The problem is that BB has a reputation for fake late fees. I know what finally made me stop renting from them years ago was that they would charge late fees on movies that were returned on time. This combined with their editing of movies, and the fact that it was clear they were trying to trick their customers by offering 3 'night' rentals, and counting both the rental and return nights as full nights, just made me give up on them. When they started their 'no late fees' scam, I didn't even bother to look into them. Apparently that was the right move.
What kind of 'throttling' were they doing? I know at one point, I was watching at least on movie every day. I had 90 movies rented in 90 days. The turn around from my mailbox out to my mail box in was 2-3 days.
How about electricity, indoor plumbing, toilets in general. Don't forgent anything to do with farming. Plows, harvesters, trucks to ship food. I would say that if all technology disappeard tomorrow, 99% of the population would die. So, yes we are addicted, as most of the world is.
There was no foot in mouth,(other than maybe spelling Amish with an O). You agree that the problem is loud talking, and not the phone itself, yet you still complain about the phone. You admit that the tech problem is your, yet you compain about the PDA.
As for your laptop experience. Did you know that people in all sorts of industries get that kind of treatment? Did you know tht doctors get asked by people they don't know for medical advice? Did you know that lawyers get asked by people they don't know for legal advice? That's right. Your problem isn't that people ask for computer advice. It is that people ask for advice. Again you attribute a non-technical problem to the tech. That is a neo-luddite attitude.
You did ad hypocrate to the description though. You complain about people talking about computers in a restaurant, then tell how when YOU talked about computers someone bothered YOU. You seem to have a serious case of the 'my shade of gray is better than your shade of gray's'
I miss the days when neo-luddites were less prevelent.
"yammering on cell phones" = yammering to the person sitting next to you
"tapping on PDAs" = scratching on paper with a pen
"talking about computer problems" = talking about anything your not interested in
Your problem is that you hate technology just for the sake of hating technology. The only difference between you and the Omish is that the Omish don't run around whinning about how everybody else isn't Omish.
All of your complaints existed just as much before 1980. They just used diffent equipment.
Would a generally spherical object free falling from space actually only reach 100mph before it hit the ground? And would there really be no creator from said object falling from space?
I don't read Slashdot to hear people admitting their own faults, and getting along. Stop it! Get back to misunderastanding, and calling each other names!
"Raise girls to be princesses and moms, and you get women who's highest goals are domestic crap and social climbing."
It's worse than that. Most little girls are raised to be prostitutes, and THAT is where the problem is. Irrelevent of gender, there is a huge portion of our population that would give up working immediatly if they could have a steady flow of income without it. Most of these people would be more than happy to shake their dirty bits to keep that steady flow of income. This becomes even more pronounced if society joins in on the mass denial of what they are doing.
Now, historically, given that due to various reasons, men have controlled the wealth, and women have controlled the sex. Women are in a greater position to exachange sex, and more importantly the implication that sex could happen, for cash, goods, and most importantly, preferential treatment.
Now, given that the group "women" is a subset of the group "people", a large portion of them will use sex to avoid work. This happens not because they are women, but because they are people, and being a woman gives them the choice.
Unfortunatly, this is taugh to our children. As children, little boy know to get rich they need to make money. As children, little girls know that to get rich, they can make money, or marry a rich man. This leads to a general feeling that financial things will work themselves out, and thus the kind of behaviour that that belief generates.
When half of the women know that they don't HAVE to work to keep a good lifestyle, is it suprising that there are less of them going into fields that require hard work and planning?
Seems like a lot of trouble...
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Maybe they have changed the models, but the Santa I bought has an audio-in jack. Heck the box even advertised a Kareoke mode. Just plug in a mic, or any alternate audio feed, and you have the same thing.
"Square Enix, the company that founded the genre"?!?!?!
BS, BS and more BS. The CRPG genre was well established before Square or Enix were even founded as companies. Heck Ultima III (Richard Garrot's forth CRPG) had already been released before those companies came into being, Ultima IV was out before the first Dragon Quest, and Ultima 5 was out before the first Dragon Warrior Game.
Dragon Warrior was a dumbed down newbie to a mature and established CRPG genre when it was released.
"and discounts are applied to PC games much sooner than to console games."
Given that the physical manufacture of disks and packaging is $1, it sure would be nice if all the old PS1, and now XBox games would be sold for ~$2. We know this will never happen though because the shaving razor business model guarantees that prices stay high.
We have cured many types of cancer. When someone finds out that they have cancer, the first question is no longer "How long have I got?", it is now "Is it curable?".
As much as I think IBM should just compile Notes with the WineLib (they already run Notes on Wine internally), I don't expect it to happen. Back in the 4.6 days, R5 was promised to be a complete rewrite of Notes with every component being a Java applet. This would have made Notes a write once, run anywhere application. (even in a browser) Well, Java didn't pan out as expected, and Lotus pulled back on the cross platformness of their client.
*****I know that Java has come a long way. I am speaking historically.
Well, I believe that when IBM made another push for the the Notes client rewrite in Java, they promised less and coded more. They knew that a complete rewrite was a HUGE job, so they started Workplace. (Now called the Workplace Managed Client) It is being released for Linux, and has a Notes Client plugin. So Notes will be availible for Linux, it will just be called Workplace.
While I agree the genetics does have an impact on intellegence, the reason that simblings with vastly different IQs exist is because contrary to PC belief, very few parents actually treat all of their children the same. First children tend to be more restricted in what they are allowed to do, and last children tend to be more pampered and thus have to do less. Obviously this is not absolute, and you can make your own determination as to what these environmental effects have on children, but it is common.
The answer to the age old question of environment or genetics is an obvious "Yes".
Because when I took photos of a hit and run in front of my home, and the police refused to even take a report, I went to the city mayor. The city mayor had a police officer call me and threaten me. If the police are going to murder me over a hit and run cover-up, I don't want it made extra easy by letting them know when I happen to be in a sparsely populated part of the city.
I expect the OS to use all 100GB. Although it would be better with another 30GB of ram. I would expect the OS to boot up, and then start caching the entire HD to ram in the background. Obiously the most often used files first. That way I can keep working, and every second my chances of having lightning fast "disk access" becomes better and better. If I leave my computer running (As many of us do) I would definitly get a massive speed boost.
I've never used BellSouth, but I call BS on the going to the media. There comes a point where corruption becomes so blatent that everybody already knows about it. At that point the media doesn't care. E.G. RIAA, MS, MPAA, SBC, Sprint.
The media doesn't do investigations. They report at best. That means that when a megacorp specifically sets up their system to "accidently" cause problems, the media will not report it.
I want my child to know what is right and what is wrong. To many parents, including in the "It's the parents responsibility" crownd just want to teach what is right, and hope thier children never see wrong. At 20 months, my child aready knows what is pretend and what is not. By making sure he always knows the difference means that no fictional movie, music or video game will be bad for him. There seems to be a large portions of the adult population still have a problem telling the differnce between real and pretend.
"Worse, I can't return the router without the reciept."
Yes, the stores and manufactures rely on people not submitting the rebates. Yes the stores and manufacturers rely on "loosing" or denying rebates for added profit, but in the end, even in a best case scenerio, you loose the right to return the product. So, when the product does not meet the specs on the box. Too bad. If the product dies three days after you bought it, you have to go through the expense and hassle of returning the product to the manufacturer. This is something that they know many people won't do.
My wife actually got yelled at by her former boss because she made a calander event. She was told that it confuses the other employees, and that she was never to do that again.
The "contraversy" over ebryo stem cells has nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research. It is just a poor attempt to rehash the abortion debate. The idea being that abortion is evil. The right to lifers lost the abortion battle to the pro choicers a long time ago, so the right to lifers started to try to fight abortion through the slippery slope.
If embryonic stem cell research stopped tomorrow, the right to lifers would just move to some other abortion related issue, and create a "contraversy".
That's why laws keep getting passed that restrict teenagers. How are we going to keep convincing each other that teenagers are evil if they don't commit crimes. So, we work towards creating a society that puts 18 year olds out on the street with never having held a job, no drivers license, never having had sex, and no experience with keeping things like drinking in moderation. Add on to that laws that prevent parents from teaching kids that there are reprecussions for your actions, and you just might turn this decline in youth crime around.
Just remember these are the people that will decide if the plug should be pulled. Needlessly making enemies of them is not a good idea.
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The problem is that BB has a reputation for fake late fees. I know what finally made me stop renting from them years ago was that they would charge late fees on movies that were returned on time. This combined with their editing of movies, and the fact that it was clear they were trying to trick their customers by offering 3 'night' rentals, and counting both the rental and return nights as full nights, just made me give up on them. When they started their 'no late fees' scam, I didn't even bother to look into them. Apparently that was the right move.
What kind of 'throttling' were they doing? I know at one point, I was watching at least on movie every day. I had 90 movies rented in 90 days. The turn around from my mailbox out to my mail box in was 2-3 days.
How about electricity, indoor plumbing, toilets in general. Don't forgent anything to do with farming. Plows, harvesters, trucks to ship food. I would say that if all technology disappeard tomorrow, 99% of the population would die. So, yes we are addicted, as most of the world is.
There was no foot in mouth,(other than maybe spelling Amish with an O). You agree that the problem is loud talking, and not the phone itself, yet you still complain about the phone. You admit that the tech problem is your, yet you compain about the PDA.
As for your laptop experience. Did you know that people in all sorts of industries get that kind of treatment? Did you know tht doctors get asked by people they don't know for medical advice? Did you know that lawyers get asked by people they don't know for legal advice? That's right. Your problem isn't that people ask for computer advice. It is that people ask for advice. Again you attribute a non-technical problem to the tech. That is a neo-luddite attitude.
You did ad hypocrate to the description though. You complain about people talking about computers in a restaurant, then tell how when YOU talked about computers someone bothered YOU. You seem to have a serious case of the 'my shade of gray is better than your shade of gray's'
I miss the days when neo-luddites were less prevelent.
"yammering on cell phones" = yammering to the person sitting next to you "tapping on PDAs" = scratching on paper with a pen "talking about computer problems" = talking about anything your not interested in
Your problem is that you hate technology just for the sake of hating technology. The only difference between you and the Omish is that the Omish don't run around whinning about how everybody else isn't Omish.
All of your complaints existed just as much before 1980. They just used diffent equipment.
AOL is evil. They have been evil since the C-64 days. At no time have they not been evil.
So, giving AOL a billion dollars to continue their work IS evil.
Would a generally spherical object free falling from space actually only reach 100mph before it hit the ground? And would there really be no creator from said object falling from space?
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I don't read Slashdot to hear people admitting their own faults, and getting along. Stop it! Get back to misunderastanding, and calling each other names!
"Raise girls to be princesses and moms, and you get women who's highest goals are domestic crap and social climbing." It's worse than that. Most little girls are raised to be prostitutes, and THAT is where the problem is. Irrelevent of gender, there is a huge portion of our population that would give up working immediatly if they could have a steady flow of income without it. Most of these people would be more than happy to shake their dirty bits to keep that steady flow of income. This becomes even more pronounced if society joins in on the mass denial of what they are doing.
Now, historically, given that due to various reasons, men have controlled the wealth, and women have controlled the sex. Women are in a greater position to exachange sex, and more importantly the implication that sex could happen, for cash, goods, and most importantly, preferential treatment.
Now, given that the group "women" is a subset of the group "people", a large portion of them will use sex to avoid work. This happens not because they are women, but because they are people, and being a woman gives them the choice.
Unfortunatly, this is taugh to our children. As children, little boy know to get rich they need to make money. As children, little girls know that to get rich, they can make money, or marry a rich man. This leads to a general feeling that financial things will work themselves out, and thus the kind of behaviour that that belief generates.
When half of the women know that they don't HAVE to work to keep a good lifestyle, is it suprising that there are less of them going into fields that require hard work and planning?
Maybe they have changed the models, but the Santa I bought has an audio-in jack. Heck the box even advertised a Kareoke mode. Just plug in a mic, or any alternate audio feed, and you have the same thing.
The article states "founded".
Clearly you do not know what that word means.
"Square Enix, the company that founded the genre"?!?!?!
BS, BS and more BS. The CRPG genre was well established before Square or Enix were even founded as companies. Heck Ultima III (Richard Garrot's forth CRPG) had already been released before those companies came into being, Ultima IV was out before the first Dragon Quest, and Ultima 5 was out before the first Dragon Warrior Game.
Dragon Warrior was a dumbed down newbie to a mature and established CRPG genre when it was released.
"and discounts are applied to PC games much sooner than to console games."
Given that the physical manufacture of disks and packaging is $1, it sure would be nice if all the old PS1, and now XBox games would be sold for ~$2. We know this will never happen though because the shaving razor business model guarantees that prices stay high.
We have cured many types of cancer. When someone finds out that they have cancer, the first question is no longer "How long have I got?", it is now "Is it curable?".
As much as I think IBM should just compile Notes with the WineLib (they already run Notes on Wine internally), I don't expect it to happen. Back in the 4.6 days, R5 was promised to be a complete rewrite of Notes with every component being a Java applet. This would have made Notes a write once, run anywhere application. (even in a browser) Well, Java didn't pan out as expected, and Lotus pulled back on the cross platformness of their client.
*****I know that Java has come a long way. I am speaking historically.
Well, I believe that when IBM made another push for the the Notes client rewrite in Java, they promised less and coded more. They knew that a complete rewrite was a HUGE job, so they started Workplace. (Now called the Workplace Managed Client) It is being released for Linux, and has a Notes Client plugin. So Notes will be availible for Linux, it will just be called Workplace.
While I agree the genetics does have an impact on intellegence, the reason that simblings with vastly different IQs exist is because contrary to PC belief, very few parents actually treat all of their children the same. First children tend to be more restricted in what they are allowed to do, and last children tend to be more pampered and thus have to do less. Obviously this is not absolute, and you can make your own determination as to what these environmental effects have on children, but it is common.
The answer to the age old question of environment or genetics is an obvious "Yes".
Because when I took photos of a hit and run in front of my home, and the police refused to even take a report, I went to the city mayor. The city mayor had a police officer call me and threaten me. If the police are going to murder me over a hit and run cover-up, I don't want it made extra easy by letting them know when I happen to be in a sparsely populated part of the city.
I expect the OS to use all 100GB. Although it would be better with another 30GB of ram. I would expect the OS to boot up, and then start caching the entire HD to ram in the background. Obiously the most often used files first. That way I can keep working, and every second my chances of having lightning fast "disk access" becomes better and better. If I leave my computer running (As many of us do) I would definitly get a massive speed boost.
I've never used BellSouth, but I call BS on the going to the media. There comes a point where corruption becomes so blatent that everybody already knows about it. At that point the media doesn't care. E.G. RIAA, MS, MPAA, SBC, Sprint.
The media doesn't do investigations. They report at best. That means that when a megacorp specifically sets up their system to "accidently" cause problems, the media will not report it.
I want my child to know what is right and what is wrong. To many parents, including in the "It's the parents responsibility" crownd just want to teach what is right, and hope thier children never see wrong. At 20 months, my child aready knows what is pretend and what is not. By making sure he always knows the difference means that no fictional movie, music or video game will be bad for him. There seems to be a large portions of the adult population still have a problem telling the differnce between real and pretend.
"Worse, I can't return the router without the reciept."
Yes, the stores and manufactures rely on people not submitting the rebates. Yes the stores and manufacturers rely on "loosing" or denying rebates for added profit, but in the end, even in a best case scenerio, you loose the right to return the product. So, when the product does not meet the specs on the box. Too bad. If the product dies three days after you bought it, you have to go through the expense and hassle of returning the product to the manufacturer. This is something that they know many people won't do.
My wife actually got yelled at by her former boss because she made a calander event. She was told that it confuses the other employees, and that she was never to do that again.
The "contraversy" over ebryo stem cells has nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research. It is just a poor attempt to rehash the abortion debate. The idea being that abortion is evil. The right to lifers lost the abortion battle to the pro choicers a long time ago, so the right to lifers started to try to fight abortion through the slippery slope.
If embryonic stem cell research stopped tomorrow, the right to lifers would just move to some other abortion related issue, and create a "contraversy".
That's why laws keep getting passed that restrict teenagers. How are we going to keep convincing each other that teenagers are evil if they don't commit crimes. So, we work towards creating a society that puts 18 year olds out on the street with never having held a job, no drivers license, never having had sex, and no experience with keeping things like drinking in moderation. Add on to that laws that prevent parents from teaching kids that there are reprecussions for your actions, and you just might turn this decline in youth crime around.
Just remember these are the people that will decide if the plug should be pulled. Needlessly making enemies of them is not a good idea.