Walmart does downright absurd stuff with their online presence. The store actively refused to look for an item that was available to pick up in the store the same day, if it's not on the shelf it doesn't exists to them. So we ordered it online and it was ready for pickup less than an hour later. They had the product, they even had a better price than walmart.com (they refunded the difference, the only nice part of this experience), but they wouldn't sell it unless you went back home and then came back to pick it up. Bizzare.
"My neighborhood" is not a big box chain store. "My standard of living" isn't improved by buying the same stuff, made in the same overseas factory that houses workers in crappy barracks and takes half of their 16 hour workday pay back for room and board, from said store. "My beliefs about legal and social justice" aren't relevant when talking about corporations that will maximize profits at any cost, including encouraging said factories. Personal economic decisions may not be made in vacuum, but corporate ones increasingly are and there is no reason to prefer the Target vacuum over the Amazon one.
I think you missed the "used market puts money into their industry" part. Perception of value doesn't matter for that. Say low budget gamer has $100, they can either buy a new game for $60 and two used for $20, five used games for $20 or one new at $60 and two movies at $20. If they buy used, the money will go to other gamers who will buy games with it, if they buy movies the game company has lost that $40 until it cycles back to another gamer.
Meh, if you don't like the discussion, don't participate. Yet you have an opinion, so why can't anyone else? Does trying to make a profit make one immune to criticism? Why?
There is a huge variation in CFL quality. I've had ones that are green an flicker as well as one's that just work. Though the recent Philips LED beat them all, they are more expensive but if I wanted to ignore lifetime costs I'd just stick to the most crappy incadescents.
Why exactly do you believe it's worse "these days". Or rather, is yours the "good old days" or the "hear it a lot"? Also, it's in no way limited to the police but it's not discussed much don't since it's easier to rationalize a lot of things if judges are infallible superhuman inteligences instead of people.
Google's business isn't copyright infringement. Their business is search and advertising. Google's beef with SOPA is that they don't want to constantly police their own search results and be held responsible for user generated content.
Who pushed for DMCA to effectively outlaw fair use and messing with your own hardware? That's right, the same people who are now crying that the safe harbor provisions they couldn't imagine being a problem 10 years ago are actually enabling all sorts of innovative sites that might or might not end up with their content. Now it's a problem and needs to be killed, not the DMCA mind you, only the parts they aren't beneficial to their quest of destroying any tech that lessens their control (which is anything with a display, speakers or the capability to be hooked up to either and isn't under their boot).
Is symbolset a murderer? We don't have a body. We don't have any evidence. But we know that people have been murdered in the past. It's an open question.
It's really about time for web-applications to acknowlage the reality that an account doesn't necceserily equate one person and start supporting multiple users. This kind of password sharing is only one scenario. Collection managers really make more sense for a household, not a person, so let multiple accounts share a collection. Password managers should be able to push certain passwords to other users (yes, this is perfectly possible with assymetric encryption) and, optimally, provide secret sharing capabilities to enable password recovery in emergencies. Email may benefit from per-folder/per-tag shared access, so that someone can take over some of your correspondence as needed, without kludges like forwarding that just leave you with a ton of unread email that may or may not have been processed already. And so on.
A few years earlier in my Introduction to Programming I witnessed, at the end of the class, two extra nerdy/unnatractive guys talking to one of the female TA's.
Do you remember all the people who didn't say anything like that?
Next Apple will sue LG for retroactively cloning the iPhone 4 in 2007. No way they could have designed the Prada on their own, it's just too similar to the iPhone 4.
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Didn't stop them from countersuing Motorola with the Xoom...
Publically stated where?
Very, very different?
Walmart does downright absurd stuff with their online presence. The store actively refused to look for an item that was available to pick up in the store the same day, if it's not on the shelf it doesn't exists to them. So we ordered it online and it was ready for pickup less than an hour later. They had the product, they even had a better price than walmart.com (they refunded the difference, the only nice part of this experience), but they wouldn't sell it unless you went back home and then came back to pick it up. Bizzare.
"My neighborhood" is not a big box chain store. "My standard of living" isn't improved by buying the same stuff, made in the same overseas factory that houses workers in crappy barracks and takes half of their 16 hour workday pay back for room and board, from said store. "My beliefs about legal and social justice" aren't relevant when talking about corporations that will maximize profits at any cost, including encouraging said factories. Personal economic decisions may not be made in vacuum, but corporate ones increasingly are and there is no reason to prefer the Target vacuum over the Amazon one.
I think you missed the "used market puts money into their industry" part. Perception of value doesn't matter for that. Say low budget gamer has $100, they can either buy a new game for $60 and two used for $20, five used games for $20 or one new at $60 and two movies at $20. If they buy used, the money will go to other gamers who will buy games with it, if they buy movies the game company has lost that $40 until it cycles back to another gamer.
Meh, if you don't like the discussion, don't participate. Yet you have an opinion, so why can't anyone else? Does trying to make a profit make one immune to criticism? Why?
Recording MP3 players are apparently the Lost Generation.
NIce, all (of what passes for) the creative element claimed is right there.
There is a huge variation in CFL quality. I've had ones that are green an flicker as well as one's that just work. Though the recent Philips LED beat them all, they are more expensive but if I wanted to ignore lifetime costs I'd just stick to the most crappy incadescents.
I don't have those problems either. Every single Firefox memory issue I've ever had was caused by Flash.
Why exactly do you believe it's worse "these days". Or rather, is yours the "good old days" or the "hear it a lot"? Also, it's in no way limited to the police but it's not discussed much don't since it's easier to rationalize a lot of things if judges are infallible superhuman inteligences instead of people.
Look up "sensationalize" (in a dictionary, not the title).
Who pushed for DMCA to effectively outlaw fair use and messing with your own hardware? That's right, the same people who are now crying that the safe harbor provisions they couldn't imagine being a problem 10 years ago are actually enabling all sorts of innovative sites that might or might not end up with their content. Now it's a problem and needs to be killed, not the DMCA mind you, only the parts they aren't beneficial to their quest of destroying any tech that lessens their control (which is anything with a display, speakers or the capability to be hooked up to either and isn't under their boot).
Is symbolset a murderer? We don't have a body. We don't have any evidence. But we know that people have been murdered in the past. It's an open question.
Or, more precisely, by their willingness to accept it as payment. Recursively. Acceptance all the way down.
Nice straw man. The planet will be fine, life will move on. It's us we are concerned about.
Whoa!
It's really about time for web-applications to acknowlage the reality that an account doesn't necceserily equate one person and start supporting multiple users. This kind of password sharing is only one scenario. Collection managers really make more sense for a household, not a person, so let multiple accounts share a collection. Password managers should be able to push certain passwords to other users (yes, this is perfectly possible with assymetric encryption) and, optimally, provide secret sharing capabilities to enable password recovery in emergencies. Email may benefit from per-folder/per-tag shared access, so that someone can take over some of your correspondence as needed, without kludges like forwarding that just leave you with a ton of unread email that may or may not have been processed already. And so on.
Do you remember all the people who didn't say anything like that?
Depends if the 30% to Apple is cheaper than rolling out new editions all the time. Kills of the used market either way.
Next Apple will sue LG for retroactively cloning the iPhone 4 in 2007. No way they could have designed the Prada on their own, it's just too similar to the iPhone 4.
Maybe something is using localstorage? I know the Amazon Cloudreader asked me to use over 50MB, that alone must use like 100MB in my profile.
Osmand is outstanding. You can get the latest build for free and/or as donationware from the Android market.
Where do you stand on bank robberies?