That's the problem, they force you into a contract to get better rates. The contract should only be for handset subsidy not the only way to get a good plan.
You can do this in the US, the big problem is that you qualify for better monthly rates with a contract, this shouldn't be allowed. Phone costs are arbitrary in comparison to your plan.
In two years, a $99/month plan costs you $2376 before taxes. A $300 phone isn't such a big deal is it?
Wow, you sure showed them. Good thing you didn't buy a copy of Vista.... oh wait.
"Epic Fail" is not original or funny just like Chuck Norris jokes and All Your Base. Parroting other things you find amusing on the Internet is not a good way to be a comedian.
I can't believe anyone reading/. possibly thinks the gov't is going to step up and piss off every big tech campaign contributor all at once. Never happen, too late in the game.
The only thing they could do at this point is a "use it or lose it" rule to invalidate patent troll patents.
I'd be happy if they instituted the "use it or lose it" that trademarks adhere to. If you're not licensing the patent or using it, your patent becomes public domain because you're just using it to abuse the system, not to recoup costs on the research and work to get the patent.
They need to take the original SWG, update the graphics, and rerelease. No other MMO is half as deep or customizable as that was. It just needed a dev team that would patch bugs instead of just looking stupid.
The last thing we need is another mod for WoW (I'm looking directly at you LoTR).
Americans don't hate Cuba at all. No one under 60 even gives a crap about "evil" communists. Hell, socialism is only "evil" because American politicians are paid by insurance companies to say it is. I'd hate to have guaranteed health care for everyone, it's not like all men are created equal.... crap.
Instead of a WinMo device going into portrait mode by hitting a button or opening a slide-out keyboard, it has a tilt sensor, the Wiimote had one before the iPhone. Instead of a single touch, you can use 2 fingers, like in that Tom Cruise movie with seeing the future. Say it how it is, using terms like "multitouch" glorifies a rather arbitrary concept.
Innovation is 90% efficiency solar panels or 100 MPG cars or even the company that invented the hardware that makes multitouch work, something that doesn't exist, not utilizing things that are already available.
What Apple does is polish concepts, just like Blizzard. Blizzard didn't invent the RTS or MMO but they polished them into something really good (actually I hate WoW, but it is what it is).
That's the entire problem. Companies love to whine about shortages of employees, while it's their own fault. It was always easier when companies treated skilled employees like assets, now they treat them like disposable labor and are paying dearly for it.
The list: pensions training raises bonuses perks
All gone except a 3% cost of living raise that is just compensating for inflation. They complain and bitch and moan about turnover and no "loyalty" when they're the ones at fault. They took away all of the reasons to be loyal to cut costs, so employees jump for a new job with higher salary because salary is the only benefit left.
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Aren't Christians supposed to give up their possessions and teach the word of Jesus? Unless "screwing around in virtual worlds looking for pron" was added to the Bible, you might want to quit pretending to be a Christian.
I'm no Christian, but apparently most of you so-called Christians know less about your religion than I do. Why don't you go pretend to be persecuted some more.
If you worked for me, I would fire you. RAID? Seriously? Are you just looking up words on Wikipedia and putting them in your post?
RAID is NOT a backup method, in any way, shape or form. Corruption written to one disk is written to all disks. A failed controller can ruin an array, software or hardware RAID. It is not for backup, ever. It is for high availability and/or high performance storage NOT as a means to store things indefinitely. In fact, hard drives are never for backup, at all. They can fail on spin-up and you're done, dead drive.
If you ever ask someone about backups, and the word RAID comes out of their mouth, fire them if they work for you then slap them in the face.
Tape is the ONLY real backup solution you can get your hands on, period.
The Wii is the most overpromised system ever released. I'm waiting for a game to properly use the Wiimote other than No More Heroes. So far there's a giant pile of shovelware (including SSB, and Mario Kart) that don't really use the Wiimote, or the ultimate sin, WORKING BETTER WITH A WAVEBIRD. SSB/MK are shovelware purely because they're GC games with slightly better graphics.
Thanks a pantload Nintendo, but how dare you even offer GC controls in Kart/SSB? Worried your fanboys will get angry or are your new controls not revolutionary enough to use your fantastic new controller?
Not surprising that you changed the name from Revolution to piss. Because you pissed away the most promising system with compromises and the most abysmal software catalog possible. All 1st party titles again? That's my Nintendo.
Yes, the PS3 had a slow launch, but there's already more good games for the PS3 than the Wii. Crap GTA4 has more content than the entire Wii library.
The ONLY titles worth owning are No More Heroes, Wii Sports, and Wii Fit, seriously. The rest are just GC games. Funny that everyone was talking about how Wii Sports was a "tech demo" and how awesome the games were going to be, and here we are 1.5 years later, waiting on something better...
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Apple users are subject to King Jobs' will and must buy His hardware and the only rational choice after that is to pay Him for an extended warranty.
For all of the pluses to Apple, the minuses still tip the scales in favor of anything else.
Really? I have a Linksys router collecting dust that I can log into and type in any MAC I damn well please.
Steve Jobs and his giant ego take issue with your remark.
Slander is verbal, libel is written. This is not a slander case.
Slander is verbal, libel is written. There was no slander in this case.
That's the problem, they force you into a contract to get better rates. The contract should only be for handset subsidy not the only way to get a good plan.
You can do this in the US, the big problem is that you qualify for better monthly rates with a contract, this shouldn't be allowed. Phone costs are arbitrary in comparison to your plan.
In two years, a $99/month plan costs you $2376 before taxes. A $300 phone isn't such a big deal is it?
Outlawing drugs has worked so well, whatever do you mean?
Wow, you sure showed them. Good thing you didn't buy a copy of Vista.... oh wait.
"Epic Fail" is not original or funny just like Chuck Norris jokes and All Your Base. Parroting other things you find amusing on the Internet is not a good way to be a comedian.
Would they even know?
Nothing about Apple is ego-friendly.
I can't believe anyone reading /. possibly thinks the gov't is going to step up and piss off every big tech campaign contributor all at once. Never happen, too late in the game.
The only thing they could do at this point is a "use it or lose it" rule to invalidate patent troll patents.
I'd be happy if they instituted the "use it or lose it" that trademarks adhere to. If you're not licensing the patent or using it, your patent becomes public domain because you're just using it to abuse the system, not to recoup costs on the research and work to get the patent.
Google would hold the copyright to the code still, you can't just go stealing code because there's no patent.
They need to take the original SWG, update the graphics, and rerelease. No other MMO is half as deep or customizable as that was. It just needed a dev team that would patch bugs instead of just looking stupid.
The last thing we need is another mod for WoW (I'm looking directly at you LoTR).
Americans don't hate Cuba at all. No one under 60 even gives a crap about "evil" communists. Hell, socialism is only "evil" because American politicians are paid by insurance companies to say it is. I'd hate to have guaranteed health care for everyone, it's not like all men are created equal.... crap.
Instead of a WinMo device going into portrait mode by hitting a button or opening a slide-out keyboard, it has a tilt sensor, the Wiimote had one before the iPhone. Instead of a single touch, you can use 2 fingers, like in that Tom Cruise movie with seeing the future. Say it how it is, using terms like "multitouch" glorifies a rather arbitrary concept.
Innovation is 90% efficiency solar panels or 100 MPG cars or even the company that invented the hardware that makes multitouch work, something that doesn't exist, not utilizing things that are already available.
What Apple does is polish concepts, just like Blizzard. Blizzard didn't invent the RTS or MMO but they polished them into something really good (actually I hate WoW, but it is what it is).
That's the entire problem. Companies love to whine about shortages of employees, while it's their own fault. It was always easier when companies treated skilled employees like assets, now they treat them like disposable labor and are paying dearly for it.
The list:
pensions
training
raises
bonuses
perks
All gone except a 3% cost of living raise that is just compensating for inflation. They complain and bitch and moan about turnover and no "loyalty" when they're the ones at fault. They took away all of the reasons to be loyal to cut costs, so employees jump for a new job with higher salary because salary is the only benefit left.
Aren't Christians supposed to give up their possessions and teach the word of Jesus? Unless "screwing around in virtual worlds looking for pron" was added to the Bible, you might want to quit pretending to be a Christian.
I'm no Christian, but apparently most of you so-called Christians know less about your religion than I do. Why don't you go pretend to be persecuted some more.
$600 for a T1???!?!? Are you kidding? Why would VZ pay itself for its own T1? AT&T and VZ own most of the T1s in the ground.
Apple has done a few things right over the years, mice and keyboards have never been close to "good" let alone "best ever."
You give users too much credit. You also forget that a lot of Mac users are art people and sorority girls, not CS majors.
If you worked for me, I would fire you. RAID? Seriously? Are you just looking up words on Wikipedia and putting them in your post?
RAID is NOT a backup method, in any way, shape or form. Corruption written to one disk is written to all disks. A failed controller can ruin an array, software or hardware RAID. It is not for backup, ever. It is for high availability and/or high performance storage NOT as a means to store things indefinitely. In fact, hard drives are never for backup, at all. They can fail on spin-up and you're done, dead drive.
If you ever ask someone about backups, and the word RAID comes out of their mouth, fire them if they work for you then slap them in the face.
Tape is the ONLY real backup solution you can get your hands on, period.
Time Warner gives me 15/1, I get 13.5/900 in reality (peaks that I've seen). I live in not-typical-for-Americans land.
The Wii is the most overpromised system ever released. I'm waiting for a game to properly use the Wiimote other than No More Heroes. So far there's a giant pile of shovelware (including SSB, and Mario Kart) that don't really use the Wiimote, or the ultimate sin, WORKING BETTER WITH A WAVEBIRD. SSB/MK are shovelware purely because they're GC games with slightly better graphics.
Thanks a pantload Nintendo, but how dare you even offer GC controls in Kart/SSB? Worried your fanboys will get angry or are your new controls not revolutionary enough to use your fantastic new controller?
Not surprising that you changed the name from Revolution to piss. Because you pissed away the most promising system with compromises and the most abysmal software catalog possible. All 1st party titles again? That's my Nintendo.
Yes, the PS3 had a slow launch, but there's already more good games for the PS3 than the Wii. Crap GTA4 has more content than the entire Wii library.
The ONLY titles worth owning are No More Heroes, Wii Sports, and Wii Fit, seriously. The rest are just GC games. Funny that everyone was talking about how Wii Sports was a "tech demo" and how awesome the games were going to be, and here we are 1.5 years later, waiting on something better...