I bought from 3 different oneline stores. All three screwed the order up completely. One never sent a confirmation email, and it took 3 emails and one phone call to finally get a confirmation of my order, which appeared on my answering machine.
Another one sent 3 different messages saying that the order had gone through, hadn't gone through and had been rejected. I finally called customer support and was told they had no record of the order. I ordered over the phone.
The third was Amazon, I ordered a 3-pack of MST movies with Manos. They sent three different movies, no Manos. I sent them several emails telling them what had gone wrong, so they sent me another package. It was the same 3 wrong movies. I sent them another email, which resulted in them asking me to return everything, since they don't really stock the stuff I'd ordered, and they had already credited my credit card. No "How would you like to handle this," no "Would you like to keep these movies instead," nothing.
Still, I've done my shopping from the office at lunch and everything was delivered there. Despite the hassle, it was still better than doing the Road Warrior thing in the parking lot at the mall.
With all of this misinformation floating around, I thought this would be a good time to learn about our solar system from the former national expert himself, Dan Quayle:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then we can breathe."
I know that there have also been a few questions about NASA and people possibly losing faith in them due to the recent problems with the Mars projects. Dan, once again, reassures us:
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Buck up, kids, as Dan says, "The future will be better tomorrow."
I work for a software company that sells a web-based training package. If we could recoup all of the hours we've lost to trying to deal with and work around Netscape's totally botched stylesheet support...
Is there supposed to be better support in Mozilla? Any experiences to share?
And no, I don't meant that in the instantly obvious, paranoid way.
I've just noticed that there is a lot of anger out there, especially in younger kids. I think it has a lot to do with the constant barrage of extremely well-targeted, psychologically-researched marketing.
Think about it -- just about every second of the day, you're constantly pushed to buy something. And as time goes on, the marketing people are getting better and better at targeting you through psychological research. Ever wonder how much of your extremely valuable memory space is taken up by ad campaigns (past and present) by McDonald's and Coca-Cola? Eventually it all becomes intrusive noise that is difficult to block out, and it becomes nothing but a big mish-mash of greed, greed, greed and more greed.
Is it any wonder that schizophrenia is on the rise, when there are very real voices coming at us from everywhere, as marketing people keep installing more and more monitors and speakers everywhere they can?
The aforementioned painful discussion was with a cow-orker
I don't mean to bash on anyone else's religion, even though mine is the Right One, but yours is out there. Cow-orking is just plain wrong. Never ork the cow.
but if we were going to start cracking down on some of the garbage that passes as "entertainment" these days
Exactly who is "we," and why are we cracking down? And at exactly what point in your life did you decide that religion precludes humor? I mean, noone in the world is allowed to make jokes about your personal religion?
What is it about so many religious people that makes them so completely self-righteous?
And really, what exactly is it about Jesus that is supposed to relate to this pagan festival? It certainly has absolutely nothing to do with his birthday. Christmas is a hell of a lot older than Jesus, and his real birthday is a lot closer to Easter than it is to Christmas.
See, the joke with Jesus battling Satan is that it's a parable. You've studied the bible, you understand those. Christmas is an ancient pagan ritual which the Christians adopted in an effort to convert the pagans -- they came into northern Europe saying, "You have a spring festival and a winter festival? What luck, they happen to fall exactly on the days of the birth and death of the deity we worship. How convenient."
What exactly do eggs have to do with Easter? Nothing. They're symbols of fertility, the symbols of the pagan spring festival. What exactly do pine trees and gifts and Santa Claus have to do with Jesus? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
So the next time you're going on about, or listening to someone going on about, how the fetivities and commercialization are ruining Jesus' birthday, remember that the festivities were there first. Jesus was tacked on later.
Do you think Darwin actually does the selection? Is this some religion I haven't seen yet, where people worship Darwin and call him forth to rub out the weak, the out-of-touch and the annoying?
I'd have to say that's pretty tempting. Sign me up.
I mean, they're late on getting their ideas to the ECMA for standardization, so they're looking at losing a little control, and here comes IBM with not only faster runtime environments, but support for Linux. If IBM put out the first supported (and very fast) Java 2 RE for Linux, Sun would show up a day late and a dollar short.
So, Sun needs to get their name into this market first. Most likely they've previously signed some sort of strategic agreement with Inprise (since there appears to be absolutely no other reason for Inprise's name to have anything to do with this), and they release Blackdowen's work as their own. Legally, I might add, due to their licensing agreement.
This whole debate strikes me as amusing in the context (and only in this context) of the debate the other day on movie credits (and Apple no longer including credits)... Kinda brings that whole argument full circle quite neatly.
I do the installers/ports of our product to various platforms for a small software company, and we require a 1.2.2 JRE. Blackdown has been there all along to make sure that we've got a release for Linux. I'll make sure that at least in our releases, they get the credit due them.
Getting credit for your work leads to feeling connected to the things that you produce. This leads to a more fulfilling work experience, happier people and higher productivity.
Removal of this feeling of contentment from knowing that you've accomplished something leads to lesser feelings of self-worth, lowered productivity and unhappy people. This is pretty basic stuff.
I'd be willing to get that you've never noticed the oh-so obvious connection between marxism and anything. Any idea what marxism is about? Or is it maybe just that evil red stuff, from the evil red book that you've been told not to read...
This begs a question, and points out one of the major failings in our legal system. It's extremely clear to anyone who is informed on the issues involved that etoys.com is seriously abusing the legal system, while playing dumb.
There should be severe penalties for such behavior. Clogging up the courts and preying on people without enough money to defend themselves should be a basis for countersuit, or damages in the event of such a verdict.
Capacity to hear doesn't necessarily mean capacity to absorb. Music doesn't just come in through your ears, sounds aren't entirely processed by hearing. I personally would rather have as much of the sound originally created as possible.
Besides, the vast majority of musical releases are less than an hour long anyway. The only real benefit I can see is getting double albums on a single medium, bos sets on a single medium, etc. Big deal, they'll still cost just as much.
Hell, send them copies of your receipts from other online booksellers, telling them that their heavy-handed approach to squashing their competitors is reason enough to do business elsewhere. If they see enoguh dollars going to other companies for this, maybe it'll change their minds. The only thing they care about is money.
They're well aware that their patent is ludicrous. They're just playing dumb and trying to screw their competitors, using an overburdened and behind the curve government agency as their shield. Let them know that you know this, and because of it you're spending your dollars elsewhere.
Wanna get into Marx? Separating the individual from what they produce? Making people feel worthless?
Ever think that maybe, just maybe, the credits aren't there just for you? Maybe they're for the people who worked on the movie, members of their family, their friends, people who can say "See that? I know that guy." Which would make "that guy" or "that girl" pretty cool.
I can't believe you're chasing this as a valid argument. Give credit where it is due. If you don't personally care, don't read them, leave the theatre, don't run the Easter eggs...
Where else would you get commentary like this from individuals? You sure as hell wouldn't get it on the news... I knew nothing about this at all until I got to work this morning, I saw no mention of it on TV all day yesterday.
Even if the news here (I'm in the US) did cover it, it would be a 30-60 second story, then off to the weather.
Meanwhile, the biggest of the big manage to push forward to the New World Order, thousand upon thousands of people try to voice their opposition only to be attacked. Sweet. Home of the free, land of the silenced.
"We're not going to make that same mistake again." - Big George Bush
"There ought to be limits to freedom." -Little George Bush
Well, it's not geeks like us that make the huge difference in video card sales. Unfortunately, they may be able to strike a deal with, say, Dell and sell a couple bazillion units.
I mean, everyone I know who is looking for new hardware asks me about what 3d card to buy, and that's still only like 10 or 12 people.
The subset of consumers who read Ars and Slashdot really isn't enough to make or break a company. And if you ask me, it shouldn't be. One schmuck in marketing shouldn't kill off the parent company.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything Epic has done. They've created a killer game and they are at least releasing executables for Linux... GT has just wussed out. If they want our support, they should reciprocate.
heheheh... OK, this is now WAY too many posts from one person... I just wanted to say that the post I'm replying to says, "2 points for this?" because the post I replied to had 2 points when I camne through. Someone has since trolled the post, and it looks like I'm begging for points.
I would imagine that a massive number of the UT servers will be running on Linux, which will seriously boost game sales -- more servers means more available places to play... Why should we support them if they're not supporting us?
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I bought from 3 different oneline stores. All three screwed the order up completely. One never sent a confirmation email, and it took 3 emails and one phone call to finally get a confirmation of my order, which appeared on my answering machine.
Another one sent 3 different messages saying that the order had gone through, hadn't gone through and had been rejected. I finally called customer support and was told they had no record of the order. I ordered over the phone.
The third was Amazon, I ordered a 3-pack of MST movies with Manos. They sent three different movies, no Manos. I sent them several emails telling them what had gone wrong, so they sent me another package. It was the same 3 wrong movies. I sent them another email, which resulted in them asking me to return everything, since they don't really stock the stuff I'd ordered, and they had already credited my credit card. No "How would you like to handle this," no "Would you like to keep these movies instead," nothing.
Still, I've done my shopping from the office at lunch and everything was delivered there. Despite the hassle, it was still better than doing the Road Warrior thing in the parking lot at the mall.
With all of this misinformation floating around, I thought this would be a good time to learn about our solar system from the former national expert himself, Dan Quayle:
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then we can breathe."
I know that there have also been a few questions about NASA and people possibly losing faith in them due to the recent problems with the Mars projects. Dan, once again, reassures us:
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Buck up, kids, as Dan says, "The future will be better tomorrow."
Holy mother of God, what did you do to so totally lose your sense of humor?
Well, I'd imagine that the marshes are going to be nice and flooded, and Great Hammock Rd's gonna have that huge puddle by the town beach. :]
Hmmm... well, let's see... The universe, strangely enough, does seem to have an order to it, at least in the way celestial objects move.
Oh, and calendars are generally based on lunar happenings, celestial ocurrences, etc.
Why does this culmination surprise you? Why would even a coincidence surprise you?
I work for a software company that sells a web-based training package. If we could recoup all of the hours we've lost to trying to deal with and work around Netscape's totally botched stylesheet support...
Is there supposed to be better support in Mozilla? Any experiences to share?
And no, I don't meant that in the instantly obvious, paranoid way.
I've just noticed that there is a lot of anger out there, especially in younger kids. I think it has a lot to do with the constant barrage of extremely well-targeted, psychologically-researched marketing.
Think about it -- just about every second of the day, you're constantly pushed to buy something. And as time goes on, the marketing people are getting better and better at targeting you through psychological research. Ever wonder how much of your extremely valuable memory space is taken up by ad campaigns (past and present) by McDonald's and Coca-Cola? Eventually it all becomes intrusive noise that is difficult to block out, and it becomes nothing but a big mish-mash of greed, greed, greed and more greed.
Is it any wonder that schizophrenia is on the rise, when there are very real voices coming at us from everywhere, as marketing people keep installing more and more monitors and speakers everywhere they can?
Of course we're anxious and moody.
The aforementioned painful discussion was with a cow-orker
I don't mean to bash on anyone else's religion, even though mine is the Right One, but yours is out there. Cow-orking is just plain wrong. Never ork the cow.
Well, it's "less than 10%" if you read carefully. Which doesn't necessarily mean even 9%.
It's kinda like getting busted with "Less than an ounce" of marijuana...
bahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa
but if we were going to start cracking down on some of the garbage that passes as "entertainment" these days
Exactly who is "we," and why are we cracking down? And at exactly what point in your life did you decide that religion precludes humor? I mean, noone in the world is allowed to make jokes about your personal religion?
What is it about so many religious people that makes them so completely self-righteous?
And really, what exactly is it about Jesus that is supposed to relate to this pagan festival? It certainly has absolutely nothing to do with his birthday. Christmas is a hell of a lot older than Jesus, and his real birthday is a lot closer to Easter than it is to Christmas.
See, the joke with Jesus battling Satan is that it's a parable. You've studied the bible, you understand those. Christmas is an ancient pagan ritual which the Christians adopted in an effort to convert the pagans -- they came into northern Europe saying, "You have a spring festival and a winter festival? What luck, they happen to fall exactly on the days of the birth and death of the deity we worship. How convenient."
What exactly do eggs have to do with Easter? Nothing. They're symbols of fertility, the symbols of the pagan spring festival. What exactly do pine trees and gifts and Santa Claus have to do with Jesus? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
So the next time you're going on about, or listening to someone going on about, how the fetivities and commercialization are ruining Jesus' birthday, remember that the festivities were there first. Jesus was tacked on later.
Well, if you were at a real casino you could stop in to the offices and mortgage your house, cash in your boat, your car, whatever you wanted to.
Why is it different online?
Then why say it twice?
Darwin where are you now?
Do you think Darwin actually does the selection? Is this some religion I haven't seen yet, where people worship Darwin and call him forth to rub out the weak, the out-of-touch and the annoying?
I'd have to say that's pretty tempting. Sign me up.
Well, this is most likely why Sun has done this.
I mean, they're late on getting their ideas to the ECMA for standardization, so they're looking at losing a little control, and here comes IBM with not only faster runtime environments, but support for Linux. If IBM put out the first supported (and very fast) Java 2 RE for Linux, Sun would show up a day late and a dollar short.
So, Sun needs to get their name into this market first. Most likely they've previously signed some sort of strategic agreement with Inprise (since there appears to be absolutely no other reason for Inprise's name to have anything to do with this), and they release Blackdowen's work as their own. Legally, I might add, due to their licensing agreement.
This whole debate strikes me as amusing in the context (and only in this context) of the debate the other day on movie credits (and Apple no longer including credits)... Kinda brings that whole argument full circle quite neatly.
I do the installers/ports of our product to various platforms for a small software company, and we require a 1.2.2 JRE. Blackdown has been there all along to make sure that we've got a release for Linux. I'll make sure that at least in our releases, they get the credit due them.
Getting credit for your work leads to feeling connected to the things that you produce. This leads to a more fulfilling work experience, happier people and higher productivity.
Removal of this feeling of contentment from knowing that you've accomplished something leads to lesser feelings of self-worth, lowered productivity and unhappy people. This is pretty basic stuff.
I'd be willing to get that you've never noticed the oh-so obvious connection between marxism and anything. Any idea what marxism is about? Or is it maybe just that evil red stuff, from the evil red book that you've been told not to read...
This begs a question, and points out one of the major failings in our legal system. It's extremely clear to anyone who is informed on the issues involved that etoys.com is seriously abusing the legal system, while playing dumb.
There should be severe penalties for such behavior. Clogging up the courts and preying on people without enough money to defend themselves should be a basis for countersuit, or damages in the event of such a verdict.
Capacity to hear doesn't necessarily mean capacity to absorb. Music doesn't just come in through your ears, sounds aren't entirely processed by hearing. I personally would rather have as much of the sound originally created as possible.
Besides, the vast majority of musical releases are less than an hour long anyway. The only real benefit I can see is getting double albums on a single medium, bos sets on a single medium, etc. Big deal, they'll still cost just as much.
Hell, send them copies of your receipts from other online booksellers, telling them that their heavy-handed approach to squashing their competitors is reason enough to do business elsewhere. If they see enoguh dollars going to other companies for this, maybe it'll change their minds. The only thing they care about is money.
They're well aware that their patent is ludicrous. They're just playing dumb and trying to screw their competitors, using an overburdened and behind the curve government agency as their shield. Let them know that you know this, and because of it you're spending your dollars elsewhere.
If you think this is bad, wait 'til cases like this have the WTO behind them...
Wanna get into Marx? Separating the individual from what they produce? Making people feel worthless?
Ever think that maybe, just maybe, the credits aren't there just for you? Maybe they're for the people who worked on the movie, members of their family, their friends, people who can say "See that? I know that guy." Which would make "that guy" or "that girl" pretty cool.
I can't believe you're chasing this as a valid argument. Give credit where it is due. If you don't personally care, don't read them, leave the theatre, don't run the Easter eggs...
Where else would you get commentary like this from individuals? You sure as hell wouldn't get it on the news... I knew nothing about this at all until I got to work this morning, I saw no mention of it on TV all day yesterday.
Even if the news here (I'm in the US) did cover it, it would be a 30-60 second story, then off to the weather.
Meanwhile, the biggest of the big manage to push forward to the New World Order, thousand upon thousands of people try to voice their opposition only to be attacked. Sweet. Home of the free, land of the silenced.
"We're not going to make that same mistake again." - Big George Bush
"There ought to be limits to freedom." -Little George Bush
Well, it's not geeks like us that make the huge difference in video card sales. Unfortunately, they may be able to strike a deal with, say, Dell and sell a couple bazillion units.
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I mean, everyone I know who is looking for new hardware asks me about what 3d card to buy, and that's still only like 10 or 12 people.
The subset of consumers who read Ars and Slashdot really isn't enough to make or break a company. And if you ask me, it shouldn't be. One schmuck in marketing shouldn't kill off the parent company.
Maybe he could go work for Alex St. John
Anyone who has played Driver for the PSX has seen GT ship a game WAY prematurely. Another week, possibly two, and it would've been a sweet game.
Remember GT stealing, repackaging and reselling a game in Germany?
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything Epic has done. They've created a killer game and they are at least releasing executables for Linux... GT has just wussed out. If they want our support, they should reciprocate.
heheheh... OK, this is now WAY too many posts from one person... I just wanted to say that the post I'm replying to says, "2 points for this?" because the post I replied to had 2 points when I camne through. Someone has since trolled the post, and it looks like I'm begging for points.
I doan need no steeking points.
I would imagine that a massive number of the UT servers will be running on Linux, which will seriously boost game sales -- more servers means more available places to play... Why should we support them if they're not supporting us?