I never considered a Sony music player after seeing the pathetic attempt at an "MP3 Player" that my friend bought. She bought a Sony brand player at Best Buy that was labeled an MP3 Player but could not in fact play MP3s. It came with software that could import MP3s into some shit format that the player used instead. The actual music and batter life capacities of the player were nowhere near what was advertised on the box, so my friend returned it and bought an iPod.
This is really pathetic, coming from the company who invented the Walkman and Discman. If this is representative of all modern Sony players, they will have lost the music market for good. I hope some executives at this company pull their heads out of their asses, quit living off the company's former good name, and produce something that works as its supposed to.
San Francisco's problem is overregulation. Rent control and extreme building restrictions does not exactly give someone an incentive to build new housing. As long as it is prohibitive to build new housing, supply will remain scarce and demand, along with prices, will stay high. Basic Econ 101.
Wah wah wah. When you move out of your parents' basement maybe you'll gain some understanding of the business world. Either that or prepare to spend the rest of your life complaining about how things are so unfair, which most people grow out of after elementary school.
Best idea yet. When paper ballots are required for "electronic" voting, the voting machine just becomes a glorified hole punch or a very expensive printer. Punch card voting can actually work quite well when you don't have idiots running it.
Yes yes, and we were 10 years away from running out of natural gas back in the 70s. There's always someone to say that fossil fuels are almost gone and then, what do you know, we find more! I'm not saying there is an unlimited supply, but the sky isn't always falling either.
That would be a nice user-configurable option. As it is, I don't find it too much trouble to hit shift-tab a couple of times, ctrl-C, ctrl-T, ctrl-V, enter to get the same page in a new tab, but it would save a few steps to have this choice. But I definitely wouldn't want new tabs opening up with the current page and no option to turn this feature off.
This page, when filtered through an ad-blocker, looks quite nice and has a lot of useful information. It always throws me for a loop when I go to Yahoo on a friend's PC with no adblock; I'm amazed at how much clutter there is.
Yes, because kicking someone's Koran and making them sleep without a blanket (in a tropical environment) is really such horrible torture. Newsflash, genius: Amnesty International sensationalizes things to push a political agenda. Of course they found evidence of torture, they were so determined that if nothing obvious came up they had to create it to save face.
The only thing an anti-suicide law would do is make people aware that if they intend to kill themselves, they better make sure it works. What is the penalty for committing suicide anyway, death? Outlawing suicide makes about as much sense as passing a law against cold weather, but I'm not surprised that it sounds like a good idea to some misguided politician.
Companies will fear the public when the public cares enough to quit buying their crap. They care about money, and not much else. Why should Sony care what people think if their sales are still doing great?
That's what we DON'T want them to do - list companies that are not part of the problem (people's machines becoming unusable through crapware) but who technically meet some definition of "spyware vendors". This will undermine the credibility of the initiative, which is to call attention to companies participating in abusive practices.
It's about as ethical as buying something at a 50% off sale when you could afford to pay full price somewhere else. What about the workers' jobs at the more expensive store?
I guess I just don't see how the RIAA isn't a wholy owned subsidiary of the Mafia.
I couldn't agree more. How else would they get away with the crap they've been pulling for so long? They've done much worse than cracking down on filesharers; it's just now becoming more apparent to the public. ANY other industry would have long ago faced an anti-trust prosecution for operating in a similar manner as the record cartel.
Is it too much to ask for a web-browser discussion (or hell, any kind of discussion) on Slashdot without some asshole modding down anything that is less than praising of his favored technology? Shit like this is enough to almost make me start meta-modding again.
I've had this idea myself before, but then realized why it wouldn't change much. If some patent troll has a patent on some obvious idea of an ecommerce system, all they have to do is put together some sort of a product and offer it for sale. Even if it were so shitty and overpriced that nobody would buy it, that would be enough for legal purposes. It would be too difficult to have the law evaluate whether it was a legitimate business idea or not.
I'm sure people are just going to be lining up to pay AOL for the privilege of sending mail to its users. I'm also sure that users are not going to switch when they find out that their friends can't mail them because they or their ISP did not pay the AOL tax. Yes indeed, this plan is going to be so popular. I'm sure the spammers are just quaking in their gold-plated boots.
Biologically, we process melatonin best between the hours of 12:00am and 2:00am.
I've always been skeptical of studies that claim the body does something best between certain numbered hours. How does the body know that it is 12 AM? What if you suddenly cross a time zone; would that throw off this process? Perhaps melatonin is best processed a certain number of hours after awakening, but how would a certain time have anything to do with it?
I'd love to know how much money these morons spent doing studies to solve a problem that any sensible person would have solved by turning down the thermostat.
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I never considered a Sony music player after seeing the pathetic attempt at an "MP3 Player" that my friend bought. She bought a Sony brand player at Best Buy that was labeled an MP3 Player but could not in fact play MP3s. It came with software that could import MP3s into some shit format that the player used instead. The actual music and batter life capacities of the player were nowhere near what was advertised on the box, so my friend returned it and bought an iPod.
This is really pathetic, coming from the company who invented the Walkman and Discman. If this is representative of all modern Sony players, they will have lost the music market for good. I hope some executives at this company pull their heads out of their asses, quit living off the company's former good name, and produce something that works as its supposed to.
What happens when the Chinese government makes Google turn over the US records they are holding in China?
San Francisco's problem is overregulation. Rent control and extreme building restrictions does not exactly give someone an incentive to build new housing. As long as it is prohibitive to build new housing, supply will remain scarce and demand, along with prices, will stay high. Basic Econ 101.
Let me guess, it's a GM truck? That smacks of dumb GM design.
The guy's name was Bernard Shiffman. More info can be found here.
Wah wah wah. When you move out of your parents' basement maybe you'll gain some understanding of the business world. Either that or prepare to spend the rest of your life complaining about how things are so unfair, which most people grow out of after elementary school.
Best idea yet. When paper ballots are required for "electronic" voting, the voting machine just becomes a glorified hole punch or a very expensive printer. Punch card voting can actually work quite well when you don't have idiots running it.
Yes yes, and we were 10 years away from running out of natural gas back in the 70s. There's always someone to say that fossil fuels are almost gone and then, what do you know, we find more! I'm not saying there is an unlimited supply, but the sky isn't always falling either.
It's that stuff you clean your bathtub with.
That would be a nice user-configurable option. As it is, I don't find it too much trouble to hit shift-tab a couple of times, ctrl-C, ctrl-T, ctrl-V, enter to get the same page in a new tab, but it would save a few steps to have this choice. But I definitely wouldn't want new tabs opening up with the current page and no option to turn this feature off.
This page, when filtered through an ad-blocker, looks quite nice and has a lot of useful information. It always throws me for a loop when I go to Yahoo on a friend's PC with no adblock; I'm amazed at how much clutter there is.
Yes, because kicking someone's Koran and making them sleep without a blanket (in a tropical environment) is really such horrible torture. Newsflash, genius: Amnesty International sensationalizes things to push a political agenda. Of course they found evidence of torture, they were so determined that if nothing obvious came up they had to create it to save face.
The only thing an anti-suicide law would do is make people aware that if they intend to kill themselves, they better make sure it works. What is the penalty for committing suicide anyway, death? Outlawing suicide makes about as much sense as passing a law against cold weather, but I'm not surprised that it sounds like a good idea to some misguided politician.
Companies will fear the public when the public cares enough to quit buying their crap. They care about money, and not much else. Why should Sony care what people think if their sales are still doing great?
That's what we DON'T want them to do - list companies that are not part of the problem (people's machines becoming unusable through crapware) but who technically meet some definition of "spyware vendors". This will undermine the credibility of the initiative, which is to call attention to companies participating in abusive practices.
Actually SBC/AT&T is based in Houston. That explains it all.
It's about as ethical as buying something at a 50% off sale when you could afford to pay full price somewhere else. What about the workers' jobs at the more expensive store?
I guess I just don't see how the RIAA isn't a wholy owned subsidiary of the Mafia.
I couldn't agree more. How else would they get away with the crap they've been pulling for so long? They've done much worse than cracking down on filesharers; it's just now becoming more apparent to the public. ANY other industry would have long ago faced an anti-trust prosecution for operating in a similar manner as the record cartel.
Is it too much to ask for a web-browser discussion (or hell, any kind of discussion) on Slashdot without some asshole modding down anything that is less than praising of his favored technology? Shit like this is enough to almost make me start meta-modding again.
I've had this idea myself before, but then realized why it wouldn't change much. If some patent troll has a patent on some obvious idea of an ecommerce system, all they have to do is put together some sort of a product and offer it for sale. Even if it were so shitty and overpriced that nobody would buy it, that would be enough for legal purposes. It would be too difficult to have the law evaluate whether it was a legitimate business idea or not.
I'm sure people are just going to be lining up to pay AOL for the privilege of sending mail to its users. I'm also sure that users are not going to switch when they find out that their friends can't mail them because they or their ISP did not pay the AOL tax. Yes indeed, this plan is going to be so popular. I'm sure the spammers are just quaking in their gold-plated boots.
When the result is a loss, yes it does. It sets legal precedent which will be cited in future cases.
Biologically, we process melatonin best between the hours of 12:00am and 2:00am.
I've always been skeptical of studies that claim the body does something best between certain numbered hours. How does the body know that it is 12 AM? What if you suddenly cross a time zone; would that throw off this process? Perhaps melatonin is best processed a certain number of hours after awakening, but how would a certain time have anything to do with it?
Now if only they would cancel that God-awful mess called "The War at Home". What a terrible imitation of Married with Children.
I'd love to know how much money these morons spent doing studies to solve a problem that any sensible person would have solved by turning down the thermostat.