But too late for me...I already deleted my Facebook profile when they launched this abominable feature. You merely deactivated it. It's still there, all the data has been retained. You could go back and reactivate it tomorrow and find yourself staring at the same profile you had before you "deleted" it.
One of the reasons I rarely shop Amazon is because of their slow shipping. Seriously, if an item is in stock, I fully expect it to ship the next business day. If it doesn't, I won't be back often. If other retailers can do it, so can Amazon. I used to cancel orders that sat in Amazon's shipping queue for days on end, even though the item was in stock, and it wasn't near a major holiday or anything of that nature.
After a while, I noticed that each and every one of my orders began going into the nebulous "Processing" category as soon as I went through the checkout. This meant that I could wait the better part of a week for an item to ship, but because it was "Processing", I couldn't cancel it.
That's when I gave up on Amazon, as if their refusal to ship to P.O. Boxes wasn't enough.
To be fair though, movies have a LOT more credits than they did 40 years ago. If every film opened with 5+ minutes of scrolling credits people wouldn't pay them any more attention and would likely just plan to arrive 5 minutes late so as to miss them. As opposed to 20 minutes, as they do now? I can understand not wanting to see the ads or the trailers (yes, there is a difference) but rolling in that long after the scheduled start time has grown increasingly common over the past few years. It has grown increasingly annoying, as well.
At the same time, Apple is a reminder that non free will software always depend on the free software world and will always have problems.
Yeah, because the free software community doesn't spend an inordinate amount of time imitating non-free software, and demanding that big companies simply hand over the source to products they've spent millions developing, rather than simply innovating and writing all of their own code.
Doing an important presentation that is 100% reliant on perfect internet connectivity is currently a stupid, stupid idea. It might work ok for presentations on your home turf in company meeting rooms but for remote presentations, training and sales it is a totally not yet ready for prime time idea. Someday perhaps, but not today. There are enough things that can go wrong with a presentation without using an on line app.
While I know it's all the rage to imagine everything from Office to Photoshop as a web app, I simply don't want to rely on having an internet connection for anything that doesn't inherently require it (browsing the web, using ftp, ssh or email, etc). Widespread access to the internet is not universal access to the internet, and connection quality varies so greatly, that I don't want to have my productivity beholden to the whims of the local network (if there even is one) that I happen to be using, and deal with the fact the processing power of my machine has been rendered irrelevant thanks to someone downloading 500 simultaneous HD hentai torrents.
Even if everything works 100% of the time, it is still an unnecessary layer of vulnerability, and not just from a security perspective, but from a "I can never know for sure that the experience will be the same each time I run the app."
On my machine, I know a crap app will run poorly each and every time, and that a well-done app will most likely perform as it should each and every time.
Anytime, anywhere access with predictable performance is something that no online app developer can offer, and I'm not going to move to any of their products because of that.
If we look at the situation, we can see that there is a major problem with Amazon's service:
Step 1 - Universal wants higher prices, but Apple refuses.
Step 2 - Universal dumps Apple and goes to Amazon, and Amazon starts selling songs at prices lower than the iTunes Store.
Step 3 - ?
In Step 3, Universal needs to achieve the goals it set out with contract re-negotiations with Apple. The goals were higher prices, with a larger percentage going to Universal for sending over a digital copy of an album four years ago. (The artists, are, as you might imagine, quite irrelevant in their calculations).
So why are they selling tracks at $0.89? To drive people away from the iTunes Store, knock it off its pedestal as the dominant online music retailer, and then jack up the prices once that has occurred and there is a new major player on the block who is more...accommodating...to the wants of the major labels.
Am I suggesting that people abandon Amazon and start paying more of their hard-earned money to Apple? No. What I am suggesting, and what I have done, is to put a moratorium on my online music purchases until things settle down a bit, as I strongly believe Amazon is going to end up screwing us in the end. We have to keep in mind the only reason Universal went with Amazon was because Apple refused to let them dictate terms that would end up raising the price of online music to a point higher than physical CDs themselves.
It's ridiculous to think that these prices are going to last, and that when the "correction" comes, that it will be anything but drastic. Giving Amazon a great deal of business, and thus, the big labels more leverage over operations that have fought for the end users, is detrimental to online music retailing as a whole.
Let me reiterate, the problem is not that the music is being sold by a company other than Apple, but WHY that music is being sold by a company other than Apple at the prices currently asked.
Comcast's OnDemand service is awful. There's only a handful of movies available, and even less in HighDef. Their Sundance(I think) exclusive movies charge MORE for a viewing, even though it's not in HighDef. Not to mention the fact that most of their films are Pan and Scan, and end up stuttering and pixelating a third of the time, at which point the cable box is liable to hard freeze.
Keeping them must be a pain, but securing them should be an easy thing to accomplish. Sadly, it's not something that every store takes great pains to do.
At the major book chain I used to work at, the unlocked stockroom had a shelf filled with boxes marked "CC Recepits X" where 'X' was the date range.
If you walked out with something like two boxes, you could theoretically have the information for every customer that payed with a credit card over the course of a year.
Then again, shrink was a huge problem, and my car got stolen from the parking lot (afterwards they told me there had been four car break-ins that month, but kept the information a secret from the staff) so it's not like CC receipts were the only insecure items in the place.
ESPN is one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive channel on your cable system. It costs them a ton of money to carry it, and the costs are passed on to you whether you watch it or not. I'd be more than happy to be given a chance to get rid of it forever.
The only thing that qualifies something as a weapon is how it's used. A hammer can be either a weapon or a tool. I think the same can be said of dynamite, and by extension, nuclear explosives. When you have a nuclear powered hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. The 1950s and '60s proved that.
Yes, allowed to travel EVEN IN THEIR OWN STATE, in many cases. Oh how far we've come from:
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that? Captain Ramius: I suppose. Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers? Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
If everything happened now like it did in your childhood, then you'd still be living in your childhood. You've grown up, and Nintendo is growing with you... Too bad about the games, though.;)
Do you mind if ask whether or not you experienced Acute Retroviral Syndrome after your initial infection (to your knowledge, anyway)?
In light of your body's natural resistance, I'm curious to know if HIV came charging in, replicating like crazy, before got knocked back to where it is now, or simply made a small foothold and went on from there.
I would hope that the Aqua interface elements get a reworking before the final release. They look absolutely out of place in the new unified interface scheme. If they simply copied over the iPhone style Leopard would look a whole lot better. Take a look at them side by side and tell me which you prefer.
Generally, any sudden show of support at MacWorld meant that nothing would come of the whole deal in the end.
Remember Microsoft's MacTopia? It was their new, awesome website to showcase all of the new Mac offerings that were in the works and the new commitment by Microsoft to port over their top games and other apps.
There was this big hoopla and then...nothing. Microsoft began dropping support for the platform almost at once. IE was simply ignored for several years, and when they came back to work on it, Apple had thrown up their hands and written Safari in frustration. The Mac game ports never really materialized beyond the initial set, I believe it was obvious to everyone in less than a year that the deal was a big nothing.
I seem to recall we got a new version of MSN Messenger out of the whole thing. Still no cross-platform video chatting, but I guess it was something.
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Their business model was akin to counting on the rental income from office space in the Empire State building...in the year 1400 BC .
"Hey, we've just invented this new material, let's build this fantastically tall thing that is far beyond our present technological limits and make money from those who will use it.
Heck, has there been a true CONSERVATIVE either? Reagan. Yeah, the dramatic rise in the national debt under Reagan certainly makes me think of him as a true conservative.
You are correct that blue dye squirting out of fire alarms is merely a myth. I have a somewhat sizeable collection of old fire alarm equipment and not one has any dye-squirting ability and no other collector or fire alarm installer I've ever known has come across such a thing in their travels.
You could spread some dye on the outside pull station itself - somewhere out of sight in the handle - but that would require you know where someone would pull the alarm or dye a massive number of stations just to be sure. Even then you run the risk of shorting out the damn thing which would result in a horribly ironic outcome.
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After a while, I noticed that each and every one of my orders began going into the nebulous "Processing" category as soon as I went through the checkout. This meant that I could wait the better part of a week for an item to ship, but because it was "Processing", I couldn't cancel it.
That's when I gave up on Amazon, as if their refusal to ship to P.O. Boxes wasn't enough.
At the same time, Apple is a reminder that non free will software always depend on the free software world and will always have problems.
Yeah, because the free software community doesn't spend an inordinate amount of time imitating non-free software, and demanding that big companies simply hand over the source to products they've spent millions developing, rather than simply innovating and writing all of their own code.While I know it's all the rage to imagine everything from Office to Photoshop as a web app, I simply don't want to rely on having an internet connection for anything that doesn't inherently require it (browsing the web, using ftp, ssh or email, etc). Widespread access to the internet is not universal access to the internet, and connection quality varies so greatly, that I don't want to have my productivity beholden to the whims of the local network (if there even is one) that I happen to be using, and deal with the fact the processing power of my machine has been rendered irrelevant thanks to someone downloading 500 simultaneous HD hentai torrents.
Even if everything works 100% of the time, it is still an unnecessary layer of vulnerability, and not just from a security perspective, but from a "I can never know for sure that the experience will be the same each time I run the app."
On my machine, I know a crap app will run poorly each and every time, and that a well-done app will most likely perform as it should each and every time.
Anytime, anywhere access with predictable performance is something that no online app developer can offer, and I'm not going to move to any of their products because of that.
If we look at the situation, we can see that there is a major problem with Amazon's service:
Step 1 - Universal wants higher prices, but Apple refuses.
Step 2 - Universal dumps Apple and goes to Amazon, and Amazon starts selling songs at prices lower than the iTunes Store.
Step 3 - ?
In Step 3, Universal needs to achieve the goals it set out with contract re-negotiations with Apple. The goals were higher prices, with a larger percentage going to Universal for sending over a digital copy of an album four years ago. (The artists, are, as you might imagine, quite irrelevant in their calculations).
So why are they selling tracks at $0.89? To drive people away from the iTunes Store, knock it off its pedestal as the dominant online music retailer, and then jack up the prices once that has occurred and there is a new major player on the block who is more...accommodating...to the wants of the major labels.
Am I suggesting that people abandon Amazon and start paying more of their hard-earned money to Apple? No. What I am suggesting, and what I have done, is to put a moratorium on my online music purchases until things settle down a bit, as I strongly believe Amazon is going to end up screwing us in the end. We have to keep in mind the only reason Universal went with Amazon was because Apple refused to let them dictate terms that would end up raising the price of online music to a point higher than physical CDs themselves.
It's ridiculous to think that these prices are going to last, and that when the "correction" comes, that it will be anything but drastic. Giving Amazon a great deal of business, and thus, the big labels more leverage over operations that have fought for the end users, is detrimental to online music retailing as a whole.
Let me reiterate, the problem is not that the music is being sold by a company other than Apple, but WHY that music is being sold by a company other than Apple at the prices currently asked.
I'm sure this will lead to a lot of copiers having "accidental" drownings in their bathtubs and Completely Innocuous single car crashes.
...that Firmwares Jailbroken is the name of the Finnish hacker who cracked the iPod?
Keeping them must be a pain, but securing them should be an easy thing to accomplish. Sadly, it's not something that every store takes great pains to do.
At the major book chain I used to work at, the unlocked stockroom had a shelf filled with boxes marked "CC Recepits X" where 'X' was the date range.
If you walked out with something like two boxes, you could theoretically have the information for every customer that payed with a credit card over the course of a year.
Then again, shrink was a huge problem, and my car got stolen from the parking lot (afterwards they told me there had been four car break-ins that month, but kept the information a secret from the staff) so it's not like CC receipts were the only insecure items in the place.
ESPN is one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive channel on your cable system. It costs them a ton of money to carry it, and the costs are passed on to you whether you watch it or not. I'd be more than happy to be given a chance to get rid of it forever.
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Oh how far we've come from: Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Do you mind if ask whether or not you experienced Acute Retroviral Syndrome after your initial infection (to your knowledge, anyway)?
In light of your body's natural resistance, I'm curious to know if HIV came charging in, replicating like crazy, before got knocked back to where it is now, or simply made a small foothold and went on from there.
I would hope that the Aqua interface elements get a reworking before the final release. They look absolutely out of place in the new unified interface scheme. If they simply copied over the iPhone style Leopard would look a whole lot better. Take a look at them side by side and tell me which you prefer.
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Generally, any sudden show of support at MacWorld meant that nothing would come of the whole deal in the end.
Remember Microsoft's MacTopia? It was their new, awesome website to showcase all of the new Mac offerings that were in the works and the new commitment by Microsoft to port over their top games and other apps.
There was this big hoopla and then...nothing. Microsoft began dropping support for the platform almost at once. IE was simply ignored for several years, and when they came back to work on it, Apple had thrown up their hands and written Safari in frustration. The Mac game ports never really materialized beyond the initial set, I believe it was obvious to everyone in less than a year that the deal was a big nothing.
I seem to recall we got a new version of MSN Messenger out of the whole thing. Still no cross-platform video chatting, but I guess it was something.
Their business model was akin to counting on the rental income from office space in the Empire State building...in the year 1400 BC .
"Hey, we've just invented this new material, let's build this fantastically tall thing that is far beyond our present technological limits and make money from those who will use it.
Presumably you're one of the rare free software folk who has no ethical problem with what Microsoft does, then?
As opposed to Sony and Nintendo who have both shown a willingness to engage in questionable behavior to suit their own ends?It's a sad reality, but if you want to play games, you have to deal with companies that are not always ethical.
You are correct that blue dye squirting out of fire alarms is merely a myth. I have a somewhat sizeable collection of old fire alarm equipment and not one has any dye-squirting ability and no other collector or fire alarm installer I've ever known has come across such a thing in their travels.
You could spread some dye on the outside pull station itself - somewhere out of sight in the handle - but that would require you know where someone would pull the alarm or dye a massive number of stations just to be sure. Even then you run the risk of shorting out the damn thing which would result in a horribly ironic outcome.