I look at stuff I wouldn't buy but, for the most part, it's as valid as using purchasing history. When you're browsing through items, you tend to look at items that you're at least semi-interested in until you find the one you want. It is, after all, just a recomendation. You're still free to purchase/not purchase anything you want.
Thanks. The nex time I want to know how to pronounce a word, I'll ask the kind folks at CompuServe because they all, evidently, have master's degrees in English.
I don't care if my CD player tells on me. I love sending out user information, because I love fucking up their statistics. I don't listen to pop music. I only listen to classical and jazz (don't think I've bought an album on the pop charts in close to a decade). Anyway, if this make it easier for me to find the music I like, then that's great!. As it is I have to mail order everything.
There really isn't a big reason to be paranoid about it, they already have the biggest usage statistic they want: SALES! What more do they really care about?
Shouldn't it be the advertisers that are complaining? When they start complaining, then the networks that get money from the advertisers may want to do something, but the cable companies? They are getting paid by the consumer one way or the other! They have no reason what-so-ever to care.
Soderbergh is nowhere near the filmaker he's made out to be. He's not bad, by any means; he's just not that special. Ever since sex, lies, and videotape, the next Soderbergh film is always "going to be an instant classic", but if you look at his resume, he's got his share of crap (imdb page).
So, you want them to ship MILLIONS of lines of code so you can glance over it and say, "Oh, right here. I would have done that with a nested while loop," thereby making your assertation that the program is a lousy piece of crap regardless of how it works!
Maybe the performance of the software might have something to do with how you rate it. I'm not against making software open source, but I can't honestly say that I've heard any argument for it that made any sense. Do you also want a complete parts lists and break down of the engine theory for your car?
I assure you that NO ONE has seen ALL the source code for Excel or Word (or any other of the "too big for our own good" line of MS products).
I use mine quite heavily. If I didn't have it, I'd be late for every meeting and always referencing my text books. I also use it for leisure, dowloading the daily news and a butt load of games on it (which I then play in the meetings I would have been late for).
Wow, I wish they would have gotten this guy to write a couple episodes of the X-Files! Just reading the FAQ of this web page is better than the crap they played the last couple of seasons.
Well, they were looking for a way to do it for years (limited use media). Any code they tried was hacked in a matter of hours. So, use chemistry instead! Breaks down into a layer of jello in eight hours, leaving goo all over the inside of your DVD player. Not a lot of amatuer chemists, hacking against the man. What I don't understand is why they want to do it. The story says to see if consumers are interested in audio/visual instead of just audio. DVD-A has been around for years, and the bulk of them are audio/visual. Oh, well. Triple redundancy.
Thank you for clearing that up! That is exactly right. Problem is, with all the people ranting about the evil Sony-Man, you post will get lost in the pile.
Woa! Drilling into the Earth's core to set off and explosion to halt the reversal of the magnetic feild shift. If Jerry Bruckheimer ever heard about this . . . !
Funny, but these symptoms (except for the eye strain) are very similiar to the symptoms of lack of excercise. But, someone that sits in front of a computer screen for 10 hours a day couldn't be suffering from lack of excercise - could they?
God knows the school systems aren't! It's not a matter of sniveling, it's a matter of teaching people about science. Many people are easily swayed (especially by something they saw on TV). I saw that Fox special, too. I thought it was a hoot. I laughed my ass off. I'm rather found of conspiracy theories when it comes right down to it. But then, I discovered that people were taking it seriously. I was rather dismayed, since many of the arguments they were using was stuff they should have learned in grade school earth science! I've said it once, and I'll say it again, "God damn, kids are stupid now-a-days!"
ISP still aren't acting like real businesses. In a time when a huge chunk of the world has gotten to the point of relying on their internet account, this is rediculous. Phone companies and utilities, hell even TV cable companies, have better checks and balances before they yank your service. And a notification that the service in unavailable to people trying to access it is pretty damn easy to do.
I have had problems with most of the IPS I have tried, and I have never been late on a payment for anything! Other businesses love me (except credit cards, which want you to be late).
This case may be a little frivalous, but it will be a kick in the ass to ISPs to be more professional with their service.
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I look at stuff I wouldn't buy but, for the most part, it's as valid as using purchasing history. When you're browsing through items, you tend to look at items that you're at least semi-interested in until you find the one you want. It is, after all, just a recomendation. You're still free to purchase/not purchase anything you want.
. . . that Microsoft bought a piece of software (DOS, Excel, etc, etc).
Thanks. The nex time I want to know how to pronounce a word, I'll ask the kind folks at CompuServe because they all, evidently, have master's degrees in English.
So, the company bought everyone dinner and you're complaining about it? Throw the freakin' bobble head doll away it you want.
There really isn't a big reason to be paranoid about it, they already have the biggest usage statistic they want: SALES! What more do they really care about?
Shouldn't it be the advertisers that are complaining? When they start complaining, then the networks that get money from the advertisers may want to do something, but the cable companies? They are getting paid by the consumer one way or the other! They have no reason what-so-ever to care.
Soderbergh is nowhere near the filmaker he's made out to be. He's not bad, by any means; he's just not that special. Ever since sex, lies, and videotape, the next Soderbergh film is always "going to be an instant classic", but if you look at his resume, he's got his share of crap (imdb page).
That Mars sounds like a pretty interesting planet. Somebody should write some science fiction about it!
How do you reverse engineer a mouse?
So, there's hope for Michael Jackson yet!
So I'll just say, "pretentious" and be done with it.
Maybe the performance of the software might have something to do with how you rate it. I'm not against making software open source, but I can't honestly say that I've heard any argument for it that made any sense. Do you also want a complete parts lists and break down of the engine theory for your car?
I assure you that NO ONE has seen ALL the source code for Excel or Word (or any other of the "too big for our own good" line of MS products).
C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN
I use mine quite heavily. If I didn't have it, I'd be late for every meeting and always referencing my text books. I also use it for leisure, dowloading the daily news and a butt load of games on it (which I then play in the meetings I would have been late for).
Wow, I wish they would have gotten this guy to write a couple episodes of the X-Files! Just reading the FAQ of this web page is better than the crap they played the last couple of seasons.
Hell, who knows. This could be the best Star Wars since Empire.
Well, they were looking for a way to do it for years (limited use media). Any code they tried was hacked in a matter of hours. So, use chemistry instead! Breaks down into a layer of jello in eight hours, leaving goo all over the inside of your DVD player. Not a lot of amatuer chemists, hacking against the man.
What I don't understand is why they want to do it. The story says to see if consumers are interested in audio/visual instead of just audio. DVD-A has been around for years, and the bulk of them are audio/visual. Oh, well. Triple redundancy.
Thank you for clearing that up! That is exactly right. Problem is, with all the people ranting about the evil Sony-Man, you post will get lost in the pile.
Woa! Drilling into the Earth's core to set off and explosion to halt the reversal of the magnetic feild shift. If Jerry Bruckheimer ever heard about this . . . !
Funny, but these symptoms (except for the eye strain) are very similiar to the symptoms of lack of excercise. But, someone that sits in front of a computer screen for 10 hours a day couldn't be suffering from lack of excercise - could they?
God knows the school systems aren't! It's not a matter of sniveling, it's a matter of teaching people about science. Many people are easily swayed (especially by something they saw on TV). I saw that Fox special, too. I thought it was a hoot. I laughed my ass off. I'm rather found of conspiracy theories when it comes right down to it. But then, I discovered that people were taking it seriously. I was rather dismayed, since many of the arguments they were using was stuff they should have learned in grade school earth science! I've said it once, and I'll say it again, "God damn, kids are stupid now-a-days!"
The Silmarillion can barely be read, let alone filmed!
I have had problems with most of the IPS I have tried, and I have never been late on a payment for anything! Other businesses love me (except credit cards, which want you to be late).
This case may be a little frivalous, but it will be a kick in the ass to ISPs to be more professional with their service.
The 6 Dune novels all feature Duncan Idaho (or clones thereof).