No the Heights Theater, Columbia Heights, Minnesota. (Is a first tier suburb just north of downtown Minneapolis.) Fully restored theater with crystal chandeliers, curtain over the screen that raises up to show feature, and an orchestra pit - where the restored Wurlitzer pipe organ rises up and goes down from. About 20 minutes before showtime a gentleman in a suit comes out (well, actually rises up from the floor in the organ bench) and plays tunes on the organ before the movie starts. It is pretty cool if you have never seen an actual "theater" how they used to be before television came along, and how time gradually turned them into the mutlti-opti-plexes they are today. There is only 1 screen in this theater, as was pretty common until the 1970s or so.
Not sure what you fixed by adding $40 to each price, but as I had it listed, the one without ads did cost more, and not less. ($60 for ad-free, $20 with ads)
If you can't keep ads from displaying, fine, but many of the rest of us seem to have no problems in that regard.
I never said that I see the ads (I am well aware of Adblocker and NoScript), just that they were there. If you are using a public terminal, or someone else's system, you may not have the option to install such things. If the majority of the population starts using AdBlocker, believe me the advertisers will come up with ways around it. Remember "popups"?
Ah, but what if they offered you a version without commercials for $60 or one with ads all over it for $20 - which would you choose then? (And yes, in this scenario you must only choose one or the other - saying "I would download the torrent for free" isn't what I am looking for as an answer.)
And as a follow up - have you gotten rid of your television, radio, and internet as well, because they also have ads everywhere. Forget going to the movie theater too - even forking over $12 won't let you escape the ads. (Except for a cool old school theater in my city where they have zero ads or previews, but instead have a real live person playing a pipe organ before they show the feature.)
So advertisers love violent video games. Maybe they should put some of their revenue into defending some of the games under attack because of violent content.
Except Qwest and AT&T actually do have full carrier status which prevents this exact scenario. ISPs have some protection, but not as much as the big networks do.
I know you were aiming for Microsoft bashing, but honestly in the 80s a good chunk of computer related companies were named Micro something or other. No idea if this company has been around that long (or may have even been named that as a throwback kind of kitschy idea) but it seemed like for a time "Micro" was really hot as a precursor to a company name.
"VM Where". I love it.
The "opens up a Windows logo thing" is actually Windows running in a virtual machine from inside your Mac OS. I really don't think that buying a Windows license to sync you Palm on a Mac is the best solution. Especially when you could just buy Missing Sync for Palm for $40 that will accomplish the same thing, without having to run a virtual OS. If you really paid $225 you got scammed, unless you have a strong desire to run Windows from inside Mac OS.
I told him he should put a EULA type warning on his window - "By breaking into this car you are giving up any rights to sue the owner for any injuries occurred within."
Hell, come to think of it I may just put a sticker like that on my car window - let the thieves wonder what the hell it means.
The problem with lawsuits is that you have to identify yourself, which no thief really wants to do (especially one so dumb that he not only didn't get what he was trying to steal, but injured himself badly in the process). My friend would have loved for the guy to sue him - then he could have counter-sued for the damage to his car, and the expenses for cleaning up the blood. He did talk to a cop about it a while after it had happened, and the cop told him if he would have filled out a police report (he didn't bother at the time), they could have checked the local hospitals for someone with an injury to his fingers, and could have prosecuted the "victim" for attempted theft (they already had a large DNA sample to work with). The cop then also said he wished more people would do stuff like that because he thought it would cause a drop in theft in the area. That kind of surprised me.
Not made up. My friend did almost the same thing with double edged razors on the back of his stereo. He had 3 stereos stolen from his car over the course of 2 years and was determined to not let it happen again. He went out one morning to find his car door open wide, and a gratuitous amount of blood all over the interior of his car. His stereo was still there - the thief had started to steal it, then reached around back to pull it out and cut himself badly. The unfortunate thing was that it cost quite a bit to get all the blood cleaned out from his car.
It's not Minnesota, at least not the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. T-Mobile works great all over there. And as long as you don't stray too far from the major freeways, even going out to the boondocks I still get reception.
Any man that chooses to be with a woman who is already either married/in a serious relationship when they start up should expect at some point it will happen again, with him getting dumped for the new flame. They may not have been "pussies" but they weren't being smart or didn't want a monogamous relationship. Cheaters aren't going to just up and change their behavior "just because it is you".
A laptop still has replaceable parts, some even have replaceable video cards. The difference is that a lot more things are built into the motherboard for laptops, but you can still replace the whole motherboard. The other major difference is laptops are a little trickier to take apart to get to the replaceable parts, but to professionals this doesn't matter much. People that go out and buy new $1000+ laptops because their $80 hard drive dies are just suckers, or are just using it as a convenient excuse to upgrade.
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And without the "D" producing a product that sells, there is rarely money for "R". Unfortunately it is not the academic minded handing out the research grants, it is the bean counters. (Otherwise all of our world problems would be likely solved by now.) This is pretty much how the relationship between science and reality works.
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Simple. Because so far 100% of everything I want isn't always possible to obtain in an ad-free format. Some things, yes, but not all of them. Yet.
No the Heights Theater, Columbia Heights, Minnesota. (Is a first tier suburb just north of downtown Minneapolis.) Fully restored theater with crystal chandeliers, curtain over the screen that raises up to show feature, and an orchestra pit - where the restored Wurlitzer pipe organ rises up and goes down from. About 20 minutes before showtime a gentleman in a suit comes out (well, actually rises up from the floor in the organ bench) and plays tunes on the organ before the movie starts. It is pretty cool if you have never seen an actual "theater" how they used to be before television came along, and how time gradually turned them into the mutlti-opti-plexes they are today. There is only 1 screen in this theater, as was pretty common until the 1970s or so.
Not sure what you fixed by adding $40 to each price, but as I had it listed, the one without ads did cost more, and not less. ($60 for ad-free, $20 with ads)
If you can't keep ads from displaying, fine, but many of the rest of us seem to have no problems in that regard.
I never said that I see the ads (I am well aware of Adblocker and NoScript), just that they were there. If you are using a public terminal, or someone else's system, you may not have the option to install such things. If the majority of the population starts using AdBlocker, believe me the advertisers will come up with ways around it. Remember "popups"?
Ah, but what if they offered you a version without commercials for $60 or one with ads all over it for $20 - which would you choose then? (And yes, in this scenario you must only choose one or the other - saying "I would download the torrent for free" isn't what I am looking for as an answer.)
And as a follow up - have you gotten rid of your television, radio, and internet as well, because they also have ads everywhere. Forget going to the movie theater too - even forking over $12 won't let you escape the ads. (Except for a cool old school theater in my city where they have zero ads or previews, but instead have a real live person playing a pipe organ before they show the feature.)
Money is money whether it is dirty advertising money, or money raised by charity groups. With enough money you can put a positive spin on anything.
So advertisers love violent video games. Maybe they should put some of their revenue into defending some of the games under attack because of violent content.
Except Qwest and AT&T actually do have full carrier status which prevents this exact scenario. ISPs have some protection, but not as much as the big networks do.
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I know you were aiming for Microsoft bashing, but honestly in the 80s a good chunk of computer related companies were named Micro something or other. No idea if this company has been around that long (or may have even been named that as a throwback kind of kitschy idea) but it seemed like for a time "Micro" was really hot as a precursor to a company name.
"VM Where". I love it.
The "opens up a Windows logo thing" is actually Windows running in a virtual machine from inside your Mac OS. I really don't think that buying a Windows license to sync you Palm on a Mac is the best solution. Especially when you could just buy Missing Sync for Palm for $40 that will accomplish the same thing, without having to run a virtual OS. If you really paid $225 you got scammed, unless you have a strong desire to run Windows from inside Mac OS.
Touché.
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There fixed that for you!
I remember back in the day when 8M of RAM was considered too much.
At the risk of showing my age, I remember when memory was still measured in kb and not Mb, and 16k was considered "too much".
I told him he should put a EULA type warning on his window - "By breaking into this car you are giving up any rights to sue the owner for any injuries occurred within."
Hell, come to think of it I may just put a sticker like that on my car window - let the thieves wonder what the hell it means.
The problem with lawsuits is that you have to identify yourself, which no thief really wants to do (especially one so dumb that he not only didn't get what he was trying to steal, but injured himself badly in the process). My friend would have loved for the guy to sue him - then he could have counter-sued for the damage to his car, and the expenses for cleaning up the blood. He did talk to a cop about it a while after it had happened, and the cop told him if he would have filled out a police report (he didn't bother at the time), they could have checked the local hospitals for someone with an injury to his fingers, and could have prosecuted the "victim" for attempted theft (they already had a large DNA sample to work with). The cop then also said he wished more people would do stuff like that because he thought it would cause a drop in theft in the area. That kind of surprised me.
Not made up. My friend did almost the same thing with double edged razors on the back of his stereo. He had 3 stereos stolen from his car over the course of 2 years and was determined to not let it happen again. He went out one morning to find his car door open wide, and a gratuitous amount of blood all over the interior of his car. His stereo was still there - the thief had started to steal it, then reached around back to pull it out and cut himself badly. The unfortunate thing was that it cost quite a bit to get all the blood cleaned out from his car.
It's not Minnesota, at least not the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. T-Mobile works great all over there. And as long as you don't stray too far from the major freeways, even going out to the boondocks I still get reception.
Don't you need to put in a mod chip to pirate on something like the 360?
Sure you do. But when the mod chip is around the same price or less than a single game, it "pays for itself" rather quickly.
Which begs the question - who are these ignorant twats?
Hmmm. Maybe it is ironic that you can't differentiate between copyrights and trademarks?
Yes, it is. Wasn't trying to be sexist, but rather replying to the specific situation mentioned.
Any man that chooses to be with a woman who is already either married/in a serious relationship when they start up should expect at some point it will happen again, with him getting dumped for the new flame. They may not have been "pussies" but they weren't being smart or didn't want a monogamous relationship. Cheaters aren't going to just up and change their behavior "just because it is you".
Which is why you were brave enough to post this as an Anonymous Coward.
I believe the expression goes "cowboy the fuck up and take a salt tablet".
A laptop still has replaceable parts, some even have replaceable video cards. The difference is that a lot more things are built into the motherboard for laptops, but you can still replace the whole motherboard. The other major difference is laptops are a little trickier to take apart to get to the replaceable parts, but to professionals this doesn't matter much. People that go out and buy new $1000+ laptops because their $80 hard drive dies are just suckers, or are just using it as a convenient excuse to upgrade.
And without the "D" producing a product that sells, there is rarely money for "R". Unfortunately it is not the academic minded handing out the research grants, it is the bean counters. (Otherwise all of our world problems would be likely solved by now.) This is pretty much how the relationship between science and reality works.