Bad sticks happen to everyone at one time or another, it's just really rare with Crucial. The big thing that they excel at, however, is the excellent customer service. I bet you had a warranty replacement stick in your hands fairly quickly.
I think it would be interesting to see if you said the same thing if the governor had freed the killer who raped and murdered your wife or sister or daughter...
Somehow, I think your tone would change right quick.
D. Now...should the drinking age be lowered to 18? hmm...tough one. On one side, we have semiresponsible people. On the other side, we have drunken riots at many colleges across the country, and many late teens killed (or other victims) driving while drunk.
Tough call.
When I hit 21, I basically stopped drinking. It just wasn't fun anymore. Go figure.
I've been pointing to that as the next evolutionary step in the game biz for quite a while. It solves the copy protection and fair use issues very neatly.
Serious Sam had no protection at all, and they did well enough to make a sequel. Of course, the game was only $20 when released, so there was little incentive to copy it.
LOTR on DVD was a good product the first time, but people went out and bought the "Special Directors Collectors Edition" when it came out. Many people technically bought it AGAIN, since they already owned the original. The "new and improved" version was also enough to sway some fencesitters into buying it. When the box set with the trilogy is released, many people will buy it again!
They are not the only problem, they are just half of it. Unions by themselves did NOT bring this to pass, they combined with minimum wage to do so. It seems to me I said that from the beginning.
I've never had a union job, I can't say that they have benefitted me in any direct way. However, the people stuffing cotton in bottles on an assembly line for $25 an hour are about to become JOBLESS thanks to union inflated wages. Jobless, no job, no income. Not even $0.25 a day. Without those institutions I "so blindly denigrate", they would still have jobs on a competitive payscale with the rest of the world.
Regardless of what spin you try to put on it, the UNEDUCATED (high school diploma or less) portion of the American labor force is pricing itself right out of a damn job!
Actually, the cheaper labor is, the less incentive there is to raise productivity. It is precisely the higher cost of clerical and computational labor here in the US that led to the economic drive to create and expand the computer industry. Similarly, high factory labor costs led to robotics implementation.
And now the jobs are going to India or being taken by robots. This helps the American worker _how_?
Similarly, states that have lower minimum wages do not tend to have lower (or higher) unemployment rates in any particular job segment. This means that other factors are much more important. So save your anti-labor rants for somewhere that they are actually applicable (if you can find one).
Minimum wage is a Federal rule, IIRC. And it is only part of the equation, helping to drive up labor costs (see my example, above). There are other factors, but if you think that inflated labor cost isn't encouraging companies to manufacture elsewhere, you are in la-la land. It's happening here, now, in my area.
Correct, but the manufacturing industries are leaving the US because the unions, trying to keep manufacturing jobs above minimum wage, have priced our labor force right out of the market. See the post, above.
Yes, there is a large deficit, and it will only get worse. The problem with minimum wage is that it devalues the currency, and makes skilled labor earn less in terms of raw buying power.
For example, let's say minimum wage was $4 an hour and you were making $8 an hour. If they increase the minimum wage to $5 and you still get a $1 raise you have LOST relative buying power. Since the companies need to pass on the cost of the labor hike, the cost of products increase along with the wages. Net result: skilled labor loses money.
Then the unions step in, and try to force their wages (and buying power) up. The problem is, the whole world is not union so the manufacturing facilities relocate elsewhere.
This is happening in my town right now, with Bayer.
Fast food, retail, most non-manufacturing jobs are service industries. You provide a service (cooking, selling, cleaning) instead of building something.
When the US stops manufacturing most goods, the only jobs left will be service jobs because they have to be local.
Agreed. I fear that in a few years, America will be almost entirely a service industry once all of our _real_ manufacturing capabilities go overseas. The trade deficit that will occur is going to ruin us all.
Thank you muchly to minimum wage legislation and unions for bringing this wonderful scenario to pass.
If Naomi to Dreamcast ports are 99% perfect, the Dreamcast ran on WindowsCE (I never knew that, BTW), and the XBox runs on a modded WindowsOS, then why is MS (supposedly) having problems getting Naomi games to port to the XBox?
TBH, I wouldn't have added that quip if the parent poster hadn't insinuated that going to C-hurch was as noble a pursuit as community, exercising, or volunteer work. I probably wouldn't have added it without the capital C.
It still was not the true point of the post to be flamebait, however.
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Bad sticks happen to everyone at one time or another, it's just really rare with Crucial. The big thing that they excel at, however, is the excellent customer service. I bet you had a warranty replacement stick in your hands fairly quickly.
Somehow, I think your tone would change right quick.
When I hit 21, I basically stopped drinking. It just wasn't fun anymore. Go figure.
IIRC, you can install it from your hard drive and skip the CD check.
What does the future look like since excessive patenting means the scientists can no longer build on each other's work?
I've been pointing to that as the next evolutionary step in the game biz for quite a while. It solves the copy protection and fair use issues very neatly.
Serious Sam had no protection at all, and they did well enough to make a sequel. Of course, the game was only $20 when released, so there was little incentive to copy it.
Nope, but many users use computer images to come!
Also, if little DoogieH. wants to learn about astrophysics, who will make a site for it in the .kids.us domain?
The .kids.us is opt-out, the .xxx is opt in.
In both cases the biggest benefit is being free of other people's licensing.
LOTR on DVD was a good product the first time, but people went out and bought the "Special Directors Collectors Edition" when it came out. Many people technically bought it AGAIN, since they already owned the original. The "new and improved" version was also enough to sway some fencesitters into buying it. When the box set with the trilogy is released, many people will buy it again!
It's all about marketing, man.
I've never had a union job, I can't say that they have benefitted me in any direct way. However, the people stuffing cotton in bottles on an assembly line for $25 an hour are about to become JOBLESS thanks to union inflated wages. Jobless, no job, no income. Not even $0.25 a day. Without those institutions I "so blindly denigrate", they would still have jobs on a competitive payscale with the rest of the world.
Regardless of what spin you try to put on it, the UNEDUCATED (high school diploma or less) portion of the American labor force is pricing itself right out of a damn job!
Let me make this perfectly clear: WHEN you get your wish, this country will be impoverished beyond belief because there won't be any industry left.
Unions alone did not desroy capitalism, but they are certainly part of the equation.
And now the jobs are going to India or being taken by robots. This helps the American worker _how_?
Similarly, states that have lower minimum wages do not tend to have lower (or higher) unemployment rates in any particular job segment. This means that other factors are much more important. So save your anti-labor rants for somewhere that they are actually applicable (if you can find one).
Minimum wage is a Federal rule, IIRC. And it is only part of the equation, helping to drive up labor costs (see my example, above). There are other factors, but if you think that inflated labor cost isn't encouraging companies to manufacture elsewhere, you are in la-la land. It's happening here, now, in my area.
As opposed to not working at all and living on the dole?
Correct, but the manufacturing industries are leaving the US because the unions, trying to keep manufacturing jobs above minimum wage, have priced our labor force right out of the market. See the post, above.
For example, let's say minimum wage was $4 an hour and you were making $8 an hour. If they increase the minimum wage to $5 and you still get a $1 raise you have LOST relative buying power. Since the companies need to pass on the cost of the labor hike, the cost of products increase along with the wages. Net result: skilled labor loses money.
Then the unions step in, and try to force their wages (and buying power) up. The problem is, the whole world is not union so the manufacturing facilities relocate elsewhere.
This is happening in my town right now, with Bayer.
When the US stops manufacturing most goods, the only jobs left will be service jobs because they have to be local.
Thank you muchly to minimum wage legislation and unions for bringing this wonderful scenario to pass.
Ahh... I misread the article. My bad. :-)
If Naomi to Dreamcast ports are 99% perfect, the Dreamcast ran on WindowsCE (I never knew that, BTW), and the XBox runs on a modded WindowsOS, then why is MS (supposedly) having problems getting Naomi games to port to the XBox?
Marketing, man. Marketing. They knew what they were doing.
TBH, I wouldn't have added that quip if the parent poster hadn't insinuated that going to C-hurch was as noble a pursuit as community, exercising, or volunteer work. I probably wouldn't have added it without the capital C.
It still was not the true point of the post to be flamebait, however.
The segue about church was a pet peeve and a point.
The the altar boy kiddie porn comment was flamebaitish, but it still brought up the notion that the church monitors others more than itself.
Or are you telling me saying anything negative about religion is flamebait?
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It would make a great t-shirt.