LCD TV's are not being pushed for any other reason other than that they are what the retailers want to sell - higher margin, more prone to breaking down (average life of LCDTV: 5 years, average life of CRT: 15+).
Well, you missed the fact that LCD TVs are also lighter (cheaper to ship) and much smaller (cheaper to store/warehouse/ship and also a lot more appealing to people with limited desk space). Plus an inexpensive LCD panel looks much better than an inexpensive CRT to most people and has no issues with flicker in a corporate (fluorescent lit) environment.
But by all means, keep up your collusion theories.
Its notable that while the hybrids typically get lower mileage on the highway than they do in the city, they still get better mileage on the highway than most (all?) conventional vehicles of the same size do. When deciding whether or not to get a hybrid, that's what matters - otherwise you have a situation in which the same car with lower city MPG is a "win" but if it gets a few more MPG it becomes a "lose."
Shame on them. They should have waited until *after* a critical date. A simple IT rule of thumb, never rollout or upgrade a major system near a critical date or during a critical time period. Another example would be upgrading a retailer's systems in the timespan between Xmas and Thanksgiving.
Actually that's far safer than upgrading it during the inverse time between Thanksgiving and Christmas:)
The funny thing about that is big retail sites, sites like amazon and yahoo, never require password updates and have very lax requirements for passwords, even though they store credit card data with the account! Makes you wonder if they're ignoring the so-called 'experts', or if they've done their own research and discovered that all the common advise about passwords is wrong.
Yes, they store credit card data, but they don't give it back to you. Very few people would consider it worth their time to hack into your Amazon account in order to use your card on file to order returnable merchandise that can only be delivered to your own address.
Not actually the case; I rented an Altima hybrid for our last vacation. Drove from Vegas to St George, Zion, then over to Moab through the mountains, tooled around there a few days, then back. Averaged ~40mpg city and highway over some remarkably hilly terrain. Hybrids can make qla lot of sense. And I was driving it like a rental, the opposite of hypermilimg.
Seems reasonable to me. Especially when you look at the cost of a structural engineer to rectify the hinges and the deck with the new holes, the cost of drilling into treated stell correctly, the need to do so just to *replace* a part that may have failed in the middle of a combat operation...
If I had to I could change my car's oil my self. The proublem is I have no idea where/how to dispose of or recycle the oil, whereas Jiffy Lube does. Also, it takes Jiffy Lube 10 min to change the oil whereas I could end up spending a hour or more.
And many people have no idea how to get their PS3 online, or even whether or not installing a "Firmware Update" is a good thing (ooh, shiny new features) or a scary bad thing (my old games which used to work now don't, I've heard about updates "bricking" stuff, etc).
Its a valid comparison. Many driveway mechanics would be just as flabbergasted that you wouldn't know where to recycle oil as you were that someone wouldn't be able to upgrade the firmware in their game console.
You think that Sony will process a refund for a used movie? Even with WalMart's well known terms, that's a joke.
Also, WalMart has paid their CC gateway fees (twice now, once to process the sale, once to process the refund), stocked/stored/shipped the movie, paid the cashier who sold it to you, paid the clerk who processed the return... when your margins are wafer thin (sometimes down to a fraction of a percentage point), those actions are far from insignificant.
Anyway, my point still stands. You bought something. While you got exactly what was offered, you didn't like it. In all fairness, why isn't this your problem?
Jailbreaking to put an alternate OS on the phone is no big deal. Replacing parts of your current OS and then expecting Apple to support it is the problem (and considering that a large portion of the l33t folk who jailbreak their phone have no idea what they're doing or even why they're doing it, that's a sizable number of folk). Part of Apple's success is that they sell Solutions, not Products, and they support the entire Solution instead of passing the buck around. This changes that model.
...Yet you trust a company which basically says "Hey, we might brick your phone just to spite you"
The alternative is, "Whatever weird-ass system level shit you put on your phone, without telling us about it, often using temporary internal API structures, we absolutely guarantee that our firmware and OS upgrades won't break a thing, and if they do, bring it to us and we'll get it all fixed up for you for free."
Now does that sound like a sustainable business process to you?
Try Pandora. I installed it on my phone, got a new phone, did the serious wipe on my old phone and gave it to a coworker who'd b0rked his somehow. He installed Pandora and, lo and behold, all of my stations were still there.
That was a relatively harmless wake-up call. What if Mint did the same thing? I mean, they shouldn't, but then again neither should Pandora...
The stock market is so dumb. You cut the rating for a billion dollar profit company to neutral? lol
So when something is "good" (in this case, profitable), its worth an unlimited amount of money to buy in?
Unprofitable companies can be good investments, if they're cheap enough (often well below the sum of their parts). Wildly profitable companies can be poor investments if they're expensive enough.
The trouble is that you've made it hard enough (by definition) that a human is needed to lovingly hand-craft each one as well. After all, if the computer could put them together from an image database, it could solve them the same way.
Yes and it's ridiculous. Even back in the 80s we had the ZMODEM protocol on our lowly 8-bit Ataris and Commodores. If a file was interrupted the ZMODEM protocol had the ability to look at the last clean packet received, ask for the next packet in line, and thereby restart in the middle of the file. It's stupid that modern 64 bit browsers don't have the same "continue" function my old 8 bit software had.
Hmm. Safari does, FWIW. Of course, this depends on the webserver also implementing HTTP properly, and may not work as expected when it comes to dynamically generated (watermarked, &c) content. But most of the time it just works.
Then you get the generation gap. I remember walking through Dresden a few years ago when I saw a young girl (14 or so) wearing a cute shirt, also with a rabbit on it, with "Squirmy Fuck Bunny" in poofy letters. I'm pretty sure that she knew what it meant but that her older, conservative looking mom had no idea.
But as long as its traveling at a relative velocity of less than 1/5 C, we're all fine. Well, personally fine that is. Our kids may complain a bit though.
Perhaps the problem isn't Flash, but with how OS X interacts with Flash?
Or more how Flash interacts with OSX, seeing as how the OS came first (by definition), and how many other browser plugins can play video and perform other similar tasks using the same APIs that Adobe has access to without taking up 100% of a core?
Apple's now just dandy with Flash + AIR on the iPhone, as long as they're getting their share through the iTunes store... so no more arguments of performance or reliability need apply.
Of course, if your app is free (like most Flash webpages are), Apple will distribute it for free and pay all of the hosting and distribution fees while providing a convenient upgrade framework.
If it requires things specific to OS X, yeah, there IS stuff nefarious about that.
That's true. It doesn't, of course, and there's no whisperings anywhere of any plan for it to do so, but don't let that get in the way of a good diatribe...
There are two kinds of video codecs: those that work in Safari for iOS and don't work in Firefox 4, and those that work in Firefox 4 and don't work in Safari for iOS.
Let's try a different statement:
There are two kinds of video codecs, those that are installed at the OS level and those that are overwritten by an application.
Or:
There are two kinds of video codecs, those that work in every major currently released graphical OS but which Firefox 4 will not allow to play even when the underlying OS framework supports them natively, and those that work in Firefox 4 and don't work, by default, anywhere else whatsoever.
If FF4 wants to provide its own codecs, fine. But why not defer to the OS otherwise? Safari on Windows gets no end of (well-deserved) abuse for providing its own font rendering framework, after all - and woe betide the application that tries to change the focus behavior that most Linux users have selected - but somehow FF4 gets a pass for providing its own (frequently inferior) codecs and blocking the other ones that the user has chosen to install (whether they came with the OS or were installed afterwards by choice)?
And if it occasionally (even very occasionally) screws up, which backs up the deposit-money-into-the-safe part of it? At 40K per year, it doesn't take many screw-ups for the solution (including design, testing, installation, annual testing, repairs, etc) to cost more than the problem.
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LCD TV's are not being pushed for any other reason other than that they are what the retailers want to sell - higher margin, more prone to breaking down (average life of LCDTV: 5 years, average life of CRT: 15+).
Well, you missed the fact that LCD TVs are also lighter (cheaper to ship) and much smaller (cheaper to store/warehouse/ship and also a lot more appealing to people with limited desk space). Plus an inexpensive LCD panel looks much better than an inexpensive CRT to most people and has no issues with flicker in a corporate (fluorescent lit) environment.
But by all means, keep up your collusion theories.
No problem. How about 2560x1440 in a 27" LED display for under $1,000?
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC007?mco=OTY2ODE5MQ
Its notable that while the hybrids typically get lower mileage on the highway than they do in the city, they still get better mileage on the highway than most (all?) conventional vehicles of the same size do. When deciding whether or not to get a hybrid, that's what matters - otherwise you have a situation in which the same car with lower city MPG is a "win" but if it gets a few more MPG it becomes a "lose."
Shame on them. They should have waited until *after* a critical date. A simple IT rule of thumb, never rollout or upgrade a major system near a critical date or during a critical time period. Another example would be upgrading a retailer's systems in the timespan between Xmas and Thanksgiving.
Actually that's far safer than upgrading it during the inverse time between Thanksgiving and Christmas :)
The funny thing about that is big retail sites, sites like amazon and yahoo, never require password updates and have very lax requirements for passwords, even though they store credit card data with the account! Makes you wonder if they're ignoring the so-called 'experts', or if they've done their own research and discovered that all the common advise about passwords is wrong.
Yes, they store credit card data, but they don't give it back to you. Very few people would consider it worth their time to hack into your Amazon account in order to use your card on file to order returnable merchandise that can only be delivered to your own address.
Also very non-ADA compliant. Probably not worth the legal risk. I work at a facility with a blind woman, complete with seeing eye dog.
First, most blind people still have eyes with retinas that can be scanned.
Second and more snarkely... surely the company could just install a lower scanner for the dog to meet ADA rules?
Not actually the case; I rented an Altima hybrid for our last vacation. Drove from Vegas to St George, Zion, then over to Moab through the mountains, tooled around there a few days, then back. Averaged ~40mpg city and highway over some remarkably hilly terrain. Hybrids can make qla lot of sense. And I was driving it like a rental, the opposite of hypermilimg.
Seems reasonable to me. Especially when you look at the cost of a structural engineer to rectify the hinges and the deck with the new holes, the cost of drilling into treated stell correctly, the need to do so just to *replace* a part that may have failed in the middle of a combat operation...
If I had to I could change my car's oil my self. The proublem is I have no idea where/how to dispose of or recycle the oil, whereas Jiffy Lube does. Also, it takes Jiffy Lube 10 min to change the oil whereas I could end up spending a hour or more.
And many people have no idea how to get their PS3 online, or even whether or not installing a "Firmware Update" is a good thing (ooh, shiny new features) or a scary bad thing (my old games which used to work now don't, I've heard about updates "bricking" stuff, etc).
Its a valid comparison. Many driveway mechanics would be just as flabbergasted that you wouldn't know where to recycle oil as you were that someone wouldn't be able to upgrade the firmware in their game console.
That's a good one.
You think that Sony will process a refund for a used movie? Even with WalMart's well known terms, that's a joke.
Also, WalMart has paid their CC gateway fees (twice now, once to process the sale, once to process the refund), stocked/stored/shipped the movie, paid the cashier who sold it to you, paid the clerk who processed the return... when your margins are wafer thin (sometimes down to a fraction of a percentage point), those actions are far from insignificant.
Anyway, my point still stands. You bought something. While you got exactly what was offered, you didn't like it. In all fairness, why isn't this your problem?
Jailbreaking to put an alternate OS on the phone is no big deal. Replacing parts of your current OS and then expecting Apple to support it is the problem (and considering that a large portion of the l33t folk who jailbreak their phone have no idea what they're doing or even why they're doing it, that's a sizable number of folk). Part of Apple's success is that they sell Solutions, not Products, and they support the entire Solution instead of passing the buck around. This changes that model.
...Yet you trust a company which basically says "Hey, we might brick your phone just to spite you"
The alternative is, "Whatever weird-ass system level shit you put on your phone, without telling us about it, often using temporary internal API structures, we absolutely guarantee that our firmware and OS upgrades won't break a thing, and if they do, bring it to us and we'll get it all fixed up for you for free."
Now does that sound like a sustainable business process to you?
Try Pandora. I installed it on my phone, got a new phone, did the serious wipe on my old phone and gave it to a coworker who'd b0rked his somehow. He installed Pandora and, lo and behold, all of my stations were still there.
That was a relatively harmless wake-up call. What if Mint did the same thing? I mean, they shouldn't, but then again neither should Pandora...
The stock market is so dumb. You cut the rating for a billion dollar profit company to neutral? lol
So when something is "good" (in this case, profitable), its worth an unlimited amount of money to buy in?
Unprofitable companies can be good investments, if they're cheap enough (often well below the sum of their parts). Wildly profitable companies can be poor investments if they're expensive enough.
Still waiting on the mac version of directx
You mean OpenGL?
The trouble is that you've made it hard enough (by definition) that a human is needed to lovingly hand-craft each one as well. After all, if the computer could put them together from an image database, it could solve them the same way.
tl;ds
Too long; doesn't scale.
Hmm. Safari does, FWIW. Of course, this depends on the webserver also implementing HTTP properly, and may not work as expected when it comes to dynamically generated (watermarked, &c) content. But most of the time it just works.
Why should WalMart take the financial hit by accepting a viewed DVD for return (which they can't resell at the same price) because you didn't like it?
Then you get the generation gap. I remember walking through Dresden a few years ago when I saw a young girl (14 or so) wearing a cute shirt, also with a rabbit on it, with "Squirmy Fuck Bunny" in poofy letters. I'm pretty sure that she knew what it meant but that her older, conservative looking mom had no idea.
But as long as its traveling at a relative velocity of less than 1/5 C, we're all fine. Well, personally fine that is. Our kids may complain a bit though.
Or more how Flash interacts with OSX, seeing as how the OS came first (by definition), and how many other browser plugins can play video and perform other similar tasks using the same APIs that Adobe has access to without taking up 100% of a core?
That's true. It doesn't, of course, and there's no whisperings anywhere of any plan for it to do so, but don't let that get in the way of a good diatribe...
Let's try a different statement:
There are two kinds of video codecs, those that are installed at the OS level and those that are overwritten by an application.
Or:
There are two kinds of video codecs, those that work in every major currently released graphical OS but which Firefox 4 will not allow to play even when the underlying OS framework supports them natively, and those that work in Firefox 4 and don't work, by default, anywhere else whatsoever.
If FF4 wants to provide its own codecs, fine. But why not defer to the OS otherwise? Safari on Windows gets no end of (well-deserved) abuse for providing its own font rendering framework, after all - and woe betide the application that tries to change the focus behavior that most Linux users have selected - but somehow FF4 gets a pass for providing its own (frequently inferior) codecs and blocking the other ones that the user has chosen to install (whether they came with the OS or were installed afterwards by choice)?
C'mon...
And if it occasionally (even very occasionally) screws up, which backs up the deposit-money-into-the-safe part of it? At 40K per year, it doesn't take many screw-ups for the solution (including design, testing, installation, annual testing, repairs, etc) to cost more than the problem.