I have a PS3, and *one* blu-ray disc, "300", which Amazon had for $15, which is the absolute upper limit I'll pay. Never saw anything again at that price, and coincidentally, I never bought another disc.
$30 for a blu-ray? Yeah. No thanks. Keep it. My ordinary DVDs look just fine to me, especially when upconverted on the PS3/HDMI.
Uh-huh, good thinking. And how many potential customers will you lose without ever even knowing about them, given your reputation for blowing off one in four as unprofitable?
Remind me not to hire you. (Never mind, I'll remember.)
Wondering why Comcast is still doing this even after having been "outed" over the last few weeks? Simple: they don't care. If you get fed up and leave for one of their competitors, just to show them, think they'll miss you? They'll be high-fiving around the office as soon as you go. You're costing them money by maxxing out your use of the service. They want you to leave. The best way to get you to do that is to keep giving you crappy service and lying about the reasons for it. If they lose the heaviest 1% of their customers which are generating 10% of their traffic (both figures totally made up, but the point should be clear), they'll be ecstatic. They'll make that trade 8 days a week.
Netflix operates the same way, throttling its customers who try to use the service as it's advertised. It all comes down to what's meant by "unlimited." We should all know that there is no such thing as unlimited service, and whenever you start to push too far into a company's profits at the all-you-can-eat buffet, you shouldn't be surprised when they start clearing your table before you're done and shooing you out the door.
It's 21st century business, kids. Get used to it. The best way to stick it to these companies is, unfortunately, to keep paying them and be right on the edge of what they allow you to do, like a kid causing just enough trouble in class to piss off the teacher but not enough to get sent to the office.
Ha. Well, the version I linked to said 14 (diff). Whee.....
Reminds me of the article on beavers where somebody kept putting in something like "Beavers devour people with their powerful fangs. They are the most dangerous animals alive."
Of course, of course. It's impossible to alter production schedules in manufacturing because they're entirely and solely constrained by quantity of buildings. What was I thinking?
This thing launched what, eight months ago? And I've still never even seen one on a store shelf. Amazon still doesn't have them, the few sites that do seem to be still only selling them as fat, expensive bundles. I have never had an opportunity to just pick up a wii.
Now, no, I'm not sleeping outside of stores. I'm not waiting for the circulars with their coded statements that they have 5 in stock and rushing down to get in line. I'm a grown-up now and done camping out for products like that. I'll buy one when I can casually walk into a store and pick one off the shelf. I would expect an initial sell-out of a hot new product, maybe a month or two or three before stocks become readily available. But we're coming up on a year now and I've still never seen one, and neither have any of my friends. It may as well not exist for most of us - the people who don't have "connections", aren't going to wait in line all night, and don't care to get raped on ebay.
I'm a Nintendo fanboi all the way back - have 6 working consoles from NES through gamecube in my house - but what a colossal fuck-up the whole thing has been. Eight plus months and the store employees still laugh when you ask if they have any coming in. They not only misread the initial demand, but they've been utterly unable to ramp up production to meet it over the very, very long time now since launch.
Sorry, Nintendo, you lost me about six months ago. I got tired of trying and now my interests are elsewhere.
Honestly, I'm not joking. I'm all for it. Let them get as ridiculous as they want. They're going to find out that people aren't as desperate for their crappy movies as the execs seem to think they are. Maybe people will start reading books again at some point... or playing music, or talking to their kids, or learning a new skill or taking up a new hobby... just imagine what could be done with all that media-guzzling time once the laws get so extreme and absurd that people just won't bother with it anymore.
After this, try to get a law through that prohibits more than four people from watching a DVD at a time without paying additional fees. It makes just as much sense, will be just as likely to get through with all the lobbying muscle and greedy congresscritters, and will have just as much impact in the real world: zero.
I can't remember the last time I bought a DVD. I wonder why?
I've still never even seen one. We're what, six months after launch now? This is the biggest, longest discussion I've ever completely missed out on. I'm not going to sleep outside of stores or get raped on ebay just to join in, either.
Maybe (*maybe*) when Mario finally comes out I'll take another look at store shelves to see if there are any available at that point, but until then, my interest has disappeared.
As horrifying as this sickening act of violence is, it's sobering to recognize that this kind of random death toll is practically a daily event in Baghdad. We should be equally shocked and horrified by that.
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Too.
Fucking.
Expensive.
I have a PS3, and *one* blu-ray disc, "300", which Amazon had for $15, which is the absolute upper limit I'll pay. Never saw anything again at that price, and coincidentally, I never bought another disc.
$30 for a blu-ray? Yeah. No thanks. Keep it. My ordinary DVDs look just fine to me, especially when upconverted on the PS3/HDMI.
It seems like more and more people are making more and more outrageous predictions & claims.
Sometime in the late 90s, Wired ran a cover story that contained an assertion that "the Web is dead."
That's about when I canceled my subscription.
Assume all communication that uses any kind of monitorable infrastructure is bugged. The capacity is there, and the desire is there.
It is the way of things.
Go get her, eBay!
(and I hear Samantha Fox is pretty unhappy with eBay too)
If he's the only one? Very small. If he's one of a big group, potentially a whole lot bigger. What's your point?
Uh-huh, good thinking. And how many potential customers will you lose without ever even knowing about them, given your reputation for blowing off one in four as unprofitable?
Remind me not to hire you. (Never mind, I'll remember.)
Awesome. Thanks for the link.
...they're going to insert a dedication to Gary Gygax on the front page of every volume of 4th edition.
batman-touched-my-junk-liberally.com
I was gonna register that one!
Right: "Your backup is in this case. WARNNG: if you open it, it will explode."
The earth is only 6,000 years old.
Anybody who studied science in Kansas knows that.
Wondering why Comcast is still doing this even after having been "outed" over the last few weeks? Simple: they don't care. If you get fed up and leave for one of their competitors, just to show them, think they'll miss you? They'll be high-fiving around the office as soon as you go. You're costing them money by maxxing out your use of the service. They want you to leave. The best way to get you to do that is to keep giving you crappy service and lying about the reasons for it. If they lose the heaviest 1% of their customers which are generating 10% of their traffic (both figures totally made up, but the point should be clear), they'll be ecstatic. They'll make that trade 8 days a week.
Netflix operates the same way, throttling its customers who try to use the service as it's advertised. It all comes down to what's meant by "unlimited." We should all know that there is no such thing as unlimited service, and whenever you start to push too far into a company's profits at the all-you-can-eat buffet, you shouldn't be surprised when they start clearing your table before you're done and shooing you out the door.
It's 21st century business, kids. Get used to it. The best way to stick it to these companies is, unfortunately, to keep paying them and be right on the edge of what they allow you to do, like a kid causing just enough trouble in class to piss off the teacher but not enough to get sent to the office.
Ha. Well, the version I linked to said 14 (diff). Whee.....
Reminds me of the article on beavers where somebody kept putting in something like "Beavers devour people with their powerful fangs. They are the most dangerous animals alive."
14 + 14 is correct.
...they've got all our money.
...I can burn off the love handles by hooking them up Super Mario on my DS.
Where do I sign?
Of course, of course. It's impossible to alter production schedules in manufacturing because they're entirely and solely constrained by quantity of buildings. What was I thinking?
This thing launched what, eight months ago? And I've still never even seen one on a store shelf. Amazon still doesn't have them, the few sites that do seem to be still only selling them as fat, expensive bundles. I have never had an opportunity to just pick up a wii.
Now, no, I'm not sleeping outside of stores. I'm not waiting for the circulars with their coded statements that they have 5 in stock and rushing down to get in line. I'm a grown-up now and done camping out for products like that. I'll buy one when I can casually walk into a store and pick one off the shelf. I would expect an initial sell-out of a hot new product, maybe a month or two or three before stocks become readily available. But we're coming up on a year now and I've still never seen one, and neither have any of my friends. It may as well not exist for most of us - the people who don't have "connections", aren't going to wait in line all night, and don't care to get raped on ebay.
I'm a Nintendo fanboi all the way back - have 6 working consoles from NES through gamecube in my house - but what a colossal fuck-up the whole thing has been. Eight plus months and the store employees still laugh when you ask if they have any coming in. They not only misread the initial demand, but they've been utterly unable to ramp up production to meet it over the very, very long time now since launch.
Sorry, Nintendo, you lost me about six months ago. I got tired of trying and now my interests are elsewhere.
Yup.
Honestly, I'm not joking. I'm all for it. Let them get as ridiculous as they want. They're going to find out that people aren't as desperate for their crappy movies as the execs seem to think they are. Maybe people will start reading books again at some point... or playing music, or talking to their kids, or learning a new skill or taking up a new hobby... just imagine what could be done with all that media-guzzling time once the laws get so extreme and absurd that people just won't bother with it anymore.
After this, try to get a law through that prohibits more than four people from watching a DVD at a time without paying additional fees. It makes just as much sense, will be just as likely to get through with all the lobbying muscle and greedy congresscritters, and will have just as much impact in the real world: zero.
I can't remember the last time I bought a DVD. I wonder why?
I've still never even seen one. We're what, six months after launch now? This is the biggest, longest discussion I've ever completely missed out on. I'm not going to sleep outside of stores or get raped on ebay just to join in, either.
Maybe (*maybe*) when Mario finally comes out I'll take another look at store shelves to see if there are any available at that point, but until then, my interest has disappeared.
I believe you, but I'd love to see some references / data to support this assertion so I could defend it myself.
As horrifying as this sickening act of violence is, it's sobering to recognize that this kind of random death toll is practically a daily event in Baghdad. We should be equally shocked and horrified by that.
Thoughts and prayers for all victims of violence.
TV has been shutting all of our brains down for decades.
I'm in no hurry to buy one.