likely they would instruct the driver to go into "crap quality" mode
If I discovered this for myself (without knowing there was an intentional reason), that using a cheaper cartridge that *should* work properly with other printers, goes all screwy in a Lexmark, then I would be faced with a decision: Pay the higher price and buy Lexmark cartridges, or get a printer from a different vendor so I can continue using cheap cartridges. Not a very difficult decision to make, eh?
Well there's degrees of privacy.. The phone company knows who I've called lately, and who has called me. That doesn't upset me, because I know it's part of having the service. The only wrongdoing I can see with Lexmark (unless someone actually ponies up with the 'more' that is supposedly being transmitted) is that Lexmark implemented this without telling anybody. Of course they wouldn't, because it would discourage people from buying the brand.
Ok, so let's look at that.. If, I say if, the only data being transmitted is the ink levels, why should this bother anyone? If it could have been known ahead of time, why should it affect sales? But people get all freaked out whenever they realize that they have somehow had an activity recorded, regardless of what that activity is.
That's of course assuming that Lexmark isn't also dumping the printer output to a compressed file and sending that off as well. That would be truly scummy. But that hasn't been shown, in fact nothing scummy has been shown other than the lack of informed consent. The transmission is being found offensive purely on the basis that there is any amount of transmission at all.
expect people to try to price match when there's an advertised...
True, but there are people who make it their life's mission to find these things, this is how they do all of their shopping. Bottom-feeders, all of em. Just go to the store that has the lower price, it's the same item isn't it? So buy it there, I don't see what the effort is for, other than to feel like you got one over on the big conglomerate, yay, go little guy go.
trying to rid themselves of intelligent shoppers who look around for the best deal and are usually more knowledgeable about what they buy
I would expect an intelligent person who knows of a good price somewhere, to go to that place and take advantage of it there. Don't go to someone else's store and demand they have to offer the same. An intelligent person should realize that these different operations have different overheads, and different business plans. These are not intelligent shoppers, these are assholes.
not all the l33t crackers out there are Republicans.
You're probably right. Most of them that would tamper with an election, are Mercenary. Whichever side pays you, the money is worth just as much either way.
Someday, if someone does discover psychic or telekinetic abilities and they can reproduce them under controlled conditions, scientists will be lining up to study them and try to learn more about how it works.
Which is exactly why I only exercise my flying, time-travel, and incindiery powers when nobody is watching. Oh damn, I probably shouldn't have said that..
God's just got a sense of humor that's all, just fuckin' with ya.. He waits around, and every so often changes plants and other things to make it look like they're changing on their own. To test your faith, you see. Like how he buried all those fake dinosaur bones, just to see what we would make of it.
Quickstart Tutorials are useful. It says how to get a free room for the first night on the first page.
If it isn't built right into the game, it's not a very good game. Nobody should have to go on the web just to find out how to play a game that is not running in a web-browser. There should be a good manual, or good online help within the game. This can be an MMO killer too, make users have to go to 2 or 3 different places outside of the game just to find out how to do different things in it, just to find out the commands, just to find out what certain items are for and what they do, it's ridiculous in some cases. The game better be pretty DAMN intriguing, to be able to attract players in spite of an almost passive-agressive attitude keeping them away.
compare a living, breathing animal to a bunch of binary output. Other animals have at least as much chance of possessing a soul as we do -- which is pretty fucking small in my opinion -- but code is still manually assembled.
And so is fictional writing, and pretty much all other forms of art. Stuff you've worked on, sweated over, cried over, stressed over. When it is necessary to set such a thing aside, it can be a loss, of momentary purpose if nothing else.. I've gotta stop posting drunk.
Assuming that you would consider the option of travelling to a friend's house to report your stolen phone/card, why not travel a presumably shorter distance to a payphone? Your urban survival kit should always include some pocket change specifically for payphones and mass transit options, just in case.
Brew hotter coffee. Why? Because the customer reqested it.
I read that the coffee wasn't too hot by customer request, it was too hot on purpose to counter their own policy of free coffee refills while you're in the store. The idea was that if the coffee was wicked-hot, nobody would have time to collect any refills, or at least not more than one. But they still look good because, "Hey, we give free refills!" That's in the same boat as selling hardware that you know will break early, so you can make money on repairs. This way when you don't have new customers, you can force old ones to become 'repeat' customers. Hey, they're providing service on their stuff, right? That's good isn't it?
It's a matter of proving the intent in either case.
While I agree, that the summary made it clear what was meant by Spim, and that it is therefore not an editorial mistake, it is not justified as a real word just by being in wikibloodypedia.
the sender has paid for bandwidth, servers, rackspace, etc. and sends it in the clear, you still bear some of the cost because it's coming in over your connection that you pay for every month and on your equipment that you bought for your purposes
Much like my telephone, a problem that has been going on for far longer, and still no relief in sight. Spam I can just delete, or use filters. But when the phone rings, and I think it's someone I'm hoping to hear from, and I get out of the tub to get it, and it's just some asshole from India trying to re-sell me local phone service (while using a VOIP connection that SUCKS ASS), well that pisses me off way more. Get off my phone!!!! Spam is way easier to deal with, and if I had to choose, if one could go away totally in favor of the other, I would choose spam to be what's left over.
parents shouldn't get excited about having a baby because millions of people have them every day, its just another lifeform in the world nothing else.
Actually, they shouldn't get excited that they have followed the ego-gratification of everyone else. 6 billion people in the world, and having kids is somehow something you're *supposed* to do.
It seems to vary from one environment to another. Firefox on my XP machine has been very well-behaved, through a few versions reported to cause trouble. I installed FF on another XP machine, a friend's, and it was horrible. Ugly graphical glitches while rendering, or scrolling, basically unusable. On one of my 98 machines, there's a problem in the system itself, that affects FF every so often, again graphically. Though I'm convinced there's a problem in the OS there as other programs do weird things too.
But anyway, on my primary machine, which hasn't been wiped and cleaned in quite awhile now, Firefox runs like a dream. There's a high degree of variability here it seems, we seem to get a lot of "it doesn't work" vs. "it works fine" that I guess comes down to the particular machine and what it's been through.
Might be fun to rename IE to iexplore.bak and FF to iexplore.exe
I gave it a whack on my test machine, and it sort of works. What I did was installed firefox to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer so as to not worry about path issues. Made a copy of IEXPLORE.EXE and made my IE shortcut point to the copy, made a copy of firefox.exe and renamed that copy to IEXPLORE.. This way, when firefox is called for normally, nothing is different for it. MSN launches firefox now when checking my hotmail, except it doesn't actually load hotmail, that doesn't work seem to work, with the way IE is being called by MSN. Then, when I launch IE manually later, it loads two instances of the browser: 1 with my start page and 1 with hotmail in it. If I hadn't run MSN just prior, and tried to check hotmail in firefox then it just does the start page. IE also now gives a warning about running in compatibility mode, and that some features may be disabled (probably a good thing, heh), but my online banking works so it works well enough. I'd figured there wouldn't be major issues with filename conflicts, though something obviously did bork somewhere.
Phone booths are for making phone calls. I don't want to download mp3s, read my email, or order takeout from my public phone.
I'm with you, but there's a problem with pay phones only being able to make phone calls. They cost money to maintain, and aren't being used as much as they once were. I can never seem to find one near when I want one, as I don't have a cell phone. If there were more reasons to go deposit money at the same location, like you can do some high-speed casual roving internet activity, those locations would generate more income. Hopefully enough to be covering their more exotic nature, but at least keeping the availability of a working phone at that location.
without bothering to RTFA, and mistakenly think that it's a legit patch,
Though it's a shitty thing for someone to be doing, as it is anytime somebody tries to get a virus or exploit going, it is at the same time a very amusing example of one. Think about it, the concept of this one has a certain beauty: It is meant to be activated while the machine is under the control of someone who should know better. There is no clueless-luser-carelessly-clicking that can be done here, you've got to know some basic geek stuff to go get the 'patch', unpack it, install it.. You've got to expend a reasonable amount of effort to get nailed by this thing. That is both its curse and its beauty.
There is the sort of lack of wisdom in antagonizing your players at such a base level, in tension with the creative freedom of the developer to create discomfort.
I started losing interest in Star Wars: Galaxies right around the time of the Imperial Crackdown. It was supposed to really kick things up and create tensions between the factions. As a Doctor, I resolved that from the time following the Imperial invasions (scripted within the game, meant to cause a lot of death and panic among only a certain population of the game), that I would henceforth only provide my services to Rebels. Imperials or neutrals were out of luck. Well, a neutral could get service if I could be assured by a trusted source that they were truly neutral and not a covert Imperial. I should explain, to those not familiar with the game, that the services of a Doctor are very much in demand, and practically taken as a right by many players. It's hard to be known as a Doctor, because you are constantly plagued with people sending/tells insisting that you come buff their stats, as though you had nothing better to do.
So, quite a lot of people got very pissed off, and some were accusing me of being exactly like a racist. A racist?? This is a fucking war, people! The problem was that so many players regularly socialized with people of whatever faction relative to their own. I don't know what the factions were really for other than those that particularly sought PvP action. Everybody just sort of picked a side, and picked their friends and business associates independantly of that. None of the Rebels were upset of course, none of them pointed out any unfairness, as they were getting the service. Only the people who were refused service that they felt they had some kind of right to, as equally paying customers of the game, not even considering their characters or the environment we were playing in. Or even considering that this is service rendered by a player, a person not obligated to do JACK SHIT for anyone else at all. They just started screaming "racist!" and other stupidity. Not very much roleplaying going on there at all, and just to get some peace I had to revoke my policy after a mere two days. I did manage to start an ongoing war between my guild and an Imperial guild though, with a related action. That was pretty satisfying, even though they handed our asses to us a lot, that wasn't the point.
Anyhow, I wasn't happy with the fact that the whole game world there is just too comfortable for everyone. "It is a period of civil war", what the hell is wrong with acting like it? Everything, apparently.
He didn't mention in the article, but I would be almost certain that the accelerometers were tested, and passed the tests; but that the tests themselves were improper.
The article did mention the accelerometers appearing to work properly in testing, but as it turned out, the testing equipment was also wired backwards. How's that for bad luck?
But you're forgetting the mentality of the average user.
1 - I didn't notice X before.
2 - I performed action Y.
3 - Now I notice X.
I've been directly on the receiving end of that, working on people's machines in their home. Sometimes, I'll approach a machine that is for the most part behaving normally there's just some obvious problem they need fixed. Ok so I fix that, then we maybe get to chatting a bit, maybe I'm getting my shoes on, and their screensaver suddenly crashes or something. They'll say something like, "That wasn't happening before, what did you do?"
So I'll be like, "Weird, that shouldn't have anything to do with what I did, well let's look at this.." Poke around, look here and there, and after awhile they spontaneously remember that it crashes at least once a day. Or someone else walks in the room and asks if the screensaver is working properly yet... You just want to choke them, but on the other hand, they give you money. I like to pretend they're paying me not to kill them, it makes it less painful.
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likely they would instruct the driver to go into "crap quality" mode
If I discovered this for myself (without knowing there was an intentional reason), that using a cheaper cartridge that *should* work properly with other printers, goes all screwy in a Lexmark, then I would be faced with a decision: Pay the higher price and buy Lexmark cartridges, or get a printer from a different vendor so I can continue using cheap cartridges. Not a very difficult decision to make, eh?
Well there's degrees of privacy.. The phone company knows who I've called lately, and who has called me. That doesn't upset me, because I know it's part of having the service. The only wrongdoing I can see with Lexmark (unless someone actually ponies up with the 'more' that is supposedly being transmitted) is that Lexmark implemented this without telling anybody. Of course they wouldn't, because it would discourage people from buying the brand.
Ok, so let's look at that.. If, I say if, the only data being transmitted is the ink levels, why should this bother anyone? If it could have been known ahead of time, why should it affect sales? But people get all freaked out whenever they realize that they have somehow had an activity recorded, regardless of what that activity is.
That's of course assuming that Lexmark isn't also dumping the printer output to a compressed file and sending that off as well. That would be truly scummy. But that hasn't been shown, in fact nothing scummy has been shown other than the lack of informed consent. The transmission is being found offensive purely on the basis that there is any amount of transmission at all.
expect people to try to price match when there's an advertised...
True, but there are people who make it their life's mission to find these things, this is how they do all of their shopping. Bottom-feeders, all of em. Just go to the store that has the lower price, it's the same item isn't it? So buy it there, I don't see what the effort is for, other than to feel like you got one over on the big conglomerate, yay, go little guy go.
trying to rid themselves of intelligent shoppers who look around for the best deal and are usually more knowledgeable about what they buy
I would expect an intelligent person who knows of a good price somewhere, to go to that place and take advantage of it there. Don't go to someone else's store and demand they have to offer the same. An intelligent person should realize that these different operations have different overheads, and different business plans. These are not intelligent shoppers, these are assholes.
not all the l33t crackers out there are Republicans.
You're probably right. Most of them that would tamper with an election, are Mercenary. Whichever side pays you, the money is worth just as much either way.
Someday, if someone does discover psychic or telekinetic abilities and they can reproduce them under controlled conditions, scientists will be lining up to study them and try to learn more about how it works.
Which is exactly why I only exercise my flying, time-travel, and incindiery powers when nobody is watching. Oh damn, I probably shouldn't have said that..
RTFA to see it mentioned, more than once.
God's just got a sense of humor that's all, just fuckin' with ya.. He waits around, and every so often changes plants and other things to make it look like they're changing on their own. To test your faith, you see. Like how he buried all those fake dinosaur bones, just to see what we would make of it.
And no I don't kill people regularly in real life.
Just every so often, then?
Quickstart Tutorials are useful.
It says how to get a free room for the first night on the first page.
If it isn't built right into the game, it's not a very good game. Nobody should have to go on the web just to find out how to play a game that is not running in a web-browser. There should be a good manual, or good online help within the game. This can be an MMO killer too, make users have to go to 2 or 3 different places outside of the game just to find out how to do different things in it, just to find out the commands, just to find out what certain items are for and what they do, it's ridiculous in some cases. The game better be pretty DAMN intriguing, to be able to attract players in spite of an almost passive-agressive attitude keeping them away.
compare a living, breathing animal to a bunch of binary output. Other animals have at least as much chance of possessing a soul as we do -- which is pretty fucking small in my opinion -- but code is still manually assembled.
And so is fictional writing, and pretty much all other forms of art. Stuff you've worked on, sweated over, cried over, stressed over. When it is necessary to set such a thing aside, it can be a loss, of momentary purpose if nothing else.. I've gotta stop posting drunk.
Assuming that you would consider the option of travelling to a friend's house to report your stolen phone/card, why not travel a presumably shorter distance to a payphone? Your urban survival kit should always include some pocket change specifically for payphones and mass transit options, just in case.
Don't you have to go to iTunes, in order for them to make money off you? Speak for yourself, I've never been there.
Brew hotter coffee. Why? Because the customer reqested it.
I read that the coffee wasn't too hot by customer request, it was too hot on purpose to counter their own policy of free coffee refills while you're in the store. The idea was that if the coffee was wicked-hot, nobody would have time to collect any refills, or at least not more than one. But they still look good because, "Hey, we give free refills!"
That's in the same boat as selling hardware that you know will break early, so you can make money on repairs. This way when you don't have new customers, you can force old ones to become 'repeat' customers. Hey, they're providing service on their stuff, right? That's good isn't it?
It's a matter of proving the intent in either case.
While I agree, that the summary made it clear what was meant by Spim, and that it is therefore not an editorial mistake, it is not justified as a real word just by being in wikibloodypedia.
the sender has paid for bandwidth, servers, rackspace, etc. and sends it in the clear, you still bear some of the cost because it's coming in over your connection that you pay for every month and on your equipment that you bought for your purposes
Much like my telephone, a problem that has been going on for far longer, and still no relief in sight. Spam I can just delete, or use filters. But when the phone rings, and I think it's someone I'm hoping to hear from, and I get out of the tub to get it, and it's just some asshole from India trying to re-sell me local phone service (while using a VOIP connection that SUCKS ASS), well that pisses me off way more. Get off my phone!!!! Spam is way easier to deal with, and if I had to choose, if one could go away totally in favor of the other, I would choose spam to be what's left over.
"FASTER THAN LIGHT COMPUTING!" ... uh, "fast-AS-light" in fact. damn, never mind.
Hey I wonder, if you overclocked such a computer, would you go back in time?
parents shouldn't get excited about having a baby because millions of people have them every day, its just another lifeform in the world nothing else.
Actually, they shouldn't get excited that they have followed the ego-gratification of everyone else. 6 billion people in the world, and having kids is somehow something you're *supposed* to do.
It seems to vary from one environment to another. Firefox on my XP machine has been very well-behaved, through a few versions reported to cause trouble. I installed FF on another XP machine, a friend's, and it was horrible. Ugly graphical glitches while rendering, or scrolling, basically unusable. On one of my 98 machines, there's a problem in the system itself, that affects FF every so often, again graphically. Though I'm convinced there's a problem in the OS there as other programs do weird things too.
But anyway, on my primary machine, which hasn't been wiped and cleaned in quite awhile now, Firefox runs like a dream. There's a high degree of variability here it seems, we seem to get a lot of "it doesn't work" vs. "it works fine" that I guess comes down to the particular machine and what it's been through.
Might be fun to rename IE to iexplore.bak and FF to iexplore.exe
I gave it a whack on my test machine, and it sort of works. What I did was installed firefox to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer so as to not worry about path issues. Made a copy of IEXPLORE.EXE and made my IE shortcut point to the copy, made a copy of firefox.exe and renamed that copy to IEXPLORE.. This way, when firefox is called for normally, nothing is different for it. MSN launches firefox now when checking my hotmail, except it doesn't actually load hotmail, that doesn't work seem to work, with the way IE is being called by MSN. Then, when I launch IE manually later, it loads two instances of the browser: 1 with my start page and 1 with hotmail in it. If I hadn't run MSN just prior, and tried to check hotmail in firefox then it just does the start page. IE also now gives a warning about running in compatibility mode, and that some features may be disabled (probably a good thing, heh), but my online banking works so it works well enough. I'd figured there wouldn't be major issues with filename conflicts, though something obviously did bork somewhere.
Phone booths are for making phone calls. I don't want to download mp3s, read my email, or order takeout from my public phone.
I'm with you, but there's a problem with pay phones only being able to make phone calls. They cost money to maintain, and aren't being used as much as they once were. I can never seem to find one near when I want one, as I don't have a cell phone. If there were more reasons to go deposit money at the same location, like you can do some high-speed casual roving internet activity, those locations would generate more income. Hopefully enough to be covering their more exotic nature, but at least keeping the availability of a working phone at that location.
without bothering to RTFA, and mistakenly think that it's a legit patch,
Though it's a shitty thing for someone to be doing, as it is anytime somebody tries to get a virus or exploit going, it is at the same time a very amusing example of one. Think about it, the concept of this one has a certain beauty: It is meant to be activated while the machine is under the control of someone who should know better. There is no clueless-luser-carelessly-clicking that can be done here, you've got to know some basic geek stuff to go get the 'patch', unpack it, install it.. You've got to expend a reasonable amount of effort to get nailed by this thing. That is both its curse and its beauty.
There is the sort of lack of wisdom in antagonizing your players at such a base level, in tension with the creative freedom of the developer to create discomfort.
/tells insisting that you come buff their stats, as though you had nothing better to do.
I started losing interest in Star Wars: Galaxies right around the time of the Imperial Crackdown. It was supposed to really kick things up and create tensions between the factions. As a Doctor, I resolved that from the time following the Imperial invasions (scripted within the game, meant to cause a lot of death and panic among only a certain population of the game), that I would henceforth only provide my services to Rebels. Imperials or neutrals were out of luck. Well, a neutral could get service if I could be assured by a trusted source that they were truly neutral and not a covert Imperial. I should explain, to those not familiar with the game, that the services of a Doctor are very much in demand, and practically taken as a right by many players. It's hard to be known as a Doctor, because you are constantly plagued with people sending
So, quite a lot of people got very pissed off, and some were accusing me of being exactly like a racist. A racist?? This is a fucking war, people! The problem was that so many players regularly socialized with people of whatever faction relative to their own. I don't know what the factions were really for other than those that particularly sought PvP action. Everybody just sort of picked a side, and picked their friends and business associates independantly of that. None of the Rebels were upset of course, none of them pointed out any unfairness, as they were getting the service. Only the people who were refused service that they felt they had some kind of right to, as equally paying customers of the game, not even considering their characters or the environment we were playing in. Or even considering that this is service rendered by a player, a person not obligated to do JACK SHIT for anyone else at all. They just started screaming "racist!" and other stupidity. Not very much roleplaying going on there at all, and just to get some peace I had to revoke my policy after a mere two days. I did manage to start an ongoing war between my guild and an Imperial guild though, with a related action. That was pretty satisfying, even though they handed our asses to us a lot, that wasn't the point.
Anyhow, I wasn't happy with the fact that the whole game world there is just too comfortable for everyone. "It is a period of civil war", what the hell is wrong with acting like it? Everything, apparently.
He didn't mention in the article, but I would be almost certain that the accelerometers were tested, and passed the tests; but that the tests themselves were improper.
The article did mention the accelerometers appearing to work properly in testing, but as it turned out, the testing equipment was also wired backwards. How's that for bad luck?
But you're forgetting the mentality of the average user.
1 - I didn't notice X before.
2 - I performed action Y.
3 - Now I notice X.
I've been directly on the receiving end of that, working on people's machines in their home. Sometimes, I'll approach a machine that is for the most part behaving normally there's just some obvious problem they need fixed. Ok so I fix that, then we maybe get to chatting a bit, maybe I'm getting my shoes on, and their screensaver suddenly crashes or something. They'll say something like, "That wasn't happening before, what did you do?"
So I'll be like, "Weird, that shouldn't have anything to do with what I did, well let's look at this.." Poke around, look here and there, and after awhile they spontaneously remember that it crashes at least once a day. Or someone else walks in the room and asks if the screensaver is working properly yet... You just want to choke them, but on the other hand, they give you money. I like to pretend they're paying me not to kill them, it makes it less painful.