Cute girls in bathing suits on roller skates, if you're into that sort of thing. Ridiculously high rents and no place to park, if you're a normal human being.
GTE, which was bought out by Verizon, was even worse. I switched a land line to ISDN service with the same company, years later I found out there were unpaid long distance charges that posted to the old account after I paid the closing statement that were showing up on my credit report because they couldn't find me to bill me for them. I was still at the same address, and still had (ISDN) service through the same company... but they couldn't find me to send me a bill!
You are paying a fee to type in the MAC address of your modem in the central office. I upgraded my own modem with a new one for Costco, and they actually have a web page you can go to and type in the MAC address of your new modem yourself... for free.
Not just the billing practices... the noise on their tech support line was so bad I couldn't understand what anyone was saying. (The accents didn't help either.) Uh, you're a COMMUNICATION company, and you don't know how to hook up usable phone lines?
My experience with Comcast was they let me do a self-install, but the self install didn't work so they sent out a technician and charged me. The first time, the wires run to the newly built house were bad. The second time, reinstalling in the same house, there was no reason for it not to work. The other weird thing about Comcast: they really don't care whether or not you return the cable modem when you terminate service, and when I did put it all back in the original box a return it, they immediately took it out of the box and tossed it in their big garbage bin of old modems.
Will you all still be excited about giving Trump a Nobel Peace prize when some terrorist settles the Jerusalem problem once and for all by detonating a dirty bomb outside the new embassy, rendering all of Jerusalem uninhabitable for the next 10,000 years?
Agreed, it can be thought of as paying for entertainment. Over my lifetime, I've gambled enough that I'm down about $20 overall, so I haven't really paid that much to discover firsthand how the games work.
"As of October 2017, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrat, 24% identified as Republican, and 42% as Independent." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yep, the Trumptards are a distinct MINORITY!
Microsoft just repackages screens made in Korea. They used to do this in Wilsonville, Oregon, but are moving all production to China. And, truth be know, most Microsoft hardware is fairly decent. The biggest problem with the 84 inch Surface Hub was the 200 point weight; it meant in addition to spending $25K for the screen, you had to spend another $25K reinforcing the wall in your conference room to hold it up! The silliest thing about the Surface Hub 2 is the suggesting that people will join 4 of them together into super large screen, like they won't be bothered at all by the lines between the screens.
Only a hardware power button is really necessary. All the other "buttons" can be implemented using the touch screen. (A touch screen power button would require the touch screen to always be on even when the phone was powered off.)
Why not a pop-up front camera, or even a single camera that can be rotated to both front and back? Makes more sense than a hole in the middle of the screen, doesn't it?
So, what you are saying is there is more evidence that Trump has colluded with the Russian government than there is evidence that Kapersky has colluded with the Russian government? What a world we live in!
They charge like $2/minute for video conferencing, whereas in-person visits are free. Yep, the for-profit incarceration industry just transformed family visits into a profit center!
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The Bird "How It Works" web page (https://www.bird.co/how) doesn't explain how to flip the Bird!
Cute girls in bathing suits on roller skates, if you're into that sort of thing. Ridiculously high rents and no place to park, if you're a normal human being.
Hillary Clinton got 2.7 million more votes... once again, Trump received a MINORITY of the popular vote. And your point was?
GTE, which was bought out by Verizon, was even worse. I switched a land line to ISDN service with the same company, years later I found out there were unpaid long distance charges that posted to the old account after I paid the closing statement that were showing up on my credit report because they couldn't find me to bill me for them. I was still at the same address, and still had (ISDN) service through the same company... but they couldn't find me to send me a bill!
You are paying a fee to type in the MAC address of your modem in the central office. I upgraded my own modem with a new one for Costco, and they actually have a web page you can go to and type in the MAC address of your new modem yourself... for free.
Not just the billing practices... the noise on their tech support line was so bad I couldn't understand what anyone was saying. (The accents didn't help either.) Uh, you're a COMMUNICATION company, and you don't know how to hook up usable phone lines?
So... you're suggesting we should _shoot_ the Comcast technician when they come out to install cable?
T-Mobile charges you $25 for a new SIM card every time you activate service, even if you already have a T-Mobile SIM card.
My experience with Comcast was they let me do a self-install, but the self install didn't work so they sent out a technician and charged me. The first time, the wires run to the newly built house were bad. The second time, reinstalling in the same house, there was no reason for it not to work. The other weird thing about Comcast: they really don't care whether or not you return the cable modem when you terminate service, and when I did put it all back in the original box a return it, they immediately took it out of the box and tossed it in their big garbage bin of old modems.
Will you all still be excited about giving Trump a Nobel Peace prize when some terrorist settles the Jerusalem problem once and for all by detonating a dirty bomb outside the new embassy, rendering all of Jerusalem uninhabitable for the next 10,000 years?
What do you call 583 million deleted Facebook accounts? A good start!
Agreed, it can be thought of as paying for entertainment. Over my lifetime, I've gambled enough that I'm down about $20 overall, so I haven't really paid that much to discover firsthand how the games work.
"As of October 2017, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrat, 24% identified as Republican, and 42% as Independent." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Yep, the Trumptards are a distinct MINORITY!
We live in a country where there are still far more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, but nice fantasy you have there!
If anything, it's over-engineered. Two speakers, two cameras, two WiFi access points... redundancy is good, but only if money is no object.
Microsoft just repackages screens made in Korea. They used to do this in Wilsonville, Oregon, but are moving all production to China. And, truth be know, most Microsoft hardware is fairly decent. The biggest problem with the 84 inch Surface Hub was the 200 point weight; it meant in addition to spending $25K for the screen, you had to spend another $25K reinforcing the wall in your conference room to hold it up! The silliest thing about the Surface Hub 2 is the suggesting that people will join 4 of them together into super large screen, like they won't be bothered at all by the lines between the screens.
NASA has already proved there is water on Mars: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap0...
Panspermia -- all life on Earth originated on Europa 4 billion years ago.
Now EVERYBODY knows I'm a Miranda! (Exactly how useful is this quiz data?)
Only a hardware power button is really necessary. All the other "buttons" can be implemented using the touch screen. (A touch screen power button would require the touch screen to always be on even when the phone was powered off.)
Why not a pop-up front camera, or even a single camera that can be rotated to both front and back? Makes more sense than a hole in the middle of the screen, doesn't it?
So, what you are saying is there is more evidence that Trump has colluded with the Russian government than there is evidence that Kapersky has colluded with the Russian government? What a world we live in!
They charge like $2/minute for video conferencing, whereas in-person visits are free. Yep, the for-profit incarceration industry just transformed family visits into a profit center!
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