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Hey, thanks for the advice! I was waste my money on a new video card until I read your insightful comments.
Now I think I'll go ahead and buy a cold cathode kit for my computer. Maybe some of those neat plexiglass fans with the LED's in them, too.
Thanks for the link. It was interesting reading, especially the quote from the RIAA "In addition, the label incurs additional costs in finding and signing new artists"
Bad grammar aside, I never realized that new artists were such a shy, retiring lot, or that locating and signing them was such a difficult activity. I was under the mistaken impression that most of them would do anything for a bit of publicity, and would sell their own mother for a record deal. Silly me.
That depends... is "making" the music the creative process of arranging notes and lyrics, or the physical process of manufacturing the CD? If it's the former, then it's the artists that make the music. If it's the latter.. then hell, I've got a CD burner. *I* make the music.
Thats a switch... accusations that humans are giving the computer help. Usually it's the other way around. Virtually all the chess played online is speed matches, two or three or five minutes for the whole game, precisely because everyone is convinced that their opponent is running a chess program in a different window.
....where he wants all sellers to register with the state of CA and pay state sales tax. Why the hell should he care about that? Is he just trying to get some sympathy from the government for his lawsuit?
Vastly superior? Easier, maybe. But once you're done with a console game, you're done. Put it back on the shelf, sell it on Ebay, give it to your dog to play with. It's done.
With a PC game, though, you've just scratched the surface. Buy any popular game, and there are probably a dozen teams of fans working on mods, new maps, new graphics packs.... I bought Half-Life (there's a game that took a long time to come out, but was worth the wait, btw) several years ago, and there are still mods and new maps that I have't tried yet. Sure, some of them suck, but some are great. And they're all available for the price of a download.
I remember when pinball machines had a little plunger under the ball launcher that you had to push in to serve up the next ball. No candy-ass auto eject mechanisms for us!
You'll have to tell me your secret for getting an RMA then. Most outfits I know make you go through tech support and do the "Yes, it's plugged in" "Yes, the oulets good" "Yes, the power switch is pushed in" "No, the green light isn't on" crap before they'll let you send anything back.
I figure that the lost profits from people who buy a 9500 instead of a 9700 will be more the compensated for by the folks who mung the mod up and have to go buy another video card.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if ATI leaked this mod in the first place. Just think of all the money they save on voided warrantys alone. Not to mention tech support...
"Hello, ATI technical support. Can I help you?"
"Yeah, I have a problem with my video card. It keeps locking up"
Burgers are cooked at 400 degrees. They're simply not served at the same temperature that they're cooked at. What is the point of serving coffee to customers at a temperature that can cause third-degree burns? I think McDonalds lost the lawsuit because they couldn't produce a reason why they served their coffee at such a high temperature. Thats the difference between the coffee and a knife. Sure, knives are sharp, and you might cut yourself. If they weren't sharp, they wouldn't be able to peform their designed function.
There are junk emailers that will spam every sensible letter combination of popular EMail services like Hotmail or AOL. If you've ever tried to sign up for an account on one of those services, you know how hard it is to find a name that hasn't been taken already. Spamming the whole domain is about as productive as buying a list of addresses from some outfit. So you can get spam even if you've never used the mailbox.
Yeah, you're right.. heck, he should have pulled out the old hard drive and stored it somewhere, made an image of it as well, then mounted a brand new hard drive in there, installed the new OS by hand, tuned it to optimum performance, then delivered it to the user and stayed around to make sure everything was okay.
Unless, of course, he's a tech working in the REAL WORLD, which means he probably had 9 more priority 1 calls that had to be done that day, 40 overdue priority 2 calls, 300 low priority calls, a bunch of paperwork that still needed to be done... in that case, if the user says "yes, my data is backed up", you take their word for it, zap the drive, close the ticket, and move on. Better 20 jobs a day at 90% success then 8 a day at 100%.
Why don't the phone companies try to get Congress to pass a law that allows them to jam your cell phone transmissions if you're within 50 feet of a pay phone?
Seems to me that if you're in an area where there are poor people who don't have cell phones, the pay phones will still be there because they're making money.
Generally, these types of contracts have a section where the buyer promises not to resell the item without also requiring the new buyer to agree to the terms of the original contract.
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(grrr) Hey, thanks for the advice! I was waste my money on a new video card until I read your insightful comments. Now I think I'll go ahead and buy a cold cathode kit for my computer. Maybe some of those neat plexiglass fans with the LED's in them, too.
Thanks for the link. It was interesting reading, especially the quote from the RIAA "In addition, the label incurs additional costs in finding and signing new artists"
Bad grammar aside, I never realized that new artists were such a shy, retiring lot, or that locating and signing them was such a difficult activity. I was under the mistaken impression that most of them would do anything for a bit of publicity, and would sell their own mother for a record deal. Silly me.
That depends... is "making" the music the creative process of arranging notes and lyrics, or the physical process of manufacturing the CD? If it's the former, then it's the artists that make the music. If it's the latter.. then hell, I've got a CD burner. *I* make the music.
Sounds like a bad science fiction story to me.
Thats a switch... accusations that humans are giving the computer help. Usually it's the other way around. Virtually all the chess played online is speed matches, two or three or five minutes for the whole game, precisely because everyone is convinced that their opponent is running a chess program in a different window.
....where he wants all sellers to register with the state of CA and pay state sales tax. Why the hell should he care about that? Is he just trying to get some sympathy from the government for his lawsuit?
Vastly superior? Easier, maybe. But once you're done with a console game, you're done. Put it back on the shelf, sell it on Ebay, give it to your dog to play with. It's done.
With a PC game, though, you've just scratched the surface. Buy any popular game, and there are probably a dozen teams of fans working on mods, new maps, new graphics packs.... I bought Half-Life (there's a game that took a long time to come out, but was worth the wait, btw) several years ago, and there are still mods and new maps that I have't tried yet. Sure, some of them suck, but some are great. And they're all available for the price of a download.
I remember when pinball machines had a little plunger under the ball launcher that you had to push in to serve up the next ball. No candy-ass auto eject mechanisms for us!
I think the author was trying to contrast the guys "real" life to his CS life, in an attempt to explain why he's so obsessed with the game.
Long-ass article. About as accurate as any other story I've read, meaning just enough errors to make you wonder how much else is wrong.
You'll have to tell me your secret for getting an RMA then. Most outfits I know make you go through tech support and do the "Yes, it's plugged in" "Yes, the oulets good" "Yes, the power switch is pushed in" "No, the green light isn't on" crap before they'll let you send anything back.
Thats where you're wrong. Things are not news when they are new. Things are news when they get posted on /.
Until then, they don't really exist.
I figure that the lost profits from people who buy a 9500 instead of a 9700 will be more the compensated for by the folks who mung the mod up and have to go buy another video card.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if ATI leaked this mod in the first place. Just think of all the money they save on voided warrantys alone. Not to mention tech support...
"Hello, ATI technical support. Can I help you?"
"Yeah, I have a problem with my video card. It keeps locking up"
"I see... what kind of card is it?"
"Well, it's a 9500, but I modded it so that..."
*click*
Burgers are cooked at 400 degrees. They're simply not served at the same temperature that they're cooked at. What is the point of serving coffee to customers at a temperature that can cause third-degree burns? I think McDonalds lost the lawsuit because they couldn't produce a reason why they served their coffee at such a high temperature. Thats the difference between the coffee and a knife. Sure, knives are sharp, and you might cut yourself. If they weren't sharp, they wouldn't be able to peform their designed function.
There are junk emailers that will spam every sensible letter combination of popular EMail services like Hotmail or AOL. If you've ever tried to sign up for an account on one of those services, you know how hard it is to find a name that hasn't been taken already. Spamming the whole domain is about as productive as buying a list of addresses from some outfit. So you can get spam even if you've never used the mailbox.
Yeah, you're right.. heck, he should have pulled out the old hard drive and stored it somewhere, made an image of it as well, then mounted a brand new hard drive in there, installed the new OS by hand, tuned it to optimum performance, then delivered it to the user and stayed around to make sure everything was okay. Unless, of course, he's a tech working in the REAL WORLD, which means he probably had 9 more priority 1 calls that had to be done that day, 40 overdue priority 2 calls, 300 low priority calls, a bunch of paperwork that still needed to be done... in that case, if the user says "yes, my data is backed up", you take their word for it, zap the drive, close the ticket, and move on. Better 20 jobs a day at 90% success then 8 a day at 100%.
Why don't the phone companies try to get Congress to pass a law that allows them to jam your cell phone transmissions if you're within 50 feet of a pay phone?
Seems to me that if you're in an area where there are poor people who don't have cell phones, the pay phones will still be there because they're making money.
Generally, these types of contracts have a section where the buyer promises not to resell the item without also requiring the new buyer to agree to the terms of the original contract.