IANAL: If it's spelled out in the contract that there is a 5GB cap, and the sales junkie indicates that there's a 5GB cap then I don't think a court will let it fly. Otherwise, if someone start spouting off that it really is "unlimited" then there's possibly a case.
The solution Verizon is competition. It's pathetic that Verizon is trying to charge $75 for Tethering and Exchange. That's on top of the voice plans they have which already push the high end. Sadly, like the iPhone, it'll be the carrier that dooms the device to a limited share. Hopefully another carrier can step up, provide a well priced service, and free this phone from the idiocy of Verizon.
How many developers took code they wrote for their company and used it in a GPL project afterwards?
How many people speed without getting a ticket? How many people take a stapler from their employer and don't get fired? You imply that it's only wrong if everyone gets punished for it.
Besides, your example is flawed beyond that: There are cases where taking code from your company is perfectly legal and fine, like... If your employer decides to make the code produced open source. I understand that's not normally the case, but it's worth mentioning.
From the (limited) cases I've had involving AppleCare, they'll support what they sold you. That's it. Anything you add is fine... But unless you bought it from Apple directly, that's all they'll cover.
If you get a new video card, and install it yourself and you get no picture, you'll need to remove the card and try again before they'll step in. Which is okay for those of us who'd be adding hardware anyway.
Raise gas taxes and people use less gas. It's a regressive tax and if you push it too hard you'll see a massive flight to higher millage cars or even non-petrol cars.
People also - Use the road less, with smaller and more efficient cars. This reduces wear on those roads.
As a second point everyone benefits from good roads not just those who drive on them. Police and fire departments can respond better on good roads.
Yes, our public services certainly benefit from good roads.
Less congestion means better air quality. Better roads also bring in more business which means more jobs. The road infrastructure is tied into almost everything we do. Thus everyone helps pay for it. Your precept that only those who drive benefit from roads is both short sighted and incorrect.
I don't know if the road quality is a major contributor to congestion though, because most of the congestion I see is due to the construction and maintenance of the roads, and terribly poor timing with lights. But the major driver for bringing in businesses is overall economic health in the community. I'd argue that well run community likely has better roads because they know how to run the community... Whereas, I don't believe that good roads will lead to a well run community.
Why would anybody expect Windows 7 to be magically faster at crunching numbers? It's 100% CPU dependent and no OS can speed up your CPU.
Because the OS certainly has an ability to slow the whole process down... There many things Windows does to handle setting up, managing and tearing down the processes to do all that number crunching. If Windows does a better job there, then the performance (especially when splitting the job up over many cores) will be better.
I ran XP x64 for a few years, and I liked it a lot. Driver support was dodgy in some cases, but it was a pretty solid OS. 64 Bit Vista was indeed slower, much larger and suffered from the well documented issues we all know...
Windows 7 is very Vista-like, but with the benefit of: 1) Two years to get application writers used to the Vista/7 model, and the headaches associated with it. 2) More driver support from vendors 3) Hardware that's two years newer 4) More customizable UAC (if you have it enabled).
That being said... It does run slower than XP x64 on that same hardware. But, you do get Media Center with Vista/7 Home Premium. Sadly, Away Mode for Media Center doesn't work on the x64 editions... And that makes me very sad.
Gotcha. And to think, I thought that IR was only good for making all the laptops at work make those stupid *whoosh* noises when they accidentally made a connection.
...it beats the native Outlook search speed handily...
Honestly? I beat native Outlook search on a fairly regular basis. I cried tears of happiness and joy when Lookout hit the scene. I choked up a bit when Microsoft bought them out, but I recovered when it looked like they integrated the engine into the engine Microsoft uses to do Desktop search on XP.
That's what I'm trying to figure out... If you reflect 60 percent of the "sun's energy," doesn't that mean that only 40% of light from outside is let in? And if it's dark... doesn't that make night driving pretty damn dangerous?
I mean, how many societies have plumbers as heroes?
Probably any society that's had a severe plumbing issue that they couldn't fix.
BTW -
The issue here is that someone is paying a pretty high interest rate compared to other types of loans on the market. Which doesn't quite seem right, at least to me.
I also really hope that you're joking in your post. I'd never call an electrician or a plumber a Bush-voter.
Did you toss him off the Stratosphere for that? Honestly, I have little patience for people who think pointing out most people lose at gambling is some sort of deep and wise utterance.
Since you do not know my cousin, nor me, you may not know that it was "obvious wisdom." It was delivered to be humorous and not cautionary.
I was in Vegas recently for a wedding... And before anyone asks: No, not mine. And yes, it was planned.
We were hanging around up at the top of the Stratosphere, looking at Las Vegas Blvd. My cousin said to me, "Looks awesome doesn't it? Just remember, that wasn't built on winners."
Honestly, for home? The power management is more customizable, the mac taskbar is nice, and it looks pretty. You also get Media Center functionality on Home Premium or Ultimate. Windows Installer is a little better too, it'll try and close out programs on install to minimize reboots.
When joined to a domain, I find it to be much better at handling folder redirection and offline files. Less strange happenings, and I have yet to run into a situation where 7 just refuses to take itself out of "offline mode" the way XP did... constantly.
Indeed. That's why parent used the word "shouldn't." We shouldn't need to worry about this sort of thing... We do because we don't have a better solution at this time.
Radiation exposure increases the likelihood of cancer, though the risk is lower in older patients because they are likely to die of other causes first. The median age of the patients who received the overdose is 70, said Elbaum, the Cedars-Sinai spokesman.
Nothing kills productivity more than IM. I'm astonished that businesses use it, it makes very little sense.
Your post is solid except for quoted statement. IM is quite good at dropping informal notes, or quick questions. Also - The ability to add people to the conversation allows us to have a discussion instantly... In cases where the conversation only needs a few minutes, we can have the discussion, make a decision and conclude the whole matter in the amount of time it'd take to schedule the con call and get everyone dialed in.
Yes, it can be misused. But so can any other method of communication... Especially email.
One advantage is the ability to fetch your files back while you're out... But seriously, the usefulness of that could easily be outdone by a USB stick...
The cloud has its place for applications, and for availability of some services, but I'm with you... The product will never live up to the hype.
If that's what they want to base their award on, fine. I don't think it's obvious why they did this at all though, so I'll politely disagree...
Even if they did, the "So what" problem is in the last statement... It reeks of politics... Even if that's not why they did this, they should've been intelligent enough to see this sort of reaction... So, my questions for them are:
Why do this now? Waiting a year to submit a real nomination would've been quite preferable. Questions would still be there, but it wouldn't seem as cartoonish... as in extreme, overplayed, etc.
Why do this in the first place? To motivate him to do more? I hope not... This is supposed to be an achievement award.
Are they just trying to give it to someone who they like? I find it hard to believe that the simple potential of Obama is greater than the accomplishments of *all* the other nominations... Which means someone else got screwed so someone could pat the President on the back for getting elected?
I would also like to point out that I'm not upset at Obama for this... I mean, honestly, I'm not sure what I'd do if someone walked up to me and awarded me the NPP...
Actually... That's a lie. I'd thank them, take the money and run.
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IANAL: If it's spelled out in the contract that there is a 5GB cap, and the sales junkie indicates that there's a 5GB cap then I don't think a court will let it fly. Otherwise, if someone start spouting off that it really is "unlimited" then there's possibly a case.
The solution Verizon is competition. It's pathetic that Verizon is trying to charge $75 for Tethering and Exchange. That's on top of the voice plans they have which already push the high end. Sadly, like the iPhone, it'll be the carrier that dooms the device to a limited share. Hopefully another carrier can step up, provide a well priced service, and free this phone from the idiocy of Verizon.
All it really means is that the creator messed up.
How many developers took code they wrote for their company and used it in a GPL project afterwards?
How many people speed without getting a ticket? How many people take a stapler from their employer and don't get fired? You imply that it's only wrong if everyone gets punished for it.
Besides, your example is flawed beyond that: There are cases where taking code from your company is perfectly legal and fine, like... If your employer decides to make the code produced open source. I understand that's not normally the case, but it's worth mentioning.
Or at least the feeling that you really can walk through the rain without getting wet.
From the (limited) cases I've had involving AppleCare, they'll support what they sold you. That's it. Anything you add is fine... But unless you bought it from Apple directly, that's all they'll cover.
If you get a new video card, and install it yourself and you get no picture, you'll need to remove the card and try again before they'll step in. Which is okay for those of us who'd be adding hardware anyway.
Raise gas taxes and people use less gas. It's a regressive tax and if you push it too hard you'll see a massive flight to higher millage cars or even non-petrol cars.
People also - Use the road less, with smaller and more efficient cars. This reduces wear on those roads.
As a second point everyone benefits from good roads not just those who drive on them. Police and fire departments can respond better on good roads.
Yes, our public services certainly benefit from good roads.
Less congestion means better air quality. Better roads also bring in more business which means more jobs. The road infrastructure is tied into almost everything we do. Thus everyone helps pay for it. Your precept that only those who drive benefit from roads is both short sighted and incorrect.
I don't know if the road quality is a major contributor to congestion though, because most of the congestion I see is due to the construction and maintenance of the roads, and terribly poor timing with lights.
But the major driver for bringing in businesses is overall economic health in the community. I'd argue that well run community likely has better roads because they know how to run the community... Whereas, I don't believe that good roads will lead to a well run community.
Wait... we didn't?
"Crashes" take on a whole new importance too...
Why would anybody expect Windows 7 to be magically faster at crunching numbers? It's 100% CPU dependent and no OS can speed up your CPU.
Because the OS certainly has an ability to slow the whole process down... There many things Windows does to handle setting up, managing and tearing down the processes to do all that number crunching. If Windows does a better job there, then the performance (especially when splitting the job up over many cores) will be better.
Or at least the flying modification for the wheels.
I have to disagree with the Troll mod.
I ran XP x64 for a few years, and I liked it a lot. Driver support was dodgy in some cases, but it was a pretty solid OS. 64 Bit Vista was indeed slower, much larger and suffered from the well documented issues we all know...
Windows 7 is very Vista-like, but with the benefit of:
1) Two years to get application writers used to the Vista/7 model, and the headaches associated with it.
2) More driver support from vendors
3) Hardware that's two years newer
4) More customizable UAC (if you have it enabled).
That being said... It does run slower than XP x64 on that same hardware. But, you do get Media Center with Vista/7 Home Premium. Sadly, Away Mode for Media Center doesn't work on the x64 editions... And that makes me very sad.
Gotcha. And to think, I thought that IR was only good for making all the laptops at work make those stupid *whoosh* noises when they accidentally made a connection.
...it beats the native Outlook search speed handily...
Honestly? I beat native Outlook search on a fairly regular basis. I cried tears of happiness and joy when Lookout hit the scene. I choked up a bit when Microsoft bought them out, but I recovered when it looked like they integrated the engine into the engine Microsoft uses to do Desktop search on XP.
That's what I'm trying to figure out... If you reflect 60 percent of the "sun's energy," doesn't that mean that only 40% of light from outside is let in? And if it's dark... doesn't that make night driving pretty damn dangerous?
I mean, how many societies have plumbers as heroes?
Probably any society that's had a severe plumbing issue that they couldn't fix.
BTW -
The issue here is that someone is paying a pretty high interest rate compared to other types of loans on the market. Which doesn't quite seem right, at least to me.
I also really hope that you're joking in your post. I'd never call an electrician or a plumber a Bush-voter.
Just remember, that wasn't built on winners.
Did you toss him off the Stratosphere for that? Honestly, I have little patience for people who think pointing out most people lose at gambling is some sort of deep and wise utterance.
Since you do not know my cousin, nor me, you may not know that it was "obvious wisdom." It was delivered to be humorous and not cautionary.
Tang was only able to utter a "no comment."
I was in Vegas recently for a wedding... And before anyone asks: No, not mine. And yes, it was planned.
We were hanging around up at the top of the Stratosphere, looking at Las Vegas Blvd. My cousin said to me, "Looks awesome doesn't it? Just remember, that wasn't built on winners."
Honestly, for home? The power management is more customizable, the mac taskbar is nice, and it looks pretty. You also get Media Center functionality on Home Premium or Ultimate. Windows Installer is a little better too, it'll try and close out programs on install to minimize reboots.
When joined to a domain, I find it to be much better at handling folder redirection and offline files. Less strange happenings, and I have yet to run into a situation where 7 just refuses to take itself out of "offline mode" the way XP did... constantly.
Indeed. That's why parent used the word "shouldn't." We shouldn't need to worry about this sort of thing... We do because we don't have a better solution at this time.
Fortunately, from TFA:
Radiation exposure increases the likelihood of cancer, though the risk is lower in older patients because they are likely to die of other causes first. The median age of the patients who received the overdose is 70, said Elbaum, the Cedars-Sinai spokesman.
Christ.
Nothing kills productivity more than IM. I'm astonished that businesses use it, it makes very little sense.
Your post is solid except for quoted statement. IM is quite good at dropping informal notes, or quick questions. Also - The ability to add people to the conversation allows us to have a discussion instantly... In cases where the conversation only needs a few minutes, we can have the discussion, make a decision and conclude the whole matter in the amount of time it'd take to schedule the con call and get everyone dialed in.
Yes, it can be misused. But so can any other method of communication... Especially email.
One advantage is the ability to fetch your files back while you're out... But seriously, the usefulness of that could easily be outdone by a USB stick...
The cloud has its place for applications, and for availability of some services, but I'm with you... The product will never live up to the hype.
If that's what they want to base their award on, fine. I don't think it's obvious why they did this at all though, so I'll politely disagree...
Even if they did, the "So what" problem is in the last statement... It reeks of politics... Even if that's not why they did this, they should've been intelligent enough to see this sort of reaction... So, my questions for them are:
Why do this now? Waiting a year to submit a real nomination would've been quite preferable. Questions would still be there, but it wouldn't seem as cartoonish... as in extreme, overplayed, etc.
Why do this in the first place? To motivate him to do more? I hope not... This is supposed to be an achievement award.
Are they just trying to give it to someone who they like? I find it hard to believe that the simple potential of Obama is greater than the accomplishments of *all* the other nominations... Which means someone else got screwed so someone could pat the President on the back for getting elected?
I will humbly whoosh myself then.
I would also like to point out that I'm not upset at Obama for this... I mean, honestly, I'm not sure what I'd do if someone walked up to me and awarded me the NPP...
Actually... That's a lie. I'd thank them, take the money and run.