No doubt. I just have a pet peeve with huge lists like this. A lot of the value in coming up with a list is how & why you decide to either include a particular entry or leave it off. The longer the list gets, the more it appears that the author didn't put any hard thought into it, and the less value it has (for me anyway).
You know, if that number was smaller, I might actually click through & read the article. But 87? Really? A number that large makes me think that you just wrote down every single lame thing you could think of & didn't edit at all.
Personally, I'd prefer a much shorter list which someone made some effort to pare down to the moments that were genuinely the lamest.
That's great until someone screws up entering your return. That happened to me one year - someone at the IRS made a typo in my SSN while entering my return, and I had all kinds of fun straightening that out. A year or two later, the state government came across the records with that bogus SSN and wanted to know why I had never filed a state tax return. Hilarity ensued.
If I do my own data entry, at least I only have to worry about my own mistakes.
It seems better than par to me. The usual outcome to this type of suit is the lawyers getting millions rather than a few hundred K, and the customers getting no cash, only a rebate on a future purchase (ie, an inducement to give more money to the folks who ripped them off). The Zip disk "Click of Death" lawsuit, for example, ended up like that.
Under the circumstances, a refund seems like a reasonable outcome for the customers involved. I'm not bothered by the lawyers' fee, either. It's much smaller than I expected, and they appear to have earned it by really representing their clients, rather than just throwing them a bone & running off with all the money.
Wrong - read the damn article again. He was not trying to re-download the songs. I went through this recently myself - I had a problem with my Mac that I couldn't clear up & wound up re-initializing the disk & re-installing everything. I had all my ITMS purchases backed up, but the first time I tried to listen to one of them, I had to re-authorize with ITMS before iTunes would play it.
Since I am still in the US, I didn't have the problem described in the article, but if I had moved, the re-authorization would have failed & my ITMS purchases would have been unplayable.
DataStorm is the company you're trying to recall, I think; ProComm Plus was the BBS terminal program (which you can still buy from Symantec, surprisingly - last I heard Quarterdeck owned it). They did start bundling a web browser with ProComm at some point, but that was about the same time I stopped using it. Some version of Mosaic, if I remember right. Whichever browser it was, I remember it seemed outdated compared to Netscape.
There are already over 20 dams on the northern part of the Mississippi (from St Louis north), and I count 9 on the Missouri.
Isn't part of the reason there won't be so many people killed by the Yangtze in the future that they were relocated away from the river to make room for the reservoir? That could have been done without building the dam.
No, 25 years ago puts you smack dab in the middle of the Carter administration (2003-25=1978). Which the Bush administration would have no particular interest in protecting.
As to whether 25 years is enough time, to repeat what another poster said, do you think they've been spending the last 25 years reviewing the documents in question?
So I can either lose my job to a foreign worker when the company outsources my job, or lose my job to a foreign worker when my company is put out of business by a foreign competitor. Either way I'm unemployed.
What you're really suggesting is that I joyfully give up my job so the folks at the top of the food chain can keep theirs. Yay.
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4. Many of which are provided by US corporations
... and their overseas employees.
8. Causing jobs to be created
... which are are then sent overseas as well.
Goods & services done by overseas employees for US corporations should be counted as imports, not exports. Including them in the US GDP is misleading.
There are plenty of alternatives too the major phone companies still out there. Check out www.thedigest.com or 10-10phonerates.com. You do have to keep an eye on your phone bill, though. I was getting phone service from Sprint through Essential.com for a while & when Essential went out of business I got switched (without notice) to a different Sprint plan that was 3-4x the price. As always, caveat emptor.
From the article: "I wanted to get the wheat fields, and I didn't want to find just stubble. So before I started out I picked out a county in Kansas and found the county agriculture agent. He said that they harvested just after the Fourth of July, and I knew I would be OK if I went in June, when the days are longest."
That's not true. I have basic cable through Charter in St Louis, and it doesn't include any ESPN channels. They are part of the "Expanded Basic" service.
The settlement requires them to put a warning on the Charley Pride CD. It doesn't cover any other CD using this same technology. Will a new lawsuit have to be filed over each protected CD? Looks like it.
I had a Nomad Jukebox before buying my iPod, and I never got close to 1 megabyte per second over its USB connection. More like 300 kbytes per second, which turns your 5 hours into 15.
At any rate, this certainly isn't an iPod killer for me. If I was offered one of these devices in a even trade, I'd keep my iPod.
So why not try them out anyway? If you have a bad experience, you could start a "vendorsucks" website for that vendor & help them get that next big contract...
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Why do you think Mandrake's problems have anything to do with the GPL?
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No doubt. I just have a pet peeve with huge lists like this. A lot of the value in coming up with a list is how & why you decide to either include a particular entry or leave it off. The longer the list gets, the more it appears that the author didn't put any hard thought into it, and the less value it has (for me anyway).
You know, if that number was smaller, I might actually click through & read the article. But 87? Really? A number that large makes me think that you just wrote down every single lame thing you could think of & didn't edit at all.
Personally, I'd prefer a much shorter list which someone made some effort to pare down to the moments that were genuinely the lamest.
Same results here with my 4th gen.
The article says that this relates to the IRS Free File program, which means it's TurboTax for the Web, not the boxed version.
That's great until someone screws up entering your return. That happened to me one year - someone at the IRS made a typo in my SSN while entering my return, and I had all kinds of fun straightening that out. A year or two later, the state government came across the records with that bogus SSN and wanted to know why I had never filed a state tax return. Hilarity ensued.
If I do my own data entry, at least I only have to worry about my own mistakes.
It seems better than par to me. The usual outcome to this type of suit is the lawyers getting millions rather than a few hundred K, and the customers getting no cash, only a rebate on a future purchase (ie, an inducement to give more money to the folks who ripped them off). The Zip disk "Click of Death" lawsuit, for example, ended up like that.
Under the circumstances, a refund seems like a reasonable outcome for the customers involved. I'm not bothered by the lawyers' fee, either. It's much smaller than I expected, and they appear to have earned it by really representing their clients, rather than just throwing them a bone & running off with all the money.
Wrong - read the damn article again. He was not trying to re-download the songs. I went through this recently myself - I had a problem with my Mac that I couldn't clear up & wound up re-initializing the disk & re-installing everything. I had all my ITMS purchases backed up, but the first time I tried to listen to one of them, I had to re-authorize with ITMS before iTunes would play it.
Since I am still in the US, I didn't have the problem described in the article, but if I had moved, the re-authorization would have failed & my ITMS purchases would have been unplayable.
DataStorm is the company you're trying to recall, I think; ProComm Plus was the BBS terminal program (which you can still buy from Symantec, surprisingly - last I heard Quarterdeck owned it). They did start bundling a web browser with ProComm at some point, but that was about the same time I stopped using it. Some version of Mosaic, if I remember right. Whichever browser it was, I remember it seemed outdated compared to Netscape.
Maybe the Army wants to spend the next 6 years USING their computers, instead of spending that time re-inventing the wheel.
There are already over 20 dams on the northern part of the Mississippi (from St Louis north), and I count 9 on the Missouri.
Isn't part of the reason there won't be so many people killed by the Yangtze in the future that they were relocated away from the river to make room for the reservoir? That could have been done without building the dam.
This update was released last November.
No, 25 years ago puts you smack dab in the middle of the Carter administration (2003-25=1978). Which the Bush administration would have no particular interest in protecting.
As to whether 25 years is enough time, to repeat what another poster said, do you think they've been spending the last 25 years reviewing the documents in question?
So I can either lose my job to a foreign worker when the company outsources my job, or lose my job to a foreign worker when my company is put out of business by a foreign competitor. Either way I'm unemployed.
What you're really suggesting is that I joyfully give up my job so the folks at the top of the food chain can keep theirs. Yay.
8. Causing jobs to be created
Goods & services done by overseas employees for US corporations should be counted as imports, not exports. Including them in the US GDP is misleading.
No, it doesn't. I keep my Mac turned off when it's not in use, and I don't have to re-authorize access to the keychain every day.
There are plenty of alternatives too the major phone companies still out there. Check out www.thedigest.com or 10-10phonerates.com. You do have to keep an eye on your phone bill, though. I was getting phone service from Sprint through Essential.com for a while & when Essential went out of business I got switched (without notice) to a different Sprint plan that was 3-4x the price. As always, caveat emptor.
Yeah, damn that Apple for posting rumors about themselves on their own website. Wonder if they'll ban themselves from the next MWNY?
The sentence you've quoted does not occur in the linked web page. He may be a smartass, but at least he can read.
I don't allow mine to record "suggestions", only the programs I tell it to record, so I've avoided that to some extent.
On the other hand, I have about 15 Season Passes, so I still wind up with at least a couple programs to watch every day. YMMV.
From the article:
"I wanted to get the wheat fields, and I didn't want to find just stubble. So before I started out I picked out a county in Kansas and found the county agriculture agent. He said that they harvested just after the Fourth of July, and I knew I would be OK if I went in June, when the days are longest."
That's not true. I have basic cable through Charter in St Louis, and it doesn't include any ESPN channels. They are part of the "Expanded Basic" service.
The settlement requires them to put a warning on the Charley Pride CD. It doesn't cover any other CD using this same technology. Will a new lawsuit have to be filed over each protected CD? Looks like it.
I had a Nomad Jukebox before buying my iPod, and I never got close to 1 megabyte per second over its USB connection. More like 300 kbytes per second, which turns your 5 hours into 15.
At any rate, this certainly isn't an iPod killer for me. If I was offered one of these devices in a even trade, I'd keep my iPod.
So why not try them out anyway? If you have a bad experience, you could start a "vendorsucks" website for that vendor & help them get that next big contract...
Why do you think Mandrake's problems have anything to do with the GPL?