I've been with Sprint for over a year now, using their new incarnation of the SERO plan (employee referral) and have no complaints.
$69 and change a month after taxes and fees, unlimited everything except minutes (500 "anytime" unlimited nights and weekend). I have the HTC Hero, and somehow I'm eligible for a full upgrade every year, not 2. I still have to sign up for another 2 years, but it seems once a year they change the contracts allowing you a free out anyway (if I had a reason to leave)
Before my Hero I had a Blackberry Curve. The calls on the Hero do sound a little echoy on my end, but that's a phone issue, not a service issue. I'm rarely in a place without signal here in Washington State, and I'm not in the Seattle Metro Area (thank god).
their customer service has always been good to me, if I need to ask them anything related to my account. Just like anywhere, if you're respectful, they'll help you out, or get you to someone who can. For question about hardware, I never go to them, I look on the phone's related forums instead, so I don't know about their help there.
For info on how to get on their new employee referral program, just Google "Russ.s.mcguire@sprint.com" and it should take you to his site, where you can find the last 3 of his employee number (383 i think...)
They also offer an Employee Referral program for the internet cards.
The version I ended up with, would not install correctly. It's one of the lesser known issues the game has been having on certain machines.
The only solution to the problem I was experiencing is to copy pasta the two data folders, followed by another folder into where you'd normally install it.
That's it. Copy, paste, play. No install. Now I don't know if this works on all the disks sent out (I can't imagine just a large batch being able to bypass install like this, I'd imagine all are), but it worked for me, and it appears to be a way around the DRM. I didn't even have to enter my serial number in. Though I will have to edit one of the files so I can d/l player created content.
Or I do it because I don't make enough to afford rent, food, gas, electricity, water (the basics) and internet, movies, music, WoW, etc. fun stuff.
Plus I have a relatively short attention span for most games, but longer than a demo version. If I truly like the game, I will spend money on it, so that I can own it. Though I usually wait for the game to come down in price.
The last great game that I... "Evaluated the full version" of was Call of Duty 4. I want to buy this game, I enjoyed it, and though I wouldn't play it daily, I'd still pay for it. But it's out of my price range (how long has it been out and it's still $50 "on sale" locally to me?). Once it drops in price a little, I'll gladly pay for the good game.
Basically I pirate, cause I'm poor, and cheap, and have the attention span of a coked out squirrel. Make a game fun, and affordable, and I'll throw money at you.
I'll laugh when they decide to hype this until the end as "Duke Nukem Forever" then change the name at release only so we can continue this wonderful meme.
"DUKE NUKEN FOR... HA WE GOT YOU GOOD!"
Those cubicles at Yahoo! NY are the exact same kind REI "upgraded" to a couple years ago during a remodel of the call center. They wanted it to "match" our Headquarters more (from what I hear though, they have much better offices and it's not all gray.)
I hate these cubes with a passion, I really miss our old set up here. Phone reps were set up back to back roughly, was a little louder, didn't seat as many people, but damn it was a much more fun place to be.
At least I can still wear jeans for the time being...
Because after moving in with the future mother in law (long story short, I saved a bunch of money on my... so we can eventually afford a place of our own, and help out the MiL with bills for now) she already had comcast cable, and shitty phone service from another company. I honestly hadn't had too much to complain about with comcast as I had them when I was in college.
God was I wrong... Not only am I stuck watching "Hannah" "Suite Life" and all those other assinine shows (Living with a 6 y/o sister in law), I'm also getting shit for BitTorrent, and anytime I have my client open (not even downloading) my web browsing does not work. Hasn't since day one, and I've known it was comcast all along, this article just confirms it.
I'll be looking into some other options shortly, as on a recent visit to my brothers I was downloading torrents (on comcast) at insane speeds (Steam updater going at 700kBps, Blizzard updater at about 500kBps, and torrents going just as fast on my computer, my girlfriends, and my brother's wife).
I used to live at the end of a dead end road, and my roommate (whom was purchasing the home) actually owned 1/2 of the road from a telephone pole back to the fence/property line.
We had lots of signs up stating "PRIVATE PROPERTY" "NO TRESPASSING" "Violators will be shot, survivors will be shot again." On a few occasions right after we moved in, we had police patrols in our neighborhood (due to "gang" activity, but that's another story) and they would turn around in our driveway.
The cops were cool, and eventually let us know those signs didn't mean much, unless we actually owned the road, luckily we had the paperwork showing property lines. After that the cops wouldn't (couldn't?) use the very end of the road to turn around in, unless we had personally talked to that officer and gave him our permission. Heck, we let them use our property to conduct a few stake outs too.
So if these people live on a "Private" road, they better be ready to prove they own that land. If not, I say Google had every right to take some pictures.
* Make (or adopt) a decent partitioner that can resize partitions without requiring to buy third party products.
Actually they do have an easy to use partitioner in Vista Ultimate these days. I was easily able to format two old partitions, and merge it back to my main partition, without having to reformat the whole damn thing.
Very nice, very easy (once I figured out why it wouldn't let me merge right off the bat (PEBKAC)). So at least one step in the right direction...
Sh!t. Sure it's stinks to end up on the john without enough TP, butt who needs a crappy law to enforce this? Shouldn't company policy dictate "KEEP IT STOCKED!?" Better yet we could have a stack of company policy left in the bathroom just in case.
Poo.
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I've been with Sprint for over a year now, using their new incarnation of the SERO plan (employee referral) and have no complaints.
$69 and change a month after taxes and fees, unlimited everything except minutes (500 "anytime" unlimited nights and weekend). I have the HTC Hero, and somehow I'm eligible for a full upgrade every year, not 2. I still have to sign up for another 2 years, but it seems once a year they change the contracts allowing you a free out anyway (if I had a reason to leave)
Before my Hero I had a Blackberry Curve. The calls on the Hero do sound a little echoy on my end, but that's a phone issue, not a service issue. I'm rarely in a place without signal here in Washington State, and I'm not in the Seattle Metro Area (thank god).
their customer service has always been good to me, if I need to ask them anything related to my account. Just like anywhere, if you're respectful, they'll help you out, or get you to someone who can. For question about hardware, I never go to them, I look on the phone's related forums instead, so I don't know about their help there.
For info on how to get on their new employee referral program, just Google "Russ.s.mcguire@sprint.com" and it should take you to his site, where you can find the last 3 of his employee number (383 i think...)
They also offer an Employee Referral program for the internet cards.
Doug
Will the court have to *buffering* recess to *buffering* allow the full argumen *buffering* ts to be heard?
Worlds longest *buffering* court case...
The version I ended up with, would not install correctly. It's one of the lesser known issues the game has been having on certain machines.
The only solution to the problem I was experiencing is to copy pasta the two data folders, followed by another folder into where you'd normally install it.
That's it. Copy, paste, play. No install. Now I don't know if this works on all the disks sent out (I can't imagine just a large batch being able to bypass install like this, I'd imagine all are), but it worked for me, and it appears to be a way around the DRM. I didn't even have to enter my serial number in. Though I will have to edit one of the files so I can d/l player created content.
I pirate games 'cause pirates are so cool dude!
Or I do it because I don't make enough to afford rent, food, gas, electricity, water (the basics) and internet, movies, music, WoW, etc. fun stuff.
Plus I have a relatively short attention span for most games, but longer than a demo version. If I truly like the game, I will spend money on it, so that I can own it. Though I usually wait for the game to come down in price.
The last great game that I... "Evaluated the full version" of was Call of Duty 4. I want to buy this game, I enjoyed it, and though I wouldn't play it daily, I'd still pay for it. But it's out of my price range (how long has it been out and it's still $50 "on sale" locally to me?). Once it drops in price a little, I'll gladly pay for the good game.
Basically I pirate, cause I'm poor, and cheap, and have the attention span of a coked out squirrel. Make a game fun, and affordable, and I'll throw money at you.
I'll laugh when they decide to hype this until the end as "Duke Nukem Forever" then change the name at release only so we can continue this wonderful meme. "DUKE NUKEN FOR... HA WE GOT YOU GOOD!"
Those cubicles at Yahoo! NY are the exact same kind REI "upgraded" to a couple years ago during a remodel of the call center. They wanted it to "match" our Headquarters more (from what I hear though, they have much better offices and it's not all gray.) I hate these cubes with a passion, I really miss our old set up here. Phone reps were set up back to back roughly, was a little louder, didn't seat as many people, but damn it was a much more fun place to be. At least I can still wear jeans for the time being...
Because after moving in with the future mother in law (long story short, I saved a bunch of money on my... so we can eventually afford a place of our own, and help out the MiL with bills for now) she already had comcast cable, and shitty phone service from another company. I honestly hadn't had too much to complain about with comcast as I had them when I was in college.
God was I wrong... Not only am I stuck watching "Hannah" "Suite Life" and all those other assinine shows (Living with a 6 y/o sister in law), I'm also getting shit for BitTorrent, and anytime I have my client open (not even downloading) my web browsing does not work. Hasn't since day one, and I've known it was comcast all along, this article just confirms it.
I'll be looking into some other options shortly, as on a recent visit to my brothers I was downloading torrents (on comcast) at insane speeds (Steam updater going at 700kBps, Blizzard updater at about 500kBps, and torrents going just as fast on my computer, my girlfriends, and my brother's wife).
Comcast is just foul.
I used to live at the end of a dead end road, and my roommate (whom was purchasing the home) actually owned 1/2 of the road from a telephone pole back to the fence/property line.
We had lots of signs up stating "PRIVATE PROPERTY" "NO TRESPASSING" "Violators will be shot, survivors will be shot again." On a few occasions right after we moved in, we had police patrols in our neighborhood (due to "gang" activity, but that's another story) and they would turn around in our driveway.
The cops were cool, and eventually let us know those signs didn't mean much, unless we actually owned the road, luckily we had the paperwork showing property lines. After that the cops wouldn't (couldn't?) use the very end of the road to turn around in, unless we had personally talked to that officer and gave him our permission. Heck, we let them use our property to conduct a few stake outs too.
So if these people live on a "Private" road, they better be ready to prove they own that land. If not, I say Google had every right to take some pictures.
Actually they do have an easy to use partitioner in Vista Ultimate these days. I was easily able to format two old partitions, and merge it back to my main partition, without having to reformat the whole damn thing.
Very nice, very easy (once I figured out why it wouldn't let me merge right off the bat (PEBKAC)). So at least one step in the right direction...
Sh!t. Sure it's stinks to end up on the john without enough TP, butt who needs a crappy law to enforce this? Shouldn't company policy dictate "KEEP IT STOCKED!?" Better yet we could have a stack of company policy left in the bathroom just in case. Poo.