Very fun project and I look forward to playing it.
But I watched this yesterday morning via Stumble. Seems Slashdot is now falling behind on getting me stories. I think this might be the 3rd or 4th in a lil over a week where I saw the article while using Stumble. Maybe I better start just submitting stories after I Stumble them and take credit for good reporting.
No one has said it yet. Lower the settings for call quality in your Vonage settings a bit till you reach a happy place. You already are giving top billing to the adapter so by doing that it would probably be all you need to do.
I know when I first got my vonage i had a lot of delay issues while gaming or downloading, till I lowered the quality then it was all fine. Still sounds great and no lagging issues.
I didnt see it posted and I dont read most EULAs, but as long as this has a line about the 'phoning home' process then all is ok. Now if they never post anything in the EULA then that is a big problem! You accept anything the software does when you click I agree. You dont have to agree and use the software.
Anytime I think about EULAs, I think they are made to legal like that noone is going to read it and those that do will most likly just say 'yea whatever, i want to use the software'. Which reminds me of the one software that had a written reward in the EULA and after like 5 years (or longer, i dont remember) and a lot of users some guy saw a lil statement that said the the effect 'email us this code and we will send you $5000'
OK lets do some real simple math.
Buyer: Printer = $200 - $20 instant - $50 rebate = $130 end cost (+taxes, etc)
Oh but I hate rebates so I want it for the $130 out the door.
Now to brake it down why you had to pay the $180 out the door with a $50 rebate and not $130 out the door.
Store: Printer cost from supplier $175, cost to run the store for the day $1000 (employees, utilities, lease, etc).
So if we only sold printers for $200 that cost us $175 we make $25 each sale. So to beak even for the day we would have to sell 40 printers a day. Now with the sale we only make $5 on the printer out the door so that would make us sell 200 a day to break even. Oh but the rebate!
Rebate: $180 - $50 = $130
Store: $130 - $175 = $-45
So the store just lost $45 by selling the printer for less than it had to buy it from the suplier for. So if each sale nets a loss, then it can not ever recover its costs and thus cant pay the bills.
But with the Rebate system, the Store can earn intrest on the $5 they still made durring the sale. This will help offset the loss they will take for having a 'good deal'. But most times they will never fully recover the cost. It is in a sense, a loss leader, to try to get you into the store to buy other non-sale items.
Now most rebates come from the supplier not the store. Most stores have instant savings or instant rebates. Thus the -$20 sale price, that is the store putting it on sale to a point that they still make a lil money on the sale and hope to get your buisness. So when it is the store having the huge rebate they have to have a way to recoup the costs.
In the end you will not see hardly any huge great deals with a no rebate system. Why would I want to in a sense pay you to shop my store and walk out with a printer? We are here to make money not give things away. So if the extra money sits in the bank and earns intrest so we hope to still make a proffit while at the same time selling you an item for less than we bought it for, what is the harm in that?
Most of the new printers come with Full Inks now, ESP HP and Epson. Hell HP even lists the ml count on the box when you buy it. It is the same count as the new ink you would buy.
Also about this artical, purely useless. I sell all these printers for my job, and no real information was given and or bad information given. Cheap printer($69us HP) = cheap ink, but has more than half less ink than say a $89us HP printer that can also take High Yeild Inks.
Also where the the talk about individual ink tanks? They almost said it when for odd reason they said 2 cartridge systems were not photo system but 4 ink tanks were. Way wrong! HP has a $500us wide format printer that does 9 colors in 3 tri-color cartridges. And for the most part individual tanks = huge ink waste! That is unless you are printering a ton of red barns.
Staples EASY rebates are much better than MIR's. That is what probly BEST BUY is planing on doing in 2 years worth of time. Cause I know myself and many other would rather do it online than to mail it in. And so far I have gotten all mine back and in record times.
Seems many stores are just tring to play catchup to Staples now. I see something done at staples then lil while latter something real simular shows up at one of the other guys.
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Good now if they add support for xmpp things would be highly looking up indeed!
Very fun project and I look forward to playing it. But I watched this yesterday morning via Stumble. Seems Slashdot is now falling behind on getting me stories. I think this might be the 3rd or 4th in a lil over a week where I saw the article while using Stumble. Maybe I better start just submitting stories after I Stumble them and take credit for good reporting.
No one has said it yet. Lower the settings for call quality in your Vonage settings a bit till you reach a happy place. You already are giving top billing to the adapter so by doing that it would probably be all you need to do. I know when I first got my vonage i had a lot of delay issues while gaming or downloading, till I lowered the quality then it was all fine. Still sounds great and no lagging issues.
Ah no fair they got an early copy of Spore!
I didnt see it posted and I dont read most EULAs, but as long as this has a line about the 'phoning home' process then all is ok. Now if they never post anything in the EULA then that is a big problem! You accept anything the software does when you click I agree. You dont have to agree and use the software. Anytime I think about EULAs, I think they are made to legal like that noone is going to read it and those that do will most likly just say 'yea whatever, i want to use the software'. Which reminds me of the one software that had a written reward in the EULA and after like 5 years (or longer, i dont remember) and a lot of users some guy saw a lil statement that said the the effect 'email us this code and we will send you $5000'
OK lets do some real simple math. Buyer: Printer = $200 - $20 instant - $50 rebate = $130 end cost (+taxes, etc) Oh but I hate rebates so I want it for the $130 out the door. Now to brake it down why you had to pay the $180 out the door with a $50 rebate and not $130 out the door. Store: Printer cost from supplier $175, cost to run the store for the day $1000 (employees, utilities, lease, etc). So if we only sold printers for $200 that cost us $175 we make $25 each sale. So to beak even for the day we would have to sell 40 printers a day. Now with the sale we only make $5 on the printer out the door so that would make us sell 200 a day to break even. Oh but the rebate! Rebate: $180 - $50 = $130 Store: $130 - $175 = $-45 So the store just lost $45 by selling the printer for less than it had to buy it from the suplier for. So if each sale nets a loss, then it can not ever recover its costs and thus cant pay the bills. But with the Rebate system, the Store can earn intrest on the $5 they still made durring the sale. This will help offset the loss they will take for having a 'good deal'. But most times they will never fully recover the cost. It is in a sense, a loss leader, to try to get you into the store to buy other non-sale items. Now most rebates come from the supplier not the store. Most stores have instant savings or instant rebates. Thus the -$20 sale price, that is the store putting it on sale to a point that they still make a lil money on the sale and hope to get your buisness. So when it is the store having the huge rebate they have to have a way to recoup the costs. In the end you will not see hardly any huge great deals with a no rebate system. Why would I want to in a sense pay you to shop my store and walk out with a printer? We are here to make money not give things away. So if the extra money sits in the bank and earns intrest so we hope to still make a proffit while at the same time selling you an item for less than we bought it for, what is the harm in that?
Most of the new printers come with Full Inks now, ESP HP and Epson. Hell HP even lists the ml count on the box when you buy it. It is the same count as the new ink you would buy. Also about this artical, purely useless. I sell all these printers for my job, and no real information was given and or bad information given. Cheap printer($69us HP) = cheap ink, but has more than half less ink than say a $89us HP printer that can also take High Yeild Inks. Also where the the talk about individual ink tanks? They almost said it when for odd reason they said 2 cartridge systems were not photo system but 4 ink tanks were. Way wrong! HP has a $500us wide format printer that does 9 colors in 3 tri-color cartridges. And for the most part individual tanks = huge ink waste! That is unless you are printering a ton of red barns.
Staples EASY rebates are much better than MIR's. That is what probly BEST BUY is planing on doing in 2 years worth of time. Cause I know myself and many other would rather do it online than to mail it in. And so far I have gotten all mine back and in record times. Seems many stores are just tring to play catchup to Staples now. I see something done at staples then lil while latter something real simular shows up at one of the other guys.