If the concern is simply how to dispose of it, see if your city has an electronics recycling program. Don't know where it goes from there so there may be unseen environmental consequences.
Btw, when I brought a bunch of monitors in a while ago I saw an old HP plotter in the corner and "tipped" the guy $20 to let me take it. Ended up saving $300 by using parts out of that one to fix my current plotter.
Lately I've gotten lots of stock spam through a sneakemail address assigned to VMWare. The interesting thing is that I used two separate sneakemail addresses, one for the demo download and one for the purchase of VMWare Workstation. All the spam goes to the demo address so it's tempting to think that they sold it. There's probably a less sinister explanation but the point is that blatant stuff like this does happen with reputable companies.
Sneakemail users will recognize the format in the From line:
Received: from abhll.ozlhz ([70.144.236.219])
by adsl-144-233-36.aby.bellsouth.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id k8KHYm5t078080;
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:34:48 -0400 From: "Lesley Horne xnray-at-ddzine.com |VMWare|" To: sneakemail@xxx.com Subject: conjunction Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:24:51 -0400
Don't underestimate the power of rationalization. If the line between right and wrong shifts slowly enough, there's usually at least one way to rationalize each incremental movement. Frog boiling metaphor and all that.
I always wondered why the processor market hasn't adopted adding the year to the product name. Not that this would be easy to implement but it would add an impetus for Joe Sixpack to upgrade his "Celeron 2002". Kind of like the cachet of having the latest model in the car market.
But is there a reason why cost-benefit shouldn't apply to online subscriptions? When price goes over the tipping point then, theoretically, other games will supply the competition. Or a majority just don't accept the $15/mo and subscriptions fall. The manufacturer then has a choice to make. If enough people are willing to pay $15/mo then that's the proper price based on what the market is willing to bear. The word "sucker" is a relative term.
The same applies to the $20 games on Steam that pop up every once in while. Personally, if they were $10 I might pull out the credit card. Wrt this episode, it looks like it's worth $20 so the card will probably come out this weekend. If the next episode is $30 then most likely the sale will be lost.
The point is that basic economics applies to the new download distribution methods just as it does in meatspace.
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If the concern is simply how to dispose of it, see if your city has an electronics recycling program. Don't know where it goes from there so there may be unseen environmental consequences.
Btw, when I brought a bunch of monitors in a while ago I saw an old HP plotter in the corner and "tipped" the guy $20 to let me take it. Ended up saving $300 by using parts out of that one to fix my current plotter.
Joe, is that you?
"Bossman" Steve here.
Quit whining on slashdot and get back in the meeting immediately .
It just makes you look desperate for a +5 funny.
The poor planet has been the butt of far too many attempts at humor.
Fight back. Buy from companies that resist Walmart.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snap
Speaking of legal problems, a few months ago in AOL search I entered "George Bush", "buffoon" and "retarded chimp" in sequence.
Does anyone think this could get me sent to Guan
Lately I've gotten lots of stock spam through a sneakemail address assigned to VMWare. The interesting thing is that I used two separate sneakemail addresses, one for the demo download and one for the purchase of VMWare Workstation. All the spam goes to the demo address so it's tempting to think that they sold it. There's probably a less sinister explanation but the point is that blatant stuff like this does happen with reputable companies.
Sneakemail users will recognize the format in the From line:
Received: from abhll.ozlhz ([70.144.236.219])
by adsl-144-233-36.aby.bellsouth.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id k8KHYm5t078080;
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:34:48 -0400
From: "Lesley Horne xnray-at-ddzine.com |VMWare|"
To: sneakemail@xxx.com
Subject: conjunction
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:24:51 -0400
Nah. They've got enough problems recovering untold millions than to worry about kiddy porn/civil liberties.
FTFA: "Consider SCO, a small Swiss-based 'vulture' firm"
Now we know why the lawsuit has so many holes in it.
Followed by the sound of windows breaking.
All facets of culture? My sympathies to the poor researcher that has to view every "Saved by the Bell" episode to get his thesis.
*shudders*
Copyright (c) 2006, Irving M. Goatse.
This may sound silly but one unknown quantity is that a lot of folks (like myself) have a serious fear of snakes.
Intarweb hype or not, there's just no way some of us could muster the courage to see it.
Note to self: /. math geeks around.
Don't try for a +5 funny FP with
(slinks away sheepishly...)
Something doesn't add up here.
Agreed. Grownups use Wikipedia to do that.
Ah, another slashdot youngster. When I was a kid on /., the only Korea meme we had was the one with old people and email. And we liked it.
Kind of.
No, it pretty much sucked.
That does it. I'm sending back my "AT&T Best Friends Forever" ring.
Or maybe it's so fast that it will lead to truly self aware computers. Ones that can think up some new lame memes.
Don't underestimate the power of rationalization. If the line between right and wrong shifts slowly enough, there's usually at least one way to rationalize each incremental movement. Frog boiling metaphor and all that.
Wow, that was good. But perhaps too well crafted for the humor impaired.
True story?
I always wondered why the processor market hasn't adopted adding the year to the product name. Not that this would be easy to implement but it would add an impetus for Joe Sixpack to upgrade his "Celeron 2002". Kind of like the cachet of having the latest model in the car market.
But is there a reason why cost-benefit shouldn't apply to online subscriptions? When price goes over the tipping point then, theoretically, other games will supply the competition. Or a majority just don't accept the $15/mo and subscriptions fall. The manufacturer then has a choice to make. If enough people are willing to pay $15/mo then that's the proper price based on what the market is willing to bear. The word "sucker" is a relative term.
The same applies to the $20 games on Steam that pop up every once in while. Personally, if they were $10 I might pull out the credit card. Wrt this episode, it looks like it's worth $20 so the card will probably come out this weekend. If the next episode is $30 then most likely the sale will be lost.
The point is that basic economics applies to the new download distribution methods just as it does in meatspace.
"it cost me a bomb"
Hope you're not posting this from a Jetblue flight.