I work in a computer shop, and you would be amazed at how many people think Microsoft Word actually *contains* all of the.doc files. They believe that Picasa actually contains all of their.jpegs.
Lots of people have no idea of the concept of a filesystem that applications merely reference.
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Fortunately my iPhone can copy paste addresses between apps so multitasking has no relevance to this task?
Broken analogy. Say I buy a toaster and want to put wheat bread, or white bread, or really any other slice of bread in it, I can. Same for bagels or perhaps English muffins, I can. Why? Because that's the stated function of the appliance. However, what if I decided I wanted to cook a pizza in my toaster? Obviously, this would not work well, and the manufacturer never claimed it would. Sure, you could probably modify your toaster to cook frozen pizzas (jail break?) but the manufacturer doesn't support it and isn't going to help you convert your toaster to doing that.
Now replace "making toast, not pizza" with "running app store apps, not others" and you can see how the iPhone is an appliance.
You're misunderstanding his point, and in fact agreeing with what he's saying.
What the OP is trying to say is that Data, unlike electricity, is not finite. Only the amount that can be transmitted at any given moment.
For example, the coal power plant company has (random number) 1000KWH worth of coal. You go and use 50 KWH worth, they are now down to 950KWH of coal. It's used up, and the only way to replace it is to buy more coal.
Data, however, doesn't work like this. The cell phone company has, say, 100GB/sec of bandwidth. You download something that is 20GB. Once your transfer is complete, the cell company STILL HAS 100GB/sec of bandwidth. Nothing is used.
The OP is suggesting that in cases when too many people are downloading things so as to saturate that 100GB/sec, just limit the people who are using the most so that people checking their e-mails (and make a very small dent in that cap) can do that without issue. Once the saturation ends, uncap the heavy users until there is another saturation.
The OP is very aware of the fact that the *transfer rate* is finite, but the *total amount transferred* is essentially infinite.
On the opposite hand, I would rather spend $10 to watch a movie in my living room than in a theater. My living room has pause/rewind, more comfortable seating, and most importantly, NONE OF THE FUCKING ANNOYING PEOPLE. Seriously, is it so hard to be silent for two hours?
Sorry, maybe once upon a time the gift cards were actual AmEx but they haven't been for the past 5+ years. If they were then the POS system wouldn't require you to select "gift card" rather than "credit" when running them, now would it?
I call factual inaccuracy on your FUD story. There's plenty of reasons to hate BB, quit spreading the bullshit ones.
I read through the first two of your links from start to finish and I have to call bullshit. Specifically, I even worked with Steven Byers (the general manager named in the second link) and while he was a total dick, he would never have sent a customer to the warehouse. For that matter, NO ONE would send a customer to a warehouse. Best Buy has a specific process (Customer Fulfillment) that is set up for just such a situation (store has no stock but warehouse does).
The way it works is, guess what, the warehouse delivers the product to the customer at no charge. Or it gets delivered to store and the customer can pick it up if that's more convenient.
When you have a customer base as large as they do, of course there's going to be some bad interactions. That said, not everything on the internet is true.
Incorrect, the POS at Best Buy requires the serial number to be scanned on an xbox at both time of sale and time of return, so it's next to impossible to pull off a switch like this at Best Buy.
The serial is printed directly on the casing, not on a sticker. And the packaging actually has a hole so the serial can be scanned directly from the xbox at the time of sale.
I feel like we're talking about two different things. This article in question, yes, is about used game sales.
However, copy-protection DRM, is obviously about piracy. Any argument otherwise is just an attempt to justify piracy.
Note that I'm not advocating all of the copy protection DRM, I'm just saying that for the MOST part, the purpose is copy protection, not used game prevention.
Limited activation is where we start to move from one to the other.
I don't understand why logging in online to play singleplayer would upset someone, but I suppose you must be in the anti-steam group as well.
As far as the lack of LAN play, if you have broadband you can just make a private online game and it'll be the same. Of course, everyone has to actually buy the game rather than sharing a copy but these days that's kind par for the course on gaming.
As far as being at the whim of the corporate overlords, you can STILL play Starcraft 1 online so I would imagine SC2 will be available for quite a while.
I think the point that the parent is making is that banning jailbroken users is not an attempt to make them "go legit" but rather to discourage current legitimate users from jailbreaking their phones.
As a former Agent myself, thank you for attempting to express that the individual employees aren't trying to scam anyone and that WHEN FOLLOWING COMPANY POLICY, management isn't either.
However, managers everywhere go and screw the pooch.
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I work in a computer shop, and you would be amazed at how many people think Microsoft Word actually *contains* all of the .doc files. They believe that Picasa actually contains all of their .jpegs.
Lots of people have no idea of the concept of a filesystem that applications merely reference.
Fortunately my iPhone can copy paste addresses between apps so multitasking has no relevance to this task?
Broken analogy. Say I buy a toaster and want to put wheat bread, or white bread, or really any other slice of bread in it, I can. Same for bagels or perhaps English muffins, I can. Why? Because that's the stated function of the appliance. However, what if I decided I wanted to cook a pizza in my toaster? Obviously, this would not work well, and the manufacturer never claimed it would. Sure, you could probably modify your toaster to cook frozen pizzas (jail break?) but the manufacturer doesn't support it and isn't going to help you convert your toaster to doing that.
Now replace "making toast, not pizza" with "running app store apps, not others" and you can see how the iPhone is an appliance.
You're misunderstanding his point, and in fact agreeing with what he's saying.
What the OP is trying to say is that Data, unlike electricity, is not finite. Only the amount that can be transmitted at any given moment.
For example, the coal power plant company has (random number) 1000KWH worth of coal. You go and use 50 KWH worth, they are now down to 950KWH of coal. It's used up, and the only way to replace it is to buy more coal.
Data, however, doesn't work like this. The cell phone company has, say, 100GB/sec of bandwidth. You download something that is 20GB. Once your transfer is complete, the cell company STILL HAS 100GB/sec of bandwidth. Nothing is used.
The OP is suggesting that in cases when too many people are downloading things so as to saturate that 100GB/sec, just limit the people who are using the most so that people checking their e-mails (and make a very small dent in that cap) can do that without issue. Once the saturation ends, uncap the heavy users until there is another saturation.
The OP is very aware of the fact that the *transfer rate* is finite, but the *total amount transferred* is essentially infinite.
If you worked for Google, yes.
So, did you read the parent's post? The dock connector didn't show up until the third generation. The original ipod had a firewire port.
Yeahhhh ad minimums for things like laptops were usually 12+ if not 20+ and rain checks were generally available.
In fact, about a year ago, they dropped doing "sales" on laptops and went to flat pricing to avoid this exact complaint.
So go ahead, keep being ignorant.
On the opposite hand, I would rather spend $10 to watch a movie in my living room than in a theater. My living room has pause/rewind, more comfortable seating, and most importantly, NONE OF THE FUCKING ANNOYING PEOPLE. Seriously, is it so hard to be silent for two hours?
Obligatory woosh.
Sorry, maybe once upon a time the gift cards were actual AmEx but they haven't been for the past 5+ years. If they were then the POS system wouldn't require you to select "gift card" rather than "credit" when running them, now would it?
I call factual inaccuracy on your FUD story. There's plenty of reasons to hate BB, quit spreading the bullshit ones.
I read through the first two of your links from start to finish and I have to call bullshit. Specifically, I even worked with Steven Byers (the general manager named in the second link) and while he was a total dick, he would never have sent a customer to the warehouse. For that matter, NO ONE would send a customer to a warehouse. Best Buy has a specific process (Customer Fulfillment) that is set up for just such a situation (store has no stock but warehouse does).
The way it works is, guess what, the warehouse delivers the product to the customer at no charge. Or it gets delivered to store and the customer can pick it up if that's more convenient.
When you have a customer base as large as they do, of course there's going to be some bad interactions. That said, not everything on the internet is true.
Every single item in the ad has an ad minimum listed next to it. Every single store has at least that many of the item on hand on Sunday morning.
There are seriously people waiting outside of many Best Buy's on Sunday morning for them to open in order to snag all of the ad product.
It's not a scam, it's vultures.
--Former Best Buy employee (with little love left for them, but even less left for FUD)
Incorrect, the POS at Best Buy requires the serial number to be scanned on an xbox at both time of sale and time of return, so it's next to impossible to pull off a switch like this at Best Buy.
The serial is printed directly on the casing, not on a sticker. And the packaging actually has a hole so the serial can be scanned directly from the xbox at the time of sale.
I feel like we're talking about two different things. This article in question, yes, is about used game sales.
However, copy-protection DRM, is obviously about piracy. Any argument otherwise is just an attempt to justify piracy.
Note that I'm not advocating all of the copy protection DRM, I'm just saying that for the MOST part, the purpose is copy protection, not used game prevention.
Limited activation is where we start to move from one to the other.
I don't understand why logging in online to play singleplayer would upset someone, but I suppose you must be in the anti-steam group as well.
As far as the lack of LAN play, if you have broadband you can just make a private online game and it'll be the same. Of course, everyone has to actually buy the game rather than sharing a copy but these days that's kind par for the course on gaming.
As far as being at the whim of the corporate overlords, you can STILL play Starcraft 1 online so I would imagine SC2 will be available for quite a while.
Like custom games?
I'm 99.9% sure Starcraft 2 will have custom games, just like the first one.
I think the point that the parent is making is that banning jailbroken users is not an attempt to make them "go legit" but rather to discourage current legitimate users from jailbreaking their phones.
And the world will not care.
No, because the iphone actually runs the Darwin kernel, just like OSX. Your 8088 was not running the NT Kernel.
There was a whole section of the presentation about how iWork is available for the iPad for $9.99 an app.
Next time your Playstation prompts you to install an update, hit circle.
You'll see that PS3 patches are optional as well. As long as you don't intend to play online, but that applies to PC gaming as well.
That's funny, I was just thinking the same thing. I keep picturing the actors as CG characters.
You must be an Agent or a former Agent.
As a former Agent myself, thank you for attempting to express that the individual employees aren't trying to scam anyone and that WHEN FOLLOWING COMPANY POLICY, management isn't either.
However, managers everywhere go and screw the pooch.
..... woosh?