Hey, PC user! If you're too uptight to enjoy the occasional cock in the ass, do the world a favor and kill yourself. I know I would if I were half as beige as you.
I just had to add this little gem from New York magazine, courtesy Wikipedia:
The FreshDirect posters blaring that the company was BROUGHT TO YOU BY A CO-FOUNDER OF FAIRWAY UPTOWN and featuring a photo of Fedele made [Fairway owner Howie] Glickberg furious. He posted signs inside the 74th Street store reading FAIRWAY IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH FRESHDIRECT. FreshDirect jabbed back by sending staffers dressed as giant fruits and vegetables to pass out flyers in front of Fairway. Then the FreshDirect Website added a lengthy description of Fedele's role in the uptown Fairway, headlined: HEY FAIRWAY, WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? Fairway threatened to sue.
Crude is more or less fungible. It doesn't matter where it comes from--only that without the Middle East, prices for all types of oil would shoot up dramatically. And that's why we care about Saudi Arabia, even though our oil comes from elsewhere.
Oh, sure, until the day the FreshDirect guy sticks his foot in the doorway and won't leave until you tip him.:-P Wasn't their policy originally not to accept any tips, ever, expressly to prevent situations like these? Or am I thinking of someone else (Kozmo, MaxDelivery)?
But I agree, on the whole, the FreshDirect experience is hard to beat. Did you ever see those signs at Fairway hanging from the ceiling, bashing FreshDirect and its owner for various injustices apropos nothing? Priceless.
"...we will still have a lot of crap on Slashdot because there are a lot of arrogant, self-important fartsniffers in the world that find comfort in sniffing the same old farts they have always sniffed."
So it's not about locking out vandals at all, but rather locking out throngs of people who have useful, legitimate contributions to make, because when there are too many of them, Wikipedia becomes completely unusable? Thanks for clearing that up.
The whole idea of Wikipedia is that with enough readers/contributors, things generally tend to improve--more eyes makes all errors shallow. So why lock pages at all? High-volume pages attract vandals, but they also attract well-meaning people to fix them up. Pages linked from high-traffic sites should be the ones that improve the fastest, surely?
I fear that if I start watching commercials thinking I like it...
In all likelihood, you already do. You ever watch the TV show Lost? Or have you seen The Matrix? Read any good books lately?
This sort of marketing is already commonplace; there's no difference in motivation, only in our perception of it. I don't see a problem with product placement, personally, as long as the material's good enough to keep me suitably entertained. But I'll admit my brain comes cheap.
Yup, I second that recommendation. Namecheap's web panel interface is much more pleasant than GoDaddy's frustrating little exercise in misanthropy. If you decide to register your domains from them, you can use the code "EVENLOWER" at checkout for a discount ($7.99 registration, IIRC).
This alone guarantees that the project will be an abject failure, or at best a success only among squares and other beige sorts (i.e., not trendsetters). As evidenced by the Xbox, this man has absolutely no taste, none whatsoever. His intuition for aesthetics is atrocious. This is not the guy you want to put in charge of unseating the iPod.
As you point out, the CD is downsampled from the original master recording using an even less efficient lossy compression algorithm than AAC, namely "throwing away bits." But Apple encodes tracks in the iTunes Music Store using the studio's master recordings. So it's not completely out of the question that iTMS tracks could be perceptually closer to the original than the CDs, even at one-tenth the data rate.
Sure, but imagine you're a prospective student in Akron, Ohio, trying to find relevant information about Kent State University--academics, programs, extracurriculars, that kind of thing. All you'll get from a naïve Google query is information about the shootings, which is irrelevant and useless to you, not to mention highly redundant (you grew up here, after all). I have no doubt a hypothetical www.google.akron.oh.us would rank the shootings far lower than would the nationwide www.google.com, and be that much more useful to you as an Akron resident.
Why would I buy an Xbox 360 or an original Xbox? The company is famous for terrible design and taste that borders on criminal. Its aesthetic sensibilities most closely resemble those of a puddle of vomit seeping into a gutter somewhere in Long Island City. As regards its console, both generations have reflected the company's thoroughly wretched philosophy of design. So I ask again: why would I spend my money on a spraypainted, shellacked turd, when I could just as easily save it to reward a creative team with a less brickheaded sense of beauty?
Isolation's been tried before, and inevitably it only leads to greater deprivation and misery. The problem is that people on the inside won't even realize what they're missing. How could they, when you're deliberately withholding even what scant information from them that their government allows them to see?
Hell, North Korea's philosophy of juche is nothing but self-imposed isolation; its citizens should be ready to "throw off the yoke of their oppressors" any day now, right?
Yes, but I can step off a plane in Paris without fearing for my essential liberty. I'm not going to get dragged to the Bastille for having contributed (via testimony) to the state-sanctioned murder of a mentally handicapped person in Texas. What you're suggesting is much the same--that Yahoo's executives ought to be brought to justice here for things which we consider unjust, but which aren't necessarily considered unjust in the jurisdiction where they occurred.
And in so doing, you'd just make life that much worse for China's citizens, by depriving them of whatever services you're able to render. Hope that's something you can live with.
There are those in Europe who believe America's habit of capital punishment is morally wrong, and a grave humanitarian injustice (and I'd be inclined to agree). But suppose you testified in a capital case, and your testimony helped send the defendant to the gurney. Next time you fly into Heathrow, do you think you should you be pulled aside, shackled, and tried in the Queen's court of law? Or would you appeal to the fact that what Europe considers morally wrong isn't the same as what America considers morally wrong?
Mod parent up. This is closer to what's actually happening--the 1989 massacre shows up in Google image results once you get past the first page or two. You'd be hard-pressed to find any Chinese citizen who doesn't know about the 1989 events and wouldn't know where to find information on it.
Same story here in NYC, where our "traffic lights" have been LEDs for several years now. Not that we pay any attention to these things, anyway.
As for those yellow things hanging from poles in the middle of the street, I don't know what they use. Frankly I don't think it'd make a difference if the city switched them all off at once.
Honest to God, sometimes I wish I were gay just so I wouldn't come to be associated with tasteless, beer-chugging, gay-bashing, NASCAR-watching, Kevin Aviance-assaulting fratboys like you.
It's worth noting that Apple products are typically subdued and understated in their design, as in nary a blinding blue light of death across the line. You want elegance and comfort? Follow your instincts and buy Apple. On the other hand, if you're an aesthetically defective redneck, follow your instincts and cobble together that shitbox you've always wanted with the dozens of meaningless lights and A380 fan. We won't miss you.
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Hey, PC user! If you're too uptight to enjoy the occasional cock in the ass, do the world a favor and kill yourself. I know I would if I were half as beige as you.
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I just had to add this little gem from New York magazine, courtesy Wikipedia:
Yeah! New York!
Crude is more or less fungible. It doesn't matter where it comes from--only that without the Middle East, prices for all types of oil would shoot up dramatically. And that's why we care about Saudi Arabia, even though our oil comes from elsewhere.
Oh, sure, until the day the FreshDirect guy sticks his foot in the doorway and won't leave until you tip him. :-P Wasn't their policy originally not to accept any tips, ever, expressly to prevent situations like these? Or am I thinking of someone else (Kozmo, MaxDelivery)?
But I agree, on the whole, the FreshDirect experience is hard to beat. Did you ever see those signs at Fairway hanging from the ceiling, bashing FreshDirect and its owner for various injustices apropos nothing? Priceless.
"...we will still have a lot of crap on Slashdot because there are a lot of arrogant, self-important fartsniffers in the world that find comfort in sniffing the same old farts they have always sniffed."
*plonk*
So it's not about locking out vandals at all, but rather locking out throngs of people who have useful, legitimate contributions to make, because when there are too many of them, Wikipedia becomes completely unusable? Thanks for clearing that up.
The whole idea of Wikipedia is that with enough readers/contributors, things generally tend to improve--more eyes makes all errors shallow. So why lock pages at all? High-volume pages attract vandals, but they also attract well-meaning people to fix them up. Pages linked from high-traffic sites should be the ones that improve the fastest, surely?
This sort of marketing is already commonplace; there's no difference in motivation, only in our perception of it. I don't see a problem with product placement, personally, as long as the material's good enough to keep me suitably entertained. But I'll admit my brain comes cheap.
Yup, I second that recommendation. Namecheap's web panel interface is much more pleasant than GoDaddy's frustrating little exercise in misanthropy. If you decide to register your domains from them, you can use the code "EVENLOWER" at checkout for a discount ($7.99 registration, IIRC).
Imagine my lap covered in vomit, and imagine me sending you the cleaning bill.
This alone guarantees that the project will be an abject failure, or at best a success only among squares and other beige sorts (i.e., not trendsetters). As evidenced by the Xbox, this man has absolutely no taste, none whatsoever. His intuition for aesthetics is atrocious. This is not the guy you want to put in charge of unseating the iPod.
Ugh. Actually, I meant Nintendo or Apple. I'll take a dozen spare Wiis over one PS3 or two Xboxes.
As you point out, the CD is downsampled from the original master recording using an even less efficient lossy compression algorithm than AAC, namely "throwing away bits." But Apple encodes tracks in the iTunes Music Store using the studio's master recordings. So it's not completely out of the question that iTMS tracks could be perceptually closer to the original than the CDs, even at one-tenth the data rate.
Sure, but imagine you're a prospective student in Akron, Ohio, trying to find relevant information about Kent State University--academics, programs, extracurriculars, that kind of thing. All you'll get from a naïve Google query is information about the shootings, which is irrelevant and useless to you, not to mention highly redundant (you grew up here, after all). I have no doubt a hypothetical www.google.akron.oh.us would rank the shootings far lower than would the nationwide www.google.com, and be that much more useful to you as an Akron resident.
Why would I buy an Xbox 360 or an original Xbox? The company is famous for terrible design and taste that borders on criminal. Its aesthetic sensibilities most closely resemble those of a puddle of vomit seeping into a gutter somewhere in Long Island City. As regards its console, both generations have reflected the company's thoroughly wretched philosophy of design. So I ask again: why would I spend my money on a spraypainted, shellacked turd, when I could just as easily save it to reward a creative team with a less brickheaded sense of beauty?
Isolation's been tried before, and inevitably it only leads to greater deprivation and misery. The problem is that people on the inside won't even realize what they're missing. How could they, when you're deliberately withholding even what scant information from them that their government allows them to see?
Hell, North Korea's philosophy of juche is nothing but self-imposed isolation; its citizens should be ready to "throw off the yoke of their oppressors" any day now, right?
Yes, but I can step off a plane in Paris without fearing for my essential liberty. I'm not going to get dragged to the Bastille for having contributed (via testimony) to the state-sanctioned murder of a mentally handicapped person in Texas. What you're suggesting is much the same--that Yahoo's executives ought to be brought to justice here for things which we consider unjust, but which aren't necessarily considered unjust in the jurisdiction where they occurred.
And in so doing, you'd just make life that much worse for China's citizens, by depriving them of whatever services you're able to render. Hope that's something you can live with.
There are those in Europe who believe America's habit of capital punishment is morally wrong, and a grave humanitarian injustice (and I'd be inclined to agree). But suppose you testified in a capital case, and your testimony helped send the defendant to the gurney. Next time you fly into Heathrow, do you think you should you be pulled aside, shackled, and tried in the Queen's court of law? Or would you appeal to the fact that what Europe considers morally wrong isn't the same as what America considers morally wrong?
Mod parent up. This is closer to what's actually happening--the 1989 massacre shows up in Google image results once you get past the first page or two. You'd be hard-pressed to find any Chinese citizen who doesn't know about the 1989 events and wouldn't know where to find information on it.
I think you missed the ironic intent of his post. But then, they don't say "thick as thieves" for nothing.
Same story here in NYC, where our "traffic lights" have been LEDs for several years now. Not that we pay any attention to these things, anyway.
As for those yellow things hanging from poles in the middle of the street, I don't know what they use. Frankly I don't think it'd make a difference if the city switched them all off at once.
It's worth noting that Apple products are typically subdued and understated in their design, as in nary a blinding blue light of death across the line. You want elegance and comfort? Follow your instincts and buy Apple. On the other hand, if you're an aesthetically defective redneck, follow your instincts and cobble together that shitbox you've always wanted with the dozens of meaningless lights and A380 fan. We won't miss you.
Let me guess, you don't know what Carl Sagan is either, do you?