Thanks. It doesn't sound like the family plan reduces the per-minute charges any, but it does reduce the minimum monthly purchase for all but the first phone. I wish they would give you break when calling another phone on your plan though, you'd think in-network calls are cheaper for them.
When my wife calls my tracphone on her tracphone, I pay to send *and* receive, simultaneously, and the rate for minutes in low volume is 33 cents per minute - so it's 66 cents per minute. Except 80% of the time you get an answering machine instead of whoever you were trying to call, so you pay for a full minute (33 cents) to leave a 5 second voicemail.
I bought a new screen for my Canon S80 digicam on ebay for $50, but then when I put it in I couldn't get it to work. What then? Maybe the screen was defective, maybe the camera was more damaged than I thought, maybe I put it in wrong. So, like any DIY tasks, you are assuming some risk if it doesn't work out.
I don't think anyone's saying anything about scientists PUTTING lithium into the water. They went around and measured levels of lithium already in the water and found that the areas with higher levels had less suicides.
I suppose all water has some level of lithium. Maybe people evolved for lithium-rich water (compared to the worldwide average today) and millions of people worldwide are actually suffering from lithium deficiency. Heck, it even kills some of them.
Apparently you've never worked in a secure computing environment. It's a nightmare of hassle and low productivity. Remember, information security means slowing the flow of information and intentionally making stuff not work. As much as possible, you try to only break things selectively, targeting the bad users and sparing the good users, but you can only expect so much specificity.
This is the actually the kind of advertising that I find the most useful, as it tells me what I absolutely want to avoid. Movie ads that hype the effects over the story tell me the film was made for some other audience, not me
Probably.
Then again, Cameron's magnum opus, Titanic, was widely dismissed before it was released due to incredible cost and schedule overruns, mostly due to special effects. Then it went on to be the highest-grossing film ever. OK, that doesn't prove you personally liked it, but an awful lot of people did.
Right. And *that* is why the name requires something which you apparently do not have: Humor.
I can almost see your point. But at the same time, if I were starting a movement to reform drug and prostitution laws, I wouldn't call it The Pimp and Crack Whore Party. It seems like the name isn't just supposed to be funny, it's supposed to incite a reaction. So, congratulations, it's working. Maybe this "persecution" will draw more attention to your cause.
The last thing you want to do is risk your plane with an unreliable hack on the plane (or flight surfaces, or anything holding the plane together). It could cost you hundreds of bucks, days of work
When learning to fly gliders, I did a LOT more flying once I ditched a balsa aircraft that had to be re-built after every "landing" in favor of a foam one that could take a lot of abuse.
I wasn't talking about emailing anything to the government anyways. I was talking about my appliances emailing *me* if they think something might be wrong, neither the govt. or power company has anything to do with it. Also if I left on a trip without e.g. turning my hot water heater off (which I currently never bother to do), I could email my home from my phone to go into "power saving" mode.
It's like land - what was initially given away to ranchers and farmers in vast swaths will now be sold back to us in ever-smaller and more expensive blocks.
Bailout and stimulus are different things, but I am all in favor of networked appliances to cut down on energy costs. I would start with heat, AC, and fridge rather than toaster though. I would like to get an email from my appliances each month saying how much power each one is using, since a broken appliance can end up running around the clock and wasting power.
At some point I would also like to get a plug-in hybrid that can talk to the power grid and charge up when energy is cheapest, which may be somewhat unpredictable as solar and wind power come online.
Well, McNealy has a point. When somebody says their computer is getting slow, they aren't referring to MHz. The computer's throughput is as high as ever, but it's getting soaked up by virii, or virus scanners, or whatever. So obviously, perception of "computer speed" refers to the applications of interest and not the hardware itself.
If you are using the "computer" solely to watch a video stream, as will surely be the case with Internet set-top boxes - which will surely use more total bandwidth than PCs within the next few years - there is no distinction between the video getting choppy and the computer itself getting choppy.
I'd be interested to hear from somebody who works at a grocery store (or better yet, a big home improvement store, e.g. Lowes) how many times per day somebody asks them where to find something. 10? 100? I wouldn't mind asking a machine instead, if it worked.
I think the idea of the statement was that Time Warner shareholders lost.
In that sense, the merger was equally the brightest idea ever for AOL shareholders because it "created" $100B of shareholder value for them. I don't think "created value" and "destroyed value" are accurate though; mergers in and of themselves don't actually do much.
Anyways, Time/Warner is mainly a printed media giant, which has been nosediving right along with dialup, so you can't count the entire $100B against AOL.
And even if you did, the full $100B loss would only be for people who only owned Time Warner and not AOL, yet who chose to keep their TW/AOL stock after the acquisition, which seems illogical.
No, I think it's mainly just wanting some stimulation or excitement, or to be part of something historic, and not particularly happiness at others' misfortune. There is something very rousing about feeling you are part of history, or in an epic battle.
"Time Warner is inching closer to untangling one of the worst mergers in American corporate history that began with the merger of Time Warner with America Online, a deal that has resulted in the evaporation of more than $100 billion of shareholder value. "
I don't believe that for one moment. The writing was on the wall for AOL anyways, and for much of Time Warner as well. Had they not merged, they still would have lost about the same amount between them. To think otherwise - to agree with the above quote - is to somehow believe that AOL would still be what it was in 1996, when they were providing dialup for millions, which is just silly.
I hate private monopolies but I hate the state as monopoly equally.
I dislike both but I hate private monopolies more. Why? Because I live in a democracy. You CAN influence your local govt, you have a vote. A private monopoly is more like a dictatorship - you can't see the books, you don't get a vote... nothing.
What about the people who are healthy? They will be paying a huge amount of money for a doctor to tell them that they are fine. I have received two shots in 18 years. No pills, no x rays, nothing more from the doctor. Yet I have been paying every paycheck for what exactly?
And that's exactly the problem with voluntary health insurance. Isn't it completely obvious that you will not be able to pay for health care during the years when you will actually need it? Being sick and being productive are mutually exclusive. If people refuse to pay when they're healthy and then still expect care when they are sick and cannot pay, guess what, it doesn't work out.
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Thanks. It doesn't sound like the family plan reduces the per-minute charges any, but it does reduce the minimum monthly purchase for all but the first phone. I wish they would give you break when calling another phone on your plan though, you'd think in-network calls are cheaper for them.
When my wife calls my tracphone on her tracphone, I pay to send *and* receive, simultaneously, and the rate for minutes in low volume is 33 cents per minute - so it's 66 cents per minute. Except 80% of the time you get an answering machine instead of whoever you were trying to call, so you pay for a full minute (33 cents) to leave a 5 second voicemail.
I bought a new screen for my Canon S80 digicam on ebay for $50, but then when I put it in I couldn't get it to work. What then? Maybe the screen was defective, maybe the camera was more damaged than I thought, maybe I put it in wrong. So, like any DIY tasks, you are assuming some risk if it doesn't work out.
I suppose all water has some level of lithium. Maybe people evolved for lithium-rich water (compared to the worldwide average today) and millions of people worldwide are actually suffering from lithium deficiency. Heck, it even kills some of them.
Apparently you've never worked in a secure computing environment. It's a nightmare of hassle and low productivity. Remember, information security means slowing the flow of information and intentionally making stuff not work. As much as possible, you try to only break things selectively, targeting the bad users and sparing the good users, but you can only expect so much specificity.
Probably.
Then again, Cameron's magnum opus, Titanic, was widely dismissed before it was released due to incredible cost and schedule overruns, mostly due to special effects. Then it went on to be the highest-grossing film ever. OK, that doesn't prove you personally liked it, but an awful lot of people did.
I can almost see your point. But at the same time, if I were starting a movement to reform drug and prostitution laws, I wouldn't call it The Pimp and Crack Whore Party. It seems like the name isn't just supposed to be funny, it's supposed to incite a reaction. So, congratulations, it's working. Maybe this "persecution" will draw more attention to your cause.
Holding out for absolute perfection, I see. Let me know when you find it. I'm stuck here on planet Earth where nothing is 100% anything.
Once you hoist the Jolly Roger, you excuse yourself from polite society. Isn't that sort of the point of being an outlaw?
I bet a lot of "Dateline - to Catch a Predator" viewers would disagree.
When learning to fly gliders, I did a LOT more flying once I ditched a balsa aircraft that had to be re-built after every "landing" in favor of a foam one that could take a lot of abuse.
I wasn't talking about emailing anything to the government anyways. I was talking about my appliances emailing *me* if they think something might be wrong, neither the govt. or power company has anything to do with it. Also if I left on a trip without e.g. turning my hot water heater off (which I currently never bother to do), I could email my home from my phone to go into "power saving" mode.
It's like land - what was initially given away to ranchers and farmers in vast swaths will now be sold back to us in ever-smaller and more expensive blocks.
At some point I would also like to get a plug-in hybrid that can talk to the power grid and charge up when energy is cheapest, which may be somewhat unpredictable as solar and wind power come online.
Especially since the deleted scene will probably appear in the "deluxe director's cut" DVD anyways.
If you are using the "computer" solely to watch a video stream, as will surely be the case with Internet set-top boxes - which will surely use more total bandwidth than PCs within the next few years - there is no distinction between the video getting choppy and the computer itself getting choppy.
I'd be interested to hear from somebody who works at a grocery store (or better yet, a big home improvement store, e.g. Lowes) how many times per day somebody asks them where to find something. 10? 100? I wouldn't mind asking a machine instead, if it worked.
In that sense, the merger was equally the brightest idea ever for AOL shareholders because it "created" $100B of shareholder value for them. I don't think "created value" and "destroyed value" are accurate though; mergers in and of themselves don't actually do much.
Anyways, Time/Warner is mainly a printed media giant, which has been nosediving right along with dialup, so you can't count the entire $100B against AOL.
And even if you did, the full $100B loss would only be for people who only owned Time Warner and not AOL, yet who chose to keep their TW/AOL stock after the acquisition, which seems illogical.
No, I think it's mainly just wanting some stimulation or excitement, or to be part of something historic, and not particularly happiness at others' misfortune. There is something very rousing about feeling you are part of history, or in an epic battle.
I don't believe that for one moment. The writing was on the wall for AOL anyways, and for much of Time Warner as well. Had they not merged, they still would have lost about the same amount between them. To think otherwise - to agree with the above quote - is to somehow believe that AOL would still be what it was in 1996, when they were providing dialup for millions, which is just silly.
I dislike both but I hate private monopolies more. Why? Because I live in a democracy. You CAN influence your local govt, you have a vote. A private monopoly is more like a dictatorship - you can't see the books, you don't get a vote... nothing.
In any of the many nations with UHC, can you name one where that happened?
Bush ran on "no nation-building," then proceeded to do exactly the opposite.
Dunno, I had the good sense to be an Amiga user at that time :)
And that's exactly the problem with voluntary health insurance. Isn't it completely obvious that you will not be able to pay for health care during the years when you will actually need it? Being sick and being productive are mutually exclusive. If people refuse to pay when they're healthy and then still expect care when they are sick and cannot pay, guess what, it doesn't work out.