Back in "the day", that was the release schedule. The eternal "Two Weeks".
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The Honda Element has exactly what you describe. The mini-phono jack is in the passenger side dash over the glove box, next to a little tray to hold the player. I just bought one a couple days ago, as a matter of fact.
They simply... don't run the software I want to use. They simply... cost too much for the performance level they provide. They simply... don't get the games I want to play provided for their native OS within a reasonable time frame.
When I think NYT, I think "Lying, racist, plagarist reporters".
And then I look elsewhere for my news. Interesting that their registration system started requiring email verification right about the time their collective journalistic reputation went down the toilet.
Having read the script for the first three hours, I can tell you that any aspect of the LDS stuff that was embedded in the original is either completely eliminated, or only present in as much as it has to be for the core concept (fleeing the Cylon extermination fleets). It is very close to the original Pilot, if you discount the "council of 12/President, lost tribe" stuff.
I'm actually looking forward to downloading it of USEnet (I will not honor SciFi channel with my ad-watching viewership since they cancelled Farscape), as it looks like it could be very good, if produced correctly.
You do know that the US is where DARPAnet began, right? that little network that was the precursor of the internet?
Do you propose that companies that aren't prepared to undertake the expense and risk involved in doing business with every last country on the planet not be able to do business on the web?
I'm sorry but I don't see the basis for complaint in the original poster's musings. It costs MONEY to, for instance do business in Hungary, handle transactions and currancy conversions, and deal with fraud. If a particular market doesn't offer enough profit to justify the expense, that market simply isn't worth doing business with.
I'm a little suprised that Hungary is on the list of "not worth it", but perhaps that's not universal.
The web is planet wide. Not every company on the planet is obligated to do planet wide business to participate.
Fuck you. The only MP3's I have are off CDs I bought. Ripping them to files and playing them off the computer is cheaper and much more efficient than using a CD Jukebox.
"I don't think that there are many telemarketing companies out there that will be very forthcoming with their Name or Phone Number for angry victims,"
They won't have a choice.
A) Caller ID info is required for all such calls as of Oct 1.
B) Spoofing such information can cause the FCC to fine the company more heavily than $11K, and possibly void the company's authority to operate telecommunications equipment.
C) The phone company can find out if A or B were violated through call logs. They might not be happy or excited to do it, but they dont' really have a choice.
Direct Marketers are ALREADY required to provide company name and phone number on request. Simply hanging up on the callee when he requests the info doesn't let them get away with it, unless the callee is not motivated enough to follow up with the phone company and the FTC.
" We have a problem with litering in our neighborhood. "
Well, my municipality charges the sender of the flyer with littering, whether its' been posted or left on the windshied of a car or a door. If it winds up on the ground, the sender gets charged. Makes the town quite a nice subsidy. Enough to keep the streets clean, anyway.
Not from where I sit. I used to have a Gaming Zone account, which I cancelled a long time ago. In my preferences I indicated "Never contact me with special offers via email" etc.
I regularly get emails from them advertising the crappy free games, etc.
Yea they have an "unsubscribe" link, but once I get there, I'm prompted to enter my Passport user ID and password. They refuse to remove me without it.
Problem is, I not only don't remember the password, I don't even remember the account name. I created it to play Asherons Call, and haven't used it since I stopped playing.
I finally wound up filing a complaint at uce@ftc.gov. I brought up the hypocracy of Microsoft suing about people spamming MSN customers, when MSN itself is spamming people like me and not giving us a method to make them stop.
I don't do Email on Windows anyhow, so I suspect even if I knew my name and password for PASSPORT, I still couldn't get authenticated...
Well personally, I'm not going to pay for a site I've never read before, and am unlikely to read again. If I had to pay $5/month for every site I read, well, there wouldn't be many. There's only so much money in a paycheck.
And anything that's "Weekly" is likely to be about as timely as my local newspaper. I stopped buying that on January 1, 2000.
Of course if you had simply put a "Paid Subscription Required" disclaimer on your link, you wouldn't have met with any comments to this effect, I'll wager.
No one likes clicking a link and getting "subscription required" when they don't expect it. Even if it's free. I've blocked the new york times' website at my router, and replaced it with a "sorry, the owners of this domain are smoking crack. Try a news source that hires reporters instead of Contemporary Fiction Authors." (I added the second part after the recent fiasco.)
If you're publishing on the web and can't make ends meet without requiring a paid subscription, you probably shouldn't be publishing.
Most average game fans don't know that, though. Here's hoping this damages the reputations of both Blizzard North and Blizzard *craft. Legal or illegal, corporate actions can have consequences they don't want. Hooray for Consequences.
I'm done buying anything from the thralls of Vivendi in any case, but I'll have a look at what the four guys who left wind up doing.
...And FOUR of their key game developers have now LEFT. Who cares what they've done before, they won't be repeating it.
I sort of suspect this might have been motivated (at least in part) by Viviendi-forced actions Blizzard has taken in the last year. I wish those four guys all the best, and I hope they remain out of reach of the Big Evils of the industry.
I went through the same thing, probably with the same card. ATI is permanently on my WNC (Will Not Consider) list both at home and at work.
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"And it's really hard for me to feel too sorry for those making $65,000+. Yeah, I know, it's not easy to support a family of 6 on..."
Well just because YOU can't keep up doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't keep what we earn. I have a family of ONE. I'm still entitled to KEEP what I earn rather than donate it to some crack addict who can't keep his dick in his pants...
Wherein when you work harder, you get the great privelege of supporting the slacker with 8 kids and a crack habit "For the good of the collective."
Fuck the collective.
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Actually, while I'm a stickboy now, I worked in a tile warehouse when I was younger, and drove a forklift (and you haven't driven a forklift until you have driven one with a carpet-picker attached (AKA Big Metal Dick)).
I also carried 85 lb bags of Portland Cement on my shoulders (both of them).
Hated the fucking job though. I was in the best shape of my life, but I didn't have the energy to do jack shit when I came home.
I decided not to be a professional redneck and went back to school shortly afterwards...
" That's a brilliant thing to base your vote on. Pissing off the french and germans."
Considering the French based their actions in the UN regarding Iraq prior to the war on Pissing off the Americans (and covering up the illegal business they'd been doing with Saddam), I think that's a fair trade.
There's no oil in Cot`e d' Ivore either. Doesn't stop the french from interfering where they're not wanted at all. People on both sides of the Ivory Coast conflict want the French to butt out. Difference is, the French can't seem to let go of their REAL Imperialist ties in Africa (unlike the accused "Imperialist" ties others attribute to the US.
When there's a US incursion into GUAM or the US Virgins, then I'll place the US as low as I place the French.
When the UN pays as much attention to what France is doing in Africa AGAINST THE WILL of the natives of those countries, then I'll give a damn about the UN's opinion of what the US is doing in Iraq, with partial support from the formerly oppressed people there.
Do you somehow think the people of Cot`e d'Ivore and Congo are less important than the people in Iraq? It certainly sounds like you do. Why would THAT be? you wouldn't be... I dunno.. Racist or anything....
Regardless, the Freecraft guys weren't profiting. Being legal doesn't make what Blizzard did right, ethical, or excusable. It also doesn't prevent me from blacklisting them to my freinds and others that take recommendations from me.
THere was no damage happening. The smart thing would have been to work WITH them. Now Blizzard has shown their colors. Let them be damned for it.
Sorry, but I'm not going to "shut up" on this on your say so. I will cost them whatever sales I can. Maybe they will still succeed, but they will have a smaller success than otherwise. It's certainly better than remaining silent.
And I won't be pouting in a corner, asshole. I'll be doing as much damage to Blizzard as I can.
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Back in "the day", that was the release schedule. The eternal "Two Weeks".
The Honda Element has exactly what you describe. The mini-phono jack is in the passenger side dash over the glove box, next to a little tray to hold the player. I just bought one a couple days ago, as a matter of fact.
They simply... don't run the software I want to use. They simply... cost too much for the performance level they provide.
They simply... don't get the games I want to play provided for their native OS within a reasonable time frame.
For Games I sadly have to run Windows still
For everything else, I have my Linux boxen.
I see no reason to pay extra to run OS/X.
Need I go on?
As long as the junk mail is via snail-mail, and on THEIR dime, fine.
When I think NYT, I think "Lying, racist, plagarist reporters".
And then I look elsewhere for my news. Interesting that their registration system started requiring email verification right about the time their collective journalistic reputation went down the toilet.
Having read the script for the first three hours, I can tell you that any aspect of the LDS stuff that was embedded in the original is either completely eliminated, or only present in as much as it has to be for the core concept (fleeing the Cylon extermination fleets). It is very close to the original Pilot, if you discount the "council of 12/President, lost tribe" stuff.
I'm actually looking forward to downloading it of USEnet (I will not honor SciFi channel with my ad-watching viewership since they cancelled Farscape), as it looks like it could be very good, if produced correctly.
You do know that the US is where DARPAnet began, right? that little network that was the precursor of the internet?
Do you propose that companies that aren't prepared to undertake the expense and risk involved in doing business with every last country on the planet not be able to do business on the web?
I'm sorry but I don't see the basis for complaint in the original poster's musings. It costs MONEY to, for instance do business in Hungary, handle transactions and currancy conversions, and deal with fraud. If a particular market doesn't offer enough profit to justify the expense, that market simply isn't worth doing business with.
I'm a little suprised that Hungary is on the list of "not worth it", but perhaps that's not universal.
The web is planet wide. Not every company on the planet is obligated to do planet wide business to participate.
Fuck you. The only MP3's I have are off CDs I bought. Ripping them to files and playing them off the computer is cheaper and much more efficient than using a CD Jukebox.
Way to astroturf, asshole.
"I don't think that there are many telemarketing companies out there that will be very forthcoming with their Name or Phone Number for angry victims,"
They won't have a choice.
A) Caller ID info is required for all such calls as of Oct 1.
B) Spoofing such information can cause the FCC to fine the company more heavily than $11K, and possibly void the company's authority to operate telecommunications equipment.
C) The phone company can find out if A or B were violated through call logs. They might not be happy or excited to do it, but they dont' really have a choice.
Direct Marketers are ALREADY required to provide company name and phone number on request. Simply hanging up on the callee when he requests the info doesn't let them get away with it, unless the callee is not motivated enough to follow up with the phone company and the FTC.
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We have a problem with litering in our neighborhood. "
Well, my municipality charges the sender of the flyer with littering, whether its' been posted or left on the windshied of a car or a door. If it winds up on the ground, the sender gets charged. Makes the town quite a nice subsidy. Enough to keep the streets clean, anyway.
Not from where I sit. I used to have a Gaming Zone account, which I cancelled a long time ago. In my preferences I indicated "Never contact me with special offers via email" etc.
I regularly get emails from them advertising the crappy free games, etc.
Yea they have an "unsubscribe" link, but once I get there, I'm prompted to enter my Passport user ID and password. They refuse to remove me without it.
Problem is, I not only don't remember the password, I don't even remember the account name. I created it to play Asherons Call, and haven't used it since I stopped playing.
I finally wound up filing a complaint at uce@ftc.gov. I brought up the hypocracy of Microsoft suing about people spamming MSN customers, when MSN itself is spamming people like me and not giving us a method to make them stop.
I don't do Email on Windows anyhow, so I suspect even if I knew my name and password for PASSPORT, I still couldn't get authenticated...
Yea, I LOVE Mozilla. Tabbed Browsing, nice, selective popup blocking. Methinks Marc has some unresolved issues to work out or something.
Netscape 4.5 was nothing more than a more-unstable version of Mosaic.
Used to be my main objection to popups was "the damned browser is unstable enough with one session, I don't need more than one".
Well personally, I'm not going to pay for a site I've never read before, and am unlikely to read again. If I had to pay $5/month for every site I read, well, there wouldn't be many. There's only so much money in a paycheck.
And anything that's "Weekly" is likely to be about as timely as my local newspaper. I stopped buying that on January 1, 2000.
Of course if you had simply put a "Paid Subscription Required" disclaimer on your link, you wouldn't have met with any comments to this effect, I'll wager.
No one likes clicking a link and getting "subscription required" when they don't expect it. Even if it's free. I've blocked the new york times' website at my router, and replaced it with a "sorry, the owners of this domain are smoking crack. Try a news source that hires reporters instead of Contemporary Fiction Authors." (I added the second part after the recent fiasco.)
If you're publishing on the web and can't make ends meet without requiring a paid subscription, you probably shouldn't be publishing.
Most average game fans don't know that, though. Here's hoping this damages the reputations of both Blizzard North and Blizzard *craft. Legal or illegal, corporate actions can have consequences they don't want. Hooray for Consequences.
I'm done buying anything from the thralls of Vivendi in any case, but I'll have a look at what the four guys who left wind up doing.
...And FOUR of their key game developers have now LEFT. Who cares what they've done before, they won't be repeating it.
I sort of suspect this might have been motivated (at least in part) by Viviendi-forced actions Blizzard has taken in the last year. I wish those four guys all the best, and I hope they remain out of reach of the Big Evils of the industry.
I went through the same thing, probably with the same card. ATI is permanently on my WNC (Will Not Consider) list both at home and at work.
"And it's really hard for me to feel too sorry for those making $65,000+. Yeah, I know, it's not easy to support a family of 6 on..."
Well just because YOU can't keep up doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't keep what we earn. I have a family of ONE. I'm still entitled to KEEP what I earn rather than donate it to some crack addict who can't keep his dick in his pants...
Much worse than that. That's called "Socialism".
Wherein when you work harder, you get the great privelege of supporting the slacker with 8 kids and a crack habit "For the good of the collective."
Fuck the collective.
Actually, while I'm a stickboy now, I worked in a tile warehouse when I was younger, and drove a forklift (and you haven't driven a forklift until you have driven one with a carpet-picker attached (AKA Big Metal Dick)).
I also carried 85 lb bags of Portland Cement on my shoulders (both of them).
Hated the fucking job though. I was in the best shape of my life, but I didn't have the energy to do jack shit when I came home.
I decided not to be a professional redneck and went back to school shortly afterwards...
" That's a brilliant thing to base your vote on. Pissing off the french and germans."
Considering the French based their actions in the UN regarding Iraq prior to the war on Pissing off the Americans (and covering up the illegal business they'd been doing with Saddam), I think that's a fair trade.
There's no international terrorists in the Congo, either.
There's no oil in Cot`e d' Ivore either. Doesn't stop the french from interfering where they're not wanted at all. People on both sides of the Ivory Coast conflict want the French to butt out. Difference is, the French can't seem to let go of their REAL Imperialist ties in Africa (unlike the accused "Imperialist" ties others attribute to the US.
When there's a US incursion into GUAM or the US Virgins, then I'll place the US as low as I place the French.
When the UN pays as much attention to what France is doing in Africa AGAINST THE WILL of the natives of those countries, then I'll give a damn about the UN's opinion of what the US is doing in Iraq, with partial support from the formerly oppressed people there.
Do you somehow think the people of Cot`e d'Ivore and Congo are less important than the people in Iraq? It certainly sounds like you do. Why would THAT be? you wouldn't be... I dunno.. Racist or anything....
" the French were right"
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No. They weren't. God I love the
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Regardless, the Freecraft guys weren't profiting. Being legal doesn't make what Blizzard did right, ethical, or excusable. It also doesn't prevent me from blacklisting them to my freinds and others that take recommendations from me.
THere was no damage happening. The smart thing would have been to work WITH them. Now Blizzard has shown their colors. Let them be damned for it.
Sorry, but I'm not going to "shut up" on this on your say so. I will cost them whatever sales I can. Maybe they will still succeed, but they will have a smaller success than otherwise. It's certainly better than remaining silent.
And I won't be pouting in a corner, asshole. I'll be doing as much damage to Blizzard as I can.