My T-Mobile plan is $20/month less than it would have been if I had gone the subsidized phone contract route. As far as I know, they are the only ones doing it, and the last time I was in a store, they were pushing it heavily.
I feel the pain. Which is why I was one of the few people to elect to not telecommute when it was offered. Now I get to go to the office and enjoy the peace and quiet and actually get some stuff done without having to get in at 3am. Strangely all the annoying people chose to "work" from home...
Same here. I originally got a zune because at the time (2006) it was that or the ipod if you wanted a large capacity player. Yes I know there were other devices, but the device and interface design were crap on all of them. I didn't care for the ipod; it looked awful and the interface was primitive at best (at the time), so I got a black 30GB zune. Loved the hell out of it and genuinely missed it after it died in a fire. I tried the touch model and it was ok, but the HD was perfect in form and function. The all black 16GB still gets my top vote as sexiest hardware ever. I always found the software to be good and intuitive and pretty, without being a resource hog. Only issue I ever had was that it was Windows only.
But, sadly, my HD doesn't make calls. so it gathers dust mostly; while my android phone (thats not locked in to anything), is well used.
This is it exactly. Every time I hear a climate change debate raging, I look out the window and contemplate the ring of brown foulness circling the valley I live in and wonder why we're not talking about that. Forget what rainfall in the Sudan will be in 25 years, we need to get the mainstream focus on what burning fossil fuels is doing to us right now.
Unfortunately at this point, legalization would just move supply from an illegal gang of thugs, to a completely legal one. Drug companies would inflate prices and blame gov. regulation and red-tape (as they do now), meanwhile continuing to rake in billions on the profit line. We'd have a whole new round of Joe Camel, except it'd be Mickey Meth.
Prices would be much lower on the street, as criminals would just step up robberies of pharmacies and hijacking of shipments. And they would sell it for half the legal price and still make as much if not more than they do now (no more production costs).
But I still favor it over the current hypocrisy...
T-Mobile is the only one offering this. BYOD, get $20 off per month and no contract. Of course it's not advertised that way, and most consumers would balk at paying for their phone up front, and it'll be the first thing to go if T-Mobile is sold to anyone, but I'll love it while it lasts.
I was a little miffed when I got the notice about LJ going digital with 6 months left on my sub, but I have tried the Android app and have been pleasantly surprised.
First and foremost, it has to account for budget, and the rationalization thereof. It's scary how often suits (and more and more "engineers") say things like "Come on really; how often does that kind of thing actually happen?" This is usually uttered after staring at a couple dozen slides of metrics that detail exactly how often it happens...
I agree with points 1 and 4, but point 3 just sounds like it would come off condescending (you know how we ugly, stupid Americans are). I am curious though on the actual number of French-Majoring drive-thru attendants... But yes, I agree it's our own fault for continuing to give money to corporations (you know, the Job Creators) that outsource and offshore everything. But hey, the invisible hand of the free market will correct all this soon, so I'm not worried (except for the fact that the invisible hand will have a gun or two in it). Oh, and when you tell others "Be nice or shut the fuck up," why not teach by example? I know plenty of Americans who have no issue with bedpans, and they worked their asses off to get the opportunity to change them.
Whether you call it capitalism or communism, it's all just plain Greed. Whether you spout BS and claim it all for the "Good of the Motherland" or "Good of the Shareholders" makes no difference. It's all about power and the abuse of it. Short-sighted decisions made by greedy people will be the end of us (western civilization as we know it), no matter what they choose to call it.
Similar experience w/this Acer. Everything just works out of the box with default install of (k)ubuntu. (for contrast, win 7 was missing wifi and nic drivers, though it handled plugging in to an hdmi slightly more intuitively) And it's powerful enough to be my only machine if needed. Build quality is actually good for the price, though the keyboard could be better. Battery life was equal to windows (2.5-3hrs).
Really wish I could go to microsoft.com, enter my product key and sell them back their license (or donate to charity? I know, I know, they should be using linux, but still).
And for me, it makes no difference. I already avoid all the Starz titles anyway. ~380i in 4:3 pan and scan? F that. It's weird, I've never been able to find one person who likes the cable TV structure as-is. Every single person wants a la carte, and less ads. Yet nothing is changing, except cable is moving to the net for distribution.
It all sounds great; that is until they take you downstairs and you have to watch the 2000 year long "Diversity, winning with combinations!" video from HR whilst strapped into the Pandorica...
You jest, but one has to wonder how many jobs would be created by a "Get our ass to Mars" program. Use that as the whiz-bang kick start to a long term "fix our infrastructure" program.
Point them here. I stream to the 360 at as good if not better quality than I got with cable. The best part? I can watch the highlights I actually want instead of sitting through all of sports center. This plus Hulu + and Netflix cost $21 a month (factoring in XBL sub at $5/mo.), less then half the cost of basic cable.
Not sure how different the systems are, but I got hit with a photo speed trap once back in the 90's. When I went to pay the fine, I went into an office, a guy pulled out an 8x10 of the photo. There would be no way to deny it in any court that makes sense, my face and plate number were clearly recognizable (I wish I'd asked for a copy, the look on my face was priceless). I agreed that that was me, paid my fine and left. I still get shit from friends about how I didn't fight it; that they were so easy to get out of I was dumb for paying the fine. Soon after my incident, "photocop" was retired because of public outrage that "people could not face their accusers". Bullshit. People hated getting caught speeding.
Redlight cameras however, as shown in your example, need a bit more work. But I still believe the main motivator for the "backlash" is the same. People want to drive however they want and not deal with any consequences. It's all those other assholes that are the problem...
Plain and simple, they've bought into the consumer marketing. Of course when the next shiny thing from $BIG_NAME_COMPANY comes out, they'll go with that. Remember, these are the same people that built entire IT infrastructures around IE6 and VB...
Those are extra layers of security for Server only. Home and Pro do not nag nearly that much (if at all). If you really want to access the web from a server (wfollow these steps first).
I was quite irritated when IE9 gave me the "this program is not commonly downloaded" warnings that I had to say yes, OK, accept, and download anyway to.
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My T-Mobile plan is $20/month less than it would have been if I had gone the subsidized phone contract route. As far as I know, they are the only ones doing it, and the last time I was in a store, they were pushing it heavily.
I feel the pain. Which is why I was one of the few people to elect to not telecommute when it was offered. Now I get to go to the office and enjoy the peace and quiet and actually get some stuff done without having to get in at 3am. Strangely all the annoying people chose to "work" from home...
Same here. I originally got a zune because at the time (2006) it was that or the ipod if you wanted a large capacity player. Yes I know there were other devices, but the device and interface design were crap on all of them. I didn't care for the ipod; it looked awful and the interface was primitive at best (at the time), so I got a black 30GB zune. Loved the hell out of it and genuinely missed it after it died in a fire. I tried the touch model and it was ok, but the HD was perfect in form and function. The all black 16GB still gets my top vote as sexiest hardware ever. I always found the software to be good and intuitive and pretty, without being a resource hog. Only issue I ever had was that it was Windows only.
But, sadly, my HD doesn't make calls. so it gathers dust mostly; while my android phone (thats not locked in to anything), is well used.
This is it exactly. Every time I hear a climate change debate raging, I look out the window and contemplate the ring of brown foulness circling the valley I live in and wonder why we're not talking about that. Forget what rainfall in the Sudan will be in 25 years, we need to get the mainstream focus on what burning fossil fuels is doing to us right now.
Unfortunately at this point, legalization would just move supply from an illegal gang of thugs, to a completely legal one. Drug companies would inflate prices and blame gov. regulation and red-tape (as they do now), meanwhile continuing to rake in billions on the profit line. We'd have a whole new round of Joe Camel, except it'd be Mickey Meth.
Prices would be much lower on the street, as criminals would just step up robberies of pharmacies and hijacking of shipments. And they would sell it for half the legal price and still make as much if not more than they do now (no more production costs).
But I still favor it over the current hypocrisy...
T-Mobile is the only one offering this. BYOD, get $20 off per month and no contract. Of course it's not advertised that way, and most consumers would balk at paying for their phone up front, and it'll be the first thing to go if T-Mobile is sold to anyone, but I'll love it while it lasts.
I was a little miffed when I got the notice about LJ going digital with 6 months left on my sub, but I have tried the Android app and have been pleasantly surprised.
"Son of a bitch," he cried. And so ends the saga of: "The Last Person On The Face Of The Earth To Be "Rick-Rolled"...
First and foremost, it has to account for budget, and the rationalization thereof. It's scary how often suits (and more and more "engineers") say things like "Come on really; how often does that kind of thing actually happen?" This is usually uttered after staring at a couple dozen slides of metrics that detail exactly how often it happens...
I agree with points 1 and 4, but point 3 just sounds like it would come off condescending (you know how we ugly, stupid Americans are). I am curious though on the actual number of French-Majoring drive-thru attendants... But yes, I agree it's our own fault for continuing to give money to corporations (you know, the Job Creators) that outsource and offshore everything. But hey, the invisible hand of the free market will correct all this soon, so I'm not worried (except for the fact that the invisible hand will have a gun or two in it). Oh, and when you tell others "Be nice or shut the fuck up," why not teach by example? I know plenty of Americans who have no issue with bedpans, and they worked their asses off to get the opportunity to change them.
Whether you call it capitalism or communism, it's all just plain Greed. Whether you spout BS and claim it all for the "Good of the Motherland" or "Good of the Shareholders" makes no difference. It's all about power and the abuse of it. Short-sighted decisions made by greedy people will be the end of us (western civilization as we know it), no matter what they choose to call it.
Really wish I could go to microsoft.com, enter my product key and sell them back their license (or donate to charity? I know, I know, they should be using linux, but still).
And for me, it makes no difference. I already avoid all the Starz titles anyway. ~380i in 4:3 pan and scan? F that. It's weird, I've never been able to find one person who likes the cable TV structure as-is. Every single person wants a la carte, and less ads. Yet nothing is changing, except cable is moving to the net for distribution.
A lot of work to be done by cheap offshore resources, not customer service drones making minimum wage.
True, but consumers validated the choice and perpetuated the practice by continuing to give those businesses their money.
The tongue in cheek part is that they were shocked...
It all sounds great; that is until they take you downstairs and you have to watch the 2000 year long "Diversity, winning with combinations!" video from HR whilst strapped into the Pandorica...
You jest, but one has to wonder how many jobs would be created by a "Get our ass to Mars" program. Use that as the whiz-bang kick start to a long term "fix our infrastructure" program.
Point them here. I stream to the 360 at as good if not better quality than I got with cable. The best part? I can watch the highlights I actually want instead of sitting through all of sports center. This plus Hulu + and Netflix cost $21 a month (factoring in XBL sub at $5/mo.), less then half the cost of basic cable.
Not sure how different the systems are, but I got hit with a photo speed trap once back in the 90's. When I went to pay the fine, I went into an office, a guy pulled out an 8x10 of the photo. There would be no way to deny it in any court that makes sense, my face and plate number were clearly recognizable (I wish I'd asked for a copy, the look on my face was priceless). I agreed that that was me, paid my fine and left. I still get shit from friends about how I didn't fight it; that they were so easy to get out of I was dumb for paying the fine. Soon after my incident, "photocop" was retired because of public outrage that "people could not face their accusers". Bullshit. People hated getting caught speeding.
Redlight cameras however, as shown in your example, need a bit more work. But I still believe the main motivator for the "backlash" is the same. People want to drive however they want and not deal with any consequences. It's all those other assholes that are the problem...
But will fan-boys annoyingly insist you pronounce it "Lin-uh-Ten"?
So why the jump in sales?
Suits at the top think the iPad is "cool".
Plain and simple, they've bought into the consumer marketing. Of course when the next shiny thing from $BIG_NAME_COMPANY comes out, they'll go with that. Remember, these are the same people that built entire IT infrastructures around IE6 and VB...
Those are extra layers of security for Server only. Home and Pro do not nag nearly that much (if at all). If you really want to access the web from a server (wfollow these steps first).
I was quite irritated when IE9 gave me the "this program is not commonly downloaded" warnings that I had to say yes, OK, accept, and download anyway to.
I was downloading unetbootin so I could easily install Kubuntu...
Gentlemen, start your conspiracy theories.
First...
Matter replication/transmission technology
Second...
Are you still reading this?