One thing I like about Vonage is that you are using a regular telephone (wired or cordless) with the system instead of being tied to a headset that is wired to your computer. There is a USB headset that is wireless. See here. I have not used it, but it is advertised and makes sense that there is a product. Also you might find something with Hello Direct
Of course a small percentage will fail within the warranty period -- but the majority will not.
Of course, they will offer you an upgrade price to replace your drive with a new (larger) drive immediately instead of having to wait 2 weeks for a refurb drive.
They probably saw that their drive drive lives are averaging over 5 years, and competition is increasing. Thus, they make a big announcement of a longer warranty. Of course to get a replacement, you will have to submit the original receipt.
Expect several other drive makers to do the same shortly.
Manufacturers will always give a warranty that is shorter than the failure age of the unit.
This has the effect of punishing people who keep insecure systems by stopping them from using google. Maybe now, some of these people will pay attention.
You are never too poor to pay attention. -- Dan Rather, 1984, Boston University Commencement.
There is such a thing as "fair use" or at lease under the US Copyright law. One of the variables that figure into that equation is whether it is for commercial use.
I don't know if they have a rule against strapping on an Acme(TM) rocket to the bike. If noone has tried it before, they may not have a rule against it. Or if someone tried it before, they fared was well as Wild E. Coyote, so it didn't effect the outcome for the people who finished -- without going into a brick wall or off of the cliff.
On May 12, 2003, the honorable Beauford T. Justice found William Gates and Microsoft Corporation jointly liable for $49,035.29, inclusive of pre-judgment interest, for breach of contract. Whereas Gates, acting on behalf of Microsoft employed the plaintiffs to test Microsoft's new e-mail tracking program.
The I-CAN-SPAM only preempts some of the California law, not all of it. It gives a spammer 10 days to spam, but prohibits them from distributing your e-mail once you give notice.
If the e-mail is deceptive, the California law still applies.
They think I will take out an airplane, distracting the secret service (the initials happen to be SS), with my 2 stage balsa wood rocket with an egg in the payload section. Then, the egg would drop from the payload compartment onto a speeding car and cause an accident blocking th presidential motorcade so that that Lee Harvey Oswald can shoot Bush from the Clinton Library.
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Well, maybe if enough linux users got together, we could do something along the lines of tcp.int
One thing I like about Vonage is that you are using a regular telephone (wired or cordless) with the system instead of being tied to a headset that is wired to your computer. There is a USB headset that is wireless. See here. I have not used it, but it is advertised and makes sense that there is a product. Also you might find something with Hello Direct
I can see it now at K-Mart -- "Blue light special on LongHorn in the bed&bath^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hstereo department.
What about using the old style tape degauser?
I had a Quantum drive fail. They wanted me to call into a 900 number to speak to technical support before issuing an RMA.
Of course, they will offer you an upgrade price to replace your drive with a new (larger) drive immediately instead of having to wait 2 weeks for a refurb drive.
Expect several other drive makers to do the same shortly.
Manufacturers will always give a warranty that is shorter than the failure age of the unit.
Punch cards!
Does that mean that you outlaw knifes because they not only cut meat, but they can kill?
Just because you use mod chips to make illegal copies do not mean that everyone does.
There is such a thing as "fair use" or at lease under the US Copyright law. One of the variables that figure into that equation is whether it is for commercial use.
I don't know if they have a rule against strapping on an Acme(TM) rocket to the bike. If noone has tried it before, they may not have a rule against it. Or if someone tried it before, they fared was well as Wild E. Coyote, so it didn't effect the outcome for the people who finished -- without going into a brick wall or off of the cliff.
According to the Micro$oft FUD, this would then make Longhorn open source. Micro$oft programmers will be embarrassed when people see their code.
I guess that a MCSE could not handle it.
There was a case against K-Mart where one of the door natzi's stuck a letter holder into a guy's hand. K-mark paid over $1M.
I worked on the OS/2 printer drivers and the driver model from OS/2 was used by NT.
There is only one program that has ever been written from scratch -- "Hello World.". Everything else is just cut and past from that.
On May 12, 2003, the honorable Beauford T. Justice found William Gates and Microsoft Corporation jointly liable for $49,035.29, inclusive of pre-judgment interest, for breach of contract. Whereas Gates, acting on behalf of Microsoft employed the plaintiffs to test Microsoft's new e-mail tracking program.
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Of course, they scoffed at the idea of a personal computer.
If the e-mail is deceptive, the California law still applies.
This does not get the mortgage spammers, but it gets much of it.
It is just bush and the other idiots who signed the federal law, killed it and made it a recipient suffers system.
They think I will take out an airplane, distracting the secret service (the initials happen to be SS), with my 2 stage balsa wood rocket with an egg in the payload section. Then, the egg would drop from the payload compartment onto a speeding car and cause an accident blocking th presidential motorcade so that that Lee Harvey Oswald can shoot Bush from the Clinton Library.
Even if they move to India, they still are subject to the law if they are calling into the USA -- though it would be harder to enforce.
Generally, they would be doing the telemarking for a company in the USA which would then have liability.
One thing that I found, is that if you ask for their telephone number they will either hang-up on you or tell you they don't have one.