If that's true it's the opposite of how every other industry works. Business rates for electricity arecheaper than for citizens. Business rates for phone service are also much cheaper (like unlimited long distance calling) than for citizens like us. It seems to me that the internet hookup for a business would follow the same routine, and be cheaper per gigabyte.
So take my 19 cent estimate, multiply by 2, and you get 38 cents which is cheaper than mailing a physical disc.
(1) Verizon has no limits on how much you download, and they say they have no plans to add limits, preferring to replace copper with fiber as needed.
(2) I already max-out my line with bittorrenting of TV shows and hear nada from my provider. They probably figure since I only have 750k how much damage can I really do? As I said before this limits me to just 240 gig a month.
All you need is a TV with Composite or S-video input. Playing Commodore 64 games on a 40 inch television is awesome, although it does show the deficiencies of the old NTSC modulator (noisy).
>>>Can't you just put $25 from your checking account in savings and use the credit card to buy groceries?
Well obviously that's what I have to do, but by using their $25 prepaid card instead of my own private card, I lose $1.25 in cashback rebates. Not a big deal but as you said - it's annoying.
>>>didn't bother to actually read the rebate offer or the price tag which both make mention of it being a visa debit card? That has nothing to do with dishonesty but rather being too lazy to read what you are in essence agreeing to >>>
Dear Staples employee:
As a matter of fact after I filed my rebate and it said I was getting a Visa card, I did initially think it was MY mistake. So I looked at the original newspaper ad again. No mention whatsoever of getting a card instead of cash or check. It just said $25 mailed, so I was expecting actual money that I could deposit in my bank.
It wouldn't be the first time a company forgot to mention something in their ads. At my local grocery store they advertised "Buy 4 Edys ice cream quarts, and get $4 back instantly." When I arrived they said it was a mistake and I'm supposed to get a $4 *coupon* not 4 dollars.
- like when they showed a guy toting a gun plus rifle outside a presidential rally, and the MSNBC reporter said this white man is probably racist against a black president. Problem - the guy carrying the gun was black not white.
No actually he said (in a rambling sort of way), "Recent reports of pilot programs with the kindle show the fundamental difference..... Reading text on a video screen is very taxing on the eyes."
In Star Trek TNG it's clearly stated that people don't have to work or hold jobs. And later in DS9 Captain Sisko's father operates a restaurant where he gives-away free food. The Federation economy doesn't use money. The housing, food, and gadgets just mysteriously appear whenever you need them.
Another example of a hidden fee is when you consolidate your 2 bank accounts into 1 bank account, and ask the manager to close the empty one, but instead he leaves it open...... so when you get your monthly statement, you discover not only is your "closed" account still open, but you've been charged a $10 fee for being under the minimum balance. Grrr. Funny how the manager never mentioned that hidden fee when I was talking to him.
You can't be serious. I pay $15 a month for a 750k connection, or 240 gigabytes* total data if I max it out. If you do the math that's 19 cents for a three gigabyte download of Windows 7, and therefore not "a lot more expensive" than shipping a disc.
* * By a strange coincidence that's Comcast's maximum allowable download, except they charge $50 a month. Hmmm. I'm glad I picked the cheaper $15 Verizon instead.
>>>We should all be running (ancient obscure OS that makes me sound cool)
You mean like Commodore=64 GEOS, the AmigaOS, and Windows 98 on an a 300 megahertz cpu? Does this make me look cool? "Survey says!" Bzzzz. Sorry that's not up on the big board. How about: "Silicone implants"? Ding-ding-ding. We have a winner!
(Actually I think implants make a person uncool but I know I'm in the minority.)
Since the PC manufacturers are advertising the free Vista-to-7 upgrade, the CD you receive is probably custom-tailored to work with your machine and its installed drivers. So it's not really any more difficult than popping-in the Win7 Restore CD and waiting.
Yeah except Microsoft and the stores are saying Win7 is a free upgrade. Misleading and deceptive. Like when I visited a car dealer and "won" an 1 gigabyte MP4 player for "free". Yeah the actual item may have been technically free, but the S&H cost $30 so basically I paid for it.
I returned it and now I'm going after paypal to get a refund, since the battery only lasted 15 minutes. What good is that?
They still might charge you a handling charge. If you look at this week's Staples flyer, they put their Vista PCs on clearance, with a free upgrade to Windows 7..... but then the fine print says you have to pay shipping and handling to get it. Great.
Staples is not an honest company. I recently bought some printer paper from them minus a $25 mail-in rebate. They never bothered to tell me that it's on a credit card and therefore I have to spend the money - I can't just cash it and put it in my savings like I originally planned.:-|
I hope Staples ends-up like Circuit City (bankrupt). I hope Comcast ends-up like Baltimore Gas & Electric (controlled by the government). I hope RIAA's building blows up.
>>>Reading text on a video screen is very taxing on the eyes.
I thought the Kindle was supposed to mimic the look of paper? Doesn't it use electronic ink? (shrug). Maybe I'm thinking of some other e-book reader.
Personally I don't care where I read stuff. I read most of Asimov and Heinlein's work when I was a teenager on my Commodore 64 and a TV screen (i.e. blue colored and slightly blurry). I read Harry Potter on a laser printout that was shrunk to 9 pages per page. My coworkers said, "How can you read that?" but it didn't bother me. And of course I've read downloaded stuff on a modern PC during my lunchbreak. None of these mediums have stood in the way of me enjoying the book.
>>>>If there are any Star Trek fans reading this, you'll recall the PADD - an e-book like device ubiquitous enough to be carried in stacks, lent to friends, and forgotten carelessly. The DX is the first step in that direction. >>>
The Star Trek economy where everything mysteriously "appears" at absolutely no cost could not exist in the real world. If we had PADDs people wouldn't just casually throw-around their $100 gadget for fear of losing their investment.
Link please. It seems every time I want to find a book on isohunt, it isn't there. I need some ulterior sources. Ya know sometimes when I download this "stuff" I feel like a welfare recipient..... take, take, take.
You are jumping to conclusions. Your review may have been removed for other reasons, such as course language or inclusion of pricing information. Anyway I think what I would have done was repost my review in response to the author's blog. Amazon doesn't usually censor comments.
Glenn Beck has a negative review on his dust jacket? Why and from who?
Anyway when we see reviews from Toyota, et cetera, we know those are biased commercials that have been censored by the company. We also know the reviewers are probably biased as well (getting kickbacks from the company). But when you see "What other people thought" on amazon.com then you expect non-biased opinions from people like yourself. It is that expectation that the company is abusing - it's a misleading and deceptive presentation.
>>>The retailer is under no obligation to publish unfavorable reviews on their own website
Correct, but if they DO publish reviews then they should either post all of them, or include a diclaimer that negative reviews are deleted, or stand before a judge for violating the law.
>>>from a First Amendment standpoint
The first amendment only applies to human beings, not soulless entities like corporations which have no more rights than a rock or tree.
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If that's true it's the opposite of how every other industry works. Business rates for electricity arecheaper than for citizens. Business rates for phone service are also much cheaper (like unlimited long distance calling) than for citizens like us. It seems to me that the internet hookup for a business would follow the same routine, and be cheaper per gigabyte.
So take my 19 cent estimate, multiply by 2, and you get 38 cents which is cheaper than mailing a physical disc.
(1) Verizon has no limits on how much you download, and they say they have no plans to add limits, preferring to replace copper with fiber as needed.
(2) I already max-out my line with bittorrenting of TV shows and hear nada from my provider. They probably figure since I only have 750k how much damage can I really do? As I said before this limits me to just 240 gig a month.
All you need is a TV with Composite or S-video input. Playing Commodore 64 games on a 40 inch television is awesome, although it does show the deficiencies of the old NTSC modulator (noisy).
>>>Can't you just put $25 from your checking account in savings and use the credit card to buy groceries?
Well obviously that's what I have to do, but by using their $25 prepaid card instead of my own private card, I lose $1.25 in cashback rebates. Not a big deal but as you said - it's annoying.
>>>didn't bother to actually read the rebate offer or the price tag which both make mention of it being a visa debit card? That has nothing to do with dishonesty but rather being too lazy to read what you are in essence agreeing to
>>>
Dear Staples employee:
As a matter of fact after I filed my rebate and it said I was getting a Visa card, I did initially think it was MY mistake. So I looked at the original newspaper ad again. No mention whatsoever of getting a card instead of cash or check. It just said $25 mailed, so I was expecting actual money that I could deposit in my bank.
It wouldn't be the first time a company forgot to mention something in their ads. At my local grocery store they advertised "Buy 4 Edys ice cream quarts, and get $4 back instantly." When I arrived they said it was a mistake and I'm supposed to get a $4 *coupon* not 4 dollars.
Ad hominem attacks are never a valid form of argument.
MSNBC lies more than FOX
- like when they showed a guy toting a gun plus rifle outside a presidential rally, and the MSNBC reporter said this white man is probably racist against a black president. Problem - the guy carrying the gun was black not white.
No actually he said (in a rambling sort of way), "Recent reports of pilot programs with the kindle show the fundamental difference..... Reading text on a video screen is very taxing on the eyes."
In Star Trek TNG it's clearly stated that people don't have to work or hold jobs. And later in DS9 Captain Sisko's father operates a restaurant where he gives-away free food. The Federation economy doesn't use money. The housing, food, and gadgets just mysteriously appear whenever you need them.
>>>on websites based in the former Soviet Union
Link please. It seems every time I want to find a book on isohunt, it isn't there. I need some ulterior sources.
>>Fixed your sig for you
Too bad you didn't get it right. Song downloads = 0.5% lost sales, because every 200 songs downloaded only results in the loss of one song sale.
Orville Redenbacher's Light Natural Flavor
Another example of a hidden fee is when you consolidate your 2 bank accounts into 1 bank account, and ask the manager to close the empty one, but instead he leaves it open...... so when you get your monthly statement, you discover not only is your "closed" account still open, but you've been charged a $10 fee for being under the minimum balance. Grrr. Funny how the manager never mentioned that hidden fee when I was talking to him.
You can't be serious. I pay $15 a month for a 750k connection, or 240 gigabytes* total data if I max it out. If you do the math that's 19 cents for a three gigabyte download of Windows 7, and therefore not "a lot more expensive" than shipping a disc.
*
* By a strange coincidence that's Comcast's maximum allowable download, except they charge $50 a month. Hmmm. I'm glad I picked the cheaper $15 Verizon instead.
>>>We should all be running (ancient obscure OS that makes me sound cool)
You mean like Commodore=64 GEOS, the AmigaOS, and Windows 98 on an a 300 megahertz cpu? Does this make me look cool? "Survey says!" Bzzzz. Sorry that's not up on the big board. How about: "Silicone implants"? Ding-ding-ding. We have a winner!
(Actually I think implants make a person uncool but I know I'm in the minority.)
Since the PC manufacturers are advertising the free Vista-to-7 upgrade, the CD you receive is probably custom-tailored to work with your machine and its installed drivers. So it's not really any more difficult than popping-in the Win7 Restore CD and waiting.
Yeah except Microsoft and the stores are saying Win7 is a free upgrade. Misleading and deceptive. Like when I visited a car dealer and "won" an 1 gigabyte MP4 player for "free". Yeah the actual item may have been technically free, but the S&H cost $30 so basically I paid for it.
I returned it and now I'm going after paypal to get a refund, since the battery only lasted 15 minutes. What good is that?
They still might charge you a handling charge. If you look at this week's Staples flyer, they put their Vista PCs on clearance, with a free upgrade to Windows 7..... but then the fine print says you have to pay shipping and handling to get it. Great.
Staples is not an honest company. I recently bought some printer paper from them minus a $25 mail-in rebate. They never bothered to tell me that it's on a credit card and therefore I have to spend the money - I can't just cash it and put it in my savings like I originally planned. :-|
I hope Staples ends-up like Circuit City (bankrupt).
I hope Comcast ends-up like Baltimore Gas & Electric (controlled by the government).
I hope RIAA's building blows up.
Is there a major I can take in college?
>>>Reading text on a video screen is very taxing on the eyes.
I thought the Kindle was supposed to mimic the look of paper? Doesn't it use electronic ink? (shrug). Maybe I'm thinking of some other e-book reader.
Personally I don't care where I read stuff. I read most of Asimov and Heinlein's work when I was a teenager on my Commodore 64 and a TV screen (i.e. blue colored and slightly blurry). I read Harry Potter on a laser printout that was shrunk to 9 pages per page. My coworkers said, "How can you read that?" but it didn't bother me. And of course I've read downloaded stuff on a modern PC during my lunchbreak. None of these mediums have stood in the way of me enjoying the book.
>>>>If there are any Star Trek fans reading this, you'll recall the PADD - an e-book like device ubiquitous enough to be carried in stacks, lent to friends, and forgotten carelessly. The DX is the first step in that direction.
>>>
The Star Trek economy where everything mysteriously "appears" at absolutely no cost could not exist in the real world. If we had PADDs people wouldn't just casually throw-around their $100 gadget for fear of losing their investment.
>>>on websites based in the former Soviet Union
Link please. It seems every time I want to find a book on isohunt, it isn't there. I need some ulterior sources. Ya know sometimes when I download this "stuff" I feel like a welfare recipient..... take, take, take.
You are jumping to conclusions. Your review may have been removed for other reasons, such as course language or inclusion of pricing information. Anyway I think what I would have done was repost my review in response to the author's blog. Amazon doesn't usually censor comments.
Glenn Beck has a negative review on his dust jacket? Why and from who?
Anyway when we see reviews from Toyota, et cetera, we know those are biased commercials that have been censored by the company. We also know the reviewers are probably biased as well (getting kickbacks from the company). But when you see "What other people thought" on amazon.com then you expect non-biased opinions from people like yourself. It is that expectation that the company is abusing - it's a misleading and deceptive presentation.
P.S.
>>>The retailer is under no obligation to publish unfavorable reviews on their own website
Correct, but if they DO publish reviews then they should either post all of them, or include a diclaimer that negative reviews are deleted, or stand before a judge for violating the law.
>>>from a First Amendment standpoint
The first amendment only applies to human beings, not soulless entities like corporations which have no more rights than a rock or tree.