Certainly not. I do not advocate such behavior. I also do not advocate hypocrisy. I am quite sure that the Michelle Obama ape image is the hottest search term for Michelle Obama on GIS at the moment, but when I checked this morning, it was nowhere to be found on the first half-dozen pages of GIS search results.
The Laura Bush image is now in the top row of the first page. But I still don't know if GIS searches show up the same for everyone, but I do not use safesearch, unless at work.
Patent trolls generally don't sue people with no money.
That's bad advice. Patent Trolls love to sue little guys to just get a settlement or a judgement. Either way, it helps to bolster their case for when they go after bigger fish with deeper pockets.
Well, the AC/DC pack for Rockband was definitely the best compromise.
The disc itself is a stand-alone game with AC/DC tracks. Included in the case is a code to download all the tracks as DLC.
See? Best of both worlds and everyone's happy - provided they like AC/DC.
I want all my stuff available on the console. No disc swapping. That pretty much killed Singstar for me - well, the crappy US DLC releases for Singstar pretty much killed it for me too.
You can also get away with charging high prices if there's a good reason for it. Best Buy can't, but if you carry specialty products with helpful, knowledgeable, and friendly staff, you're no longer competing on price alone.
This quote reminds me of one of the coolest Mom-n-Pop shops. Educalc. They had a friendly, knowledgeable staff and a great product selection. Look where they are now.
People (myself included) are cheap bastards. Though I did buy stuff from Educalc.
Lots of shelves are starting to get empty, stock selection is poor too.
Are all of them having issues keeping hard drives in stock? The shelves used to be full of them, but since late October till now, the shelves are mostly empty and they only have a few models (mostly Western Digital). UDMA drives were out of stock entirely for more than 4 weeks and now you have a choice of two capacities.
Other retailers seem to have no problem keeping HD's in stock.
What everyone posting here needs to be aware of is that subverting DRM is considered -illegal- (anyone wonder why it's illegal to play DVDs using a FOSS player)?
Oh damn. You're right. I also recall telling people how to circumvent DRM is actually a crime. So what would happen if I told someone they could get that DRM'ed iTunes track as a DRM-free mp3 file on Amazon?
They have neat solutions, but their throughput is horrible. They support GigE, but the CPUs they use in their boxes are so underpowered they never achieve anything reasonably higher than 100-base-T (if that).
I'd post links, but typing "Buffalo NAS throughput" in google comes up with multiple hits of reviews complaining about throughput.
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It's hard to pick up new titles when blu-ray are selling for $30-35 and the DVD is right next to it on the shelf on sale for $14-15.
When they discount blu-ray as aggressively as they do new DVDs on Tuesday, I'll just wait.
That's bad for blu-ray too, because I refuse to re-buy anything I already have on the DVD format.
Ok well full disclosure i work for Speakeasy but there are no bandwidth caps. Of course you pay more for service but you get lower latency, no bandwidth cap and i can personally attest that all the backbone lines that speakeasy runs on are undersold compared to other ISPs.
Like anyhting in life you pay for what you get. If you pay $20 a month for internet expect to get $20 worth.
That is a load of crap.
I am a Speakeasy customer and while they do not publish caps, they have a "soft cap" that when exceeded cause a member of the security department to give the customer a call. The call serves three purposes:
1. Determine if the customer was "hacked" 2. See if they have an open wireless access point 3. Failing 1 and 2, suggest that the customer cool it with the P2P activities.
Speakeasy does not like traffic exceeding 100GB/Month. Exceed that for a month or two and you will get a call. Now my issues were solved amicably with Speakeasy by throttling traffic on my end, but I run real close to the limits.
We tested over 10 million diverse humans, and found that the only people to survive with 100% success rate were those that were born with both sets of sexual organs. But we consider them useless statistics anyway since they are unable to reproduce.
Oh great. After a generation or two the earth will literally become a 4chan image board.
Peace in Japanese kanji "heiwa" is exactly the same in Chinese.
Safety in Japanese kanji "anzen" shares a character in Japanese and Chinese with the word for cheap yasui. Is that what you mean?
The written language was borrowed centuries ago. Slang and idiomatic expressions will cloud meanings, but the overall meanings of many of the characters are mostly the same.
There's a big difference between a phonetic alphabet and an lolograph based language.
To English and German, an "A" is an "A" and really does not mean anything in and of itself. The alphabet denotes sounds that when strung together have a meaning.
In Chinese and Japanese, each character has a specific meaning in itself. It is that meaning that carries between both languages - one does not even need to know how to pronounce the character to understand its meaning.
The distinctive sound of a shotgun cocking is a remarkably effective deterrent, and it more clean than firing up a gas-powered tool in the bedroom.
If you happen to disapprove of shooting intruders, keep one around with no shells. They are cheap to buy, the cocking sound would make any thief piss themself. If you wound up getting a crazy thief and regret not having shells, you can always club them with it.
At the risk of losing my Apple "street cred": Apple also restores these machines from a disk image quite frequently. One employee I quizzed about it said they restore the machines from an image file just about every day.
You cannot expect this from a big box retailer. I've seen Macs at Fry's and CompUSA that were trashed. Not virus-ridden - but with deleted apps, desktop vandalism, and other local user asshattery.
I don't... That's the point of my post. I would pay a slight premium over DVD, but not much more than $5. But most retailers will heavily discount popular titles on DVD and leave the BR titles at/near full price. I won't pay a $10-15 premium for a BR title.
I was buying blu-ray right and left in late 2007. Since Feb '08 I have not bought a single title. Why? Prices of media jumped beyond my threshold and I went back to DVD.
I find it hard to buy titles like "No Country for Old Men" for $26.00-29.99 on Blu-Ray when the same title can be picked up for less than $14 at Target on DVD. Another gripe is high prices on back-catalog titles I already own on DVD. Sorry, I will not buy a $26+ BR title when I have already purchased the same title on DVD two or more years ago.
When retailers start aggressively pricing media again, I'll go back to buying the format. Otherwise upscaled DVD looks quite good on my PS3.
It [Thinkpad X300] isn't as sexy or inexpensive as the MacBook Air, but it has numerous features the Apple lacks, especially a wide array of ports and connectivity options, a built-in DVD drive and a removable battery.
The first time I have ever seen someone use "inexpensive" to describe the Macbook Air.
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Only if race, religion, national origin, and (depending on your locale) sexual orientation are part of that opinion.
Thinking of him as a low-life dirtbag who killed animals for his personal jollies and then not hiring him based on that is still perfectly legal.
Certainly not. I do not advocate such behavior. I also do not advocate hypocrisy. I am quite sure that the Michelle Obama ape image is the hottest search term for Michelle Obama on GIS at the moment, but when I checked this morning, it was nowhere to be found on the first half-dozen pages of GIS search results.
The Laura Bush image is now in the top row of the first page. But I still don't know if GIS searches show up the same for everyone, but I do not use safesearch, unless at work.
Different results for different people? Here's the image NSFW
In my GIS results, it was bottom row, far left. It's still there too.
So when I search for "Laura Bush" on GIS, the first page shows a photo of George, Laura, and Laura's "bush."
Someone shopped off her pants and underwear... and she needs a razor.
No apologies from Google it seems.
Patent trolls generally don't sue people with no money.
That's bad advice. Patent Trolls love to sue little guys to just get a settlement or a judgement. Either way, it helps to bolster their case for when they go after bigger fish with deeper pockets.
Classic:
AT&T just deleted the thread as I was reading it!
Yes, but we are talking C-3PO here. The Toyota Camry of the droid world.
Well, the AC/DC pack for Rockband was definitely the best compromise.
The disc itself is a stand-alone game with AC/DC tracks. Included in the case is a code to download all the tracks as DLC.
See? Best of both worlds and everyone's happy - provided they like AC/DC.
I want all my stuff available on the console. No disc swapping. That pretty much killed Singstar for me - well, the crappy US DLC releases for Singstar pretty much killed it for me too.
This quote reminds me of one of the coolest Mom-n-Pop shops. Educalc. They had a friendly, knowledgeable staff and a great product selection. Look where they are now.
People (myself included) are cheap bastards. Though I did buy stuff from Educalc.
I'm starting to have worries about Fry's too.
Lots of shelves are starting to get empty, stock selection is poor too.
Are all of them having issues keeping hard drives in stock? The shelves used to be full of them, but since late October till now, the shelves are mostly empty and they only have a few models (mostly Western Digital). UDMA drives were out of stock entirely for more than 4 weeks and now you have a choice of two capacities.
Other retailers seem to have no problem keeping HD's in stock.
Oh damn. You're right. I also recall telling people how to circumvent DRM is actually a crime. So what would happen if I told someone they could get that DRM'ed iTunes track as a DRM-free mp3 file on Amazon?
That's circumventing DRM right there.
They have neat solutions, but their throughput is horrible. They support GigE, but the CPUs they use in their boxes are so underpowered they never achieve anything reasonably higher than 100-base-T (if that).
I'd post links, but typing "Buffalo NAS throughput" in google comes up with multiple hits of reviews complaining about throughput.
It's hard to pick up new titles when blu-ray are selling for $30-35 and the DVD is right next to it on the shelf on sale for $14-15.
When they discount blu-ray as aggressively as they do new DVDs on Tuesday, I'll just wait.
That's bad for blu-ray too, because I refuse to re-buy anything I already have on the DVD format.
Ahem, Speakeasy...
Ok well full disclosure i work for Speakeasy but there are no bandwidth caps. Of course you pay more for service but you get lower latency, no bandwidth cap and i can personally attest that all the backbone lines that speakeasy runs on are undersold compared to other ISPs.
Like anyhting in life you pay for what you get. If you pay $20 a month for internet expect to get $20 worth.
That is a load of crap.
I am a Speakeasy customer and while they do not publish caps, they have a "soft cap" that when exceeded cause a member of the security department to give the customer a call. The call serves three purposes:
1. Determine if the customer was "hacked"
2. See if they have an open wireless access point
3. Failing 1 and 2, suggest that the customer cool it with the P2P activities.
Speakeasy does not like traffic exceeding 100GB/Month. Exceed that for a month or two and you will get a call. Now my issues were solved amicably with Speakeasy by throttling traffic on my end, but I run real close to the limits.
We tested over 10 million diverse humans, and found that the only people to survive with 100% success rate were those that were born with both sets of sexual organs. But we consider them useless statistics anyway since they are unable to reproduce.
Oh great. After a generation or two the earth will literally become a 4chan image board.
Thanks for that disturbing thought.
Maybe they meant it as 'you R not me'. Still very lame.
Actually, it's pretty clever considering the atrociousness of spelling nowadays.
Because the experiment was sponsored by McAfee, an antivirus/antimalware vendor. What did you expect?
Peace in Japanese kanji "heiwa" is exactly the same in Chinese.
Safety in Japanese kanji "anzen" shares a character in Japanese and Chinese with the word for cheap yasui. Is that what you mean?
The written language was borrowed centuries ago. Slang and idiomatic expressions will cloud meanings, but the overall meanings of many of the characters are mostly the same.
There's a big difference between a phonetic alphabet and an lolograph based language.
To English and German, an "A" is an "A" and really does not mean anything in and of itself. The alphabet denotes sounds that when strung together have a meaning.
In Chinese and Japanese, each character has a specific meaning in itself. It is that meaning that carries between both languages - one does not even need to know how to pronounce the character to understand its meaning.
Ahead of schedule?
The distinctive sound of a shotgun cocking is a remarkably effective deterrent, and it more clean than firing up a gas-powered tool in the bedroom.
If you happen to disapprove of shooting intruders, keep one around with no shells. They are cheap to buy, the cocking sound would make any thief piss themself. If you wound up getting a crazy thief and regret not having shells, you can always club them with it.
At the risk of losing my Apple "street cred": Apple also restores these machines from a disk image quite frequently. One employee I quizzed about it said they restore the machines from an image file just about every day.
You cannot expect this from a big box retailer. I've seen Macs at Fry's and CompUSA that were trashed. Not virus-ridden - but with deleted apps, desktop vandalism, and other local user asshattery.
I don't... That's the point of my post. I would pay a slight premium over DVD, but not much more than $5. But most retailers will heavily discount popular titles on DVD and leave the BR titles at/near full price. I won't pay a $10-15 premium for a BR title.
I was buying blu-ray right and left in late 2007. Since Feb '08 I have not bought a single title. Why? Prices of media jumped beyond my threshold and I went back to DVD.
I find it hard to buy titles like "No Country for Old Men" for $26.00-29.99 on Blu-Ray when the same title can be picked up for less than $14 at Target on DVD. Another gripe is high prices on back-catalog titles I already own on DVD. Sorry, I will not buy a $26+ BR title when I have already purchased the same title on DVD two or more years ago.
When retailers start aggressively pricing media again, I'll go back to buying the format. Otherwise upscaled DVD looks quite good on my PS3.
The first time I have ever seen someone use "inexpensive" to describe the Macbook Air.