Its called a contract. When a cell company that you've never had major problems with before lies to get you on a new phone with a new 2 year contract, there's not much you can do.
I don't have enough fingers to count the times Verizon has told me lies just to go away.
If Verizon/Mot comes out with the update to fix all the problems, the money donated to this pot gets refunded.
One of my favourite sports to watch during the winter olympics two years ago was curling. Residing in the US, the only way to watch was to VCR it when NBC would show it at 3AM. And yeah, it was mostly covering the US team until they got knocked out. Then they only showed highlights of curling from that point out.
TiVO would be helpful at this point so one could skip through the inane chatter of the announcers and glorious retrospectives of some underpriveledged kid from the north end of detroit who has overcome diversity to compete in Olympic Table-tennis without missing the actual competition. (I believe out of a 3 hr block, that would be about 20 minutes)
Senator Hatch has a propensity for standing up for something that he has an interest in, even if it will adversely affect countless others.
But this law is supposed to help the children! That's why its called the "Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation
Act." People keep wondering why someone won't think of the children; Mr. Hatch has thought of the children, and wants the exploitation to stop!
Having a bill with a name like that, anyone who votes against it must hate children, or at the very least be a communist.
As a Boston sports fan, I can understand the two above. However, it is nice to get in on the ground floor of a winner.
If the producers had given Ken a $10,000 lead over the other two contestants before it even started, then I'd certainly be cheering against him too. But you can't deny: he's good, and the other two aren't handicapped by anything else.
Apple doesn't make the adapter, so writing to them isn't going to get you far. And as far as I remember, the VW didn't come with anything fancy, just a mounting bracket and either a cassette or an FM adapter.
I kept count, since I was curious. There were 8 swears, going by a conservative view. 4 "MF"s from the Bloodhound Gang song (not used to describe the sex act), 2 "assholes" from the old guy at the gym, "dick" and "cock". Maybe add a couple "hells" or "bastards" in there, but its not much more than somebody would see watching primetime television.
Besides the scenes of the charred and mutilated bodies of Iraqis and the two contractors, there was the scene of the beheading (which if it weren't captioned as such, most people would probably have missed it completely). With that one exception, I had seen all those on the news at one point or another.
This was at most a PG-13, they've given PG-13 to movies that can be worse for a 14 year old year old to see.
Don't forget with satellite radio, people actually have choices of what they can listen to. On my hour commute I plug in my XM radio, I generally switch back and forth between unsigned artists, classic alternative, deep cuts, world music, blues, 70s, bluegrass, 80s, and classical. And thats just 10% of the channels. Oh yeah, did I mention no commercials?
Yeah, I could choose what I'm going to listen to on my MP3 player and plug it in, but I think there's an intrinsic value to listening to the radio. The joy of finding something you haven't heard in a very long time or finding something new, which you generally don't get with MP3 players. My selection isn't decided by the suits at CC or whatever conglomerate either. Its certainly worth the $10 to me a month, just as cable is worth the extra money not to have to watch the crap they put on the big 4 + 2
With a device running NAT between your computers and the network, how can they figure out if you're running more than one computer? Or are you just taking the connection and putting it into a hub?
I spose they could make assumptions based on usage, but there's no way to tell if thats all coming from one computer or many.
There's also the IMHO dirty tactic of offering partial albums only...So if an album has 15 songs, they put up only 14 and if you want all the songs your only choice within their system is to download each seperately, coming out to more than the 9.99 it should have been.
SCO, Dish and others need to understand their customers pay their salaries and operating expenses
How did SCO get in this? (I know, its obligatory to be in every discussion) Since you brought it up, the customers don't pay the salaries, the corporate debt does and the settlements of the lawsuits will.
Back to the topic at hand, you better read your contract before cancelling/"suspending" your service, you may be paying some hefty money out.
You can't assume that everyone who has a windows pc and Mac will each buy a palm....
First off, some people actually purchase PocketPCs. I know, its a shock, but I see them on shelves still, so they must be selling somewhere. There is no good PocketPC synchronisation tool for Macs, so we can figure that just about everyone purchasing them are Windows users.
The other problem with your 3% figure is that as a whole, Mac users have more disposable income, giving them more propensity to purchase peripherals. So don't assume that the OS share == Peripheral share
No music stores use the MP3 format. The reason's simple -- no DRM. The only way the music companies would agree to online music sales was to ensure that the files wouldn't immediately end up on the net. Hence AAC or WMA are your only choices.
Apple stated a target of 100 Million downloads by April, 2004. Assuming their Mac-user targets of 30mil, will PC users take to this as fast, getting them 70 million downloads in 6 months?
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SAP AG didn't buy ADABAS, they licensed it from Software AG.
Aren't those supposed to not be printable? Printed fine (excepting the horrid quality) on a mac and a colour laser printer.
Its called a contract. When a cell company that you've never had major problems with before lies to get you on a new phone with a new 2 year contract, there's not much you can do.
I don't have enough fingers to count the times Verizon has told me lies just to go away.
If Verizon/Mot comes out with the update to fix all the problems, the money donated to this pot gets refunded.
One of my favourite sports to watch during the winter olympics two years ago was curling. Residing in the US, the only way to watch was to VCR it when NBC would show it at 3AM. And yeah, it was mostly covering the US team until they got knocked out. Then they only showed highlights of curling from that point out.
TiVO would be helpful at this point so one could skip through the inane chatter of the announcers and glorious retrospectives of some underpriveledged kid from the north end of detroit who has overcome diversity to compete in Olympic Table-tennis without missing the actual competition. (I believe out of a 3 hr block, that would be about 20 minutes)
But this law is supposed to help the children! That's why its called the "Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act." People keep wondering why someone won't think of the children; Mr. Hatch has thought of the children, and wants the exploitation to stop!
Having a bill with a name like that, anyone who votes against it must hate children, or at the very least be a communist.
As a Boston sports fan, I can understand the two above. However, it is nice to get in on the ground floor of a winner.
If the producers had given Ken a $10,000 lead over the other two contestants before it even started, then I'd certainly be cheering against him too. But you can't deny: he's good, and the other two aren't handicapped by anything else.
Apple doesn't make the adapter, so writing to them isn't going to get you far. And as far as I remember, the VW didn't come with anything fancy, just a mounting bracket and either a cassette or an FM adapter.
I kept count, since I was curious. There were 8 swears, going by a conservative view. 4 "MF"s from the Bloodhound Gang song (not used to describe the sex act), 2 "assholes" from the old guy at the gym, "dick" and "cock". Maybe add a couple "hells" or "bastards" in there, but its not much more than somebody would see watching primetime television.
Besides the scenes of the charred and mutilated bodies of Iraqis and the two contractors, there was the scene of the beheading (which if it weren't captioned as such, most people would probably have missed it completely). With that one exception, I had seen all those on the news at one point or another.
This was at most a PG-13, they've given PG-13 to movies that can be worse for a 14 year old year old to see.
Don't forget with satellite radio, people actually have choices of what they can listen to. On my hour commute I plug in my XM radio, I generally switch back and forth between unsigned artists, classic alternative, deep cuts, world music, blues, 70s, bluegrass, 80s, and classical. And thats just 10% of the channels. Oh yeah, did I mention no commercials?
Yeah, I could choose what I'm going to listen to on my MP3 player and plug it in, but I think there's an intrinsic value to listening to the radio. The joy of finding something you haven't heard in a very long time or finding something new, which you generally don't get with MP3 players.
My selection isn't decided by the suits at CC or whatever conglomerate either. Its certainly worth the $10 to me a month, just as cable is worth the extra money not to have to watch the crap they put on the big 4 + 2
With a device running NAT between your computers and the network, how can they figure out if you're running more than one computer? Or are you just taking the connection and putting it into a hub? I spose they could make assumptions based on usage, but there's no way to tell if thats all coming from one computer or many.
There's also the IMHO dirty tactic of offering partial albums only...So if an album has 15 songs, they put up only 14 and if you want all the songs your only choice within their system is to download each seperately, coming out to more than the 9.99 it should have been.
Its easy to find more than one album priced at over $9.99. Any multi-CD album, for example. Lots off classical albums are more than $10 as well.
Back to the topic at hand, you better read your contract before cancelling/"suspending" your service, you may be paying some hefty money out.
You can't assume that everyone who has a windows pc and Mac will each buy a palm.... First off, some people actually purchase PocketPCs. I know, its a shock, but I see them on shelves still, so they must be selling somewhere. There is no good PocketPC synchronisation tool for Macs, so we can figure that just about everyone purchasing them are Windows users. The other problem with your 3% figure is that as a whole, Mac users have more disposable income, giving them more propensity to purchase peripherals. So don't assume that the OS share == Peripheral share
No music stores use the MP3 format. The reason's simple -- no DRM. The only way the music companies would agree to online music sales was to ensure that the files wouldn't immediately end up on the net. Hence AAC or WMA are your only choices.
Apple stated a target of 100 Million downloads by April, 2004. Assuming their Mac-user targets of 30mil, will PC users take to this as fast, getting them 70 million downloads in 6 months?