Libertardians obviously hate it when they're presented with evidence that the invisible market fairy doesn't fix everything [google.com].
I find it more interesting to consider why it doesn't generally work that way. I have only one answer: we care a HELL of a lot more about immediate convenience and instant gratification than we have ever cared about being consistent with our principles. So we'll buy from abusive companies that deliver poor service before we'll do without their products/services. We'll patronize a company that is known to engage in extremely dishonorable business practices so long as their products are 5% cheaper than the competitors'.
The market idea really could work, except that it requires a people who are both more noble and have a far stronger backbone than our general population. Such a people would individually and voluntarily refuse to ever support any business that takes actions which are not in their interests, at all costs. In turn, the corporations would understand this which would both raise the general standard and guarantee that actually proving this to them would be a relatively rare event.
But we want our shiny and we want it now and we don't care what sort of behavior we are rewarding by voting with our wallets. That's the only reason it doesn't work. There is none other. Corporations cannot act against our interests except that we provide the funding by which they do it.
They don't have to be "noble" if they have another cable provider to choose from.
A lot of people are saying this -- why try not having cable? That's a valid option.
Upgrade the RAM:) I stuck 4GB of DDR2 800 SODIMMs into my laptop for a whopping $60, then sold the old 2GB of RAM for $40.
Don't torture yourself when you can drop a couple of bucks and fix it:)
As an employer, I use to run background checks on people. One man in his early 50s had a "drug possession" charge from decades before.
He got busted with a joint.
As much as I agree with keeping a lot of drugs off the streets, it's hard to agree when the legal punishment for some drugs is far more damaging than the drug it self.
> However, a better approach IMO would be to get rid of all the Genuine Advantage and activation crack, and allow boxes using old and famous activation keys (such as the "devil's own") to get updated with Windows Update.
That's never been the problem. Microsoft has always allowed known-pirated versions of Windows to get updated via automatic updates. Do you think Joe Normal remembers every patch Tuesday to update his desktop and laptop? No, because he doesn't even realize there is a patch Tuesday! All he knows is that there's some anouying update thing he clicks the "x" on because the yes/no was a tricky question.
You personally have had trouble with a legally purchased copy of Windows Vista and WGA? Or are you just parroting the vocal minority because that's the slashdot way?
If you're ordering food that can only be turned into a reasonable calorie count by cutting the serving in half, you have already lost. It's about not ordering that sort of food. Hell, 90% of the problem is ordering food to begin with. If you cooked it yourself, you could of tossed one less stick of butter into it.
The moment I saw this topic I intended to ask the same question.
They worked so good as a team before (they all wrote for the show before becoming [voice] actors), why not attempt at it again? Switch hit, and/or double the production rate of Rifftrax/The Film Crew.
It could of once again been amazing, but now we have X seperate projects.
Let's just hope that this wireless solution is cheaper than the ridiculous pricing of the HDMI cable out there, because the only purpose of this solution is to replace the HDMI cable.
Stop buying from Best Buy and start buying from Newegg. You'll see a bit of a difference.
24K gold-plated connectors enhance conductivity, resist corrosion and provide high-quality signal transfer
It's digital. The signal gets through, or it does not.
I repair a ton of computer systems every day, from companies and from home users, and none of them are ever patched. The only reason? People do not care and they do not understand. Stuff starts giving them annoying dialogs, and they just click whatever they believe gets rid of it fastest.
As long as the computer seems to be working okay, they believe their actions were correct. They do not understand computers. This is the only problem.
This seems to be happening more and more. People love to call chips, chipsets. It may have dual cores, but its two cores on a single chip.
The north and south bridge are collectively called a chipset, and you could call multiple SATA/PATA controllers a chipset, but you can not call a processor a chipset.
But this ignores the cost reduction as optical media becomes cheaper to manufacture (Blu-Ray may have an argument, but DVD does not) as well as the costs of the ROMs to construct those old carts.
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I find it more interesting to consider why it doesn't generally work that way. I have only one answer: we care a HELL of a lot more about immediate convenience and instant gratification than we have ever cared about being consistent with our principles. So we'll buy from abusive companies that deliver poor service before we'll do without their products/services. We'll patronize a company that is known to engage in extremely dishonorable business practices so long as their products are 5% cheaper than the competitors'. The market idea really could work, except that it requires a people who are both more noble and have a far stronger backbone than our general population. Such a people would individually and voluntarily refuse to ever support any business that takes actions which are not in their interests, at all costs. In turn, the corporations would understand this which would both raise the general standard and guarantee that actually proving this to them would be a relatively rare event. But we want our shiny and we want it now and we don't care what sort of behavior we are rewarding by voting with our wallets. That's the only reason it doesn't work. There is none other. Corporations cannot act against our interests except that we provide the funding by which they do it.
They don't have to be "noble" if they have another cable provider to choose from.
A lot of people are saying this -- why try not having cable? That's a valid option.
Upgrade the RAM :) I stuck 4GB of DDR2 800 SODIMMs into my laptop for a whopping $60, then sold the old 2GB of RAM for $40.
Don't torture yourself when you can drop a couple of bucks and fix it :)
As an employer, I use to run background checks on people. One man in his early 50s had a "drug possession" charge from decades before. He got busted with a joint. As much as I agree with keeping a lot of drugs off the streets, it's hard to agree when the legal punishment for some drugs is far more damaging than the drug it self.
oh, this.
A single 720p DVD5 x264 is at 4.7GB. 4.7GB by 31 days is 145.7 GB. Not following.
"Microsoft was (more or less) able to build some really huge software projects in a few years. Such as WinNT/Win2000 and the Office suite."
Windows NT started development in 1989. There was more than a few years between then and Windows 2000's release.
People pay for their web browser?
> However, a better approach IMO would be to get rid of all the Genuine Advantage and activation crack, and allow boxes using old and famous activation keys (such as the "devil's own") to get updated with Windows Update.
That's never been the problem. Microsoft has always allowed known-pirated versions of Windows to get updated via automatic updates. Do you think Joe Normal remembers every patch Tuesday to update his desktop and laptop? No, because he doesn't even realize there is a patch Tuesday! All he knows is that there's some anouying update thing he clicks the "x" on because the yes/no was a tricky question.
You personally have had trouble with a legally purchased copy of Windows Vista and WGA? Or are you just parroting the vocal minority because that's the slashdot way?
I'm suprised at the lack of mention that Opera has had this feature since September.
If you're ordering food that can only be turned into a reasonable calorie count by cutting the serving in half, you have already lost. It's about not ordering that sort of food. Hell, 90% of the problem is ordering food to begin with. If you cooked it yourself, you could of tossed one less stick of butter into it.
The moment I saw this topic I intended to ask the same question.
They worked so good as a team before (they all wrote for the show before becoming [voice] actors), why not attempt at it again? Switch hit, and/or double the production rate of Rifftrax/The Film Crew.
It could of once again been amazing, but now we have X seperate projects.
Stop buying from Best Buy and start buying from Newegg. You'll see a bit of a difference.
It's digital. The signal gets through, or it does not.
RTFA -- get it from The Pirate Bay.
I repair a ton of computer systems every day, from companies and from home users, and none of them are ever patched. The only reason? People do not care and they do not understand. Stuff starts giving them annoying dialogs, and they just click whatever they believe gets rid of it fastest.
As long as the computer seems to be working okay, they believe their actions were correct. They do not understand computers. This is the only problem.
...because their 52kb/s upload from Comcast just didn't cut it.
Before you buy it, just check out the .nfo on usenet. There's typically a list of copyright protections that they removed in there some place.
This seems to be happening more and more. People love to call chips, chipsets. It may have dual cores, but its two cores on a single chip. The north and south bridge are collectively called a chipset, and you could call multiple SATA/PATA controllers a chipset, but you can not call a processor a chipset.
Funny enough, a girlfriend introduced me to MST3k, and after me she went on to date a guy from the UK.
Can people stop saying that it's going to cost Microsoft $1,000,000,000? It's a speculated and unrealistic figure.
The RAZR came out in 2004, making a comparison of the technologies difficult.
I'm glad some one with more literary talent decided to take the time to say that, because all I could come up with was "What? The game is crap."
But this ignores the cost reduction as optical media becomes cheaper to manufacture (Blu-Ray may have an argument, but DVD does not) as well as the costs of the ROMs to construct those old carts.
They're not built in random directions, the roads are. The house simply faces the road.
It's hard to ad-support launching 3 satellites into orbit.