The list has both prices! Regular Price and NOW are two different prices. The "NOW" prices is the promotional price. The regular price is the actual price.
It only gets that expensive if you also have VoIP phone service with them or also more expensive for the higher speeds but the people that I know that get it go with the slowest speed or the twice the speed for $5 more. For the people that just want cheap internet it is pretty good but for everyone else that wants to pay 10-30 more for more speed are better off with DSL or cable.
Here are the prices of clearwire:
ClearPremium Up to 1.5Mbps download 5 email accounts 2 yr term Regular Price: $ 34.99/mo NOW $ 9.99/mo for the first 4 months $ 100.00 in savings + Free Activation + Free Shipping
ClearPremium Plus Up to 2.0Mbps download 5 email accounts 2 yr term Regular Price: $ 44.99/mo NOW $ 24.99/mo for the first 3 months $ 60.00 in savings + Free Activation + Free Shipping
ClearValue Up to 768Kbps download 3 email accounts 2 yr term Regular Price: $ 24.99/mo NOW $ 19.99/mo for the first 3 months $ 15.00 in savings + Free Activation + Free Shipping
ClearPremium Choice Up to 1.5Mbps download 5 email accounts 2 yr term Regular Price: $ 29.99/mo NOW $ 29.99/mo + Free Activation + Free Shipping
Clearwire starts at $25 (they try to get you with a much lower promotional price) and I don't believe that they will add $75 in taxes. It's $5 more if you don't own a modem. (or purchase for $100)
Here in the Daytona Beach Area, we got Clearwire as WiMax provider since about 2 years and a lot of people like it because it is cheaper than DSL and cable. Clearwire also advertised itself to work on the beach. Who doesn't want to sit on the beach and have Internet access? (even though I know nobody that has ever used it like that)
I disagree with you, DRM is good for renting (movies, music, and even software). The problem with DRM is just that it is also more often used for products that you "buy". If I rent a movie and it stops playing after a few days than I'm OK with it but if I "buy" a movie than I want to be able to use it in any legal way for as long as I own it.
More important that this is why the registrars even obeyed to the order (that are not located in Kentucky) and which ones ignored it because they know that there is no jurisdiction.
This is at least a good indication not to buy domain from http://www.publicdomainregistry.com/ since they are not located in Kentucky and still gave at least one domain to the state.
You are right that they would get a higher grade but they earned it by showing that they knew everything perfectly at the end of class and isn't that the main point behind the final grade for the class? Shouldn't someone that learned everything get a high grade and someone that knows only some parts get a lower one? The student by the way would probably get an A (two grades higher with 90% because very often is the final exam worth twice as much as a test which would count like 3 test with a 100% and 2 with 75%. This is very unlikely to happen since you normally have more tests than that but if a student really works that hard and is only graded on test and than I believe he should get rewarded for that.
I had teachers at High School that replaced the lowest test score with the score of the final exam (assuming the final was better than the lowest test score). That way you could always make up for a bad test and you got tested on it again on the final exam. Another teacher always allowed to make up test a second time and by doing that the students still needed to study for the test. I never needed that but I know a lot of people that studied a lot for the final exams or studying for old test at the end of the semester to get better grades. School is for learning and not making the lazy students feel better. Both of these choices are better in my opinion than lowering the expectations from the students. Why doesn't the school doesn't simply change the grading to the following format so that the bad students still pass (and I really hope they don't do that or that mentioned in the article) 90% = A 80% = B 70% = C 40% = D
Pittsburgh is asking the wrong question to a problem. Instead of asking, "how can they get better grades?" they should ask, "how can they learn more?"
But you can make a backup of your movie to any USB device and play it on the same console.
The article is very messed up. The title alone has 2 errors. First like "doctor no" said do they allow two downloads and second the download limit has nothing to do with DRM. The DRM only has the one device limit.
In my opinion should Sony bind the movie to your account so that any device that is logged in with that account can play the movie and they should add a redownload fee (or make it free) after the second download of my one dollar to cover the bandwidth cost.
3) Create a Ubuntu USA/Japan Edition without the codecs (the two countries with software patents) and a Ubuntu World Edition with all the codecs. Doesn't that seem like the best idea?
I'm paying about $10 a year for my cell phone service. T-Mobile has a prepay plan called "Pay As You Go" where the minutes expire after a year after spending $100 with them. So if you get that (sometimes for $88 with phone at Target) than it will cost you only 83 cents a month to keep the phone active after the year. The minutes also don't expire as long as you fill it up once a year with the smallest amount. It is also only 10 cents a minute which is like a cheap plan with some other providers.
My mother tried to change to online billing for her power bill with FPL (Florida Power & Light). First month worked by paying from her account, the next month my brother paid the bill, the third month my mother tried to use automatic payment using her account but the money was taken from my brother's account just because it was the last one that was used instead of the one that was configured with automatic payment. That caused my brother's account to go in the negative which meant we had to go to the bank and tell them that the charge was never authorized which than caused FPL to charge us a fine for not paying because their system made a mistake. After about 2 weeks fighting with them over the phone that their system made a mistake, we finally got the bill paid without the fine. Two weeks later I heard about someone else at work that tried to pay a bill using two accounts (half using her account and the other half her husband's account). In that case FPL just took all the money for the bill from just her account which caused her account to go in the negative and she had the same problem like us with getting her money back and the fine waived. After all that I heard from many other people about the same problem and now the safest way to pay the bill is doing by check instead of using the online payment system. FPL never said that it was their fault even if multiple people have similar problems.
All other company our family deal's with seems to be able to have a working automated bill payment and online payment system.
It's great that Sprint-Nextel spent $27 million after Katrina for its emergency response team but wasn't that a little late? I was reading a few years ago about an article after the 4 hurricanes hit Florida within 5-6 weeks (before Katrina) that Nextel was the worst cellular operator with its emergency response team. I believe T-Mobile had the best emergency response team but they were not even mentioned in the article. I'm guessing being prepared before the disaster isn't as amazing as saying that you spent a lot of money after the disaster...
I heard one the show "Security Now" that those one-time payments are NOT one-time payments. It only means that a virtual credit card is created that will expire next month which could leave 60 days of abuse. You have to remember to close the virtual credit card manually after every use.
I know Citi Bank has a similar service that I use but they also allow to set a limit for the virtual credit card so that not more can be charged.
You could always just hire a airplane and a pilot to fly you. If you call a flight school near an airport than you will very likely get someone to fly you for the "cheap" since many that have the license need a certain number of hours flying before allowed to fly for a big airline.
I still agree with the "risk it" airline idea. I can remember when my father was able to see on TeleText (only on PAL TVs) that a flight was leaving in two hours to his destination where a customer needed help and he was able to get onto the airplane in time because the security checks didn't take 5 minutes. This will probably also save the airline money since it wouldn't have to spend so much money on the security which could make the ticket price cheaper.
Commander Keen was pretty good. So that would be 1991 but to be honest they haven't really released quality software in a long time in my opinion. They have been the publisher for some ok products like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory but overall they only had squeals and nothing really new and creative.
You are right that a computer can't change the laws of physics but, for example, in Germany you have areas on the highway without speed limit (only recommended speed) and it works. There is just a fence around the highway so that no animals get on the street.
As HungryHobo said, it is just important to keep the distance. 200mph probably is too much for the (current) streets but driving 120-150mph shouldn't be a problem. Think about how much time people would save if they could drive twice the speed. (and maybe at the same time do something else)
You could stay with gmail by getting the Gmail Premier Edition for $50 a year. That provides more function and you can turn off the spying/ads.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html
Otherwise I would say you can go to pretty much any domain provider because most also sell email accounts with the domain.
I agree with you that Google/Microsoft/Yahoo are opt-in but NebuAd, for example, has it's servers at the ISP facility and tracks everything (not just it's own network websites) and only sometimes are opt-out options offered. If you want to have Internet access then you have to accept often the spying and selling information about you. I have no problem if my ISP would say, "for a $2 discount on your bill we will use this system to track you and provide better targeted ads". That way each user can decide if they want that service (and without money involved most customers wouldn't want to get spied on).
If it is such a problem finding people than you can contact me. I got a BS degree with 3.8 GPA and MS degree with 4.0 GPA but it seems nobody is hiring for entry level or internship position in the Networking field...
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The list has both prices!
Regular Price and NOW are two different prices. The "NOW" prices is the promotional price. The regular price is the actual price.
It only gets that expensive if you also have VoIP phone service with them or also more expensive for the higher speeds but the people that I know that get it go with the slowest speed or the twice the speed for $5 more. For the people that just want cheap internet it is pretty good but for everyone else that wants to pay 10-30 more for more speed are better off with DSL or cable.
Here are the prices of clearwire:
ClearPremium /mo /mo
Up to 1.5Mbps download
5 email accounts
2 yr term
Regular Price: $ 34.99
NOW $ 9.99
for the first 4 months
$ 100.00 in savings
+ Free Activation
+ Free Shipping
ClearPremium Plus /mo /mo
Up to 2.0Mbps download
5 email accounts
2 yr term
Regular Price: $ 44.99
NOW $ 24.99
for the first 3 months
$ 60.00 in savings
+ Free Activation
+ Free Shipping
ClearValue /mo /mo
Up to 768Kbps download
3 email accounts
2 yr term
Regular Price: $ 24.99
NOW $ 19.99
for the first 3 months
$ 15.00 in savings
+ Free Activation
+ Free Shipping
ClearPremium Choice /mo /mo
Up to 1.5Mbps download
5 email accounts
2 yr term
Regular Price: $ 29.99
NOW $ 29.99
+ Free Activation
+ Free Shipping
Clearwire starts at $25 (they try to get you with a much lower promotional price) and I don't believe that they will add $75 in taxes. It's $5 more if you don't own a modem. (or purchase for $100)
Here in the Daytona Beach Area, we got Clearwire as WiMax provider since about 2 years and a lot of people like it because it is cheaper than DSL and cable. Clearwire also advertised itself to work on the beach. Who doesn't want to sit on the beach and have Internet access? (even though I know nobody that has ever used it like that)
I disagree with you, DRM is good for renting (movies, music, and even software). The problem with DRM is just that it is also more often used for products that you "buy".
If I rent a movie and it stops playing after a few days than I'm OK with it but if I "buy" a movie than I want to be able to use it in any legal way for as long as I own it.
More important that this is why the registrars even obeyed to the order (that are not located in Kentucky) and which ones ignored it because they know that there is no jurisdiction.
This is at least a good indication not to buy domain from http://www.publicdomainregistry.com/ since they are not located in Kentucky and still gave at least one domain to the state.
You are right that they would get a higher grade but they earned it by showing that they knew everything perfectly at the end of class and isn't that the main point behind the final grade for the class? Shouldn't someone that learned everything get a high grade and someone that knows only some parts get a lower one?
The student by the way would probably get an A (two grades higher with 90% because very often is the final exam worth twice as much as a test which would count like 3 test with a 100% and 2 with 75%. This is very unlikely to happen since you normally have more tests than that but if a student really works that hard and is only graded on test and than I believe he should get rewarded for that.
I had teachers at High School that replaced the lowest test score with the score of the final exam (assuming the final was better than the lowest test score). That way you could always make up for a bad test and you got tested on it again on the final exam. Another teacher always allowed to make up test a second time and by doing that the students still needed to study for the test. I never needed that but I know a lot of people that studied a lot for the final exams or studying for old test at the end of the semester to get better grades. School is for learning and not making the lazy students feel better.
Both of these choices are better in my opinion than lowering the expectations from the students. Why doesn't the school doesn't simply change the grading to the following format so that the bad students still pass (and I really hope they don't do that or that mentioned in the article)
90% = A
80% = B
70% = C
40% = D
Pittsburgh is asking the wrong question to a problem. Instead of asking, "how can they get better grades?" they should ask, "how can they learn more?"
But you can make a backup of your movie to any USB device and play it on the same console.
The article is very messed up. The title alone has 2 errors. First like "doctor no" said do they allow two downloads and second the download limit has nothing to do with DRM. The DRM only has the one device limit.
In my opinion should Sony bind the movie to your account so that any device that is logged in with that account can play the movie and they should add a redownload fee (or make it free) after the second download of my one dollar to cover the bandwidth cost.
3) Create a Ubuntu USA/Japan Edition without the codecs (the two countries with software patents) and a Ubuntu World Edition with all the codecs. Doesn't that seem like the best idea?
Can't they just put that stuff inside the Help menu, near the About Firefox item?
They can put the EULA in the Help menu but it wouldn't be a binding contract if they don't prompt for the EULA before using the software.
I'm paying about $10 a year for my cell phone service. T-Mobile has a prepay plan called "Pay As You Go" where the minutes expire after a year after spending $100 with them. So if you get that (sometimes for $88 with phone at Target) than it will cost you only 83 cents a month to keep the phone active after the year. The minutes also don't expire as long as you fill it up once a year with the smallest amount. It is also only 10 cents a minute which is like a cheap plan with some other providers.
You can read about it here:
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/default.aspx?plancategory=4
My mother tried to change to online billing for her power bill with FPL (Florida Power & Light). First month worked by paying from her account, the next month my brother paid the bill, the third month my mother tried to use automatic payment using her account but the money was taken from my brother's account just because it was the last one that was used instead of the one that was configured with automatic payment. That caused my brother's account to go in the negative which meant we had to go to the bank and tell them that the charge was never authorized which than caused FPL to charge us a fine for not paying because their system made a mistake. After about 2 weeks fighting with them over the phone that their system made a mistake, we finally got the bill paid without the fine.
Two weeks later I heard about someone else at work that tried to pay a bill using two accounts (half using her account and the other half her husband's account). In that case FPL just took all the money for the bill from just her account which caused her account to go in the negative and she had the same problem like us with getting her money back and the fine waived.
After all that I heard from many other people about the same problem and now the safest way to pay the bill is doing by check instead of using the online payment system. FPL never said that it was their fault even if multiple people have similar problems.
All other company our family deal's with seems to be able to have a working automated bill payment and online payment system.
It's great that Sprint-Nextel spent $27 million after Katrina for its emergency response team but wasn't that a little late? I was reading a few years ago about an article after the 4 hurricanes hit Florida within 5-6 weeks (before Katrina) that Nextel was the worst cellular operator with its emergency response team. I believe T-Mobile had the best emergency response team but they were not even mentioned in the article.
I'm guessing being prepared before the disaster isn't as amazing as saying that you spent a lot of money after the disaster...
I heard one the show "Security Now" that those one-time payments are NOT one-time payments. It only means that a virtual credit card is created that will expire next month which could leave 60 days of abuse. You have to remember to close the virtual credit card manually after every use. I know Citi Bank has a similar service that I use but they also allow to set a limit for the virtual credit card so that not more can be charged.
You could always just hire a airplane and a pilot to fly you. If you call a flight school near an airport than you will very likely get someone to fly you for the "cheap" since many that have the license need a certain number of hours flying before allowed to fly for a big airline. I still agree with the "risk it" airline idea. I can remember when my father was able to see on TeleText (only on PAL TVs) that a flight was leaving in two hours to his destination where a customer needed help and he was able to get onto the airplane in time because the security checks didn't take 5 minutes. This will probably also save the airline money since it wouldn't have to spend so much money on the security which could make the ticket price cheaper.
Commander Keen was pretty good. So that would be 1991 but to be honest they haven't really released quality software in a long time in my opinion. They have been the publisher for some ok products like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory but overall they only had squeals and nothing really new and creative.
You are right that a computer can't change the laws of physics but, for example, in Germany you have areas on the highway without speed limit (only recommended speed) and it works. There is just a fence around the highway so that no animals get on the street. As HungryHobo said, it is just important to keep the distance. 200mph probably is too much for the (current) streets but driving 120-150mph shouldn't be a problem. Think about how much time people would save if they could drive twice the speed. (and maybe at the same time do something else)
You could stay with gmail by getting the Gmail Premier Edition for $50 a year. That provides more function and you can turn off the spying/ads. http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html Otherwise I would say you can go to pretty much any domain provider because most also sell email accounts with the domain.
I agree with you that Google/Microsoft/Yahoo are opt-in but NebuAd, for example, has it's servers at the ISP facility and tracks everything (not just it's own network websites) and only sometimes are opt-out options offered. If you want to have Internet access then you have to accept often the spying and selling information about you. I have no problem if my ISP would say, "for a $2 discount on your bill we will use this system to track you and provide better targeted ads". That way each user can decide if they want that service (and without money involved most customers wouldn't want to get spied on).
If it is such a problem finding people than you can contact me. I got a BS degree with 3.8 GPA and MS degree with 4.0 GPA but it seems nobody is hiring for entry level or internship position in the Networking field...