Surely you're talking about DVDs, not CDs? There is ABSOLUTELY NO justification for charging extra for a CD vs. a tape. The music companies might tell you CD is a higher quality product because it doesn't wear out, but ponder on this: if you're only buying the right to listen to the music, not owning it to do with as you wish (as they would like us to believe), they should give you a new tape when your old one wears out, shouldn't they? All pigs fuelled and ready to fly.
The ones I HATE are the animated "interstitial" ads that take over the screen for a few seconds - the one for the new MINI actually blacked out the entire screen and then had an Egyptian mummy (wtf?) walking around for a while. There was no way to stop it, you just had to wait for it to finish.
I stopped visiting that particular website altogether - I'm not taking that crap just to get to some daily news.
The watershed was somewhere in the mid 1990s. Most stuff made after then at the average price point is crap. Why? Because the average price point is HALF what it used to be - look at conventional TVs (widescreen prices are artificially high because the "heatseekers" are still willing to pay a lot for them) or VCRs.
Is that all due to efficiencies in manufacturing? Have the electronic companies reduced their profits? Probably not - they've just realised that people want to pay less even if the goods are shoddy.
The trigger for this was probably the really cheap foreign brands and own-brand stuff that imitate the name of a Japanese firm. How many consumers know the difference between Alba and Aiwa, Hinari and Hitachi or Matsui and Marantz?
Small aside: my Philips CD player, purchased in 1990, is still going strong despite almost-daily use. I fully expect it to outlast my new Philips DVD recorder.
AMD announce that their Hammer VW+ (VaporWare Plus) will break Moore's Law by quantispeeding performance every six months.
Well, they might as well say that, since it already claims to get a 3DMark of 75000, end the recession, destroy al-Queda, eliminate world poverty, slay Ringwraiths and stop that nasty habit the English have of fitting carpet in bathrooms.
Shouldn't this be Informative rather than Funny? After all, NTFS is a development of HPFS, and NT 3.51 was what OS/2 would have become if IBM and Microsoft hadn't had an enormous tiff.
They do. All the old green screen NCR 5085 machines in the UK run OS/2. The communications protocol is IBM BiSync, gradually being converted to TCP/IP. The ATMs themselves are being phased out because they don't have the processing power to do triple DES encryption of PINs, which is required by the networks (LINK and VISA) for 2003.
What do you get if you're successful: the price that the OEM pays? I'd be interested to know how much this actually is and how much it varies between OEMs. How do you know how much to ask for in the first place?
I can see this bringing up the old debate about the meaning of the word "hacker", i.e. is it someone who is good at programming, or someone who breaks into computer systems (aka cracker).
By the first definition of the word, Dmitri *is* a hacker, and a good one at that.
...to in a crowded cinema with kids kicking the seats from behind, the stench of popcorn fried in rancid oil and chairs that ensure you can't feel your legs after 3 hours. It's not the perfect environment for a film *that* long.
It stars Donald Pleasance as a police inspector trying to find out why people are mysteriously disappearing from the Underground late at night. Turns out a bunch of cannibals (descended from Victorian railway workers who got trapped during the building of the line) are living in the disused Museum station and nipping out for a "takeaway" late at night. It's gruesome in places but rather funny.
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Surely you're talking about DVDs, not CDs? There is ABSOLUTELY NO justification for charging extra for a CD vs. a tape. The music companies might tell you CD is a higher quality product because it doesn't wear out, but ponder on this: if you're only buying the right to listen to the music, not owning it to do with as you wish (as they would like us to believe), they should give you a new tape when your old one wears out, shouldn't they? All pigs fuelled and ready to fly.
I stopped visiting that particular website altogether - I'm not taking that crap just to get to some daily news.
Is that all due to efficiencies in manufacturing? Have the electronic companies reduced their profits? Probably not - they've just realised that people want to pay less even if the goods are shoddy.
The trigger for this was probably the really cheap foreign brands and own-brand stuff that imitate the name of a Japanese firm. How many consumers know the difference between Alba and Aiwa, Hinari and Hitachi or Matsui and Marantz?
Small aside: my Philips CD player, purchased in 1990, is still going strong despite almost-daily use. I fully expect it to outlast my new Philips DVD recorder.
An American astronaut in space in 1970 was asked by a reporter, "How do you feel?"
"How would you feel," the astronaut replied, "if you were stuck here, on top of 20,000 parts, each one supplied by the lowest engineering bidder?"
Well, they might as well say that, since it already claims to get a 3DMark of 75000, end the recession, destroy al-Queda, eliminate world poverty, slay Ringwraiths and stop that nasty habit the English have of fitting carpet in bathrooms.
When it comes to market, that is ;-)
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a Beowulf cluster of them might be able to destroy a WHOLE CHICKEN? Awesome.
Shouldn't this be Informative rather than Funny? After all, NTFS is a development of HPFS, and NT 3.51 was what OS/2 would have become if IBM and Microsoft hadn't had an enormous tiff.
They do. All the old green screen NCR 5085 machines in the UK run OS/2. The communications protocol is IBM BiSync, gradually being converted to TCP/IP. The ATMs themselves are being phased out because they don't have the processing power to do triple DES encryption of PINs, which is required by the networks (LINK and VISA) for 2003.
What do you get if you're successful: the price that the OEM pays? I'd be interested to know how much this actually is and how much it varies between OEMs. How do you know how much to ask for in the first place?
By the first definition of the word, Dmitri *is* a hacker, and a good one at that.
...to in a crowded cinema with kids kicking the seats from behind, the stench of popcorn fried in rancid oil and chairs that ensure you can't feel your legs after 3 hours. It's not the perfect environment for a film *that* long.
It stars Donald Pleasance as a police inspector trying to find out why people are mysteriously disappearing from the Underground late at night. Turns out a bunch of cannibals (descended from Victorian railway workers who got trapped during the building of the line) are living in the disused Museum station and nipping out for a "takeaway" late at night. It's gruesome in places but rather funny.