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Chances are the item was not listed on sale but it was listed next to items on sale or in the "sale" catalog. Since the iPod is a great seller and could be considered a draw item, they want people to know at every chance that they sell it. In this case it happens to be a sale listing promotion and so the poster was duped by the ambiguity. Although, I do not think that the "low" pricing is what the retailer was trying to get across and therfore I do not think the retailer is really to blame here for being dishonest. As I said earlier, they just want to make sure everyone knows they sell these things.
Yeah maybe, but the difference between the Gamecube (including all other consoles) is that the price is fixed because they lose money on the things (they make it up in game sales) and deep discounts could cause future pricing problems. ie; You become used to discounted consoles and then the next one to come out needs to be priced lower then before, thereby losing the console mfg even more money (and potentially sales). With regards to the iPod, Apple is making a fortune selling these things and if you read the article linked off of today's mac rumors you will see that they chose to come out with a Windows version of iTunes despite knowing that they would sell less macs simply because the iPods make them that much money. All said, I think price fixing is dishonest in all circumstances (unfortunately not illegal in these cases) but to varying degrees. In this case Apple is further in the wrong in my book.
Disclaimer: I am a mac user, this is not flamebait...
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from the deployment of 65,000 smart cards (let's see, at $50 a piece, that comes to....?)
Where does the $50 figure come from? I have two of them in my wallet (AE and Fleet Fusion) and two readers (useless on a mac) that retail for $29.99 a pop that I got for free being that I was an "early adopter". So where does that $50 really come from? And yes, I read the story, I just want to have a better handle on why someone supposedly "in the know" would trow out a figure like that for a quantity purchase of 65,000.
To rig an election like that (actually fudging the paper ballots) you need to do it on such a scale to make a difference that enough people would see it and it would become clear it was systemic. Keep in mind, the machine is not going to know who will be dilligent as to look at their ballot and who will not be. It will just randomly fudge ballots.
Hopefully they will be as impartial through the use of automation, which is where google gets it's impartiality from. The more important thing here is this may push google to drop the "our news site is an experimental beta test which can be dropped at any time" attitude and start to really pour some resources in. One thing about competition is that it will help hone the product and google's news site has not really changed since it's inception a while back. I was hoping for some interface tweaks and other enhancements that could make it the killer web app.
I believe you are refering to the security DRM that they were placing on documents. AFAIK that is an optional feature that your friends would have to enable. The likelihood of your friends using that feature is small. It is more for big co's and other folk wanting to limit leaks of documents. ie; those with something to hide...
Now do you or your friends have anything to hide... ;-)
Hmm, a millenium bug, how do they look like? Well as always I turned to a trusty friend, Google, and after some time searching I had a nice collection of images on bugs, insects and other nasty stuff. None of which really looked like the one I had a mental picture of though.
Apparently he picked the Dung beetle to use as his inspiration...
If you understood my point you would have realized that I was saying that this is not a surprise they would do something like this, not that it was above board. However, nor do I believe it is Apple trying to dominate it's competition. They do not enjoy the numbers MS has nor do they have a direct vested interest in seeing MM not sell to their iPod customers since, as I stated, the two formats are incompatible. Their immediate and most pressing issue is trying to get MM out of the picture since the software is fucking horrid and it does have such limitations (relatively speaking) surrounding the DRM formats.
Their long term interests revolve around when they make the decision to license AAC or if they decide they will leverage iTunes to sell iPods. I think the latter would not make good business sense and they will continue to ride the fringe if they go that route. Either way, there was no vested competitive interest in the decision they made. It was highly targeted and if MS had done it I may even have given them a pass. The thing with MS doing it is that history has shown they would not have stopped there. Also, it would have to be looked at through the prism of a monopolist leveraging ill gotten gains and that changes everything, both legally and morally.
...then it only affects using MM to access the iPod and not totally disabling MM. Now MM sells music using WMA format which is incompatible with the iPod. There is no conspiracy here since the MM service is totally incompatible with the iPod and since disabling access to the iPod from within MM does nothing to lose the std mp3 files I am figuring this is just apple's way of simplifying the process of users "switching" (pun intended) to iTunes without having people utterly confused.
This is classic Apple (as I type this from my 15" TiBook) and lets face it. Apple is used to controlling the environment it is in (why the hell freezing over joke was less of a joke than outsiders realize) and this only smacks of something any Apple user has known since they became an Apple user. That Apple takes care of the hard part and doesn't leave much control to the end user as a result. ie; It just works...
FYI: I like that as much as I like the exact opposite with Linux, which I run on multilple machines so the above was not a dig.
Really? I got an email from red hat threatening to take me to collection for non payment. I had not even gotten one other communication, snail or email, from them preceeding this (I check my junk mail and save every piece of it, in part, for this very reason). I call up and uncharacteristically don't blow my top but ask if they have been having billing issues. Turns out that I did owe them money, a cc had expired on an auto rebill, but he did acknowledge that I did not know about it and that they had taken their system offline for over two months (for an upgrade... hmmm) and the system just picked up from where it believed it should be at that point and not from where it had left off. Businesses don't need crap like that.
I am really glad to have an alternative to RH in this space. Linux is about alternatives and there have not been viable ones for some time in the Business space in linux. This should help and I can assure you in a year when I plan on upgrading, I will be checking out SuSe.
Thanks. Developer makes sense since they have a new IDE and new gcc in this version. I planned on killing that off myself before hand as well and I leave all source code in my user dir anyhow.
To add to this after reading the attached comments to the above parent, does doing an "Archive and Install" wipe out anything outside of the System folder? ie; things in the Apps folder (outside of upgrading programs...) or things in folders outside the std / folders. I have good backups but I would rather not use them if you get my drift.
No, I think something is wrong when 1/2 of their customers would consider a change but don't have viable alternatives* because of their monopolistic activities.
* Full Disclosure: I just switched back to a mac and I am still not done buying replacement software. The price of the software is coming up to the price of the 15 TiBook. Remember, software publishers do not consider cross platform switches as upgrades so i am starting from scratch. I am also considering caving and buying MS Office... I have no choice because OO is not there yet on Mac.
Bottom line, the price on iTunes and MM are too high. To buy an entire album you almost always need to buy track by track and the total price and at $1 a pop, that works out in many cases close to or higher than a CD but with restrictions and an inferior product. Also, search for DMB on iTunes and you gets asked if you meant Dave Matters Band. Irony (or whatever it is called) not withstanding on that last point...
Wonderful, 5237 and counting
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"In the case of four of the six programs, a new version was launched immediately after the self-timed expiration date of the preceding one". SoBig.F expires in two weeks.
Wonderful, I have gotten 5237 of these things and counting as I type this. If the next one is any better than this version I can expect to see greater volumes of this crap and that is not really a pleasing thought for a Mac user. Yeah, this time we are suffering too.
I am getting it on an address alias I use only one place, here on/. and it is only posted. I never use it to correspond with anyone. That means somehow, someone fed it a list of harvested emails. Is that an infected spammer or the virus writer priming the pump? Who knows, but if your email address is posted anywhere, that is how it got it. Also, security via obscurity... With a user# as low as yours, you should know better!;-)
I am all for bigger, faster and all around more of just about anything but how about doing somthing about the reliability. I am constantly dropping signal with the router one floor below and directly below my TiBook (10 feet tops and the signal strength says near 100%). My father and one of my friends have similar problems. All different brands of WiFi routers and one other Airport and some PC client card for the client access cards. It sometimes is almost impossible to get any work done when I have line of sight of my fathers router from 10 yards away.
Instead of speed, lets do something about the reliability of the signal and I will be muchu grateful.
I got one from him as well and he had posted a drop location for something and he gives a lat/long pair (see below). I geocoded it and the location is Woburn, MA on the corner of Willow and S Bedford streets. Now I live in Watertown Ma nearby and I was really tempted to go there an fuck with him. Unfortunately I did not have the time...
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.
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...Danish Scientist offered top spot in Bush administration to head working groups on climate change including the Clear Skies and Healthy Forests initiatives.
"What, no SCO?"
Which one, Open Server, Unixware or XENIX...
I used them all and the all suck
Chances are the item was not listed on sale but it was listed next to items on sale or in the "sale" catalog. Since the iPod is a great seller and could be considered a draw item, they want people to know at every chance that they sell it. In this case it happens to be a sale listing promotion and so the poster was duped by the ambiguity. Although, I do not think that the "low" pricing is what the retailer was trying to get across and therfore I do not think the retailer is really to blame here for being dishonest. As I said earlier, they just want to make sure everyone knows they sell these things.
Yeah maybe, but the difference between the Gamecube (including all other consoles) is that the price is fixed because they lose money on the things (they make it up in game sales) and deep discounts could cause future pricing problems. ie; You become used to discounted consoles and then the next one to come out needs to be priced lower then before, thereby losing the console mfg even more money (and potentially sales). With regards to the iPod, Apple is making a fortune selling these things and if you read the article linked off of today's mac rumors you will see that they chose to come out with a Windows version of iTunes despite knowing that they would sell less macs simply because the iPods make them that much money.
All said, I think price fixing is dishonest in all circumstances (unfortunately not illegal in these cases) but to varying degrees. In this case Apple is further in the wrong in my book.
Disclaimer: I am a mac user, this is not flamebait...
...and this one is with the man himself... ;-)
Where does the $50 figure come from? I have two of them in my wallet (AE and Fleet Fusion) and two readers (useless on a mac) that retail for $29.99 a pop that I got for free being that I was an "early adopter". So where does that $50 really come from? And yes, I read the story, I just want to have a better handle on why someone supposedly "in the know" would trow out a figure like that for a quantity purchase of 65,000.
To rig an election like that (actually fudging the paper ballots) you need to do it on such a scale to make a difference that enough people would see it and it would become clear it was systemic. Keep in mind, the machine is not going to know who will be dilligent as to look at their ballot and who will not be. It will just randomly fudge ballots.
Hopefully they will be as impartial through the use of automation, which is where google gets it's impartiality from.
The more important thing here is this may push google to drop the "our news site is an experimental beta test which can be dropped at any time" attitude and start to really pour some resources in. One thing about competition is that it will help hone the product and google's news site has not really changed since it's inception a while back. I was hoping for some interface tweaks and other enhancements that could make it the killer web app.
Now do you or your friends have anything to hide...
;-)
Apparently he picked the Dung beetle to use as his inspiration...
Hey, when I go out I always place my speedpass under my tin foil hat!
Their long term interests revolve around when they make the decision to license AAC or if they decide they will leverage iTunes to sell iPods. I think the latter would not make good business sense and they will continue to ride the fringe if they go that route. Either way, there was no vested competitive interest in the decision they made. It was highly targeted and if MS had done it I may even have given them a pass. The thing with MS doing it is that history has shown they would not have stopped there. Also, it would have to be looked at through the prism of a monopolist leveraging ill gotten gains and that changes everything, both legally and morally.
This is classic Apple (as I type this from my 15" TiBook) and lets face it. Apple is used to controlling the environment it is in (why the hell freezing over joke was less of a joke than outsiders realize) and this only smacks of something any Apple user has known since they became an Apple user. That Apple takes care of the hard part and doesn't leave much control to the end user as a result. ie; It just works...
FYI: I like that as much as I like the exact opposite with Linux, which I run on multilple machines so the above was not a dig.
Really? I got an email from red hat threatening to take me to collection for non payment. I had not even gotten one other communication, snail or email, from them preceeding this (I check my junk mail and save every piece of it, in part, for this very reason). I call up and uncharacteristically don't blow my top but ask if they have been having billing issues. Turns out that I did owe them money, a cc had expired on an auto rebill, but he did acknowledge that I did not know about it and that they had taken their system offline for over two months (for an upgrade... hmmm) and the system just picked up from where it believed it should be at that point and not from where it had left off. Businesses don't need crap like that.
I am really glad to have an alternative to RH in this space. Linux is about alternatives and there have not been viable ones for some time in the Business space in linux. This should help and I can assure you in a year when I plan on upgrading, I will be checking out SuSe.
Thanks. Developer makes sense since they have a new IDE and new gcc in this version. I planned on killing that off myself before hand as well and I leave all source code in my user dir anyhow.
To add to this after reading the attached comments to the above parent, does doing an "Archive and Install" wipe out anything outside of the System folder? ie; things in the Apps folder (outside of upgrading programs...) or things in folders outside the std / folders. I have good backups but I would rather not use them if you get my drift.
No, I think something is wrong when 1/2 of their customers would consider a change but don't have viable alternatives* because of their monopolistic activities. * Full Disclosure: I just switched back to a mac and I am still not done buying replacement software. The price of the software is coming up to the price of the 15 TiBook. Remember, software publishers do not consider cross platform switches as upgrades so i am starting from scratch. I am also considering caving and buying MS Office... I have no choice because OO is not there yet on Mac.
Bottom line, the price on iTunes and MM are too high. To buy an entire album you almost always need to buy track by track and the total price and at $1 a pop, that works out in many cases close to or higher than a CD but with restrictions and an inferior product. Also, search for DMB on iTunes and you gets asked if you meant Dave Matters Band. Irony (or whatever it is called) not withstanding on that last point...
Wonderful, I have gotten 5237 of these things and counting as I type this. If the next one is any better than this version I can expect to see greater volumes of this crap and that is not really a pleasing thought for a Mac user. Yeah, this time we are suffering too.
Everyone seems to forget the third option...
Comando!
I am getting it on an address alias I use only one place, here on /. and it is only posted. I never use it to correspond with anyone. That means somehow, someone fed it a list of harvested emails. Is that an infected spammer or the virus writer priming the pump? Who knows, but if your email address is posted anywhere, that is how it got it. Also, security via obscurity... With a user# as low as yours, you should know better! ;-)
Mind backing that up w/ a little evidence? It could very well be the key to putting this whole fsck'n mess behind us...
It's not actually Greek. It is English using the Greek alphabet.
Instead of speed, lets do something about the reliability of the signal and I will be muchu grateful.
I got one from him as well and he had posted a drop location for something and he gives a lat/long pair (see below). I geocoded it and the location is Woburn, MA on the corner of Willow and S Bedford streets. Now I live in Watertown Ma nearby and I was really tempted to go there an fuck with him. Unfortunately I did not have the time...
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Hello,
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.
I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.
In terms of payment:
I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.
INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED EXACTLY:
Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Wednesday August 6th at (exactly 5:00pm) Eastern Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me. I will not be there prior to 4:45pm EST, so do not transport before then.
Item is to be delivered at (out of service tennis court) located at: Latitude N 42.47935 & Longitude W 071.17355 and the Elevation is 119.
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!
I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SEND IT SO THAT THEY CANNOT REDIRECT IT??? If in doubt do not transport actual unit until your method of transfer can be confirmed as a success. You just might need to send a intergalactic courier to deliver item safely to me. If so be VERY careful at how they approach me IN MY WHITE CAR.
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