I work this way too (although not impressed with iphones so I avoid them). But I buy my phones and my cars secondhand - it saves me a lot of money with no downsides that I've ever found.
Keep it to yourself though - without all the suckers paying silly money for new things, the second hand market would dry up.
if 1200 bucks is gonna break you thats your own fault.
Sure it is. Only the lazy and feckless don't have $1200 sitting around waiting for the right phone to come along. I bet if you check their physiognomy you'll find they have the low brow and cranial bumps of the genetically poor.
No. An android is a robot that looks human. A robot is a machine that carries out physical tasks, but doesn't have to look human at all. It might be AI, in the loosest sense of the word, but who knows.
Agreed. At $400 its suicide. Almost everyone I know has already sourced other providers. Plus they will never forget that Photobucket has killed all the images in their old forum posts.
I think even if they backed down now they have killed any good will.
Its not so easy if you've been posting on a hobby forum for years. A couple of forums I am on now look pretty sparse if you browse back through previous posts. The canoeing forum in particular, since people post logs of trips which are very useful if you plan to canoe there yourself.
Yip. I've noticed this too, although more around conspiracy theories. Its now impossible to tell whether a conspiracy theory post is genuine or satire.
Many people I know were paying Photobucket. The changes affect them as well, so its not just the free service, its also those that weren't paying 'enough'. Also, not explicitly allowing hotlinking in the T&Cs is a red herring - they provided a photo storage service that provided a URL for each image. I think any normal person would construe that as allowing hotlinking.
The point wasn't that it was free before - most folk that I know were already paying, but they were paying a lot less than 400 bucks. The free service was limited, so if you used it a lot you tended to upgrade to a non-free account. That was their business model. The same business model as many free 'cloud' services - the limited free account to attract customers. (I'm talking about non-commercial users here though - people who post on canoeing or wargaming or other forums).
Personally, I think if they'd gone for $10 a month they would have got a lot more people to play along and probably missed out a lot of the bad publicity they are getting on forums across the internet. At $400 all non-commercial users will find alternatives, so they'd better hope there are enough commercial users who have no choice.
And for those moaning that people should 'just host their own images', most non-commercial users wouldn't even know where to begin. They were usually just pointed at Photobucket by someone else.
I can't be arsed reading the article, but I presume the issue is whether the videos were 'exclusive' or not. He probably just sent them a VHS of his favourite 'Fresh Prince' episode with an 'I made this' sticker on it.
Completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, revisionist bollocks and just plain wrong (surely we should be beyond having to point out that correlation does not equal causation)
Why not? If a UBI would give the average person the basics for a decent life, then surely additional work would allow people to supplement that. So most of us can just get on with things other than work, the workaholics can still find some work to do and the required jobs would still get done because there will always be someone looking for supplemental cash. There would just be no requirement to work, and no stigma attached to not working.
Bingo. People need to study a bit more history before they make all these claims about jobs just transferring from old to new. There was a reason for the vast slums and workhouses of Dickensian Britain and it wasn't the phrenologically inferior craniums and criminal laziness of the working class.
I would also like to add - what the hell was wrong with the standard of living people had 50 years ago? People had TVs, cars, homes, food, jobs, holidays. Teenagers were 'invented' 50 (ish) years ago precisely because they had enough jobs and disposable income that (what were effectively still) children become an economic force.
Presumably the GP expects standards of living to keep growing infinitely.
Monopolies aren't illegal. Its abusing your dominant position that's illegal (like using your monopoly on search results to push your other products above those of your competitors).
I think the benefit of TV/movies is that someone has crafted a story and made it compelling and interesting (at least they're supposed to). I can sit back and let that wash over me. The benefit of a game is that the gameplay can cover for a slightly tedious/unoriginal/uncompelling story.
This just sounds like the worst of both worlds. As the branches grow the chance of the story going astray grows, plus I have to stay alert for the points where I interact. If those points are too numerous I can't relax and enjoy the story, if they're too far apart they are going to break any immersion I might have.
I just don't see it working well, but good on them for trying it, I guess.
What does that even mean? If that's meant to be an insult then this is for you -
*golf clap*
If I'm a feminist then I can''t say it bothers me - I got there without trying. I just treat everyone with the respect I feel they deserve. If you're a cunt you get none.
You must travel in strange circles. My efforts and contributions to having children have never been reviled. Except that time my mum caught me practising.
On the other hand my wife's some of my wife's contributions deserve plenty more respect than mine - she was the one who suffered through 9 months of pregnancy (plus long term effects) and pushed giant meatsacks out her twat.
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I work this way too (although not impressed with iphones so I avoid them). But I buy my phones and my cars secondhand - it saves me a lot of money with no downsides that I've ever found.
Keep it to yourself though - without all the suckers paying silly money for new things, the second hand market would dry up.
if 1200 bucks is gonna break you thats your own fault.
Sure it is. Only the lazy and feckless don't have $1200 sitting around waiting for the right phone to come along. I bet if you check their physiognomy you'll find they have the low brow and cranial bumps of the genetically poor.
No. An android is a robot that looks human. A robot is a machine that carries out physical tasks, but doesn't have to look human at all. It might be AI, in the loosest sense of the word, but who knows.
Oh baby! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Agreed. At $400 its suicide. Almost everyone I know has already sourced other providers. Plus they will never forget that Photobucket has killed all the images in their old forum posts.
I think even if they backed down now they have killed any good will.
Its not so easy if you've been posting on a hobby forum for years. A couple of forums I am on now look pretty sparse if you browse back through previous posts. The canoeing forum in particular, since people post logs of trips which are very useful if you plan to canoe there yourself.
Yip. I've noticed this too, although more around conspiracy theories. Its now impossible to tell whether a conspiracy theory post is genuine or satire.
Many people I know were paying Photobucket. The changes affect them as well, so its not just the free service, its also those that weren't paying 'enough'. Also, not explicitly allowing hotlinking in the T&Cs is a red herring - they provided a photo storage service that provided a URL for each image. I think any normal person would construe that as allowing hotlinking.
It wasn't free. There was a free option, but most people I know were already paying. They just weren't paying $400.
The point wasn't that it was free before - most folk that I know were already paying, but they were paying a lot less than 400 bucks. The free service was limited, so if you used it a lot you tended to upgrade to a non-free account. That was their business model. The same business model as many free 'cloud' services - the limited free account to attract customers. (I'm talking about non-commercial users here though - people who post on canoeing or wargaming or other forums).
Personally, I think if they'd gone for $10 a month they would have got a lot more people to play along and probably missed out a lot of the bad publicity they are getting on forums across the internet. At $400 all non-commercial users will find alternatives, so they'd better hope there are enough commercial users who have no choice.
And for those moaning that people should 'just host their own images', most non-commercial users wouldn't even know where to begin. They were usually just pointed at Photobucket by someone else.
The only thing I can gather from this article is that the political trolls don't like rap. Its so peaceful. Pass the lemonade.
Why haven't you removed the audio jack from all your Apple devices? Please switch off your computer and await the arrival of the Apple Police.
I can't be arsed reading the article, but I presume the issue is whether the videos were 'exclusive' or not. He probably just sent them a VHS of his favourite 'Fresh Prince' episode with an 'I made this' sticker on it.
Completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, revisionist bollocks and just plain wrong (surely we should be beyond having to point out that correlation does not equal causation)
Why not? If a UBI would give the average person the basics for a decent life, then surely additional work would allow people to supplement that. So most of us can just get on with things other than work, the workaholics can still find some work to do and the required jobs would still get done because there will always be someone looking for supplemental cash. There would just be no requirement to work, and no stigma attached to not working.
Bingo. People need to study a bit more history before they make all these claims about jobs just transferring from old to new. There was a reason for the vast slums and workhouses of Dickensian Britain and it wasn't the phrenologically inferior craniums and criminal laziness of the working class.
I would also like to add - what the hell was wrong with the standard of living people had 50 years ago? People had TVs, cars, homes, food, jobs, holidays. Teenagers were 'invented' 50 (ish) years ago precisely because they had enough jobs and disposable income that (what were effectively still) children become an economic force.
Presumably the GP expects standards of living to keep growing infinitely.
Hold on, I'm trying to find a mod app...
The EU doesn't sell a shopping service so what the fuck are you talking about?
Monopolies aren't illegal. Its abusing your dominant position that's illegal (like using your monopoly on search results to push your other products above those of your competitors).
We are not rude you fuck faced arse nugget!
I think the benefit of TV/movies is that someone has crafted a story and made it compelling and interesting (at least they're supposed to). I can sit back and let that wash over me. The benefit of a game is that the gameplay can cover for a slightly tedious/unoriginal/uncompelling story.
This just sounds like the worst of both worlds. As the branches grow the chance of the story going astray grows, plus I have to stay alert for the points where I interact. If those points are too numerous I can't relax and enjoy the story, if they're too far apart they are going to break any immersion I might have.
I just don't see it working well, but good on them for trying it, I guess.
Boohoo - was a woman once nasty to da poor wittle snowflake.
What does that even mean? If that's meant to be an insult then this is for you -
*golf clap*
If I'm a feminist then I can''t say it bothers me - I got there without trying. I just treat everyone with the respect I feel they deserve. If you're a cunt you get none.
You must travel in strange circles. My efforts and contributions to having children have never been reviled. Except that time my mum caught me practising.
On the other hand my wife's some of my wife's contributions deserve plenty more respect than mine - she was the one who suffered through 9 months of pregnancy (plus long term effects) and pushed giant meatsacks out her twat.
God, I'm such a sucker for a trolling.