I "purchased" a Red Dead Redemption DLC when it became free. I already paid for the game. If they want to make extra content available, that is fine, but I don't see why I should have to pay for it. Fortunately, RDR did not require you to buy any DLC to complete the game, it was all just extra missions and stuff. If the DLC provided enough extra entertainment value it might be worth it, but some of the DLC was about 1/4 the cost of the game or more. I doubt that it is really worth buying another whole 1/4 of the games price. Maybe if they had enough new missions to where it extended your playability time by 25%, but I doubt it.
As long you you didn't pay for the "retail" version (a.k.a. DVD / Blueray delivered ones), I don't see a problem. The developers has to be paid somehow, and if some people wants to pay for their games this way, no problem.
So you are against the First-sale Doctrine. Ok. That is a common thing these days from people who don't fully understand and or have a much more right wing view of copyright.
I assume you are looking to repeal that also so that books, movies, and all the other things that it covers are changed as well?
I don't know about the gp, but I prefer to pay full price for my software and have it all work. If I pay $60 for a title, I had better not have to buy anything extra to get 100% or to be competitive (if it is online). If someone wants the "free" version of the game, and then has to buy $100 worth of stuff, $1 at a time to play the whole game, that is fine with me. The Banks have managed to do this with "Free checking", where you actually pay more per month than if you bought the next higher level of checking (although why we have to pay someone to earn interest on my money I still can't figure out). But what I simply won't stand for is when I pay top dollar for a title and then have to pay extra just to have basic functionality. Case in Point: Quickbooks. You pay full price for the software, and then they want to charge you extra for payroll services, which were included in the cost in previous versions. They won't let you print W-2s without paying extra. I could go on and on.
$15 for a CD that you had to buy just to listen to one lousy song.
I don't know why you would bother to buy a CD if the best song on their is still lousy. Apparently it is good enough that people would listen to it if they could get it for free.
Personally, I yearn for the days when every song an album used to be awesome. I'm not really sure what happened, but I have over 200 CDs mostly from the late 1960s and 1970s, and every single song on the CD is at least something I wouldn't want to hit the skip button on. I'd still pay $15 for an album full of good songs, there just aren't very many good albums out there (there are still some, I admit). Heck, $15 now is like paying $7.50 for a CD 20 years ago.
Not likely. In the last 10 years I have not worked for a company that had more bandwidth at work then I have at home through the Cable company. And at work, it is shared amongst 25-300 people, while at home, it is just me and the family.
Also, the internet connection at home is much more reliable. On Tuesday, a lot of people were sent home because Cox was having issues with the connection at work. Unfortunately, our entire business plan revolves around internet connection to out data center, and Cox Residential services is much faster and more reliable and cheaper than Cox Business services.
Someone files a false police report and someone's phone is bricked
Then the police department and the wireless service provider are both at fault for not verifying your identity and your ownership of the phone.
I don't want to see such disparity that some people can afford private boats either.
Just so you are aware, the vast majority of boats are owned by lower and middle class people. Boats tend to be a money sink which a lot of the wealthy avoid unless they just really have so much money that they don't care.
And the only truly greedy people I know of, are all extremely rich, too.
Odd, the only truly greedy people I know of is everybody. But I should point out that per capita, lower income people originate more lawsuits than upper income people.
Management does not work. They push paper and hold meetings.
As a manager, I beg to differ. I have four people that I manage, and I write more code than the four of them put together. Yes, I have to go to meetings, which cuts into my time, but I still have deadlines to meet, and so I have to work more hours to get my coding done. Some of my team works overtime almost every day, but some of them pretty much wrap up and go home when the clock strikes 5. However, I am responsible to get projects done, so I stay late to make sure the stuff gets done. Sometimes, there are little annoyances that come up during the day, like reloading some files, looking at some issue, etc. I give these to MY boss so that I can continue working. So I also know that MY boss works for a living.
If you can get to it by typing it into your address bar from any computer with an internet connection, then it is online.If you save it as a bookmark, is it now considered linked? I guess that depends on whether your computer has been hacked.
Facebook is talking about averages. I thought the 6 degrees of separation was a maximum? By going through someone I know that knows someone that knows someone through 6 levels, I am connected to Mkeli Mtumbo in deepest darkest Africa. Now, if you go by Facebook profiles, then you start with people who I am connected to, which is none because i don't have a Facebook account, then try to get to Mkeli Mtumbo who also doesn't have a Facebook account, well it just doesn't work. So Facebook has to use averages. And since only a limited subset of people actually have a Facebook account, naturally the separation is going to be smaller.
The people in my Church all know each other through two degrees of separation. They all either know each other, or know each other through another contact, mostly through the pastors.
I don't care how great its screen is
The screen doesn't sound so great either. 4.7" diagonal on a 5.4*2.7 form factor? That's almost 3/4 of an inch of Bezel all the way around.
Well, as long as we are speaking in anecdotes, I have never had a laptop drive fail EVER. I have one that is 15 years old and still works fine. I also have a two year old SSD and it has not failed, either. I have had a video card go out, several fans and a couple of monitors in my 30 years of computing experience.
The only objective to ban plastic bags was to minimize the costs to supermarkets. It was a disgusting lobby with an "eco friendly" excuse. There is no chance in hell they will distribute paper bags or any non re-utilizable bag.
I could see where you might be right. Especially if they charge for the replacements. It really pisses me off when companies say they are "helping the environment" when in fact, all they are really doing is helping themselves to more of your money. For instance, the Hotels which proudly proclaim that they are "helping the environment" by only washing the linens every other day. Oh, you mean they are not just trying to cut down what probably amounts to their second or third greatest cost? Well, how about a discount for allowing them to wash every other day? No, they just try to sell you on feeling better about yourself because you're "doing something for the environment." I'm not even against it, I just don't like the lying. Tell me you're trying to grab more money. Don't try to rose color your intentions. It pisses people off who are smart enough to see what's really going on.
One might think so, but every time I go to Walmart, the cashier is so inept, it still takes 30 minutes of standing in line waiting for the cashier to figure out how to ring up something they've never seen before.
That's what we get for allowing people the option of buying a 60" TV, a refillable Visa gift card, a pair of diamond earrings and 2 pounds of baking potatoes all in the same transaction.
The absence of plastic bags isn't killing people. Not washing reusable bags is killing people (maybe?)
I conjecture that washing a reusable bag is worse for the environment than throwing away a plastic bag,
Just as an aside, your notions of mortality rates are really high.
Really? I thought they were low. Last I read they were estimated at about 93.5%. The rest of us are still living.
Of course these loopholes were set up for the rich,
Loophole is not the correct term. It's not like you are exploiting some accidental flaw in the system. It was put there on purpose, to encourage business and spur employment.
I have already sworn off one of my favorite games of all times (simcity) due to "always online", and I'm not afraid to swear off a whole console or all consoles if they do "always online".
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I "purchased" a Red Dead Redemption DLC when it became free. I already paid for the game. If they want to make extra content available, that is fine, but I don't see why I should have to pay for it. Fortunately, RDR did not require you to buy any DLC to complete the game, it was all just extra missions and stuff. If the DLC provided enough extra entertainment value it might be worth it, but some of the DLC was about 1/4 the cost of the game or more. I doubt that it is really worth buying another whole 1/4 of the games price. Maybe if they had enough new missions to where it extended your playability time by 25%, but I doubt it.
As long you you didn't pay for the "retail" version (a.k.a. DVD / Blueray delivered ones), I don't see a problem. The developers has to be paid somehow, and if some people wants to pay for their games this way, no problem.
So you are against the First-sale Doctrine. Ok. That is a common thing these days from people who don't fully understand and or have a much more right wing view of copyright.
I assume you are looking to repeal that also so that books, movies, and all the other things that it covers are changed as well?
I don't know about the gp, but I prefer to pay full price for my software and have it all work. If I pay $60 for a title, I had better not have to buy anything extra to get 100% or to be competitive (if it is online). If someone wants the "free" version of the game, and then has to buy $100 worth of stuff, $1 at a time to play the whole game, that is fine with me. The Banks have managed to do this with "Free checking", where you actually pay more per month than if you bought the next higher level of checking (although why we have to pay someone to earn interest on my money I still can't figure out). But what I simply won't stand for is when I pay top dollar for a title and then have to pay extra just to have basic functionality. Case in Point: Quickbooks. You pay full price for the software, and then they want to charge you extra for payroll services, which were included in the cost in previous versions. They won't let you print W-2s without paying extra. I could go on and on.
$15 for a CD that you had to buy just to listen to one lousy song.
I don't know why you would bother to buy a CD if the best song on their is still lousy. Apparently it is good enough that people would listen to it if they could get it for free.
Personally, I yearn for the days when every song an album used to be awesome. I'm not really sure what happened, but I have over 200 CDs mostly from the late 1960s and 1970s, and every single song on the CD is at least something I wouldn't want to hit the skip button on. I'd still pay $15 for an album full of good songs, there just aren't very many good albums out there (there are still some, I admit). Heck, $15 now is like paying $7.50 for a CD 20 years ago.
If it comes with the Prize Money, I bid half a million.
Torrent bandwidth.
Not likely. In the last 10 years I have not worked for a company that had more bandwidth at work then I have at home through the Cable company. And at work, it is shared amongst 25-300 people, while at home, it is just me and the family.
Also, the internet connection at home is much more reliable. On Tuesday, a lot of people were sent home because Cox was having issues with the connection at work. Unfortunately, our entire business plan revolves around internet connection to out data center, and Cox Residential services is much faster and more reliable and cheaper than Cox Business services.
Check again. It's about $30 these days.
Someone files a false police report and someone's phone is bricked
Then the police department and the wireless service provider are both at fault for not verifying your identity and your ownership of the phone.
I don't want to see such disparity that some people can afford private boats either.
Just so you are aware, the vast majority of boats are owned by lower and middle class people. Boats tend to be a money sink which a lot of the wealthy avoid unless they just really have so much money that they don't care.
And the only truly greedy people I know of, are all extremely rich, too.
Odd, the only truly greedy people I know of is everybody. But I should point out that per capita, lower income people originate more lawsuits than upper income people.
Management does not work. They push paper and hold meetings.
As a manager, I beg to differ. I have four people that I manage, and I write more code than the four of them put together. Yes, I have to go to meetings, which cuts into my time, but I still have deadlines to meet, and so I have to work more hours to get my coding done. Some of my team works overtime almost every day, but some of them pretty much wrap up and go home when the clock strikes 5. However, I am responsible to get projects done, so I stay late to make sure the stuff gets done. Sometimes, there are little annoyances that come up during the day, like reloading some files, looking at some issue, etc. I give these to MY boss so that I can continue working. So I also know that MY boss works for a living.
You didn't buy a CECHA, CECHB, or CECHE model, early on?
I thought I bought fairly early, like in January after the holiday season that they came out, but I don't know the model.
Second it offered backwards compatibility with almost all PS2 games
With the notable exception of every single ps2 game that I tried to play on it.
If you can get to it by typing it into your address bar from any computer with an internet connection, then it is online.If you save it as a bookmark, is it now considered linked? I guess that depends on whether your computer has been hacked.
Facebook is talking about averages. I thought the 6 degrees of separation was a maximum? By going through someone I know that knows someone that knows someone through 6 levels, I am connected to Mkeli Mtumbo in deepest darkest Africa. Now, if you go by Facebook profiles, then you start with people who I am connected to, which is none because i don't have a Facebook account, then try to get to Mkeli Mtumbo who also doesn't have a Facebook account, well it just doesn't work. So Facebook has to use averages. And since only a limited subset of people actually have a Facebook account, naturally the separation is going to be smaller.
The people in my Church all know each other through two degrees of separation. They all either know each other, or know each other through another contact, mostly through the pastors.
I don't care how great its screen is
The screen doesn't sound so great either. 4.7" diagonal on a 5.4*2.7 form factor? That's almost 3/4 of an inch of Bezel all the way around.
Well, as long as we are speaking in anecdotes, I have never had a laptop drive fail EVER. I have one that is 15 years old and still works fine. I also have a two year old SSD and it has not failed, either. I have had a video card go out, several fans and a couple of monitors in my 30 years of computing experience.
If there is a ban on non-reusable bag, then wouldn't everyone be using them? Thus validating the study?
The only objective to ban plastic bags was to minimize the costs to supermarkets. It was a disgusting lobby with an "eco friendly" excuse. There is no chance in hell they will distribute paper bags or any non re-utilizable bag.
I could see where you might be right. Especially if they charge for the replacements. It really pisses me off when companies say they are "helping the environment" when in fact, all they are really doing is helping themselves to more of your money. For instance, the Hotels which proudly proclaim that they are "helping the environment" by only washing the linens every other day. Oh, you mean they are not just trying to cut down what probably amounts to their second or third greatest cost? Well, how about a discount for allowing them to wash every other day? No, they just try to sell you on feeling better about yourself because you're "doing something for the environment." I'm not even against it, I just don't like the lying. Tell me you're trying to grab more money. Don't try to rose color your intentions. It pisses people off who are smart enough to see what's really going on.
One might think so, but every time I go to Walmart, the cashier is so inept, it still takes 30 minutes of standing in line waiting for the cashier to figure out how to ring up something they've never seen before.
That's what we get for allowing people the option of buying a 60" TV, a refillable Visa gift card, a pair of diamond earrings and 2 pounds of baking potatoes all in the same transaction.
The absence of plastic bags isn't killing people. Not washing reusable bags is killing people (maybe?)
I conjecture that washing a reusable bag is worse for the environment than throwing away a plastic bag,
cannabis smoke.
It's for my glaucoma. I'm trying to prevent catching it.
Just as an aside, your notions of mortality rates are really high.
Really? I thought they were low. Last I read they were estimated at about 93.5%. The rest of us are still living.
Of course these loopholes were set up for the rich,
Loophole is not the correct term. It's not like you are exploiting some accidental flaw in the system. It was put there on purpose, to encourage business and spur employment.
I have already sworn off one of my favorite games of all times (simcity) due to "always online", and I'm not afraid to swear off a whole console or all consoles if they do "always online".
PCs have noisy fans
Any noisier than Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 fans?
I read it as he was talking about PC fanatics, but your answer still works.