I took a look at the terms of service when I was about to sign up. It seems that you can get a partial refund. Essentially: Refund = Your original payment - (# of months used * regular monthly rate) - $10 cancellation fee - fees for unreturned movies.
And they clarify that the regular monthly rate is NOT your annual payment/12. If you picked one of the 3 at a time plans, those are clearly priced ($16.95 and $24.95). If you picked the 2 at a time plan, I'm not sure what the regular monthly rate would be, since you can't pay for that plan by the month. Judging by the reviews I received, I wouldn't be surprised if they claimed the regular 2 at a time rates were $16.94 and $24.94
After seeing your post, I looked into it and from what I read, I was VERY interested in switching from Netflix to Intelliflix. Then at the last minute I found this:
Almost everyone gave them 1 out of 5 stars. Their best rating is a 3 out of 5. After reading all the reviews at epinions, I wouldn't even think about signing up with intelliflix.
After seeing your post, I looked into it and from what I read, I was VERY interested in switching from Netflix to Intelliflix. Then at the last minute I found this:
Almost everyone gave them 1 out of 5 stars. Their best rating is a 3 out of 5. After reading all the reviews at epinions, I wouldn't even think about signing up with intelliflix.
My local library has been online since before 2003...Sounds like 'prior art' to me
Thats nice. Netflix has been around since 1999. Maybe if you can narrow down that vague range of "before 2003" by about 4 years, then you might have something to talk about. As your statement stands right now, it doesn't sound too 'prior' to me.
LOL...please show me the hard drive that can simultaneously read multiple independant streams of data from the different patters via different heads. Remember, I said simultaneously, not alternating back and forth very quickly. No, I'm sorry, but by "common man" standards those are NOT independant media. It's one media with multiple heads used to read different segments of the SAME media. Just like how a 4 head VCR has multiple heads that read different segments of the SAME media.
With the exception the Series 1 units (and even then, I think it might only be a subset of Series 1 units), a TiVo without the service is essentially a doorstop. No manual recordings allowed.
But the way you are proposing it... a dual hard drive PVR that BEHAVES equivelent to a dual deck VCR...would mean that you COULD NOT read and write to the same hard drive at the same time. so while a show is recordiing, you would only be able to watch a subset of your recorded programs, and which subset would depend on what drive you are currently recording to.
The only possible way around that might be to fragment the show between the 2 drives...always write the current block of recorded show to whichever drive is not being read from. You'd just have to hope the jury agrees with your assessment that it's not in violation of the patent. (note: I'm not saying anything about what is or isn't applicable to the patent...just commenting on YOUR assessment of it)
I still think that macro-evolution has quite a few holes in it.
For instance... where the #$@#$ did platypuses come from?... has anyone ever found a single fossil record of any precursor?
It wouldn't matter if anyone found a fossil record of a precursor. This is the sort of argument that anti-evolution people are always using as the proof of how flawed evolutionary theory is.
We know creature #1 and #100 exists/existed. We can theorize that #100 evolved from #1, but they always say "if that's the case, then why is there no proof of the in between steps?". Then low an behold, we find #50 and can show that it matches our theory. Then they say "but how did you get from #1 to #50, or from #50 to #100...where are the fossils". Then sure enough, we discover #25 but still we hear "what about the gap between #1 and #25", which then becomes "what about the gap between #1 and #12"..."#6 and #12"...and eventually "what about the gap between #8.000025 and #8.000026"
You could unconver the entire fossil record of the earth down to an evolutionary resolution of 15 minutes and the anti-evolutionary people would still be crying "well what happened in those 15 minutes, and why can't you prove it? I'll tell you why...it's because it's a flawed theory. Never mind that the theory was able to actually predict many future discoveries. It's still flawed!"
That is pretty much what is commonly used, but I seem to recall reading once that Intel processors also support a mode which can switch the page size to 4MB. It might have been documented in my Pentium architecture manual.
How about if they quit freakin taxing me so much to begin with. A nice start would be SSI
From the rest of your post, I get the impression that you are talking about Social Security. You should know that the term SSI is commonly used to refer to Supplemental Security Income, which is different and completely separate from social security.
There are other things people can do too. For instance, if you sit on a chair and they stand in front of the chair, you are blocked in. While you are sitting down, you can save (the button perform other functions). Your choice is either to wait it out or to just power off and lose any progress since your last save. Obviously the solution there is to make sure you have a way to save when you sit down, but I'm not sure the designers thought of that potential problem.
The other problem is exploiting bugs in the game. Ideally, you would want the game to be designed perfect and bulletproof, but stuff happens, and something always slips by. There was one bug in the game that was exploited early on where a hacker managed to change your town gate into a museum. Once the town gate was gone, so was your ability to go online. This wasn't done through normal game mechanisms, and my understanding was that it wasn't even done through an Action Replay or anything...someone reverse engineered and emulated the protocols in the game, connected to someone's town, and sent a malicous command to change the gate. I can't imagine that was done through an intentionally designed channel. It was almost certainly a bug in the game.
It just seems to me that in a game like animal crossing, it doesn't seem very wise to let just anybody into your town, and having an official community seems problematic (vulgarity/stalker/pedophile aspects aside)
Or even more important than WPA, more complete support for wireless routers. My router is on the list as one not officially supported. I found that if I reboot the router every time just before I attempt to connect, I can get on no problem. However, if I don't reboot it I only get a connection part of the time. There are quite a few routers that have this problem, or that don't work at all under any circumstances. That is really my only disappointment with the DS.
there are lots or idiots in the world who will trash your town.
Exactly. I've had an idoit come in and then start chopping down trees and picking up tiles as soon as they leave my sight. A friend of mine had a semi-valuable item stolen because he set it down outside his house when he was offline, then forgot about it when he opened up his town.
Even beside malicous intent, there is unintentional carelessness. In Animal Crossing, you can cross polinate flowers and come up with special hybrids. They can be very time consuming to grow, but all you need it one person to carelessly run through them a couple times and they are gone.
No, the reason why they scan that extra barcode is so that they can track the specific piece of hardware they sell to you. This is more to combat different types of fraud or (for lack of a better term) creative deal hunting.
Example 1: You buy a product and 6 months later it breaks. You buy a new one and return the old one in the new box with the new receipt. If they've scanned the hardware ID and tied it to the receipt, they can catch this.
Example 2: You buy a product, and sometime after your price match period ends (but before your return period ends) you find the product on sale for a better price. So you rebuy the product and return the new unopened item on the old receipt. (of course, nothing stops you from putting the old item into the new box, but some people don't think of that stuff).
from the article: "Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up."
i can't speak for anyone else, but i know that a hold placed on my bank account would ruin me.
No, it wasn't his money that was freed up, or even put on hold in the first place. It was his AVAILABLE CREDIT. His money (assuming he had any, which is a stretch considering he had been carrying 6K likely at a high interest rate) was perfectly fine . It was his ability to borrow money from that particular bank that was hindered. And that underscores a critical problem with his (and many/most americans') way of thinking....he believed that his available credit was the same as his money. No wonder he owed 6K on a JC Penny card.
In regards to your statement, and in light of what I just pointed out, if you need to borrow money from one creditor to pay off your bills from another creditor, chances are pretty good you are already ruined.
Of course they lined up. There were only a handful of systems being shipped to each store and no hope of more anytime in the near future.
When my favorite band's CD comes out, I'm generally not worried about it selling out, so I just go pick it up at my convenience. When my favorite band comes around in concert, there are limited tickets, so I generally line up for it (well...except that ticketbastard has pretty much killed that option off, with their presale BS and random line shuffling BS, but now I'm off topic...the point is, whenever possible, that's what I do).
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Goodbye, PS3 marketshare.
Nope. I'm sure Sony know's what they are doing. The high price is an ingenious part of their marketing, and they have a new motto to go with it:
Playstation 3: With a price like this, it's gotta be good.
I took a look at the terms of service when I was about to sign up. It seems that you can get a partial refund. Essentially:
Refund = Your original payment - (# of months used * regular monthly rate) - $10 cancellation fee - fees for unreturned movies.
And they clarify that the regular monthly rate is NOT your annual payment/12. If you picked one of the 3 at a time plans, those are clearly priced ($16.95 and $24.95). If you picked the 2 at a time plan, I'm not sure what the regular monthly rate would be, since you can't pay for that plan by the month. Judging by the reviews I received, I wouldn't be surprised if they claimed the regular 2 at a time rates were $16.94 and $24.94
oops...replied to the wrong post. Mean to reply to the poster 1 level up.
Take a look here:
e /display_~reviews
http://www.epinions.com/Intelliflix_Online_Servic
After seeing your post, I looked into it and from what I read, I was VERY interested in switching from Netflix to Intelliflix. Then at the last minute I found this:
e /display_~reviews
http://www.epinions.com/Intelliflix_Online_Servic
Almost everyone gave them 1 out of 5 stars. Their best rating is a 3 out of 5. After reading all the reviews at epinions, I wouldn't even think about signing up with intelliflix.
After seeing your post, I looked into it and from what I read, I was VERY interested in switching from Netflix to Intelliflix. Then at the last minute I found this:
e /display_~reviews
http://www.epinions.com/Intelliflix_Online_Servic
Almost everyone gave them 1 out of 5 stars. Their best rating is a 3 out of 5. After reading all the reviews at epinions, I wouldn't even think about signing up with intelliflix.
My local library has been online since before 2003...Sounds like 'prior art' to me
Thats nice. Netflix has been around since 1999. Maybe if you can narrow down that vague range of "before 2003" by about 4 years, then you might have something to talk about. As your statement stands right now, it doesn't sound too 'prior' to me.
LOL...please show me the hard drive that can simultaneously read multiple independant streams of data from the different patters via different heads. Remember, I said simultaneously, not alternating back and forth very quickly. No, I'm sorry, but by "common man" standards those are NOT independant media. It's one media with multiple heads used to read different segments of the SAME media. Just like how a 4 head VCR has multiple heads that read different segments of the SAME media.
With the exception the Series 1 units (and even then, I think it might only be a subset of Series 1 units), a TiVo without the service is essentially a doorstop. No manual recordings allowed.
But the way you are proposing it... a dual hard drive PVR that BEHAVES equivelent to a dual deck VCR...would mean that you COULD NOT read and write to the same hard drive at the same time. so while a show is recordiing, you would only be able to watch a subset of your recorded programs, and which subset would depend on what drive you are currently recording to.
The only possible way around that might be to fragment the show between the 2 drives...always write the current block of recorded show to whichever drive is not being read from. You'd just have to hope the jury agrees with your assessment that it's not in violation of the patent. (note: I'm not saying anything about what is or isn't applicable to the patent...just commenting on YOUR assessment of it)
I still think that macro-evolution has quite a few holes in it.
... has anyone ever found a single fossil record of any precursor?
For instance... where the #$@#$ did platypuses come from?
It wouldn't matter if anyone found a fossil record of a precursor. This is the sort of argument that anti-evolution people are always using as the proof of how flawed evolutionary theory is.
We know creature #1 and #100 exists/existed. We can theorize that #100 evolved from #1, but they always say "if that's the case, then why is there no proof of the in between steps?". Then low an behold, we find #50 and can show that it matches our theory. Then they say "but how did you get from #1 to #50, or from #50 to #100...where are the fossils". Then sure enough, we discover #25 but still we hear "what about the gap between #1 and #25", which then becomes "what about the gap between #1 and #12"..."#6 and #12"...and eventually "what about the gap between #8.000025 and #8.000026"
You could unconver the entire fossil record of the earth down to an evolutionary resolution of 15 minutes and the anti-evolutionary people would still be crying "well what happened in those 15 minutes, and why can't you prove it? I'll tell you why...it's because it's a flawed theory. Never mind that the theory was able to actually predict many future discoveries. It's still flawed!"
That is pretty much what is commonly used, but I seem to recall reading once that Intel processors also support a mode which can switch the page size to 4MB. It might have been documented in my Pentium architecture manual.
Did you come up with the name BadAnalogyGuy? It sounds like it could have been one of the superhero names on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
How about if they quit freakin taxing me so much to begin with. A nice start would be SSI
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From the rest of your post, I get the impression that you are talking about Social Security. You should know that the term SSI is commonly used to refer to Supplemental Security Income, which is different and completely separate from social security.
http://www.ssa.gov/notices/supplemental-security-
I clicked the link in your sig. Just when you think you've seen it all...chainmail lingerie?
If I receive 200 messages about vampire bats....they know i like bats.
Hmm, by that logic, google must "know" I like p3nis enl@rging pil|s, beeasti-ality, and cheeap s0ftware.
Could also be a failing power supply.
It's not public relations. It's investor relations.
There are other things people can do too. For instance, if you sit on a chair and they stand in front of the chair, you are blocked in. While you are sitting down, you can save (the button perform other functions). Your choice is either to wait it out or to just power off and lose any progress since your last save. Obviously the solution there is to make sure you have a way to save when you sit down, but I'm not sure the designers thought of that potential problem.
The other problem is exploiting bugs in the game. Ideally, you would want the game to be designed perfect and bulletproof, but stuff happens, and something always slips by. There was one bug in the game that was exploited early on where a hacker managed to change your town gate into a museum. Once the town gate was gone, so was your ability to go online. This wasn't done through normal game mechanisms, and my understanding was that it wasn't even done through an Action Replay or anything...someone reverse engineered and emulated the protocols in the game, connected to someone's town, and sent a malicous command to change the gate. I can't imagine that was done through an intentionally designed channel. It was almost certainly a bug in the game.
It just seems to me that in a game like animal crossing, it doesn't seem very wise to let just anybody into your town, and having an official community seems problematic (vulgarity/stalker/pedophile aspects aside)
Target price matches for 1 week, but accepts returns for 90 days.
Or even more important than WPA, more complete support for wireless routers. My router is on the list as one not officially supported. I found that if I reboot the router every time just before I attempt to connect, I can get on no problem. However, if I don't reboot it I only get a connection part of the time. There are quite a few routers that have this problem, or that don't work at all under any circumstances. That is really my only disappointment with the DS.
there are lots or idiots in the world who will trash your town.
Exactly. I've had an idoit come in and then start chopping down trees and picking up tiles as soon as they leave my sight. A friend of mine had a semi-valuable item stolen because he set it down outside his house when he was offline, then forgot about it when he opened up his town.
Even beside malicous intent, there is unintentional carelessness. In Animal Crossing, you can cross polinate flowers and come up with special hybrids. They can be very time consuming to grow, but all you need it one person to carelessly run through them a couple times and they are gone.
No, the reason why they scan that extra barcode is so that they can track the specific piece of hardware they sell to you. This is more to combat different types of fraud or (for lack of a better term) creative deal hunting.
Example 1: You buy a product and 6 months later it breaks. You buy a new one and return the old one in the new box with the new receipt. If they've scanned the hardware ID and tied it to the receipt, they can catch this.
Example 2: You buy a product, and sometime after your price match period ends (but before your return period ends) you find the product on sale for a better price. So you rebuy the product and return the new unopened item on the old receipt. (of course, nothing stops you from putting the old item into the new box, but some people don't think of that stuff).
from the article: "Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up."
i can't speak for anyone else, but i know that a hold placed on my bank account would ruin me.
No, it wasn't his money that was freed up, or even put on hold in the first place. It was his AVAILABLE CREDIT. His money (assuming he had any, which is a stretch considering he had been carrying 6K likely at a high interest rate) was perfectly fine . It was his ability to borrow money from that particular bank that was hindered. And that underscores a critical problem with his (and many/most americans') way of thinking....he believed that his available credit was the same as his money. No wonder he owed 6K on a JC Penny card.
In regards to your statement, and in light of what I just pointed out, if you need to borrow money from one creditor to pay off your bills from another creditor, chances are pretty good you are already ruined.
Of course they lined up. There were only a handful of systems being shipped to each store and no hope of more anytime in the near future.
When my favorite band's CD comes out, I'm generally not worried about it selling out, so I just go pick it up at my convenience. When my favorite band comes around in concert, there are limited tickets, so I generally line up for it (well...except that ticketbastard has pretty much killed that option off, with their presale BS and random line shuffling BS, but now I'm off topic...the point is, whenever possible, that's what I do).