I don't think 10c text messages is really a great selling point. I would say 95% of people are in one of two categories, those who turn of texting completely and those that pay for buckets of text messages.
For example I pay 10$/mo for 500 messages (I have Verizon so any messages sent to Verizon customers are free) on average i send between 200 and 400 out of network texts a month, this comes to about 2-5c a text message. If you include the free messages they give me when i send to VZW customers that drops even farther.
Just as an example looking at my last bill i sent 268 out of network texts which works out to ~3.7c/text and 351 in network texts @ 0c/text.
If you add that all together you for all my texting last month i paid ~1.6c/text.
Yes if I exceed my my monthly out of band limit i would get charged the 20c/text but that would happen one month and i would bump up the out of band limit. So honestly if you really look at it the only people that pay that rate are the ones that either A) get so few texts it's more of a rip off to pay the 5-10$/mo for 5 or 6 texts, or those that can't be bothered to sit down and look at how many they are sending and buy the proper bucket of texts.
Considering that they've tied acceptance of the machine (warranty and all) with the acceptance of the Windows Vista EULA with recent machines... At least with the recent Dell machines that I have configured there are two separate acceptance screens. One when you first start the machine that is an acceptance of the warranty and then you don't accept the Windows EULA until you run through the mini-setup for windows (aka the first run screens)
So you can definitely accept the dell warranty to use the machine and then just not run the mini-setup and you haven't accepted the Windows EULA.
If Dell is in the business of installing unsupported operating systems, why not instead redirect the customers to their Ubuntu offerings instead? Simply? End of Sale != End of Support.
And Dell is selling past microsoft's end of sale date because they can make money doing so.
How could eBay perform a hostile takeover? I believe the balance of Craigslist stock is privately held, and NOT on the open market. I don't think eBay can force someone to sell stock to them. The way to do this is actually spelled out very well in Cryptonomicon. The minority shareholder sues for damages, and if they win a judgment that is greater than the amount the corporation can pay, it is payed to them in stock, which - depending on the damages - could make them the majority shareholder.
Well i don't know about your company, but mine pushes Windows updates from a central WSUS server, and our clients are not allowed to get updates from Windows Updates. I have yet to see an update that i havn't approved go through to the clients.
No no you have it all wrong, Your representative is more than happy to talk to you about anything you would like. It's just that these pesky phones have had some issues recently, apparently the exact modulation of the words immunity, corruption, Big Brother, bribe and neutrality seem to have a weird effect on the switching gear that Ma Bell (is that valid again???) just put into place. Rest assured that they are working hard to resolve this minor issue.
But then, NT 4.0 once let you have perfect access to its SAM registry keys by simply letting at.exe open regedt32 for you.
You can still do this with WinXP, although i find it much more useful to open cmd.exe, more options that way... and yes it still opens under the 'Local System' SID. Oh and if they prevent you from running a command prompt... write a batch file to do it.
Since I'm not a US citizen, that would require use of the password '12345678'. Certain people in the administration found this password to be too complicated, it was shortened to '1234'
They authorize by MAC address of the Modem. Not the router/computer/etc. connected to the modem. The only problem you might run into is they correlate the machine behind the modem to the modem's mac address and it is cached for 5-10 mins. but after that you can get a new DHCP lease with a new machine.
Incompetently because the report writer doesn't appear to have a clue why the attacks in that province are decreasing which tends to suggest that the administration has no clear idea what is actually driving the attacks or why they're happening.
Can I just quote you the title of the Report:
Administrator's Weekly Report
Economy (emphasis mine)
Why do you think that an economist should have ANY clue as to a mostly military matter? This guy is writing about what is going on in Iraq's economy the only odd thing i see here is why he was even thinking about putting that into an economic report. This could even be a simple problem of someone opening the wrong word document and starts typing without realizing what he is doing. The rest of the "embarassing" changes are formatting changes and the removal of the word "UNCLASSIFIED" in the footer... ooo ahhh.
Someone messed up on a document that doesn't even deserve the UNCLASSIFIED classification... mountains out of molehills.
The funny part, about that was there was a way for me to accomplish walking up hill both ways. And my school district didn't even own a bus.
So that would make me one of the few who can say that without lying... well except for the fact that I wasn't stupid enough to walk that way of course.
But your are not factoring in you have to KEEP paying for it EVERY year.
So let's assume I go and buy office pro 2007 upgrade (who doesn't already have a verion of offce?) - $329 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX1017 54511033.aspx) No more paying for it... ever.
now in year one that looks like a great deal, but lets you a general life expectancy of 5-7 year (4 years for a replacement 2003-2007 then 1-3 years to actually upgrade).
In year 5 you would have spent $900 on the software.
In year 6 you would have spent $1080 on the software.
In year 7 you would have spent $1260 on the software.
Looks like a good plan for Microsoft, but does it still look that good to you? Don't be fooled by low monthly numbers.
Terminal Services Licenses cost nearly as much as a full XP license Huh? A 5 pack is ~300$ making it about 60$/license. Not even OEM windows pricing is that cheap.
I mean really, it just seems logical if they are only going to patch once a month, then the bad guys will go after every hole that wasn't patched the day after updates are released.
I'm just amazed that it took this long for it to become big news that this kind of thing is going on.
J Grewal, Spectranet's Delhi representative at the National Internet exchange of India, told this reporter that, on July 15, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had sent ISPs a list of sites to be blocked. R H Sharma, senior engineer with MTNL, said the list ran into some 22 pages.
Further, the license terms forbid the transfer of the license w/o being attached to a piece of hardware (some businesses have gotten around this by attaching an IDE cable or network card).
This used to be true, hell you used to be able to sell them a mouse + dicounted OEM software. But alas they have gotten stricter about this now. There is a fairly short list of what you can sell to qualify for the OEM software. Off the top of my head, it has to be sold with at least, an Hard Drive, or Motherboard, or obviously a full system. There may be more options to sell but I can't think of them off the top of my head right now.
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For example I pay 10$/mo for 500 messages (I have Verizon so any messages sent to Verizon customers are free) on average i send between 200 and 400 out of network texts a month, this comes to about 2-5c a text message. If you include the free messages they give me when i send to VZW customers that drops even farther.
Just as an example looking at my last bill i sent 268 out of network texts which works out to ~3.7c/text and 351 in network texts @ 0c/text. If you add that all together you for all my texting last month i paid ~1.6c/text.
Yes if I exceed my my monthly out of band limit i would get charged the 20c/text but that would happen one month and i would bump up the out of band limit. So honestly if you really look at it the only people that pay that rate are the ones that either A) get so few texts it's more of a rip off to pay the 5-10$/mo for 5 or 6 texts, or those that can't be bothered to sit down and look at how many they are sending and buy the proper bucket of texts.
pffft that is 1 too many key strokes, I just do <search term>[enter] ! efficiency (and search bars) rules!
So you can definitely accept the dell warranty to use the machine and then just not run the mini-setup and you haven't accepted the Windows EULA.
And the sad part is, it would probably turn out better than a sci-fi channel production, AND be more interesting.
fixed it for ya
Well i don't know about your company, but mine pushes Windows updates from a central WSUS server, and our clients are not allowed to get updates from Windows Updates. I have yet to see an update that i havn't approved go through to the clients.
What the hell are you talking about
Apps, loaded from apple's site, warrenty still valid.
No no you have it all wrong, Your representative is more than happy to talk to you about anything you would like. It's just that these pesky phones have had some issues recently, apparently the exact modulation of the words immunity, corruption, Big Brother, bribe and neutrality seem to have a weird effect on the switching gear that Ma Bell (is that valid again???) just put into place. Rest assured that they are working hard to resolve this minor issue.
Ummmm so they would be able to trace the printer back to the agency he stole it from??? I'm sure he is scared of that happening.
You can still do this with WinXP, although i find it much more useful to open cmd.exe, more options that way
They authorize by MAC address of the Modem. Not the router/computer/etc. connected to the modem. The only problem you might run into is they correlate the machine behind the modem to the modem's mac address and it is cached for 5-10 mins. but after that you can get a new DHCP lease with a new machine.
"Those who can, do; those who can't teach; those who can't teach use powerpoint!"
Administrator's Weekly Report Economy (emphasis mine)
Why do you think that an economist should have ANY clue as to a mostly military matter? This guy is writing about what is going on in Iraq's economy the only odd thing i see here is why he was even thinking about putting that into an economic report. This could even be a simple problem of someone opening the wrong word document and starts typing without realizing what he is doing. The rest of the "embarassing" changes are formatting changes and the removal of the word "UNCLASSIFIED" in the footer... ooo ahhh. ... mountains out of molehills.
Someone messed up on a document that doesn't even deserve the UNCLASSIFIED classification
The funny part, about that was there was a way for me to accomplish walking up hill both ways. And my school district didn't even own a bus. ... well except for the fact that I wasn't stupid enough to walk that way of course.
So that would make me one of the few who can say that without lying
So let's assume I go and buy office pro 2007 upgrade (who doesn't already have a verion of offce?) - $329
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101
now in year one that looks like a great deal, but lets you a general life expectancy of 5-7 year (4 years for a replacement
2003-2007 then 1-3 years to actually upgrade).
In year 5 you would have spent $900 on the software.
In year 6 you would have spent $1080 on the software.
In year 7 you would have spent $1260 on the software.
Looks like a good plan for Microsoft, but does it still look that good to you? Don't be fooled by low monthly numbers.
I know it's hard, but if you had RTFA you would have seen no less than 5 examples of new and/or reused ccTLDs
Uhh, it's called a "Drivers" cd .. you know the other CD they used to give you with the Vanilla windows install media.
Well I would guess that it has something to do with Fedora being free and Redhat not.
I'm just amazed that it took this long for it to become big news that this kind of thing is going on.
It's 22 PAGES of sites, not just 22 sites.
however even one site being blocked is too many
This used to be true, hell you used to be able to sell them a mouse + dicounted OEM software. But alas they have gotten stricter about this now. There is a fairly short list of what you can sell to qualify for the OEM software. Off the top of my head, it has to be sold with at least, an Hard Drive, or Motherboard, or obviously a full system. There may be more options to sell but I can't think of them off the top of my head right now.