Wholesale rates is still making you a profit. Say if your competitor stole all your business but was buying all its traffic through your lines at a reasonable wholesale rate, you would be making a profit and he would be making a profit.
It would also be your fault for having a crappy retail department who couldn't retain and gain satisfied customers.
Besides the fact that your post was mostly rant there were a few good comments.
All of the problems so far could have been fixed by a guy with a hand trowel. He could dig, sieve and work the vibrator.
I think its time for a more general purpose robot to go.
Also this really should have been more thoroughly tested. I mean one of those things that help you get icecream off the scoop would have been useful now. Guess next time they will think "what if the soil is clumpy" before blowing a cool 1/2 billion. I'd rather watch a redneck playing golf on the moon then hear about mars landers.
What parent said is correct. DC to DC voltage converters don't exist. All of them use PWM to have an AC intermediary stage, then use a traditional magnetic coil/windings to up/down voltages, then rectify back to DC. Hence DC-AC-DC
But if the songwwriter/artist wants to sell his song to me he can, and then he can turn around and sell it to you, and your mum and your dog. The builder can't sell his house over and over again. He has to go and build another. This whole perpetual bullshit is starting to piss me off. I think that in my lifetime nothing will enter the public domain. Copyright will become 2000 years with options to extend to eternity.
Where are we going as a society? Why the hell would we tell our kids to go to school? If I have learned anything from capitalism, don't go to school kids, just learn to play an instrument and write songs. Then you can leech off your creations for all eternity. To a lesser extent the value of education is derided by the likes of Paris hilton and celebrity celebrities and football/sports players. Learn to play ball and you could make more in a year then you would in a lifetime of life saving laboratory research work.
Well music really is maths then isnt it. If you add up all the number of timings and all of the different notes... There are only so many different chorus's and melodies that you can come up with. Sure its probably more than the possible number of chess games but hell, you can't copyright an opener in chess now can you? or can you?
Sorry Kasperov, you cant move there, that's the Coke(tm) opener and you haven't paid appropriate royalties. Nope not their either. That's Pepsi's(tm).
This is compounded ten fold when the CAPTCHA is on a form that took you 10mins to fill out and when you get the CAPTCHA wrong you have to fill out the form again...
I just keep refreshing until get one that I can read
What Glider should do is, become primarily an MP3 player that plays music while you play games, and its secondary purpose is a WoW bot.
Therefore it can have a legitimate purpose too. Some people might like it for its friendly user interface:)
In Australia, mod chips for playstations, xbox's and the like are legal so long as they allow you play different region movies. If they just bypass the copy protection to allow you to play copied discs then they aren't. Part of this whole dual purpose thing:)
Stamp Duty over here(tax) is around 20k on a 400k home. So not much difference. If you want a house 10kms from the city your looking at around 650k++ and 850k for something with 2 bathrooms. I'm talking in Aussie dollars, but with the two near equity at the moment there's no point converting.
I kinda thought with the whole subprime crap, house prices would be significantly cheaper in Seattle then they were 2 years ago.
Yes we have great beaches, beer and ladies over here. Long hot summers, fairly low crime and 2% unemployment. However the whole city only has one casino, and almost all shops close at 5pm, with a few convenience stores closing at 8:30.
Not to sound totality clueless to your situation but how can you not afford a house on 100k a year, with 3% interest? In Perth, Australia the average house price is up around 500k and interest is at 9%+
Thats 45k of interest in your first year, and in Australia we cant negative gear our primary residence (offset the income we pay as interest)
XP takes 15 (streamlined SP3 googness included). Debian about the same (final update to todays version depends on your internet connection speed though). You say Vista takes 20, I've seen Ubuntu take 30 minutes plus. Anyone noticing a pattern here? Peak oil^Winstall!? your not arguing the point. Your taking random points out of context to support your argument, did you work on Zeitgeist by any chance?
I could say it only takes 5 mins to install Ubuntu, (when I copy over a drive image from previous install and then reboot.)
Compare stock standard installs off standard install Cd's then your metrics are worth something to the argument.
What exactly forms a treaty? could I make a trading treatise with a friend in Denmark, to trade information freely. If everyone signed onto such a treaty there would be no infringement because someone would own a cd of this or a DVD of that and we are agreeing to share the data that we own?
I think you missed the point. He doesnt want to spend 4 or 5 hours ANY night raiding. He doesnt want to play in a raiding guild that counts DKP (ie all of them)
Clearing new content is what the hardcore players do. They spend 5 hours every night wipe after wipe, then us casuals read all their strats and do it first night. I think the new accruement, pvp (and pve badges) is a good idea, because it rewards consistency making you play longer.
COD4 is so good, because it got me playing it 10x longer than I would have normally played an FPS because I wanted to unlock all the guns and get lvl 55. By the time I was 55 I realised that I was pretty damn good and the game was fun. Unlocking the golden guns will keep me busy until COD5 comes out.
Oh yeah yeah Episode III was better. But only after all the die hard fans told him that that after episode I was akin to watching care bears and II was more like Dawsons Creek he tried to make it as pointlessly violent as he could. Like personally wiping out all the baby jedi.
Also its fucking stupid. I mean seriously the transition from anikin from emo teenager to psycopathic child murderer was way to fast for me. I mean at the end after Padme died, i could see that as a turning point into darth, but him killing kids didnt make sense as early in the movie as he did.
In conclusion the clone wars animated series was far cooler and star wars'y than any of the new George movies.
Its because George Lucas wrote the first movie as a man full of angst. Obviously the eyes he used to see the world was tainted by experience with working with kids on the street. Han-Solo, the shoot first ask questions later, Darth killing enemies and allies alike, torture, the destruction of an entire planet, (and then all of the poor subcontractors working on the Death Star.) Then he made the last 3 movies a happy man without a care in the world. He did it for the fans. He had no fire burning in his heart when he did it and it shows.
Obviously you haven't worked with bureaucracy. All it takes is letters to get a council to not approve building plans. Enough people complain about anything and the councils change their plans. After all they are YOUR MPs. They have to read all of the letters that you send you and they usually respond, via proxy.
It sounds like that we are moving to the state of "Pre-crime" where we will be charged with suspicious activity even when no crime has yet been committed.
All they need now is some curfews and laws against private gatherings.
Because the power companies are providing a service, namely, the transmission lines.
Why would you find it fair to sell used games to Gamestop for $1 per game, and buy games for $20 per game? Same reason - because Gamestop provides a service, and pays money for the right to provide it (in inventory space, real estate, and employee wages.) Sorry but your post is devoid of logic. What people are trying to say is that gamestop shouldn't buy games for $2 and sell them for $17, but should buy them at close to say $15. Now this still doesn't really make sense, but its better. At the closer rate it encourages people to generate electricity and put it into the grid rather then trying to store it for later use.
Sure the power company has to provide the lines, but once they are there it doesnt cost four fifths of fuck all to maintain. And you are already paying to be connected to the grid.
Finally, To possibly make the system even fairer, the rate should also be peak dependent. So perhaps during the peak time they buy electricity for 30c and off peak they buy it at 10c, averaging 15c per unit over 24hours.
Well Pol Pot (I wonder if Americans even know who he is) was a pretty rich and well of guy. He must have been doing something right.
In our pseudo-capitalist society it's not those who are the best that win, its those who play the game best. That means breaking the rules where the gains are greater than the punishments, bending the truth eg.claiming that patents hurt small businesses when your a small business then claiming that patents are the only thing that keeps small business alive when your a megacorp. Bribing government officials eg. 'Legal' campaign contributions, then basically saying that once you are a company that is integral to holding up the stock exchange you are above the law and can do what you want because to punish us is to punish the people.
But hey in capitalism we don't have rights! We buy them. No money no medicine. Better Dead Than Red!
If that sounds like flamebait, well, I get tired of hearing people say things like 'The WTO says we are wrong to do X, so obviously we are wrong to do X and our laws must conform.' No. It is not obvious. We do NOT have to do what the WTO says we must. If we listen to the WTO and AGREE, well, that's one thing, but agreement isn't automatic. We can also listen and disagree, and if we disagree, we don't have to act.
It's like saying that the President doesn't listen to Sheehan or any other protesters because he doesn't immediately do what they demand. Yes, he listens, but he was elected to make choices, and not every person is going to agree with every choice. That's life.
You sir are clueless.
If you tell the WTO China is allowing rampart piracy, copyright infringement and even setting up fake Starbucks stores.... China can say, "These businesses make money and we like them. We dont give a fuck if this takes money away from US businesses because hey, We are looking out for number 1."
Whats the point of having a WTO in the first place if they have no power?
WoW eliminates most greifing by giving players no reward for killing players more than x levels lower than you... There is also no reward for killing the same player more than x times per day. I mean its a game right? and its meant to be fun. So killing low level weak players can be a little bit fun for the sadistic natured, but getting constantly fucked on by high level characters that you have 0% chance of fighting back is enough to make you invent a device to punch someone in the face over the internet.
The problem here is typically a counter-sue for legal fees happens when the defendant wins the case. However what happens is the RIAA threatens 10,000 people. Some ignore it, some settle it and some get a lawyer... As soon as there is any doubt that the RIAA will win a case they just drop it and say "We won't be proceeding with any legal action" You have already paid for your lawyer, but because you didn't "Win" the case, no precedent is set for the case and no legal fee's are awarded.
If you RTFA, the fee Apple is pushing is $20 and you keep the music as long as you keep the device. No word on CDs but I would expect that music would continue to play through iTunes, even if you sold the device. Hahahaha you expect the music to play... I expect it wont play in itunes unless your prepaid I-device is plugged in. I also think that every time you lose connection to the internet your computer would refuse to load itunes, and play any songs regardless of which ithing was plugged in. Oh and this would probably effectively make reselling anything with these prepaid songs on it illegal:)
Exactly. That's why the Wii sells. Its a POS system that the PS2 could probably out power with motion sensing controllers. Why do us PC gamers talk about Quake3 all the time? Because it is an awesome game. It still is. No game has really come close to mimicking its fast paced multilayer frag fest action. COD4 is fun. It looks no where near as good as crisis but its a great game and so it sells.
If game designers IE Unreal, spent more time thinking about making the multiplayer fun and balanced, we would get more games like Q3 and StarCraft, instead of Ut2k3/2k4/2k8 where they are just the same game reskinned. I actually like UT3, but it is just half assed. I would rather tournament in COD4 or Q3 then UT.
Game manufacturers piss me off when they say that, PC users need to upgrade for every game. I have a 4 year old pc with an AGP/6600GT in it and COD runs very smoothly with some of the fruit turned down. It plays CNC3, and most of the new games that dont totally hammer the computer ie, UT3, Supreme Commander (Really chugs when the maps get big in single player) and Crysis. Games on PC that push the envelope do well and its thanks to the power of PCs that new genre's get proved and then ported to Consoles.
Finally, the next gen of consoles, will have keyboard options on launch. They will just be PCs in every sense of the word except they run on 1080p TVs. So all of those console vs pc arguments will be mute and it will become basically the same as the Mac vs PC argument all over again.
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Wholesale rates is still making you a profit.
Say if your competitor stole all your business but was buying all its traffic through your lines at a reasonable wholesale rate, you would be making a profit and he would be making a profit.
It would also be your fault for having a crappy retail department who couldn't retain and gain satisfied customers.
Besides the fact that your post was mostly rant there were a few good comments.
All of the problems so far could have been fixed by a guy with a hand trowel. He could dig, sieve and work the vibrator.
I think its time for a more general purpose robot to go.
Also this really should have been more thoroughly tested. I mean one of those things that help you get icecream off the scoop would have been useful now. Guess next time they will think "what if the soil is clumpy" before blowing a cool 1/2 billion. I'd rather watch a redneck playing golf on the moon then hear about mars landers.
What parent said is correct.
DC to DC voltage converters don't exist. All of them use PWM to have an AC intermediary stage, then use a traditional magnetic coil/windings to up/down voltages, then rectify back to DC. Hence DC-AC-DC
With the California property market the way it is, you could buy a house on the beach with enough roof space for 27 solar panels for around 1Mil. ;)
But if the songwwriter/artist wants to sell his song to me he can, and then he can turn around and sell it to you, and your mum and your dog. The builder can't sell his house over and over again. He has to go and build another. This whole perpetual bullshit is starting to piss me off. I think that in my lifetime nothing will enter the public domain. Copyright will become 2000 years with options to extend to eternity.
Where are we going as a society? Why the hell would we tell our kids to go to school? If I have learned anything from capitalism, don't go to school kids, just learn to play an instrument and write songs. Then you can leech off your creations for all eternity. To a lesser extent the value of education is derided by the likes of Paris hilton and celebrity celebrities and football/sports players. Learn to play ball and you could make more in a year then you would in a lifetime of life saving laboratory research work.
Well music really is maths then isnt it.
If you add up all the number of timings and all of the different notes... There are only so many different chorus's and melodies that you can come up with. Sure its probably more than the possible number of chess games but hell, you can't copyright an opener in chess now can you? or can you?
Sorry Kasperov, you cant move there, that's the Coke(tm) opener and you haven't paid appropriate royalties. Nope not their either. That's Pepsi's(tm).
This is compounded ten fold when the CAPTCHA is on a form that took you 10mins to fill out and when you get the CAPTCHA wrong you have to fill out the form again...
I just keep refreshing until get one that I can read
What Glider should do is, become primarily an MP3 player that plays music while you play games, and its secondary purpose is a WoW bot.
Therefore it can have a legitimate purpose too. Some people might like it for its friendly user interface :)
In Australia, mod chips for playstations, xbox's and the like are legal so long as they allow you play different region movies. If they just bypass the copy protection to allow you to play copied discs then they aren't. Part of this whole dual purpose thing :)
Stamp Duty over here(tax) is around 20k on a 400k home. So not much difference. If you want a house 10kms from the city your looking at around 650k++ and 850k for something with 2 bathrooms. I'm talking in Aussie dollars, but with the two near equity at the moment there's no point converting.
I kinda thought with the whole subprime crap, house prices would be significantly cheaper in Seattle then they were 2 years ago.
Yes we have great beaches, beer and ladies over here. Long hot summers, fairly low crime and 2% unemployment. However the whole city only has one casino, and almost all shops close at 5pm, with a few convenience stores closing at 8:30.
Not to sound totality clueless to your situation but how can you not afford a house on 100k a year, with 3% interest?
In Perth, Australia the average house price is up around 500k and interest is at 9%+
Thats 45k of interest in your first year, and in Australia we cant negative gear our primary residence (offset the income we pay as interest)
I could say it only takes 5 mins to install Ubuntu, (when I copy over a drive image from previous install and then reboot.)
Compare stock standard installs off standard install Cd's then your metrics are worth something to the argument.
What exactly forms a treaty? could I make a trading treatise with a friend in Denmark, to trade information freely. If everyone signed onto such a treaty there would be no infringement because someone would own a cd of this or a DVD of that and we are agreeing to share the data that we own?
IANAL
I think you missed the point. He doesnt want to spend 4 or 5 hours ANY night raiding. He doesnt want to play in a raiding guild that counts DKP (ie all of them)
Clearing new content is what the hardcore players do. They spend 5 hours every night wipe after wipe, then us casuals read all their strats and do it first night. I think the new accruement, pvp (and pve badges) is a good idea, because it rewards consistency making you play longer.
COD4 is so good, because it got me playing it 10x longer than I would have normally played an FPS because I wanted to unlock all the guns and get lvl 55. By the time I was 55 I realised that I was pretty damn good and the game was fun. Unlocking the golden guns will keep me busy until COD5 comes out.
Oh yeah yeah Episode III was better. But only after all the die hard fans told him that that after episode I was akin to watching care bears and II was more like Dawsons Creek he tried to make it as pointlessly violent as he could. Like personally wiping out all the baby jedi.
Also its fucking stupid. I mean seriously the transition from anikin from emo teenager to psycopathic child murderer was way to fast for me. I mean at the end after Padme died, i could see that as a turning point into darth, but him killing kids didnt make sense as early in the movie as he did.
In conclusion the clone wars animated series was far cooler and star wars'y than any of the new George movies.
Its because George Lucas wrote the first movie as a man full of angst. Obviously the eyes he used to see the world was tainted by experience with working with kids on the street. Han-Solo, the shoot first ask questions later, Darth killing enemies and allies alike, torture, the destruction of an entire planet, (and then all of the poor subcontractors working on the Death Star.)
Then he made the last 3 movies a happy man without a care in the world. He did it for the fans. He had no fire burning in his heart when he did it and it shows.
Obviously you haven't worked with bureaucracy. All it takes is letters to get a council to not approve building plans. Enough people complain about anything and the councils change their plans. After all they are YOUR MPs. They have to read all of the letters that you send you and they usually respond, via proxy.
It sounds like that we are moving to the state of "Pre-crime" where we will be charged with suspicious activity even when no crime has yet been committed.
All they need now is some curfews and laws against private gatherings.
Why would you find it fair to sell used games to Gamestop for $1 per game, and buy games for $20 per game? Same reason - because Gamestop provides a service, and pays money for the right to provide it (in inventory space, real estate, and employee wages.) Sorry but your post is devoid of logic. What people are trying to say is that gamestop shouldn't buy games for $2 and sell them for $17, but should buy them at close to say $15. Now this still doesn't really make sense, but its better. At the closer rate it encourages people to generate electricity and put it into the grid rather then trying to store it for later use.
Sure the power company has to provide the lines, but once they are there it doesnt cost four fifths of fuck all to maintain. And you are already paying to be connected to the grid.
Finally, To possibly make the system even fairer, the rate should also be peak dependent. So perhaps during the peak time they buy electricity for 30c and off peak they buy it at 10c, averaging 15c per unit over 24hours.
Well Pol Pot (I wonder if Americans even know who he is) was a pretty rich and well of guy. He must have been doing something right.
In our pseudo-capitalist society it's not those who are the best that win, its those who play the game best. That means breaking the rules where the gains are greater than the punishments, bending the truth eg.claiming that patents hurt small businesses when your a small business then claiming that patents are the only thing that keeps small business alive when your a megacorp. Bribing government officials eg. 'Legal' campaign contributions, then basically saying that once you are a company that is integral to holding up the stock exchange you are above the law and can do what you want because to punish us is to punish the people.
But hey in capitalism we don't have rights! We buy them. No money no medicine.
Better Dead Than Red!
If that sounds like flamebait, well, I get tired of hearing people say things like 'The WTO says we are wrong to do X, so obviously we are wrong to do X and our laws must conform.' No. It is not obvious. We do NOT have to do what the WTO says we must. If we listen to the WTO and AGREE, well, that's one thing, but agreement isn't automatic. We can also listen and disagree, and if we disagree, we don't have to act.
It's like saying that the President doesn't listen to Sheehan or any other protesters because he doesn't immediately do what they demand. Yes, he listens, but he was elected to make choices, and not every person is going to agree with every choice. That's life.
You sir are clueless.If you tell the WTO China is allowing rampart piracy, copyright infringement and even setting up fake Starbucks stores.... China can say, "These businesses make money and we like them. We dont give a fuck if this takes money away from US businesses because hey, We are looking out for number 1."
Whats the point of having a WTO in the first place if they have no power?
WoW eliminates most greifing by giving players no reward for killing players more than x levels lower than you... There is also no reward for killing the same player more than x times per day. I mean its a game right? and its meant to be fun. So killing low level weak players can be a little bit fun for the sadistic natured, but getting constantly fucked on by high level characters that you have 0% chance of fighting back is enough to make you invent a device to punch someone in the face over the internet.
The problem here is typically a counter-sue for legal fees happens when the defendant wins the case. However what happens is the RIAA threatens 10,000 people. Some ignore it, some settle it and some get a lawyer... As soon as there is any doubt that the RIAA will win a case they just drop it and say "We won't be proceeding with any legal action"
You have already paid for your lawyer, but because you didn't "Win" the case, no precedent is set for the case and no legal fee's are awarded.
I expect it wont play in itunes unless your prepaid I-device is plugged in. I also think that every time you lose connection to the internet your computer would refuse to load itunes, and play any songs regardless of which ithing was plugged in. Oh and this would probably effectively make reselling anything with these prepaid songs on it illegal
With reference to what? Everything is relative. Therefore using the earth as a reference point... The entire universe rotates around the earth.Nice troll. But, for those that didn't realize it, don't forget about galactic rotation and expansion of the universe.
Exactly. That's why the Wii sells. Its a POS system that the PS2 could probably out power with motion sensing controllers.
Why do us PC gamers talk about Quake3 all the time? Because it is an awesome game. It still is. No game has really come close to mimicking its fast paced multilayer frag fest action. COD4 is fun. It looks no where near as good as crisis but its a great game and so it sells.
If game designers IE Unreal, spent more time thinking about making the multiplayer fun and balanced, we would get more games like Q3 and StarCraft, instead of Ut2k3/2k4/2k8 where they are just the same game reskinned. I actually like UT3, but it is just half assed. I would rather tournament in COD4 or Q3 then UT.
Game manufacturers piss me off when they say that, PC users need to upgrade for every game. I have a 4 year old pc with an AGP/6600GT in it and COD runs very smoothly with some of the fruit turned down. It plays CNC3, and most of the new games that dont totally hammer the computer ie, UT3, Supreme Commander (Really chugs when the maps get big in single player) and Crysis. Games on PC that push the envelope do well and its thanks to the power of PCs that new genre's get proved and then ported to Consoles.
Finally, the next gen of consoles, will have keyboard options on launch. They will just be PCs in every sense of the word except they run on 1080p TVs. So all of those console vs pc arguments will be mute and it will become basically the same as the Mac vs PC argument all over again.