Don't like the price of something, or it's too much for you to afford? Make an offer, if they don't like it, take your cash elsewhere and haggle there. If you can't get what you want for the price you want then it's not the end of the world, unless of course it's major life saving surgery, then you're kinda doomed.
Mail in rebates just look like a handy way to "administratively error" extra cash out of people.
But just think, it'll attack Tokyo and they'll fight back with some kind of nuclear weapon and seemingly defeat it but and then some mad scientist guy who is always partially in shadow and has vibrating eyes will rebuild it using spare cyborg parts from his plan-b of "destroy tokyo for no adequately explored reason" and before you know it you'll have a 200ft high radioactive "OCTOMECHA" and yet more buildings in downtown Tokyo will be destroyed and it will all end up resulting in some kind of epic duel to the death with godzilla.
The situation goes from "My company has made some hardware that works on windows please buy it, hmm, maybe I should see about getting my drivers certified to get rid of that message that upsets some folk" to "My company has made some hardware that will work on windows once I've paid my royalty to microsoft and then I can sell it to you providing that microsoft thinks the hardware works in an acceptable way and doesn't provide any contention in microsoft's revenues due via its own product portfolio"
Yeah right, like they really give a crap about that, I'm sure they are more inclined to want to see the details of Bush sucks and Diy Nukes but I could be mistaken.
(no black helicopters were harmed while making this comment).
As ever any technology is ethically neutral, it's what the lunatics choose to do with it that makes the difference.
I can see that this could be useful to someone in small doses to get them through the day when "too much" has recently happened.
I can also see the horror potential, already some folks can justify or deny anything or at least pigeonhole contrary experience to an inconsequential or 'unrealistic' perspective, but many who experienced the day would remember it all, with nobody to remember how what happened really felt did it really matter that anything happened at all?
This will be an authoritarians wet dream in a handy consumable capsule.
We'll "ask" you this question till you give us the correct answer.
And after the vote it was all "the people are unhappy with their national governments, not the eu", yes.. that's right, the people are too stupid to know how to vote or what they are voting for, maybe we shouldn't have any right to vote at all, after all, we are just little people who don't know any better.
Just what really is the game plan with the whole eu thing now anyway? I'm sure it started out with the best intentions, but like, they say that about the road to hell too.
Don't forget to add that people not travelling to destinations aren't paying customers and that results in those businesses which would otherwise be at the destinations not paying their fair share again, it's like people are stealing twice in one go in broad daylight, it's just wrong and it shouldn't be allowed.
wirelss keyboard+"mouse" (or input devices to suit) large screen on wall(or on end of desk), sound output (using purely digital entirely drm compliant connectivity of course) via speakers that are tastfully integrated with the screen/room decor/where they sound best.
The actual computer? with those too difficult to understand cpu's and hard drives and magical wires, net connection? power? Out of sight out of mind. So who cares what it looks like as long as it fits into the space it got put into.
I like artistry and artistic expression, but for something that needs to be used I chose utility over form, and this is just a set of boxes in "a style" no more or less valid than any other idea of what the correct way to make a personal computer is.
To see a real personal computer of tomorrow look what random folk are doing with mini-itx boards, putting them into all kinds of crazy stuff and making enclosures from scratch or recycling the cases from older devices and achieving something special that suits their needs and tastes. In some of these it really looks like the "out of sight, out of mind" mentality is making the aesthetics of the magic box of wires take second place to something that is simply there to be used, and it's neither pro nor anti drm.
That sort of crap is really offensive, I wonder how much is down to marketing decisions and "We are us so we are important" and if you install more than a mere handful of programs your system virtually grinds to a halt, like you say "program->phone->data->ok all done" is how it should be.
Check your firewall too, no doubt it "vitally" needs to connect to the internet for no reason whatsoever. I have bluetooth drivers that quietly try to connect to the net. Drivers needing to phone home is just pathetic. We are loosing control of our hardware. Sorry, I meant "our consumer information appliances".
DRM on hard drives, phone home crap, software that persistently runs and you can't kill it because that would be the end of the universe, not watching adverts making us thieves, outlawing evil drm free DAC's???. Music cd's that won't play on some cd players, corporate welfare levies on storage media, as we all know the ONLY POSSIBLE use for a blank CD or DVD is communist terrorist piracy etc.. What next, credit card slots on our net enabled dvd players for our "convenience" ?
Until it really annoys the crap out of someone important it won't be a major issue of course, but by then it'll probably be illegal to annoy a coproration by having the sheer nerve to disagree with their mighty policy of adherence to their god given right to their money.
Hmm, this was just gonna be a quick reply to your post, guess this crap touches a nerve.
All I can say is.. wow, five years isn't so long to wait and see if it'll actually work, we could be on the brink of a new age of exploration, meet strange new people, and offer them free upgrades in their nuclear technology....
So we have a choice of
1. Works and we set up a new starbucks in every alien civilisation we meet.
2. Doesn't actually do anything because it's nonsense.
3. Works but we don't understand why and it goes wrong and we all die in some kind of hilarious star trek style [insert random physics here] mishap.
Yay!
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Don't like the price of something, or it's too much for you to afford? Make an offer, if they don't like it, take your cash elsewhere and haggle there. If you can't get what you want for the price you want then it's not the end of the world, unless of course it's major life saving surgery, then you're kinda doomed.
Mail in rebates just look like a handy way to "administratively error" extra cash out of people.
But just think, it'll attack Tokyo and they'll fight back with some kind of nuclear weapon and seemingly defeat it but and then some mad scientist guy who is always partially in shadow and has vibrating eyes will rebuild it using spare cyborg parts from his plan-b of "destroy tokyo for no adequately explored reason" and before you know it you'll have a 200ft high radioactive "OCTOMECHA" and yet more buildings in downtown Tokyo will be destroyed and it will all end up resulting in some kind of epic duel to the death with godzilla.
What's the rfc for that? and does this transport mechanism support drm?
The situation goes from "My company has made some hardware that works on windows please buy it, hmm, maybe I should see about getting my drivers certified to get rid of that message that upsets some folk" to "My company has made some hardware that will work on windows once I've paid my royalty to microsoft and then I can sell it to you providing that microsoft thinks the hardware works in an acceptable way and doesn't provide any contention in microsoft's revenues due via its own product portfolio"
There'll be no need to hack it yourself, just connect the machine to the net and after a while all your drivers will be free to do anything.
You could replace it with a spy rock And you'd never need feel alone again
The Replicator Industry Association Off America will sue them all
Take the whole thing and leave them cakeless.
That's the real game, isn't it?
(no black helicopters were harmed while making this comment).
Sadly that's the funniest thing I've read all day! Oh god, the image!
I can see that this could be useful to someone in small doses to get them through the day when "too much" has recently happened.
I can also see the horror potential, already some folks can justify or deny anything or at least pigeonhole contrary experience to an inconsequential or 'unrealistic' perspective, but many who experienced the day would remember it all, with nobody to remember how what happened really felt did it really matter that anything happened at all?
This will be an authoritarians wet dream in a handy consumable capsule.
"Drink this citizen, you WILL feel happy."
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Is it even slightly suprising?
We'll "ask" you this question till you give us the correct answer.
And after the vote it was all "the people are unhappy with their national governments, not the eu", yes.. that's right, the people are too stupid to know how to vote or what they are voting for, maybe we shouldn't have any right to vote at all, after all, we are just little people who don't know any better.
Just what really is the game plan with the whole eu thing now anyway? I'm sure it started out with the best intentions, but like, they say that about the road to hell too.
Don't forget to add that people not travelling to destinations aren't paying customers and that results in those businesses which would otherwise be at the destinations not paying their fair share again, it's like people are stealing twice in one go in broad daylight, it's just wrong and it shouldn't be allowed.
Are you completely new here? or what?
wirelss keyboard+"mouse" (or input devices to suit) large screen on wall(or on end of desk), sound output (using purely digital entirely drm compliant connectivity of course) via speakers that are tastfully integrated with the screen/room decor/where they sound best.
The actual computer? with those too difficult to understand cpu's and hard drives and magical wires, net connection? power?
Out of sight out of mind. So who cares what it looks like as long as it fits into the space it got put into.
I like artistry and artistic expression, but for something that needs to be used I chose utility over form, and this is just a set of boxes in "a style" no more or less valid than any other idea of what the correct way to make a personal computer is.
To see a real personal computer of tomorrow look what random folk are doing with mini-itx boards, putting them into all kinds of crazy stuff and making enclosures from scratch or recycling the cases from older devices and achieving something special that suits their needs and tastes. In some of these it really looks like the "out of sight, out of mind" mentality is making the aesthetics of the magic box of wires take second place to something that is simply there to be used, and it's neither pro nor anti drm.
But your monthly newsletter must be pretty whack
That sort of crap is really offensive, I wonder how much is down to marketing decisions and "We are us so we are important" and if you install more than a mere handful of programs your system virtually grinds to a halt, like you say "program->phone->data->ok all done" is how it should be. Check your firewall too, no doubt it "vitally" needs to connect to the internet for no reason whatsoever. I have bluetooth drivers that quietly try to connect to the net. Drivers needing to phone home is just pathetic. We are loosing control of our hardware. Sorry, I meant "our consumer information appliances". DRM on hard drives, phone home crap, software that persistently runs and you can't kill it because that would be the end of the universe, not watching adverts making us thieves, outlawing evil drm free DAC's???. Music cd's that won't play on some cd players, corporate welfare levies on storage media, as we all know the ONLY POSSIBLE use for a blank CD or DVD is communist terrorist piracy etc.. What next, credit card slots on our net enabled dvd players for our "convenience" ? Until it really annoys the crap out of someone important it won't be a major issue of course, but by then it'll probably be illegal to annoy a coproration by having the sheer nerve to disagree with their mighty policy of adherence to their god given right to their money. Hmm, this was just gonna be a quick reply to your post, guess this crap touches a nerve.
They always seemed to look so similar in style. Wonder what sort of company could have come out of merging sun and apple.
I'm in AuWE!
All I can say is.. wow, five years isn't so long to wait and see if it'll actually work, we could be on the brink of a new age of exploration, meet strange new people, and offer them free upgrades in their nuclear technology.... So we have a choice of 1. Works and we set up a new starbucks in every alien civilisation we meet. 2. Doesn't actually do anything because it's nonsense. 3. Works but we don't understand why and it goes wrong and we all die in some kind of hilarious star trek style [insert random physics here] mishap. Yay!