people will alter their behavior if they are being charged this way. Just as you will use less electricity if it is being metered rather than an "all you can eat" plan.
Yes, but electricity is still more expensive even after changed behaviour than before. So now you are getting less and paying more.
So if you want to shut down a web site hosted by these guys, all you have to do is send out a spam message with their URL. This is trully "DOS for Dummies"
Oh, I see, makes more sense now. Hard to get much info when the site is slashdoted and you do not know what TLA means. And "Digital radio" can mean so many things in marketing talk.
Many banks support direct connect download and many more support indirect downloads from their website (also automated within PFMs) Among the direct support ones are Wells Fargo, BofA and Citybank, as well as credit cards like AmEx, Discover, and MBNA (they are behind a LOT of branded cards). There is a full list somewhere and it is pretty long.
I've never had any duplication issues either. Quicken (which I use) detects duplication and matches transactions when it detects duplicates, which works great 99% of the time - sometimes you do have duplicate transactions and occasionaly it trips up on them - But it also never does anything you did not approve, thus if you are paying attention it is not an issue.
The reason not many people use it is because people are affraid of the unknown. I tried to convince several people to use them, and most did not understand what it is or how it would work. On the other hand the few that listened are now avid users. Most of the people I know who use these programs were near broke in college and smart enough to know that something like Quicken is the only way to survive without spending tons of time on managing finances. (I love that forecasting graph in early quicken, the goal was always to find a way to have it cross the 0 line more than a week from now.)
There are a lot of people who will install the mod chip for you for about $50-$60. In my area I see people advertizing on Craigslist all the time. You still need some basic idea of what you are doing, but there is a large collection of information here
I am sure I'm one of the MANY who would say - just gex a modded xbox with XBMC software - it can do all of the same stuff, plus play xbox games, and being that XBMC is software (Open Source, too), it will be ever extending with new formats. All of this for same price or cheaper.... and yeah, it can run linux too...
Well, most everything the real HP did has been spun off to Agilent while the printer and computer business kept the HP name. Since the only part of what was doing good and was left under HP brand was the printer business, I am not surprized at the stat.
Me (and probably many of the HP/Agilent employees) think that they should have kept HP name with HP business and not sell out. Especially since they merged with Compaq (which is probably the other 70% of their sales) and would have had a known brand name to keep on the consumer end.
Of course, given a choice between HP and Compaq computer, I'd personally buy a DELL.
HP was always known for not jumping on latest technologies and only entering market once it is well established, improving on existing technologies. I mean these are the people who passed on original Apple designs and were still proud of it when Apple became successful. They were by far not the first ones to enter laser printer market. It was part of their philosophy.
Now they are the innovators. Curious times. But then again, if Microsoft can claim to be innovators, HP is way ahead of them there.
I have no doubts that they could, but without big cash payoff (or more exactly - a possibility of big cash payoff) why would they bother? Especially if this is all about SCO trying to present itself for IBM buyout.
SCO is not evil that is trying destroy Linux world for the sake of destroying it, it's just greedy trying to make money any way they can. With IBM or any other big company, they can make money. There is no profit in bankrupting some small company unless you somehow get paid for it.
I think the meaning is similar to non-disclosure agreement - We'll let you look at the book before it is out on a condition that you cannot publicly discuss it untill a certain date. No free speech violations here, just simple business.... on the other hand I somehow doubt the first amendment to US constitution has anything to do with a guy reading a book in Europe. USA has not fully colonized all of the world (yet).
I'd rather have a world without IBM than IBM "saving Linux".
There is some truth there, If it weren't for suing IBM, I doubt SCO would have been able to raise any money. SCO investors are gambling on some sort of payoff , and I bet suing small companies or FSF just would not produce any significant income even if they won.
Never mind VoIP; you're missing the incredibly cheap cost of international POTS calls originating from the UK. I can get 1 penny per minute (~1.6c/min) as an end-user to make calls to the USA (and Australia, France, etc). If I was a bulk business user, I'm sure I could get an even better price.
Makes sense. I did not realize it gotten this cheap.
Ok, one thing I am missing, how much does it cost them? I mean f they are sending the faxes from UK, it will be too costly, but if they are sending it via some sort of internet relay, go after the relay - they are in the US and must obey laws. What am i missing here?
Once the rights are back in the hands of the consumer, this will never be a problem. Oh, and I wish someone would excercise their LEGAL right to install a counter-measure in the same way that this scumware is installed.
My guess is that will only happend after someone will insert a major virus/ddos software under "protection" of EULA and then sue Anti-Virus companies to prevent them to adding the virus to their definitions.
Actually, It's just my bad writing. Someone already called me on it. I meant to say a little under 1MB is UNCOMPRESSED (Altigen sends uncompressed WAV files), and that given compression ratios possible, it could be tiny. But what I wrote did not come off like that at all. Goes to show you, never write comments when you've been working for a few days straight w/o sleep.
Yeah, that came out a bit confusing. I meant given low quality needed for voice, UNCOMPRESSED (which is how Altigen sends it) a 1 minute recording is about 1MB , with compression it can be way lower.
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people will alter their behavior if they are being charged this way. Just as you will use less electricity if it is being metered rather than an "all you can eat" plan.
Yes, but electricity is still more expensive even after changed behaviour than before. So now you are getting less and paying more.
So if you want to shut down a web site hosted by these guys, all you have to do is send out a spam message with their URL. This is trully "DOS for Dummies"
-Em
Oh, I see, makes more sense now. Hard to get much info when the site is slashdoted and you do not know what TLA means. And "Digital radio" can mean so many things in marketing talk.
-Em
Broadcast flag??? isn't that just the "evil bit" (RFC 3514) implementation for digital video?
But isn't this device recording analog radio?
-Em
I'll be cancelled.
I think you may be cancelled way earlier than that... let me make a few phone calls.
(sorry, could not resist)
It may be illegal, but for any sort of prosecution, someone must complain - and who will complain if that means they will go to jail?
-Em
Clearly last time you checked was in 1979.
Many banks support direct connect download and many more support indirect downloads from their website (also automated within PFMs) Among the direct support ones are Wells Fargo, BofA and Citybank, as well as credit cards like AmEx, Discover, and MBNA (they are behind a LOT of branded cards). There is a full list somewhere and it is pretty long.
I've never had any duplication issues either. Quicken (which I use) detects duplication and matches transactions when it detects duplicates, which works great 99% of the time - sometimes you do have duplicate transactions and occasionaly it trips up on them - But it also never does anything you did not approve, thus if you are paying attention it is not an issue.
The reason not many people use it is because people are affraid of the unknown. I tried to convince several people to use them, and most did not understand what it is or how it would work. On the other hand the few that listened are now avid users. Most of the people I know who use these programs were near broke in college and smart enough to know that something like Quicken is the only way to survive without spending tons of time on managing finances. (I love that forecasting graph in early quicken, the goal was always to find a way to have it cross the 0 line more than a week from now.)
-Em
There are a lot of people who will install the mod chip for you for about $50-$60. In my area I see people advertizing on Craigslist all the time. You still need some basic idea of what you are doing, but there is a large collection of information here
I am sure I'm one of the MANY who would say - just gex a modded xbox with XBMC software - it can do all of the same stuff, plus play xbox games, and being that XBMC is software (Open Source, too), it will be ever extending with new formats. All of this for same price or cheaper. ... and yeah, it can run linux too...
I can't think of another device where you push a button twice in rapid succession to achieve an outcome.
Morse code based devices?
Well, most everything the real HP did has been spun off to Agilent while the printer and computer business kept the HP name. Since the only part of what was doing good and was left under HP brand was the printer business, I am not surprized at the stat.
Me (and probably many of the HP/Agilent employees) think that they should have kept HP name with HP business and not sell out. Especially since they merged with Compaq (which is probably the other 70% of their sales) and would have had a known brand name to keep on the consumer end.
Of course, given a choice between HP and Compaq computer, I'd personally buy a DELL.
It's oversimplification, but it is mostly true.
-Em
Boy do things change... well at least labels.
HP was always known for not jumping on latest technologies and only entering market once it is well established, improving on existing technologies. I mean these are the people who passed on original Apple designs and were still proud of it when Apple became successful. They were by far not the first ones to enter laser printer market. It was part of their philosophy.
Now they are the innovators. Curious times. But then again, if Microsoft can claim to be innovators, HP is way ahead of them there.
-Em
I have no doubts that they could, but without big cash payoff (or more exactly - a possibility of big cash payoff) why would they bother? Especially if this is all about SCO trying to present itself for IBM buyout.
SCO is not evil that is trying destroy Linux world for the sake of destroying it, it's just greedy trying to make money any way they can. With IBM or any other big company, they can make money. There is no profit in bankrupting some small company unless you somehow get paid for it.
-Em
I think the meaning is similar to non-disclosure agreement - We'll let you look at the book before it is out on a condition that you cannot publicly discuss it untill a certain date. No free speech violations here, just simple business.... on the other hand I somehow doubt the first amendment to US constitution has anything to do with a guy reading a book in Europe. USA has not fully colonized all of the world (yet).
I'd rather have a world without IBM than IBM "saving Linux".
There is some truth there, If it weren't for suing IBM, I doubt SCO would have been able to raise any money. SCO investors are gambling on some sort of payoff , and I bet suing small companies or FSF just would not produce any significant income even if they won.
-Em
... of what court wants, the judge should have just given them a list of law firms they might have wanted to hire instead. Put some ADs there too.
Never mind VoIP; you're missing the incredibly cheap cost of international POTS calls originating from the UK. I can get 1 penny per minute (~1.6c/min) as an end-user to make calls to the USA (and Australia, France, etc). If I was a bulk business user, I'm sure I could get an even better price.
Makes sense. I did not realize it gotten this cheap.
-Em
That would be a heck of a sales ploy, get paid by the call, and post the number on slashdot. :-)
-Em
Ok, one thing I am missing, how much does it cost them? I mean f they are sending the faxes from UK, it will be too costly, but if they are sending it via some sort of internet relay, go after the relay - they are in the US and must obey laws. What am i missing here?
-Em
Just because it was the highpoint does not mean it was good..
let's all just start again
TCP2
SMTP2
POP32
In the most basic way, freedom of choice and freedom of speech.
Once the rights are back in the hands of the consumer, this will never be a problem. Oh, and I wish someone would excercise their LEGAL right to install a counter-measure in the same way that this scumware is installed.
My guess is that will only happend after someone will insert a major virus/ddos software under "protection" of EULA and then sue Anti-Virus companies to prevent them to adding the virus to their definitions.
Actually, It's just my bad writing. Someone already called me on it. I meant to say a little under 1MB is UNCOMPRESSED (Altigen sends uncompressed WAV files), and that given compression ratios possible, it could be tiny. But what I wrote did not come off like that at all. Goes to show you, never write comments when you've been working for a few days straight w/o sleep.
Sorry for the confusion.
-Em
Yeah, that came out a bit confusing. I meant given low quality needed for voice, UNCOMPRESSED (which is how Altigen sends it) a 1 minute recording is about 1MB , with compression it can be way lower.