Microsoft closed my "Gold" membership live account quite a few years back because they had problems billing my credit card. When I called to get things resolved their response was "the account is closed". I asked them to re-enable the account but they refused. To access my saved game data I was told to boot my console with no internet connectivity and I'd be able to access old content again.
Now, with game licenses being bound to the account, people will lose a lot more than a friends list, saved game data and achievements. You will lose the licenses you own.
Their policies have ruined them for me and others with similar experiences.
Microsoft can go to hell!
A few companies got away with using the meg / gig terms rounding off... once a few got away with it the rest started following..
For example, Sandisk flash storage cards all round down the same way. Their website indicates that their term gig = 1,000,000,000 bytes. That caused me a lot of problems trying to use their product for a proprietary file system which corrupts if it's not the true size.
I personally hope Seagate loses this and I hope other storage companies smarten up from this.
I think the BOINC platform was the right thing to do for people trying to run multiple projects. Sharing CPU cycles between mutliple CPU hogging applications doesn't work very well.
I've just signed up myself for Vonage. The delivery guy with the linksys box was at my house today; but I'm at work.
I spend at most 15 minutes a month on my home phone line. Paying almost $40 (Canadian) a month for 15 minutes is kinda bad when I can pay $20 from Vonage.
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Microsoft closed my "Gold" membership live account quite a few years back because they had problems billing my credit card. When I called to get things resolved their response was "the account is closed". I asked them to re-enable the account but they refused. To access my saved game data I was told to boot my console with no internet connectivity and I'd be able to access old content again. Now, with game licenses being bound to the account, people will lose a lot more than a friends list, saved game data and achievements. You will lose the licenses you own. Their policies have ruined them for me and others with similar experiences. Microsoft can go to hell!
Reading from this pro-Sony site, they claim that Toshiba is dropping out of the competition.. or at least that's the way I read it.
A few companies got away with using the meg / gig terms rounding off... once a few got away with it the rest started following.. For example, Sandisk flash storage cards all round down the same way. Their website indicates that their term gig = 1,000,000,000 bytes. That caused me a lot of problems trying to use their product for a proprietary file system which corrupts if it's not the true size. I personally hope Seagate loses this and I hope other storage companies smarten up from this.
I think the BOINC platform was the right thing to do for people trying to run multiple projects. Sharing CPU cycles between mutliple CPU hogging applications doesn't work very well.
I hope it doesn't rain on the way home tonight.
I've just signed up myself for Vonage. The delivery guy with the linksys box was at my house today; but I'm at work.
I spend at most 15 minutes a month on my home phone line. Paying almost $40 (Canadian) a month for 15 minutes is kinda bad when I can pay $20 from Vonage.
For the 911 stuff you can read Vonage's explaination at http://vonage.ca/features.php?feature=911