I did some more digging on this product, and it looks like Area Codes are only available for New York, New Jersey, and Cali.
So for most people, right now, this is only a solution for national L/D calling out, but not really realisitic to expect your friends across town in Seattle to call you on your New York phone #.
True, they are losing money, but a 5% loss? That's not very bad. Especially considering the current state of the economy. And it's not like Porn is a necessity;)
I hate to use Adult industry examples, but there is a very good example of taking advantage of a market instead of trying to shut it down.
Playboy Enterprises, Inc. was probably one of the most pirated companies in the history of media when it comes to original content. I don't know about you, but I've read hundreds of articles talking about Pamela Anderson or whoever being #1 on most search engines, etc etc.
So what did PEI do? They capitalized on the market. They didn't try to prevent you from copying JPG's and MOV's. They gave you a service so killer that it's not worth the time trying to pirate it. Most adult companies try and charge like $30 a month for a crap ass website with lousy content and slutty women.
Not Playboy. They charge like 6 bux a month. The price of a paper magazine. All of their playmates in an online archive. HUGE libraries of content. New features weekly if not daily.
Playboy recognized it could benefit from a potential source of huge revenue or it could be like the RIAA and MPAA and try to prevent it's content from being copied. By providing a service with such value at such a reasonable price point, I'm quite sure Playboy is making a killing.
I wish the RIAA and MPAA could pull their heads of out their respective a$$es and open their eyes to the REAL market they COULD capitalize on without screwing things for us: the consumers.
In seattle, a company started about a year and a half ago called Zama, they were poised to deliver the first world-class IPv6 Colo facility in the USA, and now, less than 12 months after they launch a completely state of the art facility, they are gone.
Zama.net no longer points anywhere. The reason? Nobody needs IPv6 yet. I'm sorry, but we don't need 19 million or however many millions of IP addresses for each person on the planet just yet.
I know, it's a shame, as I was just about to launch the new Gilette MachIPv6 Razor, with a full web interface to monitor individual blade sharpness, but alas, now I'll have to launch the plain old IPv4 version. How will I ever manage?
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I did some more digging on this product, and it looks like Area Codes are only available for New York, New Jersey, and Cali.
So for most people, right now, this is only a solution for national L/D calling out, but not really realisitic to expect your friends across town in Seattle to call you on your New York phone #.
Here's the area codes they have available: Vonage Area Codes
True, they are losing money, but a 5% loss? That's not very bad. Especially considering the current state of the economy. And it's not like Porn is a necessity ;)
I hate to use Adult industry examples, but there is a very good example of taking advantage of a market instead of trying to shut it down.
Playboy Enterprises, Inc. was probably one of the most pirated companies in the history of media when it comes to original content. I don't know about you, but I've read hundreds of articles talking about Pamela Anderson or whoever being #1 on most search engines, etc etc.
So what did PEI do? They capitalized on the market. They didn't try to prevent you from copying JPG's and MOV's. They gave you a service so killer that it's not worth the time trying to pirate it. Most adult companies try and charge like $30 a month for a crap ass website with lousy content and slutty women.
Not Playboy. They charge like 6 bux a month. The price of a paper magazine. All of their playmates in an online archive. HUGE libraries of content. New features weekly if not daily.
Playboy recognized it could benefit from a potential source of huge revenue or it could be like the RIAA and MPAA and try to prevent it's content from being copied. By providing a service with such value at such a reasonable price point, I'm quite sure Playboy is making a killing.
I wish the RIAA and MPAA could pull their heads of out their respective a$$es and open their eyes to the REAL market they COULD capitalize on without screwing things for us: the consumers.
They are:
- Red Mars
- Green Mars
- Blue Mars
By Kim Stanley Robinson.These are some of the best science fiction books I've ever read, and if you're into Mars, I bet you'll really enjoy these.
-Corren
In seattle, a company started about a year and a half ago called Zama, they were poised to deliver the first world-class IPv6 Colo facility in the USA, and now, less than 12 months after they launch a completely state of the art facility, they are gone. Zama.net no longer points anywhere. The reason? Nobody needs IPv6 yet. I'm sorry, but we don't need 19 million or however many millions of IP addresses for each person on the planet just yet. I know, it's a shame, as I was just about to launch the new Gilette MachIPv6 Razor, with a full web interface to monitor individual blade sharpness, but alas, now I'll have to launch the plain old IPv4 version. How will I ever manage?
I'm so looking forward to upgrading my memory again...DDR 22000000 here we come!