My car is a Nissan Maxima and the problem with this is that I've accidentally left the key in the car in the console under the radio and the car locked because the key fob lost contact with the car for a few seconds. So even though it wasn't supposed to be possible to lock yourself out of the car, it has happened to me twice. I just use the real key now. The wireless keys are solving a problem I never had and causing more problems for me.
PayPal once froze my account. I didn't realize how much they take those comments seriously and several years ago I sent some money to my wife with PayPal and put "For Sexual Favors" in the memo box, just kidding around, the way people would do on checks back in the day. Well, apparently PayPal thought I was actually paying for sex with PayPal and froze the funds. After I called them and explained the situation though, they quickly released the funds.
They are usually incorrect unless it's a living thing. The PC has been dead more times than I can count. So has the web. Move along, nothing to see here folks.
A few months ago, I was switching from AT&T to Verizon. As an iPhone user of many years, I wanted to try Android. I told this to the Verizon salespeople and they told me to stick with iPhone because I wouldn't be happy. I didn't listen because relying on salespeople for technology advice is not a good practice. I went with the Thunderbolt. The 4G was incredibly fast, but so was the speed at which my battery drained. I gave Android a serious shot for about a week, then I had to go back to iPhone. I went in and they refunded everything and swapped me out for an iPhone with no hassle.
The salespeople were right, but just this once.
Cash doesn't require batteries! You can have all the money in the world sitting on a website, but when the phone goes dead, guess what, so do you chances of paying with Paypal mobile app.
At least your debit card can't go dead. I don't want to be standing on the side of the road somewhere, trying to beg people for a charge so I can pay the tow truck company. No thanks. You are pretty much SOL at that point.
Cutting off wireless access is pretty pointless. The better solution is to give 2 free hours and then give a code when you buy something else that gives you another 2. That at least keeps the freeloaders at bay. Caribou does something similar to this already. You aren't going to keep people from sitting there and surfing the internet though just by cutting off wi-fi. I like to take my iPad to coffee shops and read the news and it's tethered to my phone so I still have free internet regardless. I think had you done this in the early 2000s yeah, you would have stopped people from turning your coffee shop into an internet cafe, but in 2010, it's a little late.
Whatever. This isn't flamebait. Just because everyone on here hates microsoft doesn't mean they don't make decent software. I ran Vista for over a year with absolutely no problems whatsoever.
Stupid Lawsuits like this are what bogs down the legal system. If anything this lady should be sued for being stupid.
This is a linux computer in a car that has very specific hardware and limited functionality. Wake me up when you can get a true desktop machine to boot in 1 second and then we can talk. This is like saying, "My toaster runs linux and it can boot instantly!"
Big freaking deal.
So this lady was suing because of what? Being slightly inconvenienced? And Vista wasn't bad at all. Especially with a new machine that had the proper drivers. All you had to do was turn off UAC and set it to classic theme and you couldn't tell the difference between it and XP. Windows 7 rocks. This lady was just trying to make a quick buck off a frivolous lawsuit.
Nope. Try again. I've owned 3 all generations of iPhone. Jailbroke every single one. Never bricked the device ever. You can't brick it jailbreaking. Maybe if you drop it and break the device, but jailbreaking nope. And you are only banned from Push if you don't use AT&T in the US. You can't unlock and goto T-Mobile and have Push work, but Push works fine on Jailbreak.
Read up buddy. You are severely misinformed.
Tax preparer software isn't as remedial as TurboTax and other consumer-based products because it would slow down the preparation. It checks some things, but sometimes mistakes can slip through.
We would always check and double-check and even have another accountant review the complicated ones.
Sure there are bad accountants, but good accountants are looking to get you the most money back they can because people feel better if they get a good refund. You think the IRS gives a damn if you get a big refund? Nope. They just want you to pay the taxes you owe and could care less about everything else.
I have since gotten out of this business, but I used to prepare tax returns in a small town. People would come to us with 1 W-2, and a few dependents to claim. Take me all of 5 minutes to do the return, especially if they were a previous client as it would pre-fill prior information. We would collect anywhere from $150 to $200 for a return like this, because we would file it rapid refund so they could get a check back from the bank the next day. I told people they could E-file the whole thing for $75 and get the money in a couple weeks, sometimes less than that if you timed it right, but they wanted the money the next day. Sometimes people would even pay more and get $1000 instantly, and the rest the next day.
These same people wouldn't drive 2 blocks down the road to the public library and file for free and wait for their refund, so what makes you think they would file it for free with the IRS? Also a lot of these people were lower income people who didn't even have a bank account because they don't trust banks, what makes you think they are going to trust that the government is not screwing them on their tax return? I wouldn't trust the IRS. I personally saw many mistakes the IRS would make processing people's returns, which would cause them lots of time and money to get straightened out.
For the above reasons, this will never happen.
Find the spot in your house where you get full reception. Buy a cordless phone similar to this one (http://www.uniden.com/products/productdetail.cfm? product=ELBT595&page=2) that will link your cellphone to your cordless phone. That way, it acts like a cheap repeater for your cell phone.
See the cellphone is linked via bluetooth to the cordless phone. Then the cordless phone can control both your landline and your cellphone and it will work anywhere in your house perfectly as long as you can find some spot where the cell phone gets good signal to place the base unit.
I think its a good idea myself.
The average US consumer has no idea in the world what the hell Bittorrent is. If I mentioned it to my mom, she would be like, "What?"
The average US consumer doesn't have MythTV, DVR, HDTV Tuner or any other thing like that.
Yes, they are still very much fringe technologies. Most people don't want to pay the added fees.
This isn't competing with any of those methods. The Bittorrent method is illegal, so you can't really talk about competition there anyways.
The average person won't care what resolution it is in, whether they have commercials or not, or if it plays in Quicktime, Windows Media, Flash or some completely new obscure format.
All the average person wants is to watch the episode of LOST or Desperate Housewives that they missed.
This fills that void. And if they make more ad revenue, then good for them. They are a company that is intended to make money.
Quit whining that ABC isn't going to deliver a DVDR with the last nights episode on your doorstep the next morning and take what you can get.
Look at the facts. You can't connect the PSP to any other display device. Movie watching is a social thing. You aren't going to invite your buddies over and watch a movie crowded around a PSP.
Also, they had no distinct advantages over DVD. Why buy a UMD Movie, that is the same price as the DVD so you can watch it by yourself and can't rip it to anything else.
Finally, who in their right mind is going to rebuild their collection, or even build a new one in a completely useless format that only has a single device capable of playing it.
Any moron could tell them that this was doomed from the start.
I think the portable device market is becoming far too saturated at the moment. Look at all the portable devices.
1.)Multimedia Cellphones that play video, music and games.
2.)Ipod and other mp3 players play video and music.
3.)Handheld Videogame systems-Gameboy, DS, PSP. PSP plays videos and music.
4.)PDAs-plays videos, music and games.
The race has already been won as far as music goes for the iPod. Why should I buy any new product when the iPod is already out, and proven its popularity and has thousands of cool accessories(not that I really care, but think about the mainstream populace, especially females). Especially the iTunes store. As more and more people buy songs from iTunes, it basically eliminates possibility of competing products. I've probably spent at least $200 in iTunes, do you think I'm going to throw all that away to jump ships to the Microsoft camp? No way.
Aside from the gee-whiz thats cool feature factor that may appeal to some tech nuts out there, I can hardly forsee any new feature that Microsoft could come up with to improve upon the existing devices.
The way I see it, the portable device market is already way too saturated with cool gadgets that are expensive and ultimately don't do much. I think the trend these days is going toward simplicity in tech rather than all these crazy features. People get tired of learning how to use all these crazy things and spending lots of money on them.
So tell me what device they could possibly come up with that would trump the iPod or the current lineup of PocketPCs?
Steve Jobs once gave a commencement speech about this very topic and he said "You've got to find what you love".
Here is an excerpt:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
1.) 60 Gigs of Music would take a good while to upload at 32k/sec. 2.) This assumes you always have internet connectivity. 3.) Just seems like a huge pain really, and for what gain? 4.) I can do the same thing right now if I wanted to with my broadband connection. 5.) This is more convienent than my iPod how? Cheaper in the short run maybe, but not more convienent.
Someone needs to explain the need for this. Maybe for a small segment of the population that has internet access and a computer attached to their hip 24/7 this would work. The review says he has problems carrying around an iPod, even an iPod nano, because he would forget it.
Come on people. I don't see how this can possible last, or take off and the capital investment involved on the company's side as far as storage and bandwith costs doesn't seem at all to be covered by $40/year?? How does the company make a profit off that? That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I'd be leery of uploading my entire collection of music to a third party. Especially one of questionable staying power. So I spend hours and hours uploading my entire collection and then what happens when it all goes down?
Why not just vote for JK Rowling as European of the Year? After all whats more important than creating a hugely successful children's franchise? Its the only good thing to come out of Europe in ages.
Anyone ever notice that if you really look at it, when you buy iTunes music you are really buying an inferior product? $.99 is actually a little too high in my opinion considering the best quality you can buy is 128kbps AAC. Why not 192 or 320? Why not goto the Allofmp3.com model where you pay 1 cent per megabyte and you can encode in any format you want? That is the best model, I think.
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I read it as they were providing Natural Light, the beer. And I thought to myself, that should not be anyone's perk...That's just cruel.
Bypasses have to be built!
You must be new here.
My car is a Nissan Maxima and the problem with this is that I've accidentally left the key in the car in the console under the radio and the car locked because the key fob lost contact with the car for a few seconds. So even though it wasn't supposed to be possible to lock yourself out of the car, it has happened to me twice. I just use the real key now. The wireless keys are solving a problem I never had and causing more problems for me.
PayPal once froze my account. I didn't realize how much they take those comments seriously and several years ago I sent some money to my wife with PayPal and put "For Sexual Favors" in the memo box, just kidding around, the way people would do on checks back in the day. Well, apparently PayPal thought I was actually paying for sex with PayPal and froze the funds. After I called them and explained the situation though, they quickly released the funds.
They are usually incorrect unless it's a living thing. The PC has been dead more times than I can count. So has the web. Move along, nothing to see here folks.
A few months ago, I was switching from AT&T to Verizon. As an iPhone user of many years, I wanted to try Android. I told this to the Verizon salespeople and they told me to stick with iPhone because I wouldn't be happy. I didn't listen because relying on salespeople for technology advice is not a good practice. I went with the Thunderbolt. The 4G was incredibly fast, but so was the speed at which my battery drained. I gave Android a serious shot for about a week, then I had to go back to iPhone. I went in and they refunded everything and swapped me out for an iPhone with no hassle. The salespeople were right, but just this once.
Cash doesn't require batteries! You can have all the money in the world sitting on a website, but when the phone goes dead, guess what, so do you chances of paying with Paypal mobile app. At least your debit card can't go dead. I don't want to be standing on the side of the road somewhere, trying to beg people for a charge so I can pay the tow truck company. No thanks. You are pretty much SOL at that point.
Cutting off wireless access is pretty pointless. The better solution is to give 2 free hours and then give a code when you buy something else that gives you another 2. That at least keeps the freeloaders at bay. Caribou does something similar to this already. You aren't going to keep people from sitting there and surfing the internet though just by cutting off wi-fi. I like to take my iPad to coffee shops and read the news and it's tethered to my phone so I still have free internet regardless. I think had you done this in the early 2000s yeah, you would have stopped people from turning your coffee shop into an internet cafe, but in 2010, it's a little late.
Whatever. This isn't flamebait. Just because everyone on here hates microsoft doesn't mean they don't make decent software. I ran Vista for over a year with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Stupid Lawsuits like this are what bogs down the legal system. If anything this lady should be sued for being stupid.
This is a linux computer in a car that has very specific hardware and limited functionality. Wake me up when you can get a true desktop machine to boot in 1 second and then we can talk. This is like saying, "My toaster runs linux and it can boot instantly!" Big freaking deal.
So this lady was suing because of what? Being slightly inconvenienced? And Vista wasn't bad at all. Especially with a new machine that had the proper drivers. All you had to do was turn off UAC and set it to classic theme and you couldn't tell the difference between it and XP. Windows 7 rocks. This lady was just trying to make a quick buck off a frivolous lawsuit.
Nope. Try again. I've owned 3 all generations of iPhone. Jailbroke every single one. Never bricked the device ever. You can't brick it jailbreaking. Maybe if you drop it and break the device, but jailbreaking nope. And you are only banned from Push if you don't use AT&T in the US. You can't unlock and goto T-Mobile and have Push work, but Push works fine on Jailbreak. Read up buddy. You are severely misinformed.
Updated version: No flash. Less space than an Archos. Lame.
Tax preparer software isn't as remedial as TurboTax and other consumer-based products because it would slow down the preparation. It checks some things, but sometimes mistakes can slip through. We would always check and double-check and even have another accountant review the complicated ones. Sure there are bad accountants, but good accountants are looking to get you the most money back they can because people feel better if they get a good refund. You think the IRS gives a damn if you get a big refund? Nope. They just want you to pay the taxes you owe and could care less about everything else.
I have since gotten out of this business, but I used to prepare tax returns in a small town. People would come to us with 1 W-2, and a few dependents to claim. Take me all of 5 minutes to do the return, especially if they were a previous client as it would pre-fill prior information. We would collect anywhere from $150 to $200 for a return like this, because we would file it rapid refund so they could get a check back from the bank the next day. I told people they could E-file the whole thing for $75 and get the money in a couple weeks, sometimes less than that if you timed it right, but they wanted the money the next day. Sometimes people would even pay more and get $1000 instantly, and the rest the next day. These same people wouldn't drive 2 blocks down the road to the public library and file for free and wait for their refund, so what makes you think they would file it for free with the IRS? Also a lot of these people were lower income people who didn't even have a bank account because they don't trust banks, what makes you think they are going to trust that the government is not screwing them on their tax return? I wouldn't trust the IRS. I personally saw many mistakes the IRS would make processing people's returns, which would cause them lots of time and money to get straightened out. For the above reasons, this will never happen.
Find the spot in your house where you get full reception. Buy a cordless phone similar to this one (http://www.uniden.com/products/productdetail.cfm? product=ELBT595&page=2) that will link your cellphone to your cordless phone. That way, it acts like a cheap repeater for your cell phone.
See the cellphone is linked via bluetooth to the cordless phone. Then the cordless phone can control both your landline and your cellphone and it will work anywhere in your house perfectly as long as you can find some spot where the cell phone gets good signal to place the base unit.
I think its a good idea myself.
The one that goes, "I believe the children are our future..."
Then it goes on to show the dumb photos that people post.
Its funny stuff... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146
The average US consumer has no idea in the world what the hell Bittorrent is. If I mentioned it to my mom, she would be like, "What?"
The average US consumer doesn't have MythTV, DVR, HDTV Tuner or any other thing like that.
Yes, they are still very much fringe technologies. Most people don't want to pay the added fees.
This isn't competing with any of those methods. The Bittorrent method is illegal, so you can't really talk about competition there anyways.
The average person won't care what resolution it is in, whether they have commercials or not, or if it plays in Quicktime, Windows Media, Flash or some completely new obscure format.
All the average person wants is to watch the episode of LOST or Desperate Housewives that they missed.
This fills that void. And if they make more ad revenue, then good for them. They are a company that is intended to make money.
Quit whining that ABC isn't going to deliver a DVDR with the last nights episode on your doorstep the next morning and take what you can get.
Geez, you people are ridiculous!
Also, they had no distinct advantages over DVD. Why buy a UMD Movie, that is the same price as the DVD so you can watch it by yourself and can't rip it to anything else.
Finally, who in their right mind is going to rebuild their collection, or even build a new one in a completely useless format that only has a single device capable of playing it.
Any moron could tell them that this was doomed from the start.
1.)Multimedia Cellphones that play video, music and games.
2.)Ipod and other mp3 players play video and music.
3.)Handheld Videogame systems-Gameboy, DS, PSP. PSP plays videos and music.
4.)PDAs-plays videos, music and games.
The race has already been won as far as music goes for the iPod. Why should I buy any new product when the iPod is already out, and proven its popularity and has thousands of cool accessories(not that I really care, but think about the mainstream populace, especially females). Especially the iTunes store. As more and more people buy songs from iTunes, it basically eliminates possibility of competing products. I've probably spent at least $200 in iTunes, do you think I'm going to throw all that away to jump ships to the Microsoft camp? No way.
Aside from the gee-whiz thats cool feature factor that may appeal to some tech nuts out there, I can hardly forsee any new feature that Microsoft could come up with to improve upon the existing devices.
The way I see it, the portable device market is already way too saturated with cool gadgets that are expensive and ultimately don't do much. I think the trend these days is going toward simplicity in tech rather than all these crazy features. People get tired of learning how to use all these crazy things and spending lots of money on them.
So tell me what device they could possibly come up with that would trump the iPod or the current lineup of PocketPCs?
Here is an excerpt:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Read it here: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/ jobs-061505.html
It is a truly inspirational speech considering the man didn't complete college and he went on to be the CEO of a multi-billionare dollar corporation.
1.) 60 Gigs of Music would take a good while to upload at 32k/sec.
2.) This assumes you always have internet connectivity.
3.) Just seems like a huge pain really, and for what gain?
4.) I can do the same thing right now if I wanted to with my broadband connection.
5.) This is more convienent than my iPod how? Cheaper in the short run maybe, but not more convienent.
Someone needs to explain the need for this. Maybe for a small segment of the population that has internet access and a computer attached to their hip 24/7 this would work. The review says he has problems carrying around an iPod, even an iPod nano, because he would forget it.
Come on people. I don't see how this can possible last, or take off and the capital investment involved on the company's side as far as storage and bandwith costs doesn't seem at all to be covered by $40/year?? How does the company make a profit off that? That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I'd be leery of uploading my entire collection of music to a third party. Especially one of questionable staying power. So I spend hours and hours uploading my entire collection and then what happens when it all goes down?
Just don't think this was well thought out.
Why not just vote for JK Rowling as European of the Year? After all whats more important than creating a hugely successful children's franchise? Its the only good thing to come out of Europe in ages.
Anyone ever notice that if you really look at it, when you buy iTunes music you are really buying an inferior product? $.99 is actually a little too high in my opinion considering the best quality you can buy is 128kbps AAC. Why not 192 or 320? Why not goto the Allofmp3.com model where you pay 1 cent per megabyte and you can encode in any format you want? That is the best model, I think.