On the other hand, if say I create a sword that hides inside a cane and market it as "the Lady Killer", saying "this product is perfect for killing women, its patented design makes it easy to slip the blade between a woman's 4th and 5th vertebra, and its fingerproof handle makes sure the police won't catch you!" It would be pretty hard to argue that I should be completely in the clear.
You know.. this reminds me, I think it was an HK or S&W (i'm not a gun guy) shirt that I saw some guy wearing, I think it had a profile picture of an M16-A1 I think on it and it had the caption of "Revenge has never been so easy" or something like that... I'd say that's about on par with your sword advertisement. Now I initially had a point behind posting this...
Panther Mail had a bad habit of bonging when there was no new mail...false alarm thing. It should only bong when new mail comes in (not deleted junk, etc.).
Personally, i've begun to experience an issue lately where if I try to tag an email as junk/not junk it crashes Mail.app. Which really bugs me, i'm praying that this does not happen after this update.
They then transferred me to one of their "retention specialists", or somesuch, and gave me a killer deal on a new Sidekick to stick with them for another year.
What do you think of that sidekick? Verizon is leading in the race for my business due to their coverage area.. but I hate my 2way pager that I carry for work, so i'd like to get a phone that would be good for email and 2way type messaging, and the sidekick looks like it would excel in that aspect.. (now of course if the coverage sucks then it doesn't matter if it has a keypad, but i'm still entertaining the idea:) )
The whole thing is a scam. Unless companies allow you to go month by month, you can't switch b/c their service is bad. Seriously, how many people had the opportunity to switch, but would not b/c they would lose their number.
Why exactly do you say that this is a scam? It doesn't seem like one to me, i'm not going to get screwed when I leave my current carrier that i've been with for 6 years for someone else. The only thing that's going to happen to me, is i'll probably get better service... I wish more scams had effects like that.
I'm the guy you're talking about, though, I've had millions of 'opportunities' (more like urges) to switch carriers due to insufficient coverage and piss poor customer support. Sometimes it's good, but often enough it sucks, so I want to switch to someone new. Why did I put up with it you ask? Because 4 years into my service when I started shopping around, I had already given my number to several people and I didn't want to have to either A) Call several people and update my number with them, or B) Say fuck 'em, i'm switching. Now that number portability is available, I'm jumping ship after the hollidays (and after my bankroll recoups from the holidays).
Just as a sidenote... does anyone have any suggestions as far as carriers that you've noticed that have above average coverage? Or customer support? My girlfriend has T-Mobile, and while the coverage isn't always top notch, she will never run out of good things to say about their customer support.. I myself have Verizon at the top of my list as far as potential carriers to switch over to, they seem to have some of the best coverage maps i've seen, and their customer service at their stores seems outstanding... Any opinions?
I buy used DVDs at around $10-$15 Canadian, or the price of two to three rentals. So, if I watch the movie more than three times before the media fails, I've saved money, right?
That's how I do it.. If I know i'm going to enjoy a movie and watch it a few times, with rentals being damned near 6 bucks now, I'll just buy it, I watch it 3 times and save money...
In my brand new Honda Accord, I came out to the cold Canadian air last week, pressed the button on my key to open the door, and All I heard was a faint thudding click. It seemed the locking mechanism was a tad frozen ( it was -26c that night).
My parents had one of these when I was a kid, I don't remember much about it, but so far as I can remember their old 745i graymarket BMW had heated door handles.. You'd think that if they're going to be selling cars in a colder climate with no manual mechinism to force the lock open, they could maybe extend this heated doorhandles idea to the locking mechinism? Kind of like the way auto start works.. you hit a button and your car warms up for 10 minutes then shuts off.. Maybe they should add to the 'disarm' on the remote that the locking mechanism has a heater that's switched on for 5 minutes or so and shuts off after the time limit or the car is start.. seems like a simple enough fix to me, why don't these people take this stuff into consideration?
A couple of points here... First off i'd like to say that I love Best Buy, a lot, I buy everything there along the lines of CDs, DVDs, and video games/systems.. just got a new TV there... A Sony VAIO for the girlfriend, etc... I dig the place for things like that. However, I would like to say that I hope they lose this just to put the DMCA on the spot...
There isn't a problem, and it probably isn't necessary. It's still interesting to see that the RIAA managed to get this one in to cover their asses just in case someone tries to use the law against them. It really goes to show you who makes the laws in this country.
I agree that this line probably is a totally unnecessary addition, but I don't see any evidence that it was put there by the RIAA or MPAA or any other such AA, it doesn't say "The RIAA and MPAA will be able to write you, this does not go for any other copyright holders" so it protects ALL copyright holders equally (even though this isn't even ABOUT copyright, it's about spam, so it's stupid that it's even mentioned IMO)
I don't think I see anything wrong with the section in question in regards to copyright holders being able to contact you... It makes sense to me.. They're just saying "If you're stealing from someone, they can contact you and tell you to stop without being sued for it". Then again, I don't see such a message as spam, seeing as how they're not trying to sell me anything or scam me, so it's probably redundant and unnecessary that it's in there anyways. They're just trying to keep people from trying to weasel out of being contacted by saying "ooh, no, you spammed me, you're not going to sue me, i'm going to sue YOU!" which would be bullshit anyways. That's just my take on it though.. I could be way off base.
What the hell kind of soccer mom is going to be using a dual-head setup anyway? Oh yeah, none. Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. If her computer came w/ linux pre-installed she wouldn't have any problems.
You're probably right, there probably won't be (m)any soccer mom types with dual head setups.. but for the ones that do exist, it should be as easy as plugging it in in order to get a wider desktop acceptance of linux.. I want to be able to plug in my PDA or digital camera or whatnot and just have it work like in OS X or Windows..
I use linux as my desktop station at work, and I can get this stuff working, but for the people who have less of a clue, those are the people that need to be catered to if anyone wants linux to get the userbase of the other OSs.
I don't think it's 'funny' exactly, but I remember one night when we checked into our room at the Excalibur, looking out the window for a minute I saw that the giant screen above the MGM Grand was blue screen'd.
SCO just doesn't know when to stop. To show how ludicrous they are, make a timeline in your head of all the SCO threats. Also, a list of every company/non-profit organization SCO has threatened would be an added bonus. To get started, do a query. Hell, a compilation of all SCO threats made this year would be even better.
Heh, I wonder how long it'll be until we see a map like this on thinkgeek. They'd probably sell like hotcakes especially if they donate every penny made from the charts to the fight against SCO huh?
Hahaha, damnit, I'd originally put $4k, whoops! good catch.. And here I was saying -he- got ripped of, shit man, I would have paid almost $4million above cost!
Try again. Panther retail is $129.99. The low end retail panther server version is $499.
Oh well so he's comparing the price tag of WinXP Pro to OS X -server-, yeah, that's a good comparison. Well, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to bend the numbers to your favor when you're trying to bash an OS on slashdot. Next time try comparing the home OS to the home OS and the server OS to the server OS.
Let's try this again:
Windows XP Pro: $299
Windows XP Home: $199
Mac OS X Home: $129
Windows XP Server: $999 - $3,999k
Mac OS X Server: $499
As others pointed out, this is likely a strategy by Apple to sell more iPods that are now "compatible".
As others have also pointed out, it seems that the newer iPods all ship with software to format an iPod so that a Windows machine will recognize it (I understand that this software is also downloadable from apple.com?).. So I don't see this as a stunt to sell more units.
And yeah, as you stated, there's some software that allows Mac only iPods to run on windows, I can't vouche for how stable that software is compared to iTunes, nor can I vouche for any of the other specifics, so i'll just leave it at the fact that there's a Mac iPod, and a Windows iPod, so pick the one that best suits you.
It is very much like using the *Mac-only* iPod on Windows is not supported.
Yeah, no shit huh.. I've got a flawless solution.. Buy the correct iPod for that platform n' quit yer bitching. Of course Apple's not going to support a MAC iPod screwing up on a Windows machine.. They released separate iPods for a reason n' all.
Boy did YOU get ripped off... Exactly how do you figure it at 500 bucks for 10.3? My copy was only $130^H^H^H400, wanna buy a few copies off of me at a discount?
I think putting money on SCO suing anybody probably is good bet.
I think i'll put my money on the fact that once this is all over, Darl will pull back his face to reveal that it was really Dr. Evil at the helm the entire time.
Ummm... You seem to forget that striking workers do not BLOCK the entrance to a store, they merely pickett in front of the store and encourage people not to enter. The hacker analogy would be more akin to anti-abortion protestors violently blocking/preventing entrance to a clinic, which is, BTW, illegal.
Yeah but that's why I put the ":)" after the post, it was a joke:P
Then again.. you've gotta admit, it was a -far- better analogy than most of the ones you see around here:)
Well, it's more like a big store than a house; And the hackers are effectively (and deliberately) blocking the entrance to the store for paying customers. It doesn't matter what means they use to achieve this effect.
So if blocking a big store is like hacking.. and hackers are terrorists... All those grocery store employees striking here in California are terrorists!?
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You know.. this reminds me, I think it was an HK or S&W (i'm not a gun guy) shirt that I saw some guy wearing, I think it had a profile picture of an M16-A1 I think on it and it had the caption of "Revenge has never been so easy" or something like that... I'd say that's about on par with your sword advertisement. Now I initially had a point behind posting this...
-matt
Personally, i've begun to experience an issue lately where if I try to tag an email as junk/not junk it crashes Mail.app. Which really bugs me, i'm praying that this does not happen after this update.
-matt
Looks like it's time for a KY Wrestling Match?
-matt
What do you think of that sidekick? Verizon is leading in the race for my business due to their coverage area.. but I hate my 2way pager that I carry for work, so i'd like to get a phone that would be good for email and 2way type messaging, and the sidekick looks like it would excel in that aspect.. (now of course if the coverage sucks then it doesn't matter if it has a keypad, but i'm still entertaining the idea:) )
-matt
Why exactly do you say that this is a scam? It doesn't seem like one to me, i'm not going to get screwed when I leave my current carrier that i've been with for 6 years for someone else. The only thing that's going to happen to me, is i'll probably get better service... I wish more scams had effects like that.
I'm the guy you're talking about, though, I've had millions of 'opportunities' (more like urges) to switch carriers due to insufficient coverage and piss poor customer support. Sometimes it's good, but often enough it sucks, so I want to switch to someone new. Why did I put up with it you ask? Because 4 years into my service when I started shopping around, I had already given my number to several people and I didn't want to have to either A) Call several people and update my number with them, or B) Say fuck 'em, i'm switching. Now that number portability is available, I'm jumping ship after the hollidays (and after my bankroll recoups from the holidays).
Just as a sidenote... does anyone have any suggestions as far as carriers that you've noticed that have above average coverage? Or customer support? My girlfriend has T-Mobile, and while the coverage isn't always top notch, she will never run out of good things to say about their customer support.. I myself have Verizon at the top of my list as far as potential carriers to switch over to, they seem to have some of the best coverage maps i've seen, and their customer service at their stores seems outstanding... Any opinions?
-matt
That's how I do it.. If I know i'm going to enjoy a movie and watch it a few times, with rentals being damned near 6 bucks now, I'll just buy it, I watch it 3 times and save money...
-matt
My parents had one of these when I was a kid, I don't remember much about it, but so far as I can remember their old 745i graymarket BMW had heated door handles.. You'd think that if they're going to be selling cars in a colder climate with no manual mechinism to force the lock open, they could maybe extend this heated doorhandles idea to the locking mechinism? Kind of like the way auto start works.. you hit a button and your car warms up for 10 minutes then shuts off.. Maybe they should add to the 'disarm' on the remote that the locking mechanism has a heater that's switched on for 5 minutes or so and shuts off after the time limit or the car is start.. seems like a simple enough fix to me, why don't these people take this stuff into consideration?
-matt
-matt
Hey now, the mafia has way more class/talent/brains/whatever than McBride, that was taking it too far!
-matt
I agree that this line probably is a totally unnecessary addition, but I don't see any evidence that it was put there by the RIAA or MPAA or any other such AA, it doesn't say "The RIAA and MPAA will be able to write you, this does not go for any other copyright holders" so it protects ALL copyright holders equally (even though this isn't even ABOUT copyright, it's about spam, so it's stupid that it's even mentioned IMO)
-matt
-matt
You're probably right, there probably won't be (m)any soccer mom types with dual head setups.. but for the ones that do exist, it should be as easy as plugging it in in order to get a wider desktop acceptance of linux.. I want to be able to plug in my PDA or digital camera or whatnot and just have it work like in OS X or Windows..
I use linux as my desktop station at work, and I can get this stuff working, but for the people who have less of a clue, those are the people that need to be catered to if anyone wants linux to get the userbase of the other OSs.
-matt
-matt
Heh, I wonder how long it'll be until we see a map like this on thinkgeek. They'd probably sell like hotcakes especially if they donate every penny made from the charts to the fight against SCO huh?
-matt
Hell, either that or some kind of AWARD. :)
-matt
Hahaha, damnit, I'd originally put $4k, whoops! good catch.. And here I was saying -he- got ripped of, shit man, I would have paid almost $4million above cost!
-matt
I liked how a friend of mine once put it... "They used to call me a geek and a nerd, now they call me Boss or Sir." hehehe
-matt
Oh well so he's comparing the price tag of WinXP Pro to OS X -server-, yeah, that's a good comparison. Well, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to bend the numbers to your favor when you're trying to bash an OS on slashdot. Next time try comparing the home OS to the home OS and the server OS to the server OS.
Let's try this again:
Windows XP Pro: $299
Windows XP Home: $199
Mac OS X Home: $129
Windows XP Server: $999 - $3,999k
Mac OS X Server: $499
So uhh, exactly where were the savings again?
-matt
As others have also pointed out, it seems that the newer iPods all ship with software to format an iPod so that a Windows machine will recognize it (I understand that this software is also downloadable from apple.com?).. So I don't see this as a stunt to sell more units.
And yeah, as you stated, there's some software that allows Mac only iPods to run on windows, I can't vouche for how stable that software is compared to iTunes, nor can I vouche for any of the other specifics, so i'll just leave it at the fact that there's a Mac iPod, and a Windows iPod, so pick the one that best suits you.
-matt
Yeah, no shit huh.. I've got a flawless solution.. Buy the correct iPod for that platform n' quit yer bitching. Of course Apple's not going to support a MAC iPod screwing up on a Windows machine.. They released separate iPods for a reason n' all.
-matt
Boy did YOU get ripped off... Exactly how do you figure it at 500 bucks for 10.3? My copy was only $130^H^H^H400, wanna buy a few copies off of me at a discount?
-matt
I think i'll put my money on the fact that once this is all over, Darl will pull back his face to reveal that it was really Dr. Evil at the helm the entire time.
-matt
-matt
Yeah but that's why I put the ":)" after the post, it was a joke :P
Then again.. you've gotta admit, it was a -far- better analogy than most of the ones you see around here :)
-matt
So if blocking a big store is like hacking.. and hackers are terrorists... All those grocery store employees striking here in California are terrorists!?
:)
-matt