Appliance companies do this with unique product numbers, if they are large enough.
"We'll meet or beat your best price" doesn't mean much if the model isnt' sold elsewhere.
The bottom line is that pricing of commodity items is cutthroat, evidence all the audio/video joints that have gone out of business/bankrupt in the New York area over the past 20 years.
Retail being unprofitable is just another way the fat is being cut out of the economy. It isn't a bad thing for the consumer. Unless you value service and full employment, even for the kind of dweeb that sells A/V equipment or appliances for a living.
This attitude is the reason why i'm voting Democrat next election.
There are valid uses of government regulation: one of them is the allocation of a valuable, limited resource like broadcast frequencies. It's not a right, it's a privelege and the oligarchy of media conglomerates cannot be trusted to treat it responsibly. They need to be tightly regulated.
Corporations have no ethics or morals. Enron should illustrate that, if nothing prior did to you.
Too much of a good thing is just as bad as not enough. The Republicans have shown that they will stop at nothing advancing their probusiness agenda, even to the detriment of the general public. Obviously people like me have to stop them.
Yeah, i'm a registered Republican. I listen to Limbaugh when I can. I agree with 95% of what he says. But this crap is just too much for me, and will be too much for a lot of other people.
I think the guy who wrote that was a little bit obsessed with Ronald Reagan. The event wasn't about Mr. Reagan, whatever his faults and positive points.
It was a whole shitload of common people doing something fairly cool.
Incidentally we did a 'hands across NJ' to get rid of (former Gov.) Flim Flam Florio in..1990? Yeah, something like that. It didn't get rid of him but it made for some interesting campaign commercials the next time around. He lost.
I have found the effects you describe to be highly individual to motherboards. I have a single ALI chipset P3 board that reacts badly to the Belkin switch, but the other three boards hooked to it are ok.
USB/PS/2 power levels perhaps? Do you use an external power adapter on your box?
Ehh, I don't take it very seriously. I liked the books, so I read them in detail, and this is my memory of same.
I dunno that knowing something like this qualifies you as a dork. If i were making chainmail and trying to outfit myself as a Prince of the Noldor, i'd agree with you.
The type of microphone would be important (ie, directional or omni, frequency response, spikes in response, etc).
It would be a pretty difficult enterprise to come up with a 'sensing' microphone that assured good quality from a listening location. However, I agree with you that it is technically feasible.
The speakers having decent frequency response is nice. However, having a room that is properly constructed and placing the loudspeakers where they provide the best sound stage is even more important.
All this gimmicky digital signal processing to achieve better sound won't improve things if you don't have the right kind of room, and don't have the speakers in the right places.
The right places aren't going to be readily apparent in a showroom either. It might be the corners, or it might be 1/3 the way across one wall of the room. Depends on how well bass is felt in the room.
You get hints about Sauron and Gandalf during LOTR. You know that there is something funny about both of them. Also, some of the characters know, such as Elrond, Galadriel, Aragorn and Denethor.
The Glorfindel you meet is not the same Glorfindel from Gondolin. The Eldar were not permitted to travel east from Valinor to the Havens. Only West...
Last point, the *GAMEPLAY* of a MMORPG is the plot device! If you have healing spells those fill in for what the author would have written.
Gandalf and Sauron were both Maiar, immortal beings. They both participated in the Music of Iluvatar before the beginning of the world.
Sauron was a Maia bewitched by Melkor early on. He served as his lieutenant in Endor (Middle Earth) while he was chained in Valinor for three ages. After Melkor/Morgoth was defeated at the end of the First Age, Sauron fled into Middle Earth and started some good old empire building.
Gandalf was the Maia Olorin, clothed in gray by Manwe and Varda and sent off into Middle Earth to counter the evil of Sauron, as many of the Eldar had fled. He was one of the five Istari (wizards), all immortals who took on mortal guise. He was the only one that didn't stray from his task.
Killing them was fundamentally impossible. Even Saruman didn't die. He just fled into the West and was probably cast outside of Arda...but only Manwe knows.
Humans did not come back. They were given the 'gift of Man', ie. they left the world and did not return after their death. Whereas, the Eldar *could* come back. They went to the Halls of Mandos in western Valinor upon death and could be released after a time. It is said that Finrod Felagund was released from Mandos, as were Beren and Luthien, but they were a special case that required the intervention of the Valar themselves.
The Eldar who came back from Mandos, incidentally, were not permitted to depart Valinor again.
Frodo pulled through, beside his very mortal constitution, because of the application of what you might call magic. Athelas, the miruvor of Imladris, and that bit of song that Glorfindel sang over him. All of those were attempts to arrest the progress of the shard of Morgul-blade from killing him. Eventually only Elrond fortified by Gandalf were able to locate and destroy it.
I used to do theme for a Tolkien MMORPG so...sorry for the digression.
I suppose given the choice of Oracle or MSSQL I would probably take the latter. I have SQL servers running here so I can't fault you much really, sorry for making you feel bad.
Glad you patched - that vulnerability is rotten. I know a lot of dev servers didn't get it though.
In regards Delphi - I use it personally but getting others to do so is rough. I suggest that 3rd party tools for VB are hacks to get it up to snuff, and contribute to significant instability. Also, Delphi will use OCX, etc. Still, I know what you mean about VB coders.
Even if you used Delphi you would be better off than VB...not an OSS thing but a general usability and code speed, reliability, quality dev environment thing.
SQL Server is a load of crap as well. I cannot imagine justifying it on any basis but you didn't know any better. It has some clustering capabilities that the freebies don't have, but other than that it's not worth much.
Incidentally, did you apply the Slammer patch? (otherwise known as SQL Server 2K SP3?)
As opposed to their government/court documented actual desire to grind their competition into the ground and take no prisoners. Sure, let's give the scourge of the software industry a pat on the back here and there.
Their main useful innovation in the last 3 years appear to be cloning Java and producing truly annoying copy protection schemes. Both are aimed at squeezing either a competitor or the consumer.
I'm crying a river for Microsoft. How much do they pay you, incidentally?
"Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
You could take the flip side argument and say that the greedy consumers provide Adam Smith's "invisible hand" that will increase the wealth of third world nations by siphoning money to their labor force.
I tend to think the global 'leveling' is way overdue and is only hindered by tariffs, poor education standards and violence in certain nations. The free traders have the right idea - the only thing that is going to eliminate poverty is to permit everyone, from any nation, to participate in a global economy.
When I was a kid back in the 70s I had the same thought, but things looked a lot more bleak then. I am happy that there are some success stories: look at Taiwan, South Korea, even Malaysia. Over time, I have noted that standards of living have improved in these nations. So now the next wave of industry is looking further for better labor markets. If we let this continue, eventually there will be no better labor market to go to. Meanwhile, much of the force that motivated war, famine and poverty will be also eliminated.
Timing is everything. If I am flying, I want to get there fast for some reason.
I don't want to lose my data in transit. It is not paranoid fear to expect the airline to lose my luggage. It happens _all_ the time.
You sound like you are pretty lax about this kind of thing. I can't afford to be. Neither can anyone else in a critical role. Hence, i'll take the train or drive if I can, if anything like this is implemented.
I bet that two Verizon customers going to jail for having mp3 files publically available on their computers is going to galvanize resistance just fine.
"This man faces 33 months of his life in prison for having mp3 files on his computer. Corporate greed cost him almost three years of his life. Isn't this the land of the free anymore? Contact your lawmaker at XXX-XXX-XXXX to let him/her know how you feel."
I'm sure you could find someone with that radio voice who would make it sound good too.
Watch how fast the labels get crushed when they go after Everyman.
There is only so far this kind of thing goes before politics takes over. Note that they try to scare you without actually doing anything. There is a reason for this.
I'm salivating for the first _real_ martyrs in this cause. It's how we are going to win - they know it, we know it, it's just a wait for when they will feel compelled to overplay their hands.
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Appliance companies do this with unique product numbers, if they are large enough.
"We'll meet or beat your best price" doesn't mean much if the model isnt' sold elsewhere.
The bottom line is that pricing of commodity items is cutthroat, evidence all the audio/video joints that have gone out of business/bankrupt in the New York area over the past 20 years.
Retail being unprofitable is just another way the fat is being cut out of the economy. It isn't a bad thing for the consumer. Unless you value service and full employment, even for the kind of dweeb that sells A/V equipment or appliances for a living.
You obviously don't know much about Enron.
Google about energy trades and the California mess. Yes, Enron was neck-deep in that too.
It was systemic, arguably criminal intent that pervaded the entire organization. They went down because they should have, fucking scumbags they were.
Holding up Enron's honest janitor as a straw man is also bullshit. You're a flaming asshole!
This attitude is the reason why i'm voting Democrat next election.
There are valid uses of government regulation: one of them is the allocation of a valuable, limited resource like broadcast frequencies. It's not a right, it's a privelege and the oligarchy of media conglomerates cannot be trusted to treat it responsibly. They need to be tightly regulated.
Corporations have no ethics or morals. Enron should illustrate that, if nothing prior did to you.
Too much of a good thing is just as bad as not enough. The Republicans have shown that they will stop at nothing advancing their probusiness agenda, even to the detriment of the general public. Obviously people like me have to stop them.
Yeah, i'm a registered Republican. I listen to Limbaugh when I can. I agree with 95% of what he says. But this crap is just too much for me, and will be too much for a lot of other people.
I think the guy who wrote that was a little bit obsessed with Ronald Reagan. The event wasn't about Mr. Reagan, whatever his faults and positive points.
..1990? Yeah, something like that. It didn't get rid of him but it made for some interesting campaign commercials the next time around. He lost.
It was a whole shitload of common people doing something fairly cool.
Incidentally we did a 'hands across NJ' to get rid of (former Gov.) Flim Flam Florio in
Microsoft really needs to get its shit together on PR.
I have found the effects you describe to be highly individual to motherboards. I have a single ALI chipset P3 board that reacts badly to the Belkin switch, but the other three boards hooked to it are ok.
USB/PS/2 power levels perhaps? Do you use an external power adapter on your box?
Ehh, I don't take it very seriously. I liked the books, so I read them in detail, and this is my memory of same.
I dunno that knowing something like this qualifies you as a dork. If i were making chainmail and trying to outfit myself as a Prince of the Noldor, i'd agree with you.
The type of microphone would be important (ie, directional or omni, frequency response, spikes in response, etc).
It would be a pretty difficult enterprise to come up with a 'sensing' microphone that assured good quality from a listening location. However, I agree with you that it is technically feasible.
Good point.
The speakers having decent frequency response is nice. However, having a room that is properly constructed and placing the loudspeakers where they provide the best sound stage is even more important.
All this gimmicky digital signal processing to achieve better sound won't improve things if you don't have the right kind of room, and don't have the speakers in the right places.
The right places aren't going to be readily apparent in a showroom either. It might be the corners, or it might be 1/3 the way across one wall of the room. Depends on how well bass is felt in the room.
You get hints about Sauron and Gandalf during LOTR. You know that there is something funny about both of them. Also, some of the characters know, such as Elrond, Galadriel, Aragorn and Denethor.
The Glorfindel you meet is not the same Glorfindel from Gondolin. The Eldar were not permitted to travel east from Valinor to the Havens. Only West...
Last point, the *GAMEPLAY* of a MMORPG is the plot device! If you have healing spells those fill in for what the author would have written.
Gandalf and Sauron were both Maiar, immortal beings. They both participated in the Music of Iluvatar before the beginning of the world.
...sorry for the digression.
Sauron was a Maia bewitched by Melkor early on. He served as his lieutenant in Endor (Middle Earth) while he was chained in Valinor for three ages. After Melkor/Morgoth was defeated at the end of the First Age, Sauron fled into Middle Earth and started some good old empire building.
Gandalf was the Maia Olorin, clothed in gray by Manwe and Varda and sent off into Middle Earth to counter the evil of Sauron, as many of the Eldar had fled. He was one of the five Istari (wizards), all immortals who took on mortal guise. He was the only one that didn't stray from his task.
Killing them was fundamentally impossible. Even Saruman didn't die. He just fled into the West and was probably cast outside of Arda...but only Manwe knows.
Humans did not come back. They were given the 'gift of Man', ie. they left the world and did not return after their death. Whereas, the Eldar *could* come back. They went to the Halls of Mandos in western Valinor upon death and could be released after a time. It is said that Finrod Felagund was released from Mandos, as were Beren and Luthien, but they were a special case that required the intervention of the Valar themselves.
The Eldar who came back from Mandos, incidentally, were not permitted to depart Valinor again.
Frodo pulled through, beside his very mortal constitution, because of the application of what you might call magic. Athelas, the miruvor of Imladris, and that bit of song that Glorfindel sang over him. All of those were attempts to arrest the progress of the shard of Morgul-blade from killing him. Eventually only Elrond fortified by Gandalf were able to locate and destroy it.
I used to do theme for a Tolkien MMORPG so
I suppose given the choice of Oracle or MSSQL I would probably take the latter. I have SQL servers running here so I can't fault you much really, sorry for making you feel bad.
Glad you patched - that vulnerability is rotten. I know a lot of dev servers didn't get it though.
In regards Delphi - I use it personally but getting others to do so is rough. I suggest that 3rd party tools for VB are hacks to get it up to snuff, and contribute to significant instability. Also, Delphi will use OCX, etc. Still, I know what you mean about VB coders.
You were gracious, great job.
Even if you used Delphi you would be better off than VB...not an OSS thing but a general usability and code speed, reliability, quality dev environment thing.
SQL Server is a load of crap as well. I cannot imagine justifying it on any basis but you didn't know any better. It has some clustering capabilities that the freebies don't have, but other than that it's not worth much.
Incidentally, did you apply the Slammer patch? (otherwise known as SQL Server 2K SP3?)
As opposed to their government/court documented actual desire to grind their competition into the ground and take no prisoners. Sure, let's give the scourge of the software industry a pat on the back here and there.
Their main useful innovation in the last 3 years appear to be cloning Java and producing truly annoying copy protection schemes. Both are aimed at squeezing either a competitor or the consumer.
I'm crying a river for Microsoft. How much do they pay you, incidentally?
"Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
- Winston Churchill
And so it is with Open Source.
Everything doesn't go through a tcp/ip stack.
Are you using DRI?
If you were, you'd probably not be complaining about performance.
You might want to consider compiling Xfree86 + DRI modules for your arch also.
You could take the flip side argument and say that the greedy consumers provide Adam Smith's "invisible hand" that will increase the wealth of third world nations by siphoning money to their labor force.
I tend to think the global 'leveling' is way overdue and is only hindered by tariffs, poor education standards and violence in certain nations. The free traders have the right idea - the only thing that is going to eliminate poverty is to permit everyone, from any nation, to participate in a global economy.
When I was a kid back in the 70s I had the same thought, but things looked a lot more bleak then. I am happy that there are some success stories: look at Taiwan, South Korea, even Malaysia. Over time, I have noted that standards of living have improved in these nations. So now the next wave of industry is looking further for better labor markets. If we let this continue, eventually there will be no better labor market to go to. Meanwhile, much of the force that motivated war, famine and poverty will be also eliminated.
Holy crap, I thought I was the only one that remembered those brain things from UW2.
:-)
They flipped your point of view around and made everything go fuzzy, scary as hell, particularly if you hadn't saved recently.
No, just intolerant of luddite bullshit.
You may like being sheeple. Your call. I won't fly if there is more bullshit. It's bad enough that I get the third degree over insulin needles.
Timing is everything. If I am flying, I want to get there fast for some reason.
I don't want to lose my data in transit. It is not paranoid fear to expect the airline to lose my luggage. It happens _all_ the time.
You sound like you are pretty lax about this kind of thing. I can't afford to be. Neither can anyone else in a critical role. Hence, i'll take the train or drive if I can, if anything like this is implemented.
Argue with reality all you want.
Guess again. :-)
/. too.
My employment has been rather stable since the downturn. Even flipped a job twice and got some additional benefits (salary is stable).
Quality skills and the ability to spell have done wonders for me. Maybe they can help other people on
I am not responsible for your luddite tendencies.
If the stuff is switched off you shouldn't have any issue. Furthermore, my computer is no impact to you. I don't even use a cell phone normally.
I won't fly if they make me check my electronics.
The data is more important than the flight, in nearly every case.
If you want to make more airlines go bankrupt, go ahead, make more draconian rules. I already avoid at least half of the flight I used to make.
I bet that two Verizon customers going to jail for having mp3 files publically available on their computers is going to galvanize resistance just fine.
"This man faces 33 months of his life in prison for having mp3 files on his computer. Corporate greed cost him almost three years of his life. Isn't this the land of the free anymore? Contact your lawmaker at XXX-XXX-XXXX to let him/her know how you feel."
I'm sure you could find someone with that radio voice who would make it sound good too.
I would personally LOVE to see this.
Watch how fast the labels get crushed when they go after Everyman.
There is only so far this kind of thing goes before politics takes over. Note that they try to scare you without actually doing anything. There is a reason for this.
I'm salivating for the first _real_ martyrs in this cause. It's how we are going to win - they know it, we know it, it's just a wait for when they will feel compelled to overplay their hands.