Uh.. have you purchased a mac recently? We just got a couple hundred of them at work and I'd say a good 10% are defective. Bad displays, bad hard drives, bad network cards. I've had to send more of these POS's back for service in the past 3 months than I did in 5 years of dells.
Apple = expensive. You don't really get much besides the hype for the extra money.
I get 3 weeks vacation, and 4 days sick time (which can be used if a family member is sick). More days sick and I use vacation time. 3 weeks is pretty generous too, generally its only 2 weeks.
You get 5 weeks of vacation combined with a lower expectation of 50+ hour work weeks (which I suspect results in less sick time as stress weakens the immune system).
I only use nVidia. Reason? The previous 4 ATI cards I've gotten worked terrible. System lockups, etc. Had to return one model three times before I got one that worked. Maybe they're better now, but until I get a bogus nvidia board I'm just gonna stick to the brand that has never, ever, given me problems.
How many eight year old girls would it have to have their throats cut before you or anyone else opened the door?
Frankly, all of them. These days the options are a) let everyone on board (few hundred perhaps) die to prevent a hijacking or b) submit to the hijacking, let everyone on board die anyway, and possibly take a couple thousand other people out with you as well.
Former is better than the latter. The only difference in the latter case is I wouldn't be alive to feel bad about it.
uh, yes? Realize their market, mostly kids. Not the people that think good games have to include photorealistic breasts and a real-time blood dripping engine.
Kids like to visit friends. Or get taken places by their parents. The gamecube, and the revolution, are easily thrown into a backpack and taken everywhere. I'd never bother to dig my ps/2 or xbox out of my equipment rack to take someplace, but the cube goes everywhere.
heh, same boat. I have flash removed automagically by Firefox's custom css rules. Tons of pages I go to are just blank, saving me much time and bandwidth.
And keep those limited time logs in a ramdisk! That way when they come in and rip your equipment off the rack there's nothing at all to find, and you had nothing to do with it.
That actually has little to do with the TiVO aspect. Even my vanilla DirecTV box has the "press for more info" commercials, and the "tune to channel XXX for more info" commercials.
Blizzard is a bad example. Their torrent implementation is *horrible*. No upload caps, so it saturates your pipe and makes the download occur at a 1k/s crawl. One shouldn't have to get a 3rd party traffic shaper to get decent downloads with bittorrent.
Monthly fee covers bandwidth (which is considerable) , customer disservice, and general maintenance.
Large addons that take a large development crew a long time to create are paid for to cover the development costs, and are optional for the casual gamer (for most power gamers they are "required" for newer and more powerful bling).
For a good MMORPG, the costs are well worth it. Unfortunatly there really haven't been that many worth paying for of late.
That's not the point. It needs to print out the tally at the time of the vote, not later. That way the voter can look at the form and say 'Hey! I voted for Joe but this receipt says I voted for Gary! Fix it!'
Of course the whole process is suspect (and the printouts worthless) if its a "do it later" process, as its already too late for the only one who actually knows who they voted for to verify the vote.
All one would have to do is put some trivial encryption on the protocol and them making their own client would then become illegal under the law they bought.
Have part of the protocol involve randomly creating Haiku's or something so you have something copyrightable to protect./me shrugs.
By this logic Adobe should thank me if I download Photoshop because I'm depriving a competitor of a sale, and JASC should come after me for pirating Photoshop rather than purchasing their product.
And both of them should come after me with their attack lawyers because I decided the GIMP was good enough for my graphic editing needs - therefore denying both of them a sale.
The "Pirating Novell is bad because it hurts Banyan!" argument doesn't really hold water. Just stick with "Don't steal software".
The OEM version of the A04 (the 104) is only $259 at mwave. And as the proud owner of the retail box, I can say with a great deal of honesty that nothing in that retail box is worth having (besides the drive) if you have a) nero and b) dvd playing software (assuming you want to play dvds).
And supermediastore.com has a 100 pack of DVD-R disks for $89 (which work just dandy with the pioneer drive).
You know? I have never, and I mean *never*, encountered an album or a band where I can say I like (or, in most cases, can even stand to listen to) every song on the album/from the band.
I think the best I've ever encountered was about 2/3 of the album.
So, all told, its a valid argument (the wanting custom cd mixes). I only want those 12 songs I like from their last two albums, and have no great desire to get the rest. Its not really a matter of needing to find better bands, its just what they think is great music, I think is ass. It's just the way it is.
Slashdot Mirror
Not in America. Both equally terrify parents and our poor, shocked politicians.
www.slashdot.org is 587.
/. would rank if both were combined.
slashdot.org is 35.
Wonder where
no kidding.
My recollection was that NBC was going to rebroadcast season 1, not that they were going to pick up the series.
Uh.. have you purchased a mac recently? We just got a couple hundred of them at work and I'd say a good 10% are defective. Bad displays, bad hard drives, bad network cards. I've had to send more of these POS's back for service in the past 3 months than I did in 5 years of dells.
Apple = expensive. You don't really get much besides the hype for the extra money.
So they can't download tuxracer then?
I get 3 weeks vacation, and 4 days sick time (which can be used if a family member is sick). More days sick and I use vacation time. 3 weeks is pretty generous too, generally its only 2 weeks.
You get 5 weeks of vacation combined with a lower expectation of 50+ hour work weeks (which I suspect results in less sick time as stress weakens the immune system).
I only use nVidia. Reason? The previous 4 ATI cards I've gotten worked terrible. System lockups, etc. Had to return one model three times before I got one that worked. Maybe they're better now, but until I get a bogus nvidia board I'm just gonna stick to the brand that has never, ever, given me problems.
And good linux drivers are a nice bonus.
How many eight year old girls would it have to have their throats cut before you or anyone else opened the door?
Frankly, all of them. These days the options are a) let everyone on board (few hundred perhaps) die to prevent a hijacking or b) submit to the hijacking, let everyone on board die anyway, and possibly take a couple thousand other people out with you as well.
Former is better than the latter. The only difference in the latter case is I wouldn't be alive to feel bad about it.
uh, yes? Realize their market, mostly kids. Not the people that think good games have to include photorealistic breasts and a real-time blood dripping engine.
Kids like to visit friends. Or get taken places by their parents. The gamecube, and the revolution, are easily thrown into a backpack and taken everywhere. I'd never bother to dig my ps/2 or xbox out of my equipment rack to take someplace, but the cube goes everywhere.
heh, same boat. I have flash removed automagically by Firefox's custom css rules. Tons of pages I go to are just blank, saving me much time and bandwidth.
And keep those limited time logs in a ramdisk! That way when they come in and rip your equipment off the rack there's nothing at all to find, and you had nothing to do with it.
That actually has little to do with the TiVO aspect. Even my vanilla DirecTV box has the "press for more info" commercials, and the "tune to channel XXX for more info" commercials.
Blizzard is a bad example. Their torrent implementation is *horrible*. No upload caps, so it saturates your pipe and makes the download occur at a 1k/s crawl. One shouldn't have to get a 3rd party traffic shaper to get decent downloads with bittorrent.
And it was also ruled unconstitutional and overturned, why are we talking about it yet?
Blizzard's patch distribution system for WoW is based on BitTorrent as well.
Paying for the box covers development costs.
Monthly fee covers bandwidth (which is considerable) , customer disservice, and general maintenance.
Large addons that take a large development crew a long time to create are paid for to cover the development costs, and are optional for the casual gamer (for most power gamers they are "required" for newer and more powerful bling).
For a good MMORPG, the costs are well worth it. Unfortunatly there really haven't been that many worth paying for of late.
That's not the point. It needs to print out the tally at the time of the vote, not later. That way the voter can look at the form and say 'Hey! I voted for Joe but this receipt says I voted for Gary! Fix it!'
Of course the whole process is suspect (and the printouts worthless) if its a "do it later" process, as its already too late for the only one who actually knows who they voted for to verify the vote.
Assuming, of course, that the FBI wouldn't have seized both sets of equipment.
The X-15
All one would have to do is put some trivial encryption on the protocol and them making their own client would then become illegal under the law they bought.
/me shrugs.
Have part of the protocol involve randomly creating Haiku's or something so you have something copyrightable to protect.
By this logic Adobe should thank me if I download Photoshop because I'm depriving a competitor of a sale, and JASC should come after me for pirating Photoshop rather than purchasing their product.
And both of them should come after me with their attack lawyers because I decided the GIMP was good enough for my graphic editing needs - therefore denying both of them a sale.
The "Pirating Novell is bad because it hurts Banyan!" argument doesn't really hold water. Just stick with "Don't steal software".
The OEM version of the A04 (the 104) is only $259 at mwave. And as the proud owner of the retail box, I can say with a great deal of honesty that nothing in that retail box is worth having (besides the drive) if you have a) nero and b) dvd playing software (assuming you want to play dvds).
And supermediastore.com has a 100 pack of DVD-R disks for $89 (which work just dandy with the pioneer drive).
How can you afford NOT to own a dvd burner? =)
You know? I have never, and I mean *never*, encountered an album or a band where I can say I like (or, in most cases, can even stand to listen to) every song on the album/from the band.
I think the best I've ever encountered was about 2/3 of the album.
So, all told, its a valid argument (the wanting custom cd mixes). I only want those 12 songs I like from their last two albums, and have no great desire to get the rest. Its not really a matter of needing to find better bands, its just what they think is great music, I think is ass. It's just the way it is.
I'll throw a voice of support behind mwave.com too. Great site, good selection, good prices, fast shipping, and easy to work with.
They don't always have lower prices than newegg, but they keep up with their stock much better, and tend to always have stuff in and ready to ship.
Heartily recommend those guys.