While this is a great change in policy regarding number portability, I imagine that what this will also do is increase the obligation of phone customers to sign longer contracts. It's the only thing that will protect a carrier from users infinitely hopping to the best current deal.
I'm sure this will get modded as off-topic or flamebait, but these awards ceremonies are nothing buy self-congratulatory nonsense. I go to work. I do my job. I don't expect people to watch a TV show about me getting recognized for doing what I'm paid to do. I don't need an emmy, a grammy, an oscar, an MTV award, a Blockbuster award, a golden globe, or a people's choice award to know whether I'm good at what I do or not.
I apologize for not making reference to this movie that won the award, and mod this as you please... but for what the industry costs and what the participants earn... everything that hits the screen aught to be worthy of an award.
"Now, there's no competition and anyone who is addicted to PVR functionality is basically stuck with TiVo."
You're way off on your thoughts that there's no competition. Not only are many cable companies starting to integrate PVR capabilities into their cable-boxes, companies like Microsoft and Sony are likely to integrate PVR functionality into their next-generation video game consoles. I'm a TiVo owner... and while I agree that it'd be better to have a pure PVR manufacturer in the market... I think TiVo is in for its biggest challenge when some of these newcomers hit the market.
Everything else... except the power facilities... and the water infrastructure. Unless you've got better sources than I do, what we've been blowing up are government buildings and Saddam's palaces.
I've got a deal link to the Hughes Series II on my website if you're interested. The nice thing about those is that the service is only $5 a month and you can record one channel while watching another.
Yeah, but that's the logical answer. The US Patent Office is only really concerned with who files a PATENT for something... not if there's any merit to the patent application.
I usually just block it instead of opting out, but I've found that SO MANY TIMES when I try to opt out, their servers never seem to respond. Surprisingly, their opt-in servers never have the same problem.
Maybe if they stopped filming multimillion dollar videos in big expensive rooms with big expensive cars with big expensive entourages with big expensive jewelry they wouldn't have these problems. The industry has been made expensive because it was allowed to be made expensive. If the RIAA wants to blame somebody, they should start with the people offering the insane contracts to their artists.
The problem is that corporate side of the music world recognizes it as the red-headed stepchild of the music industry, and name recognition won't mean much for the users from yester-year once they realize they can't get unlimited free music like they used to.
"...and when we change all our DNA to be coded a certain way, we'll find some strange illness that affects what would have been 0.02% of the opulation now threatens to wipe out"
We've already got large sectors of the population randomly leaving the letter "P" out of words...
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While this is a great change in policy regarding number portability, I imagine that what this will also do is increase the obligation of phone customers to sign longer contracts. It's the only thing that will protect a carrier from users infinitely hopping to the best current deal.
It's water-proof! Call now and we'll throw in an extra coat of water-proofing. Be Dialing!
Wow, all we need to do is combine this technology with this technology and we'll have our information before we even load the browser.
I'm sure this will get modded as off-topic or flamebait, but these awards ceremonies are nothing buy self-congratulatory nonsense. I go to work. I do my job. I don't expect people to watch a TV show about me getting recognized for doing what I'm paid to do. I don't need an emmy, a grammy, an oscar, an MTV award, a Blockbuster award, a golden globe, or a people's choice award to know whether I'm good at what I do or not.
... but for what the industry costs and what the participants earn ... everything that hits the screen aught to be worthy of an award.
I apologize for not making reference to this movie that won the award, and mod this as you please
Let me know if you find the solution to that chicken vs. egg thing, would ya?
I've got a deal link to the Hughes Series II on my website if you're interested. The nice thing about those is that the service is only $5 a month and you can record one channel while watching another.
Yeah, but that's the logical answer. The US Patent Office is only really concerned with who files a PATENT for something ... not if there's any merit to the patent application.
So this is today's hidden advertisement?
Nah, the French sold out on Iraq a long time ago...
What they failed to mention was that the Sherman tank was built AROUND the small child ...
Kindergarten is going to be rough for that little one.
I usually just block it instead of opting out, but I've found that SO MANY TIMES when I try to opt out, their servers never seem to respond. Surprisingly, their opt-in servers never have the same problem.
Maybe if they stopped filming multimillion dollar videos in big expensive rooms with big expensive cars with big expensive entourages with big expensive jewelry they wouldn't have these problems. The industry has been made expensive because it was allowed to be made expensive. If the RIAA wants to blame somebody, they should start with the people offering the insane contracts to their artists.
Well, it's sure got name recognition...
The problem is that corporate side of the music world recognizes it as the red-headed stepchild of the music industry, and name recognition won't mean much for the users from yester-year once they realize they can't get unlimited free music like they used to.
Kill your parents, kill your friends, then kill yourself...
Make sure you get your whole head in front of the shotgun...
Last time I checked Superman was in a wheelchair, and Supergirl had been cancelled by the WB.
"You greatly under estimate the power of the dork side."
8. "No one owns it.
Everyone can use it.
Anyone can improve it."
4. "Adding value to the Internet lowers its value."
So the Internet is destined to fail?