Sigh. Just because you can do evil with X does not make X evil. A car can be used to kill, a computer can be used to steal an identity, and PowerPoint can be used to mislead.
I'm late to the party but just want to "register" my no vote. Heck... I'll donate the $50 to eff. Funny thing is... I was late to this thread because I was spending my online time spec'n a computer for GTA4PC!
I miss Discs of Tron and used to be able to play it forever. I also like racquetball so it was very intuitive. It never seemed popular with players or in the arcades. Ah well.
Does anyone know if you ACTUALLY get these games? Or are you forever tied to playing them through a Steam account and you have to be on the internets? I realize, for this conversation, you can snag the WAD files off your drive but I'm talking about the other games. I'd like to have a few on hand while traveling and not hooked up to the cyber world.
Now, how do you explain that you've just had radiation treatment to the mindless TSA buffoon who's found you're radioactive? What? Oh I get it... because all TSA workers are mindless, buffoons. Just like all blacks like watermelons, Irishmen are drunks, and Italians are in the mob. Of course.
Now, for the love of God, can you stop talking so loud on your cell phone at the airport? Nobody cares about your (probably pretend) business conversation and you don't have to talk so f'n LOUD!
Optimists say there are about 30 original stories out there. Pessimists say less. Well... there's a difference. No one begrudges when they reuse the typical boy meets girl story if there's interesting subplots along the way. But remaking old TV shows like The Honeymooners, Bewitched, and Mission Impossible isn't reusing an over all plot... it's just lazy and fear of making something original. There have been some weeks where over 80% of the movies in theaters are either sequels or (bad) remakes of books, comics, and TV shows.
"Why would any company go so far out of it's way to intentionally anger it's customer base?"
I don't think you or others are seeing it right. They are not angering their customer base with this move. They don't want the 5% of the people as customers who use a lot of bandwidth. They want more lower end users. It's like the gyms who love customers that pay every month but rarely use their equipment.
And they even look good to their true base by playing the envy card. The rest of the 1-5Gig usage people are thinking, "Yeah, stick it to those bandwidth hogs... make them pay more!" Even some comments here are saying it. So, instead of angering their base, they're getting rid of the people they don't want and pleasing the rest.
Hmmm... I searched TFA and don't see anything about them getting a commission. was that in some other article? Google News comes up empty, too. Note: I'm not trying to be an ass... but I think most bets are off if they were getting a commission. Then they would already be getting compensated for working harder/longer.
Because time is the forth dimension in economics. Getting $250 right now is different than getting $250 next year. Not only does inflation make it worth slightly less next year but you have to consider what you can do with that money over the period of a year. Even the crappiest 5% interest gets $12.50 and that's just $250. Multiply that out... a few million here, a few million there and pretty soon your talking about some real money.
There's millions of examples. How much does a house really cost through a mortgage? Buy the house with money today (assuming you can't get a better percent return on the money) and you save thousands of dollars. So not having money right now costs money.
That's what I thought as well but I just can't get past the search warrant analogy. Investigators entering and searching your house with a warrant will see things not pertinent to the investigation.
There will be a large number of uber-conservatives who think that windmills will destroy the environment
(I may be confusing US vs. UK terminology of conservatives. If so... please correct me and/or disregard my babbling)
It doesn't take an "uber-conservatives" to NIMBY a project to death. Ted Kennedy has been fighting a wind turbine project in Nantucket Sound for a couple of years. I understand people wanting to keep their property values high and their view of the land pristine but there's no point in saying it's a conservative vs liberal thing. People come out to block everything... a new bridge, removing a skyway, removing abandoned grain silos. If someone wants to do something... then someone else wants to stop them and it takes nothing to file for a study that crushes any development.
We lost ours last year. The prices sucked and most of the staff were idiots though some exceptions to both complaints were a nice surprise like when you found a good sale or a helpful employee.
But... and it's a big but... the best thing about CompUSA was their parts section. There is absolutely no other place in my area where I can take in my a busted up connector or a too short cable, walk up to a shelf and look at the available parts to compare, and walk out with what I need. And, if it didn't work out, I can go back and try again that day. Now, if something goes wrong with a 'puter, I have to STFW to find what the part is called, compare fuzzy pictures and descriptions, order the part, wait a few days, and hope it works when it comes in. If it doesn't, start over with another part and a few days of a broken computer. Yeah, it's way cheaper from net-stores and it usually works out, but I miss the, "just get the damn part now," mentality of having a CompUSA around.
I'm region 1 and I'm still thinking of downloading for now. Don't get me wrong... I bought and own the TV DVDs but I'll wait for the box set of the movies. I've been screwed too many times by buying things as they became available only to be pissed off when a box set comes out later with "never before seen extras."
Fool me 50 or so times... shame on me!
My only concern is how bad it looks for the future of the series if everyone thinks like me. So... erm... forget I mentioned it.
Not to one up but... my PC is over four years old and the ~$200 graphics card is two years old. It plays HL2 and TF2 like a champ so it hardly takes a bleeding edge PC.
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Sigh. Just because you can do evil with X does not make X evil. A car can be used to kill, a computer can be used to steal an identity, and PowerPoint can be used to mislead.
I'm late to the party but just want to "register" my no vote. Heck... I'll donate the $50 to eff. Funny thing is... I was late to this thread because I was spending my online time spec'n a computer for GTA4PC!
At least that would stop that kid having problem you have.
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I miss Discs of Tron and used to be able to play it forever. I also like racquetball so it was very intuitive. It never seemed popular with players or in the arcades. Ah well.
Does anyone know if you ACTUALLY get these games? Or are you forever tied to playing them through a Steam account and you have to be on the internets? I realize, for this conversation, you can snag the WAD files off your drive but I'm talking about the other games. I'd like to have a few on hand while traveling and not hooked up to the cyber world.
Spam King season!!
Now, for the love of God, can you stop talking so loud on your cell phone at the airport? Nobody cares about your (probably pretend) business conversation and you don't have to talk so f'n LOUD!
I don't think you or others are seeing it right. They are not angering their customer base with this move. They don't want the 5% of the people as customers who use a lot of bandwidth. They want more lower end users. It's like the gyms who love customers that pay every month but rarely use their equipment.
And they even look good to their true base by playing the envy card. The rest of the 1-5Gig usage people are thinking, "Yeah, stick it to those bandwidth hogs... make them pay more!" Even some comments here are saying it. So, instead of angering their base, they're getting rid of the people they don't want and pleasing the rest.
Hmmm... I searched TFA and don't see anything about them getting a commission. was that in some other article? Google News comes up empty, too. Note: I'm not trying to be an ass... but I think most bets are off if they were getting a commission. Then they would already be getting compensated for working harder/longer.
Please include green women who ask, "what is this human thing you call kissing." thx.
Bah... I can't take the article seriously when they don't mention The Simpsons' Focusyn: Summary and details.
Please accept this lovely fruit basket for the holidays and here's hoping for a productive New Year.
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There's millions of examples. How much does a house really cost through a mortgage? Buy the house with money today (assuming you can't get a better percent return on the money) and you save thousands of dollars. So not having money right now costs money.
That's what I thought as well but I just can't get past the search warrant analogy. Investigators entering and searching your house with a warrant will see things not pertinent to the investigation.
(I may be confusing US vs. UK terminology of conservatives. If so... please correct me and/or disregard my babbling)
It doesn't take an "uber-conservatives" to NIMBY a project to death. Ted Kennedy has been fighting a wind turbine project in Nantucket Sound for a couple of years. I understand people wanting to keep their property values high and their view of the land pristine but there's no point in saying it's a conservative vs liberal thing. People come out to block everything... a new bridge, removing a skyway, removing abandoned grain silos. If someone wants to do something... then someone else wants to stop them and it takes nothing to file for a study that crushes any development.
But... and it's a big but... the best thing about CompUSA was their parts section. There is absolutely no other place in my area where I can take in my a busted up connector or a too short cable, walk up to a shelf and look at the available parts to compare, and walk out with what I need. And, if it didn't work out, I can go back and try again that day. Now, if something goes wrong with a 'puter, I have to STFW to find what the part is called, compare fuzzy pictures and descriptions, order the part, wait a few days, and hope it works when it comes in. If it doesn't, start over with another part and a few days of a broken computer. Yeah, it's way cheaper from net-stores and it usually works out, but I miss the, "just get the damn part now," mentality of having a CompUSA around.
I'm region 1 and I'm still thinking of downloading for now. Don't get me wrong... I bought and own the TV DVDs but I'll wait for the box set of the movies. I've been screwed too many times by buying things as they became available only to be pissed off when a box set comes out later with "never before seen extras."
Fool me 50 or so times... shame on me!
My only concern is how bad it looks for the future of the series if everyone thinks like me. So... erm... forget I mentioned it.
Not to one up but... my PC is over four years old and the ~$200 graphics card is two years old. It plays HL2 and TF2 like a champ so it hardly takes a bleeding edge PC.
Politicians.
Links please. thx