Honestly, I think Dell's mindshare is so trivial right now that teenagers won't even throw it around as an insult. Dell's got a LONG way to go to get back to that level of relevancy.
My first instinct is to say this is a bad idea... But here in Australia we pay $20 for a movie ticket already.
I'd be quite happy to pay $4 to watch new release movies, in the comfort of my own home, on my own 55 inch TV instead of paying $16 more for the inferior experience of a trip to the cinema.
Also what's to stop people setting up honeypot networks named "xfinitywifi", letting you right in regardless of login credentials and packet-sniffing everything you do?
Which functions better as burn tiles for spacecraft atmospheric re-entry?
My money would be on the Xbox One for its greater surface area, allowing for better heat diffusion.
Being Australian? I can go grumpy old man on those few kids that usually go trick or treating. It's always fun watching blank stairs of incomprehension as I tell them that their mums and dads are bad parents for indoctrinating their children with an Americanized handout mentality as well as bad neighbours for expecting me to cross-subsidize their efforts with candy.
Get off my lawn. Clean up those eggs and toilet rolls.
True that. I can remember a couple years ago when I purchased on of their early generation Agility 120gb models.
The firmware randomly crapped out after I'd had it a couple months, but at the time I thought it was a general drive failure. The disc identifier on BIOS boot-up was all borked.
It was only a few months later when I googled that error purely on a whim I found it was a firmware issue... God the rigmarole I had to go through on their support forums with a (admitedly awesome and helpful) support guy to get a new version of the firmware for the drive... Gargh.
To the drive's credit, a couple of years later and it's still humming along. I just wish it hadn't been so damn hard to get that firmware upgrade.
This is what curbs piracy. You're not going to stop broke fourteen year-olds from downloading movies with hollow rhetoric and invented damages. However, you can quite easily get a family of four on a modest income to pay $10 a month for Netflix. Why this makes Hollywood brains explode I'll never know.
2 groups of drug dealers shooting each other in the street and taking each other out. As long as no one else gets caught in the crossfire, I'm OK with it.
...I blanket-block all ads. As much as I don't like ads, I'd tolerate them if they had the trust they need to _earn_ to run Javascript/Java/Flash content on my machine.
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...Re-blog a handbag...
Sometimes it gets dark.
Honestly, I think Dell's mindshare is so trivial right now that teenagers won't even throw it around as an insult. Dell's got a LONG way to go to get back to that level of relevancy.
I'm sure this thing was all just a secret Illuminati plot to put the X-Men and Fantastic 4 movie rights into the hands of DC Comics.
My first instinct is to say this is a bad idea... But here in Australia we pay $20 for a movie ticket already. I'd be quite happy to pay $4 to watch new release movies, in the comfort of my own home, on my own 55 inch TV instead of paying $16 more for the inferior experience of a trip to the cinema.
TL;DR.
Also what's to stop people setting up honeypot networks named "xfinitywifi", letting you right in regardless of login credentials and packet-sniffing everything you do?
Because a bad update on the phone won't cause a high speed fiery wreck.
"Oh crap, my battery's exploded and my smartphone's caught fire!" *throws phone*
The world would be a poorer place if it didn't have Carlos Santana and his legacy in it.
Which functions better as burn tiles for spacecraft atmospheric re-entry? My money would be on the Xbox One for its greater surface area, allowing for better heat diffusion.
We can see what's happening in all its grainy, 576i goodness.
When researchers build a rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock robot. Then I'll be impressed.
Being Australian? I can go grumpy old man on those few kids that usually go trick or treating. It's always fun watching blank stairs of incomprehension as I tell them that their mums and dads are bad parents for indoctrinating their children with an Americanized handout mentality as well as bad neighbours for expecting me to cross-subsidize their efforts with candy.
Get off my lawn. Clean up those eggs and toilet rolls.
...More on this below the cut.
True that. I can remember a couple years ago when I purchased on of their early generation Agility 120gb models. The firmware randomly crapped out after I'd had it a couple months, but at the time I thought it was a general drive failure. The disc identifier on BIOS boot-up was all borked.
It was only a few months later when I googled that error purely on a whim I found it was a firmware issue... God the rigmarole I had to go through on their support forums with a (admitedly awesome and helpful) support guy to get a new version of the firmware for the drive... Gargh.
To the drive's credit, a couple of years later and it's still humming along. I just wish it hadn't been so damn hard to get that firmware upgrade.
...Of how many iPhone charges you could get out of those pesky rainforests...
Could inductive chargers be considered a diaphragm?
They're living in 1986? The rest of us are living in 1984 and seem to be pretty accepting of it.
Affordability.
Availability.
Transferability.
Convenience.
This is what curbs piracy. You're not going to stop broke fourteen year-olds from downloading movies with hollow rhetoric and invented damages. However, you can quite easily get a family of four on a modest income to pay $10 a month for Netflix. Why this makes Hollywood brains explode I'll never know.
2 groups of drug dealers shooting each other in the street and taking each other out. As long as no one else gets caught in the crossfire, I'm OK with it.
I'd make one very simple addition to all insurance building systems:
while(true) {
DontBeBastards();
RememberYoureDealingWithHumanBeings();
}
...I blanket-block all ads. As much as I don't like ads, I'd tolerate them if they had the trust they need to _earn_ to run Javascript/Java/Flash content on my machine.
Sadly, there's no ??? step in that process.
But the last time I did a local search on my PC's C:\ drive and didn't have ads all up in my shit, it just felt like something was missing.
I'm just glad Microsoft was listening.