So, why are they pulling this scam? Is it a change in corporate culture? Is HP actually evil, with a thin chocolaty covering? Is it actually a fair tactic? Is it a manufacturing or shipping issue?
My guess would be quarterly profits. Some CEO at HP is impatient to wait a few months for customers to buy a new ink cartridge, so they get the bright idea "Hey, we'll sell all our printers with half the ink so we won't have to wait as long for them to buy replacement cartridges."
Corporate culture nowadays, by doing this they'll probably piss off a few people who won't become long-term customers, but they'll probably make more money in the short term.
I don't blame them, information like billboard charts and soundscan sales are worth a lot of money to record companies, gracenotes information would be even more valuable, as it shows what people are actually listening to, as opposed to just buying.
I miss gracenotes top 100, the chart would largely similar to the billboard charts, but with older albums mixed in. It's amazing how many classic albums, such as Pink Floyd, Nirvana, old Metallica, sit there next to Eminem and Linkin Park.
And why is Celine Dion in the top ten?
I'm glad only a few people use browser's that block pop-ups. If everyone blocked pop-ups, then advertisers would just use harder to get around schemes, such as putting the content of the page in the pop-up and the ad in the page your browser goes to, or larger ads in the page.
Slashdot knows a lot of their users block pop-ups so they put their ads on the pages they serve, plus they serve them from images.slashdot.org so that people can't block it on their hosts file.
As long as only a small percentage of people block pop-ups and use hosts files I can surf the internet without seeing X-10 ads ever, so you should tell people that they shouldn't block pop-ups and that it hampers their web surfing experience.
That'll work until more ISPs starts implementing a 3-5 gigabyte per month upload/download limit(like has happened recently in Australia and with Sympatico in Canada).
Its similar to the stupid McDonalds Coffee incident.
Hey, that poor lady needed skin grafts, they shouldn't have been serving coffee that damn hot. If they just offered to pay for her medical bills they could have avoided the whole thing.
Ahem, Carnivore, Echelon, DMCA, facial recognition cameras... the U.S. has been pioneering a heck of a lot more of surveilance on the public than a lot of these European countries, why do you think terrorists hang out and do their planning in Europe and Canada before heading to the U.S?
Hey, if socialism is so restrictive of freedom, how come I can smoke a joint in the Netherlands but not in the U.S?
Before switching to a more expensive mouse, you should check out ps2rate, you can boost the sampling rate of your mouse up to 200hz. It moves noticably smoother. This is not necessary if you're on Windows 2000 or XP though, but I use it on 98.
Just read it, can't say it impressed me at all. I didn't believe they were speaking in halting Portuguese at the end, no real payoff at the end with the story. In the final third she decides she's going to go get that guy and that's exactly what happens, no twists or surprises.
Could you elaborate on the plot flaws, and what did Haldeman have to say about it?
Hmm, Alexy Pajitnov would be the Orson Welles of video games (one great game, Tetris, but then what?). Hideo Kojima is the Kubrick of video games (technically excellent, but good luck making sense of it). Hironobu Sakaguchi might be the James Cameron of video games (epics with lots of action with a sappy love story, every time).
If you're looking for art, check out ICO for Playstation2, whoever designed that is the Tarkovsky of video games.
Why didn't they just offer a tenth of that 25 billion to Miyamoto? He's the Steven Spielberg of video games, and he'd be the primary boon for buying Nintendo (aside from the Pokemon liscense).
Want no bandwidth limit, no fees, no hassles on "community standards"? Just upload your page to Freenet. And it's anonymous so you won't even have to answer to the law. Sure it's a painfully slow to access most pages, but what do you want for free?
This will only work until whoever is behind Kazaa Lite gets greedy and decides to add spyware.
You can't predict which program will pull the bait-and-switch anymore. A free filesharing program gets released, without spyware, then after I tell all my friends about it and they have a bunch of users they add spyware. Just like what happened with Limewire.
On my machine running win 98 and ie6.0, it doesn't work, I just get two new windows with a square with a dot in the middle in the top left corner and the explorer graphic spinning in my browser, the source says:
I have javascript turned on in my browser but I have a lot of security features turned on so maybe that's it.
BTW, isn't the security settings in ie nearly incomprehensible? Anyone have any idea what "display mixed content" means, I have it turned off anyway but there is no explanation provided.
I saw a news documentary on Canadian TV recently about wiz kid Tom Williams (more), who started working at Apple as a teenager. Turns out he picked up a nasty drug and alcohol habit while he was there, which might explain why Apple is so wary of working with someone so young.
The program showed he was doing, and he seems to have kicked all that and went into AA, and he's not working at Apple anymore. Apple wouldn't answer any questions the reporters had about what may have been a violation of California labor laws for having someone so young work for Apple, but perhaps they tightened up their policy since then.
The dubbing of most anime is crud. For shows like CB, you get a great feel for the characters when you can hear the original voice acting, since much more thought goes into voice acting selection for the original as opposed to the dub.
I just thought of this: Why doesn't the cartoon network put the original Japanese audio on SAP. Then to follow the story you could just turn on captioning. Any reason this isn't implemented?
They're always going to be newbies trying to get in way over their heads. Here's a post from ten years ago from some joker who's trying to program his own operating system. Now instead of operating systems newbies trying to do MMORPGs. Just ignore them and let them give up on their own.
Exactly. If you're going to be writing about computers and/or teen alienation, you missed a bunch of movies dealing with these subjects. Good movies you could be reviewing:
Avalon
Battle Royale
Bully
Startup.com
Waking Life
C'mon Katz, you're the only internet critic that hasn't done a multi-page diatribe on Battle Royale.
Still, it would be an excellent way for Marvel to cash in on the long-running popularity of the X-Men, or DC and Batman, or Dark Horse and Aliens. I can think of plenty of fans and even not-so-fans who'd happily pay $2 per back issue of a known hit when new paper issues of unknown ones are priced at $3 apiece.
Comic companies already do this in the form of trade paperbacks, which is like getting a dozen back issues for $15.
I suspect there is not a lot of demand for eBook versions of comic books, it's not like there is a lot of comic book piracy out there on usenet (aside from some niche manga). Since the comic industry hasn't had to deal with piracy to the same degree as the music or book industry has, I assume most of the appeal of comics is the collectable aspect, which wouldn't be satisfied by selling by them in eBook format.
Huh, so what is the ad? Is it the Techno Scout thing on the side or the link to the Department of Labor press release? Their must be a hundred links on the page, it would be nice if the story could of been more specific.
Anyway, the text ad thing is also being pushed on Google and on metafilter. I hope they replace banner ads because they load so much faster and don't blink, and they're probably more effective for advertisers because the brain doesn't block them out (most users don't even glance at banner ads) and ad blockers can't block them either.
I don't mind as long as it's clearly marked as an advertisment.
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So, why are they pulling this scam? Is it a change in corporate culture? Is HP actually evil, with a thin chocolaty covering? Is it actually a fair tactic? Is it a manufacturing or shipping issue?
My guess would be quarterly profits. Some CEO at HP is impatient to wait a few months for customers to buy a new ink cartridge, so they get the bright idea "Hey, we'll sell all our printers with half the ink so we won't have to wait as long for them to buy replacement cartridges."
Corporate culture nowadays, by doing this they'll probably piss off a few people who won't become long-term customers, but they'll probably make more money in the short term.
Here's the original FBI memo: http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/fisa.html
I don't blame them, information like billboard charts and soundscan sales are worth a lot of money to record companies, gracenotes information would be even more valuable, as it shows what people are actually listening to, as opposed to just buying. I miss gracenotes top 100, the chart would largely similar to the billboard charts, but with older albums mixed in. It's amazing how many classic albums, such as Pink Floyd, Nirvana, old Metallica, sit there next to Eminem and Linkin Park. And why is Celine Dion in the top ten?
I'm glad only a few people use browser's that block pop-ups. If everyone blocked pop-ups, then advertisers would just use harder to get around schemes, such as putting the content of the page in the pop-up and the ad in the page your browser goes to, or larger ads in the page.
Slashdot knows a lot of their users block pop-ups so they put their ads on the pages they serve, plus they serve them from images.slashdot.org so that people can't block it on their hosts file.
As long as only a small percentage of people block pop-ups and use hosts files I can surf the internet without seeing X-10 ads ever, so you should tell people that they shouldn't block pop-ups and that it hampers their web surfing experience.
Yes I actually managed to finish it today.
That'll work until more ISPs starts implementing a 3-5 gigabyte per month upload/download limit(like has happened recently in Australia and with Sympatico in Canada).
Its similar to the stupid McDonalds Coffee incident.
Hey, that poor lady needed skin grafts, they shouldn't have been serving coffee that damn hot. If they just offered to pay for her medical bills they could have avoided the whole thing.
McFacts about the McDonalds Coffee Lawsuit
Aside from that, I agree that this roller coaster law is stupid, but if you know the facts of the coffee case its a bad example.
Ahem, Carnivore, Echelon, DMCA, facial recognition cameras... the U.S. has been pioneering a heck of a lot more of surveilance on the public than a lot of these European countries, why do you think terrorists hang out and do their planning in Europe and Canada before heading to the U.S?
Hey, if socialism is so restrictive of freedom, how come I can smoke a joint in the Netherlands but not in the U.S?
Jedi names, that's works well with me and most people i know too... where did you get that nameing scheme from?
Before switching to a more expensive mouse, you should check out ps2rate, you can boost the sampling rate of your mouse up to 200hz. It moves noticably smoother. This is not necessary if you're on Windows 2000 or XP though, but I use it on 98.
Just read it, can't say it impressed me at all. I didn't believe they were speaking in halting Portuguese at the end, no real payoff at the end with the story. In the final third she decides she's going to go get that guy and that's exactly what happens, no twists or surprises.
Could you elaborate on the plot flaws, and what did Haldeman have to say about it?
Hmm, Alexy Pajitnov would be the Orson Welles of video games (one great game, Tetris, but then what?). Hideo Kojima is the Kubrick of video games (technically excellent, but good luck making sense of it). Hironobu Sakaguchi might be the James Cameron of video games (epics with lots of action with a sappy love story, every time).
If you're looking for art, check out ICO for Playstation2, whoever designed that is the Tarkovsky of video games.
Why didn't they just offer a tenth of that 25 billion to Miyamoto? He's the Steven Spielberg of video games, and he'd be the primary boon for buying Nintendo (aside from the Pokemon liscense).
Want no bandwidth limit, no fees, no hassles on "community standards"? Just upload your page to Freenet. And it's anonymous so you won't even have to answer to the law. Sure it's a painfully slow to access most pages, but what do you want for free?
You can't predict which program will pull the bait-and-switch anymore. A free filesharing program gets released, without spyware, then after I tell all my friends about it and they have a bunch of users they add spyware. Just like what happened with Limewire.
Whoops, copied winmine to the system32 folder, now it works. Going to stick with mozilla for a while.
I have javascript turned on in my browser but I have a lot of security features turned on so maybe that's it.
BTW, isn't the security settings in ie nearly incomprehensible? Anyone have any idea what "display mixed content" means, I have it turned off anyway but there is no explanation provided.
No, it's $1B for 1024-bit keys, $2B for 1025-bit keys. At least that's my guess.
The program showed he was doing, and he seems to have kicked all that and went into AA, and he's not working at Apple anymore. Apple wouldn't answer any questions the reporters had about what may have been a violation of California labor laws for having someone so young work for Apple, but perhaps they tightened up their policy since then.
They're always going to be newbies trying to get in way over their heads. Here's a post from ten years ago from some joker who's trying to program his own operating system. Now instead of operating systems newbies trying to do MMORPGs. Just ignore them and let them give up on their own.
- Avalon
- Battle Royale
- Bully
- Startup.com
- Waking Life
C'mon Katz, you're the only internet critic that hasn't done a multi-page diatribe on Battle Royale.I suspect there is not a lot of demand for eBook versions of comic books, it's not like there is a lot of comic book piracy out there on usenet (aside from some niche manga). Since the comic industry hasn't had to deal with piracy to the same degree as the music or book industry has, I assume most of the appeal of comics is the collectable aspect, which wouldn't be satisfied by selling by them in eBook format.
I recognized everything on the chart except AfterLife. Google hasn't been too helpful finding anything, what is AfterLife?
Anyway, the text ad thing is also being pushed on Google and on metafilter. I hope they replace banner ads because they load so much faster and don't blink, and they're probably more effective for advertisers because the brain doesn't block them out (most users don't even glance at banner ads) and ad blockers can't block them either.
I don't mind as long as it's clearly marked as an advertisment.