I wish I had a solid reference but my only information on this came from a 60 minutes episode on the subject, the Dixie Chicks and others were interviewed for the piece:
Bands make most of their money off of touring. They make some from royalties and just about squat off of albums.
Pay what you want will not be a dominant business model for making money off of albums. People will soon justify coughing up 25 cents for an album. It could be close to model for promoting a band and getting people to where the money is.....the concerts.
Did Radio Head just prove that the record labels are no longer required for getting their music out there?
The guy who said the HD was defective was somehow able to copy files off of her PC....He must be the dumbest guy to turn on a computer because every other human being would have thought 'hey, the HD seems to be OK, I can copy files from it'.
hahaha....that guy was by far the worst offender!
-He copied files from her "broken HD"; I still can't figure that one out!
-The guy was totally jerking her around for his own amusement; come on only a total tard could come up with a line like that and be serious.
-Lets say he was serious, he is a fraud. Lets say he wasn't serious, he took her time and attempted to take money. He is a thief.
The other guys were bad, but not as bad as this turkey. How come he did not get fired? Is he related to the owner?
CC
Yet another Slashdot poster talking out of their butt....there is a lot of that going on in this thread, it is sad:
Sadness 1: The site was not New Egg, it was Canada Computers (or a total clone), its local and the prices online are the store prices, they ship for $7 or you can walk into a store. $120 is most likely a gouge, who know what brand of RAM was going in there. The most likely senario is that it was cheaper generic RAM, so yes charging $120 for a product that retails for $65 is a total gouge.
Sadness 2: As for the problem being hard to diagnose, those big babies should stop crying: A computer that wont post....pull RAM, video, drive cables and other cards out then turn the PC on, see what happens: Selling someone a new PC or telling them to buy a MOBO before doing standard diagnostics is a sure sign of a hack. No one here should be crying about a hard problem, a hard problem just means that it takes a bit more time to diagnose.
Sadness 3: Assuming that a virus caused a corrupt or missing file is bad tech work, your supposed to suspect not conclude, run a diagnostic and verify. These guys lied and stated that the person had viruses, trojans and spyware. Man made problems are the hardest to work with; staples charged accordingly, Best buy and MDG (one of the shadiest computer places) over-charged and the super geeks at Infonec should have fixed it and charged or not charged (but who knows, the tv show guys may have asked for a free fix).
Sandness 4:
People who are not in the know believe people because they present themselves as being in the know because they are good people that are being taken advantage of.
I did read the article:
After all the delays and pre-hype Blizzard is known for the topic is lame. I am not sure what you are going on about not meaning to describe everything in 5 lines. Who is? You are supposed to accurately summarize. Your summary did reflect the lameness of the "news". Maybe this is big news in Korea; it is not in Canada.
take care,
CC
PS...did you give me the Troll mark? Is it because I found the post very irrelevant?
Hey Cmdr.
This post has given me an idea. How about a monthly vote on the lamest "news" posts for the month?
Everyone realizes that not every post can be a winner, but, sometimes a post just reaches that extra bit further down and pulls out that special something.
For the knob who said: ""but the protest would have been the same - it was more of a moral outrage than a legal outrage."
Just trying to get the first post in? Living under a rock? Are you a troll?
There are hundreds of articles on the net and in newspapers of the legal repercussions that Sony was hit with. Lawsuits and compensation were legal repercussions. Just Google it.
if this bill had been law when Sony distributed their rootkit, they would have had perfect cover.
"but the protest would have been the same - it was more of a moral outrage than a legal outrage."
Yet another bonehead trying to get the first post in? Sony felt legal repercussions. I am not going to even justify this with any of the hundreds of links that show your statement to be completely false.
Stop the disinformation!!!
Please mod the parent out of existance, it is just another example of ignorance coming out of people dying to make the first post (or just plain human ignorance).
DC power is not more dangerous than AC power.
AC power will screw with a persons heartbeat and make them deader and lower voltages/amps. DC just makes people cripy. Even the 60 V AC coming from a phone ringing will kill a service guy dead. DC at the same power usually just screws a person up (please dont try it).
Wikipedia and Google may help all the amateurs or those interested.
Computerchimp
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I wish I had a solid reference but my only information on this came from a 60 minutes episode on the subject, the Dixie Chicks and others were interviewed for the piece:
Bands make most of their money off of touring. They make some from royalties and just about squat off of albums.
Pay what you want will not be a dominant business model for making money off of albums. People will soon justify coughing up 25 cents for an album.
It could be close to model for promoting a band and getting people to where the money is.....the concerts.
Did Radio Head just prove that the record labels are no longer required for getting their music out there?
CC
The first link is for an overview of the encrypting the disk for Gutsy, the second is the
page of installation CD links, look for "alternate":
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=873&num=1
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/
cc
Memtest takes hours to run....I don't think a home visit includes the tech staying over for an evening of xbox pleasure.
cc
PS: I just wanted to get a funny point, memtest would have helped in this case.
The guy who said the HD was defective was somehow able to copy files off of her PC....He must be the dumbest guy to turn on a computer because every other human being would have thought 'hey, the HD seems to be OK, I can copy files from it'.
cc
hahaha....that guy was by far the worst offender! -He copied files from her "broken HD"; I still can't figure that one out! -The guy was totally jerking her around for his own amusement; come on only a total tard could come up with a line like that and be serious. -Lets say he was serious, he is a fraud. Lets say he wasn't serious, he took her time and attempted to take money. He is a thief. The other guys were bad, but not as bad as this turkey. How come he did not get fired? Is he related to the owner? CC
Yet another Slashdot poster talking out of their butt....there is a lot of that going on in this thread, it is sad:
Sadness 1:
The site was not New Egg, it was Canada Computers (or a total clone), its local and the prices online are the store prices, they ship for $7 or you can walk into a store. $120 is most likely a gouge, who know what brand of RAM was going in there. The most likely senario is that it was cheaper generic RAM, so yes charging $120 for a product that retails for $65 is a total gouge.
Sadness 2:
As for the problem being hard to diagnose, those big babies should stop crying: A computer that wont post....pull RAM, video, drive cables and other cards out then turn the PC on, see what happens: Selling someone a new PC or telling them to buy a MOBO before doing standard diagnostics is a sure sign of a hack. No one here should be crying about a hard problem, a hard problem just means that it takes a bit more time to diagnose.
Sadness 3:
Assuming that a virus caused a corrupt or missing file is bad tech work, your supposed to suspect not conclude, run a diagnostic and verify. These guys lied and stated that the person had viruses, trojans and spyware.
Man made problems are the hardest to work with; staples charged accordingly, Best buy and MDG (one of the shadiest computer places) over-charged and the super geeks at Infonec should have fixed it and charged or not charged (but who knows, the tv show guys may have asked for a free fix).
Sandness 4:
People who are not in the know believe people because they present themselves as being in the know because they are good people that are being taken advantage of.
CC
I did read the article: After all the delays and pre-hype Blizzard is known for the topic is lame. I am not sure what you are going on about not meaning to describe everything in 5 lines. Who is? You are supposed to accurately summarize. Your summary did reflect the lameness of the "news". Maybe this is big news in Korea; it is not in Canada. take care, CC PS...did you give me the Troll mark? Is it because I found the post very irrelevant?
Hey Cmdr.
This post has given me an idea. How about a monthly vote on the lamest "news" posts for the month?
Everyone realizes that not every post can be a winner, but, sometimes a post just reaches that extra bit further down and pulls out that special
something.
CC
For the knob who said: ""but the protest would have been the same - it was more of a moral outrage than a legal outrage." Just trying to get the first post in? Living under a rock? Are you a troll? There are hundreds of articles on the net and in newspapers of the legal repercussions that Sony was hit with. Lawsuits and compensation were legal repercussions. Just Google it.
if this bill had been law when Sony distributed their rootkit, they would have had perfect cover.
"but the protest would have been the same - it was more of a moral outrage than a legal outrage."
Yet another bonehead trying to get the first post in? Sony felt legal repercussions. I am not going to even justify this with any of the hundreds of links that show your statement to be completely false.
Stop the disinformation!!! Please mod the parent out of existance, it is just another example of ignorance coming out of people dying to make the first post (or just plain human ignorance). DC power is not more dangerous than AC power. AC power will screw with a persons heartbeat and make them deader and lower voltages/amps. DC just makes people cripy. Even the 60 V AC coming from a phone ringing will kill a service guy dead. DC at the same power usually just screws a person up (please dont try it). Wikipedia and Google may help all the amateurs or those interested. Computerchimp