do any of you actually HAVE rokus? because i have to say i love mine. i have the worst internet offered through earthlink ($30/mo) and a old 20 inch tv and the quality is perfect. it looks exactly like regular tv, except it's on demand and commercial free! cable costs over $100 a month in my neighborhood, so this is by far a cheaper and better option for me. if it had hulu added on, it would be even more worth it. but even with just the 12,000 titles netflix offers, i always have something to watch. it only cost a $100 plus the netflix membership - a big savings compared to cable.
headbone zone email! i used it as a kid (i'm 23 now) and it was great. it's a whitelist system, so they never get spam and only get email from friends.
www.headbone.com
The consumer pays the sales tax to the state they live in IF they are buying from somewhere that has a physical presence in the state. So if they ship from florida but the buyer is in new york, the consumer does not have to pay sales tax. They are avoiding it because it gives them a competitive advantage, and there is no reason why the consumer shouldn't pay sales tax. You would have to at a local bookstore, you should have to at Amazon, unless there isn't a physical distribution center. The only way they should be allowed to avoid this is if they only have a presence in a sales tax free state. Property taxes don't negate the need to pay sales tax. Don't all you homeowners pay your property taxes AND whatever sales taxes apply? There shouldn't be a loophole. And honestly, in this recession, we should be happy to have more money going to the states to benefit all instead of Amazon's pocketbooks (with their added revenue from people who buy with them to avoid sales tax).
Isn't the big reason for going with Dell support anyway? I'd much rather have support and guaranteed compatibility with all the hardware then spending 3 days trying to figure it out myself. I am an above average user but I still can't get wireless working on my Ubuntu laptop so now the computer is worthless...that's worth spending more to me!
why would i pay to download on itunes unless i have an ipod? i can't play songs i legally bought on my mp3 player from itunes, but every one of my "pirated" songs play fine. so there is no reason for me to pay for downloads, as they only work on my computer and 99% of the time i listen to music on my player. yes, i know there are other places to buy mp3s but i'm not interested in services that expire if i stop paying. i'm willing to pay only for artists i know i like. when i want to experiment, i download THEN buy the cd if they're worth listening to. if i couldn't download, i wouldn't listen to the artist at all. same goes for movies. i don't have ten bucks to see a movie in theaters that's horrible anyway. if i couldn't download, i would wait till it came on tv or i could rent it. the system has been set up so that huge companies make the majority of the profit - they will have to recognize that this needs to change if they want to stay in business at all. in fact, i'm more likely to buy when i know the proceeds benefit the artist and less likely to buy if they're on a major record label or already extremely wealthy. for example - i'll pay full price for my friend's cd but i would never pay full price for a madonna cd. neither she nor record execs need my $15 bucks as badly as i do.
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so the only US carrier this will work with is Verizon? Or do I have that reversed? Thanks!
do any of you actually HAVE rokus? because i have to say i love mine. i have the worst internet offered through earthlink ($30/mo) and a old 20 inch tv and the quality is perfect. it looks exactly like regular tv, except it's on demand and commercial free! cable costs over $100 a month in my neighborhood, so this is by far a cheaper and better option for me. if it had hulu added on, it would be even more worth it. but even with just the 12,000 titles netflix offers, i always have something to watch. it only cost a $100 plus the netflix membership - a big savings compared to cable.
headbone zone email! i used it as a kid (i'm 23 now) and it was great. it's a whitelist system, so they never get spam and only get email from friends. www.headbone.com
doesn't support video chat!
digsby doesn't work on linux yet!
because he wants Jabber support! AIM and GTalk...or I misread it. But that's what I want...
The consumer pays the sales tax to the state they live in IF they are buying from somewhere that has a physical presence in the state. So if they ship from florida but the buyer is in new york, the consumer does not have to pay sales tax. They are avoiding it because it gives them a competitive advantage, and there is no reason why the consumer shouldn't pay sales tax. You would have to at a local bookstore, you should have to at Amazon, unless there isn't a physical distribution center. The only way they should be allowed to avoid this is if they only have a presence in a sales tax free state. Property taxes don't negate the need to pay sales tax. Don't all you homeowners pay your property taxes AND whatever sales taxes apply? There shouldn't be a loophole. And honestly, in this recession, we should be happy to have more money going to the states to benefit all instead of Amazon's pocketbooks (with their added revenue from people who buy with them to avoid sales tax).
thanks!
Isn't the big reason for going with Dell support anyway? I'd much rather have support and guaranteed compatibility with all the hardware then spending 3 days trying to figure it out myself. I am an above average user but I still can't get wireless working on my Ubuntu laptop so now the computer is worthless...that's worth spending more to me!
indy artists can use an independent site (like tunecore.com) and keep the 70 cents for themselves. skip the record label, and the bs.
why would i pay to download on itunes unless i have an ipod? i can't play songs i legally bought on my mp3 player from itunes, but every one of my "pirated" songs play fine. so there is no reason for me to pay for downloads, as they only work on my computer and 99% of the time i listen to music on my player. yes, i know there are other places to buy mp3s but i'm not interested in services that expire if i stop paying. i'm willing to pay only for artists i know i like. when i want to experiment, i download THEN buy the cd if they're worth listening to. if i couldn't download, i wouldn't listen to the artist at all. same goes for movies. i don't have ten bucks to see a movie in theaters that's horrible anyway. if i couldn't download, i would wait till it came on tv or i could rent it. the system has been set up so that huge companies make the majority of the profit - they will have to recognize that this needs to change if they want to stay in business at all. in fact, i'm more likely to buy when i know the proceeds benefit the artist and less likely to buy if they're on a major record label or already extremely wealthy. for example - i'll pay full price for my friend's cd but i would never pay full price for a madonna cd. neither she nor record execs need my $15 bucks as badly as i do.