Posts by Tom 35

Not crap

"What are the odds on managing to open a five pin lock with a bit of cardboard?"

100% A couple of years back when the videos first appeared about this I tried it. Yes on a real Kensington lock. Yes it works. It's easy and quick to do.

We didn't run out and replace all the locks but new locks have a flat key (and are cheaper).

I also bought a new bike lock as it had the same weakness.

And if you dare say anything against them

Then you must be a pedo pervert.

True but...

"I'm not sure of the modern numbers, but an old 286 chip will get you a tenner from a gold scrap dealer."

But what about the rest of the computer? Chuck it in a container and ship it off to India?

If you have to deal with the whole computer it's going to cost to tear it apart and sort all the different materials, and some stuff you will have to pay to get rid of (mixed plastics, the motherboard with lead/tin solder for example). The only way you can make money is if you are subsidised. More places are charging e-waste fees at the time purchase to subsidise recycling at the end of life of the product.

Lockin

Your right it has nothing to do with the contract or the "discount". It's about locking you in. When your contract is up you can't just take your phone to a new provider so they hope you will stick with them. If you do switch you get a new "free" phone and a new contract. If they don't have a compatible phone it will be a pain to transfer your contacts and data, and your apps my be gone too.

unbundled

"With albums being unbundled, tracks are available now for individual download, so the number of units available for sale has increased."

With albums you often get two tracks, and a bunch of steaming crap to fill up space.

With unbundling you can just buy the two tracks, cutting the record companies revenue. They can no longer make you buy crap to get what you want.

Kiss had quite a few pop hits, someone who wants "Beth" is not going to want the Rock that fills the rest of the album (even the few that are not crap).

If you only buy the tracks you like there is no need to buy a "greatest hits" album as you already have your own version (I think Kiss had about 12 different versions). More lost (can't sell you the same crap again) revenue.

The boom from everyone rebuying the same stuff on CD is over. SACD and Audio DVD did not give them another boom of people buying the same stuff again (since they tanked).

But it's much easier to blame the "free-tards" who never buy anything anyway, and would not buy Kiss greatest hits volume 13 even if you took away their internet.

He doesn't like it, so toys out of pram time.

I think it was more like... Here is my list of new toys, if you don't give them to me I'll quit and then you will be screwed because you can't go on without me.

He expected... please stay, we need you, here are your new toys, is there anything else we can get you?

But got... ok then, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Re: Why does PDF have so many features

No I think it's more about upgrades. The board wants to make money by selling upgrades. To sell upgrades marketing need a list of new features to put on the box. But they already had the portable document thing down years ago so what do they do? Bolt on useless crap.

You end up with something like a toaster with 47 different programmable modes, a built in radio, and a night light.

And they will still be charged

if they text in a vote...

First you have to answer the question

if a tree falls in the forest...

A stream is treated as a one shot performance, a download is like Amazon shipping you a CD and not a performance.

All the what ifs just confuse things and can be applied to anything. What if you record the radio or a live performance, or copy a CD and sell it, loan it to a friend. What if you play a CD in your car with the window down...

What they really want is everything to be pay per play, but since there is no way to do that they are trying to collect money for everything no matter how much they have to bend things to justify it.

parachute

It would solve the "no quick way down" if a storm blows in, but I think hauling up the extra weight and not fitting through some of the tight spaces would be a problem.

Forget the sex scene

Show a nipple and people go nuts.

And you have to be careful about how you deal with violence on TV. If you just say you can't show blood, and you can't show that... you can end up with violence without consequences. Take a cartoon like GI Joe, no blood, no death, the pilot always ejects before the plane blows up. Worst thing that can happen is maybe an arm sling for half an episode.

Look war is FUN, you get to blow shit up and stuff.

Like porn, defining bad violence is not easy. You can end up with the same "I know it when I see it" definition.

Since Apple refuses to do any DRM,...

Since Apple refuses to do any DRM, you won't see Apple supporting blu-ray either.

I think you need to go check the videos on iTunes... :P

Or did you mean to say they don't do any DRM but their own?

Get back to Fox news

When you see a name like "campaignforliberty" you know it's going to be a load of BS, just like the so called Moral Majority and their friends.

They hate "corporate cronyism"? I didn't know they hated Republicans too!

All they need now

Is an animated IE assistant.

It looks like your searching for porn, would you like help?

Opera

Your connection is going through Opera's server so it is no longer seen as a connection from Orange when it hits the facebook server.

You don't need Brains...

They have a filter!

The TOS seems to imply that the filter is not very good though...

You have it wrong

We are not pleased that someone has been abused. We are pleased that the shoe in now on the other foot and he is getting the same crap the public has been getting while he was supposed to be serving them.

It's not who cares it was only Presciott, it's...

Ha, Ha, how do you like it eh? Not so fun is it? Getting some idea of why we were getting mad now?

But I expect he is not thinking "they can't do this" but something like "they can't do this to someone important like ME"

date of birth?

More like 1234 or 7777 would be my guess.