Only for businesses, of course, since they have the money and don't mind paying extra to be untraceable. In fact, why not just go ahead and pass a law that bans popup blockers and mandates every citizen to an hour of forced ad viewing per day?
It is probably just a matter of time before the stalked gets thrown in jail for possessing child pornography as well. After all, we can never be too hard on people with child pornography, right? It's okay to murder people that have been accused of it, right? No? What's that? You're in favor of leniency for awful child rapists?
I think that they'd try to point back to the EULA that they can take 'update' as they see fit, but it would be like your car dealer 'updating' your XM radio to a normal one. It won't stand up in court on any planet (except maybe Texas).
The price should be adjusted according to what's missing. For example, games without manuals or packaging usually go for a bit less than games that have both of those. Games that don't have the included DLC available should have their prices lowered by the total value of the DLC. That is, if it costs $15, then $15 is taken off the resale price when the code is used.
As long as this happens and proper notification is given at the time of sale, I see no problem with it. Of course, it could be abused simply by flat out removing half the game unless you have a 'code' and then not selling the code.
The cameras only see what the operators want them to see. I don't think (unedited) video evidence will be shown if the border guards were messing with him and provoked a physical confrontation. On the other hand, if he just jumped out of his car and dove on one of them, it would probably already be uploaded to youtube with the word terrorist in the title.
Not all hush money is created equally. Most people wouldn't even know that it was hush money if they were receiving it. Most likely, he hired some programmers and told them that they would be paid above what they're worth, in exchange for secrecy and trust.
So when the Chinese inevitably steal their research (that's one of China's strengths) those companies that moved their research to China will be looking to the US government to help them cover their losses.
If a corporation is willing to screw their consumers to save a buck, the consumers should be allowed to screw the corporation to save a buck. If my cheap electronics lived a long and fulfilling life, I'd just buy another. If my cheap electronics die after 30 days and no one will touch it with a 6ft pole, then I'll do whatever I can to recoup my losses. Including pulling this kind of stunt.
No one would have a problem with it if they knew how much waste there is in the technology sector. I'll give you a hint in that most companies throw away their returns after a cursory five second test to make sure they don't work. If the unit powers on and looks undamaged, they repackage it for sale again. So your 'new' item could have fallen out of some teenager's car and has loose bits rattling around inside. Your 'new' item could have gone through the wash and had some of its circuits fried. Basically, your 'new' item could be damaged and it not be immediately obvious upon purchase. 30 days or 14 days or 7 days or 3 days later or whatever the return policy is where you buy, you no longer have the option of returning it. So what then? Eat the cost? What if you saved up a few hundred for an Xbox 360, to have something nice for once in your life, and it breaks after a month and no one wants to step up to the plate?
I don't mind DLC usually. Like in the case of Borderlands. I liked the game, but it was enough for me. The bugs and the cheating really killed any hope of multiplayer that I had with the game. But the DLC idea was nice.
If they had tried to get me to pay for 'locked' areas that were already in the game, however, they wouldn't have gotten my money. Moreover, I would have returned the game if I could have and explained why. Games should NOT have DLC from day one unless it's a cheap game to begin with. Some free MMOs work on this system, and that's fine, because they're free to begin with. I'm not fucking paying $60 for a game and then realizing I STILL didn't get the complete game.
Because the lawyers aren't interested in running the company into the ground. They know that the more money they ask for, the more money will be spend by the defense on expensive lawyers, so it's better to grab the low hanging fruit of $10 million than it is to ask for all of the ill-gotten profits.
Honestly, the judge should pass this on to criminal court once it gets out of civil court. "So, Classmates.com, it appears that you've been lying to customers to get their money. This is theft by deception at its least, and fraud at the most. How about $100 million payable to all your subscribers in the form of a check?"
I think the big problem with publicly traded companies is that the shareholders demand an increased return no matter what. If you, the CEO, won't outsource to India, they'll vote you out and hire someone who will. It won't be a long search because a few million a year can cause people to do a lot of less-than-ethical things.
Also, another problem is that companies want to remain American, with all of the benefits of being an American corporation, but none of the responsibilities. That is, they don't want to follow US law in other countries. We need to pass a law saying that all corporations who employ foreign workers should be forced to pay them at least a minimum wage as already defined by the Department of Labor. If that means that Indian call center workers are living like kings, so be it.
It's expensive to outsource to other countries. If you have 1,000 workers making a dollar an hour, you'll be spending at least $1,000 an hour for the workers. But they have to have equipment like phones and maybe computers, so go ahead and buy those too. And an IT department to service those electronics. And infrastructure to power the place and provide communications. Oh, taxes, land, a building, complying with safety codes and local regulations, etc. There are a lot of 'hidden' costs associated with outsourcing overseas that aren't often considered.
In order to fix the problem, we have to make it more profitable for American companies to do business in America. We could do this by lowering their costs to bring work here, or we could do this by raising their costs to do work elsewhere. I vote for the latter. Perhaps every man-hour of work done overseas must follow minimum wage laws here, with the difference being paid to the US Government?
Don't get them wrong..SOMETHING is being used up. You know the energy it took to build those fibers? It's being eroded away. Eventually heat flow will return to normal for both sides.
Let's just allow Microsoft to patch in whatever the hell they want with no regard for legality or ethics. I'll agree to turn autoupdates on whenever I trust Microsoft farther than to decide my copy is fake and lock me out of it. When they stop telling me to buy a new copy because I bought a new motherboard. When they stop adding in secret back doors for various security agencies.
"Sore eye after you've been welding without a mask? Probably just dehydrated. Drink more water and come back in a month..if you come back sooner you'll have to pay out of pocket."
"Numbness in your legs after you slipped on that banana peel in the warehouse and hit your head? You're just tired, walk it off."
"Strange black mole that's doubled in size in the past few weeks? Well, I didn't get the pictures you emailed, but just put a bandaid on it."
I do NOT forsee this going well..insurance companies have wanted to pick-and-choose which doctors they support for years..and they have been in some cases. This will put care of your health 90% in their hands.
Glad to see NewEgg confirming that the problem exists and that they're fixing it. Now they have to take responsibility for their actions, what will they offer as compensation to those affected? All problems a company encounters are opportunities in customer service.
Yes, I realize you fucked my steak up, but mistakes happen. How are you going to fix it? Replacing the steak, fine, but keep in mind I had to wait for it to be cooked, now I have to wait for it to be cooked again. Free dessert? Sure. In the end, they ended up better off than they started. Because now I know they're willing to make up for their mistakes.
If a company is worried about its reputation, they'd swap you out a real hard drive without question. They might take your name and enter you into a database to make sure you aren't doing this at a different store a few times a day, but they'll satisfy your request. A $100 loss to a Wal-Mart store isn't a big deal if you've kept a paying customer who will generate many times that over the course of their lifetimes.
If they're just worried about the profits this quarter, however, they'll tell you to go fuck yourself and have their lawyers play the delay game until next quarter. Best Buy, I'm looking at you. Not so fast there CompUSA and Circuit City..
In this situation, Newegg should not only replace the people who got hit with fake CPUs, but they should send them a small refund for their troubles. Maybe 30% as someone suggested before. Suppose someone needed the processor now and simply received a chunk of aluminum?
Is anyone really surprised by this? I know I'm not. I was actually hoping they'd implement the death penalty or at least life in prison for sharing MP3s.
The only appreciable difference between the PS3 controller and the 360 controller is that the analog/digital location is switched. I do agree, though, that the 360 controller d-pad should be replaced with a Nintendo one. The current one feels about as awkward as the d-pad from the NES Max controller.
While the person that rightfully owns their name can allow others to use their name for financial gain, they cannot give ownership of their name away. If they did manage to do this, hopefully IOC sues them into oblivion because she took 'their' name when she was born.
This will last until some parent decides that their kid is smarter than 'the system' and sues for 'discrimination' against '(social class)'. Where (social class) can be race, disorder, sex, location, criminal record, etc. It'll quickly be axed by the legal department of whatever schools are taking part in it. Even without this, there are still a LOT of parents who call up the teachers and demand better grades for their snowflakes.
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Only for businesses, of course, since they have the money and don't mind paying extra to be untraceable. In fact, why not just go ahead and pass a law that bans popup blockers and mandates every citizen to an hour of forced ad viewing per day?
It is probably just a matter of time before the stalked gets thrown in jail for possessing child pornography as well. After all, we can never be too hard on people with child pornography, right? It's okay to murder people that have been accused of it, right? No? What's that? You're in favor of leniency for awful child rapists?
I think that they'd try to point back to the EULA that they can take 'update' as they see fit, but it would be like your car dealer 'updating' your XM radio to a normal one. It won't stand up in court on any planet (except maybe Texas).
The price should be adjusted according to what's missing. For example, games without manuals or packaging usually go for a bit less than games that have both of those. Games that don't have the included DLC available should have their prices lowered by the total value of the DLC. That is, if it costs $15, then $15 is taken off the resale price when the code is used.
As long as this happens and proper notification is given at the time of sale, I see no problem with it. Of course, it could be abused simply by flat out removing half the game unless you have a 'code' and then not selling the code.
The cameras only see what the operators want them to see. I don't think (unedited) video evidence will be shown if the border guards were messing with him and provoked a physical confrontation. On the other hand, if he just jumped out of his car and dove on one of them, it would probably already be uploaded to youtube with the word terrorist in the title.
Not all hush money is created equally. Most people wouldn't even know that it was hush money if they were receiving it. Most likely, he hired some programmers and told them that they would be paid above what they're worth, in exchange for secrecy and trust.
So when the Chinese inevitably steal their research (that's one of China's strengths) those companies that moved their research to China will be looking to the US government to help them cover their losses.
I condone this.
If a corporation is willing to screw their consumers to save a buck, the consumers should be allowed to screw the corporation to save a buck. If my cheap electronics lived a long and fulfilling life, I'd just buy another. If my cheap electronics die after 30 days and no one will touch it with a 6ft pole, then I'll do whatever I can to recoup my losses. Including pulling this kind of stunt.
No one would have a problem with it if they knew how much waste there is in the technology sector. I'll give you a hint in that most companies throw away their returns after a cursory five second test to make sure they don't work. If the unit powers on and looks undamaged, they repackage it for sale again. So your 'new' item could have fallen out of some teenager's car and has loose bits rattling around inside. Your 'new' item could have gone through the wash and had some of its circuits fried. Basically, your 'new' item could be damaged and it not be immediately obvious upon purchase. 30 days or 14 days or 7 days or 3 days later or whatever the return policy is where you buy, you no longer have the option of returning it. So what then? Eat the cost? What if you saved up a few hundred for an Xbox 360, to have something nice for once in your life, and it breaks after a month and no one wants to step up to the plate?
Guess who it was laid by?
Often times Chinese workers.
China has no qualms about approaching slave labor to meet their needs. I bet the death toll for this connection will be very high.
I don't mind DLC usually. Like in the case of Borderlands. I liked the game, but it was enough for me. The bugs and the cheating really killed any hope of multiplayer that I had with the game. But the DLC idea was nice.
If they had tried to get me to pay for 'locked' areas that were already in the game, however, they wouldn't have gotten my money. Moreover, I would have returned the game if I could have and explained why. Games should NOT have DLC from day one unless it's a cheap game to begin with. Some free MMOs work on this system, and that's fine, because they're free to begin with. I'm not fucking paying $60 for a game and then realizing I STILL didn't get the complete game.
Because the lawyers aren't interested in running the company into the ground. They know that the more money they ask for, the more money will be spend by the defense on expensive lawyers, so it's better to grab the low hanging fruit of $10 million than it is to ask for all of the ill-gotten profits.
Honestly, the judge should pass this on to criminal court once it gets out of civil court. "So, Classmates.com, it appears that you've been lying to customers to get their money. This is theft by deception at its least, and fraud at the most. How about $100 million payable to all your subscribers in the form of a check?"
I think the big problem with publicly traded companies is that the shareholders demand an increased return no matter what. If you, the CEO, won't outsource to India, they'll vote you out and hire someone who will. It won't be a long search because a few million a year can cause people to do a lot of less-than-ethical things.
Also, another problem is that companies want to remain American, with all of the benefits of being an American corporation, but none of the responsibilities. That is, they don't want to follow US law in other countries. We need to pass a law saying that all corporations who employ foreign workers should be forced to pay them at least a minimum wage as already defined by the Department of Labor. If that means that Indian call center workers are living like kings, so be it.
It's expensive to outsource to other countries. If you have 1,000 workers making a dollar an hour, you'll be spending at least $1,000 an hour for the workers. But they have to have equipment like phones and maybe computers, so go ahead and buy those too. And an IT department to service those electronics. And infrastructure to power the place and provide communications. Oh, taxes, land, a building, complying with safety codes and local regulations, etc. There are a lot of 'hidden' costs associated with outsourcing overseas that aren't often considered.
In order to fix the problem, we have to make it more profitable for American companies to do business in America. We could do this by lowering their costs to bring work here, or we could do this by raising their costs to do work elsewhere. I vote for the latter. Perhaps every man-hour of work done overseas must follow minimum wage laws here, with the difference being paid to the US Government?
I'd pay a $2 premium to have the movie watchable right then AND shipped to me as the true blu-ray version.
Don't get them wrong..SOMETHING is being used up. You know the energy it took to build those fibers? It's being eroded away. Eventually heat flow will return to normal for both sides.
I'd advise Google to get all of its employees out of China that they don't want to be found dead someplace if they want to continue to be defiant.
Hey, great idea.
Let's just allow Microsoft to patch in whatever the hell they want with no regard for legality or ethics. I'll agree to turn autoupdates on whenever I trust Microsoft farther than to decide my copy is fake and lock me out of it. When they stop telling me to buy a new copy because I bought a new motherboard. When they stop adding in secret back doors for various security agencies.
Yep, this will be like workman's comp doctors.
"Sore eye after you've been welding without a mask? Probably just dehydrated. Drink more water and come back in a month..if you come back sooner you'll have to pay out of pocket."
"Numbness in your legs after you slipped on that banana peel in the warehouse and hit your head? You're just tired, walk it off."
"Strange black mole that's doubled in size in the past few weeks? Well, I didn't get the pictures you emailed, but just put a bandaid on it."
I do NOT forsee this going well..insurance companies have wanted to pick-and-choose which doctors they support for years..and they have been in some cases. This will put care of your health 90% in their hands.
Glad to see NewEgg confirming that the problem exists and that they're fixing it. Now they have to take responsibility for their actions, what will they offer as compensation to those affected? All problems a company encounters are opportunities in customer service.
Yes, I realize you fucked my steak up, but mistakes happen. How are you going to fix it? Replacing the steak, fine, but keep in mind I had to wait for it to be cooked, now I have to wait for it to be cooked again. Free dessert? Sure. In the end, they ended up better off than they started. Because now I know they're willing to make up for their mistakes.
If a company is worried about its reputation, they'd swap you out a real hard drive without question. They might take your name and enter you into a database to make sure you aren't doing this at a different store a few times a day, but they'll satisfy your request. A $100 loss to a Wal-Mart store isn't a big deal if you've kept a paying customer who will generate many times that over the course of their lifetimes.
If they're just worried about the profits this quarter, however, they'll tell you to go fuck yourself and have their lawyers play the delay game until next quarter. Best Buy, I'm looking at you. Not so fast there CompUSA and Circuit City..
In this situation, Newegg should not only replace the people who got hit with fake CPUs, but they should send them a small refund for their troubles. Maybe 30% as someone suggested before. Suppose someone needed the processor now and simply received a chunk of aluminum?
Oh, you mean like MMOs? Not much issue with piracy in MMOs. Ask Blizzard if anyone has ever pirated World of Warcraft.
So if the graphics power were 'especially poor' then most 360 games would beat 360 games in terms of graphics, right?
That doesn't seem to be the case. The consoles are more or less equal, and if anything, the PS3 graphics are slightly better than the 360.
Sounds like a fanboy/troll to me.
Is anyone really surprised by this? I know I'm not. I was actually hoping they'd implement the death penalty or at least life in prison for sharing MP3s.
The only appreciable difference between the PS3 controller and the 360 controller is that the analog/digital location is switched. I do agree, though, that the 360 controller d-pad should be replaced with a Nintendo one. The current one feels about as awkward as the d-pad from the NES Max controller.
While the person that rightfully owns their name can allow others to use their name for financial gain, they cannot give ownership of their name away. If they did manage to do this, hopefully IOC sues them into oblivion because she took 'their' name when she was born.
This will last until some parent decides that their kid is smarter than 'the system' and sues for 'discrimination' against '(social class)'. Where (social class) can be race, disorder, sex, location, criminal record, etc. It'll quickly be axed by the legal department of whatever schools are taking part in it. Even without this, there are still a LOT of parents who call up the teachers and demand better grades for their snowflakes.