This should read. "Marketing Company McDonalds contracted was hacked" I don't see anywhere that it says an actual McDonalds server/store system got hacked...
Where do you live that they haven't done this already?? The local schools haven't had soda served in them in the last 7 years at least, along with candy. you can only buy "healthy Juice", milk and bottled water. They also have "healthy" muffins and fruit salads you can buy from machines.
I don't see why this is such a big deal either... I live in north dakota, and the school district here implemented this back in 1995? My parents would check to see what I bought to see if I was buying extra food when I wasn't supposed to (sure enough i got caught buying a 2nd slice of pizza).
How have these schools been doing this for so long without such a system??
Then why don't you buy a car with no logo's?? If they want to sell the car they'll do it. Last 2 cars I've bought I've told them if they want to sell it, to remove all their billboard advertising from the car including the annoying paper license plate place holders
Heck I've had them remove pin-striping before I would buy it. I de-badged my pickup of all forms of brand (You could still tell it was an S10 by its shape) on the outside with the addition of a billet grill that I wanted..
So, if he's looking for this form of technology for their servers, why doesn't he just be like google and roll his own if he isn't happy with what the other offerings are? Is he just lazy and feels like complaining?
If I can't find a solution to an issue I normally try and find my own solution instead of standing around complaining, as that will get me no where.
A question that should be asked. Is why was there not a network admin/security offical managing this data durring the administration? Did all of this data just get dumped into a hard drive with no organization?
Sounds like another bad excuse for not planning for the future... This should have been proactivly handled and organized. Now the "Oh Shit" factor is very large and daunting.
Time to hire a security/system admin for the president administration...
It's not just because of the discount. Lets go back to the 800 dollar cost. Internet store company sells 20 of the 1000 dollar speakers a month. Well now it can put all 20 of those on a pallet and stock them because it knows it can sell them.
20 speakers will give you free freight because of the order size (Just like at many other stores you may order stuff from)So now the speaker costs 70 dollars less per speaker. Now that store may feel like selling alot of speakers for less than the normal amount to make the same amount of money with more volume since they bought 20 speakers and they want to make sure they sell them all that month so they don't have any carry over to the next month when they order another 20. They now again have an upper hand on the smaller dealer.
Raw numbers will let a dealer outperform another dealer.
Are you an authorized dealer with Intel, the case manufacturer, and the Ram Manufacturer? If you are I'm sorry as this won't apply.
But with speakers There are dealer minimum sales to stay a dealer. So for JBL lets say I need to sell 15,000 in speakers a year.
If I can not sell that many speakers, I can not stay a dealer, therefor I can not become an authorized parts dealer, and I am not authorized to handle warranty work for speaker issues. Therfore A speaker I sell to a customer that has a warranty issue I can not handle.
Therefore How do I sell a speaker to a customer if I am not an authorized dealer? If I sell it to them they will not have a warranty? Sure I can get it through a distrubutor but thats being shady to the customer, and downright bad business.
Exactly. Protecting the Dealers from other dealers is the reason for MAP Pricing.
I worked in pro audio for 5 years. MAP is very prevailent in that market. I live in North Dakota. Its not like I sell 1000 dollar speakers every day like Musician's Friend does. So if I'm a dealer and the 1000 dollar speaker costs me 800 dollars. plus 70 dollar shipping. I'm making 130 dollars per speaker.
If there is no MAP. then The online retailer is able to then sell the speaker for say 850 dollars and and then sell more, getting better pricing so that the speaker may only costs them 700 dollars. well now they're able to sell it for less than what the smaller local dealer can and still make a profit. and make up the extra amount in gross sales. Isn't this reminding you of Wal-Mart?
These companys want to keep their local dealers open. They want to have a place for you to take your unit back to for support. if they don't have MAP there is no reason for that local dealer to even been selling the product if they can't even be competitive with the pricing.
Musician's and production company's have not been ABLE to buy the correct licensing to run the microphones in the first place!
In order to get the permit you have to be a licensed broadcaster or broadcast media creator. Then you can get a permit.
So in a sense the musician's and company's that use these pieces of equipment aren't even able to get the correct licensing by law because of the law.
And as for buying something else. Please tell me where I may buy a Sennheiser EW300G2 IEM system that is in a correct frequency band?? Thats right, they don't make any!
So lets see if I have all your arguments here.
Q. They don't have the licensing A. They can't get the licensing because of the FCC laws.
Q. Why don't they buy something else? A. Because their is nothing else.
Please remember next year when your city wants to budget more money for replacing their wireless equipment that they have in any civic center/event center/broadcast center they have, to think back to your answers here.
My quest that I would like to ask is. What becomes of the people that actually were able to get licensing for their units? Is it now tough luck, thanks for playing?
I don't even know how many places this will work? Are there alot of places that do not have Professional grade TV's installed in their places??
I just recently left a commercial installer and all the professional TV's we were installing had no IR/RF it was all RS232 control. If they did the IR was on the back, and we would cover up the sensor with a backup IR control eye with a patch so nothing else could controll it.
Most places I've gone to have done it right and installed TV's that you can't mess with.
There are a few bars that have normal TV's. But if you're in a bar why would you be shutting of someone else's TV's in the first place?? what gives you the right?
I just don't get why you don't just move/leave/go to another establishment...
The only problem is when your ISP doesn't support your OS and they tell you your on your own. So then i have to dig out my laptop with a windows 2000 install just to do their script the follow.
Then they tell me 90ms in their network is "Within standards"
I live in North Dakota.
Normaly I Ping 35ms to chicago based servers.
When I'm pinging 250ms to the same servers I do know that something is wrong. that is unacceptable to me.
This is what i would tell my ISP every time I Called them. They would say sorry, but their was nothing they could do. I told them then that I would just be calling back every 30 minutes until the issue was resolved... Here's the thing. STICK WITH IT!
I called my ISP every night about 5 times for 2 weeks strait. I had 4 technician's come out to my house in 3 weeks for service calls. After all that they finnaly realized i meant business. They split my node and now I'm all happy.
You just have to let them know that you won't let them walk over you.
so true. My pet peve is I go to the bose store to look at their headsets, only to find they don't have any frequency response graphs out or any other technical info.... just price and that its "Sound Canceling!"
Now i'm not so sure about the rest of the gaming community.... But instead of oogling over an Alienware at a LAN we usualy make fun of the person who bought it.
I even help run a LAN that has a secret prize we give away to one of the few that brings an alienware to the LAN.... a trashbag to cover the ugly stupid thing up with so he stops getting made fun of.....:P
I played Everquest 2 for a year and 2 months. With 3 large combat changes the game is not what it originaly was when it came out. Which caused me to leave.
I believe the same thing happened to SWG where they changed the game a great deal too much.
I don't know to many MMO players that are happy with the way SOE is doing business. It seems that in SOE's quest to gain more patronage, they fail to realize that the customers already in the game are playing it for the way it is. They don't want it to change drasticaly to gain other players that are looking for a more laid back game play.
If i wanted to play a game for 30 minutes and acomplish something i would play WoW. If i want to play a game that i won't be able to do anything except travel across the map in 30 minutes I'll play EQ2. For me i loved the complexity of the game. They've done away with that. And in turn they have done away with my subscription.
I see this as a signal that their are alot of troubles brewing within SOE.
That their is great graphics. Like i said. if your computer can handle it. That wasn't even a gripe of mine. I myself have an athlon 2800+ with a Radeon 9600 pro and i run low details. I was just stateing that graphics wise its an amazing game.
Its not that it was a bad game. It was amazing! the graphics are great (if your computer can handle them).
The issue they had was that they rushed the release. They are slow on bug fixes. and they're trying to attract the WoW crowd by making it easier. The problem is that EQ2 already had its core gamers! By making it easier to attract new gamers fromw WoW they in turn have killed of the original EQ2 crowd (ie Me). I don't enjoy everything being handed to me. I don't enjoy solo'ing all the way to 60 (much like WoW its getting to be the easiest way to get to 60 instead of risking pickup groups) I want to be grouping, I want to know that if someone is lvl 60 they actualy KNOW THEIR CLASS AND HOW TO USE IT. You have no idea how many people that are 60 still don't know what their class is used for and how to act in a group.
They also are SLOW TO FIX BUGS! High end raiding content is suppose to be their crown jewell. But yet when you go to try and kill a mob that has been in the game since launch, (Drakota in The Ferrot) He still has bugged adds! At least the last time I attempted him which was 2 months ago. I had a neighbor that was in a High end raiding guild that was usualy one of the first 2-3 to beat the new content. They had to wait 2-3 weeks to even fix zoning and agroo issues with mobs. So many issues with the game that they are slow to fix, and they never have fixed. I can understand a few bugs on release. I can understand that. But this many and after this long they still aren't fixed...
I'll give EQ2 one more try on the PvP servers (Although i wish they had a sullon zek ruleset...) and after that I just will have to wait for an MMO to suit my needs. I'm still hoping Vangaurd will live up to its promise... It is a Microsoft game though, so time will only tell.
The thing about it is that you know every record label would want you to pay that 4-5 bucks to each of them for access to their artist's music. So therefore you would have to be digging through 3-4 major labels... Sony, whoever else it is (I don't know major labels sorry) But the other thing is that the indepentant lables/smaller ones.. would be left out... and those are the ones i would love to support. In reality they should somehow create an independant music association to go against the RIAA... maybe their already is one.
Conclusion. There are way to many ands ifs and but(t)'s with strings attached.. (Butt refference was aimed towards the RIAA. i would like to actualy compare them to an Dumbass but it didn't fit the punchline.)
Why watch Cycling when you can hop on your bike yourself? Why watch skateboarding when you can go outside and hop on yours? Or What about NASCAR when you can drive around your block?
Because it is fun to watch for the person interested in the game. The intensity of the game when a team is down by 3 rounds and its a 1v3 situation with a minute ten left on the clock is a very tense and amazing time to watch. Its also great to watch because you get to see all the players playing that you always hear about. much like watching your favorite player on TV for Football.
You may enjoy watching "the Bus" make an amazing play. I enjoy watching tr1p make an amazing comeback in a hopeless round.
I Still haven't bought one, and i won't until the offer what i want from a media player.
Proprietary software isn't needed, (Just shows up as a HD). Audio Input with no extra adaptors. (2 jacks, 1 in, 1 out so i can monitor what i'm recording) FM Tuner.
I was realy tempted to get one of the old Neuvos Media players, mostly because they had everything you could want in one unit. including FM Transmitter, Customizable EQ (Wish i could get more than a FSCKIN 5 band... 11 or 13? Come on!)
Until Apple does this I will not be owning an iPod. Still waiting on the perfect product....
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Uh,,, i see Infared and think why not just cover the IR sensor with Tape/some other thing that would block it from picking up signals??
Thats what i did growing up to stop the channel from being changed by my siblings...
This should read. "Marketing Company McDonalds contracted was hacked" I don't see anywhere that it says an actual McDonalds server/store system got hacked...
Where do you live that they haven't done this already?? The local schools haven't had soda served in them in the last 7 years at least, along with candy. you can only buy "healthy Juice", milk and bottled water. They also have "healthy" muffins and fruit salads you can buy from machines.
I don't see why this is such a big deal either... I live in north dakota, and the school district here implemented this back in 1995? My parents would check to see what I bought to see if I was buying extra food when I wasn't supposed to (sure enough i got caught buying a 2nd slice of pizza).
How have these schools been doing this for so long without such a system??
Then why don't you buy a car with no logo's?? If they want to sell the car they'll do it. Last 2 cars I've bought I've told them if they want to sell it, to remove all their billboard advertising from the car including the annoying paper license plate place holders
Heck I've had them remove pin-striping before I would buy it. I de-badged my pickup of all forms of brand (You could still tell it was an S10 by its shape) on the outside with the addition of a billet grill that I wanted..
Have you ever ASKED them to remove it?
I saw this title and the first thing that came to my mind was two guys dressed up as the ambiguously gay duo joining them in protest....
You know, I tried to not pose for Society one time...
But then the officer told me to put my pants back on....
I think this village just found their idiot!
So, if he's looking for this form of technology for their servers, why doesn't he just be like google and roll his own if he isn't happy with what the other offerings are? Is he just lazy and feels like complaining?
If I can't find a solution to an issue I normally try and find my own solution instead of standing around complaining, as that will get me no where.
A question that should be asked. Is why was there not a network admin/security offical managing this data durring the administration? Did all of this data just get dumped into a hard drive with no organization?
Sounds like another bad excuse for not planning for the future... This should have been proactivly handled and organized. Now the "Oh Shit" factor is very large and daunting.
Time to hire a security/system admin for the president administration...
It's not just because of the discount. Lets go back to the 800 dollar cost. Internet store company sells 20 of the 1000 dollar speakers a month. Well now it can put all 20 of those on a pallet and stock them because it knows it can sell them.
20 speakers will give you free freight because of the order size (Just like at many other stores you may order stuff from)So now the speaker costs 70 dollars less per speaker. Now that store may feel like selling alot of speakers for less than the normal amount to make the same amount of money with more volume since they bought 20 speakers and they want to make sure they sell them all that month so they don't have any carry over to the next month when they order another 20. They now again have an upper hand on the smaller dealer.
Raw numbers will let a dealer outperform another dealer.
Just a quick question.
Are you an authorized dealer with Intel, the case manufacturer, and the Ram Manufacturer? If you are I'm sorry as this won't apply.
But with speakers There are dealer minimum sales to stay a dealer. So for JBL lets say I need to sell 15,000 in speakers a year.
If I can not sell that many speakers, I can not stay a dealer, therefor I can not become an authorized parts dealer, and I am not authorized to handle warranty work for speaker issues. Therfore A speaker I sell to a customer that has a warranty issue I can not handle.
Therefore How do I sell a speaker to a customer if I am not an authorized dealer? If I sell it to them they will not have a warranty? Sure I can get it through a distrubutor but thats being shady to the customer, and downright bad business.
Exactly. Protecting the Dealers from other dealers is the reason for MAP Pricing.
I worked in pro audio for 5 years. MAP is very prevailent in that market. I live in North Dakota. Its not like I sell 1000 dollar speakers every day like Musician's Friend does. So if I'm a dealer and the 1000 dollar speaker costs me 800 dollars. plus 70 dollar shipping. I'm making 130 dollars per speaker.
If there is no MAP. then The online retailer is able to then sell the speaker for say 850 dollars and and then sell more, getting better pricing so that the speaker may only costs them 700 dollars. well now they're able to sell it for less than what the smaller local dealer can and still make a profit. and make up the extra amount in gross sales. Isn't this reminding you of Wal-Mart?
These companys want to keep their local dealers open. They want to have a place for you to take your unit back to for support. if they don't have MAP there is no reason for that local dealer to even been selling the product if they can't even be competitive with the pricing.
Make sense?
Do you do any research into this subject?
Musician's and production company's have not been ABLE to buy the correct licensing to run the microphones in the first place!
In order to get the permit you have to be a licensed broadcaster or broadcast media creator. Then you can get a permit.
So in a sense the musician's and company's that use these pieces of equipment aren't even able to get the correct licensing by law because of the law.
And as for buying something else. Please tell me where I may buy a Sennheiser EW300G2 IEM system that is in a correct frequency band?? Thats right, they don't make any!
So lets see if I have all your arguments here.
Q. They don't have the licensing
A. They can't get the licensing because of the FCC laws.
Q. Why don't they buy something else?
A. Because their is nothing else.
Please remember next year when your city wants to budget more money for replacing their wireless equipment that they have in any civic center/event center/broadcast center they have, to think back to your answers here.
My quest that I would like to ask is. What becomes of the people that actually were able to get licensing for their units? Is it now tough luck, thanks for playing?
I don't even know how many places this will work? Are there alot of places that do not have Professional grade TV's installed in their places??
I just recently left a commercial installer and all the professional TV's we were installing had no IR/RF it was all RS232 control. If they did the IR was on the back, and we would cover up the sensor with a backup IR control eye with a patch so nothing else could controll it.
Most places I've gone to have done it right and installed TV's that you can't mess with.
There are a few bars that have normal TV's. But if you're in a bar why would you be shutting of someone else's TV's in the first place?? what gives you the right?
I just don't get why you don't just move/leave/go to another establishment...
The only problem is when your ISP doesn't support your OS and they tell you your on your own. So then i have to dig out my laptop with a windows 2000 install just to do their script the follow.
Then they tell me 90ms in their network is "Within standards"
I live in North Dakota.
Normaly I Ping 35ms to chicago based servers.
When I'm pinging 250ms to the same servers I do know that something is wrong. that is unacceptable to me.
This is what i would tell my ISP every time I Called them. They would say sorry, but their was nothing they could do. I told them then that I would just be calling back every 30 minutes until the issue was resolved... Here's the thing. STICK WITH IT!
I called my ISP every night about 5 times for 2 weeks strait. I had 4 technician's come out to my house in 3 weeks for service calls. After all that they finnaly realized i meant business. They split my node and now I'm all happy.
You just have to let them know that you won't let them walk over you.
But everyone already knows that Forest Gump is the real inovator here....
Have you looked at your sig lately?
:P
Me thinks you forgot to log off someone's computer...
Even if that is what you want it to say. I had a good laugh reading your post and your sig as one statement...
Fully agree with you about the bose speakers.
Theirs a great saying in the Pro-audio Industry.
"No highs? No Lows? Must be Bose"
so true. My pet peve is I go to the bose store to look at their headsets, only to find they don't have any frequency response graphs out or any other technical info.... just price and that its "Sound Canceling!"
ARG!! I'll take my sennheisers anyday.
Now i'm not so sure about the rest of the gaming community.... But instead of oogling over an Alienware at a LAN we usualy make fun of the person who bought it.
:P
I even help run a LAN that has a secret prize we give away to one of the few that brings an alienware to the LAN.... a trashbag to cover the ugly stupid thing up with so he stops getting made fun of.....
I played Everquest 2 for a year and 2 months. With 3 large combat changes the game is not what it originaly was when it came out. Which caused me to leave.
:P
I believe the same thing happened to SWG where they changed the game a great deal too much.
I don't know to many MMO players that are happy with the way SOE is doing business. It seems that in SOE's quest to gain more patronage, they fail to realize that the customers already in the game are playing it for the way it is. They don't want it to change drasticaly to gain other players that are looking for a more laid back game play.
If i wanted to play a game for 30 minutes and acomplish something i would play WoW. If i want to play a game that i won't be able to do anything except travel across the map in 30 minutes I'll play EQ2. For me i loved the complexity of the game. They've done away with that. And in turn they have done away with my subscription.
I see this as a signal that their are alot of troubles brewing within SOE.
Just a gamers Opinion though
That their is great graphics. Like i said. if your computer can handle it. That wasn't even a gripe of mine. I myself have an athlon 2800+ with a Radeon 9600 pro and i run low details. I was just stateing that graphics wise its an amazing game.
Its not that it was a bad game. It was amazing! the graphics are great (if your computer can handle them).
The issue they had was that they rushed the release. They are slow on bug fixes. and they're trying to attract the WoW crowd by making it easier. The problem is that EQ2 already had its core gamers! By making it easier to attract new gamers fromw WoW they in turn have killed of the original EQ2 crowd (ie Me). I don't enjoy everything being handed to me. I don't enjoy solo'ing all the way to 60 (much like WoW its getting to be the easiest way to get to 60 instead of risking pickup groups) I want to be grouping, I want to know that if someone is lvl 60 they actualy KNOW THEIR CLASS AND HOW TO USE IT. You have no idea how many people that are 60 still don't know what their class is used for and how to act in a group.
They also are SLOW TO FIX BUGS! High end raiding content is suppose to be their crown jewell. But yet when you go to try and kill a mob that has been in the game since launch, (Drakota in The Ferrot) He still has bugged adds! At least the last time I attempted him which was 2 months ago. I had a neighbor that was in a High end raiding guild that was usualy one of the first 2-3 to beat the new content. They had to wait 2-3 weeks to even fix zoning and agroo issues with mobs. So many issues with the game that they are slow to fix, and they never have fixed. I can understand a few bugs on release. I can understand that. But this many and after this long they still aren't fixed...
I'll give EQ2 one more try on the PvP servers (Although i wish they had a sullon zek ruleset...) and after that I just will have to wait for an MMO to suit my needs. I'm still hoping Vangaurd will live up to its promise... It is a Microsoft game though, so time will only tell.
The thing about it is that you know every record label would want you to pay that 4-5 bucks to each of them for access to their artist's music. So therefore you would have to be digging through 3-4 major labels... Sony, whoever else it is (I don't know major labels sorry) But the other thing is that the indepentant lables/smaller ones.. would be left out... and those are the ones i would love to support. In reality they should somehow create an independant music association to go against the RIAA... maybe their already is one.
Conclusion. There are way to many ands ifs and but(t)'s with strings attached.. (Butt refference was aimed towards the RIAA. i would like to actualy compare them to an Dumbass but it didn't fit the punchline.)
Why watch Cycling when you can hop on your bike yourself? Why watch skateboarding when you can go outside and hop on yours? Or What about NASCAR when you can drive around your block?
Because it is fun to watch for the person interested in the game. The intensity of the game when a team is down by 3 rounds and its a 1v3 situation with a minute ten left on the clock is a very tense and amazing time to watch. Its also great to watch because you get to see all the players playing that you always hear about. much like watching your favorite player on TV for Football.
You may enjoy watching "the Bus" make an amazing play. I enjoy watching tr1p make an amazing comeback in a hopeless round.
I Still haven't bought one, and i won't until the offer what i want from a media player.
Proprietary software isn't needed, (Just shows up as a HD).
Audio Input with no extra adaptors. (2 jacks, 1 in, 1 out so i can monitor what i'm recording)
FM Tuner.
I was realy tempted to get one of the old Neuvos Media players, mostly because they had everything you could want in one unit. including FM Transmitter, Customizable EQ (Wish i could get more than a FSCKIN 5 band... 11 or 13? Come on!)
Until Apple does this I will not be owning an iPod. Still waiting on the perfect product....