eh I honestly suspect it's due to them doing a lazy approach to the billing where all they did to make it free was set the billing $ amount to 0 and leave the rest intact for now. Of course, I could be giving TR way more credit than due and I wouldn't doubt that you may be right. It's been so long I've forgotten about that kind of trash going on.
If ISP's agree to block you, they're pretty much going to get sued. Common carrier status is a big part of that.
Not to mention ISP's are not going to do the work of someone just complaining, they're just going to throw the letters out. They have no obligation to even glance at it. All those lovely little parts of common carrier yet again.
The thing is, in the same process of the Heroin addict, what are we going to do when EA hits withdrawal, panics, and pulls all the games from team with a giant media backlash of "whoops"?
I think we've been through this enough times that it needs to be no longer acceptable for a company to do that.
Quite contentious, eh? Well you don't make the decisions about employment, so what's your point?. How's the world looking from your high horse up there?
Meanwhile, your definition of a social faux pas is not the same as everyone else's. Tossing a notepad at someone's desk could constitute throwing at another person just as much as chucking it at their face. Quite a bit of this info is subjective, wasn't provided, and is not even worth debating. Lumping the two together is what you just did. Good job with the semantics, sherlock. Way to imply that it must have been a physical altercation in which case his employer would probably have pressed charges, not just let him walk.
I don't doubt that there could have certainly been better discussions made when the guy left but so what? Since when do you speak for everyone else in your offense of his lack of social grace?
I think you are being quite a bit inaccurate here.
This is like saying 'because xyz person did something it's the fault of the employer'.
It's HR's duty to screen people before you hire them but you can't magically predict everything. It is however, that employer's fault for being religious nutcases, that people will take note and hopefully not choose that place to work/boycott them entirely.
This guy has and should appropriately so feel free to vent everything about his experience with said company. Focusing on the fact that essentially on his last day he did something harsh? Really now, what do you expect people to do, smile and say thank you?
DRM doesn't open a business model. When you say "we won't do this unless you cripple it" doesn't mean DRM enabled something, it means a company deliberately disabled something to take value away from the consumer. That's like saying "if you give me x amount, for an extra y amount we'll give you what you want even if it truly is only worth x amount".
Rhapsody reflects on 2 things: that the value to you for the music is effectively 0, since you're paying monthly for whatever you want which can be dwindled down to pennies. Also, it reflects on a misunderstanding: nobody cares to "own" music but people do like to play it in whatever they want, whenever they want. DRM fights that for the false sake of "piracy". If I can play the same thing in my car, mp3 player, cellphone, laptop, friends house, etc, why should rhapsody lock that stuff down? Why should I have to tether that to my money? Answer: I don't. I pay artists with checks directly. They recognize the difference.
Just like even though gaming systems have obscene DRM you can still take a disc to your neighbor's house for them to play with no magic restrictions.
The thing is, I don't want to HAVE to buy things through Steam. Notably it has a ton of problems with linux on occasion still. Of course, you can imagine how well that works if everyone jumps on board steam. At least EVE runs flawless on all forms of linux (DX9, DX10 included by the way).
I would like to just see the DRM dance end, really. When DRM that people don't notice is "perfected", the same situation as now will occur: The smart people will figure out how to get around it, and the rest will happily lap up.
I have portal on my steam account which I rarely if ever use; should you wish to play it you can use mine. Just leave me some comment with a way to contact you or something.
I hate the shit he danced, but he's not stupid and the wording is if anything, a bit too careful. He is after all, not Bush, and is coming on slashdot of all places.
As much as it trumps current wisdom I'd really like to see non-political majors and non-lawyers in our political system. It'd be a nice change from the word-dancing we get with situations like this.
I think that's a bit sensationalism. I do think some of this did indeed sidestep some issues, but let's not make the man sound like an idiot.
For my question about giving up rights to secure things, he disagreed with my basic premise...not with my supporting evidence. So it is a subtle acknowledgment.
I agree. I also probably should have stated that in some way where it wasn't quite a 100% blanket statement.
However, worldwide, for about 95% of all industries, there are basically only 2 or 3 manufacturers maximum of a given item, and prices are set in stone by contracts agreed to privately and obfuscated to the public by these manufacturers. Thus, you know, there's competition in the consumer retail market only. It's only when the retail distributors push back on that 1 manufacturer for the sake of competition do they actually lower price (and only sometimes).
Example: One single company makes probably 80%-85% of all computer products for cellphones and computer hardware. 1 company makes them for the entire world. That's why we have those little standards markings on stuff. People who work in the standards industry can easily tell you how few manufacturers actually exist. However, this is not a bad thing really. How many consumers could tell you who really makes a product that is UL listed, EC listed, etc?
So the monopolies are there, people just don't know about em. Mostly because those companies make so much money that they don't care and are conscious of the easy abuse, plus they're so huge of companies that national governments usually have a magnifying glass on them at all times. Literally many governments actually have employees hired by said manufacturers (salaried) to inspect the plants on a continual basis.
The coils are designed grab a charge and pull it to it. It's not like an explosion where the power simply radiates everywhere. That's what we have microwaves for and why they are shielded. If the SSD is in the path of the charge, it would be impacted by it (shielded or not), but otherwise it's not like this will go everywhere for short range. The electricity leaps towards the coils, essentially.
In time this can be improved above 80% efficiency. It's not about "may as well plug it in", it's also about space constraints, plugs, etc. This can remove the need for a lot of wiring and is not a new technology by far.
Early adopters are just paying more early(unless its someone/thing that needs cutting edge technology). They aren't paying the way to make it cheaper for us. It's just an early indicator of interest and a short-term way to start recouping costs. When people make more than the cost it is profit, not discounts that we see. This would be because the MFR makes the same profit either way.
In reality the cost of something is generally (not completely, but generally) far lower than the original price...this is because they know that most things start expensive and get cheaper. Competition brings it down.
When manufacturing costs find a way to make the same item cheaper, do you really think that cost savings is passed on to retail or the consumer? Absolutely not. Consumer's don't even know, for the most part.
I figure it's a fun idea that people could actually come up with creative answers for:)
In some versions of it, when you pick major religions buddhism sometimes gets left aside though so depending on perspective some like to lump things like buddhism as "linux distros" basically.
Well, it was better done than many of their other products but if you are running it I'm sure you know that HyperV was their big selling point and barely works. So, kinda same thing there. Office 2007 still has an excess of problems, and visual studio is probably the one product people are happy with.
I'm not denying that I did make an excess of a blanket statement (I agree, I did) and on rare occasions they release things well tested, but it doesn't seem to be exactly consistent.
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eh I honestly suspect it's due to them doing a lazy approach to the billing where all they did to make it free was set the billing $ amount to 0 and leave the rest intact for now. Of course, I could be giving TR way more credit than due and I wouldn't doubt that you may be right. It's been so long I've forgotten about that kind of trash going on.
If ISP's agree to block you, they're pretty much going to get sued. Common carrier status is a big part of that.
Not to mention ISP's are not going to do the work of someone just complaining, they're just going to throw the letters out. They have no obligation to even glance at it. All those lovely little parts of common carrier yet again.
Explosive diarrhea is not the same as an erupting magma flow.
How stupid are you?
They'd want a credit card back when you were subscribing too. They're just changing the cost to 0$.
Man, no wonder we have so many stupid anon posts.
TR was a creative game, and this is a great way to end things, heck, a free bonus is pretty nice.
ah, wish I had seen this earlier.
The thing is, in the same process of the Heroin addict, what are we going to do when EA hits withdrawal, panics, and pulls all the games from team with a giant media backlash of "whoops"?
I think we've been through this enough times that it needs to be no longer acceptable for a company to do that.
I thought that sounded good too.
If this was done right, would that allow it to replace wine? or not really?
Quite contentious, eh? Well you don't make the decisions about employment, so what's your point?. How's the world looking from your high horse up there?
Meanwhile, your definition of a social faux pas is not the same as everyone else's. Tossing a notepad at someone's desk could constitute throwing at another person just as much as chucking it at their face. Quite a bit of this info is subjective, wasn't provided, and is not even worth debating. Lumping the two together is what you just did. Good job with the semantics, sherlock. Way to imply that it must have been a physical altercation in which case his employer would probably have pressed charges, not just let him walk.
I don't doubt that there could have certainly been better discussions made when the guy left but so what? Since when do you speak for everyone else in your offense of his lack of social grace?
Say what?
I think you are being quite a bit inaccurate here.
This is like saying 'because xyz person did something it's the fault of the employer'.
It's HR's duty to screen people before you hire them but you can't magically predict everything. It is however, that employer's fault for being religious nutcases, that people will take note and hopefully not choose that place to work/boycott them entirely.
This guy has and should appropriately so feel free to vent everything about his experience with said company. Focusing on the fact that essentially on his last day he did something harsh? Really now, what do you expect people to do, smile and say thank you?
Freedom of speech is out there for a reason.
10 cents virtually? That's stealing from the government! /riaa logic
Uh, where exactly do you see this? First one I see is http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=KJNspj7Wol4&offerid=142481.10000581&type=3&subid=0 . Basically for sports authority.
Meanwhile, although I assume it's sarcasm, it's a bit of a stretch :P
DRM doesn't open a business model. When you say "we won't do this unless you cripple it" doesn't mean DRM enabled something, it means a company deliberately disabled something to take value away from the consumer. That's like saying "if you give me x amount, for an extra y amount we'll give you what you want even if it truly is only worth x amount".
Rhapsody reflects on 2 things: that the value to you for the music is effectively 0, since you're paying monthly for whatever you want which can be dwindled down to pennies. Also, it reflects on a misunderstanding: nobody cares to "own" music but people do like to play it in whatever they want, whenever they want. DRM fights that for the false sake of "piracy". If I can play the same thing in my car, mp3 player, cellphone, laptop, friends house, etc, why should rhapsody lock that stuff down? Why should I have to tether that to my money? Answer: I don't. I pay artists with checks directly. They recognize the difference.
Just like even though gaming systems have obscene DRM you can still take a disc to your neighbor's house for them to play with no magic restrictions.
The thing is, I don't want to HAVE to buy things through Steam. Notably it has a ton of problems with linux on occasion still. Of course, you can imagine how well that works if everyone jumps on board steam. At least EVE runs flawless on all forms of linux (DX9, DX10 included by the way).
Ha, I never knew about that. Nice. Let's hope opportunist sees it.
I know you caught the sarcasm, thankfully.
I would like to just see the DRM dance end, really. When DRM that people don't notice is "perfected", the same situation as now will occur: The smart people will figure out how to get around it, and the rest will happily lap up.
I have portal on my steam account which I rarely if ever use; should you wish to play it you can use mine. Just leave me some comment with a way to contact you or something.
I hate the shit he danced, but he's not stupid and the wording is if anything, a bit too careful. He is after all, not Bush, and is coming on slashdot of all places.
As much as it trumps current wisdom I'd really like to see non-political majors and non-lawyers in our political system. It'd be a nice change from the word-dancing we get with situations like this.
Lets rephrase:
"we've replaced a very restrictive form of DRM with another form of DRM. How do you like it?"
opportunist (166417): "I LOVE IT! *hands cash*"
This is not the drm you are looking for.
Steam is DRM - its better, but still DRM.
I think that's a bit sensationalism.
I do think some of this did indeed sidestep some issues, but let's not make the man sound like an idiot.
For my question about giving up rights to secure things, he disagreed with my basic premise...not with my supporting evidence. So it is a subtle acknowledgment.
You mean Brokeback Mountain?
I agree. I also probably should have stated that in some way where it wasn't quite a 100% blanket statement.
However, worldwide, for about 95% of all industries, there are basically only 2 or 3 manufacturers maximum of a given item, and prices are set in stone by contracts agreed to privately and obfuscated to the public by these manufacturers. Thus, you know, there's competition in the consumer retail market only. It's only when the retail distributors push back on that 1 manufacturer for the sake of competition do they actually lower price (and only sometimes).
Example: One single company makes probably 80%-85% of all computer products for cellphones and computer hardware. 1 company makes them for the entire world. That's why we have those little standards markings on stuff. People who work in the standards industry can easily tell you how few manufacturers actually exist. However, this is not a bad thing really. How many consumers could tell you who really makes a product that is UL listed, EC listed, etc?
So the monopolies are there, people just don't know about em. Mostly because those companies make so much money that they don't care and are conscious of the easy abuse, plus they're so huge of companies that national governments usually have a magnifying glass on them at all times. Literally many governments actually have employees hired by said manufacturers (salaried) to inspect the plants on a continual basis.
Well, not quite.
The coils are designed grab a charge and pull it to it.
It's not like an explosion where the power simply radiates everywhere. That's what we have microwaves for and why they are shielded. If the SSD is in the path of the charge, it would be impacted by it (shielded or not), but otherwise it's not like this will go everywhere for short range. The electricity leaps towards the coils, essentially.
Long range is another game entirely, though.
Umm, no let's not plug it in.
In time this can be improved above 80% efficiency. It's not about "may as well plug it in", it's also about space constraints, plugs, etc. This can remove the need for a lot of wiring and is not a new technology by far.
People have used mice (not the animals) to do this for years.
Not to mention this could force standardizing of connections thus disabling companies from having proprietary connectors to connect things.
Shaver's plug gets bust? Would be nice to replace the plug and not the whole damn thing, etc. This bypasses that entirely.
Early adopters are just paying more early(unless its someone/thing that needs cutting edge technology). They aren't paying the way to make it cheaper for us. It's just an early indicator of interest and a short-term way to start recouping costs. When people make more than the cost it is profit, not discounts that we see. This would be because the MFR makes the same profit either way.
In reality the cost of something is generally (not completely, but generally) far lower than the original price...this is because they know that most things start expensive and get cheaper. Competition brings it down.
When manufacturing costs find a way to make the same item cheaper, do you really think that cost savings is passed on to retail or the consumer? Absolutely not. Consumer's don't even know, for the most part.
No, it's not that deep lol. It's already been answered, see all the replies.
I should have clarified better, and have like a million people correcting me already.
Umm, my memory isn't perfect, but didn't the Newegg situation take care of this case?
I figure it's a fun idea that people could actually come up with creative answers for :)
In some versions of it, when you pick major religions buddhism sometimes gets left aside though so depending on perspective some like to lump things like buddhism as "linux distros" basically.
Well, it was better done than many of their other products but if you are running it I'm sure you know that HyperV was their big selling point and barely works. So, kinda same thing there.
Office 2007 still has an excess of problems, and visual studio is probably the one product people are happy with.
I'm not denying that I did make an excess of a blanket statement (I agree, I did) and on rare occasions they release things well tested, but it doesn't seem to be exactly consistent.