They aren't actually changing the ads per say. A local cable company is allowed to sell certain ad space in a broadcast, hence why you'll see ads for Joe Schmo mattress warehouse while watching a nationally televised program. It's just that in that circumstance they are selling the ad to themselves. In summary, it's perfectly legal and a common practice for any carrier.
I think this is one of the first plans where they've mentioned being able to tier your usage. I personally would have no problem if they set up the system like they do cell phones, you pay x amount for y minutes/GB, with overages being relatively expensive. If they could also add in something similar to cell phones where if you "call in plan" it doesn't count against your total, where the in plan refers to getting the data from a source close enough to you that it is less costly for the ISP, we would see massive improvements in the efficiency of P2P programs. At least with that everybody would be happier, consumers get the same data and ISPs use less bandwidth.
While there is no doubt that some of those factors, notably the price, can be chalked up to the decrease of competition, I would say that the new 2.0 Blu-Ray standard is playing a significant role is the lack of players that you're seeing. Most companies don't want to release a player that will be obsolete within a matter of months. The complaints from people about "their player not working like it should" alone should be enough.
I agree with you on that. I'm not arguing the relative merits of either method, half the time I'd just go ahead and reload my machine anyways. I'm simply saying that we as consumers should be given the option of deciding which is the better course of action.
He's not saying that regular users should need to fully understand how an OS works, only that people who want to know how it works should be able to. This would be akin to GM saying "Don't bother trying to fix your transmission, just buy a new car" (Yes, I know not quite the same, but close enough). Does the average car driver know how to fix their car, no. But if one had the desire to learn how to, they could. In that same way, those of us who want to learn how to fix a Windows install instead of simply reinstalling would like the oppertunity to be able to do so.
Ok, there is a massive difference between a rape scene that is filmed for the purpose of a movie in which all parties are consenting to it, and an actual rape scene.
Tell me about it. Way too much work with airplane engines is done in english units, and they loves to say mils. Fortunitley I do finite element analysis so I just mindlessly spit out data based on the numbers they give me.
What I still can't understand is why they will expect somebody to buy the Hi-Def version instead living with the DVD version of any movie that hasn't been made in the last couple of years. Up until that point, no movies were even made with a resolution higher than DVD. So unless there is someway to magically make pixels appear, how will the picture be any better than already released DVDs?
Actually that would be way too warm to swim in. I swam in high school and while you hate to get in a cold pool, within about 5 minutes being in a warm pool is much worse. Probably the best temperature he could hope for would be around 60 Farenheit
From my experience, the vast majority of the time the alarm goes off, it's etiher due to something not being demagnetized properly or something I'm carrying on me. I've never really felt that people have assumed I've done something wrong because almost everybody has had such a thing happen to them. AS far as perfecting it, if I were a retailer, I'd rather have it get an extra 99 people out of a thousand who were innocent but also get the one person who was actually stealing something than not go off. False positives for it tend to be rather minor as far as I have ever seen.
But if the pizza has already arrived, what's the purpose of then ordering it, thereby making the pizza never appear. I think I jsut gave myself a head ache. Time to order pizza
As long as wireteps for VOIP phones fall under the regulations for wiretaps on normal phones, I don't see any reason that it shouldn't be allowed. Otherwise VIOP will be seen as a haven for criminals trying to circumvent weiretaps instead of a legitimate technology
Actually every movie I have is legitimate. I work in the summers at a country club and it pays a decent amount. I actually hav e my laptop cable running through the handles of them making it virtually impossible for them to be stolen
Actually I'm an engineer. I don't have the binder filled yet and I mostly watch it during the summer anyways. An I also do have a large collection of books in my room.
Living in a colege dorm I have to be really concearned about keepiing all my disk organized and not taking up too much room. I have a 360 capacity binder I use for my DVDs, a 280 binder I use for TV Shows, a 240 binder for games, and a 128 binder for drivers. I suggest looking on ebay for binder this size becasue retail places will just rip you off
There's actually an easy way to get DVDs for $10; just go to Blockbuster and cruise through their used DVD bins. They have a constant deal of 2 DVDs for $20 and sometimes even put on a better sale like 3 for $25 or buy 2 get 1 free. I have bought well over 50 DVDs from them and have yet to have a problem with the quality of any of them regarding scratches. And these are DVDs that have only been out for about 2 months so it's not like those $5 DVDs you see at the grocery store that you've never heard of.
Actually, a lot of former hackers are hired as security consultants due to the fact they they are able to look at a system and see the holes. Other than that, I would agree that if a person has comitted a crime, they should not be put in a position where it would be easy to do it again. There are, however, more than enough jobs out there that this wouldn't be a major issue.
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But of course they would say that it was real while acknowledging that it's April fool's Day, that's half the joke right there.
Even when I'm in good shape, I'm a 34 inch waist at best and still over 200 pounds. Setting arbitrary standards like this are completly pointless
They aren't actually changing the ads per say. A local cable company is allowed to sell certain ad space in a broadcast, hence why you'll see ads for Joe Schmo mattress warehouse while watching a nationally televised program. It's just that in that circumstance they are selling the ad to themselves. In summary, it's perfectly legal and a common practice for any carrier.
I think this is one of the first plans where they've mentioned being able to tier your usage. I personally would have no problem if they set up the system like they do cell phones, you pay x amount for y minutes/GB, with overages being relatively expensive. If they could also add in something similar to cell phones where if you "call in plan" it doesn't count against your total, where the in plan refers to getting the data from a source close enough to you that it is less costly for the ISP, we would see massive improvements in the efficiency of P2P programs. At least with that everybody would be happier, consumers get the same data and ISPs use less bandwidth.
While there is no doubt that some of those factors, notably the price, can be chalked up to the decrease of competition, I would say that the new 2.0 Blu-Ray standard is playing a significant role is the lack of players that you're seeing. Most companies don't want to release a player that will be obsolete within a matter of months. The complaints from people about "their player not working like it should" alone should be enough.
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I agree with you on that. I'm not arguing the relative merits of either method, half the time I'd just go ahead and reload my machine anyways. I'm simply saying that we as consumers should be given the option of deciding which is the better course of action.
He's not saying that regular users should need to fully understand how an OS works, only that people who want to know how it works should be able to. This would be akin to GM saying "Don't bother trying to fix your transmission, just buy a new car" (Yes, I know not quite the same, but close enough). Does the average car driver know how to fix their car, no. But if one had the desire to learn how to, they could. In that same way, those of us who want to learn how to fix a Windows install instead of simply reinstalling would like the oppertunity to be able to do so.
Ok, there is a massive difference between a rape scene that is filmed for the purpose of a movie in which all parties are consenting to it, and an actual rape scene.
Tell me about it. Way too much work with airplane engines is done in english units, and they loves to say mils. Fortunitley I do finite element analysis so I just mindlessly spit out data based on the numbers they give me.
What I still can't understand is why they will expect somebody to buy the Hi-Def version instead living with the DVD version of any movie that hasn't been made in the last couple of years. Up until that point, no movies were even made with a resolution higher than DVD. So unless there is someway to magically make pixels appear, how will the picture be any better than already released DVDs?
Except for the fact that most plans charge per text message, making it more expensive even if by some chance you have run out of minutes
Actually that would be way too warm to swim in. I swam in high school and while you hate to get in a cold pool, within about 5 minutes being in a warm pool is much worse. Probably the best temperature he could hope for would be around 60 Farenheit
Actually you can run 1 Gb/s over Cat5e cabling. Cat6 is just better suited for it
From my experience, the vast majority of the time the alarm goes off, it's etiher due to something not being demagnetized properly or something I'm carrying on me. I've never really felt that people have assumed I've done something wrong because almost everybody has had such a thing happen to them. AS far as perfecting it, if I were a retailer, I'd rather have it get an extra 99 people out of a thousand who were innocent but also get the one person who was actually stealing something than not go off. False positives for it tend to be rather minor as far as I have ever seen.
But if the pizza has already arrived, what's the purpose of then ordering it, thereby making the pizza never appear. I think I jsut gave myself a head ache. Time to order pizza
As long as wireteps for VOIP phones fall under the regulations for wiretaps on normal phones, I don't see any reason that it shouldn't be allowed. Otherwise VIOP will be seen as a haven for criminals trying to circumvent weiretaps instead of a legitimate technology
Certinly at least that many desiring it. The question is how many gullible enough to fall for the scam
Actually every thing I have with a few exceptions of things that haven't been released on DVD are originals
Actually every movie I have is legitimate. I work in the summers at a country club and it pays a decent amount. I actually hav e my laptop cable running through the handles of them making it virtually impossible for them to be stolen
Actually I'm an engineer. I don't have the binder filled yet and I mostly watch it during the summer anyways. An I also do have a large collection of books in my room.
Living in a colege dorm I have to be really concearned about keepiing all my disk organized and not taking up too much room. I have a 360 capacity binder I use for my DVDs, a 280 binder I use for TV Shows, a 240 binder for games, and a 128 binder for drivers. I suggest looking on ebay for binder this size becasue retail places will just rip you off
There's actually an easy way to get DVDs for $10; just go to Blockbuster and cruise through their used DVD bins. They have a constant deal of 2 DVDs for $20 and sometimes even put on a better sale like 3 for $25 or buy 2 get 1 free. I have bought well over 50 DVDs from them and have yet to have a problem with the quality of any of them regarding scratches. And these are DVDs that have only been out for about 2 months so it's not like those $5 DVDs you see at the grocery store that you've never heard of.
These sites aren't a defense against people who run pirate sites, but against outlawing the actual bittorrent protocal
Actually, a lot of former hackers are hired as security consultants due to the fact they they are able to look at a system and see the holes. Other than that, I would agree that if a person has comitted a crime, they should not be put in a position where it would be easy to do it again. There are, however, more than enough jobs out there that this wouldn't be a major issue.