You clearly have no idea what education pricing is like. I manage the Mac licenses for a computer lab where I work, and we got Office.Mac for around $40 a license.
To contrast, my first-gen, Core 1 Duo MacBook Pro stopped charging about six months after buying it. It would only run off AC power, and plugging it in, the battery would just sit there doing nothing, empty.
First, Apple DHL overnighted me a new battery and return shipping box. It wasn't the battery.
Next, Apple DHL overnighted me a return shipping box for the MacBook Pro itself. They got it the next day, diagnosed AND repaired it, and shipped it back out DHL overnight the same day. The turnaround time amazed me. They ended up having to replace one of the boards inside, but not the logic board itself.
Except Microsoft basically owns the OS market, and they can therefore dictate their own terms, much like Apple and the iTunes store in the portable music sector.
What are the media companies going to do, not release media that will play on Windows operating systems if Microsoft doesn't implement their DRM? Hell no. So again, why is Microsoft bending to their demands?
Why should Adobe even care about making Flash for Linux in the first place for such a tiny portion of the web browser market? God, you people are whiners.
For example, I want to buy the larger George Foreman Grill that is $15 cheaper on Amazon than in our local stores ($95 here, $80 on Amazon). Unfortunately, even though it ships from Amazon (not a 3rd party like some items) and I have Prime, they want $14 to ship it. So, for $1 less, I could get it in 2 weeks on Amazon, even though I've paid them $80 for the benefit of Prime.
It probably depends on individual order history, but I've gotten such shipping fees waved as a Prime member, and I've even gotten things like tvs, with $100 delivery fees delivered for free as well. How? I simply call them up and ask. It never hurts to just ask, the worst they can do is say no, and of course, there's the chance they'll actually do it.
I do, however, order practically daily from Amazon, have had a paid Prime membership since the day the service debuted, an order history dating back to 1999, and I order stuff for co-workers under my account so they get items in two-days, and I get 3% back in Amazon VISA rewards.
Funny, the post office literally two doors down from me (in Manhattan) always has horrendous lines which I've called four times now to complain about, and an Automated Postal Center which is broken half the time I go in there.
To compound things, the APC won't let you send packages via Media Mail anymore, apparently because people were using it to scam the USPS sending non-media items at highly redcued prices, so I have to wait in that horrible line just so a postal employee can stamp it Media Mail without even verifying the box's contents anyway.
Um... I do.
Amazon's free shipping is slow. First of all, they hold the package for a few days rather than shipping it right away, and then it goes ground, either by USPS or UPS.
For only $80 a year, I can place an order and it'll have entered the "shipping soon" phase within hours, and I'll have it in two days. Or overnight, for $4 per item. You really have no idea how this changes online shopping habits, especially coupled with not having a minimum order to seek now. (i.e. $25)
I've always been a huge Amazon fan, and I've had Prime since the day it debuted, and I now buy practically everything from Amazon. Yesterday I ordered a pair of gloves for $4.49 with free shipping and no tax. It'll be here tomorrow. That's a very enjoyable thing to have.
They have call centers in America as well. The direct number is 206-266-2992. If it gets switched to an Indian call center simply hang up on them when they answer and call back. Most of the time you will get an American. In addition, write to them (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general- questions.html/002-4619680-5924037?%5Fencoding=UTF 8&no%5Ft=1&skip=1) and make them awake as to how useless their outsourced customer service is.
The 32X was nowhere near as powerful as the Saturn.
The biggest problem wasn't the 32X itself, but rather the infighting between Sega of America and Sega of Japan. Sega of Japan, in my opinion, has always been completely inept at running the company, and yet they've always had the power of final say, despite being a company founded by an American.
Sega of America, smartly, IMO, wanted to use the 32X as a bit of a stop-gap between the generations, because they knew it would be a lot more affordable than a PSX or Saturn, and it had decent enough power. Sega of Japan, however, shoved the Saturn down Sega of America's throat. An early and forced launch, no software ready, etc. Not only was America not ready for the Saturn, but of course this alienated retailers like KayBee which didn't stock the Saturn at all as they didn't get stock at launch, and developers as well. All the while, SOJ but B and C-list developers on 32X titles, and didn't devote production facilities to it as they were busy making the Saturn.
Then you have issues like Naka threatening to quit because Bernie Stolar took the NiGHTS engine without his "permission" for SOA to make Sonic Xtreme. SOJ has always been run like shit, and the only reason they managed to stay afloat so long was Sega's American and European successes and Okawa bailing them out as he was a billionaire. In fact, had he not died, he probably still would've been funding them for new R&D.
I think you're forgetting the fact that PayPal also stores checking account information, which is far, far more difficult to get money back from in the event of identity theft.
Considering the near infinite possible configurations of systems out there, there's no way in hell Microsoft could be expected to test them all unlike a proprietary Apple box.
It's only $16.99 at Amazon.com, and the quality I think, is far greater done in pieces like this, rather than a long haul like Half Life 2 itself.
Besides which, as was already mentioned, they'll probably be a "package deal discount" if you do want to wait and just treat this as a full game sequel, rather than episodes.
I hadn't touched Steam or Half Life 2 in months, but HL2 always worked fine. I finally tried the new Sin a couple days ago, and also had random lockups doing mundane things, and poor performance issues. I didn't try HL2 though, because I was too frustrated, and it's finals week. But now, after reading these posts, maybe it is indeed Steam. Time to find out if Valve offers any kind of customer service, otherwise I'll have to threaten a chargeback on my VISA and see what fun comes of that.
One thing others haven't mentioned, or I can't seem to easily find, is that the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) already has cell service down in their tunnels from Penn Station all the way until it peeks out to land again.
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Is there really no one out there who has said "fuck performance, we're gonna build drives that are good for at least five years"?
They're called Enterprise grade drives. They usually cost 2X more than the consumer level drives.
You clearly have no idea what education pricing is like. I manage the Mac licenses for a computer lab where I work, and we got Office.Mac for around $40 a license.
They'd better use this delay to implement a new Finder given how absolutely terrible the current one is.
I think you misspelled Germany.
To contrast, my first-gen, Core 1 Duo MacBook Pro stopped charging about six months after buying it. It would only run off AC power, and plugging it in, the battery would just sit there doing nothing, empty.
First, Apple DHL overnighted me a new battery and return shipping box. It wasn't the battery.
Next, Apple DHL overnighted me a return shipping box for the MacBook Pro itself. They got it the next day, diagnosed AND repaired it, and shipped it back out DHL overnight the same day. The turnaround time amazed me. They ended up having to replace one of the boards inside, but not the logic board itself.
What the hell are you talking about? $1200 gets you a high-spec 17-inch iMac.
XP came out Oct 2001.
Oct 2001 - Jan 2007 is 5+ years.
Except Microsoft basically owns the OS market, and they can therefore dictate their own terms, much like Apple and the iTunes store in the portable music sector.
What are the media companies going to do, not release media that will play on Windows operating systems if Microsoft doesn't implement their DRM? Hell no. So again, why is Microsoft bending to their demands?
Why should Adobe even care about making Flash for Linux in the first place for such a tiny portion of the web browser market? God, you people are whiners.
Sony.
That's what colleges are for! I was shocked that the campus I work at was giving me 2MB/sec uploads. Yes, MB not Mb.
For example, I want to buy the larger George Foreman Grill that is $15 cheaper on Amazon than in our local stores ($95 here, $80 on Amazon). Unfortunately, even though it ships from Amazon (not a 3rd party like some items) and I have Prime, they want $14 to ship it. So, for $1 less, I could get it in 2 weeks on Amazon, even though I've paid them $80 for the benefit of Prime.
It probably depends on individual order history, but I've gotten such shipping fees waved as a Prime member, and I've even gotten things like tvs, with $100 delivery fees delivered for free as well. How? I simply call them up and ask. It never hurts to just ask, the worst they can do is say no, and of course, there's the chance they'll actually do it.
I do, however, order practically daily from Amazon, have had a paid Prime membership since the day the service debuted, an order history dating back to 1999, and I order stuff for co-workers under my account so they get items in two-days, and I get 3% back in Amazon VISA rewards.
Funny, the post office literally two doors down from me (in Manhattan) always has horrendous lines which I've called four times now to complain about, and an Automated Postal Center which is broken half the time I go in there.
To compound things, the APC won't let you send packages via Media Mail anymore, apparently because people were using it to scam the USPS sending non-media items at highly redcued prices, so I have to wait in that horrible line just so a postal employee can stamp it Media Mail without even verifying the box's contents anyway.
Um... I do. Amazon's free shipping is slow. First of all, they hold the package for a few days rather than shipping it right away, and then it goes ground, either by USPS or UPS. For only $80 a year, I can place an order and it'll have entered the "shipping soon" phase within hours, and I'll have it in two days. Or overnight, for $4 per item. You really have no idea how this changes online shopping habits, especially coupled with not having a minimum order to seek now. (i.e. $25) I've always been a huge Amazon fan, and I've had Prime since the day it debuted, and I now buy practically everything from Amazon. Yesterday I ordered a pair of gloves for $4.49 with free shipping and no tax. It'll be here tomorrow. That's a very enjoyable thing to have.
They have call centers in America as well. The direct number is 206-266-2992. If it gets switched to an Indian call center simply hang up on them when they answer and call back. Most of the time you will get an American. In addition, write to them (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general- questions.html/002-4619680-5924037?%5Fencoding=UTF 8&no%5Ft=1&skip=1) and make them awake as to how useless their outsourced customer service is.
The 32X was nowhere near as powerful as the Saturn.
The biggest problem wasn't the 32X itself, but rather the infighting between Sega of America and Sega of Japan. Sega of Japan, in my opinion, has always been completely inept at running the company, and yet they've always had the power of final say, despite being a company founded by an American.
Sega of America, smartly, IMO, wanted to use the 32X as a bit of a stop-gap between the generations, because they knew it would be a lot more affordable than a PSX or Saturn, and it had decent enough power. Sega of Japan, however, shoved the Saturn down Sega of America's throat. An early and forced launch, no software ready, etc. Not only was America not ready for the Saturn, but of course this alienated retailers like KayBee which didn't stock the Saturn at all as they didn't get stock at launch, and developers as well. All the while, SOJ but B and C-list developers on 32X titles, and didn't devote production facilities to it as they were busy making the Saturn.
Then you have issues like Naka threatening to quit because Bernie Stolar took the NiGHTS engine without his "permission" for SOA to make Sonic Xtreme. SOJ has always been run like shit, and the only reason they managed to stay afloat so long was Sega's American and European successes and Okawa bailing them out as he was a billionaire. In fact, had he not died, he probably still would've been funding them for new R&D.
I think you're forgetting the fact that PayPal also stores checking account information, which is far, far more difficult to get money back from in the event of identity theft.
Considering the near infinite possible configurations of systems out there, there's no way in hell Microsoft could be expected to test them all unlike a proprietary Apple box.
It's only $16.99 at Amazon.com, and the quality I think, is far greater done in pieces like this, rather than a long haul like Half Life 2 itself.
Besides which, as was already mentioned, they'll probably be a "package deal discount" if you do want to wait and just treat this as a full game sequel, rather than episodes.
I hadn't touched Steam or Half Life 2 in months, but HL2 always worked fine. I finally tried the new Sin a couple days ago, and also had random lockups doing mundane things, and poor performance issues. I didn't try HL2 though, because I was too frustrated, and it's finals week. But now, after reading these posts, maybe it is indeed Steam. Time to find out if Valve offers any kind of customer service, otherwise I'll have to threaten a chargeback on my VISA and see what fun comes of that.
I am using Firefox 1.5.0.2 and JavaScript IS turned on. It doesn't work. It only works correctly in IE.
This is an example of why you're not currently in charge.
One thing others haven't mentioned, or I can't seem to easily find, is that the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) already has cell service down in their tunnels from Penn Station all the way until it peeks out to land again.
Hell, there's even a 2.5TB version using SATA.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ANMXL6/ref=w
Somebody buy that for me, it's on my Amazon wishlist.
I actually wonder this whenever I walk past a bank on my way home which has all its tvs left on 24/7.