Or maybe the Boy Scouts can sue the Software Association and force them to take the last letter off their acronym (a la WWF) making them be known by "BS"
If you really did get charged full retail, you deserve it. Do something about it instead of letting a company screw you. Call your credit card company, reference the text below and get the charge charged back.
From their customer service center pages:
Q: I lost a DVD. What should I do?
A: If you lose a DVD, please send an email to one of our representatives through our Customer Service page. Netflix charges $30 per movie for replacement. Or, you can also go to a local store to purchase the DVD at a cheaper rate and mail it back to us.
The problem with these is that the ones by huge companies often land in cities where they can lease temporary T1s and T3s to accomodate bandwidth. Setting up a mobile center lacking Internet connectivity isn't all that hard, most of the comments cover that. The hard part is getting any reasonable connectivity to the mobile center.
I'd look at satellite broadband options (DirectPC used to have this.) There are also operations making equipment that make mobile satellite tracking possible, although if it will be stationary, you can just re-align manually at each site.
You know, I'm sick of hearing this plan. All that they'll do with returns is re-shrink wrap them and put them back on the shelf. The only money that was lost was by the store, and not by Universal. If you want to punish Universal, punish them and not Tower Records (or whoever.)
Find a way to directly impact Universal's revenue (such as not buying the CD at all.)
One company that does all of the business end stuff for you is Independent Professional Sertvices (IPS) You charge whatever rate you want, they collect, do expenses reports, etc for you, and they take a chunk. I belive you can control the amount they take based on the amount you charge. Kind of a best of both worlds middle ground.
Short snippet from their site:
Why IPS
Independent Professional Services (IPS) is the nation's most respected back-office support organization for Independent Professionals. We offer financial and administrative services designed to help you maximize your earning potential without compromising your independence.
No metion of how well the PDA and native phone functions integrate. The Kyocera Palm OS phone is BAD at this, as you can't dial numbers out of synced contacts.
Oh cry me a river buddy. Try hotmail, yahoo, mail.com, etc... I doubt they'll ever bounce w/o sufficient warning.
Also, you say you feel bad for your technically challeneged friends who can't set up a domain. Well if you're such hot shit, set one up and let them use it also.
People who don't prepare for life's little uncertainties deserve to be bit by them. No one is going to give you a backup plan, you have to make your own.
And, you get screen burn on the sides to boot so when you DO watch a widescreen movie, the sides have crappy contrast from the burn you stupidly allowed to occur by always having the side bars up when watching TV...
Why not set up a gateway/proxy that dolls out IPs internal to your network? I can't imagine them actually being able to talk their way past personally installed firewalls.
Doubtful that they'd have game devlopers lock down code to not run on specific hardware. They know the hardware types of the initial models, but to to rely on always having those specific parts is bad supply chain management. If there are equivalently functional parts by different manufacturers, and one is holding up production of the consoles, they might very well switch or mix the parts to keep production up.
Remember, people won't buy games if they don't have the XBox to run them on...
I think you answered your own question.. It's different times now, they call for different procedures.
Additionally, the UN is in session in NY. Last thing that anybody wants is for Bin Laden to target dozens of VERY high ranking diplomats, especially since he just accused a lot of them of being traitors to Islam.
Maybe NANs could put the telephone company out of business.
Not likely. The phone companies make more off of your need to call people outside of your immediate vicinty. How many calls do you make to the friend across town? Your kids to their school buddies in a different neighborhood? Your parents across the country?
The phone companies have nothing to worry about here.
Might work great for offices and homes, but for those of us in open rooms at work, I can't even begin to imagine the noise overload of twenty people talking to their computers all day. The interface might very well be able to adapt to individual voices, but I wouldn't be able to filter nearly as effectively as it could.
Fast pipes are also fairly insignificant. It all gets down to one less bottleneck, but there are so many more: cache, IO speed, memory and CPU utilization, etc...
WAP is not for all around general surfing. It is for concise text retrieval and submission. I can rattle off tons of WAP sites I have personally used to quite good effect:
* PayPal to pass money to a co-worker after lunch.
* E-Bay to outbid a sniper while on the bus home from work.
* Amazon at a conference to one click order a book mentioned in a speech.
* Yahoo yellow pages to find a restaraunt location while walking around in circles.
* Wireless access to my corporate email, contacts, and calendar
* Northwest Airlines to get gate details of a friend's incoming flight when picking him up at the airport
* etc, etc etc...
The limitations of WAP are not in WAP itself, it's in the sites deploying it, as well as the people using them. WAP will only be as good as the applications built for it. If I expect an experience similiar to the web for WAP, I think it has failed. If I have no expectations for WAP, it is a smashing success.
Perceptions rule...
Re:What can be done? Nothing.
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It's so long after the fact that few people may see this, but I post anyway.
I quote you with "The more terrorists you kill, the less terrorism there will be."
How totally and incomprehensively INCORRECT. People have been applying the same flawed logic to the drug problem for decades with no effect.
Burning down fields of marijuana in South America does not mean less drug addicts in the US, it just means that you pissed off a very strong and powerful drug lord.
Terrorism is like durgs in this regard. Killing some terrorists will not even dent the problem, it will just make the rest of them angrier and push others to join the terrorism cause.
This is simple cause and effect logic. I'm surprised by how many people just don't get this...
Re:this seems mostly harmless, and mostly useless.
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Yup, a Canadian CC and proxy server and you're set to watch...
It is a smart media to floppy disk adaptor for offloading of images from digital cameras. I have also seen Compact Flash cards taht come with USB cables that plug straight into the CF card.
Use these in conjunctions with Internet cafes, and you'd be pretty well set.
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Or maybe the Boy Scouts can sue the Software Association and force them to take the last letter off their acronym (a la WWF) making them be known by "BS"
If you really did get charged full retail, you deserve it. Do something about it instead of letting a company screw you. Call your credit card company, reference the text below and get the charge charged back.
From their customer service center pages:
Q: I lost a DVD. What should I do?
A: If you lose a DVD, please send an email to one of our representatives through our Customer Service page. Netflix charges $30 per movie for replacement. Or, you can also go to a local store to purchase the DVD at a cheaper rate and mail it back to us.
The problem with these is that the ones by huge companies often land in cities where they can lease temporary T1s and T3s to accomodate bandwidth. Setting up a mobile center lacking Internet connectivity isn't all that hard, most of the comments cover that. The hard part is getting any reasonable connectivity to the mobile center.
I'd look at satellite broadband options (DirectPC used to have this.) There are also operations making equipment that make mobile satellite tracking possible, although if it will be stationary, you can just re-align manually at each site.
You know, I'm sick of hearing this plan. All that they'll do with returns is re-shrink wrap them and put them back on the shelf. The only money that was lost was by the store, and not by Universal. If you want to punish Universal, punish them and not Tower Records (or whoever.)
Find a way to directly impact Universal's revenue (such as not buying the CD at all.)
One company that does all of the business end stuff for you is Independent Professional Sertvices (IPS) You charge whatever rate you want, they collect, do expenses reports, etc for you, and they take a chunk. I belive you can control the amount they take based on the amount you charge. Kind of a best of both worlds middle ground.
Short snippet from their site:
Why IPS
Independent Professional Services (IPS) is the nation's most respected back-office support organization for Independent Professionals. We offer financial and administrative services designed to help you maximize your earning potential without compromising your independence.
GSM has been in the US since at least 1994 when Sprint Spectrum deployed it to the Washington DC Metro area.
No metion of how well the PDA and native phone functions integrate. The Kyocera Palm OS phone is BAD at this, as you can't dial numbers out of synced contacts.
Anyone know how this unit handles this?
Oh cry me a river buddy. Try hotmail, yahoo, mail.com, etc... I doubt they'll ever bounce w/o sufficient warning.
Also, you say you feel bad for your technically challeneged friends who can't set up a domain. Well if you're such hot shit, set one up and let them use it also.
People who don't prepare for life's little uncertainties deserve to be bit by them. No one is going to give you a backup plan, you have to make your own.
And, you get screen burn on the sides to boot so when you DO watch a widescreen movie, the sides have crappy contrast from the burn you stupidly allowed to occur by always having the side bars up when watching TV...
Why not set up a gateway/proxy that dolls out IPs internal to your network? I can't imagine them actually being able to talk their way past personally installed firewalls.
Doubtful that they'd have game devlopers lock down code to not run on specific hardware. They know the hardware types of the initial models, but to to rely on always having those specific parts is bad supply chain management. If there are equivalently functional parts by different manufacturers, and one is holding up production of the consoles, they might very well switch or mix the parts to keep production up.
Remember, people won't buy games if they don't have the XBox to run them on...
"Or at least it wasn't before 11 Sep 2001"
I think you answered your own question.. It's different times now, they call for different procedures.
Additionally, the UN is in session in NY. Last thing that anybody wants is for Bin Laden to target dozens of VERY high ranking diplomats, especially since he just accused a lot of them of being traitors to Islam.
When did they start talking to /.ers??
Maybe NANs could put the telephone company out of business.
Not likely. The phone companies make more off of your need to call people outside of your immediate vicinty. How many calls do you make to the friend across town? Your kids to their school buddies in a different neighborhood? Your parents across the country?
The phone companies have nothing to worry about here.
Might work great for offices and homes, but for those of us in open rooms at work, I can't even begin to imagine the noise overload of twenty people talking to their computers all day. The interface might very well be able to adapt to individual voices, but I wouldn't be able to filter nearly as effectively as it could.
Agreed.
Fast pipes are also fairly insignificant. It all gets down to one less bottleneck, but there are so many more: cache, IO speed, memory and CPU utilization, etc...
This "benchmark" is not too useful.
WAP is not for all around general surfing. It is for concise text retrieval and submission. I can rattle off tons of WAP sites I have personally used to quite good effect:
* PayPal to pass money to a co-worker after lunch.
* E-Bay to outbid a sniper while on the bus home from work.
* Amazon at a conference to one click order a book mentioned in a speech.
* Yahoo yellow pages to find a restaraunt location while walking around in circles.
* Wireless access to my corporate email, contacts, and calendar
* Northwest Airlines to get gate details of a friend's incoming flight when picking him up at the airport
* etc, etc etc...
The limitations of WAP are not in WAP itself, it's in the sites deploying it, as well as the people using them. WAP will only be as good as the applications built for it. If I expect an experience similiar to the web for WAP, I think it has failed. If I have no expectations for WAP, it is a smashing success.
Perceptions rule...
It's so long after the fact that few people may see this, but I post anyway.
I quote you with "The more terrorists you kill, the less terrorism there will be."
How totally and incomprehensively INCORRECT. People have been applying the same flawed logic to the drug problem for decades with no effect.
Burning down fields of marijuana in South America does not mean less drug addicts in the US, it just means that you pissed off a very strong and powerful drug lord.
Terrorism is like durgs in this regard. Killing some terrorists will not even dent the problem, it will just make the rest of them angrier and push others to join the terrorism cause.
This is simple cause and effect logic. I'm surprised by how many people just don't get this...
Yup, a Canadian CC and proxy server and you're set to watch...
At least the Olympus (and any other digital camera using smart media) can use this cool device I saw in the IGo catalog last night.
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http://www.igo.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDi
It is a smart media to floppy disk adaptor for offloading of images from digital cameras. I have also seen Compact Flash cards taht come with USB cables that plug straight into the CF card.
Use these in conjunctions with Internet cafes, and you'd be pretty well set.