That is what the free market is for, and it works extraordinarily well. If consumers don't like the conditions on the service then the plan will die on the vine.
Um,no. Thanks for drinking the free market koolaid. In my town, there is one city granted monopoly cable provider, and one city granted monopoly telephone provider, whom are the ONLY options for broadband. What about "city granted monopoly" is congruent with free market again?
Are men and women different? Sure. Men have penises and testicles, and women have vaginas. They're *generally* hormonally different, and *generally* have tendencies toward certain things. That doesn't mean it's useless to examine what factors cause those tendencies, or that it's a good thing that we have self-reinforcing gender stereotypes. Examine behavior rationally - fuck this homebrew "common sense" unscientific bullshit.
And this is where you shoot yourself in the foot. Those same hormones that cause sex differentiation cause structural differences in the brain as well. Now im not saying women cant be programmers -- ive met some damn good ones -- but they are less predisposed to technical work -- and pretending something else is true because you want it to be is intellectually dishonest.
The "Super Centers" sell *EVERYTHING*. Automotive, groceries, electronics, clothes, pharmacy, housewares, furniture, tools, sports equipment, arts/crafts. Most even have optometry depts. There have been rumors for years that walmart has plans to open banks and possibly auto-dealerships (which would be good -- those industries are in DIRE need of a shakeup).
It would all be very convienant if *EVERYTHING* in there wasn't complete shit. Walmart places such tight constraints on its suppliers to provide goods at low prices that even *name brand* items may be different at walmart. Ever bought Ghiradhelli choclate? Its ok choclate at the super market, at walmart its waxy crap.
Isnt apple infamous for not accepting anything less than a 35% markup?
Ive been thinking about "switching", but when I looked at what replacing my current hardware with *like* hardware, I was horrified. A laptop configured like my current laptop was about $3200 (I paid 1500$ for mine). Desktops were more humane but still out there. I guess I cant afford yuppie-shic:)
Also, apple seems increasingly like Microsoft, with the anticompetitve behaviour (suing journalists for instance). It seems to me Apple wants to be the next Microsoft, the cluetrain hasn't made enough stops at Apple yet (read the cluetrain manifesto). Im not jumping ship on Linux for a more restrictive enviornment. I want OGG on an ipod:)
Seriously, star trek actors dont owe anyone anything. Being famous is not that great, trust me. Everyone wants to tell you what they love you, that you suck, or bask in your reflected glory. It gets OLD. You just wanna be a normal person who can goto pizza hut without a love fest from pimply teenagers.
About ~20 years ago I was (a kid) at the San Diego wild animal park. And Richard Pryor happened to be there. Everyone was nuts over him. He was in the gift shop looking at some mugs or something and everyone was running outside telling their friends to come gawk at richard pryor buying gifts. I felt so sorry for him and I was 8 at the time.
The real question is thou, does buying something popular make you popular? If i pay the prom queen for a date does that elevate my status?
I started using yahoo to use yahoo groups because yahoo swallowed egroups, and my group (and its 500 or so members) a long with it. Then once I had an account anyways I started using the messenger, the email, and now I even have yahoo MX hosting for a couple domains.
I have extensive experience with gentoo, it will not harm your HD in any way.
And as far as tweaking, to me it is noticably faster then pre-compiled distros. Its also a hell of a lot of fun to mess with. If you don't care about speed, don't have to have the latest pacakges, and don't really wanna mess around -- then use mandrake or whatever people like nowadays and dont bother.
If youre like me and you wanna control exactly what gets onto your system, you cant stand knowing your programs could be going 10% faster, then gentoo is the only choice:)
Hey let me ask you a question then -- recently I bought a product from compgeeks.com and it was 100% defective, and they would NOT take it back. I disputed the charge (online), never spoke to a human being about it, and my account was credited the money after 5 or 6 weeks. So my question is -- as someone who has worked for a CC company -- what went wrong, and why couldn't I dispute legit charges and get away with it?
Im assuming you're from a middle class family. Get a job at walmart, you will meet the most miserable people you can imagine...
Then realize that taking a year off of college raises your chances of being one of these people enormously. Seriously, poor people in this country have it *very* bad, go meet them then make your college decision.
Good advice. Of my friends who didn't immediately enroll in college after HS, not one made it to college. They all were hijacked by: kids, car payments or drugs.
The record companies could give a shit less about each other
You are completely wrong. They want P2P shut down so SONY/BMG et all are the ONLY way to buy music.
Music labels are obsolete, heres whats going to happen, itune like stores are going to start selling music from indie bands, and they will bypass the music industry all together. THAT is what they are afraid of.
Record companies know that p2p helps their sales, but it messes up their CONTROL OF THE DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL. Why would we need sony music at ALL if bands can sell their albums directly to you?
Also it takes the control of popular culture out of their hands. I recently downloaded an album from a cool south american folk/electronica band. Is that *EVER* going to be on MTV, VH1 or Clear Channel? I think Not
Are you refering to the canadians burning the white house? Isnt that pretty hotly contested? Canadians love to claim they burned the whitehouse down but I think the brits actually did it?
"Nintendo has been doing it right for a decade and half, why should we think the PSP can just waltz onto the scene and take over?"
Maybe I'm crazy, but it looks to me like Sony already has experience in the whole "beating someone after over a decade of dominance" thing.
There will *ALWAYS* be room for sony in the portables market because nintendo has very tight control over what kind of games can appear on their system. Sony basically invented the market for *adult* videogames.
Nope, but your confusion is understandable. You have to understand something -- laptops are the *NEW* desktops. I know widows and old grannies with notebook pcs -- prices have dropped RADICALLY this last year. Manufacturers need *SOMETHING* to sell at a premium to replace notebooks, They want tablets to be that thing, but I cant see taht anyone cares. The only people really excited about tablets are people who make kiosks -- its all the hardware they need for cheap (had a brief sting in the industry)
Thanks for the terrible reply. What im saying is this: Im sure someone in the 60s said, "god damnit I wish I could take my phone anywhere I go". But THAT person isn't credited as a cell phone visionary, the same way this person shouldn't be credited with being a computer visionary. How can you DESIGN something the technology doesnt exist for? Answer: You can't.
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Um,no. Thanks for drinking the free market koolaid. In my town, there is one city granted monopoly cable provider, and one city granted monopoly telephone provider, whom are the ONLY options for broadband. What about "city granted monopoly" is congruent with free market again?
Yea, but can this scale? Does grass emit toxins/bad things? (not that anyone was worried about that with oil:)
And this is where you shoot yourself in the foot. Those same hormones that cause sex differentiation cause structural differences in the brain as well. Now im not saying women cant be programmers -- ive met some damn good ones -- but they are less predisposed to technical work -- and pretending something else is true because you want it to be is intellectually dishonest.
I second this. Psyco is *great*. Unfourtantely its only for the x86 platform, although, so is the MS CLR :)
It would all be very convienant if *EVERYTHING* in there wasn't complete shit. Walmart places such tight constraints on its suppliers to provide goods at low prices that even *name brand* items may be different at walmart. Ever bought Ghiradhelli choclate? Its ok choclate at the super market, at walmart its waxy crap.
My first thought (as a diabetic) is, what a wonderful opportunity to die of an infection :)
Gotta love apple fanboys. They mod a perfectly well reasoned post down from 4 insightful to 0 troll for someone pointing out apples weakneses.
Yes. Well, my keyboard isn't backlit :) And I dont have bluetooth or DVI out, otherwise theyre spot on the same.
Ive been thinking about "switching", but when I looked at what replacing my current hardware with *like* hardware, I was horrified. A laptop configured like my current laptop was about $3200 (I paid 1500$ for mine). Desktops were more humane but still out there. I guess I cant afford yuppie-shic :)
Also, apple seems increasingly like Microsoft, with the anticompetitve behaviour (suing journalists for instance). It seems to me Apple wants to be the next Microsoft, the cluetrain hasn't made enough stops at Apple yet (read the cluetrain manifesto). Im not jumping ship on Linux for a more restrictive enviornment. I want OGG on an ipod :)
For those of us in the US, what the crap is a MEP?
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Seriously, star trek actors dont owe anyone anything. Being famous is not that great, trust me. Everyone wants to tell you what they love you, that you suck, or bask in your reflected glory. It gets OLD. You just wanna be a normal person who can goto pizza hut without a love fest from pimply teenagers.
About ~20 years ago I was (a kid) at the San Diego wild animal park. And Richard Pryor happened to be there. Everyone was nuts over him. He was in the gift shop looking at some mugs or something and everyone was running outside telling their friends to come gawk at richard pryor buying gifts. I felt so sorry for him and I was 8 at the time.
"The children have to learn about Tek Wars sooner or later."
I started using yahoo to use yahoo groups because yahoo swallowed egroups, and my group (and its 500 or so members) a long with it. Then once I had an account anyways I started using the messenger, the email, and now I even have yahoo MX hosting for a couple domains.
And as far as tweaking, to me it is noticably faster then pre-compiled distros. Its also a hell of a lot of fun to mess with. If you don't care about speed, don't have to have the latest pacakges, and don't really wanna mess around -- then use mandrake or whatever people like nowadays and dont bother.
If youre like me and you wanna control exactly what gets onto your system, you cant stand knowing your programs could be going 10% faster, then gentoo is the only choice :)
Hey let me ask you a question then -- recently I bought a product from compgeeks.com and it was 100% defective, and they would NOT take it back. I disputed the charge (online), never spoke to a human being about it, and my account was credited the money after 5 or 6 weeks. So my question is -- as someone who has worked for a CC company -- what went wrong, and why couldn't I dispute legit charges and get away with it?
Then realize that taking a year off of college raises your chances of being one of these people enormously. Seriously, poor people in this country have it *very* bad, go meet them then make your college decision.
Its college now or walmart later kid!
How could he? 15 posts and the server is toast.
You are completely wrong. They want P2P shut down so SONY/BMG et all are the ONLY way to buy music.
Music labels are obsolete, heres whats going to happen, itune like stores are going to start selling music from indie bands, and they will bypass the music industry all together. THAT is what they are afraid of.
You've been drinking the RIAA koolaid.
Also it takes the control of popular culture out of their hands. I recently downloaded an album from a cool south american folk/electronica band. Is that *EVER* going to be on MTV, VH1 or Clear Channel? I think Not
Thanks for an calm logical answer as opposed to pointless US bashing. Ive asked that question several times and only gotten canadian jingoism.
Are you refering to the canadians burning the white house? Isnt that pretty hotly contested? Canadians love to claim they burned the whitehouse down but I think the brits actually did it?
There will *ALWAYS* be room for sony in the portables market because nintendo has very tight control over what kind of games can appear on their system. Sony basically invented the market for *adult* videogames.
Nope, but your confusion is understandable. You have to understand something -- laptops are the *NEW* desktops. I know widows and old grannies with notebook pcs -- prices have dropped RADICALLY this last year. Manufacturers need *SOMETHING* to sell at a premium to replace notebooks, They want tablets to be that thing, but I cant see taht anyone cares. The only people really excited about tablets are people who make kiosks -- its all the hardware they need for cheap (had a brief sting in the industry)
Thanks for the terrible reply. What im saying is this: Im sure someone in the 60s said, "god damnit I wish I could take my phone anywhere I go". But THAT person isn't credited as a cell phone visionary, the same way this person shouldn't be credited with being a computer visionary. How can you DESIGN something the technology doesnt exist for? Answer: You can't.