Not everyone has a web-enabled phone.
Not familiar with MythTV.com (Don't have Tivo), but if functionality exists already to schedule recordings that way it must've taken a developer all of half a morning to rustle up this SMS offering. Why not charge $5 a month for it, they'll have likely done research that shows some folk will be willing to pay it.
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.
Your question about leaving leaving a mundane, well paid job for a more interesting but lower paid one..
My answer: Without even thinking about it, and have done so before. I work the usual 9-5, so 40 hours a week at work, the same as most I expect. I spend more time at work than I do with family and friends. In one of my past jobs it was difficult to drag myself there, alright money but insanely dull. You don't realise the effect a job you don't enjoy takes on you until you leave it. You quickly adjust to the different income and find ways around it, but the difference it makes to your life overall is surprising. Don't judge your success on what your bank balance is or could be, and don't whore yourself for extra cash if it means you're only happy on a weekend.
Sorry, luckily (or unluckily?) I'm always in the presence of a computer so it's not something I've ever looked into. My Nokia 6310 (which I refuse to upgrade from) wouldn't be much fun to read and type emails on anyway:)
but I never did get to the point of making the login page.... ummm, log in.
Sorry, to clarify, I shouldn't have said 'closed down' in my original post. They'd disabled my account. The message I get when I try to sign in is "Sorry, your account has been disabled. If this should not have happened, please contact our user support team at accounts-support@google.com."
Sure, Google's ads are tidier than anyone elses, and they're neatly presented. It's not so much the ads I mind as the decrease in screen space. I use many PC's that are fixed to 800x600 and I like all the room I can to read mails and navigate folders. Ad's just get in the way of that.
I'd definitely looked at my Gmail account the month previous, although I don't use it for mail, I still log in now and again to see what updates and improvements they're making.
I have (or had?) a Google Mail and Orkut account, which four days ago they closed down. God knows why, I've had the email account around a year, and the Orkut account around 3 months, but I've rarely used them. I've maybe sent 5 email from Gmail, and used Orkut for around 30 minutes more for curiosity than anything else.
Anyway, tried to get logged in to Google and couldn't. I've absolutely no idea why they'd decide to bar my account. Emailed the address they gave, had an auto-response back and instructions to reply if that didn't help. Replied I did, and I'm still waiting.
If this had been my primary mail account, I'd have been *pissed*.
For all these services sound the business, I'm reminded now why I run my own IMAP server. Functionality may be basic, but I 'own' my emails and run SquirrelMail so I can get at them via the web if needs be... Ad-free.
If the choice is between fewer features, but knowing my email is mine, I'll go with the first option any day.
You can use that logic all the way back to his first $100k. Why risk $100k to make $200k.. Why risk £.5m to make £1m? Why risk.....?
Despite you calling him dumb, I'm sure he was more than aware of the risk he was taking.. Like a gambler who stays sat at a roulette table, he decided to keep playing for higher rewards. He probably doesn't deserve respect, but there's part of me can't help smirking.
If he's been clever, he'll have a tidy sum tucked away for his release. If he hasn't, you're right, he's a dumb criminal:-)
you could say that the end of a game is not really the end, but rather the beginning of learning lessons for the next game, where you hope to be better than last time
You could say that, or you could just say the end of a game is the end, and Microsoft won;-)
Once Netscape is gone, they don't even take advantage of it. When business stagnates and don't improve they leave room open for newcomers and startups. This is precisely what happened.
This just makes no sense at all. Netscape was a newcomer that came along with a web browser, Microsoft slaughtered them.
There's/always/ room for newcomers and startups, as soon as the next one comes along, Microsoft will do the same and slaughter them. They're just toying with Google for now, like a cat does with a ball of wool. When Google isn't looking, MS will have their eyes out.
The day this doesn't happen is the day we have another Microsoft, and we can move onto hating them. Whether this new Microsoft will be Google remains to be seen. But sure enough we'll loath them if/when they get there.
What do you expect them to do once they've thrashed the opposition? If you win at a game of football, do you keep running around the pitch playing no-one?
There are two reasons development stopped at IE6. 1) Why add more features when everyone's using your browser anyway? 2) Why risk more and more powerful web applications preventing you making sales of your other products? e.g., who'll use Outlook when powerful web clients exist? who'll buy Office when things like gOffice.com exist?
You may think that web software will never replace software as we know it, but Microsoft aren't about to help people try by further developing a free browser. (I know very few people for example that use a proper email client nowadays. Everyone, even techies it seems, are users of web-based email.)
The software works remarkably well and is probably one of the most innovative web applications ever
Multimap (multimap.com) did this before Google, so it wasn't really innovation. But this is what large companies do I suppose, bring in something that's been around before (but which no-one really noticed), then get praised for being 'innovative' when they really haven't been.
Where in any of my posts did I give the impression "I accept substandard service" or "I am a person that's willing to take it"?
I do not, I go elsewhere and I make my mouth heard to those who're in a position to do something about it.
I don't make work for the little guy on the shop floor by deserting a shopping trolley in a petty tantrum. That wastes my time filling the trolley up in the first place, and the shelf fillers time putting it back.
Honestly, sometimes I think people like you must go to a busy shop on purpose just to storm out and leave the shopping standing. Do you think other customers are looking at you thinking "Cor! He's brave! I wish I could be like him" They're thinking "Great! I get served quicker now!" In the mean time, you've wasted your afternoon because you won't queue for any more than 5 minutes.
Stores aren't willing to pay more. They're in the business of making cash, not providing food for you. They hire folk who'll smile, and get the job done relatively quickly for the least amount of money.
If you think leaving your shopping in the aisles in protest is the way to get more people on the checkouts, you're wrong.
All you're doing is generating more work for the little people.
Of course, you're right.. But the way to address it isn't by filling a shopping trolley up then abandoning it.. It's by complaining to the management so it's addressed. If enough people do it, it will change. Leaving your shopping and walking out just causes headaches for the guys on the floor who are probably overworked and underpaid anyway. Complain, and get your friends to complain. If management don't address your issue, go to a store that gives a shit about your custom.
Absolute rubbish. If all the store employees weren't busy following people like yourself around, there'd be more cashiers on the cash registers anyway.
No, he's supposed to check the length of the queue before he shops, and if he thinks he won't have time to wait, don't bother to shop in the first place.
As the guy who worked in the shop pointed out, just leaving it there means someone else has to clear it up. That's one less person to man the cash register, meaning everyone else waits.
What are shops supposed to do anyway? Build in redundancy for the one time in a hundred that the queues may be longer than normal? Watch the price of your groceries shoot up then. Then rather than whine about the wait, you'll be whining about the cost.
The current state of affairs is a trade off between how much people will pay for food, and how much time they're willing to wait.
You can have short queues and be served in 15 seconds if you're willing to pay for it. If you like cheap food, shut up and queue once in a while.
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"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.
Your question about leaving leaving a mundane, well paid job for a more interesting but lower paid one..
My answer: Without even thinking about it, and have done so before. I work the usual 9-5, so 40 hours a week at work, the same as most I expect. I spend more time at work than I do with family and friends. In one of my past jobs it was difficult to drag myself there, alright money but insanely dull. You don't realise the effect a job you don't enjoy takes on you until you leave it. You quickly adjust to the different income and find ways around it, but the difference it makes to your life overall is surprising. Don't judge your success on what your bank balance is or could be, and don't whore yourself for extra cash if it means you're only happy on a weekend.
I'll consider myself repremanded
Sorry, to clarify, I shouldn't have said 'closed down' in my original post. They'd disabled my account. The message I get when I try to sign in is "Sorry, your account has been disabled. If this should not have happened, please contact our user support team at accounts-support@google.com."
Sure, Google's ads are tidier than anyone elses, and they're neatly presented. It's not so much the ads I mind as the decrease in screen space. I use many PC's that are fixed to 800x600 and I like all the room I can to read mails and navigate folders. Ad's just get in the way of that.
I'd definitely looked at my Gmail account the month previous, although I don't use it for mail, I still log in now and again to see what updates and improvements they're making.
I have (or had?) a Google Mail and Orkut account, which four days ago they closed down. God knows why, I've had the email account around a year, and the Orkut account around 3 months, but I've rarely used them. I've maybe sent 5 email from Gmail, and used Orkut for around 30 minutes more for curiosity than anything else.
Anyway, tried to get logged in to Google and couldn't. I've absolutely no idea why they'd decide to bar my account. Emailed the address they gave, had an auto-response back and instructions to reply if that didn't help. Replied I did, and I'm still waiting.
If this had been my primary mail account, I'd have been *pissed*.
For all these services sound the business, I'm reminded now why I run my own IMAP server. Functionality may be basic, but I 'own' my emails and run SquirrelMail so I can get at them via the web if needs be... Ad-free.
If the choice is between fewer features, but knowing my email is mine, I'll go with the first option any day.
Just wonder *when* Google will get back to me...
You can use that logic all the way back to his first $100k. Why risk $100k to make $200k.. Why risk £.5m to make £1m? Why risk.....?
:-)
Despite you calling him dumb, I'm sure he was more than aware of the risk he was taking.. Like a gambler who stays sat at a roulette table, he decided to keep playing for higher rewards. He probably doesn't deserve respect, but there's part of me can't help smirking.
If he's been clever, he'll have a tidy sum tucked away for his release. If he hasn't, you're right, he's a dumb criminal
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The day this doesn't happen is the day we have another Microsoft, and we can move onto hating them. Whether this new Microsoft will be Google remains to be seen. But sure enough we'll loath them if/when they get there.
I didn't say monopolies are good.
What's your point?
I'm just surprised that people don't grasp the concept of business.
I'm puzzled how the parent is insightful?
"Once the war is over, what do they do? Nothing."
What do you expect them to do once they've thrashed the opposition? If you win at a game of football, do you keep running around the pitch playing no-one?
There are two reasons development stopped at IE6. 1) Why add more features when everyone's using your browser anyway? 2) Why risk more and more powerful web applications preventing you making sales of your other products? e.g., who'll use Outlook when powerful web clients exist? who'll buy Office when things like gOffice.com exist?
You may think that web software will never replace software as we know it, but Microsoft aren't about to help people try by further developing a free browser. (I know very few people for example that use a proper email client nowadays. Everyone, even techies it seems, are users of web-based email.)
Multimap (multimap.com) did this before Google, so it wasn't really innovation. But this is what large companies do I suppose, bring in something that's been around before (but which no-one really noticed), then get praised for being 'innovative' when they really haven't been.
::Sigh:: How do these people get jobs where they're paid a lot more than me for stating the bloody obvious.
Where in any of my posts did I give the impression "I accept substandard service" or "I am a person that's willing to take it"?
I do not, I go elsewhere and I make my mouth heard to those who're in a position to do something about it.
I don't make work for the little guy on the shop floor by deserting a shopping trolley in a petty tantrum. That wastes my time filling the trolley up in the first place, and the shelf fillers time putting it back.
Honestly, sometimes I think people like you must go to a busy shop on purpose just to storm out and leave the shopping standing. Do you think other customers are looking at you thinking "Cor! He's brave! I wish I could be like him" They're thinking "Great! I get served quicker now!" In the mean time, you've wasted your afternoon because you won't queue for any more than 5 minutes.
Stores aren't willing to pay more. They're in the business of making cash, not providing food for you. They hire folk who'll smile, and get the job done relatively quickly for the least amount of money.
If you think leaving your shopping in the aisles in protest is the way to get more people on the checkouts, you're wrong.
All you're doing is generating more work for the little people.
Of course, you're right.. But the way to address it isn't by filling a shopping trolley up then abandoning it.. It's by complaining to the management so it's addressed. If enough people do it, it will change. Leaving your shopping and walking out just causes headaches for the guys on the floor who are probably overworked and underpaid anyway. Complain, and get your friends to complain. If management don't address your issue, go to a store that gives a shit about your custom.
Absolute rubbish. If all the store employees weren't busy following people like yourself around, there'd be more cashiers on the cash registers anyway.
No, he's supposed to check the length of the queue before he shops, and if he thinks he won't have time to wait, don't bother to shop in the first place.
As the guy who worked in the shop pointed out, just leaving it there means someone else has to clear it up. That's one less person to man the cash register, meaning everyone else waits.
What are shops supposed to do anyway? Build in redundancy for the one time in a hundred that the queues may be longer than normal? Watch the price of your groceries shoot up then. Then rather than whine about the wait, you'll be whining about the cost.
The current state of affairs is a trade off between how much people will pay for food, and how much time they're willing to wait.
You can have short queues and be served in 15 seconds if you're willing to pay for it. If you like cheap food, shut up and queue once in a while.
...about it still not being sufficient to catalogue ones porn collection.
Does that mean rich people can be as racist is they like?
...but couldn't go very far until I ran out of map. Typical of America to think the world begins and ends there ;-) Where's the rest of the world gone!