Bullshit! It is on mine, my parents, and my childrens desktops. Even if those ten people are the only people running it, that is still more than the zero implied by "it's not on any."
Even if it is full price that cost is in addition to the cost of maintaining an internet connection, which just about everyone on here is going to have whether they watch TV or not. Unless the cost of the bundle is lower or at least equal to the cost of the internet connection you are going to have anyway, the only value to considered with the included TV channels is the value they bring by themselves. To me, paying anything to receive a fed of commercials should never be added, only subtracted.
Not liking the terms of a product doesn't give you the right to find an illegal alternative. Just because you want a company's product doesn't mean you are entitled to have it on your own terms. You don't like their terms? Buy a competing product to support a company that offers something closer to your needs. That product isn't as good? Too fucking bad.
Though for the most part there is some logic to your argument, the "Too fucking bad" part sounds an awful lot like "Let them eat cake". Once things reach that point things get "pretty fucking bad" for the guys spouting "Too fucking bad" "pretty fucking quickly".
Oh great, so I just gotta live what 300 years until such wide spread cheap data plans et al are available?
That's pretty much how evolution works. The choices you make today usually have a bigger effect on your offspring than they do on you, some of which lead to you having no offspring at all to effect. I think it boils down to the survival of the fittest or some such.
Does their math include those who absolutely refuse to pay to be force fed advertisements? Saw some At&T ads recently that not implied that paying for this garbage isn't only something expected, but also that it is impossible to survive if everyone in your family can't watch their favorite product selling medium uninterupted when they move from one room to another. I'll never understand why people are so willing to pay good money just so they can be subjected to material that encourages them to part with even more.
Totally agree. It's as if people don't realize that $100 a month is $1200 a year, and $1200 a year is $12,000 a decade. Before anyone agrees to sign up for some slick "I bring TV to you!" promotion I really wish they would sit down and think of all the things they could have accomplish if they had an additional $12,000 in hand.
...start writing the next "Dance, Dance, Revolution" in your off hours, but if that doesn't float your boat practice keyboarding standing up. C'mon, give it try! Get up out your chair and start typing "Shake it to the left, shake it to the right, come on baby you know what I like!"
Since when has it been disallowed for family members to share data? Isn't exchanging and preserving information the defining charcteristic of humankind? Perhaps if we are lucky they'll allow us to walk upright as well.
Here's an idea....how about making it impossible for Window's phones to restrict owners from running any software that they please? Since most manufacturers seem to be limiting their phones to the dictates of the carriers it would really make Window's phones stand out in the crowd!
Microsoft isn't going to allow any version jumps that don't suck in profit for themelves, so it makes no sense at all for anyone to purchase a version of their software nearing end of support.
As long has it doesn't have Microsoft shit on it I'd buy one, until then I'll hang on to my N900. Oh, and I'll be happy to entertain offers from anyone wanting to get rid of their N900s.
So they chose Microsoft because it had the sharper blade? Yeah, I know I'm just a market of one but I still search for deals on N900s so I can benefit from Nokia's best product for as long as I can. If they would have sold the N950 without restrictions I'd be buying them up too. So tell me, what Microsoft product do you have the same devotion for?
I've not seen one reason yet to suggest to anyone that they buy a Windows OS phone over any other, but if I were so inclined what selling points would you suggest? And by the way, forget Nokia. They decided to bite the dust when they elected to get in bed with devil who wants to infect the lives of every being on the planet by requiring their software be used to do anything useful.
Yeah, I know I'm just stupid open source open source hardware jerk but when asked, which is quite often, which phone to buy I always say avoid anything related to Microsoft. Now admittedly my personal anomosity goes way back to Gate's letter against hobbyists using his software without ponying up pennies to him. Still today though my advice to everyone is to not buy anything that requires you to pay monies past the original transaction.
Though you anger at the situation is understandable and I hate the consequences, the bottom line still don't say anything in public that you don't want heard. Oh, and speaking of pot, do you really believe that if such surveillance were made illegal no one would listen in?
All you have to do is demonstrate to the "old ones" how your "new and improved" system will benefit them and their offspring and they will eagerly accept updated technology. Unfortunately today, most "new and improved" translates into "fleece them shearer to increase my coffers faster".
No, it isn't a bug because Windows does not take case into consideration.
Wrong, it is a bug because Windows does not take case into consideration. Why shouldn't people be able to separate important stuff from non-important with a Mozilla folder and mozilla folder if they want?
I admit I have no idea about the Usenet issue you mention. But I do know that webpages sent through email suck mostly if you don't happen to have a screen size/resolution that is compatible with the writer's settings.
Email is a text medium for chrisakes! The writer should worry only about what he wrote, not about whether it looks pretty on all reader's screens.
The core features (writing emails including their formatting, browsing folders, etc) doesn't really seem to have changed much since the Mozilla Suite days (which was only a small change from Netscape Communicator). It's looking pretty long in the tooth, and writing good looking emails is lagging behind other applications.
What is good looking to you may not be good looking to me. Email should contain nothing but text, and how I want to view that text is up to me.
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No, it's not the "year of the Linux on the desktop." But such an absolute statement still requires absolute facts to back them up.
Bullshit! It is on mine, my parents, and my childrens desktops. Even if those ten people are the only people running it, that is still more than the zero implied by "it's not on any."
I thought linking issues were resolved with the ABIs aren't copyrightable decision. I could be wrong of course.
Even if it is full price that cost is in addition to the cost of maintaining an internet connection, which just about everyone on here is going to have whether they watch TV or not. Unless the cost of the bundle is lower or at least equal to the cost of the internet connection you are going to have anyway, the only value to considered with the included TV channels is the value they bring by themselves. To me, paying anything to receive a fed of commercials should never be added, only subtracted.
Not liking the terms of a product doesn't give you the right to find an illegal alternative. Just because you want a company's product doesn't mean you are entitled to have it on your own terms. You don't like their terms? Buy a competing product to support a company that offers something closer to your needs. That product isn't as good? Too fucking bad.
Though for the most part there is some logic to your argument, the "Too fucking bad" part sounds an awful lot like "Let them eat cake". Once things reach that point things get "pretty fucking bad" for the guys spouting "Too fucking bad" "pretty fucking quickly".
I look at having to pay to "get TV" and then having to pay more to get the shows that you actually want as adding insult to injury.
Oh great, so I just gotta live what 300 years until such wide spread cheap data plans et al are available?
That's pretty much how evolution works. The choices you make today usually have a bigger effect on your offspring than they do on you, some of which lead to you having no offspring at all to effect. I think it boils down to the survival of the fittest or some such.
Does their math include those who absolutely refuse to pay to be force fed advertisements? Saw some At&T ads recently that not implied that paying for this garbage isn't only something expected, but also that it is impossible to survive if everyone in your family can't watch their favorite product selling medium uninterupted when they move from one room to another. I'll never understand why people are so willing to pay good money just so they can be subjected to material that encourages them to part with even more.
Totally agree. It's as if people don't realize that $100 a month is $1200 a year, and $1200 a year is $12,000 a decade. Before anyone agrees to sign up for some slick "I bring TV to you!" promotion I really wish they would sit down and think of all the things they could have accomplish if they had an additional $12,000 in hand.
...start writing the next "Dance, Dance, Revolution" in your off hours, but if that doesn't float your boat practice keyboarding standing up. C'mon, give it try! Get up out your chair and start typing "Shake it to the left, shake it to the right, come on baby you know what I like!"
The internet is a public forum, and it is absurd to think that anything you say in public will not be heard.
Since when has it been disallowed for family members to share data? Isn't exchanging and preserving information the defining charcteristic of humankind? Perhaps if we are lucky they'll allow us to walk upright as well.
Here's an idea....how about making it impossible for Window's phones to restrict owners from running any software that they please? Since most manufacturers seem to be limiting their phones to the dictates of the carriers it would really make Window's phones stand out in the crowd!
Microsoft isn't going to allow any version jumps that don't suck in profit for themelves, so it makes no sense at all for anyone to purchase a version of their software nearing end of support.
As long has it doesn't have Microsoft shit on it I'd buy one, until then I'll hang on to my N900. Oh, and I'll be happy to entertain offers from anyone wanting to get rid of their N900s.
So they chose Microsoft because it had the sharper blade? Yeah, I know I'm just a market of one but I still search for deals on N900s so I can benefit from Nokia's best product for as long as I can. If they would have sold the N950 without restrictions I'd be buying them up too. So tell me, what Microsoft product do you have the same devotion for?
I've not seen one reason yet to suggest to anyone that they buy a Windows OS phone over any other, but if I were so inclined what selling points would you suggest? And by the way, forget Nokia. They decided to bite the dust when they elected to get in bed with devil who wants to infect the lives of every being on the planet by requiring their software be used to do anything useful.
Yeah, I know I'm just stupid open source open source hardware jerk but when asked, which is quite often, which phone to buy I always say avoid anything related to Microsoft. Now admittedly my personal anomosity goes way back to Gate's letter against hobbyists using his software without ponying up pennies to him. Still today though my advice to everyone is to not buy anything that requires you to pay monies past the original transaction.
Though you anger at the situation is understandable and I hate the consequences, the bottom line still don't say anything in public that you don't want heard. Oh, and speaking of pot, do you really believe that if such surveillance were made illegal no one would listen in?
All you have to do is demonstrate to the "old ones" how your "new and improved" system will benefit them and their offspring and they will eagerly accept updated technology. Unfortunately today, most "new and improved" translates into "fleece them shearer to increase my coffers faster".
No, it isn't a bug because Windows does not take case into consideration.
Wrong, it is a bug because Windows does not take case into consideration. Why shouldn't people be able to separate important stuff from non-important with a Mozilla folder and mozilla folder if they want?
I admit I have no idea about the Usenet issue you mention. But I do know that webpages sent through email suck mostly if you don't happen to have a screen size/resolution that is compatible with the writer's settings.
Email is a text medium for chrisakes! The writer should worry only about what he wrote, not about whether it looks pretty on all reader's screens.
The core features (writing emails including their formatting, browsing folders, etc) doesn't really seem to have changed much since the Mozilla Suite days (which was only a small change from Netscape Communicator). It's looking pretty long in the tooth, and writing good looking emails is lagging behind other applications.
What is good looking to you may not be good looking to me. Email should contain nothing but text, and how I want to view that text is up to me.
Why even consider harmonizing with US law? Ours is restrictive enough as it is and thsoe with money are doing their best to make them even more so.
In your world is it okay to speak out against a government that stifles speech against others or piracy?