the guys at Phantom have spent quite a bit of time thinking about those issues and well... uh... the answer they came up with was: slip the launch date some more.
Her language is completely unprofessional... how do you take someone seriously that resorts to calling her critics "extermists", "loonies", and "nut jobs"? Some of her comments in the article make her sound like she's pretty looney herself.
when was the last time you actually bought something because of great reviews... and it totally sucked? most products at their respective price points these days are fairly competitive with each other and if you do even a little bit of research, you should be fairly satisfied with your purchases. i think although many of the reviews are biased in some way or another, crappy products and good produtcs tend to seperate themselves on their own fairly quickly. if a product just straight out sucks, no review can save it.
How do you figure that the CompUSA Maxtors are any better than Maxtor Maxtors...? As you've said, no matter what brand you get, there is always someone who's had bad luck with them... it's no different for Seagate and WD. And yes, pretty much all hdds these days are equally crappy.
Agreed. I just don't get why people like anime. Plus the racial overtones... just imagine if caucasians made movies featuring super-squinty-eyed Japanese people.
Yeah, really... I mean I don't get why people like anything I don't like, it's completely unreasonable.
If you're looking for a movie featuring "super-squinty-eyed Japanese people" made by caucasians, well there's one featuring Chinese people... it's called Mulan.
You make it sound like Japanese companies control what anime we see here... Japanese companies aren't responsible for "shipping over" anime. U.S. companies like Columbia TriStar, Disney, etc. pick up the rights to distribute whatever anime they feel like showing here.
Quitting without having something in line is the best way to light a fire under your ass... Having something to fall back on can sometimes hold you back.
... or actually they can just make hybrid car owners pay an extra tax at the end of the year to offset the money they saved on gas... or they could just increase gasoline taxes for everyone to account for the 0.5% or so of hybrid cars...
It'll work... the problem with pyramind schemes are they eventually run out of people to enroll, but as long as the government forces us all to pay for social security, they have garaunteed enrollemnt!
I would agree with this... people are generally lazy and don't like to be inconvenienced so people that have been listening to mp3s before DRM was ever introduced are not going suddenly decide to actually pay for them when paying for them actually results in a crippled, less convenient to use product... Though I guess people that were introduced to mp3s more recently through the current pay services have always lived with DRM, so I guess they wouldn't really care too much either way.
Well yes, I would also worry about teenage drivers and I do agree that are probably more dangerous than grandmothers... but then we were talking about the elderly. Don't get me started on teenage drivers...
One of the things I witness most are elderly drivers who do not check their side/rear view mirrors... let alone their blind spot. They seem to change lanes without any regard to... well just about anything. An elderly man this morning had just merged onto the freeway at 35 mph (yes, 35 mph... in California) AND THEN immediately decided to move one more lane over in front of a car going around 70 mph. No not all elderly are incompetent drivers, but let them all take competency tests and we shall see...
No actually I could care less about old people rotting, all I care is that they drive more competently or not drive at all. Yes, I may seem like an inconsiderate bastard, but when I'm old and no longer competent at driving, I will be considerate enough to NOT drive and put myself and others at risk.
Point is... the fact that the elderly need groceries or what not does not excuse them from having to be competent while driving. If they put the safety of others at risk, they should not be driving. I'm not sure where you guys are from, but here in California you can not drive around "lesiurely" (as many old people tend to do...) AND safely... As an example, this morning on my way to work, an elderly person changed lanes from the furthest right lane to the one over... at 35 mph... in front of a car going 70 mph which ended up braking very hard... there were no cars in front this elderly person and why they changed lanes in the first place baffles my mind. this is only one incident in many involving the elderly...
No actually, they DON'T have to... they can stay home and NOT drive or wait until someone comes home to drive them. I'm not talking about old people that are like 50, I'm talking about old people that are like 70... Because they have a "need" to drive? Well I have a need to talk on my cell phone and because I need to talk on my cell phone, I can't drive worth shit, but I guess it's ok. The fact that old people "need" to get somewhere shouln't excuse them having to be competent in getting there.
The difference is the guy in your car will tell you "Hey dude, you just ran a red again..." and the guy on the phone will ask "Hey are you still there? Hello?"
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the guys at Phantom have spent quite a bit of time thinking about those issues and well... uh... the answer they came up with was: slip the launch date some more.
Her language is completely unprofessional... how do you take someone seriously that resorts to calling her critics "extermists", "loonies", and "nut jobs"? Some of her comments in the article make her sound like she's pretty looney herself.
when was the last time you actually bought something because of great reviews... and it totally sucked? most products at their respective price points these days are fairly competitive with each other and if you do even a little bit of research, you should be fairly satisfied with your purchases. i think although many of the reviews are biased in some way or another, crappy products and good produtcs tend to seperate themselves on their own fairly quickly. if a product just straight out sucks, no review can save it.
How do you figure that the CompUSA Maxtors are any better than Maxtor Maxtors...? As you've said, no matter what brand you get, there is always someone who's had bad luck with them... it's no different for Seagate and WD. And yes, pretty much all hdds these days are equally crappy.
Agreed. I just don't get why people like anime. Plus the racial overtones... just imagine if caucasians made movies featuring super-squinty-eyed Japanese people.
Yeah, really... I mean I don't get why people like anything I don't like, it's completely unreasonable.
If you're looking for a movie featuring "super-squinty-eyed Japanese people" made by caucasians, well there's one featuring Chinese people... it's called Mulan.
You make it sound like Japanese companies control what anime we see here... Japanese companies aren't responsible for "shipping over" anime. U.S. companies like Columbia TriStar, Disney, etc. pick up the rights to distribute whatever anime they feel like showing here.
Quitting without having something in line is the best way to light a fire under your ass... Having something to fall back on can sometimes hold you back.
How ridiculous does this sound? Well... it's essentially their argument.
... or actually they can just make hybrid car owners pay an extra tax at the end of the year to offset the money they saved on gas... or they could just increase gasoline taxes for everyone to account for the 0.5% or so of hybrid cars...
This title is somewhat misleading... considering they did NOT actually find dark matter. They found baryons... baryon != dark matter.
It'll work... the problem with pyramind schemes are they eventually run out of people to enroll, but as long as the government forces us all to pay for social security, they have garaunteed enrollemnt!
I would agree with this... people are generally lazy and don't like to be inconvenienced so people that have been listening to mp3s before DRM was ever introduced are not going suddenly decide to actually pay for them when paying for them actually results in a crippled, less convenient to use product... Though I guess people that were introduced to mp3s more recently through the current pay services have always lived with DRM, so I guess they wouldn't really care too much either way.
Well yes, I would also worry about teenage drivers and I do agree that are probably more dangerous than grandmothers... but then we were talking about the elderly. Don't get me started on teenage drivers...
One of the things I witness most are elderly drivers who do not check their side/rear view mirrors... let alone their blind spot. They seem to change lanes without any regard to... well just about anything. An elderly man this morning had just merged onto the freeway at 35 mph (yes, 35 mph... in California) AND THEN immediately decided to move one more lane over in front of a car going around 70 mph. No not all elderly are incompetent drivers, but let them all take competency tests and we shall see...
Obviously if I said NOT "like 50", but "like 70" then I do NOT think 50 is old, but I DO think 70 is.
No actually I could care less about old people rotting, all I care is that they drive more competently or not drive at all. Yes, I may seem like an inconsiderate bastard, but when I'm old and no longer competent at driving, I will be considerate enough to NOT drive and put myself and others at risk.
Point is... the fact that the elderly need groceries or what not does not excuse them from having to be competent while driving. If they put the safety of others at risk, they should not be driving. I'm not sure where you guys are from, but here in California you can not drive around "lesiurely" (as many old people tend to do...) AND safely... As an example, this morning on my way to work, an elderly person changed lanes from the furthest right lane to the one over... at 35 mph... in front of a car going 70 mph which ended up braking very hard... there were no cars in front this elderly person and why they changed lanes in the first place baffles my mind. this is only one incident in many involving the elderly...
both my grandmothers are over 70... and no they don't drive... and if they did, i would surely fear for my life.
no, i'm "like" 26... somehow "like" just sounded better, than "around" at the time...
No actually, they DON'T have to... they can stay home and NOT drive or wait until someone comes home to drive them. I'm not talking about old people that are like 50, I'm talking about old people that are like 70... Because they have a "need" to drive? Well I have a need to talk on my cell phone and because I need to talk on my cell phone, I can't drive worth shit, but I guess it's ok. The fact that old people "need" to get somewhere shouln't excuse them having to be competent in getting there.
The difference is the guy in your car will tell you "Hey dude, you just ran a red again..." and the guy on the phone will ask "Hey are you still there? Hello?"