Well, at least with this proposal, if it doesn't work out you tell the ships to stop making clouds, the existing clouds will dissipate fairly quickly, and you're basically back to where you started. In that sense, it seems less drastic and risky than other things I have heard thrown about.
You know what you can do? You can call your provider and tell them you want a limit. Give it a try, dumbass.
Have *you* ever tried? Generally they won't, or tell you they can't because their system is set up for it. Even if they say they do, I wouldn't trust them and the only way to know for sure is to try and hit the limit. Even if they can and do, they'll likely consider it a change in the contract and reset the duration.
the very nature of fine print is inherently deceptive. that is precisely why businesses use fine print to conceal warnings, disclaimers or terms/conditions which consumers may be put off by. you can call the use of fine print a marketing tactic to make your service/product look more appealing. and it's considered completely legal usually. but at some point this kind of manipulation of consumers crosses into overt dishonesty.
I would go further than calling it inherently deceptive, and say that it's intentionally deceptive. These companies do everything they can get away with to stack things in their favor. That's why they use thick, overly verbose legalese to word these contracts. They're banking on the fact that the average joe is not going to be able to understand it, even if average joe thinks he understands it. Someone really should make a website with a bunch of boilerplate contracts for people to read through, and a pop quiz at the end of each one where you're quized on the contract's terms. Maybe that would wake up some of these self-righteous apologists (as another poster put it very well).
That wouldn't prove that the drive isn't a fake, if his goal is to have an unwinnable challenge in the sense that it's a completely empty drive that never had anything on it. He would never have to release the key then for the encrypted image.
More horseshit. I see cars on the side of the road almost daily on my commute. How often do you see a plane fall out of the sky because the engine died?
How many airplane engines will go 3000 hours with a minimum of maintance, and has an expected lifetime of 5000-10000+ hours without an overhaul? The main difference is the level of care taken towards airplane engines versus how people treat their cars. All other things equal, car engines are much more advanced and reliable, though airplanes tend to benefit from the KISS principle.
That's not how it worked at all. Microsoft wouldn't have been able to survive selling it's products at a loss for years, let alone making billions of dollars doing it. They got where they are with a combination of other questionable tactics, and targeting the most open computing platform (the IBM-compatible) with software that was "good enough". Furthermore, I don't consider XP and Vista to be outrageously priced either, unless your one of the types that thinks all software should be free.
Mechanical harddrives have a finite life too. The thing is that we don't have numbers for the harddrives but we do for the flast drives, so everyone frets over the lifetime of the flash drives. I wouldn't worry about it myself, I would be very surprised if a standard, non-enterprise SATA harddrive would survives 100,000 write cycles to the entire drive, even if it was the best case scenario with all the writes being sequential. Heck, writing 300GB of data at ~60MB/s 100,000 times would take around 17 years - I would be surprised if the drive survived that long idling.
I don't think so. Police departments across the nation will keep Chrysler afloat.
I kind of doubt it. I have seen lots of Dodge cop cars recently, but remember GM still discontinued the old Caprice back in the early 1990's despite it being popular amonst law enforcement (and taxi companies).
That's true. Here in the midwest, we have enough people driving around diesel-powered pickups that finding diesel fuel is not a problem, I'd say about 1/2 the stations carry it. But go into larger cities, especially near the coasts and finding diesel fuel can be pretty tricky, with your only hope is larger stations along the interstate. I'd really like to see diesel cars catch on, but between the chicken-and-egg problem with the gas station problem, the perception of diesel being smelly and dirty, and the lingering memories of Detroit's diesel powered cars from the early 1980's - it's a hard sell.
I don't think it has anything to do with being hybrids, and everything to do with it being a newly designed car. It seems nearly everything that's come out in the past couple of years has been absolutely butt ugly. I actually think the Prius is one of the better looking Toyotas now, which isn't saying much.
Well, it's already being done, as there is a hybrid version of the Chevy Silverado which I believe is available now. Of course, you may still be right, I wouldn't put it beyond GM to build a vehicle no one would want.
We already have the Ford Escape hybrid. I could see how they could chop off the body behind the back seats, and add a truck bed. It wouldn't be that unusual as many small SUVs used to be based on small trucks anyway, such as the Explorer being based on the Ranger before it got huge. Though I'm not sure how the car-with-big-tires style of SUV would work doing truck-duty, but then again most people who have trucks very rarely use them as trucks anyway.
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I like themes as an option whenever they decide to do something weird with the UI, so I can go change it to something more sane. Firefox looks OK right out of the box, and mostly behaves in a Windows-like fashion, so I see no need for themes. The default Opera theme is fugly (imho) so it's nice I can change it to the "Windows" skin. It would be nice if Apple made Safari have themes since the Windows version doesn't act or look like a Windows program at all, but since that would go against The Apple Way, I doubt it will ever happen.
If New Orleans gets flooded every few years, why was Katrina newsworthy ? Why is this new storm newsworthy ?
For the same reason that the Olympics are newsworthy? People are interested in it, even if it happens every few years.
And natural disaster will happen anywhere, not *might*; it's simply a matter of time.
I can build a house smack in the middle of tornado alley and have a pretty good chance that it won't be destroyed by a tornado in my lifetime. I can't say the same thing about a house in New Orleans.
I would have to wonder about that one, considering that there is a local college in the area called Gustavus Adolphus which is typically just called "Gustavus". That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that domain name. There's a decent good chance that this one is going to be some site set up by some bored college kids rather than some kind of scam site.
t used to be that murder and rape were considered the worst crimes yet your bound to get less time for these than many of the new crimes that we invent.
I wouldn't say it has always been that way. In Dante's Inferno, written in the 15th century, Dante has placed fraudsters and theives in a lower ring of hell than violent criminals like murderers.
I'm sure cosmic collisions of that size occur all the time (speaking astronomically), but what are the chances that "large objects" (earth sized), at the right distance from their host start, made up of earth like (at that time) materials get smacked by a large sized object with those type materials, and finally end up with the type atmosphere that is conducive to life (as we know it)? Earth isnt an evolutionary phenomena (from the current explanation) but was created by an accidental collision, and then evolved into what it is today (though I'm sure other series of cosmic impacts also shaped earth to what it is today, but I digress).
On the other hand, even if the Earth-Moon system was created by a highly unlikely event, that doesn't mean that an Earth-like planet couldn't be created by other means. That's one of the fallacies that I see with the "Rare Earth" theory, is that they fail to account for different means to the same end. They seem to assume that the only way to get an earth is the same way The Earth came about.
That's actually one of the few compelling reason to upgrade to Vista over XP - the application level sound control. I would love to be able to put the web browser on mute and leave it that way. Right now, the closest thing I know of for Windows is Opera with it's 'Enable Sound in Web Pages' option, but that setting doesn't seem to affect plug ins (Flash, I'm looking at you).
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Why don't you ask if you can come into work earlier so that you can leave earlier, rather than messing with my clock?
If you are going to use the service of someone you don't trust, shut the fuck up.
Umm, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'll complain about whatever I like, regardless of whether or not I'm a customer.
Well, at least with this proposal, if it doesn't work out you tell the ships to stop making clouds, the existing clouds will dissipate fairly quickly, and you're basically back to where you started. In that sense, it seems less drastic and risky than other things I have heard thrown about.
If it doesn't, who is going to pay for the lost money?
The taxpayers, of course.
You know what you can do? You can call your provider and tell them you want a limit. Give it a try, dumbass.
Have *you* ever tried? Generally they won't, or tell you they can't because their system is set up for it. Even if they say they do, I wouldn't trust them and the only way to know for sure is to try and hit the limit. Even if they can and do, they'll likely consider it a change in the contract and reset the duration.
the very nature of fine print is inherently deceptive. that is precisely why businesses use fine print to conceal warnings, disclaimers or terms/conditions which consumers may be put off by. you can call the use of fine print a marketing tactic to make your service/product look more appealing. and it's considered completely legal usually. but at some point this kind of manipulation of consumers crosses into overt dishonesty.
I would go further than calling it inherently deceptive, and say that it's intentionally deceptive. These companies do everything they can get away with to stack things in their favor. That's why they use thick, overly verbose legalese to word these contracts. They're banking on the fact that the average joe is not going to be able to understand it, even if average joe thinks he understands it. Someone really should make a website with a bunch of boilerplate contracts for people to read through, and a pop quiz at the end of each one where you're quized on the contract's terms. Maybe that would wake up some of these self-righteous apologists (as another poster put it very well).
That wouldn't prove that the drive isn't a fake, if his goal is to have an unwinnable challenge in the sense that it's a completely empty drive that never had anything on it. He would never have to release the key then for the encrypted image.
More horseshit. I see cars on the side of the road almost daily on my commute. How often do you see a plane fall out of the sky because the engine died?
How many airplane engines will go 3000 hours with a minimum of maintance, and has an expected lifetime of 5000-10000+ hours without an overhaul? The main difference is the level of care taken towards airplane engines versus how people treat their cars. All other things equal, car engines are much more advanced and reliable, though airplanes tend to benefit from the KISS principle.
It's a scam because he expects the cheaper stuff to still work, and it doesn't. It's that simple.
That's not how it worked at all. Microsoft wouldn't have been able to survive selling it's products at a loss for years, let alone making billions of dollars doing it. They got where they are with a combination of other questionable tactics, and targeting the most open computing platform (the IBM-compatible) with software that was "good enough". Furthermore, I don't consider XP and Vista to be outrageously priced either, unless your one of the types that thinks all software should be free.
And I doubt very much you will EVER see a 20K drive. Power is something like the cube of the RPM. Such a drive would be dead on arrival.
So, you're saying that such a drive would be manufactured by Western Digital?
Mechanical harddrives have a finite life too. The thing is that we don't have numbers for the harddrives but we do for the flast drives, so everyone frets over the lifetime of the flash drives. I wouldn't worry about it myself, I would be very surprised if a standard, non-enterprise SATA harddrive would survives 100,000 write cycles to the entire drive, even if it was the best case scenario with all the writes being sequential. Heck, writing 300GB of data at ~60MB/s 100,000 times would take around 17 years - I would be surprised if the drive survived that long idling.
He's probably refering to this:
http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/
I don't think so. Police departments across the nation will keep Chrysler afloat.
I kind of doubt it. I have seen lots of Dodge cop cars recently, but remember GM still discontinued the old Caprice back in the early 1990's despite it being popular amonst law enforcement (and taxi companies).
That's true. Here in the midwest, we have enough people driving around diesel-powered pickups that finding diesel fuel is not a problem, I'd say about 1/2 the stations carry it. But go into larger cities, especially near the coasts and finding diesel fuel can be pretty tricky, with your only hope is larger stations along the interstate. I'd really like to see diesel cars catch on, but between the chicken-and-egg problem with the gas station problem, the perception of diesel being smelly and dirty, and the lingering memories of Detroit's diesel powered cars from the early 1980's - it's a hard sell.
I don't think it has anything to do with being hybrids, and everything to do with it being a newly designed car. It seems nearly everything that's come out in the past couple of years has been absolutely butt ugly. I actually think the Prius is one of the better looking Toyotas now, which isn't saying much.
Well, it's already being done, as there is a hybrid version of the Chevy Silverado which I believe is available now. Of course, you may still be right, I wouldn't put it beyond GM to build a vehicle no one would want.
We already have the Ford Escape hybrid. I could see how they could chop off the body behind the back seats, and add a truck bed. It wouldn't be that unusual as many small SUVs used to be based on small trucks anyway, such as the Explorer being based on the Ranger before it got huge. Though I'm not sure how the car-with-big-tires style of SUV would work doing truck-duty, but then again most people who have trucks very rarely use them as trucks anyway.
I like themes as an option whenever they decide to do something weird with the UI, so I can go change it to something more sane. Firefox looks OK right out of the box, and mostly behaves in a Windows-like fashion, so I see no need for themes. The default Opera theme is fugly (imho) so it's nice I can change it to the "Windows" skin. It would be nice if Apple made Safari have themes since the Windows version doesn't act or look like a Windows program at all, but since that would go against The Apple Way, I doubt it will ever happen.
If New Orleans gets flooded every few years, why was Katrina newsworthy ? Why is this new storm newsworthy ?
For the same reason that the Olympics are newsworthy? People are interested in it, even if it happens every few years.
And natural disaster will happen anywhere, not *might*; it's simply a matter of time.
I can build a house smack in the middle of tornado alley and have a pretty good chance that it won't be destroyed by a tornado in my lifetime. I can't say the same thing about a house in New Orleans.
boredatgustavus.net
I would have to wonder about that one, considering that there is a local college in the area called Gustavus Adolphus which is typically just called "Gustavus". That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that domain name. There's a decent good chance that this one is going to be some site set up by some bored college kids rather than some kind of scam site.
gustavr.com
Surely you mean gustv.com?
t used to be that murder and rape were considered the worst crimes yet your bound to get less time for these than many of the new crimes that we invent.
I wouldn't say it has always been that way. In Dante's Inferno, written in the 15th century, Dante has placed fraudsters and theives in a lower ring of hell than violent criminals like murderers.
I'm sure cosmic collisions of that size occur all the time (speaking astronomically), but what are the chances that "large objects" (earth sized), at the right distance from their host start, made up of earth like (at that time) materials get smacked by a large sized object with those type materials, and finally end up with the type atmosphere that is conducive to life (as we know it)? Earth isnt an evolutionary phenomena (from the current explanation) but was created by an accidental collision, and then evolved into what it is today (though I'm sure other series of cosmic impacts also shaped earth to what it is today, but I digress).
On the other hand, even if the Earth-Moon system was created by a highly unlikely event, that doesn't mean that an Earth-like planet couldn't be created by other means. That's one of the fallacies that I see with the "Rare Earth" theory, is that they fail to account for different means to the same end. They seem to assume that the only way to get an earth is the same way The Earth came about.
That's actually one of the few compelling reason to upgrade to Vista over XP - the application level sound control. I would love to be able to put the web browser on mute and leave it that way. Right now, the closest thing I know of for Windows is Opera with it's 'Enable Sound in Web Pages' option, but that setting doesn't seem to affect plug ins (Flash, I'm looking at you).