit what my friends think of my listening taste, once you get past 30 or so that becomes less important to you) and got a screwed up page. I then went looking around and found the new arrangement much less useful to me than the previous setup.
First impressions. If you don't think they're important (and you happen to be Amazon,com) then watch and see how many items I purchase from your website in the future.
And I'm a friggin "Troll" for posting my experience dealing with Amazon? Go figure?
Since CDNOW went away and was absorbed by "the collective". They took one of the best sites for music I could find and turned it into a useless pile of dung. I did a search for a song I wanted and ended up getting a page trying to sell me a porceline figurine.
Fuck Amazon.com
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And really man, it was just in jest. We all throw out those spelling errors when posting but sometimes, every once in a while, someones spelling error actually spells something else.
I read your post (agree with you by the way) and read it as "prelaced" and then got this mental picture of someone lacing up their ink cartridges. That was funny.
"you had to prelace them"?
What kind of fucked up Nike brand ink cartridges are you putting in that thing anyway?
I remember every single person who has transgressed against me going back almost to grade school. I keep a list with regularly updated address information and some basic statistics like hair color, height, weight, and likelyhood to be wearing body armor.
Ok, not really. Just kidding there (hiding list under keyboard) but I do remember some of the ones who were better at it. I'm not into revenge but to put it nicely I wouldn't piss in their mouths if their throats were on fire.
Something about what I just wrote reminds me of an Adam Sandler movie. I think it was Billy Madison where he calls the guy he picked on and apologizes years later. The guy thanks him and then scratches his name off of a list of people he's planning to kill. Hilarious stuff.
In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood (from the movie "Unforgiven")
"We've all got it coming kid".
Absolutely, positively no kidding on this one. I simply don't see any reason for them to barrell head first into the 4-5Ghz range when they've outpaced virtually everyones need.
I've got two machines I use at home and three I use at work. At home it's a PowerMac Quicksilver 2x1Ghz and an HP 7950 with a single AMD 1.2Ghz. At work I'm using an AMD 1.2Ghz clone, a Dell GX260 with a 2Ghz Pentium 4, and an old Pentium 200 clone box to run the one DOS program our entire operation (and for all I know "Universe") depends on. Dropping the DOS box I got four machines all well behind the curve in terms of clockspeed and not one of them is even close to being "too slow". In fact the Dell replaced a clone PIII 733 that wasn't even sweating. I just flat out don't need anything faster to run what I do.
So let it be written, So let it be done!
(In order for the preceeding line to even remotely amusing you must use your best Yul Brynner voice and think of the Chuck Heston movie "The Ten Commandments". Then it works, kind of)
Episode was called Dopplegangland and yeah, even real world Willow noticed that Vampire Willow was gay. They did the goodbye hug thing and Vamp Willow grabbed her ass. Later she said something about thinking that in the other world "I'm kind of gay".