Best days for the free samples is Fri-Sun, after 9AM, but before 4:30PM.//Worked a 'roadshow' doing a demo for an outside company making their first introduction to Costco, got to talk to some of the CDS (Costco's own demo 'company') staff while doing it.
I wish there was a way to know what audio would be filtered and what wouldn't be. "These artists have said you can use their music in YT videos." Then tosses in the 'buy it on amazon/itunes/whatever' links.
Yes, Steam is DRM. But, I find the limitations (I have to have the Steam client installed, and logged in to play, offline play also works - I've tested it) acceptable. No limits on how many installs I can have. (games that have this restriction get ignored by me) The lack of ability to resell the games I take into account - and have had to for awhile, as the used PC games market has pretty much been killed off before this. So the game is worth less to me. I very rarely will pay full retail ($50-$60) for a game. I pay attention to what looks good - and wait for it to go on sale. Usually 50% off or more. Steam's Christmas sales are in the 66-75% off range for most things.
$10-$20 for a game I cannot ever resell is reasonable. $60 usually isn't, unless I KNOW I will get my money's worth out of it.
Single-player-only games (Fallout for example) there is no rush to pick it up - as I'm not playing with friends. Also by waiting the game becomes more stable over time (patches) and expansions (DLCs) come out - eventually being bundled together. I picked up Fallout: New Vegas and all the DLCs in November of 2011 for about $16 total. That is a price I find acceptable, as I know I'll get (and have already gotten) many hours of enjoyable play out of it.
Exactly this. You put that much crap into your product, and I just ignore you as a vendor entirely. I won't pirate it, I won't play it, I won't buy it. Ever.
Ubisoft is dead to me.
If I'm not wanting to buy the game (whether I can afford it or not) - I'm not willing to pirate it either.
There are so many other publishers out there that are producing good product and not crippling it with such crud that I'm not missing anything - I don't have enough time to play all the games I pick up on Steam over the Christmas sale to have beaten them all by the time the next year's sale comes around.
Ubisoft, you put landmines in the playing field. I'm taking my ball and going to someone else's park, and I'm not coming back.
With the introduction of RemoteFX (basically, GPU-accelerated graphics in virtual machines (VMs) running under HyperV, Microsoft's VM solution, over RDP) - I think this will become the preferred method of running those apps. Don't have to give the user of the application access to the server directly, but just a VM within.
Now only if they didn't require you to run Windows 7 in a VM under Server 2008 R2 SP1 to use RemoteFX...but instead could just run it as a normal workstation, but still get the accelerated RDP session...You could game on the bigscreen in the living room, while the workhorse is in the closet, office, or some other place where the heat and noise isn't a concern.
If you're going to do it, I would contact them about educational/bulk pricing - might be able to shave a few dollars off if you order them in a set of 20. Definitely save on shipping. Keep a few spares on hand, or require run-up time ahead of the class starting to order in a set.
I always seek out and buy the 5-year warranty drives. Even if it costs more (which about half the time I end up paying a few extra bucks for it) - it means they "trust" the hardware a bit more.
I was wondering the same thing, we know that some of the small ones are are anywhere from several thousand for the hand-held models up to $400 million for the super-sized ones - but what DOES this thing cost? Or at least a ballpark? 66' wingspan, 50k foot ceiling. I doubt it is a $5 million model.
Yes, but selling it to someone that other than the fact they produce a ton of gear we buy for the consumer/commercial markets would be our enemy - that would reduce the likelihood that we would sell them MILITARY equipment.
This was sold as a research vessel only, not to be converted back for active military use. Who knows if China is going to follow that, but being an old design and stripped of many useful things, they'd be better off building a fresh one with new design, tech and materials, and keep using this as a "research" ship.
Also sell the one superpower that could actually give us a run for our money the equipment we use? That would be VERY stupid, also they wouldn't take it - they'd want to make sure none of it was sabotaged. (As we've done several times with commercial gear when the Soviets would buy it through 3rd parties)
Or have the system on-site, and contract with a local IT guy to be part-time admin. (Figure out what regular maintenance is needed, pay him for that - with the option of an hourly rate after that for any 'extra' time needed)
Many small companies work this way - I know several folks that do this kind of work.
I think AvitarX means the person you've told where all the "embarassing" things reside - and has agreed to dispose of them for you, so your family doesn't have to find out you enjoyed something 'taboo'.
"Hey, if I ever die - there's a blue box in the closet, throw that away, and delete the C:/Windows/system32/tempvideos/ folder for me."
The new CEO is just that. She's getting paid $1/year in compensation - and a significant portion (2/3?) of her stock options are based on the HP stock hitting certain $ values at certain points in the future.
If they let her go, her parachute is worth 1.5 times her yearly compensation.
Bonuses are the only way she can get cash outright.
Had found the original info from Google Stocks on HPQ, they do news-by-day and list when articles came out graphed to the price, was at some other site when I saw it a few weeks ago:
Ha! My dad bought an HP desktop several years ago (his last off-the-shelf system, now we're building them from parts) - and his HP scanner wouldn't work with it. Something to do with the USB chipset in the motherboard prevented HP's scanner from working with an HP PC.
Yes, a USB device with specific incompatibilities with a specific computer, by the same manufacturer.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him. - Autobiography of Mark Twain
Bribe someone working at the IRS to look for certain "patterns" - of course, the bribe'd have to be sufficient to justify the prison sentence for "releasing" said info - but considering the probable patent infringement penalties/lawsuit payouts, one could afford a few IRS Agents every so often...
I have a (general) policy of avoiding companies who believe in the "what the big print giveth...the fine print taketh away." As they are not really interested in serving me, as raping me.
FUCK. THEM.
I'll stick to smaller, local companies whom actually CARE that I'm happy - ALL THE TIME. They'll actually try to help me - even if it means me moving companies - but they won't intentionally try to fuck me.
The problem is, how do you GUARANTEE that with this ISP-managed method, my Minecraft server doesn't get shafted and its packets dropped to the end of the queue/back of the buffer?
For all its drawbacks, Qwest (errr...CenturyLink) doesn't rape me with bandwidth quotas or blocked ports. I'm actually ALLOWED to host stuff...the speeds may not be as great as Comcast - but I can actually *USE* the connection... (I'm presently waiting for them to get to my side of Elk River, MN - so I can get the 5Mbit upload, over the 896Kb/sec we have now - from everything I've heard - *should* be a year - but then again, this is two name changes since we were told rural Anoka would get DSL in 6 months back in 1998...by USWest...2005 rolled around before Qwest got around to it - and is still BARELY getting 1.5Mbit/384Kbps)
Then the private sector gets involved. Many new prisons today are privately owned and run, and contract their services to governments. They turn profits on the prisoners labor. (They'll be paid a pittance for their time, $0.25/hour) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Penal_labour#Non-punitive_prison_labour Then, the businesses behind these industries lobby for tougher sentencing, and more laws with which to put folks in prison, thus requiring more facilities.
Exactly what I was thinking...either this was some "lone wolf" messing with Hotfiles...or there was some "collusion" to engage in willful violation of federal law... will be interesting to see how Warner handles this.
Oh, that's what the studios will claim. Or that it was this "small group" acting in collusion with each other. (Although if they do that, Hotfiles could theoretically claim RICO Act violations...and go after the whole org to track down this "colluding" group)
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Best days for the free samples is Fri-Sun, after 9AM, but before 4:30PM. //Worked a 'roadshow' doing a demo for an outside company making their first introduction to Costco, got to talk to some of the CDS (Costco's own demo 'company') staff while doing it.
I wish there was a way to know what audio would be filtered and what wouldn't be. "These artists have said you can use their music in YT videos." Then tosses in the 'buy it on amazon/itunes/whatever' links.
Have a cite on the 'airport is a border' claim? If so, that would be a blindingly obvious overstepping of bounds that needs to be reigned in, NOW.
Yes, Steam is DRM. But, I find the limitations (I have to have the Steam client installed, and logged in to play, offline play also works - I've tested it) acceptable. No limits on how many installs I can have. (games that have this restriction get ignored by me) The lack of ability to resell the games I take into account - and have had to for awhile, as the used PC games market has pretty much been killed off before this. So the game is worth less to me. I very rarely will pay full retail ($50-$60) for a game. I pay attention to what looks good - and wait for it to go on sale. Usually 50% off or more. Steam's Christmas sales are in the 66-75% off range for most things.
$10-$20 for a game I cannot ever resell is reasonable. $60 usually isn't, unless I KNOW I will get my money's worth out of it.
Single-player-only games (Fallout for example) there is no rush to pick it up - as I'm not playing with friends. Also by waiting the game becomes more stable over time (patches) and expansions (DLCs) come out - eventually being bundled together. I picked up Fallout: New Vegas and all the DLCs in November of 2011 for about $16 total. That is a price I find acceptable, as I know I'll get (and have already gotten) many hours of enjoyable play out of it.
Exactly this. You put that much crap into your product, and I just ignore you as a vendor entirely. I won't pirate it, I won't play it, I won't buy it. Ever.
Ubisoft is dead to me.
If I'm not wanting to buy the game (whether I can afford it or not) - I'm not willing to pirate it either.
There are so many other publishers out there that are producing good product and not crippling it with such crud that I'm not missing anything - I don't have enough time to play all the games I pick up on Steam over the Christmas sale to have beaten them all by the time the next year's sale comes around.
Ubisoft, you put landmines in the playing field. I'm taking my ball and going to someone else's park, and I'm not coming back.
With the introduction of RemoteFX (basically, GPU-accelerated graphics in virtual machines (VMs) running under HyperV, Microsoft's VM solution, over RDP) - I think this will become the preferred method of running those apps. Don't have to give the user of the application access to the server directly, but just a VM within.
Now only if they didn't require you to run Windows 7 in a VM under Server 2008 R2 SP1 to use RemoteFX...but instead could just run it as a normal workstation, but still get the accelerated RDP session...You could game on the bigscreen in the living room, while the workhorse is in the closet, office, or some other place where the heat and noise isn't a concern.
If you're going to do it, I would contact them about educational/bulk pricing - might be able to shave a few dollars off if you order them in a set of 20. Definitely save on shipping. Keep a few spares on hand, or require run-up time ahead of the class starting to order in a set.
I always seek out and buy the 5-year warranty drives. Even if it costs more (which about half the time I end up paying a few extra bucks for it) - it means they "trust" the hardware a bit more.
I was wondering the same thing, we know that some of the small ones are are anywhere from several thousand for the hand-held models up to $400 million for the super-sized ones - but what DOES this thing cost? Or at least a ballpark? 66' wingspan, 50k foot ceiling. I doubt it is a $5 million model.
Yes, but selling it to someone that other than the fact they produce a ton of gear we buy for the consumer/commercial markets would be our enemy - that would reduce the likelihood that we would sell them MILITARY equipment.
This was sold as a research vessel only, not to be converted back for active military use. Who knows if China is going to follow that, but being an old design and stripped of many useful things, they'd be better off building a fresh one with new design, tech and materials, and keep using this as a "research" ship.
Also sell the one superpower that could actually give us a run for our money the equipment we use? That would be VERY stupid, also they wouldn't take it - they'd want to make sure none of it was sabotaged. (As we've done several times with commercial gear when the Soviets would buy it through 3rd parties)
Yes, a quick Google search will show some articles proving just that.
https://www.google.com/search?q=iraq+afghanistan+chicago+deaths
Living in Chicago is more dangerous than Iraq or Afghanistan.
Also, in Iraq families can own a fully-automatic AK-47 for personal defense. In Chicago, you can't even keep a gun outside a safe.
Sadly no. Anything above 0.50" is considered a "destructive device" and BATFE would like to have a word with you over :-/
Or have the system on-site, and contract with a local IT guy to be part-time admin. (Figure out what regular maintenance is needed, pay him for that - with the option of an hourly rate after that for any 'extra' time needed)
Many small companies work this way - I know several folks that do this kind of work.
I think AvitarX means the person you've told where all the "embarassing" things reside - and has agreed to dispose of them for you, so your family doesn't have to find out you enjoyed something 'taboo'.
"Hey, if I ever die - there's a blue box in the closet, throw that away, and delete the C:/Windows/system32/tempvideos/ folder for me."
I was gonna say, who puts RAID in a system and doesn't spend $75 on a basic UPS?
The new CEO is just that. She's getting paid $1/year in compensation - and a significant portion (2/3?) of her stock options are based on the HP stock hitting certain $ values at certain points in the future.
If they let her go, her parachute is worth 1.5 times her yearly compensation.
Bonuses are the only way she can get cash outright.
Had found the original info from Google Stocks on HPQ, they do news-by-day and list when articles came out graphed to the price, was at some other site when I saw it a few weeks ago:
http://allthingsd.com/20110929/hps-new-ceo-takes-1-annual-salary-and-lots-of-stock-options/?mod=googlenews_editors_picks
Ha! My dad bought an HP desktop several years ago (his last off-the-shelf system, now we're building them from parts) - and his HP scanner wouldn't work with it. Something to do with the USB chipset in the motherboard prevented HP's scanner from working with an HP PC.
Yes, a USB device with specific incompatibilities with a specific computer, by the same manufacturer.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
Bribe someone working at the IRS to look for certain "patterns" - of course, the bribe'd have to be sufficient to justify the prison sentence for "releasing" said info - but considering the probable patent infringement penalties/lawsuit payouts, one could afford a few IRS Agents every so often...
I have a (general) policy of avoiding companies who believe in the "what the big print giveth...the fine print taketh away." As they are not really interested in serving me, as raping me.
FUCK. THEM.
I'll stick to smaller, local companies whom actually CARE that I'm happy - ALL THE TIME. They'll actually try to help me - even if it means me moving companies - but they won't intentionally try to fuck me.
Somehow, I don't find it at all odd that Muse's 'Uprising' decided to play via my music player's random function as I read this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Uprising_(song)
The problem is, how do you GUARANTEE that with this ISP-managed method, my Minecraft server doesn't get shafted and its packets dropped to the end of the queue/back of the buffer?
For all its drawbacks, Qwest (errr...CenturyLink) doesn't rape me with bandwidth quotas or blocked ports. I'm actually ALLOWED to host stuff...the speeds may not be as great as Comcast - but I can actually *USE* the connection... (I'm presently waiting for them to get to my side of Elk River, MN - so I can get the 5Mbit upload, over the 896Kb/sec we have now - from everything I've heard - *should* be a year - but then again, this is two name changes since we were told rural Anoka would get DSL in 6 months back in 1998...by USWest...2005 rolled around before Qwest got around to it - and is still BARELY getting 1.5Mbit/384Kbps)
The government makes money from asset forfeiture https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Asset_forfeiture - you deal drugs from your house? They take your house. Sell it. You deal drugs from car? They get car... etc
Then the private sector gets involved. Many new prisons today are privately owned and run, and contract their services to governments. They turn profits on the prisoners labor. (They'll be paid a pittance for their time, $0.25/hour) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Penal_labour#Non-punitive_prison_labour Then, the businesses behind these industries lobby for tougher sentencing, and more laws with which to put folks in prison, thus requiring more facilities.
Exactly what I was thinking...either this was some "lone wolf" messing with Hotfiles...or there was some "collusion" to engage in willful violation of federal law... will be interesting to see how Warner handles this.
Oh, that's what the studios will claim. Or that it was this "small group" acting in collusion with each other. (Although if they do that, Hotfiles could theoretically claim RICO Act violations...and go after the whole org to track down this "colluding" group)