App Store . . . the home of people ripping off ideas that have been around for 30 years and becoming millionaires from all the suckers who think it's the greatest thing they've ever seen.
Please, inform us all on how we can avoid being on mailing lists (where they gather your address and name and other data from any of a number of businesses, such as financial institutions), and census records and real-estate listings and company websites? Maybe you have some magic that I'm not aware of that renders you invisible in any public records.
Yeah, I don't get this, either. It would freak me the hell out if I got some email or something from someone (or from a website, on behalf of someone) flirting with me, because they saw that I was single based on census data or my linkedin profile. At best, this seems like an attempt to facilitate unwanted harassment. How this is any different than generating a massive mailing list that you can sell to businesses and scam artists, I have no idea.
I haven't used XFCE in a few years, but this tempts me to play with it, again. Last time I used it, I just deployed it on what was otherwise usually going to be a headless server that I just need CLI access to. It was such a joy, after the other hefty, bloated, overkill options out there (for these purposes, at least).
If you thought the story about Enumclaw Man (Kenneth Pinyan) was terrifying, just wait until guys like that get hold of some prehistoric cloned mammals. Eew.
Erm. I don't think you really need to take even a single glance at a science book to know astrology is absurd. It's just common sense. Kind of how I don't need to read a math text book to stop and say "hey, I suspect that numerology may be bullshit!".
What's horrifying is when you realize how many people out there waste their time with it as an amusement -- or worse, how many people actually believe in this shit and live their life around it. Google something like "which zodiac sign is more likely to be OCD" and you'll see long Yahoo! Answers (the biggest waste of internet use in existence) discussions that will make you want to slit your wrists.
Manufactures often set MSRP on items. Stores still sell them at whatever price the stores wish. If they want to give a sale on the item at 30% below MSRP, they do it. If they need to clear the shelves and practically give it away, they do. Why should this be any different? Since when does the manufacturer of a product get to determine the price the retailer sells it for?
Of course, on the other hand, there are a couple valid points:
1) Since when does the amount that the retailer sells the item for factor into the amount the manufacturer gets paid? If the wholesale price of a TV is $500, you pay me $500, as the retailer. If you sell it for $1,000, I don't get any more money. If you sell it for $300, I don't get any less money.
2) If you buy 100 units and only sell 50, that's your problem. The manufacturer still gets paid for 100 units. (As far as I know, at least. Maybe that's not actually how it works in retail and maybe you actually return unsold items to the manufacturer for a refund?)
Speaking of tin foil hats, let me point out that his last post was on the 9th anniversary of 9/11. Coincidence, gentlemen? I think not. For me personally, the scariest thing is seeing my/. nick subtly hidden in my very own post.
HOLY SHIT.
If you add all of those numbers and divide them by the magical number that is 3, you get 6.66! This guy was abducted by the devil!
Everyone knows that disappearances only matter if the subject is an attractive, young, blond, female. Preferably from at least an upper middle class background.
For a product claiming to be "8.x", it sure could use a lot of refinement. They haven't accomplished anything special with the tab interface (the biggest reason I can't adopt it for primary use -- I need Panorama and if not that, at least vertical nested tree tabs). There is a lot to be desired for extension selection and quality. And the thing I probably find most annoying, there doesn't seem to be a way to really organize the icon/button on the main bar that just about every extension installs. Causes what is otherwise normally a slick looking and clean interface into a cluttered piece of crap.
However, for *actually* only being about 2.0, it's doing pretty great and it's nice to have a viable third candidate in the mix to drive the others to improve (or a fourth, if you're one of those Opera crazies!).
From what I understand, all-you-can-eat places often turn customers away if they consume an unreasonable amount of food. From tales I've heard, it usually involves giving the customer their money back, too.
Of course, this isn't at all like saying "you're being too much of a pig, so we're cutting you off!".
Five gigabytes is more like saying "$10 for all you can eat!" and then after you have a slice of bread, a coke, and a piece of ham, they tell you that you've had too much and need to go away, thanks for the cash. Sure, you thought you could eat all you want, but if we actually stocked enough food for everyone to eat all they wanted (or even enough for the average person to reasonably eat), then it would simply be too expensive for us to run our business!
You need a lot of bandwidth if, say, you travel on business a lot and use it to VPN into the office to get things done.
And, again, if the claim is that no mobile user really *NEEDS* this much bandwidth, then why the fuck bother advertising it as a BROADBAND SERVICE and touting your speed? Look at this! You can download your email in four milliseconds! Zoooom! Also, if the average user doesn't use much bandwidth at all because all they do is check their email and read drudgereport, then there should be PLENTY of bandwidth left over for heavy users and nobody should be bitching, right?
Also, I would LOVE to start up a restaurant and charge everyone for their meals and then only give them part of their meals and when they complain, say "hey, this shit is expensive to make - you can't expect me to feed ALL of you a full meal!".
Whatever solution one could choose, the WORST is trimming services and just throwing your hands up into the air and saying "golly, it's so expensive - what do you expect us to do?!". If you can't provide a certain level of service for a certain price, then don't offer it or advertise it. Pretty simple.
It's also maybe about 30 minutes of youtube per day (at lower quality). And better not think about using Steam. Buy Dragon Age and you'll have to split the download over about three months of time. If you like podcasts, you'd run through that much pretty quickly, too. You could download the weekly episodes of Diggnation for about 3gb/mo. I listen to a daily podcast that is about three to four hours and takes up about 200mb. That's almost 5gb/mo right there.
Really, they just need to rename their service and advertise it as being as limited as it is.
You have no business calling your service "Broadband"-anything, when the only thing you can tout is "250 hours of web browsing" and "500,000 emails". Have these guys heard of streaming audio and video? Flash? If I just wanted to read my email and surf wikipedia, I wouldn't need a fucking "broadband" connection.
I own just about every console out there and a few handhelds. Would have loved to buy the PSP, but even after all this time, there's not enough content out there to justify buying it.
Also, their claim seems kind of absurd about it being as powerful as a PS3. That would be awful, if it actually as (it isn't). I mean, think about that. There's no end to the current console cycle in site. We probably won't see a new generation until 2013 and the "life span" of the PS3 is supposed to be as long as the PS2 (so, until 2016). And yet, in 2011, they claim that something the size of a cell phone is as powerful as the console that they're trying to push people to for the next five years?
I gave Chrome a chance, but the lack of decent tab handling sent me packing. I couldn't even find a decent solution among the available extensions (something like the Vertical Tree View extension on FF or even Panorama/Tab Candy). There are some solutions - they're just all kind of clumsy.
I'd argue that bookmarks are far more of a waste to have bolted on than Panorama. Once you use it, I don't see how you can go back to plain old tabs. Saying that's a bolted on waste is like five years ago, when everyone said tabs were a bolted on waste, because you could just open forty browser windows.
I might even say that Panorama is better than vertical nested tree bookmark tabs.
The lack of the Panorama (or even vertical nested tree tabs) is the primary reason I don't use Chrome.
An ideal solution would be that if they took a certain number of functions and made them something you could add/remove during or after installation. Not just "go to our repository and search out of thousands of extensions", but part of the actual installation that said "these are official components of the browser as we deliver it to you, but feel free to remove them right here and they will not be installed".
Anyway, I've been using FF4 for months on several platforms (*nix, OSX, Windows) and it has been pretty great. My only complaint would be that flash crashes about 80% of the time. Seriously, if you load up youtube, there's an 80% chance that it'll crash before you can play a video. There's a 100% chance that it'll crash if you do much to the playing interface (play, pause, play, forward, select another featured video, etc). And there's about an 80% chance that the GMAIL flash interface will do the same. Constantly see the "flash plugin has crashed on this page - please click here to reload the page".
But . . . But . . . drudgereport keeps pointing out stories all year long about how it's the coldest on record for a particular city here and there or how it's really cold today and how there's going to be snow tomorrow and, therefore, the weather this month proves a pattern over the last half million years and disproves all theories asserting otherwise!
The FBI doesn't give a shit. They just want to establish as much justification for "actively monitoring" every form of communication for "profiled content", including your game of COD. If they can piggy-back that on a legitimate request for an ongoing case, then all the better for them.
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Damn, then you'll have to miss out on all that amazing NBC content, like . . . um . . .
App Store . . . the home of people ripping off ideas that have been around for 30 years and becoming millionaires from all the suckers who think it's the greatest thing they've ever seen.
Please, inform us all on how we can avoid being on mailing lists (where they gather your address and name and other data from any of a number of businesses, such as financial institutions), and census records and real-estate listings and company websites? Maybe you have some magic that I'm not aware of that renders you invisible in any public records.
Yeah, I don't get this, either. It would freak me the hell out if I got some email or something from someone (or from a website, on behalf of someone) flirting with me, because they saw that I was single based on census data or my linkedin profile. At best, this seems like an attempt to facilitate unwanted harassment. How this is any different than generating a massive mailing list that you can sell to businesses and scam artists, I have no idea.
I haven't used XFCE in a few years, but this tempts me to play with it, again. Last time I used it, I just deployed it on what was otherwise usually going to be a headless server that I just need CLI access to. It was such a joy, after the other hefty, bloated, overkill options out there (for these purposes, at least).
If you thought the story about Enumclaw Man (Kenneth Pinyan) was terrifying, just wait until guys like that get hold of some prehistoric cloned mammals. Eew.
Yeah? All the grunt work is free and they don't use $20m worth of hardware and bandwidth.
just $20 million
Uh. Yeah. That's a really small budget . . . ?
Erm. I don't think you really need to take even a single glance at a science book to know astrology is absurd. It's just common sense. Kind of how I don't need to read a math text book to stop and say "hey, I suspect that numerology may be bullshit!".
What's horrifying is when you realize how many people out there waste their time with it as an amusement -- or worse, how many people actually believe in this shit and live their life around it. Google something like "which zodiac sign is more likely to be OCD" and you'll see long Yahoo! Answers (the biggest waste of internet use in existence) discussions that will make you want to slit your wrists.
It doesn't seem unfair to me, at all.
Manufactures often set MSRP on items. Stores still sell them at whatever price the stores wish. If they want to give a sale on the item at 30% below MSRP, they do it. If they need to clear the shelves and practically give it away, they do. Why should this be any different? Since when does the manufacturer of a product get to determine the price the retailer sells it for?
Of course, on the other hand, there are a couple valid points:
1) Since when does the amount that the retailer sells the item for factor into the amount the manufacturer gets paid? If the wholesale price of a TV is $500, you pay me $500, as the retailer. If you sell it for $1,000, I don't get any more money. If you sell it for $300, I don't get any less money.
2) If you buy 100 units and only sell 50, that's your problem. The manufacturer still gets paid for 100 units. (As far as I know, at least. Maybe that's not actually how it works in retail and maybe you actually return unsold items to the manufacturer for a refund?)
Speaking of tin foil hats, let me point out that his last post was on the 9th anniversary of 9/11. Coincidence, gentlemen? I think not. For me personally, the scariest thing is seeing my /. nick subtly hidden in my very own post.
HOLY SHIT.
If you add all of those numbers and divide them by the magical number that is 3, you get 6.66! This guy was abducted by the devil!
Everyone knows that disappearances only matter if the subject is an attractive, young, blond, female. Preferably from at least an upper middle class background.
Governments seem to have this odd fascination with the idea of transitioning the world into a cashless society.
Well, considering Chrome 1.0 was just released two years ago, we'll be on Chrome 12x by the end of the year.
For a product claiming to be "8.x", it sure could use a lot of refinement. They haven't accomplished anything special with the tab interface (the biggest reason I can't adopt it for primary use -- I need Panorama and if not that, at least vertical nested tree tabs). There is a lot to be desired for extension selection and quality. And the thing I probably find most annoying, there doesn't seem to be a way to really organize the icon/button on the main bar that just about every extension installs. Causes what is otherwise normally a slick looking and clean interface into a cluttered piece of crap.
However, for *actually* only being about 2.0, it's doing pretty great and it's nice to have a viable third candidate in the mix to drive the others to improve (or a fourth, if you're one of those Opera crazies!).
From what I understand, all-you-can-eat places often turn customers away if they consume an unreasonable amount of food. From tales I've heard, it usually involves giving the customer their money back, too.
Of course, this isn't at all like saying "you're being too much of a pig, so we're cutting you off!".
Five gigabytes is more like saying "$10 for all you can eat!" and then after you have a slice of bread, a coke, and a piece of ham, they tell you that you've had too much and need to go away, thanks for the cash. Sure, you thought you could eat all you want, but if we actually stocked enough food for everyone to eat all they wanted (or even enough for the average person to reasonably eat), then it would simply be too expensive for us to run our business!
You need a lot of bandwidth if, say, you travel on business a lot and use it to VPN into the office to get things done.
And, again, if the claim is that no mobile user really *NEEDS* this much bandwidth, then why the fuck bother advertising it as a BROADBAND SERVICE and touting your speed? Look at this! You can download your email in four milliseconds! Zoooom! Also, if the average user doesn't use much bandwidth at all because all they do is check their email and read drudgereport, then there should be PLENTY of bandwidth left over for heavy users and nobody should be bitching, right?
Five gigabytes is not "many, many GB per month".
Also, I would LOVE to start up a restaurant and charge everyone for their meals and then only give them part of their meals and when they complain, say "hey, this shit is expensive to make - you can't expect me to feed ALL of you a full meal!".
Whatever solution one could choose, the WORST is trimming services and just throwing your hands up into the air and saying "golly, it's so expensive - what do you expect us to do?!". If you can't provide a certain level of service for a certain price, then don't offer it or advertise it. Pretty simple.
It's also maybe about 30 minutes of youtube per day (at lower quality). And better not think about using Steam. Buy Dragon Age and you'll have to split the download over about three months of time. If you like podcasts, you'd run through that much pretty quickly, too. You could download the weekly episodes of Diggnation for about 3gb/mo. I listen to a daily podcast that is about three to four hours and takes up about 200mb. That's almost 5gb/mo right there.
Really, they just need to rename their service and advertise it as being as limited as it is.
You have no business calling your service "Broadband"-anything, when the only thing you can tout is "250 hours of web browsing" and "500,000 emails". Have these guys heard of streaming audio and video? Flash? If I just wanted to read my email and surf wikipedia, I wouldn't need a fucking "broadband" connection.
I own just about every console out there and a few handhelds. Would have loved to buy the PSP, but even after all this time, there's not enough content out there to justify buying it.
Also, their claim seems kind of absurd about it being as powerful as a PS3. That would be awful, if it actually as (it isn't). I mean, think about that. There's no end to the current console cycle in site. We probably won't see a new generation until 2013 and the "life span" of the PS3 is supposed to be as long as the PS2 (so, until 2016). And yet, in 2011, they claim that something the size of a cell phone is as powerful as the console that they're trying to push people to for the next five years?
I gave Chrome a chance, but the lack of decent tab handling sent me packing. I couldn't even find a decent solution among the available extensions (something like the Vertical Tree View extension on FF or even Panorama/Tab Candy). There are some solutions - they're just all kind of clumsy.
I'd argue that bookmarks are far more of a waste to have bolted on than Panorama. Once you use it, I don't see how you can go back to plain old tabs. Saying that's a bolted on waste is like five years ago, when everyone said tabs were a bolted on waste, because you could just open forty browser windows.
I might even say that Panorama is better than vertical nested tree bookmark tabs.
The lack of the Panorama (or even vertical nested tree tabs) is the primary reason I don't use Chrome.
An ideal solution would be that if they took a certain number of functions and made them something you could add/remove during or after installation. Not just "go to our repository and search out of thousands of extensions", but part of the actual installation that said "these are official components of the browser as we deliver it to you, but feel free to remove them right here and they will not be installed".
Anyway, I've been using FF4 for months on several platforms (*nix, OSX, Windows) and it has been pretty great. My only complaint would be that flash crashes about 80% of the time. Seriously, if you load up youtube, there's an 80% chance that it'll crash before you can play a video. There's a 100% chance that it'll crash if you do much to the playing interface (play, pause, play, forward, select another featured video, etc). And there's about an 80% chance that the GMAIL flash interface will do the same. Constantly see the "flash plugin has crashed on this page - please click here to reload the page".
But . . . But . . . drudgereport keeps pointing out stories all year long about how it's the coldest on record for a particular city here and there or how it's really cold today and how there's going to be snow tomorrow and, therefore, the weather this month proves a pattern over the last half million years and disproves all theories asserting otherwise!
The FBI doesn't give a shit. They just want to establish as much justification for "actively monitoring" every form of communication for "profiled content", including your game of COD. If they can piggy-back that on a legitimate request for an ongoing case, then all the better for them.