can be provided if you present a utility bill for your current location, and if they call more than 3x in one month you can press charges for harassment.
The only limitation in Federal law (FDCPA) is that collectors cannot call you outside of 8am and 9pm your time. However, with that said, many companies who hire 3rd party collectors will require the 3rd party collectors to not attempt to recontact a customer for 7 days after speaking with them before. But this is not a law just a general guideline that many companies require of their collections agencies. If you have heard something about calling 3 times within 30 days than this must be specific to a company that you are referring to.
To a point yes, but even in places the FDCPA doesn't apply most states have very specific laws of their own about debt collection practices, especially regarding releasing information about debt to third parties, as is such in this case.
I don't expect this company to continue to do this for very long.
Yes, Apple TV is a little different than Google TV. It's a working product that has been making money for a while now.
You characterize Apple users who are "used to playing through the nose for a slick experience" but Apple TV owners are not Apple users any more than the legions of iPod and iPhone users are. You are taking what you think of Mac users and projecting it on to everything else.
The Apple TV is $99. The TV shows they can purchase a la carte are a few dollars per episode, without commercials. Season passes can be purchased for more. This is no different than purchasing seasons on DVD at Best Buy. This pay model was how cable TV was originally supposed to work until cable companies slowly allowed more and more commercials to be broadcast on the networks people paying to have broadcast.
Hollywood needs a reason to get people to go to theatres. Otherwise everyone is just going to download BluRay rips through torrent and watch it on their huge flatscreen TVs at home.
I myself got a DUI three years ago. First time offense, I had my license taken away for a year and if I wanted it back that second year I would have had to go with an interlock device. I decided to forgo driving another year to bother with the costs of the device and by that second year I had already adjusted my lifestyle to accommodate not driving.
I don't begrudge anyone but myself, I even thanked the officer who stopped me (two blocks from my house going to the gas station late at night to pick up some snacks, stopped due to headlight out). I'm glad I got stopped because as everyone already knows that was the first time I got caught, not the first time I had risked going to the store after some drinks like that.
I had to pay a large fine, I had to attend education classes, a victims panel and I had to meet with a diversion officer once a month for a year. It changed my life. I was lucky to afford the large costs, I know it would've completely broken a lot of other people.
I also believe that people who text and talk on phones while driving should be held to the same standard as DUI. People who are morally outraged about DUIs do not bother me, but the ones who are morally outraged and then don't bat an eye when they reveal to me they text all the time while driving make me stabby.
Compatible file-formats? What is not compatible with AAC these days?
As for DRM, the iTunes store hasn't used FairPlay DRM in over a year.
As for the developer tools, how does that affect end-users at all?
I would venture a guess and say that the vast majority of iPod owners have their music collection stored in MP3 format. The only "lock in" I can guess that the average user encounters is figuring out how to use that MP3 collection with something other than iTunes.
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Apple supports Windows drivers and software on all of their consumer hardware.
I think you may be confusing software freedom with content freedom. Hollywood movies != software.
Voyagers were aided by the Grand Tour, something that won't happen again until around 2153.
That's based on a Mercator projection, right?
TFA is worthless. Just a rehash, nothing new. It's so lacking in substance it has to encourage its readers to supply content by ending TFA like this:
"Lacking in substance."
Isn't that the point, considering the topic of the article?
Which one is more likely to procreate and continue the evolution of the species?
can be provided if you present a utility bill for your current location, and if they call more than 3x in one month you can press charges for harassment.
The only limitation in Federal law (FDCPA) is that collectors cannot call you outside of 8am and 9pm your time. However, with that said, many companies who hire 3rd party collectors will require the 3rd party collectors to not attempt to recontact a customer for 7 days after speaking with them before. But this is not a law just a general guideline that many companies require of their collections agencies. If you have heard something about calling 3 times within 30 days than this must be specific to a company that you are referring to.
To a point yes, but even in places the FDCPA doesn't apply most states have very specific laws of their own about debt collection practices, especially regarding releasing information about debt to third parties, as is such in this case.
I don't expect this company to continue to do this for very long.
(works in a collection call center)
I work at a collection agency. This breaks all sorts of FDCPA laws, especially about releasing information to 3rd parties.
This agency will get audited very soon.
Just googled Dynabook. It has a large keyboard below the screen. Looks exactly like an iPad. :P
Yes, Apple TV is a little different than Google TV. It's a working product that has been making money for a while now.
You characterize Apple users who are "used to playing through the nose for a slick experience" but Apple TV owners are not Apple users any more than the legions of iPod and iPhone users are. You are taking what you think of Mac users and projecting it on to everything else.
The Apple TV is $99. The TV shows they can purchase a la carte are a few dollars per episode, without commercials. Season passes can be purchased for more. This is no different than purchasing seasons on DVD at Best Buy. This pay model was how cable TV was originally supposed to work until cable companies slowly allowed more and more commercials to be broadcast on the networks people paying to have broadcast.
That would be a pretty good zinger if Mac OS X didn't already have Preview.
Hollywood needs a reason to get people to go to theatres. Otherwise everyone is just going to download BluRay rips through torrent and watch it on their huge flatscreen TVs at home.
Red Dead Redemption is pretty cool.
I myself got a DUI three years ago. First time offense, I had my license taken away for a year and if I wanted it back that second year I would have had to go with an interlock device. I decided to forgo driving another year to bother with the costs of the device and by that second year I had already adjusted my lifestyle to accommodate not driving.
I don't begrudge anyone but myself, I even thanked the officer who stopped me (two blocks from my house going to the gas station late at night to pick up some snacks, stopped due to headlight out). I'm glad I got stopped because as everyone already knows that was the first time I got caught, not the first time I had risked going to the store after some drinks like that.
I had to pay a large fine, I had to attend education classes, a victims panel and I had to meet with a diversion officer once a month for a year. It changed my life. I was lucky to afford the large costs, I know it would've completely broken a lot of other people.
I also believe that people who text and talk on phones while driving should be held to the same standard as DUI. People who are morally outraged about DUIs do not bother me, but the ones who are morally outraged and then don't bat an eye when they reveal to me they text all the time while driving make me stabby.
I have Apple Mail connected to both of my Gmail accounts via IMAP. My iPod checks it via IMAP on the road.
I can check it through GMail's web interface if I'm on something else.
Best of every world.
Perhaps the time has come to realize that what's on the web has become the desktop apps and redesign the window manager accordingly.
I know, keep the web in the browser, etc.
Right?
I do. It's a rather useful feature.
That I will be using again once this bug is fixed. :P
Kinda sad that the game the mod came from (UT2K4) had a Mac version.
I'm hoping Valve has it in the works.
Knowingly using shoddy components isn't a design flaw?
Compatible file-formats? What is not compatible with AAC these days?
As for DRM, the iTunes store hasn't used FairPlay DRM in over a year.
As for the developer tools, how does that affect end-users at all?
I would venture a guess and say that the vast majority of iPod owners have their music collection stored in MP3 format. The only "lock in" I can guess that the average user encounters is figuring out how to use that MP3 collection with something other than iTunes.
The term "lock in" apparently has had its definition changed much as "brick" has already.
How in the world is anyone "locked in" to an iPod?
Well then the next question should be how has the same 10 years helped IE?
The AppleTV can be circumvented by a iPod and a cable.
How in the world do you come to the conclusion that someone is promoting locking by pushing for a new HTML standard?