I'm with rogers too. From the sounds of it, your internet is the HiSpeed Lite Express, basically the cheapest service they offer. For about another $5-$10 a month, you can get the HiSpeed Lite, which is much faster, and has a 60 GB limit. Much more sane, and probalby well worth the money. I probably sound like one of their sales reps right now, so I'll stop there, but I'm really just a somewhat happy customer.
only after subscribing would you realize you've been screwed.
I thought all the fees were laid out in the contract they sent you. It's too bad that people are impulsive, and don't research what they are buying into. But it's hardly something that you can't find out about before you sign up.
I'm going to play devils advocate here and so "so what". Let's just assume that the average person pays $X extra on their cable bill for all these extra things that they shouldn't be charged extra for. The government decides to make it illegal for them to charge their customers for this stuff. So, now, instead, to get around the law, they change their subscription price from $Y, to $Y + $X, which means in the end, you're still paying the same amount, and since they are pretty much a monopoly, you still have to either pay, or go without. Although it's kind of sneaky to advertise service for $X, and then add on a bunch of fees afterwards, that make it cost $1.5X, getting laws set against the fees isn't going to make things any cheaper in the end. BTW, just about every "utility" I have does this. Natural gas, hydro, cable, internet, telephone, cell phone. That doesn't make it right, but getting rid of the "fees" won't change anything.
Has Microsoft even paid 1 cent in fines for being convicted of antitrust? Have then been broken up? Have they release any APIs that the court ordered them to release? As far as I'm aware, they still haven't started paying the EU, or the USA for what they were convicted of. Problem is, MS is just too big, and too important to too many businesses to shut them down.
I'm not saying that they business model isn't sound. I'm saying it's very easy for someone else to enter the market, with very low risk, and very little investment. That means that it's quite probable they could be usurped by some other company.
I hope for the best in this situation. It would be nice to have a system where you can build your own PVR, because, I have SageTV on my computer, and it's vastly better than and PVR box I have ever seen. It only works with the first 70 channels that are sent over plain old analog cable, but that includes most of the stuff I watch anyway. Most of the stuff on the digital only channels is movie/sports channels that I don't pay for, or time shifted (other time zone) stuff that I don't need anyway since I use SageTV. I still pay for the rental of a box, but it's only $4 a month, as it's just a receiver, and not a PVR. Things could be better, and I hope they get better in the future, but as long as I have my analog cable, I'm happy with things the way they are.
The difference between the GPL and this EULA, is that the GPL grants you rights beyond what copyright would normally give you, while the EULA tries to take away rights that copyright would normally give you.
However, MS only makes a release of Windows every 5 years, so they charge a lot for it. Apple on the other hand, has a new version of OSX every 2 years. So, in order to make it more enticing for buyers to buy new versions so frequently, they made it cost less per version.
Except that the number of networks is limited. It's also very costly to start up a new network, with nationwide coverage. With internet sites, anybody can just come around and create a new one, and the costs are directly tied to the number of users. So if you have no users you're costs are low. Once you get lots of eyeballs, your costs are high, but you have lots of eyeballs, so it's easy to sell advertising. This means it's very low risk, and very easy to be a start-up.
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But does Google even sell services? As far as I see, they sell advertising space. Like a billboard company. Except for billboard companies, the amount of space is limited, and it's hard for other companies to take that billboard space from them. Yahoo used to be the same way. Then Google came by with a better search engine, and therefore a more attractive place to put your ads, and everybody moved to Google. What's to say that somebody won't supplant Google, in the search engine/web destination front, and start pulling away all the advertisers. Advertisers will put their ads wherever the most people will see their ad. If somebody else comes along, and takes all of the eyes away from Google, all the advertisers will follow. It's happened with all the other advertisement based online businesses in the past. I'm not sure why anybody thinks google is different.
Well, he's an indie developer, so some of his games are only $10 to begin with. That would probably be the minimal I'd give anyone as a donation. If you aren't worth $10, you aren't worth a donation at all. Plus you'd get a game, you'd be able to try it out, and you might even like it. If there is a donation box, you could still use that, but at the prices of these games, I'd just recommend buying one if you really want to support him.
You got modded funny, but I once heard about some study, which may or may not have been real, but it suits this story well, that, if you are the victim of identity theft, that it is very likely to be from somebody you know. So, if anybody you know could answer these questions about you, and the people who have their accounts broken into are likely to be people you know, then it makes the questions practically meaningless.
A friend of mine used to generate passwords by coming up with a work, and interleaving it with a number. So, let's say you have the word house, and the number 12345, which are both brutually easy to guess passwords, and when you combine them you get h1o2u3s4e5. Which would probably be a pretty secure password. Mix in a couple of shift keys, and you end up with h1O@u3S$e5, which is probably even less likely to be broken by any dictionary attach. Now in reality you would choose words and numbers that are even less common, so you'd end up with a really secure password. The really nice thing about this trick, is that, in most GUI based logins, you can just type the word part of your password (house), and then move the cursor back to the second character, and type each character from the number, followed by pressing the right arrow key. So you actually get a nice password, that's easy to remember, and easy to type.
My bank does that too. I just filled it with random character strings generated and stored in PasswordSafe. A lot more secure, than, so when they ask what is the name of my highschool, my answer is something like "EE38e9Eeeicf3232". Which is really nice, because it helps to make up for the insecurity of their 8 character alpha numeric passwords.
I'm not talking about being fired for gross misconduct. That's always possible. But what about cases where there's not gross misconduct, and you just want to get rid of a guy because he isn't pulling his weight.
I agree. Let people use recumbents, but if they choose to use a recumbent, they have to use one for the whole race. I would argue that they should have to use the exact same bike and parts for the entire race. Replacement parts should be allowed, but only parts that are the same as the one they are replacing.
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I'm with rogers too. From the sounds of it, your internet is the HiSpeed Lite Express, basically the cheapest service they offer. For about another $5-$10 a month, you can get the HiSpeed Lite, which is much faster, and has a 60 GB limit. Much more sane, and probalby well worth the money. I probably sound like one of their sales reps right now, so I'll stop there, but I'm really just a somewhat happy customer.
I thought all the fees were laid out in the contract they sent you. It's too bad that people are impulsive, and don't research what they are buying into. But it's hardly something that you can't find out about before you sign up.
I'm going to play devils advocate here and so "so what". Let's just assume that the average person pays $X extra on their cable bill for all these extra things that they shouldn't be charged extra for. The government decides to make it illegal for them to charge their customers for this stuff. So, now, instead, to get around the law, they change their subscription price from $Y, to $Y + $X, which means in the end, you're still paying the same amount, and since they are pretty much a monopoly, you still have to either pay, or go without. Although it's kind of sneaky to advertise service for $X, and then add on a bunch of fees afterwards, that make it cost $1.5X, getting laws set against the fees isn't going to make things any cheaper in the end. BTW, just about every "utility" I have does this. Natural gas, hydro, cable, internet, telephone, cell phone. That doesn't make it right, but getting rid of the "fees" won't change anything.
Has Microsoft even paid 1 cent in fines for being convicted of antitrust? Have then been broken up? Have they release any APIs that the court ordered them to release? As far as I'm aware, they still haven't started paying the EU, or the USA for what they were convicted of. Problem is, MS is just too big, and too important to too many businesses to shut them down.
I'm not saying that they business model isn't sound. I'm saying it's very easy for someone else to enter the market, with very low risk, and very little investment. That means that it's quite probable they could be usurped by some other company.
I hope for the best in this situation. It would be nice to have a system where you can build your own PVR, because, I have SageTV on my computer, and it's vastly better than and PVR box I have ever seen. It only works with the first 70 channels that are sent over plain old analog cable, but that includes most of the stuff I watch anyway. Most of the stuff on the digital only channels is movie/sports channels that I don't pay for, or time shifted (other time zone) stuff that I don't need anyway since I use SageTV. I still pay for the rental of a box, but it's only $4 a month, as it's just a receiver, and not a PVR. Things could be better, and I hope they get better in the future, but as long as I have my analog cable, I'm happy with things the way they are.
Or, it'll just be like that guy who designed the intermittent windshield wiper, and the car company will steal their ideas out from under them.
The difference between the GPL and this EULA, is that the GPL grants you rights beyond what copyright would normally give you, while the EULA tries to take away rights that copyright would normally give you.
However, MS only makes a release of Windows every 5 years, so they charge a lot for it. Apple on the other hand, has a new version of OSX every 2 years. So, in order to make it more enticing for buyers to buy new versions so frequently, they made it cost less per version.
Shhhhhh..... You're giving away all my secrets.
Except that the number of networks is limited. It's also very costly to start up a new network, with nationwide coverage. With internet sites, anybody can just come around and create a new one, and the costs are directly tied to the number of users. So if you have no users you're costs are low. Once you get lots of eyeballs, your costs are high, but you have lots of eyeballs, so it's easy to sell advertising. This means it's very low risk, and very easy to be a start-up.
I think you meant,
A good analogy is a metaphor.
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A good analogy is like a simile.
What's your opinion on Photoshop Elements. It only costs $100. Which is pretty cheap if you are actually going to use it on a regular basis.
But does Google even sell services? As far as I see, they sell advertising space. Like a billboard company. Except for billboard companies, the amount of space is limited, and it's hard for other companies to take that billboard space from them. Yahoo used to be the same way. Then Google came by with a better search engine, and therefore a more attractive place to put your ads, and everybody moved to Google. What's to say that somebody won't supplant Google, in the search engine/web destination front, and start pulling away all the advertisers. Advertisers will put their ads wherever the most people will see their ad. If somebody else comes along, and takes all of the eyes away from Google, all the advertisers will follow. It's happened with all the other advertisement based online businesses in the past. I'm not sure why anybody thinks google is different.
I think it was George Carlin who said
Did you ever notice that everybody who drives slower than you is an idiot. And that everybody who drives faster than you is a maniac?
Well, he's an indie developer, so some of his games are only $10 to begin with. That would probably be the minimal I'd give anyone as a donation. If you aren't worth $10, you aren't worth a donation at all. Plus you'd get a game, you'd be able to try it out, and you might even like it. If there is a donation box, you could still use that, but at the prices of these games, I'd just recommend buying one if you really want to support him.
Actually, he heard outdated news. At one time they were kicking people off for using wine. They've since reversed that decision.
Well, you could run some games under andLinux. Not sure if it would support 3D graphics and such, but it's definitely possible.
I'm not sure how it works in the US, but in Canada, the rule usually goes, that if the cop doesn't show up to court, you don't have to pay the ticket.
They must be taking lessons from Comcast. It's Comcastic!!!!
You got modded funny, but I once heard about some study, which may or may not have been real, but it suits this story well, that, if you are the victim of identity theft, that it is very likely to be from somebody you know. So, if anybody you know could answer these questions about you, and the people who have their accounts broken into are likely to be people you know, then it makes the questions practically meaningless.
A friend of mine used to generate passwords by coming up with a work, and interleaving it with a number. So, let's say you have the word house, and the number 12345, which are both brutually easy to guess passwords, and when you combine them you get h1o2u3s4e5. Which would probably be a pretty secure password. Mix in a couple of shift keys, and you end up with h1O@u3S$e5, which is probably even less likely to be broken by any dictionary attach. Now in reality you would choose words and numbers that are even less common, so you'd end up with a really secure password. The really nice thing about this trick, is that, in most GUI based logins, you can just type the word part of your password (house), and then move the cursor back to the second character, and type each character from the number, followed by pressing the right arrow key. So you actually get a nice password, that's easy to remember, and easy to type.
My bank does that too. I just filled it with random character strings generated and stored in PasswordSafe. A lot more secure, than, so when they ask what is the name of my highschool, my answer is something like "EE38e9Eeeicf3232". Which is really nice, because it helps to make up for the insecurity of their 8 character alpha numeric passwords.
I'm not talking about being fired for gross misconduct. That's always possible. But what about cases where there's not gross misconduct, and you just want to get rid of a guy because he isn't pulling his weight.
I agree. Let people use recumbents, but if they choose to use a recumbent, they have to use one for the whole race. I would argue that they should have to use the exact same bike and parts for the entire race. Replacement parts should be allowed, but only parts that are the same as the one they are replacing.