That's what I want to know: did Dynamism.com pay Slate for this infomercial, or did they just pay the "journalist" directly?
So the Japanese are a trendy people in a crowded country? That's news? Here's some more news: Americans are big cowboy-looking folks, constantly pioneering the next frontier. Brits keep a stiff upper lip, and they have to, too, because their food is so horrid! Germans are big on punctuality and order....
Here's some more news: you read Slate, so clearly you're not up to buying a laptop in Japan or on eBay, and figuring out where to get the right drivers! Oh no! You read Slate, you use Microsoft OSes, and you need your hand held when it comes to those daunting techie questions!
That's why it's so much MORE cost effective for you to PAY 30% ABOVE RETAIL for Dynamism.com to take care of it for you. After all, those trendy Japanese will pay almost anything to get it one inch smaller! Aren't YOU that trendy? You're not a LOSER are you? Prove it by giving Dynamism.com $500 bucks for installing an OS and shipping Airmail from Japan. Did we mention that all the cool kids get their toys at Dynamism.com?
By the way, it's Dynamism.com. Did we mention Dynamism.com?
Admittedly, the author concludes he won't pay the mark-up, so I'm probably going overboard. But I don't buy the pop-sociology, and it still reads like an infomercial.
There's a reason it wouldn't work: it's bad advice to alienate your customers, or to tell them, without any real explanation, "We don't allow that here".
Hell, if I'd followed my ISP's advice, I'd never have gotten my DSL working. My ISP's co-branded IP-over-Ethernet would do little more than trash my system. To add insult to injury, it was set up so that I had to manually start it (to prevent me from staying on too long or too often); when I did so, it kept open a window with the ISP's logo and "welcomed" me with James Earl Jones's bass voice (any guesses who my ISP is?).
Fortunately, I found a piece of freeware off the internet that did everything their co-branded piece of crap didn't, and did so unobtrusively and with a smaller memory footprint. Nor did it require six hours on the phone with customer service, installing and "nuking" it and installing it again, to make it work. (Note: if software comes with an elaborate uninstall called "nuke" that wants to play hob with your system settings ad nauseum, you need to start worrying right there. It's a good indication you're not the first person who had needed to remove it, and had trouble even getting it to die cleanly.)
But to get back to your point, presumably somebody could have claimed I violated the TOS by using unathorized software. Admittedly, I knew full well that going my own way meant doing my own troubleshooting (which is why I did enough research to convince me that the freeware worked well), and I did not and would not have bothered customer service about it. But had I been told I couldn't use it, I'd have gone with another ISP. Immediately.
Kazaa weighs in as a heavy weight of spyware/adware installing
applications. It installs two pieces of spyware without consent.
New.net Domains
Filters all web address requests through the DNS servers of New.net.
This program can cause your internet connectivity stop altogether.
The New.Net plugin is known to cause compatability problems with some other products. Leaves a new.net.dll file on your computer which may interfere with your Internet connection after removing the program
In the unlikely event that your implementation can allocate an automatic variable of 2,646,000 * sizeof( short ) bytes, those bytes are not initialized to any particular value, but have whatever "random" values are left over on the stack or whatever else you implemenation uses to allocate automatics. Did you mean to declare array silence at global scope?
Perhaps your composition might better be entitled "White Noise"; "Silence" it clearly is NOT.
PS: Perhaps you also meant your subject line to be "I'll write your copy?"
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That's what I want to know: did Dynamism.com pay Slate for this infomercial, or did they just pay the "journalist" directly?
So the Japanese are a trendy people in a crowded country? That's news? Here's some more news: Americans are big cowboy-looking folks, constantly pioneering the next frontier. Brits keep a stiff upper lip, and they have to, too, because their food is so horrid! Germans are big on punctuality and order....
Here's some more news: you read Slate, so clearly you're not up to buying a laptop in Japan or on eBay, and figuring out where to get the right drivers! Oh no! You read Slate, you use Microsoft OSes, and you need your hand held when it comes to those daunting techie questions!
That's why it's so much MORE cost effective for you to PAY 30% ABOVE RETAIL for Dynamism.com to take care of it for you. After all, those trendy Japanese will pay almost anything to get it one inch smaller! Aren't YOU that trendy? You're not a LOSER are you? Prove it by giving Dynamism.com $500 bucks for installing an OS and shipping Airmail from Japan. Did we mention that all the cool kids get their toys at Dynamism.com?
By the way, it's Dynamism.com. Did we mention Dynamism.com?
Admittedly, the author concludes he won't pay the mark-up, so I'm probably going overboard. But I don't buy the pop-sociology, and it still reads like an infomercial.
There's a reason it wouldn't work: it's bad advice to alienate your customers, or to tell them, without any real explanation, "We don't allow that here".
Hell, if I'd followed my ISP's advice, I'd never have gotten my DSL working. My ISP's co-branded IP-over-Ethernet would do little more than trash my system. To add insult to injury, it was set up so that I had to manually start it (to prevent me from staying on too long or too often); when I did so, it kept open a window with the ISP's logo and "welcomed" me with James Earl Jones's bass voice (any guesses who my ISP is?).
Fortunately, I found a piece of freeware off the internet that did everything their co-branded piece of crap didn't, and did so unobtrusively and with a smaller memory footprint. Nor did it require six hours on the phone with customer service, installing and "nuking" it and installing it again, to make it work. (Note: if software comes with an elaborate uninstall called "nuke" that wants to play hob with your system settings ad nauseum, you need to start worrying right there. It's a good indication you're not the first person who had needed to remove it, and had trouble even getting it to die cleanly.)
But to get back to your point, presumably somebody could have claimed I violated the TOS by using unathorized software. Admittedly, I knew full well that going my own way meant doing my own troubleshooting (which is why I did enough research to convince me that the freeware worked well), and I did not and would not have bothered customer service about it. But had I been told I couldn't use it, I'd have gone with another ISP. Immediately.
You're right, I missed the memset.
Thanks for correcting me. I'm even more embarrassed I missed the void return.
The array silence is declarced at local scope.
In the unlikely event that your implementation can allocate an automatic variable of 2,646,000 * sizeof( short ) bytes, those bytes are not initialized to any particular value, but have whatever "random" values are left over on the stack or whatever else you implemenation uses to allocate automatics. Did you mean to declare array silence at global scope?
Perhaps your composition might better be entitled "White Noise"; "Silence" it clearly is NOT.
PS: Perhaps you also meant your subject line to be "I'll write your copy?"
Why does this sound like something straight out of the Cultural Revolution? I'm not criticizing, it just struck me.