When I was one of the first few hundred to sign up for their kickstarter and then received my unit well after I could have purchased it for the same price at Best Buy, I was done.
Then, when it took them another 3-4 weeks to get me my other controller, I sold it on the Internet like I did the Ouya and first controller.
I've heard nothing but complaints about it, and now they're removing one of the only promises they've actually kept to this point.
What a way to blow through millions of dollars. It'll be dead in a year. And I say good riddance.
If we could count on the retailer to lower their prices to remove the inflation of the surcharge, it'd be a different story, but you know as well as I do that won't happen.
For quite some time, I used to offer companies with whom I'd developed a long standing relationship on the Internet a cheque or US money order to pay for goods so there'd be no Paypal/credit card fees in exchange for a better price. (I'd have even split the difference on the fees).
Every one of them were like, "No, that's the price."
Actually, when the store owner has to start paying his employees more money to put shit back on the shelf, he may start rethinking if that money on the credit card fees is more worthwhile.
I use a credit card for two reasons. A) If someone swipes/steals that information, they're stealing VISA's money, not mine. If I use a debit card and they steal my info, they drain my bank account, my mortgage bounces. That's bad. B) Rewards programs. I get thousands of dollars a year in rewards. I put/everything/ on my credit card. Only thing I don't is my mortgage and that's just because I can't. I pay it off every month. Companies that are going to make this less advantageous for me are going to get less of my business.
Well, realistically, I'd probably not have gone in the store in the first place if they implemented it, because I'd have hopefully done my homework.
That said, I think it would be important that store owners have a chance to hear their employees go, "yea, I had to put 3x as much stuff back on the shelf today because people keep saying no thanks when they try and charge items to their credit cards".
Other than groceries, I do very little shopping in-store now anyway -- I do most of my shopping online.
Alternatively, unless the standard already in place is not extendable or horribly broken, instead of making up their own shit behind closed doors, why couldn't they have approached the community, and got involved.
"Hey, we have some ideas we'd like to try out and would like to help extend the standard, here are our ideas:"... inclusion as opposed to blind exclusion.
Just because they only leaked the password doesn't mean they don't have the usernames that go with them, intend on cracking the passwords, and then just looking up the matching hashes somewhere else to link accounts to passwords.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Unfortunately, I have to write this with a caveat: getting Catalyst and Moose set up can take some time. If you apt-get install/emerge/yum/whatever it, you'll probably get an old version.
If you install it from CPAN, it takes some time, since the two of them combine to require a craptonne of CPAN.
That said, once they're installed, a working catalyst web app you can hack on is as simple as catalyst.pl AppName; cd AppName;scripts/appname_server.pl
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Somewhere, Mark Zuckerberg is *still* laughing.
Also: water: wet. Sky: blue. Rob Ford: drunk and high.
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When I was one of the first few hundred to sign up for their kickstarter and then received my unit well after I could have purchased it for the same price at Best Buy, I was done.
Then, when it took them another 3-4 weeks to get me my other controller, I sold it on the Internet like I did the Ouya and first controller.
I've heard nothing but complaints about it, and now they're removing one of the only promises they've actually kept to this point.
What a way to blow through millions of dollars. It'll be dead in a year. And I say good riddance.
I guess... if marriage is 'winning'.
Hank Hill? Is that you?
Here's hoping, anyway.
All of the complete and utter shit that is the language called PHP and that is your argument against it?
Yeesh.
That still takes time (which is money) and money (in the form of bank fees) out of me.
I'm still going to prefer the retailer who doesn't surcharge me over one that doesn't; it's that simple.
And full of Texans. :(
If we could count on the retailer to lower their prices to remove the inflation of the surcharge, it'd be a different story, but you know as well as I do that won't happen.
For quite some time, I used to offer companies with whom I'd developed a long standing relationship on the Internet a cheque or US money order to pay for goods so there'd be no Paypal/credit card fees in exchange for a better price. (I'd have even split the difference on the fees).
Every one of them were like, "No, that's the price."
I stopped trying.
There's a lot more to be considered, surely. But my visits to Best Buy/Target/whatever would probably be altered.
Actually, when the store owner has to start paying his employees more money to put shit back on the shelf, he may start rethinking if that money on the credit card fees is more worthwhile.
I use a credit card for two reasons. /everything/ on my credit card. Only thing I don't is my mortgage and that's just because I can't. I pay it off every month. Companies that are going to make this less advantageous for me are going to get less of my business.
A) If someone swipes/steals that information, they're stealing VISA's money, not mine. If I use a debit card and they steal my info, they drain my bank account, my mortgage bounces. That's bad.
B) Rewards programs. I get thousands of dollars a year in rewards. I put
Well, realistically, I'd probably not have gone in the store in the first place if they implemented it, because I'd have hopefully done my homework.
That said, I think it would be important that store owners have a chance to hear their employees go, "yea, I had to put 3x as much stuff back on the shelf today because people keep saying no thanks when they try and charge items to their credit cards".
Other than groceries, I do very little shopping in-store now anyway -- I do most of my shopping online.
I wouldn't think twice about having the clerk go, "there's a surcharge for credit", to which I'd respond, "OK, thanks anyway." and leave.
I'm pretty sure my Linksys router doesn't have that vulnerabil -- HA JUST KIDDING, WHO WANTS MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER?
I'm not hydrophobic, I have gay friends!
That's all of Canada.
Robelus can eat my ass and the CRTC is a joke.
Example: Rogers' best Internet plan is $130/mo. 250G of data. You will exceed that in less than 5h at full speed.
Fucking assholes.
Alternatively, unless the standard already in place is not extendable or horribly broken, instead of making up their own shit behind closed doors, why couldn't they have approached the community, and got involved.
"Hey, we have some ideas we'd like to try out and would like to help extend the standard, here are our ideas:" ... inclusion as opposed to blind exclusion.
Agreed. I learned to rip my blu-rays and content a long time ago.. HDCP is just an irritating technology that further promotes idiotic technology.
I think it's adorable you think iOS is 'on top'.
Canada. We have chip & pin and it's pretty prevalent.
... as far as you know.
Just because they only leaked the password doesn't mean they don't have the usernames that go with them, intend on cracking the passwords, and then just looking up the matching hashes somewhere else to link accounts to passwords.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Slight bias indeed.
The man page to Moose is a good one too.
If you're in to web dev, the Definitive Guide to Catalyst is a good choice, too.
Unfortunately, I have to write this with a caveat: getting Catalyst and Moose set up can take some time. If you apt-get install/emerge/yum/whatever it, you'll probably get an old version.
If you install it from CPAN, it takes some time, since the two of them combine to require a craptonne of CPAN.
That said, once they're installed, a working catalyst web app you can hack on is as simple as catalyst.pl AppName; cd AppName;scripts/appname_server.pl
I love how the *AA are intentionally putting themselves out of business.
There can be no other reason.
Music sales are up, movies are still grossing record revenues, Netflix is successful, etc. They keep trying to tell us piracy is bad.
No, piracy offers me a better product. No revoked keys, no work involved in playing my content, I can put it where I want, use it how I want, etc.i
Fucking idiots.