I don't think this is the first time a 'profitless' company has been bought by a larger company. It would be cheaper to buy the failing company and pump some life into it than to set it all up from the ground up. Gives them a good opportunity to get into that market.
Now if Sony can do all that, that is a whole new discussion.
Seems that this whole thing is a debate over 'How it should be'(TELCOs) vs 'How it already is'(everyone else)
Seems like alot of people are willing to bend over and take it. And TELCOs are willing to give it. So what, they have to hire a couple hundred more outsourced workers to answer phones? They are a dime a dozen anyways.
As soon as a company that actually cares (ie 'won't be evil', wink wink) comes along, this will all be a moot point.
The way the post was written led me to believe that it was written by some over the top fatalist/existentialist. Opposition to extremism is seen as extremist in the other direction, at least from the POV of the original. I did not mean to equate those two things in my post and I will just say that extremism made me do it as I really actually beleive with everything else you said.
I know the basics and the concept of a 'Tiered Internet' but what I don't get is how people are so outraged about tiered internet when such a system exists for cable tv.
No one is outraged that the basic package of cable doesn't include X and Y channel but when the same issue is raised against the internet they yell out 'DON'T BLOCKS MY GOOGLES!!'
In some places the only Cable TV company is the same as the only ISP in an area so the debate over local monopolies doesnt hold either.
Happens all the time. Think of prostitution sting ops, undercover cop drives to a corner, girl talks to them, gets her to negotiate a price, whips out the badge.
This is just undercover cop on MSN instead of a car, goes into a chatroom instead of a corner, pedo talks to them, gets them to agree on meeting someplace, whips out a badge. Pretty effective in catching them, but does not stop repeat offenders. Just as prostitutes are out on the same corner as soon as they are out of jail, the pedos are back in the same chatroom as soon as possible.
seeing as they will know who is reporting the abuse then if you are just pratting about then those same police who are looking for predators can also send a threating response for wasting police time (a punishable offence).
Not before they have seized the computer, tore apart the house, question the neighbours and coworkers of the possible pedophile.
I am having a hard time sorting out the sarcasm in your post, if there even is any.
Going on the assumption that you are 100% serious, which I doubt. I pity anyone who thinks like you, taking life as a meaningless span of time with a definate start and end seems like a very morbid way to spend the time.
I don't see the problem with allowing people to believe in souls, parallel lines and a fair universe. What is the harm there? The definition of parallel means they never cross, roll two dice and add them together, the 'fair' laws of probablility(read: the universe) dictate 7 will come up most.
I myself don't really belive in the afterlife, but I definately 'hope' such exists.
My girlfriend of 3 years used to write and perform her own music. She was pretty good, she had the opportunity to get studio time and record her music and also get it produced. She had lots of fun with it.
When she was writing her music she was depressed. She was not depressed all the time like some people, and it in no way hurt her in her in her job, or with family or friends. She just wrote lyrics and music when she was having a bad day or a bad night.
Since then she has become less prone to having these bad days and thus, stopped writing almost entirely.
Now this natural occurance is not the same as drugs but the effect was generally the same. I think she is truely happy. She just had to let go of poetry and music, and said to herself, 'that is who I was, not who I am'. If on the other hand she was constantly looking back saying 'I wish I could write music again', then I would not say she is truely happy.
How is a well known string that looks like a virus to AV software going to help to test the software's efficiency in finding possible variants of actual viruses?
In short, it can't.
This whole thread of comments is off-topic so off we go.
Every Subway I have been to has a 'self serve' drink station and now they get this great idea to charge for refills. It is something like 45 cents regardless of size.
I think that if I have to refill my own drink then I should not have to pay for it. It is not like it costs that much! The cups at McDonalds are actually more expensive than the drink inside. But then again I never had a problem with paying for refills at 7-11...
Your exact scenario is exactly what everyone is complaining about...
if you bid $110, what you thought it was worth and was your absolute maximum, someone can still come in and snipe with $110.05, because I mean, what is 5 cents when you won the item?
I don't know exactly how eBay works(I have never used it) but I think not showing the time left could help, instead just have show the time left as a category like very long, short etc.. that way no one can purposely come in with 10 minutes left. It can still happen, but less likely.
I really don't see the problem with putting a browser (and email client) in with your OS... Many people just want to 'get to the internet' and send emails to family.
BUT, I don't understand how some browsers (read: IE) can get away with not implementing standards. Users should be in control of the 'browser wars' not the involved associations. must not be cost-effective when most users just want to 'get to the internet'.
Web standards will never be fully implemented if 90% of users just want to 'get to the internet'. I forsee that as more people become web-savvy, browsers will become more compliant or go extinct as users gain real control. Think of the children, the kids who have cell phones and browse the internet on PSP's and maybe even post on slashdot?
MSIE won't change untill it is made to change, and I think it will take more than a slip of 7%, and two years, to do that.
People modded the original xbox with water cooling systems, better fans, bigger harddrives, linux, LED's to make it look like a ufo, the list goes on, just to say that they did it. If the 360 was so well cooled that you could chill drinks people would still open it up and put water cooling systems just so that they could say that they did it.
The market does have a choice that "just lets [you] play [your] fucking game", the GameCube. Nintendo could have put a DVD player in there and used regular sized disks and I am sure that they took a hit to the PS2 and XBOX for that choice. Many people never had a DVD player untill they had a PS2 or XBOX and I know that capability was a selling point for me to buy an XBOX at the time when I could only afford one.
Sony and microsoft are attempting to replace the rest of your electronics but they arent the only choices. This even extends to the hand held market, the PSP has the functionality to make an attempt to replace portable DVD players with the UMD movies.
I remember seeing advertisements for a Tony Hawk game that has no loading screens at all? I CBA to look it up now, but load times have shortened to be unnoticeable so complaining about how long the original playstation took to load doesn't cut it.
My laptop is starting to dull where my wrists lay while not typing and while using the touchpad, I am contemplating spraypainting it all in green camoflauge so people would know I was a haxor.
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I don't think this is the first time a 'profitless' company has been bought by a larger company. It would be cheaper to buy the failing company and pump some life into it than to set it all up from the ground up. Gives them a good opportunity to get into that market.
Now if Sony can do all that, that is a whole new discussion.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things..
Seems that this whole thing is a debate over 'How it should be'(TELCOs) vs 'How it already is'(everyone else)
Seems like alot of people are willing to bend over and take it. And TELCOs are willing to give it. So what, they have to hire a couple hundred more outsourced workers to answer phones? They are a dime a dozen anyways.
As soon as a company that actually cares (ie 'won't be evil', wink wink) comes along, this will all be a moot point.
The way the post was written led me to believe that it was written by some over the top fatalist/existentialist. Opposition to extremism is seen as extremist in the other direction, at least from the POV of the original. I did not mean to equate those two things in my post and I will just say that extremism made me do it as I really actually beleive with everything else you said.
This whole Net Neutrality debate confuses me.
I know the basics and the concept of a 'Tiered Internet' but what I don't get is how people are so outraged about tiered internet when such a system exists for cable tv.
No one is outraged that the basic package of cable doesn't include X and Y channel but when the same issue is raised against the internet they yell out 'DON'T BLOCKS MY GOOGLES!!'
In some places the only Cable TV company is the same as the only ISP in an area so the debate over local monopolies doesnt hold either.
Happens all the time. Think of prostitution sting ops, undercover cop drives to a corner, girl talks to them, gets her to negotiate a price, whips out the badge.
This is just undercover cop on MSN instead of a car, goes into a chatroom instead of a corner, pedo talks to them, gets them to agree on meeting someplace, whips out a badge.
Pretty effective in catching them, but does not stop repeat offenders. Just as prostitutes are out on the same corner as soon as they are out of jail, the pedos are back in the same chatroom as soon as possible.
2006 - 1992 = 14
i think
My friends and I used to see who could warn the other the highest the quickest, good fun.
I am having a hard time sorting out the sarcasm in your post, if there even is any.
Going on the assumption that you are 100% serious, which I doubt. I pity anyone who thinks like you, taking life as a meaningless span of time with a definate start and end seems like a very morbid way to spend the time.
I don't see the problem with allowing people to believe in souls, parallel lines and a fair universe. What is the harm there?
The definition of parallel means they never cross, roll two dice and add them together, the 'fair' laws of probablility(read: the universe) dictate 7 will come up most.
I myself don't really belive in the afterlife, but I definately 'hope' such exists.
My girlfriend of 3 years used to write and perform her own music. She was pretty good, she had the opportunity to get studio time and record her music and also get it produced. She had lots of fun with it.
When she was writing her music she was depressed. She was not depressed all the time like some people, and it in no way hurt her in her in her job, or with family or friends. She just wrote lyrics and music when she was having a bad day or a bad night.
Since then she has become less prone to having these bad days and thus, stopped writing almost entirely.
Now this natural occurance is not the same as drugs but the effect was generally the same. I think she is truely happy. She just had to let go of poetry and music, and said to herself, 'that is who I was, not who I am'. If on the other hand she was constantly looking back saying 'I wish I could write music again', then I would not say she is truely happy.
How is a well known string that looks like a virus to AV software going to help to test the software's efficiency in finding possible variants of actual viruses? In short, it can't.
It did say civilian firearms, so the police would not have the problem with any HERF or EMP
This whole thread of comments is off-topic so off we go. Every Subway I have been to has a 'self serve' drink station and now they get this great idea to charge for refills. It is something like 45 cents regardless of size.
I think that if I have to refill my own drink then I should not have to pay for it. It is not like it costs that much! The cups at McDonalds are actually more expensive than the drink inside. But then again I never had a problem with paying for refills at 7-11...
Your exact scenario is exactly what everyone is complaining about...
if you bid $110, what you thought it was worth and was your absolute maximum, someone can still come in and snipe with $110.05, because I mean, what is 5 cents when you won the item?
I don't know exactly how eBay works(I have never used it) but I think not showing the time left could help, instead just have show the time left as a category like very long, short etc.. that way no one can purposely come in with 10 minutes left. It can still happen, but less likely.
I really don't see the problem with putting a browser (and email client) in with your OS... Many people just want to 'get to the internet' and send emails to family.
BUT, I don't understand how some browsers (read: IE) can get away with not implementing standards. Users should be in control of the 'browser wars' not the involved associations. must not be cost-effective when most users just want to 'get to the internet'.
Web standards will never be fully implemented if 90% of users just want to 'get to the internet'. I forsee that as more people become web-savvy, browsers will become more compliant or go extinct as users gain real control. Think of the children, the kids who have cell phones and browse the internet on PSP's and maybe even post on slashdot?
MSIE won't change untill it is made to change, and I think it will take more than a slip of 7%, and two years, to do that.
People modded the original xbox with water cooling systems, better fans, bigger harddrives, linux, LED's to make it look like a ufo, the list goes on, just to say that they did it. If the 360 was so well cooled that you could chill drinks people would still open it up and put water cooling systems just so that they could say that they did it. The market does have a choice that "just lets [you] play [your] fucking game", the GameCube. Nintendo could have put a DVD player in there and used regular sized disks and I am sure that they took a hit to the PS2 and XBOX for that choice. Many people never had a DVD player untill they had a PS2 or XBOX and I know that capability was a selling point for me to buy an XBOX at the time when I could only afford one. Sony and microsoft are attempting to replace the rest of your electronics but they arent the only choices. This even extends to the hand held market, the PSP has the functionality to make an attempt to replace portable DVD players with the UMD movies. I remember seeing advertisements for a Tony Hawk game that has no loading screens at all? I CBA to look it up now, but load times have shortened to be unnoticeable so complaining about how long the original playstation took to load doesn't cut it.
My laptop is starting to dull where my wrists lay while not typing and while using the touchpad, I am contemplating spraypainting it all in green camoflauge so people would know I was a haxor.
we're at terror alert orange! Which means something might go down somewhere in some way at some point in time. So look sharp!