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It's easy to take bicycle tires for granted. After all, with road models there's only about an inch of rubber meeting the road per tire, and only a smidge more even on mountain-bike knobbies and fat cruiser whitewalls. Yet, when you consider that you balance your bicycle on only two wheels at sometimes car-like speeds; that your tires have to grip on rain-slick pavement and muddy backcountry trails; and that they can corner with the fastest wheeled vehicles and climb and descend the steepest pitches, you begin to understand how important it is to have top tires on all your bikes.
Like road tires, mountain-bike tires are best evaluated by a trained eye based on how much tread they had when they were new. Another gauge is how they ride. As the knobs wear down, traction lessens and you'll feel this on climbs and in the corners. The smaller knobs also mean less protection for the tube, so it can lead to more flats, too. These are signs that it's time for new tires.
When shopping for tires, you must match diameters, so if you have 26-inch wheels, only 26-inch tires will fit. You can usually change widths if you want, however. And this is a good way to change the ride quality, too. For example, switching from a 26 x 1.5 tire to a 2.0 model puts you on a wider tire that holds more air, which you might like for more comfort, traction and control. Conversely, a roadie might switch from 700 x 28c tires to 23c tires to save a little weight for easier climbing and faster acceleration. While, if you were suffering frequent flats and a rough ride on narrow tires, you'd benefit by switching to wider tires for more protection and comfort
Selecting Tires
The tread is the rubber that meets the road or trail. On road tires more tread usually means increased wear along with additional weight, so it's a tradeoff whether you require top ride quality or durability. Road tread varies in hardness, too, with harder rubbers wearing longer while softer compounds grip better in corners. These are fine distinctions widely debated among riders. You'll even find tires with dual-compound tread designed for good wear and top traction. And tread specifically designed for wet roads, as well.
For off-road riding, the amount of tread and the pattern of the tread determine the ride quality, traction and control. Manufacturers strive to design tread that provides the exact handling and characteristics for the different types of off-road terrain, riding and conditions. For example, if you ride in the mud and snow, there are tires designed specifically for these conditions.
How to choose: What's best has mostly to do with how and where you ride so if you can tell us that, we can point out some of our most popular tires for different types of riding. Another way to determine which tires are right is to ask friends you ride with who may have found models they recommend.
We hope these tips help and we look forward to seeing you when need new tires!
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(Balaeniceps rex)
Facts about this animal
The Shoebill is a very large, grey, stork-like bird with a unique huge, swollen bill, tipped with a strong hooked nail. An adult male is about 120 cm in length, the females are slightly smaller but otherwise alike.
The plumage is grey to grey-blue on the head (crown ashy) and generally ashy grey and slightly glossy greenish on the back. The belly and under tail coverts are nearly white. The legs are blackish.
The shoebill is a very solitary bird that also does not like disturbance by humans. It lives in very extensive marshes of Papyrus and Miscarthidium where it hunts for fish. The nest is built of fallen reeds and papyrus, either floating or resting on a low island.
Did you know?
that shoebill storks are often compared to statues as they stand perfectly still for long periods in marshes, waiting for a meal to surface in the water? Shoebills are opportunistic feeders eating frogs, small crocodiles, and especially lungfish and other mud puddle fish.
|Name (Scientific)
|Balaeniceps rex
|Name (English)
|Name (French)
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Local names
|Afrikaans: Skoenbekooievaar
|CITES Status
|Appendix II
|CMS Status
|Not listed
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Fritz Geller-Grimm
|Africa, from southern Sudan and Ethiopia to southern Zaire, northern Zambia and Malawi. Possibly Botswana, Chad.
|In large swamps
|Wild population
|Approx. 5'000-8'000
|Zoo population
|26 reported to ISIS (2008)
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 17 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
Find this animal on ZooLex
Photo Copyright by
Tom Tarrant
Why do zoos keep this animal
Shoebill storks are only rarely kept by zoos, and if so, primarily for educational puposes because of their unique taxonomic position and morphology, and as an ambassador species for wetland conservation. Occasionally, illegally traded specimens may be entrusted to a zoo after confiscation by CITES Authorities. finally, there is also a scientific interest, as this elusive species is very difficult to study in the wild.
Zoos tried to reproduce shoebill storks without success since the discovery of the species in 1850. Finally, the breeding efforts of Parc Paradisio in Belgium were crowned with success when a healthy chick – weighing 116 grams - hatched on Saturday, 19.07.2008, after 42 days of incubation. The incubation period was thus clearly longer than the "about 30 days" usually referred to in scientific and popular zoological literature. This demonstrates the importance of zoos for the collection of scientific data on the biology of animals. Further data to be collected at Parc Paradisio will not only lighten up many still unanswered questions about the biology of this bird but also help protect and save this unique species living in the vanishing swamps of East and Central Africa.

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Town founders, places I haven't been, ancestors who were "bridesmaids" to history.... This post conflates (and at one point refutes) these motifs seen perhaps too often in this blog. It takes place primarily in Connecticut ("place I haven't been"--check!), but begins in England (check!).
From The History of Guilford, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1639 by Ralph Dunning Smith:
William Seward came originally from Bristol, England, and settled first in New Haven, and, while residing there he was married to Miss Grace Norton of Guilford, April 2, 1651. He soon removed to Guilford and took the oath of fidelity there May 4, 1654. He appears to have been a tanner, a man of considerable property and eminence in the town. For a long time he was captain of the guard in Guilford….
He was also a paternal tenth great-grandfather of mine, and although an early inhabitant of Guilford, was not one of the founders of that town ("bridesmaid"--check!), although his father-in-law, Thomas Norton (15 Sep 1609 - 16 May 1648), and sons' grandfather-in-law, Francis Bushnell (1580 - 13 Oct 1646), were. The apostrophe is correct: three of the Seward sons married three of the Bushnell daughters. (For completists: one brother never married, another was killed by a horse).
The Seward son that concerns me is Caleb Seward, a ninth great-grandfather. Born in Guilford, it was there he married Lydia Bushnell (Nov 1661 - 24 Aug 1753) when he was twenty-four, in a service officiated by Mr Andrew Leete, who was not a minister, but rather son of another of Guilford's founders, William Leete, Governor of the Colony of New Haven (1661- 1665) and later, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1676 until his death in 1683.
Perhaps tired of being surrounded by nothing but town founders and their descendants, at age thirty-six Caleb headed off to an area near the Coginchaug River known as "The Great Swamp," that was used as a hunting ground for the native Mattabesset people. He built a log house, brought his wife and six children, and thereby founded the town of Durham.
From Fowler:
The early inhabitants of Durham were enterprising and energetic. In the year 1698, when Caleb Seward of Guilford, the first pioneer of the unbroken wilderness, moved into his loghouse in the south part of Cogenchaug [sic], he might have climbed to the mountain top on the southern border, and have looked northwardly, as Moses looked from Pisgah upon Canaan, upon hills rising into mountain ranges on the east and on the west part of the landscape, and between them upon that long swamp, Coginchaug, and the small stream working its sluggish way though it; but he would have seen very little like a land of promise…. Think of that unbroken pathless wilderness, the abode of the wolf and the panther on the hills, a possession of the "bittern and the pools of water" in the swamps, guarded by rattlesnakes and copperhead.
They must have been men of enterprise and energy, men of bold hearts and strong hands, who could undertake the task of planting their institutions, domestic and religious, social and civil on this forbidding ground. But they performed their tasks nobly and well.
A few pages on, we learn more about Caleb Seward:
...Caleb Seward has the claim, as the first inhabitant of Durham.... After he removed to Durham, he had Ephraim, Aug. 6th, 1700, the first white born child of Durham, and Ebenezer the second white child born June 7th, 1703. He was the first Town Clerk; was a man in whom confidence was universally reposed. He was a representative of the Town fifteen sessions of the Legislature.
First inhabitant, first Town Clerk.... "Bridesmaid" no more!
|"Here lieth Mr Caleb Seeward
Who died Aug ye 2d, 1728
in ye 63 year of his Age,
Being ye First Inhabitant of Durham"
(Note both his surname and age at death are incorrect.)
1 Noadiah Seward (22 Aug 1697 - 1744) married Hannah Smith (22 Sep 1703 - 23 Apr 1769), daughter of Simon Smith (1658 - 15 Apr 1746) and Elizabeth Alice Wells (1672 - 8 Jul 1742)), on 19 October 1721, in Durham, Connecticut.
2 Lydia Seward (17 Jan 1722 - 6 Dec 1811) married Stephen Hickock (17 Jul 1714 - 1768), son of Stephen Hickox (12 Apr 1684 - 19 Apr 1726) and Ruth Gaylord (1686 - 1727), in 1742, in Granville, Massachusetts.
3 Stephen Hickock (30 Jun 1749 - 9 Sep 1836) married Rebecca Robinson (8 May 1748 - 8 Oct 1807), daughter of John Robinson (bef 1732 - ?) and Rebecca LKU (?), about 1770.
4 Hannah Hickock (abt 1785 - 24 Aug 1809) married Williams Davenport (12 Nov 1782 - 4 Dec 1830), son of Eliphalet Davenport (14 Oct 1750 - 17 Dec 1835) and Elizabeth Williams (31 Mar 1757 - 5 Jun 1841), on 20 Dec 1803 in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
5 Stephen Addison Davenport (20 Nov 1806 - Nov 1850) married Alma Holmes Doty (9 Oct 1814 - 10 Aug 1879), daughter of Stephen S Doty (24 Jun 1791 - 21 Oct 1870) and Polly Holmes (1788 - aft 1860), in August 1835 in Madison, New York.
6 Henrietta Davenport (Jan 1836 - May 1904) married Charles Swarts (12 Feb 1835 - 8 Jun 1909), son of John Swarts and Mary McDonald, in Wisconsin, in 1859.
7 Ella Swarts (1862 - Apr 1899) was born and lived her entire life in Minnesota. She married Charles A Burnett (Feb 1856 - 17 Jan 1930), son of Nathaniel S Burnett and Rachel Elizabeth Squire, in Scott County, Minnesota, September 1879.
8 Alfred Nathaniel Burnett (19 Aug 1883 - 31 Jul 1959) married Jennie Arleta Eaton (14 Mar 1891 - 15 Apr 1979), daughter of Dor Henry Eaton and Anna B A Miller, in Minnesota, in 1909.
9 Leroy Stanley Burnett (31 Aug 1910 - 11 May 1980) married Hazel Lucille Erickson (6 Sep 1910 - 6 May 2002), daughter of Erick Albert Erickson and Johanna Maria Svard, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 21 June 1933.
10 [Living] Burnett married Beverly Alane Brown (8 Aug 1934 - 7 Mar 2010), daughter of Dana Earl Brown and Myrna Margaret Severin, in Long Beach, California, on 4 March 1961.
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SOURCE: EnerJex Resources, Inc.
March 06, 2014 09:15 ET
SAN ANTONIO, TX and DENVER, CO and KANSAS CITY, MO--(Marketwired - Mar 6, 2014) - EnerJex Resources, Inc. (OTCQB: ENRJ) ("EnerJex" or the "Company") announced today that it has commenced natural gas production from the previously announced J-Sand well. This well is flowing at a rate of approximately 500 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of liquids-rich natural gas per day on a 14/64" choke up 5.5" casing with a flowing pressure of 400 pounds per square inch. This equates to approximately 100 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) per day based on an energy equivalent ratio of 6 MCF per barrel of oil and an expected yield of at least 1.4 gallons of natural gas liquids per MCF. Commencement of this production was achieved at a total cost of less than $100,000.
EnerJex's operations at Adena Field were primarily focused on maintaining existing production during the past month due to extremely cold weather and harsh operating conditions. Despite this challenge, the Company successfully completed testing one additional J-Sand oil well and plans to commence production from two new oil wells, including one that was previously announced, within the next two weeks. Operating conditions have returned to normal, and EnerJex plans to continue aggressively reactivating and recompleting oil wells in Adena Field throughout 2014.
According to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Adena is the third largest oil field in the history of Colorado behind Rangely and Wattenberg, having produced 75 million barrels of oil and 125 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Nearly all of the producing wells in Adena Field were temporarily abandoned or shut-in during the secondary recovery phase in the mid-1980s when oil prices collapsed, and only a small number of wells have been produced since that time. Approximately 130 wells are currently shut-in or temporarily abandoned, of which the Company has initially identified approximately 75 wells to be reactivated in the J-Sand formation or recompleted in the D-Sand formation.
Management Comments
EnerJex's CEO, Robert Watson, Jr., commented, "I am pleased to announce these developments including a further increase in the Company's natural gas production and additional validation of our oil prospects at Adena Field. EnerJex is also in the process of working over multiple natural gas wells in its Niobrara Project located in Northeastern Colorado. These wells have contributed minimal production during the past year, and I look forward to updating shareholders on the results of this program during the coming weeks."
About EnerJex Resources, Inc.
EnerJex Resources, Inc. is an independent exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties located in the mid-continent region of the United States. The Company owns oil and gas leases covering approximately 100,000 acres in multiple prolific hydrocarbon basins located in four states including Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas.
EnerJex's operations are focused in five distinct projects where the company produces oil and natural gas from shallow reservoirs that are characterized by long lived reserves with low production decline rates. Within these projects, the Company has identified more than 500 low-risk drilling locations. Through its large acreage footprint in the Denver-Julesburg ("DJ") Basin, EnerJex also has significant exposure to emerging oil resource plays that are being pursued by numerous competitors on trend with the Company's properties. EnerJex's headquarters are located in San Antonio, Texas, and additional information is available on its website at www.enerjex.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release and the materials referenced herein include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements give EnerJex's current expectations or forecasts of future events. The statements in this press release regarding the completion of drilling for and commencement of operations at new wells, successful production at newly drilled wells, expected increases in overall production, the acquisition of operating assets and related agreements, any implied or perceived benefits from any current or future transaction, and any other effects resulting from any of those matters, are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve material risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: whether newly drilled or newly acquired properties will produce at levels consistent with management's expectations; market conditions; whether we will experience equipment failures and, if they materialize, whether we will be able to fund repair work without materially impairing planned production levels or the availability of capital for further production increases; the ability of EnerJex to meet its loan covenants under the debt facility that is expected to fund the costs of the new wells and to obtain financing from other sources for continued drilling; the costs of operations; delays, and any other difficulties related to producing oil; the ability of EnerJex to integrate the newly producing assets; the ability to retain necessary skilled workers to operate the new producing wells; the price of oil; EnerJex's ability to market and sell produced minerals; the risks and effects of legal and administrative proceedings and governmental regulation; future financial and operational results; competition; general economic conditions; the ability to manage and continue growth; and the ability of management to successfully integrate Black Raven. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially from those indicated. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements are set forth in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC. EnerJex undertakes no obligation to revise or update such statements to reflect current events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. EnerJex's production forecasts are dependent upon many assumptions, including estimates of production decline rates from existing wells and the outcome of future drilling activity. Although EnerJex believes the expectations and forecasts reflected in these and other forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance they will prove to have been correct. They can be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties.
EnerJex Resources, Inc.
Robert Watson, Jr.
Phone: (210) 451-5545
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Phone: (210) 451-5545
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text: Toulouse, France – Independent software developer David Palmerio today is pleased to announce the release of E-Blues 1.2, his new blues music learning tool for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Discover and learn the Blues guitar in (almost) 5 minutes. This method presents 8 pieces of progressive levels, and each lesson is explained and the difficulties analyzed. The musical notation and theory is accompanied by audio and movie recordings.


text: The presentation i did on modeling and domestic houses at the last London Revit user Group, PDF format and Audio Files are available from the LRUG Website http://www.lrug.org.uk/ under 'Downloads' tab on the top then in the 'presentation' Link. Check it out! you can also look at the original blog series i did back in 2011 http://revit-detail.blogspot.com/2011/01/0900-house-extension-project.html, it starts in Jan 2011 working through for about 9-10 videos if you would like to look it up in the 'blog archive'.


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Lockport to honor Parete among 'fallen heroes'
LOCKPORT – The controversy over a monument in her hometown for fallen Buffalo Police Officer Patricia A. Parete was resolved amicably Wednesday, as her strongest supporter agreed with city officials that a general memorial for all "fallen heroes" would be acceptable.
Exactly what form that will take has yet to be determined. Mayor Michael W. Tucker will appoint a committee of officials and citizens to come up with a policy on memorials, with two aldermen, Kathryn J. Fogle and Kenneth M. Genewick, serving as co-chairmen.
The other members will include representatives of the Police and Fire departments, a military veteran, a historian and other citizens. Tucker said he expects a report in about two months.
"Thanks for agreeing to find a way to honor our friend Patty Parete," Joseph DiPasquale, of Buffalo, president of the Lockport High School Class of 1983, told the Common Council at Wednesday's meeting. "We will hold you to your promise to find a way to honor all our fallen heroes."
Parete, a member of that class, died Feb. 2 at age 48, after more than six years as a quadriplegic. She was shot in the neck while trying to quell a fight in a Buffalo convenience store.
DiPasquale originally proposed renaming Rogers Avenue Park in Parete's memory. The Council rejected that idea and last week suggested using a fountain in Outwater Park as a Parete memorial. The fountain hasn't worked for several years and that its concrete base is crumbling; aldermen suggested that the Class of 1983 should repair it.
The angry DiPasquale then accused city leaders of being unwilling to honor Parete because she was gay, an accusation Tucker vehemently denied.
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U.S. to Accelerate Drawdown in Afghanistan
President Obama and Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai said they have agreed to speed up the schedule for moving Afghanistan's security forces into the lead across the country, with U.S. troops shifting fully to a support role. Julian Barnes has details on The News Hub. Photo: AFP/GettyImages.
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The UTC Asia Program derives most of its funding from external sources. Projects encompassed in the Asia Program include:
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Internet fame is a quirky thing. So often it emerges from a lucky combination of events captured purely by coincidence, as in the exceptional case of Joey Powling Jr. Three-month-old Joey was diagnosed in-utero with Tetralogy of Fallot, a heart condition that in his case manifested as a hole in his heart. With plenty of time to prepare for treatment, Joey's parents and doctors put together a plan that recently culminated in open-heart-surgery.
PLUS: Dad Tells Dark Side of Son's Funny Baby Photo Meme
Joey's mom took a photo of the baby as he was recovering from the procedure and, just as she did, he looked over and offered her a serene, brave little smile. His uncle posted the outstanding picture to Reddit, where it gained karma, Reddit's virtual currency, hand-over-fist, and made it to the site's front page and subsequently, viral-levels of internet fame. Commenters dubbed the baby "ridiculously good-looking surgery baby" (in reference to another meme), "Baby Bruce Willis" and other fond nicknames. News outlets are running with the story as well.
PLUS: Best Viral Baby Videos of All Time
What's in store for Joey? His treatment isn't over, and his reddit thread is filled with people who live with similar heart conditions sharing stories of what they've overcome and how much they enjoy life. For now, though, he holds the singular distinction of being the most beloved baby on the internet. Until the next cute kitty picture is posted, at least.
What do you think of little Joey and his story? Let us know in the comments.


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NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says he backs the continued use of Tasers by police because they are less dangerous than guns.
Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has promised a review into Taser use in response to the findings of a coronial inquest into the death of a 21-year-old Brazilian student who was tasered up to 14 times.
Mr Scipione said police would immediately adopt all five of the coroner's recommendations, including that the officers involved face disciplinary action.
"I'm confident when the police commissioner says they will be implemented, they will be implemented in timely fashion," Mr O'Farrell said of the recommendations.
The premier said he backed the continued use of the stunning device.
"Tasers are, in my mind, still a far more preferable alternative to the use of guns in similar situations," he told reporters in western Sydney.
"If you don't have Tasers, police have access to an even more lethal device which is called their gun."
Hours after the coroner handed down her findings police were involved in another incident involving a Taser.
Two officers were injured by a 55-year-old man in Lakemba on Wednesday night, with one of them pushed through a glass window.
Capsicum spray was deployed in an unsuccessful attempt to subdue the man who was eventually tasered.
Mr O'Farrell said the incident showed that Tasers could be used to protect officers.
"It simply reminded me of the dangers and challenges that police face on a nightly basis as they go about trying to protect the community," he said.
"Let's be clear here. We're not about to take arms away from our police as they work through the community to try and protect individuals from incidents day in day out."
Mr O'Farrell, who said he hadn't read the full coronial report yet because of parliamentary duties, said he was confident the police force would not drag out the implementation of the coronial recommendations.


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Adding Summery Style Indoors: Decorative Garlands
When I think of decorative garlands, I think of holidays and birthday parties. Yet, more and more I am seeing homeowners that have welcomed this fun idea for various styles in every room. I think hanging a garland on the wall is a great way to add color and interest to a room, without hanging art or painting the wall.
Here are five ideas for decorative garlands in various rooms that lend a sense of fun and embellishment.
1. Emily Schuman spends a lot of time in her office as she maintains her blog Cupcakes & Cashmere. I love her sparkly garland from Confetti System that gives a feminine and playful touch to an otherwise adult office.
2. Kristina of House of Hues notes her admiration of this hanging garland on Etsy, available for a mere $12 and it adds automatic festivity to her already beautiful wall.
3. Artist Christopher Bettig of The Mountain Label was asked to create an installation for The Standard in West Hollywood. Later on various elements of his installation, including the garland were seen in a local gallery space with more of his artwork.
4. Blogger quilter from Moments of Perfect Clarity, writes about many things. But her hanging garland which was constructed of leftover fabric swatches is just a wonderful idea of DIY crafting.
5. Gina Comin's home was lively, collected and diverse... but one of the simplest things I loved in her home was the colorful garland that lined her hallway.


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4 DIY Color Block Ideas
Color block patterns are on our minds lately and we think it might have to do with the impending spring and summer seasons and our desire to splash color on just about every surface of our home. Luckily we've come across some DIY ideas for this trend so we don't have to spend a lot incorporating it.
There's also the fact that color blocking is, inherently, super modern and geometrically cool. Color block patterns are a way to bring in lots of color without it looking too overwhelming, cutesy or busy. You can do it on any sized scale you're comfortable with, and you can totally customize it to any color palette you already have or want to have. What's not to love?! Five ways to bring color blocking into your home and do it yourself:
1) Vertical surfaces Walls, kitchen cabinets and window treatments are all fair game when it comes to incorporating a little color block. We have such a big crush on the treatment seen in this Ohdeedoh post; it's so doable and affordable! And this eHow article has information on how to do a little color blocking yourself.
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You know, maybe I'm just stupid. I guess that's the case, because I honestly don't remember seeing anywhere where it said that the Pepsi Stuff promotion ended on December 31, 2008. Oh, I believe it was out there...in tiny little writing so small that an ant with bifocals would have a hard time reading it. But answer me this... if the promo is over, why is there still product EVERYWHERE (like Walmart, for instance) that still contains the caps? Okay, forget that though... my bad. My stupid, my didn't read the fine print.
But what REALLY irks, irritates, and just plain pisses me off is that THEY TOOK THE POINTS I HAD BANKED WITH AMAZON!!!!!!!!!!!! How is this cool? How does this endear Pepsi drinkers to the company, I ask you? See, I've been a loyal Diet Pepsi drinker for a long time. And with this Pepsi Stuff promotion, I was lovin' it even more, because unlike other cola company promotions, you only had to have 5 Pepsi Stuff points to download an MP3 from Amazon. And they had some GREAT music!
Walmart would have other brands on sale and Diet Pepsi would be full price and I would STILL pass right by the sale stuff to get the Diet Pepsi, because of the Pepsi Stuff promotion. I would build up a couple of cups full of bottle caps, then one day when I had a free minute, I would enter all the codes at once and then, once again as I had time, I would peruse the available music and download it to my Moto Q. And then drink more Diet Pepsi. I don't even remember how many points I had built up with Amazon, but it was a lot. A LOT. Most companies, when a promotion ends, give you a grace period to redeem your whatever for available prizes.
Apparently Pepsi, in their infinite wisdom, are not one of those companies. I called the 800 number listed on the cap (1-800-462-9900) and spoke with a representative there, who in a very bored voice said "Yes ma'am, the promotion is over and your points are gone. Can I help you with anything else?". I refrained from telling her just where she could stick a 2-litre. After all, she's just a drone in a call center.
The real people responsible for ripping me off don't answer the phone. If they did, maybe they'd understand where their stupidity lies. Because see, I'm a "fool me once" kind of girl. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. And, to quote a previous president, I don't get fooled again. So Pepsi, you took my points and you lost a good customer. I'll bet I spent several thousand dollars on your product over the last year, between me, my husband, and the business I work for. But the cooler at work stocks Coke and Dr. Pepper just as well as Pepsi and Diet Pepsi, and customers will buy it just as quickly.
And I make the decision as to what gets stocked in the cooler. As a matter of fact, after I finish this "rant", I'm going to go and put up a sale tag on the cooler, all Pepsi products buy one get one free, just to get them out of the store. Then, I have a shopping trip lined up anyway to buy stuff for the store, well, I'll just add an additional item... "Coke products for store drink cooler".
I know my measly few thousand is just a drop in the bucket to Pepsi, but if I'm pissed off I'm sure there are a bunch of other people that are too. And eventually that little drop becomes a bucket full, and then a little creek, and then a river, and then an ocean - an ocean of Pepsi products rotting on store shelves. Lots of other big names have gone the way of the carrier pigeon in my lifetime... MCI, Goodys, Enron, etc. Don't think just because you're Pepsi that you'll always be around.
I swear, if I buy one more bottle of Pepsi Max because the labels are so similar to regular Pepsi, I'm going to scream. Brand identity and consistency are a good thing for businesses, I get that, but come on guys and gals in the art department, let's think the way a consumer thinks. Normally, in today's world, we are in somewhat of a hurry. We are distracted by the kids, the dog, the husband, whatever. We have a PTA meeting to buy treats for and a little league game to take the mother-in-law to so she can see little ** sit on the bench. But first you have to go to the store and get a few things.
You rush up and down the aisles looking through your coupon rolodex, talking on your cell phone, running your cart up on the heel of the old lady who was trying to get out of your way but hesitated a second too long trying to figure out which way would be the safest to dive for cover. Ahh, your final destination, the soda aisle. Throw a couple 2 liters in you cart and it's off to the checkout lane. Beep, Beep, coupon, swipe, unload, beep, beep, swipe, unload, coupon, coupon, total, debit or credit, do you need help out, and you're off. You get home, unload the bags into the kitchen, put away the frozen items and pop open an ice cold Pepsi because you deserve it.
You toss down three or four long swallows of your favorite softdrink when suddenly you realize that it doesn't taste quite right. What? What in the bloody hell is this? You look at the bottle you just opened and there, in little print, close to the word PEPSI, is the word MAX...and then the words 0 calories stare back at you like the frozen lips of a circus clown.
OK, so I go on a bit, but there really is nothing worse (except for maybe putting on a wet bathing suit) than buying the wrong item and nothing more frustrating than having to schlep back to the store to exchange it, except when you can't exchange it because you have opened it already. I'm sure my little letter won't make a difference in your decision making but if it ever comes up at a board meeting, please vote for changing the labels so they are unmistakenly different. Thanks for your time, and have a great day.
Since I can no longer find Pepsi One, I have been trying to find a 'replacement' with No luck. I have been suffering from headaches since. I now read online that aspartame in the other colas I have been trying may be the cause. Pepsi Max tastes terrible!! Not sure what I am going to do. I did read that diet Coke, with the yellow swirl, uses splenda. I will give it a try.
Pepsi One did not have a large stock at Walmart, not sure why because often they would be out when I shopped. If Pepsi thinks that Pepsi Max is going to be a big seller I really doubt it, it tastes bad. I am insulted that Pepsi thought they could make the cans look similar and I guess we were not suppose to notice. I am not that stupid guys!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- I have been to 4 grocery stores, all the major drug/variety stores, and many delis, and no one except D'Agostino's is selling Pepsi One. Why is Pepsi not promoting it as the only non-carcinogen soda? Aspartame, which is in all diet sodas except Pepsi One, causes liver shutdown and cancer. FYI, Aspartame is "Equal". Don't use it! Pepsi One is sweetened with Splenda, famous from Dr. Atkins years ago and now also distributed under the Kirkland brand at Costco. But why can't the soda makers, esp. Pepsi move totally to Splenda instead of aspartame? It's an outrage. If any soda is "good for you", it's Pepsi One.
Please I need it or I will be drinking hot tea all day which is very inconvenient. I cannot drink juice (too much sugar), cannot drink other sodas (aspartame and I am already a cancer survivor and need my liver), and I cannot sit near a kettle or coffee machine all day, esp. in Summer and water is boring and expensive and ecologically irresponsible if bought by plastic bottle. HELP. We need our Pepsi One. PLEASE, PEPSI, PUT IT BACK ON THE MARKET!
FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE -- I really thought that I was just getting the unlucky batch of Pepsi lately. I have preferred Pepsi over Coke my entire life and have been the Pepsi generation. In the last year on the occasions that I have purchased Pepsi or Mountain Dew, whether it was a vending machine purchase, grocery store purchase or convenience store purchase, I have noticed a distinct taste difference. There is a flatness as well as an acrid after taste. It has become so common that I have gradually begun purchasing Coke products.
Recently there were no Coke products available so I went with Pepsi. Again, failure. It was so vastly disappointing that I now cringe when I see Pepsi. I hate that. But in googling why there might be a taste difference I saw that there were MANY that have observed this. And I've noticed that there seems to be no common thread such as expiration dates or damaged containers... What gives? Even Pepsi in restaurants is horrible and I know they are required to have their machines calibrated by the manufacturer and service installers.
Why would you stop providing Pepsi One to your loyal customers in Texas? Now what? Pepsi Max sucks!!!!! I guess I have to try Coke products again. The coke people did this to me when they stopped selling New Coke years ago and then I started drinking Pepsi and loved it. Then to lose weight I tried Pepsi One and been drinking them ever since. This really sucks to have my favorite drink taken away without any kind of good reason!! Put it back on the shelves of our stores! It sells, cause the stores I'd buy from always ran out!!!
MIAMI, FLORIDA -- Pepsi One is the best diet product I have ever tried. It has Splenda and the taste is not matched by any other diet soft drink. It is very important for PepsiCo to clarify what is the issue with some cancer produced in lab rats and related to the amount of certain ingredient in Pepsi One. This is a good product, but I need to hear the truth about the studies and consequences of drinking this product. I drink 3-4 cans a day! There are people talking about a class suit against PepsiCo because of some label warning not used in California. Please clarify.
NORTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY -- I just want to say thank you for going, putting your fine product back in a bottle. I was in the at a store in the Bronx on Westchester ave and Mayflower when I seen your product Pepsi Cola back in A bottle - not only did I buy One I bought two. Now three days later I'm in Manhattan at the corner of Broadway and Bleecker and again I seen your product again and again - not only did I buy one I bought two. So please respect and bring it the B.O.T.T.L.E BACK Not only to New York - to New Jersey as well. Pepsi keep up the good work.
OREGON -- I would not have bought Pepsi "next" as I am a die-hard Diet Coke fan but my daughter loves it and bought some for herself and I ran out of Diet Coke. So because this is my source of caffeine I had one of hers - LOVE it. This in my opinion is by far better than any other Pepsi or Diet Pepsi. I could without a doubt change but I am afraid if I start loving it you will take off the shelf as this on time release item. So Please keep making this product. My daughter and I would love it but I am not blind in thinking we are 2 people out of so so many but hope we are heard! Thank you.
LIRA, UTAH -- You have done a lot of recent to increase the number of your soda products. More over your promotion activities in my country Uganda at the moment I can say, is ranking almost the best because people are winning more prizes and drinking a lot of your soda products and all these has contributed significantly to increase in your sales. You have even greatly improved the test of your drinks. I am among citizen who enjoy your drinks. However at the moment I am very much dismayed and stressed up when I got pieces of glass in a freshly opened Mirinda bottle, yet the bottle had no damage at all.
This incident has made me worried again of your products and the way your employees in the branch within my reach treated me after reporting was not pleasing at all. I needed to undergo a medical scan and other diagnosis to check whether the pieces of glass did not enter me. But being a poor person here I am only believing in my God but I think it's much better to report to you and the nearby authorities. Conclusively, I Urged Pepsi cola to quickly respond and close the gaps exhibited within the company.


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by Mike Masnick
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 11:31am
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Sneeje points us to a screenshot that's making the rounds (thanks, not surprisingly, to Reddit), demonstrating that GameStop is apparently offering consumers the ability to buy "download insurance" for an extra $3.95. Apparently, that extra money lets you redownload the product in the future (assuming GameStop still exists and/or any DRM servers are still functioning):
Of course, plenty of online sites that sell digital goods offer the ability to redownload what you've already bought as a free service to everyone, but not at GameStop apparently. This is, of course, a ridiculous concept. I really do wonder if anyone actually signs up for something like that.
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AdamR (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:02amYears ago when i bought zone alarm from checkpoint they offered the same type insurance option for a price. I gladly declined and made sure to backup the file to multiply places.
ltlw0lf (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:55am
Re:This was the last straw that got me to dump e-music. I was a happy user, until they changed their system to not allow redownloads, because somehow they magically knew whether the download completed successfully or not.
However, I downloaded several songs after they instituted this change, and ended up repaying and redownloading them because somehow they got corrupt during the initial download (one was a 130k file, when it was supposed to be several mb, so it looked like the download failed.) Add to it their crappy software that routinely blew-up, and it was nothing but fail. Now, of course, I go without, or download music I like from the band's website directly, but I know others that dropped e-music and went back to torrents and piracy.
Yet another painful example of the company greed (in this case, the company accepting bad licensing from the majors to "access" their material,) driving the customer away...but this is status quo for copyright maximalists, who would rather see the world burn than treat their customers well.
Danny, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:43pm
Re: Re:Gee you sound like one of those law biding customers who was pissed off and turned off from a service because of ridiculous attempts at stopping piracy.
I think Mike has spoken about folks you a few times....
Chronno S. Trigger (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:57am
Re:And that brings up my question. Is this a complete installer file that you can backup, or is it like WOW and you have to re-download it every time you want to install it (if you didn't pay a lot for the CDs)?
I started thinking of this when I started buying stuff off of Steam and thought "I really don't want to re-download all this again." Then I found I could export the files for a backup.
Bengie, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:06pm
Re: Re:You can always just make a copy of your WoW directory as it has no DRM.
Also, the new WoW client only downloads something like 120MB to bootstrap it. After that, you can start playing and WoW will just stream the content as requested and download the remaining content if you're not immediately requesting something.
Chronno S. Trigger (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:25pm
Re: Re: Re:WOW is a portable game? There's no registry keys or shared DLLs to get in the way?
Bengie, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:57pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:I've always just copied it to and from computers, much faster than installing.
I've ran into some issues with the patching system sometimes getting mad because of permission issues and temp folders, but that was years ago; not sure about that anymore, haven't tried.
Chosen Reject (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:59pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:I don't know about WoW, but I'm pretty sure I've done this with Warcraft III. I Moved the whole directory to another drive and reinstalled the OS, the went to playing Warcraft III right after that. It's been a while, so I might be forgetting details.
HothMonster, 1 Jun 2011 @ 2:14pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:just did this on my gfs computer a few weeks ago. Moved it from her C: drive to a new hdd we bought. Just had to move it to the new directory than the exe auto-corrected any errors that prevented it from starting. Took about 10 minutes to repair itself than she was gtg.
Qritiqal (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 3:01pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:Yes, WoW is completely portable. You can copy/move it around on one computer or to others and it works perfectly (just by executing the launcher.exe or wow.exe in the main WoW directory).
Can you imagine the headache otherwise?
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 3:28pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:I can because unfortunatly most programs are not this easy to move around and don't have a self repairing exe.
Thankfully blizzard cares because its like a 20gb download now with all the exspansions
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 7:19pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:Eve online is portable as well. They also allow players on a test server. You can just copy your main directory to another, point your launcher to the new directory and test server address, start it, and let it update to the current test client version. Quite slick.
A.R.M. (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:49am
This article is forgetting something!Don't forget the asses at EA are trying to kill of the secondary market. GS is realizing the losing battle and trying to capitalize while they still can.
P.T. Barnum's the first in line.
DataShade (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 2:49am
Re: This article is forgetting something!I don't think that has anything to do with it. While Reddit just picked this up, this isn't actually new. Gamestop's digital downloads have always been limited; you could only ever re-download after purchase for like 30 days at best.
(As an aside: I'm kind of ok with the $5 "online pass" thing, because GameStop buying a used game from you for $5/$10 store credit, then selling it for $44.95 always cheesed me off - and it made me, and a lot of my friends, just pass around games we were done with instead of throwing them into the churning maw of the beast.)
ComputerAddict (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:49amYea I've seen this offered for years on software from games to anti-virus software, nothing new to see here.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:17pm
Re:It does sound similar to something EA has had for a while for its digital downloads, though they don't call it 'insurance'. I forget the details, something like 6 bucks to be able to redownload the game that you purchased if you have a problem or change comps for a 2 year period?
*ha, I probably have that all goofed up, but this scheme does have a familiar ring.
DCl, 1 Jun 2011 @ 3:37pm
Re: Re:EA did have a program like that but it ended years ago. Now you can re-download games via their download client whenever you need to like getting a new pc.
There is still a DRM layer to go through though.
Scote, 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:51am
Fraud?I don't think this is new. I seem to recall a retailer that had two price tiers for software downloads. One being a "we take no responsibility if your download fails" price, and a second, higher price that allowed re-downloading.
Seems to me that what GameStop is saying is that if the initial internet download fails they take no responsibility for the fact that they never actually delivered a product to you but will keep your money anyway. With physical products, if you don't receive the product the implied contract has never been completed and they still owe you. I'm not sure why that should be any different for a digital product.
SD (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:30pm
Re: Fraud?Seems to me that what GameStop is saying is that if the initial internet download fails they take no responsibility for the fact that they never actually delivered a product to you but will keep your money anyway.
I don't think they operate that way, since they could easily generate and verify a SHA1 hash on completed downloads to save themselves from a lawsuit.
I bought a game from them the other day and when I just checked my account it says "Activations Remaining 3"... whatever that means.
The CD Key also was importable into Steam(a rarity) so I didn't pay the inflated insurance price or download it directly from them.
Danny, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:49pm
Re: Fraud?With physical products, if you don't receive the product the implied contract has never been completed and they still owe you. I'm not sure why that should be any different for a digital product.
Because with a physical item there is shipping (which leaves trails) and of course the item itself (like if you got it but it was damaged) whereas with a download they can literally lie through their teeth and say that they have a record of it being downloaded by your account and there would no accountabilty for it.
With a physical product there is some chance for getting hard proof you didn't get it or you got it but it was damaged. With a download its nothing but you word vs. theirs.
DataShade (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 2:39am
Re: Fraud?I don't think that's true; I'm pretty sure you get a window of like 7 days from purchase to download the game. The 'catch' is that once you've downloaded the game, you have to make a backup in case you have a hard drive failure or whatever, whereas better download services (like Steam, Good Old Games, etc) allow you to redownload it free at any future point (and you can always make a local/physical backup of your download if you'd prefer to avoid the bandwidth consumption).
Mike, 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:56am
Why is this a "bad" thing?The Reddit complaint is largely that it is automatically selected. But the idea of paying $4 so that the game is available for download again doesn't seem like such a bad deal especially for large games requiring large amounts of bandwidth or space.
And, I don't see anything that says you couldn't just make local backups. And this has the added portability and security.
Finally to say that some services offer this for "free" is true only if you assume that such amounts aren't already priced into the cost of the original download. I can't tell but it seems, for example, that the Gamestop "total" price for the same game is currently less than Steam.
The eejit (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:22pm
Re: Why is this a "bad" thing?Steam does it for nothing. Gamestop is pulling its usual schtick.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 2:00pm
Re: Why is this a "bad" thing?"requiring large amounts of bandwidth or space": I bet the 'insurance' probably has a clause that says the service can be taken offline at any time without any prior notice so in a sense you are paying for insurance without guarentees. This is not like auto insurance where the company would be liable for claims against you because of existing regulatory bodies. It seems to be a trend of "pay me know for a feature that I can revoke at will in the future."
Again, I am guessing about the whole clause thing because I would never care to read such a disclaimer or pay for such a service. (my opinion)
KingPin (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 3:08pm
Re: Why is this a "bad" thing?Because we live in the era of steam.
The Buzz Saw (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 11:56am
Hello, Steam!No one gets it except Steam. If you honestly believe that you are selling licenses (and not the game/movie/song itself), do you not have some obligation to ensure that the customer is able to enjoy the product for the duration of that license? I'd like to see such a contract out in the real business world.
"The 10,000 widgets will be assembled and delivered for $450,000. Oh, but if our truck driver falls asleep and zooms off a cliff, tough luck. You'll have to buy the whole load again. However, for a mere $75,000, we will add insurance!"
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:21pm
Re: Hello, Steam!Wait, don't most carriers offer insurance on their shipments?
weneedhelp (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:36pm
Re: Re: Hello, Steam!"don't most carriers offer insurance on their shipments"
After 100 bucks. Paying 3.95 "insurance" for a product that costs 4.99 is mighty excessive.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:12pmBack in late '09, the Windows 7 Digital River student deal offered a $5.95 "Extended Download Service" on the $30 software.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:21pmand here I thought that download insurance was, "If you accidentally download protected content, we'll insure you against liability".
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 12:27pmThat's ridiculous. I purchased the very same game from steam and I can download it as many times as I want. Saem with gamersgate games. They just want to sucker people into paying more, shame on you gamestop.
Mr Claypole (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:07pmI run a digital product site, and we have always allowed our customers to re-download their purchases for free, as many times as they wish. Stuff the bandwidth costs, it seems so anti-consumer to make them pay extra for access to something they've already bought. And it's not like the file isn't always sitting on our servers anyway. Seems like just another way to gouge money from people.
I just never understand putting artificial limitations on these things, like stock image companies who make a download link valid for 1 hour. Why do that? Or only allowing you 3 download attempts before the link locks out. It doesn't stop piracy, it just makes genuine customers pissed off.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 7:26pm
Re:You sound like you "get" what your customers want. That's probably why you don't understand this. ;)
Keroberos (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:08pm
Download Insurance is a service that provides for a back up copy of the Digital Good(s) in your shopping cart to be stored for future download. A back up copy of these Digital Good(s) will be available to you for download for up to eighteen (18) months from the date of purchase.
Now there's no need to worry should your computer fail. Just login to your account to download the Digital Good(s) again.
Hmmm...No need to worry...At least for 18 months...Then you're screwed.
Phillip Vector (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 7:37am
Re:"Hmmm...No need to worry...At least for 18 months...Then you're screwed."
Umm.. No.
"A back up copy of these Digital Good(s) will be available to you for download for up to eighteen (18) months from the date of purchase. "
18 months is the max. They can turn you off 1 week after you bought it.
Jeremy Lyman (profile), 3 Jun 2011 @ 7:19am
Re: Re:"Up To" advertising is worthless and should be banned. I usually complain about it in ISP speed claims, but it's getting more common all over the place.
Would you rather have "up to one bananna" or "at least one bananna"?
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:15pm
And this is why......absolutely ALL of the software I have is FLOSS, and has been for many years. (I'm reasonably sure that the last bit of software that was otherwise was SunOS 4.1.4, and I stopped running that circa 1995.) Buying proprietary/closed-source/DRM'd software means buying into a never-ending cycle of hell. Best to just avoid it completely...and that gets easier every day.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:29pm
Re: And this is why...Unfortunately, there are few games that are FLOSS, unlike most other types of software.
Overcast (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:28pm"Apparently, that extra money lets you redownload the product again in the future"
No thanks, I'll take the DVD with a side of common sense.
The wrong way of looking at itYou're looking at this the wrong way: it's NOT "download insurance" for the customer but another source of income for the company.
I've been to a number of sites selling digital content that offer this re-download service for a fee. Most them do it for one reason: they hope the customer doesn't catch the extra fee. And if the customer does catch it, so what- it's only $1.95 or $3.99, so it's not that big of a deal.
Multiply the $3.95 charged by GameStop by 1,000 customers and that's an easy $3,950, which is pure profit for the company. After all, it doesn't take much effort to allow the customer to re-download the file. But it takes effort on the customer's part to UNCHECK this "insurance".
I'm surprised it's taken this long for this practice to come under fire.
Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2011 @ 1:37pmThese types of policies is why I avoided digital downloads for the longest time. As a gaming geek, I'm building, rebuilding, new computers 2 or 3 times a year.
So limiting the number of activations/download generally takes me out of the market for their products.
Steam, however, does get it right. I can install on as many computers as I like and makes recovering/rebuilding very fast and easy.
HothMonster, 1 Jun 2011 @ 2:17pmA lot of this probably stems from the retailers lack of margins on new games. I know bestbuy only makes like 75 cents on a new video game, I imagine gamestop is in the same boat. That profit probably barely covers the cost of hosting and distributing the game, let alone having to maintain the files for ever and allow multiple downloads.
Not saying it isnt a shady practice and why anyone shouldn't just by digital from Steam or something like it but that is probably their reasoning.
The eejit (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 12:06am
Re:Which is clearly why Gamestop do a 250% markup on trade-ins. Add to that selling used games as 'New' and you have a major problem.
Overcast (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 2:22pmThis is like an extended service plan.
You need them, because the core service/product is so crappy they have to offer extra protection.
When I bought my dishwasher, they asked about the extra insurance... I asked them if the product was junky enough that it needed it... lol
Jeremy Lyman (profile), 3 Jun 2011 @ 7:24am
Re:I went back and forth like this for 5 minutes with a Best Buy rep over a TV once.
"you want the insurance?"
"it's going to break?"
"no, but if it does..."
"so you think it's going to break."
"no, it's a good set."
"okay i'll take it."
"you want the insurance?"
Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 1 Jun 2011 @ 3:56pm
It�s All In The NameIf they call it an �extra charge�, people get upset. But if they use the word �discount�, people are happy.
Instead of offering the multi-download option at a higher price, they called that the �regular� option, and renamed the cheaper one as a �single-download-only discount�, we probably wouldn�t be having this discussion.
Anonymous Coward, 2 Jun 2011 @ 6:33am
Re: It�s All In The NameThis is absolutely correct.
Jeremy Lyman (profile), 3 Jun 2011 @ 7:27am
Re: It�s All In The NameVery true. Although then their normal price wouldn't seem as cheap compared to other places.
Tom Landry (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 6:12pmUnfortunately I did it when I bought Crysis through EA's download app a few years ago. 10 bucks gets you three years of download time.
Casey Bouch (profile), 1 Jun 2011 @ 8:35pm
SteamSo I'm adding Gamestop to my boycott list. Techdirt has really helped me compile this...
From someone who has over 90 games on Steam... (credentials, check) I can't imagine how this is anything more than pulling money from loyal customers. It will make them some money in the short term but I believe this kind of practice will only push people towards Steam. I haven't even considered unlimited downloads a 'Feature' until today because of Steam. Add to that their regular discounts and their ability to give Indie games a competitive boost... (Terraria as a current example)
I guess the only thing I'm hedging on is that Steam won't disappear in my lifetime. If it does, they have promised us the ability to download each game DRM free before it happens. (prepares 10 TB hard drive). Hell, before I die I plan on including my steam account in my will. Something I could do before with DVDs but now I don't have to worry about format changes, scratched discs, etc...
Does Gamestop allow me to do this?
Phillip Vector (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 7:54am
"We will unlock Everything" MythActually, I've been hunting this down for awhile now and have come to the conclusion that this is incorrect.
No where does a Valve Employee ever state that they will do this. They might have said they have the potential to, but no one has ever said they WILL do this.
This is a myth. Pure and simple.
Phillip Vector (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 8:03am
Re: "We will unlock Everything" MythAs a side note, if you can point me to a URL that quotes a valve employee by name and says this, I would be most grateful.
BTW, any gaming site that has this MUST state what Valve actually said. Allot of them say, "According to Gabe, they will offer it after Valve goes bankrupt". This is not a valid quote. I want to see the actual words spoken (or listen to them if on a video).
-, 2 Jun 2011 @ 2:12amI remember the times when good retailers would accept unreadable CD that was too scratched after 10 years of use and send a new one...
Marcel de Jong (profile), 2 Jun 2011 @ 5:54am
Easy solutionDitch Gamestop, go to GOG.com for your games.
Cheaper games, no drm, and no download insurance.
Disclaimer: no, I'm not affiliated with gog.com, just a happy customer.
Jeremy Lyman (profile), 3 Jun 2011 @ 7:10am
What are they buying?This brings up the old question of what people are buying when they download a digital copy of something. If they're paying for that particular downloaded file itself then not allowing free re-downloads seems reasonable. However if they're paying for the right to use the download it should be made available to them for as long as they've purchased user rights. (re-downloads are go!)
Of course in the case of the former I should be allowed to do with my legally purchased file that which I could do with legally purchased physical content; ie back-ups or loaning to friends. Where as the necessity and practice of backing up and loaning licenses is not a consumer right.
There are trade-offs and benefits for both retailer and consumer in both cases, and the seller needs to make clear to the buyer what transaction they're offering for sale.
Anonymous Coward, 4 Jun 2011 @ 2:07pmhere's another service offering insurance if your house burns down:
enilegnave21, 13 Mar 2016 @ 3:04pm
FraudCould it not be that this extra fee is to recover some of the cost associated with one person buying the game and then sharing it across multiple computers so friends can play free? So it takes care of the thinking, "if we pool our money together, we can buy one copy and download it multiple times to each of our X# of computers and all play together online".....?
Maybe this policy is because GS believes most people are dishonest.


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PS I came across a post of yours where you showed a long rail mounted to tripod for nadir -
It looks so much like my solution. Don't you use it at all any more? Do you prefer the M1 nadir adapter? What about shadows? My rail is quite long, and I like the flexibility of being able to shoot from a greater height if need be. And with PTGui's viewpoint correction, that's not a problem any more.
PPS I've had a good look at the panos on your site, and I really like the Yosemite ones, well done. :) Nice implementation of HDR.
I have done a test pano in my shed, where there is plenty of detail, straight lines and roof structure to test NPP. I got a perfect stitch.
I tried both -7.5 and -15, and both stitched as easily as each other. I slightly prefer -7.5 for this scene, but I would need to use a greater angle for tighter scenes ie next to furniture in a hotel room.
Heinz, the jury's still out on that one. I'll see how things go over the next few weeks with the M1 using -7.5 and -15. My gut feeling says -12 is good and better than -15, but once I reduce the clamp footprint, I might prefer -15 after all. We'll see.
Nick, thanks for such an excellent product, well done.
I don't know if there are others that want less than -15, but please don't worry about it on my account. Thanks for the offer either way. As said above, I'll see how things pan out. Oh yeah, affecting the zenith ~3 degrees isn't ideal, although I could live with it.