Could the lack of sales possible be from the fact that Napster is a giant heap of turds. I mean I installed it on my computer and could never actually sign in because the program locked the whole damn computer up. Napster used to be king, but now it is a turd.
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Ok, I'll concede to #1. Thanks for the link correcting me on this. Still a $39.95 termination fee is a pretty small price tag. Also, in Section 2.10 it has a lot to say about circumstances for waiving the termination fee.
I think you have a key statement when you say It can't adequately (much less automatically) handle sub-optimal conditions. By no means do I believe that my set up is 100% optimal, but I have no problems with the line other than the issues that have been resolved as I have told about in my previous post. Am I saying that Vonage is 100% for everyone, no. Am I saying that Vonage is 100% of the time with out blame for the problems that some people seem to have, well, I'm not trying to say that. However, I think in MOST circumstances, it is a problem with the high speed connection and not really with Vonage.
Example: I have a friend who is a minister. He lives on church property. The church has a wireless router set up so that he can get high speed at his house. The wireless signal is repeated to extend his range. The signal is then distributed through his house through a wireless adapter that wires into his network (similar to a wireless gaming adapter). He tried Vonage, but his latency was so slow that he would drop calls, get static, all of the issues that I hear people complain about. Now if he had his own cable connection in his house or possibly if the church would have hard wired his house's connection as opposed to wireless he probably would have been fine with Vonage.
I have no POTS line. I haven't ever since I got my Vonage. I don't see going back in the foreseeable future. I look forward to seeing this technology mature. I hope that it is able to put some real pressure on the Bells. I hate the Baby Bells, and I for one am glad not to have to deal with them anymore. I'll put up with poor customer service for inexpensive phone service. I don't think I'll be choosing the Bells who have the worst of both worlds in my opinion: horrible customer service and over priced phone service.
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I have seen so many trolls in this thread, and they almost sound like they have valid arguments. However, if you know facts, then they are easily busted.
1. Vonage does not require contracts. I have had Vonage for well over a year now, and I have referred people to Vonage with in the past month. No one I know who has Vonage has even heard of a service contract.
2. Myth: Vonage has lost of dropped calls or calls that do not connect. This is false. If you do experience these problems, then it is likly cause by a problem with A: Your network set up. B: Your cable line. I had Vonage with no problems, and then all the sudden I experienced degraded call quality and dropped calls, however my Xbox Live was dropping connection too. Turned out, the cable company did an "up grade" at a terminal close to my house and it had a bad connection in place. Cable company fixed it, no more problems with Vonage, and no more problems with Xbox Live. If anything, I would say VOIP has helped me resolve problems with my connection more than it has hurt me.
3. Myth: The call quality is horrible. Again, I have had Vonage for over a year. People cannot tell I use VOIP. Now, I can't use a ton of upstream while I'm on the phone because it CAN cause degraded call quality, but I have not had much problem with that. I am regularly playing a game on Xbox Live while talking on my vonage line with no problems, and Xbox live does use a pretty hefty amount of upstream.
I love my Vonage. If you want to try it for yourself, just email me, and I can send you a referral link. Granted, you can get 1 month free just by signing up through thier site, but going through my link would help a fellow slashdotter out. wagaman@gmail.com
Hmmmm... strange... I could have sworn that I finished that thought. Anyhow, you get the point. Please ignore that last sentance fragment as I can't remember what I was going to say, nor do I care enough to try and recall.
I never cease to be astonished by the levels of tolerance people have for gore and violence
For what it's worth:
I believe the uptightness about sex stems quite a bit from the fact that a lot of people (not all) can watch acts of violence and see them for the bad things they are. Most people have a natural ability to watch a guy get lit on fire and not have a desire to go out and try it.
Sex, on the other hand, is something that as humans we have a desire for. Watching acts of sex increases that desire. I know that I don't want my daughter exposed to either right now. Maybe when she is older and understands violence on TV isn't real, that would be ok (I'd still rather her not to be a TV watcher). As far as sex goes, I don't want her to increase her natural human desire for it until she is married and gone.
I personally wish they would remove the whole sex with a hooker aspect of the game too.
Actually, in some commentary that was on the beginning of the OT VHS re-release in the early/mid 90's (the LAST OT re-release before the special edition), Lucas said that the OT was the middle part of 3 trilogies. This was well after ROTJ was released obviously, so why would he say what he did if he truly did not foresee any further story after ROTJ?
I have noticed that my cable provider will periodically scan for web servers running off of people's home connections. I suppose they do it because they say you can't run a web server in their TOS.
You know, I thought the same thing. All of those "you know"'s brought up 2 points to me.
1. Martin isn't much of a public speaker.
2. Most journalist would have edited at least 50% of the "You know"'s out of respect for the reader. It makes for some horrible reading otherwise.
Seriously, would it have been that hard to edit them out? And for those who really care, they could hear them all on the mp3. I know if it were me they were interviewing, they would have had to type uhhhhhhh... ummmmmmmm a lot. I don't speak publicly.
When I first saw this, I thought, hmmm, cool. These look awesome. Next, I get home and look a second time and thinks yeah, these are neat, but there is something weird about them.
Ah HA! I got it! I have seen most of these pics before. Yet they were in actual videos that I have seen. That's right, They are from a trailer actually. The pics from the duel and space battle scene are from the Episode III game trailer. Notice have the people look animated? herehere and hereand the space battle.
I believe that we will find the following information out in RotS:
Palpatine is indeed the Emporer.
Palpatine has been using dark force powers to mask himself as a "public friendly" charactor.
Palpatine is actually wickedly old.
Remember, the Jedi's force abilities are diminished, and it would be easy for palpatine to mask himself like this. He has merely been using Dooku as a pawn to draw Anakin closer to him. Just as he tried to use Luke to "destroy" him so that he may become one with the force.
Just saw this comment. I had the same problem with my Vonage. I'm guessing you have the Motorola device because there is a known issue with that device where it loses caller ID info. If this happens, I have been told to log onto the Vonage web site, disable call waiting, save changes, then re-enable it. It has something to do with getting an update. I believe vonage push out a firmware update to fix this, but I'm not sure.
As I am an existing Vonage customer, I checked to see if the rate went dow on my plan (Unlimited Local/500 Long Distance Minutes) which was $24.99/mo. Vonage seems to have discontinued that plan, but my plan was not automatically upgraded to the unlimited plan. So, I went ahead and changed it myself.
This is good news for me as I am getting ready to have to make a lot more long distance calls than I did before.
<shameless plug> Also, anyone who is looking to get Vonage can contact me and I can send you an invitation. You will save on your fist bill, and i will save on my next bill </shameless plug>
I read through some other posts, andwas pointed to this:
It wasn't until the Visa card arrived addressed to her that we knew what had happened.
Sorry, but I didn't notice that the first time I read the article. I would have to say that in this case, yes, they were legally not entitled to submit her credit application. Had they merely taken the contact information and sold it, I believe that they would have been legally ok, but now... well, I think you need a lawyer because you will probablly be getting a pretty nice settlment from them.
Oh, but still tell us what company it was that marketed the credit card.:)
True, but I never read where it said the credit application was processed. I just saw that she was receiving spam & telemarketers. I could be wrong though.
So she through the credit card application away. Was it in a public trash can? Was the credit card application actually processed as a credit application?
If she threw it away in a public trash can, then the piece of paper becomes public domain. If the credit application was not processed, then I don't think that they "technically" did anything wrong. It may be despicable, but legally, I don't know that there is anything you can do.
The good news is, that you can be particually protected by a certain group of peers. Ones that can bring companies to thier knees. Remember the spammer that bought the something like $3 million house? How quickly was his address found? How quickly was he being harrassed by the friendly slashdotters.
Tell us the company name. Web site if you have it. All the information you can about them. And I am sure that if slashdot pulled together again we could harass the living hell out of them, and teach them a lesson on business etiqutte.
BOBA FETT
As well you should be, boy. We are supposed to all be clones,
but you look different, which makes you a threat to our morale.
You are hereby banished from the clone army, never to return.
HAN SOLO
That suits me fine, I will make my way as a rogue.
Han Solo gets up from the table, knocks over his chair, picks up a duffel bag and walks away. He opens the bag and there is a puppy inside. He takes it out and kisses it on the head.
HAN SOLO
It is okay, Chewbacca, we will be all right.
Puppy? Chewbacca? He's 200 tears old in ANH... WTF?
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Could the lack of sales possible be from the fact that Napster is a giant heap of turds. I mean I installed it on my computer and could never actually sign in because the program locked the whole damn computer up. Napster used to be king, but now it is a turd.
Ok, I'll concede to #1. Thanks for the link correcting me on this. Still a $39.95 termination fee is a pretty small price tag. Also, in Section 2.10 it has a lot to say about circumstances for waiving the termination fee.
I think you have a key statement when you say It can't adequately (much less automatically) handle sub-optimal conditions. By no means do I believe that my set up is 100% optimal, but I have no problems with the line other than the issues that have been resolved as I have told about in my previous post. Am I saying that Vonage is 100% for everyone, no. Am I saying that Vonage is 100% of the time with out blame for the problems that some people seem to have, well, I'm not trying to say that. However, I think in MOST circumstances, it is a problem with the high speed connection and not really with Vonage.
Example:
I have a friend who is a minister. He lives on church property. The church has a wireless router set up so that he can get high speed at his house. The wireless signal is repeated to extend his range. The signal is then distributed through his house through a wireless adapter that wires into his network (similar to a wireless gaming adapter). He tried Vonage, but his latency was so slow that he would drop calls, get static, all of the issues that I hear people complain about. Now if he had his own cable connection in his house or possibly if the church would have hard wired his house's connection as opposed to wireless he probably would have been fine with Vonage.
I have no POTS line. I haven't ever since I got my Vonage. I don't see going back in the foreseeable future. I look forward to seeing this technology mature. I hope that it is able to put some real pressure on the Bells. I hate the Baby Bells, and I for one am glad not to have to deal with them anymore. I'll put up with poor customer service for inexpensive phone service. I don't think I'll be choosing the Bells who have the worst of both worlds in my opinion: horrible customer service and over priced phone service.
I have seen so many trolls in this thread, and they almost sound like they have valid arguments. However, if you know facts, then they are easily busted.
1. Vonage does not require contracts. I have had Vonage for well over a year now, and I have referred people to Vonage with in the past month. No one I know who has Vonage has even heard of a service contract.
2. Myth: Vonage has lost of dropped calls or calls that do not connect. This is false. If you do experience these problems, then it is likly cause by a problem with A: Your network set up. B: Your cable line. I had Vonage with no problems, and then all the sudden I experienced degraded call quality and dropped calls, however my Xbox Live was dropping connection too. Turned out, the cable company did an "up grade" at a terminal close to my house and it had a bad connection in place. Cable company fixed it, no more problems with Vonage, and no more problems with Xbox Live. If anything, I would say VOIP has helped me resolve problems with my connection more than it has hurt me.
3. Myth: The call quality is horrible. Again, I have had Vonage for over a year. People cannot tell I use VOIP. Now, I can't use a ton of upstream while I'm on the phone because it CAN cause degraded call quality, but I have not had much problem with that. I am regularly playing a game on Xbox Live while talking on my vonage line with no problems, and Xbox live does use a pretty hefty amount of upstream.
I love my Vonage. If you want to try it for yourself, just email me, and I can send you a referral link. Granted, you can get 1 month free just by signing up through thier site, but going through my link would help a fellow slashdotter out. wagaman@gmail.com
Hmmmm... strange... I could have sworn that I finished that thought. Anyhow, you get the point. Please ignore that last sentance fragment as I can't remember what I was going to say, nor do I care enough to try and recall.
Thanks for pointing that out though.
I never cease to be
astonished by the levels of tolerance people have for gore and violence
For what it's worth:
I believe the uptightness about sex stems quite a bit from the fact that a lot of people (not all) can watch acts of violence and see them for the bad things they are. Most people have a natural ability to watch a guy get lit on fire and not have a desire to go out and try it.
Sex, on the other hand, is something that as humans we have a desire for. Watching acts of sex increases that desire. I know that I don't want my daughter exposed to either right now. Maybe when she is older and understands violence on TV isn't real, that would be ok (I'd still rather her not to be a TV watcher). As far as sex goes, I don't want her to increase her natural human desire for it until she is married and gone.
I personally wish they would remove the whole sex with a hooker aspect of the game too.
Combine sex and violence and
# 10: POWER: 13, 18, 19, 24, 25, 35, 36, 42, 45, 49
# 9: Xeon: 20, 28, 29, 34, 37, 40, 42, 44, 47
You have 42 on here twice. I know that 42 is the answer, but which has the 42nd position? Or are they tied?
Best I can say is that Jar-Jar doesn't speak.
Jar Jar bumps into a senator (if I remember correctly it was Orn Free Taa). The senator Says "Watch it". Jar Jar says "Excuse me".
Actually, in some commentary that was on the beginning of the OT VHS re-release in the early/mid 90's (the LAST OT re-release before the special edition), Lucas said that the OT was the middle part of 3 trilogies. This was well after ROTJ was released obviously, so why would he say what he did if he truly did not foresee any further story after ROTJ?
Actually Vader HELPED the empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi. Vader/Anakin doesn't necessarily do it himself...
Why does it burn when I pee?
I have noticed that my cable provider will periodically scan for web servers running off of people's home connections. I suppose they do it because they say you can't run a web server in their TOS.
You pay for anti-virus? Try AVG...
1. Martin isn't much of a public speaker.
2. Most journalist would have edited at least 50% of the "You know"'s out of respect for the reader. It makes for some horrible reading otherwise.
Seriously, would it have been that hard to edit them out? And for those who really care, they could hear them all on the mp3. I know if it were me they were interviewing, they would have had to type uhhhhhhh... ummmmmmmm a lot. I don't speak publicly.
What is his new login?
Elan Sleazebaggo
He is the death sticks guy. Also, he is Mouse from The Matrix.
When I first saw this, I thought, hmmm, cool. These look awesome. Next, I get home and look a second time and thinks yeah, these are neat, but there is something weird about them.
Ah HA! I got it! I have seen most of these pics before. Yet they were in actual videos that I have seen. That's right, They are from a trailer actually. The pics from the duel and space battle scene are from the Episode III game trailer. Notice have the people look animated? here here and here and the space battle.
Here is the game trailer
Some pics may be legit, but mostly, they aren't. But the game trailer does seem to give a little too much of the movie away.
I believe that we will find the following information out in RotS:
Palpatine is indeed the Emporer.
Palpatine has been using dark force powers to mask himself as a "public friendly" charactor.
Palpatine is actually wickedly old.
Remember, the Jedi's force abilities are diminished, and it would be easy for palpatine to mask himself like this. He has merely been using Dooku as a pawn to draw Anakin closer to him. Just as he tried to use Luke to "destroy" him so that he may become one with the force.
But I could be wrong.
Just saw this comment. I had the same problem with my Vonage. I'm guessing you have the Motorola device because there is a known issue with that device where it loses caller ID info. If this happens, I have been told to log onto the Vonage web site, disable call waiting, save changes, then re-enable it. It has something to do with getting an update. I believe vonage push out a firmware update to fix this, but I'm not sure.
As I am an existing Vonage customer, I checked to see if the rate went dow on my plan (Unlimited Local/500 Long Distance Minutes) which was $24.99/mo. Vonage seems to have discontinued that plan, but my plan was not automatically upgraded to the unlimited plan. So, I went ahead and changed it myself.
This is good news for me as I am getting ready to have to make a lot more long distance calls than I did before.
<shameless plug>
Also, anyone who is looking to get Vonage can contact me and I can send you an invitation. You will save on your fist bill, and i will save on my next bill
</shameless plug>
I stand corrected, I responded too quickly...
It wasn't until the Visa card arrived addressed to her that we knew what had happened.
I read through some other posts, andwas pointed to this:
:)
It wasn't until the Visa card arrived addressed to her that we knew what had happened.
Sorry, but I didn't notice that the first time I read the article. I would have to say that in this case, yes, they were legally not entitled to submit her credit application. Had they merely taken the contact information and sold it, I believe that they would have been legally ok, but now... well, I think you need a lawyer because you will probablly be getting a pretty nice settlment from them.
Oh, but still tell us what company it was that marketed the credit card.
True, but I never read where it said the credit application was processed. I just saw that she was receiving spam & telemarketers. I could be wrong though.
IANAL...
So she through the credit card application away. Was it in a public trash can? Was the credit card application actually processed as a credit application?
If she threw it away in a public trash can, then the piece of paper becomes public domain. If the credit application was not processed, then I don't think that they "technically" did anything wrong. It may be despicable, but legally, I don't know that there is anything you can do.
The good news is, that you can be particually protected by a certain group of peers. Ones that can bring companies to thier knees. Remember the spammer that bought the something like $3 million house? How quickly was his address found? How quickly was he being harrassed by the friendly slashdotters.
Tell us the company name. Web site if you have it. All the information you can about them. And I am sure that if slashdot pulled together again we could harass the living hell out of them, and teach them a lesson on business etiqutte.
200 tears old
I really need to preview next time...
BOBA FETT
As well you should be, boy. We are supposed to all be clones,
but you look different, which makes you a threat to our morale.
You are hereby banished from the clone army, never to return.
HAN SOLO
That suits me fine, I will make my way as a rogue.
Han Solo gets up from the table, knocks over his chair, picks up a
duffel bag and walks away. He opens the bag and there is a puppy
inside. He takes it out and kisses it on the head.
HAN SOLO
It is okay, Chewbacca, we will be all right.
Puppy? Chewbacca? He's 200 tears old in ANH... WTF?
lol