well duh, it never was about the MONEY; it was about the POWER that comes with having money. Shortly after the human has saturated its senses and desires with everything it laid its eyes on, one last cold thing remains that it can never get enough of: POWER.
The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Exactly what government program doesn't promote the general welfare? This is a slippery cliff that the left has jumped right off of. No burden of proof required, just say it promotes the general welfare.
I had a curve 8330 and predicted this years ago. They had a funny policy of only releasing security fixes for their OS, meanwhile leaving out features that should have been in it from the beginning. Simple things like being able to autosplit text messages, it couldn't do, simply capped you at 160 characters. Or even being able to adjust the vibrate functionality on a text message notification to buzz once for half a second, had to buy an app for that. Shortest vibrate was 2x 1 second vibrations. Very annoying. Oh, and it couldn't vibrate and ring at the same time for a call. It would start the ringtone and in 5 seconds start the vibrate and kill the ringtone, then just continue vibrating for the duration of the call. Had to buy an app to fix that too.
I don't recall the rest of what they left out. I remember there were at least like 4 things that the OS desperately needed but that they wouldn't put in.
I believe their reasoning was "that way they'll buy the next phone hoping it's better with its newer OS", forgetting the part where if your current customer is annoyed with you, the last thing they're going to do is go buy something else from you. So then I got an android...
I find it quite interesting in the netflix prediction:
Prior to model change:
Streaming only: 10,0m customers
Streaming+DVD: 12.0m customers
DVD Only: 3.0m customers
Post-implementation of the new pricing model, Netflix expects the customer base break-out to be:
Streaming only: 9.8m customers
Streaming+DVD: 12.0m customers
DVD only: 2.2m customers
So let me get this straight - the price for streaming+dvd is at least doubling - and Netflix is not expecting that customer count to go down at all. Instead, they are expecting a net loss on the two plans they are creating to make things better - instead of a net loss on on the plan that is going up 100% for many customers.
basically, this is why they need to increase their price-- because they're selling it for far too cheap. The value is clearly much much more than $9/month-- most of the people I know would be happy to pay at least $30 for it. It's a complete replacement for their cable subscription.
and the other 24 million people got off their ass faster and changed their service agreement before it was too late. Snooze you loose sorry bro. That's the way she goes.
huh? 90% of what we watch is streaming. There's a limitless selection of 4 star titles worth watching. If you're 16 and think anything made prior to 2005 doesn't count, then I would understand, but saying they have a poor selection is about as wrong as you can get.
I have to admit that I get a lot of satisfaction out of their share price dropping by fully half since they announced the price hike. It's amazing to me that they thought that they could make that comment about it being the price of a couple lattes during a period where there's a lot of people who are really hurting for work.
then maybe they can get a job instead of watching Netflix! or just transition to streaming only and get over it.
I mean seriously for the level of entertainment they provide, it's a wonder they're not charging at least $30. Their internal studies have shown most of their subscriber base would be content paying that much. It's certainly worth it.
I had a teacher in high school who'd simply send you out of the classroom if you disrupted the lesson. You needn't be here, you can as well be someone else, get the fuck out of my class. I'm your teacher, not your nanny, and I don't give half a shit where and how you learn what's up for the next test. You can learn it here, or you can try it on your own, you needn't listen.
His lessons were also by some margin the most productive ones. He didn't spend half the hour trying to calm down the class.
too bad your government's no child left behind put an end to that.
my friends and I didn't figure out how good junctioning could be until disc 3. Up to that point, we simply summoned the most powerful GFs over and over until we won.
It's fine with me Mozilla isn't doing a "Firefox OS". They can focus more of their efforts on the core Firefox product. Besides, Google is doing a good enough job already with a browser-based OS if you ask me.
Let's start with the meaning of Natty. Here in the States, Natty is short for Anheuser-Busch's bottom-shelf line of “Natural” beers. If you were ever a struggling student, there's a good chance you subsisted at one point on ramen and Natty Ice. Consequently, it has also come to mean cheap, trashy, or sub-par. How's that for a rough start?
And for that matter, what is a narwhal? I mean, look at that thing.
Apparently, Canonical's name for this release gets worse. The word narwhal dates back to Norse seafarers who explored the Arctic waters where this horned beast lives. Narwhal quite literally means “corpse whale” because its skin resembles a water-logged corpse. Oof. Ubuntu 11.04: Cheap, Drunk, Dead, and Bloated.
The technique of associating a product with negative images is an old one - it's called Poisoning the Well.
This review is anything BUT balanced.
Anyone that's been there a few times and read the articles knows to expect this quality of writing from Tomsharware. I'm not sure why other people find it an attractive news source. I recommend other hardware review sites like anandtech-- very thorough reviews, and they don't split their articles into 30 pages to promote more adviews. Another good example of ho-hum writing was their benchmark of AMD vs Intel processors with the WoW Cataclysm game release. They reported this for the AMD processors and didn't bother asking why going from 3 cores to 5 doesn't make a difference but 5 to 6 does (makes little sense), just "oh, looks like it needs 6 cores".
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So why do the police not have this information? Or do they make up the majority of the people on the list?
And if they had the information, what would happen then? Heh. That's not how things work in Mexico.
$100 million is about what the US spends on Afghanistan in 36 hours. It would last 6 in Iraq.
we can elect a new president and then the problem will go away^H^H^H^H we'll stop hearing about it in the media
send bruce willis
yes. Yes you are.
psychopaths used more conjunctions such as “because “ or “since,”
Sounds like another attempt to label left-brain people as psychopaths.
sounds like you're being paranoid. You don't have anything to hide, do you?
then they presumably are not comparing them with the general population who have no convictions.
....yet
well duh, it never was about the MONEY; it was about the POWER that comes with having money. Shortly after the human has saturated its senses and desires with everything it laid its eyes on, one last cold thing remains that it can never get enough of: POWER.
This is news?
may be right about that....
The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Article 1, Section 8
Giving every child an iPad promotes the general welfare of the United States. These fantastic learning devices will ensure all our students are able to compete with foreign students learning calculus in middle school!!
http://img.scoop.it/hiaMoz62ihDCGpVe-FQtnTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBU8NzMXDbey6A_oozMjJETc
Exactly what government program doesn't promote the general welfare?
This is a slippery cliff that the left has jumped right off of. No burden of proof required, just say it promotes the general welfare.
the 8330 was CDMA aka Verizon
I had a curve 8330 and predicted this years ago.
They had a funny policy of only releasing security fixes for their OS, meanwhile leaving out features that should have been in it from the beginning.
Simple things like being able to autosplit text messages, it couldn't do, simply capped you at 160 characters.
Or even being able to adjust the vibrate functionality on a text message notification to buzz once for half a second, had to buy an app for that. Shortest vibrate was 2x 1 second vibrations. Very annoying. Oh, and it couldn't vibrate and ring at the same time for a call. It would start the ringtone and in 5 seconds start the vibrate and kill the ringtone, then just continue vibrating for the duration of the call. Had to buy an app to fix that too.
I don't recall the rest of what they left out. I remember there were at least like 4 things that the OS desperately needed but that they wouldn't put in.
I believe their reasoning was "that way they'll buy the next phone hoping it's better with its newer OS", forgetting the part where if your current customer is annoyed with you, the last thing they're going to do is go buy something else from you. So then I got an android...
not you but plenty do :)
netflix is breaking even at 450GB/month on bandwidth cost alone. They pay $0.02/GB currently.
I find it quite interesting in the netflix prediction:
Prior to model change:
Streaming only: 10,0m customers
Streaming+DVD: 12.0m customers
DVD Only: 3.0m customers
Post-implementation of the new pricing model, Netflix expects the customer base break-out to be:
Streaming only: 9.8m customers
Streaming+DVD: 12.0m customers
DVD only: 2.2m customers
So let me get this straight - the price for streaming+dvd is at least doubling - and Netflix is not expecting that customer count to go down at all. Instead, they are expecting a net loss on the two plans they are creating to make things better - instead of a net loss on on the plan that is going up 100% for many customers.
basically, this is why they need to increase their price-- because they're selling it for far too cheap. The value is clearly much much more than $9/month-- most of the people I know would be happy to pay at least $30 for it. It's a complete replacement for their cable subscription.
and the other 24 million people got off their ass faster and changed their service agreement before it was too late. Snooze you loose sorry bro. That's the way she goes.
huh?
90% of what we watch is streaming. There's a limitless selection of 4 star titles worth watching. If you're 16 and think anything made prior to 2005 doesn't count, then I would understand, but saying they have a poor selection is about as wrong as you can get.
I have to admit that I get a lot of satisfaction out of their share price dropping by fully half since they announced the price hike. It's amazing to me that they thought that they could make that comment about it being the price of a couple lattes during a period where there's a lot of people who are really hurting for work.
then maybe they can get a job instead of watching Netflix!
or just transition to streaming only and get over it.
I mean seriously for the level of entertainment they provide, it's a wonder they're not charging at least $30. Their internal studies have shown most of their subscriber base would be content paying that much. It's certainly worth it.
Hearing aids are overpriced because it's a seller's market and health insurance companies are willing to shell out whatever the manufacturer asks.
haha wait, so now these oh-so-evil for-profit health insurance companies are willing to shell out whatever money someone asks of them?
I had a teacher in high school who'd simply send you out of the classroom if you disrupted the lesson. You needn't be here, you can as well be someone else, get the fuck out of my class. I'm your teacher, not your nanny, and I don't give half a shit where and how you learn what's up for the next test. You can learn it here, or you can try it on your own, you needn't listen.
His lessons were also by some margin the most productive ones. He didn't spend half the hour trying to calm down the class.
too bad your government's no child left behind put an end to that.
you mean carbonite? He should be quite well protected.
my friends and I didn't figure out how good junctioning could be until disc 3.
Up to that point, we simply summoned the most powerful GFs over and over until we won.
well seeing as we only just detected it 4 days ago it's not exactly like we did "track" it or "detect" it.
It's fine with me Mozilla isn't doing a "Firefox OS". They can focus more of their efforts on the core Firefox product. Besides, Google is doing a good enough job already with a browser-based OS if you ask me.
what efforts? It still doesn't scale to >1 core.
Because I don't want an OS that only uses one of my CPU cores!!!!
Overall the article is objectively balanced
This is how it starts:
Let's start with the meaning of Natty. Here in the States, Natty is short for Anheuser-Busch's bottom-shelf line of “Natural” beers. If you were ever a struggling student, there's a good chance you subsisted at one point on ramen and Natty Ice. Consequently, it has also come to mean cheap, trashy, or sub-par. How's that for a rough start?
And for that matter, what is a narwhal? I mean, look at that thing.
Apparently, Canonical's name for this release gets worse. The word narwhal dates back to Norse seafarers who explored the Arctic waters where this horned beast lives. Narwhal quite literally means “corpse whale” because its skin resembles a water-logged corpse. Oof. Ubuntu 11.04: Cheap, Drunk, Dead, and Bloated.
The technique of associating a product with negative images is an old one - it's called Poisoning the Well.
This review is anything BUT balanced.
Anyone that's been there a few times and read the articles knows to expect this quality of writing from Tomsharware. I'm not sure why other people find it an attractive news source.
I recommend other hardware review sites like anandtech-- very thorough reviews, and they don't split their articles into 30 pages to promote more adviews.
Another good example of ho-hum writing was their benchmark of AMD vs Intel processors with the WoW Cataclysm game release. They reported this for the AMD processors and didn't bother asking why going from 3 cores to 5 doesn't make a difference but 5 to 6 does (makes little sense), just "oh, looks like it needs 6 cores".