Dude ! That is really a cool idea.... Damn i didn't think of it when i was living outside of Keene,NH in woods for a year almost supporting lameo application migration...i hated coming back to home after driving for nearly 30 mins in Keene! (the road was as empty as possible with some racoons and a cop car that occassionally waved to me; seems i was a regular).
Instead of calling youself individual or Home Office, call yourself a small business customer. They will fall head-over-heels to help you out. Business accounts are far more valuable for them than your puny amount you pay as an indivual. In the end, you will end up saying maybe $10 extra per month, but on-demand support, on-call people landing up to help you fix issues... etc are all worth it. My friend in CT did exactly that. He registered a small private company, gave the name to comcast and asked for a small business connection to his home. Dude you could see the assistance he got, even though he was paying only $20 more than me per month. He was running a Linux or some other open source server for serving out fixpacks, etc., to his college students. After being an SBC, he was uncapped, had all the servers he wanted, and hogged almost all bandwidth for some months before he moved back to Montana... Wish i had done that when my comcast was bad.
Not it does not need to be. dotMac is much more than just email. 10 GB of space categorized via access from https://idisk.mac.com/username is a great way to securely access your files. It quote often not blocked in many workplaces unlike gmail which seems to be blocked.
U can use it to make your Mac Backup 3.0 to backup all your settings to dotMac. I do it every week, and once when my hard-drive failed and i had to replace it, Backup 3.0 restored stuff from dotMac automatically.
I use it to store my ebooks, work files, etc. securely. In additon in a windows PC you can create a shortcut to the idisk in My Network Places and use it just like any other share without need of a new application like gDisk, etc.
Yup. I Agree. I had a problem with automatic updates (could not do them) and MS support asked me to disable every service and restart. I did, and ended up with reactivation with no network. I hurriedly put everything back and restarted, once more, to face reactivation.
Fortunately it was reactivated (karma i guess) and i stopped worrying about automatic updates. After all i use it to play Company Of Heroes only.
Age of Mythology (not titans), Company of Heroes (& opposing fronts) are the best games i found always better than other new/old games. Bad Games??? They are a dozen: World War III, Battlefield 1942, Claw, etc...
But these two games defined a new generation: AoM showed that excellent music score is a necessity to a successful RTS. Plus teaches kids about mythology in a new way. My cousin wrote a term paper on Achilles and she did not watch Troy. She preferred AoM for its more accurate data.
CoH: Sets the NEW standard by which all future RTS would be judged. I spent $450 just to upgrade my system to play this. AI is great, the firing lines, accurate Mortars, Tiger and Sherman tank weakness, the storyline that is built from history and is accurate.... St.Lo is a town that i now know.
Dude ! You want him to be detained indefinitely in Guantanamo as soon as he lands?
With our current dubya government and paranoid renditions, and considering he is from a backward country with a predominant moslem majority, plus he has built helicopters (and other WMDs) who knows what such a brilliant guy could do once inside????
In just 8 years, Dubya has undone the 200 years of goodwill USA had accumulated as a haven for refugees. It is time we returned back the Liberty Statue to France.
Singapore Air was good in 2000. I was handed an Aspirin by the concerned airhostess in Sydney who saw me sit my head in two hands due to splitting headache. She also let me sleep over lunch and once i woke up, she immediately brought me my lunch, heated of course. The flight was at 8 AM morning and i checked in at 6 AM (so no cofee). I asked for cofee, but she advised me to eat a Croissant and then take an aspirin and sleep.
Unfortunately after that, i never got a chance to fly Singapore airlines somehow...
Contrast this with Continental: I was struck in LaGuardia airport after flying in from Europe and all flights to Boston were canceled in Dec 2003. Since i was through checked-in, i was asked to collect my baggage due to flight canceling. Fortunately, the lufthansa flight attendant took me to the continental booth, got me a replacement ticket for the NY Boston Shuttle flight (the 16-seater one) and i had to take the Bus to the other airport in 3 feet of snow.
The continental lady at the other NY arport didn't like it one bit when i presented the ticket and was loudly talking as to who was handing out shuttle tickets for through check-ins.
As usual, since it was a last minute check-in and ticketing i was asked to undergo "deep" penetrating security check (with gloves on).
Contrast this with Frankfurt security where they request you in German and in English to take off your footwear look at you deeply to psyche you out and then smile and wave us away most often.
I made a vow to fly Lufthansa and now i have added Emirates to that list.
Lufhtansa is Waaayyyy ahead of other US carriers in Service. Flying into and out of USA i always prefer Lufthansa: Once they lost my baggage when i landed at MAA airport. They immediately apologized paid me $100 over the counter and traced the baggage to being stranded in Boston itself. Their staff delivered it to me 3 days days at my home later with an official letter of apology. Second time, i had the misfortune of my I-94(exit INS doc) not being removed by Lufthansa employee when he checked my passport. (probably because i was the first to check-in). I noticed it in MAA and emailed Lufthansa. I was surprised to find a letter waiting for me at my home with an apology signed by Country Head and also officially stating for INR purposes i had flown out from BOS to MAA on that specific date.
(now i wonder if INS would let me back in States on the strength of this letter...)
Similarly why can't consumers collect as much information about companies such as ChoicePoint, Blackwater, etc., and publish it on wikipedia regularly? Am sure employees, ex-empployees, etc., would love to contribute as much information. Present it neatly tabulated without any opinions, including judgements, settlements, debt refusals etc. Am sure the companies will get it.
Atta Boy ! You are damn right on target ! I miss my mod points. I would have rated you Insightful. Instead of spending a HUGE amount of money and waiting tepidly to see if its ok to approach.... With this, i can have it whenever i want it...No additional linen sheets, etc.
UK and EU is a heaven when it comes to protecting consumer rights and privacy. Imagine Vodafone UK trying to do a Verizon stunt in Germany.... Am sure the EU commissioner will wait for 30 days and then fine EUR300 million coolly.
OnStar is not that dumb to stall cars in highway. They know the liability lawsuits alone would bankrupt them for 3 generations. Like the movie Die Harder, they will prevent it from being started again once it stops. Much like a Windows Update works until you reboot XP and trashes it...
Its already done. On a leased car, if your payment does not go out to the bank on time, your car is automatically "bricked". That is why leased cars come with OnStar: Not because the banks care about you [they like you dead after you stash 100,000 in your account], but because they can brick the car. NYC outlaws it....
From the world's largest car maker to the lowliest financier creep...
GM reflects USA. From the being the fearsome manufacturing power capable of churning out a Destroyer a week, to being relegated to a bunch of weasly MBAs and Lawyers waiting for a Fed rate cut...
From being the country which gave the Mustang to being a country which prides itself on ripping off the common man through trading in stocks.
From being a country which had a scientist and inventor as a Cabinet minister (Benjamin Franklin) to being saddled with a president who likes to read "Goat" to children and that too spelling "G-O-A-T" wrongly....
From being the country which gave E=MC^2 to the world to being a country which shows the middle finger to even allies....
Dude ! You are espousing altruism. If any label does this, they will be sued by their shareholders for not generating profit.
The labels are caught in a bind as much as bands are, PROFIT. The pathological pursuit of profit alone is a company's role.
If the label offers bittottent, and has cookie jars they become a not-for-profit trust like Salvation Army. Shareholders will sue and make sure either the board is replaced or the board is behind bars.
Am buying one for my 3 year old brat. It is spit-proof (so my firstborn can spit on it instead of my iBook G4), can be cranked to give power, is robust (no broken harddrives or pulled out keyboards)... Saves my iBook a lot of heartburn. So far my son has broken my ibook's hard-drive AND keyboard (pulled out ALL keys).
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Dude ! That is really a cool idea....
Damn i didn't think of it when i was living outside of Keene,NH in woods for a year almost supporting lameo application migration...i hated coming back to home after driving for nearly 30 mins in Keene! (the road was as empty as possible with some racoons and a cop car that occassionally waved to me; seems i was a regular).
Instead of calling youself individual or Home Office, call yourself a small business customer.
They will fall head-over-heels to help you out.
Business accounts are far more valuable for them than your puny amount you pay as an indivual.
In the end, you will end up saying maybe $10 extra per month, but on-demand support, on-call people landing up to help you fix issues... etc are all worth it.
My friend in CT did exactly that. He registered a small private company, gave the name to comcast and asked for a small business connection to his home.
Dude you could see the assistance he got, even though he was paying only $20 more than me per month.
He was running a Linux or some other open source server for serving out fixpacks, etc., to his college students.
After being an SBC, he was uncapped, had all the servers he wanted, and hogged almost all bandwidth for some months before he moved back to Montana...
Wish i had done that when my comcast was bad.
Not it does not need to be.
dotMac is much more than just email.
10 GB of space categorized via access from https://idisk.mac.com/username is a great way to securely access your files. It quote often not blocked in many workplaces unlike gmail which seems to be blocked.
U can use it to make your Mac Backup 3.0 to backup all your settings to dotMac.
I do it every week, and once when my hard-drive failed and i had to replace it, Backup 3.0 restored stuff from dotMac automatically.
I use it to store my ebooks, work files, etc. securely.
In additon in a windows PC you can create a shortcut to the idisk in My Network Places and use it just like any other share without need of a new application like gDisk, etc.
U can still forward gmail to dotMac mail.
Yup. I Agree.
I had a problem with automatic updates (could not do them) and MS support asked me to disable every service and restart.
I did, and ended up with reactivation with no network.
I hurriedly put everything back and restarted, once more, to face reactivation.
Fortunately it was reactivated (karma i guess) and i stopped worrying about automatic updates.
After all i use it to play Company Of Heroes only.
Age of Mythology (not titans), Company of Heroes (& opposing fronts) are the best games i found always better than other new/old games.
Bad Games??? They are a dozen: World War III, Battlefield 1942, Claw, etc...
But these two games defined a new generation:
AoM showed that excellent music score is a necessity to a successful RTS. Plus teaches kids about mythology in a new way. My cousin wrote a term paper on Achilles and she did not watch Troy. She preferred AoM for its more accurate data.
CoH: Sets the NEW standard by which all future RTS would be judged. I spent $450 just to upgrade my system to play this. AI is great, the firing lines, accurate Mortars, Tiger and Sherman tank weakness, the storyline that is built from history and is accurate....
St.Lo is a town that i now know.
Dude !
You want him to be detained indefinitely in Guantanamo as soon as he lands?
With our current dubya government and paranoid renditions, and considering he is from a backward country with a predominant moslem majority, plus he has built helicopters (and other WMDs) who knows what such a brilliant guy could do once inside????
In just 8 years, Dubya has undone the 200 years of goodwill USA had accumulated as a haven for refugees.
It is time we returned back the Liberty Statue to France.
Singapore Air was good in 2000. I was handed an Aspirin by the concerned airhostess in Sydney who saw me sit my head in two hands due to splitting headache.
She also let me sleep over lunch and once i woke up, she immediately brought me my lunch, heated of course.
The flight was at 8 AM morning and i checked in at 6 AM (so no cofee). I asked for cofee, but she advised me to eat a Croissant and then take an aspirin and sleep.
Unfortunately after that, i never got a chance to fly Singapore airlines somehow...
Contrast this with Continental: I was struck in LaGuardia airport after flying in from Europe and all flights to Boston were canceled in Dec 2003.
Since i was through checked-in, i was asked to collect my baggage due to flight canceling.
Fortunately, the lufthansa flight attendant took me to the continental booth, got me a replacement ticket for the NY Boston Shuttle flight (the 16-seater one) and i had to take the Bus to the other airport in 3 feet of snow.
The continental lady at the other NY arport didn't like it one bit when i presented the ticket and was loudly talking as to who was handing out shuttle tickets for through check-ins.
As usual, since it was a last minute check-in and ticketing i was asked to undergo "deep" penetrating security check (with gloves on).
Contrast this with Frankfurt security where they request you in German and in English to take off your footwear look at you deeply to psyche you out and then smile and wave us away most often.
I made a vow to fly Lufthansa and now i have added Emirates to that list.
Lufhtansa is Waaayyyy ahead of other US carriers in Service.
Flying into and out of USA i always prefer Lufthansa:
Once they lost my baggage when i landed at MAA airport.
They immediately apologized paid me $100 over the counter and traced the baggage to being stranded in Boston itself.
Their staff delivered it to me 3 days days at my home later with an official letter of apology.
Second time, i had the misfortune of my I-94(exit INS doc) not being removed by Lufthansa employee when he checked my passport. (probably because i was the first to check-in).
I noticed it in MAA and emailed Lufthansa.
I was surprised to find a letter waiting for me at my home with an apology signed by Country Head and also officially stating for INR purposes i had flown out from BOS to MAA on that specific date.
(now i wonder if INS would let me back in States on the strength of this letter...)
It took me a full 4 minutes to understand your statement.
And as a result iam stuck with a cookie in my throat which i swallowed whole...
In effect this tax means i can pirate the music???
How do you think Windows ME was written?
The problem is:
Dems fear they will Win.
Republicans fear they will lose.
Fear of losing is what made the Wehrmacht fight fiercely during 1944-45.
Unless Dems act like the republicans instead of whining they might actually brow beat the republicans...
Similarly why can't consumers collect as much information about companies such as ChoicePoint, Blackwater, etc., and publish it on wikipedia regularly?
Am sure employees, ex-empployees, etc., would love to contribute as much information.
Present it neatly tabulated without any opinions, including judgements, settlements, debt refusals etc.
Am sure the companies will get it.
You define marriage in all its legal glory.
This is slashdot.
We define marriage as plain simple s3x.
Get it?
Atta Boy !
You are damn right on target !
I miss my mod points. I would have rated you Insightful.
Instead of spending a HUGE amount of money and waiting tepidly to see if its ok to approach....
With this, i can have it whenever i want it...No additional linen sheets, etc.
UK and EU is a heaven when it comes to protecting consumer rights and privacy.
Imagine Vodafone UK trying to do a Verizon stunt in Germany....
Am sure the EU commissioner will wait for 30 days and then fine EUR300 million coolly.
Yeahhh right! And this comes from a bunch of pansies who Re-elected Low-IQ-Rich-Loving-Dictator Bush for a SECOND time.
My dear friend, wake up. This is US of A. Not Europe where someone like Gordon Brown has the gumption to say he was wrong.
Our politicians are relected every year (like orrin Hatch, etc)
Dude. The SEC is a US Government Agency whose commissioners are appointed by the US President(subject to the senate rubber stamp).
See http://www.sec.gov/about/commissioner.shtml
Much like the FTC, the SEC can and will refuse to investigate or take action on politically sensitive.
Bush could appoint a commissioner who could not only flush his toilet but clean it with a tooth brush and more...
OnStar is not that dumb to stall cars in highway. They know the liability lawsuits alone would bankrupt them for 3 generations.
Like the movie Die Harder, they will prevent it from being started again once it stops.
Much like a Windows Update works until you reboot XP and trashes it...
daemons??? They are called as "Services" in Windows.
For the non-existent service they provided.
Its already done.
On a leased car, if your payment does not go out to the bank on time, your car is automatically "bricked".
That is why leased cars come with OnStar: Not because the banks care about you [they like you dead after you stash 100,000 in your account], but because they can brick the car.
NYC outlaws it....
From the world's largest car maker to the lowliest financier creep...
GM reflects USA.
From the being the fearsome manufacturing power capable of churning out a Destroyer a week, to being relegated to a bunch of weasly MBAs and Lawyers waiting for a Fed rate cut...
From being the country which gave the Mustang to being a country which prides itself on ripping off the common man through trading in stocks.
From being a country which had a scientist and inventor as a Cabinet minister (Benjamin Franklin) to being saddled with a president who likes to read "Goat" to children and that too spelling "G-O-A-T" wrongly....
From being the country which gave E=MC^2 to the world to being a country which shows the
middle finger to even allies....
Sad Sad USA....How the mighty have fallen...
Dude ! You are espousing altruism.
If any label does this, they will be sued by their shareholders for not generating profit.
The labels are caught in a bind as much as bands are, PROFIT.
The pathological pursuit of profit alone is a company's role.
If the label offers bittottent, and has cookie jars they become a not-for-profit trust like Salvation Army.
Shareholders will sue and make sure either the board is replaced or the board is behind bars.
Where was the Justice Department Czar when RIAA lost and was forced to pay legal costs to the defendant?
Am sure Gonzales would have "forgotten" to make a statement.
It is high time we elect Ron Paul and clean out the spider web of corruption that Eisenhower warned us about.
Am buying one for my 3 year old brat.
It is spit-proof (so my firstborn can spit on it instead of my iBook G4), can be cranked to give power, is robust (no broken harddrives or pulled out keyboards)...
Saves my iBook a lot of heartburn.
So far my son has broken my ibook's hard-drive AND keyboard (pulled out ALL keys).
This XO can make sure he has met his match.
Oh, and i get a tax break.
I don't understand.
In this case, the defendant clearly WAS guilty of infringement and was proven guilty.
How much ever we hate RIAA, the defendant in this case was guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Come on!
On one hand we want to listen to Beyonce & Shakira, but on the other hand we won't pay for the same.
Justice is justice. It is a double-edged sword.
RIAA has its wins and losses.