It all depends on the country and the carrier. In my case only the costs for my data plan are recurring (10GB/month, after which it's throttled to GPRS speed) is recurring. I'm paying separately for phone calls, since their yearly total reaches less than 30 EUR. They don't bith about tethering but since I'm doing it on my own I also have to do my own tech support for that (in case my tablet has problems connecting through the phone).
Add to that the price of my N900 when I bought it outright and let's compare with US contracts: 500 EUR + 24*10 EUR + 2*30 EUR = 800 EUR
One of the first things I've noticed is how a lot of people are making use of the Red Cross' offer to forward donations to their sister agency in Japan. That's not too bad of a reaction.
There's a link to the Japanese embassy further up. In most countries the national Red Cross/Crescent organisations have already set up systems to forward donations.
Most of the time I listen to music using a mobile device (phone, PMP) and earbuds. So for my purposes large lossless files wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.
But in the end it all depends on whether there's a large enough demand on the market.
In some cases it's needed so authorities can follow up on users' illegal activities (death threats, stalkers, identity theft, publishing of illegal content like child pornography...). Otherwise the company could be held liable. In other cases it's needed for follow-ups to protect yourself from fraud (e.g. if a user doesn't want to pay and denies he has signed up for your service even though you can prove logins from his IP and with his payment details).
I have seen plenty of people who, when encountering a log-in / register window, they just close the web-page and do something else. Come, to think of it, all sites requiring log-ins, would be a huge boost for productivity.
Don't forget sites which want RL data (name, address) without really having a need for those details.
Simple sales psychology. Place the price below the product's usual "pain threshold" and the casual buyer's willingness to shell out money will skyrocket. It's the same reason commercial websites will sell more subscriptions if they lower their price from $15 to $9.99. The trick is to determine the sweet spot.
As long as it's made compatible with conventional mocap interfaces there's no problem. Game companies have been using motion capturing for years (with a lot of cleanup of the recorded data).
I still have a Vista partition on one of my machines which I reinstalled for testing purposes but never used. It only contains the OS, hence nothing of value. Does that count?
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It all depends on the country and the carrier. In my case only the costs for my data plan are recurring (10GB/month, after which it's throttled to GPRS speed) is recurring. I'm paying separately for phone calls, since their yearly total reaches less than 30 EUR. They don't bith about tethering but since I'm doing it on my own I also have to do my own tech support for that (in case my tablet has problems connecting through the phone).
Add to that the price of my N900 when I bought it outright and let's compare with US contracts:
500 EUR + 24*10 EUR + 2*30 EUR = 800 EUR
Result: 33.33 EUR/month -> 47.18 USD/month
You mean we can finally teach that Texas was created when the Flying Spaghetti Monster dropped a giant turd?
By that reasoning, shouldn't GeoHot's lawyer argue for the case to be tried in Hickfuckistan, AZ because people from there sent him money?
There's no need to pay the judge if the politicians who received your brib...donations have already corrupted the necessary laws for you.
One of the first things I've noticed is how a lot of people are making use of the Red Cross' offer to forward donations to their sister agency in Japan. That's not too bad of a reaction.
There's a link to the Japanese embassy further up.
In most countries the national Red Cross/Crescent organisations have already set up systems to forward donations.
And yet the PC market ends up with the short end of the stick thanks to shitty console ports.
Unfortunately the crickets ended quite abruptly, since Microsoft has turned off their DRM servers.
Like the good old days where the higher-ups were on horseback behind their troops to shoot anyone who wanted to escape from the enemy?
Most of the time I listen to music using a mobile device (phone, PMP) and earbuds. So for my purposes large lossless files wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.
But in the end it all depends on whether there's a large enough demand on the market.
You realize that not all countries on this planet have the same laws?
In some cases it's needed so authorities can follow up on users' illegal activities (death threats, stalkers, identity theft, publishing of illegal content like child pornography ...). Otherwise the company could be held liable.
In other cases it's needed for follow-ups to protect yourself from fraud (e.g. if a user doesn't want to pay and denies he has signed up for your service even though you can prove logins from his IP and with his payment details).
It's the entertainment industry. Shitty sequels are their main source of income nowadays.
Which is why there's a minus in front of it to negate the clause.
In other words, they made a GUI version of "... -site:foo.com ..."?
Unless it's related to an EFI vulnerability, which makes the Mac a much bigger target.
Don't forget sites which want RL data (name, address) without really having a need for those details.
Simple sales psychology. Place the price below the product's usual "pain threshold" and the casual buyer's willingness to shell out money will skyrocket.
It's the same reason commercial websites will sell more subscriptions if they lower their price from $15 to $9.99. The trick is to determine the sweet spot.
As long as it's made compatible with conventional mocap interfaces there's no problem. Game companies have been using motion capturing for years (with a lot of cleanup of the recorded data).
I'm surprised there aren't more videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFTA6xDr6g
^^ One of the many reasons why I like the user-friendliness of the /etc/hosts file.
With an idea to screw up the user interface like that it makes you wonder if they've been taken over by Canonical.
Once the encryption on the end can be faked so someone else will end up with the costs and even have the cops knock down their door?
I still have a Vista partition on one of my machines which I reinstalled for testing purposes but never used.
It only contains the OS, hence nothing of value. Does that count?
At least with criminals you don't have to dig through a lot of legalese to know that your data will be sold to others.