Your assuming that the lawsuit would be in the court of law. Point me to a single contract nowadays that doesn't force you into "mandatory binding arbitration". Go google that phrase, your screwed if you think you can take it to court.
Sadly, no, its not. YOu can give them your information, and they will contact you when it opens back up again. (I have been waiting over a year, with no emails from them). Or, they are only doing the beta in a few area codes, which would make sense, but don't bother telling anyone which ones.
FYI, the newest Motorola's seem to have moved to a Micro-USB connector. While you can find adapters from mini-USB to Micro-USB, they are about the same price as buying a new cable.
But your looking at it from the wrong side. You did not need to purchase two additional cables that cost a few pennies to make, and sell for $10-$25, in addition to car chargers, international chargers, etc. That's why the industry is dragging its feet.
They repealed the luxury tax on telephones a few years ago. It was enacted to pay for the Spanish-American war. So they do repeal them, but sometimes it takes 107 years. http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/06/5056.ars
Would you trust the French sub? I know I wouldn't? One of two things would happen.
-The french sub realizes its being followed, at which point is surfaces, and raises a white flag of surrender, causing some embarrassment for capturing an ally. The French just used their natural instinct.
-Somebody mentions they are thinking of invading France, at which point the nation surrenders, and turns over all their information about where their forces and their allies forces are.
Neither is going to do England well. Might as well just stay in the shadows.
This is really no different than Region Coding DVD players. You can maximize profits by selling in each region what the market will bear. However, you have to find ways to ensure that people can't purchase that $2 new movie, and play it in their American player.
I had found out about grand central right at the time google bought it. That was quite some time ago. I would love to see if it is still alive, and "coming soon" or canceled, but google is absolutely horrible at letting people know the status of new projects. Look how long it took them to take dodgeball into something released. With no information in the meantime to interested users...
The article talks about using DWDM to basically multiplex multiple 40Gbps wavelengths on the same fiber. Separating out the wavelengths at the other end is the part where the speed limitation seems to be. 40Gbps has been around for awhile, and so has DWDM.
Um, porn went VHS, instead of betamax. Porn went Blue-ray, instead of HD-DVD. Both of these happened when the competing standards were new, and both times, the side they picked one the format war, after they had decided to use that format.
Why did this post get labeled troll? Honestly? The US has admitted to sneaking code into valve controllers made by a company that the US knew that the russians were discreetely and secretly buying, that would cause them to go wonky when certain circumstances happened, leading to a huge explosion on one of their main siberian gas pipelines. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1455559/CIA-plot-led-to-huge-blast-in-Siberian-gas-pipeline.html Why would it be different for cuba?
So should someone sue the guild, for not being accessible for the blind? Most blind books are not released for ages after the original. The read out loud feature could be seen as an accessibility tool, like the screen reader in XP.
Why would you need to vote, when you can just buy politicians?
but seriously, if a corporation gets treated as a person in legal realms, it should get punished as one. I would love to see a "corporate death penalty" where they just reject the charter of a corporation, dissolving it, or place it in a "jail" so it can't do any business for 30 days, or whatever..
I couldn't agree more. A $500 box would free me from cable, at the price of about 18 months worth of cable. That's not a very good ROI. $300 would at least break me free in a year or so. (I don't have digital cable, if I did, it would probably be much quicker) Also, why do you never see these set top boxes with the over the air tuners? I would love one that acted as my digital TV tuner too
I'd love to agree, but at 6'5", i really can't. I don't care about seat sizes, I hate the knees digging into the back of the seat in front of me. Keep in mind that the average height in the US has gone up a few inches in the last few decades as well.
It does go quicker in hardware, but there are lots of gotchas. Do you update machines in the middle of the night and have them reboot? your users will come into the office in the morning, to find their PC still waiting to have the password or finger swipe done in the bios. The software to manage all the keys for these seagate drives is not really there yet. Trying to manage thousands across domains is a pain, and good luck if somebody forgets a password.
A mac is expensive (i know, not always) and since OSX only comes with apple hardware (in theory) there isn't as much to worry about. With Ubuntu, any Dell, HP, Acer, etc, can have Ubuntu installed. That is a threat, since it runs on the hardware made by your best partners. Not to mention, new versions of Ubuntu (or other linux flavors) run great on Netbooks with a very small flash drive and ram. The only comparable Microsoft product is 9 years old, and about to be two versions behind.
I played with it on my blackberry, its pretty cool. When I quit the Map App, it asks if I want to keep tracking on, or disable it. Also, you have to give people permission to see your location. I can't help but think of some handy uses for it, such as your meeting friends at the game, and don't know where in the crowded parking lot they are, or what bar their sitting in downtown, and your trying to join them. It would be a hell of alot faster than trying to talk someone all the way to my location.
Actually, many states have the state owned liquor distributors. COSTCO is currently suing the states of Washington and Oregon over it. California does not have such a law, and it was awesome to see half gallons of Smirnoff for much less than what a 5th of smirnoff costs in Oregon. Good luck in Oregon trying to find liquor after 9pm! Or on a Sunday!
Seriously, this crap makes me want to lease a frequency in my area, talk to the owner of the cell phone tower 2 miles away, and put a WIMAX setup there, and become a small ISP for my area.
When everyone wants to do it this way, you'll get Cable TV, on your computer. Every time ESPN jacks up their rates a few dollars a subscriber, your ISP will jack up their rates a few dollars. This is one of the main causes on why cable has gotten so expensive since deregulation, and ESPN is one of the worst at it.
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Your assuming that the lawsuit would be in the court of law. Point me to a single contract nowadays that doesn't force you into "mandatory binding arbitration". Go google that phrase, your screwed if you think you can take it to court.
Sadly, no, its not. YOu can give them your information, and they will contact you when it opens back up again. (I have been waiting over a year, with no emails from them). Or, they are only doing the beta in a few area codes, which would make sense, but don't bother telling anyone which ones.
FYI, the newest Motorola's seem to have moved to a Micro-USB connector. While you can find adapters from mini-USB to Micro-USB, they are about the same price as buying a new cable.
But your looking at it from the wrong side. You did not need to purchase two additional cables that cost a few pennies to make, and sell for $10-$25, in addition to car chargers, international chargers, etc. That's why the industry is dragging its feet.
They repealed the luxury tax on telephones a few years ago. It was enacted to pay for the Spanish-American war. So they do repeal them, but sometimes it takes 107 years. http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/06/5056.ars
Would you trust the French sub? I know I wouldn't? One of two things would happen.
-The french sub realizes its being followed, at which point is surfaces, and raises a white flag of surrender, causing some embarrassment for capturing an ally. The French just used their natural instinct.
-Somebody mentions they are thinking of invading France, at which point the nation surrenders, and turns over all their information about where their forces and their allies forces are.
Neither is going to do England well. Might as well just stay in the shadows.
This is really no different than Region Coding DVD players. You can maximize profits by selling in each region what the market will bear. However, you have to find ways to ensure that people can't purchase that $2 new movie, and play it in their American player.
I had found out about grand central right at the time google bought it. That was quite some time ago. I would love to see if it is still alive, and "coming soon" or canceled, but google is absolutely horrible at letting people know the status of new projects. Look how long it took them to take dodgeball into something released. With no information in the meantime to interested users...
The article talks about using DWDM to basically multiplex multiple 40Gbps wavelengths on the same fiber. Separating out the wavelengths at the other end is the part where the speed limitation seems to be. 40Gbps has been around for awhile, and so has DWDM.
Um, porn went VHS, instead of betamax. Porn went Blue-ray, instead of HD-DVD. Both of these happened when the competing standards were new, and both times, the side they picked one the format war, after they had decided to use that format.
Why did this post get labeled troll? Honestly? The US has admitted to sneaking code into valve controllers made by a company that the US knew that the russians were discreetely and secretly buying, that would cause them to go wonky when certain circumstances happened, leading to a huge explosion on one of their main siberian gas pipelines. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1455559/CIA-plot-led-to-huge-blast-in-Siberian-gas-pipeline.html Why would it be different for cuba?
My buddy figured out how to craft the message. He emailed me the message this morning at work. Hmm, maybe that's why its such a quiet day.
Kelly Bundy.. hmm, can't remember how I know that name....
So should someone sue the guild, for not being accessible for the blind? Most blind books are not released for ages after the original. The read out loud feature could be seen as an accessibility tool, like the screen reader in XP.
Why would you need to vote, when you can just buy politicians?
but seriously, if a corporation gets treated as a person in legal realms, it should get punished as one. I would love to see a "corporate death penalty" where they just reject the charter of a corporation, dissolving it, or place it in a "jail" so it can't do any business for 30 days, or whatever..
I couldn't agree more. A $500 box would free me from cable, at the price of about 18 months worth of cable. That's not a very good ROI. $300 would at least break me free in a year or so. (I don't have digital cable, if I did, it would probably be much quicker) Also, why do you never see these set top boxes with the over the air tuners? I would love one that acted as my digital TV tuner too
I've always thought it was ooo-bun-too
Like Goo bun too, which apparently, makes me sound like a chimp ;)
I'd love to agree, but at 6'5", i really can't. I don't care about seat sizes, I hate the knees digging into the back of the seat in front of me. Keep in mind that the average height in the US has gone up a few inches in the last few decades as well.
It does go quicker in hardware, but there are lots of gotchas. Do you update machines in the middle of the night and have them reboot? your users will come into the office in the morning, to find their PC still waiting to have the password or finger swipe done in the bios. The software to manage all the keys for these seagate drives is not really there yet. Trying to manage thousands across domains is a pain, and good luck if somebody forgets a password.
A mac is expensive (i know, not always) and since OSX only comes with apple hardware (in theory) there isn't as much to worry about. With Ubuntu, any Dell, HP, Acer, etc, can have Ubuntu installed. That is a threat, since it runs on the hardware made by your best partners. Not to mention, new versions of Ubuntu (or other linux flavors) run great on Netbooks with a very small flash drive and ram. The only comparable Microsoft product is 9 years old, and about to be two versions behind.
I played with it on my blackberry, its pretty cool. When I quit the Map App, it asks if I want to keep tracking on, or disable it. Also, you have to give people permission to see your location. I can't help but think of some handy uses for it, such as your meeting friends at the game, and don't know where in the crowded parking lot they are, or what bar their sitting in downtown, and your trying to join them. It would be a hell of alot faster than trying to talk someone all the way to my location.
Maybe they just want to be the cheaper console next time around.
Actually, many states have the state owned liquor distributors. COSTCO is currently suing the states of Washington and Oregon over it. California does not have such a law, and it was awesome to see half gallons of Smirnoff for much less than what a 5th of smirnoff costs in Oregon. Good luck in Oregon trying to find liquor after 9pm! Or on a Sunday!
Seriously, this crap makes me want to lease a frequency in my area, talk to the owner of the cell phone tower 2 miles away, and put a WIMAX setup there, and become a small ISP for my area.
When everyone wants to do it this way, you'll get Cable TV, on your computer. Every time ESPN jacks up their rates a few dollars a subscriber, your ISP will jack up their rates a few dollars. This is one of the main causes on why cable has gotten so expensive since deregulation, and ESPN is one of the worst at it.