Good suggestion. Dump Telus both as your telco and as your ISP, then pay their stupid fee as it's just not worth small claims court hassles. Tell them why you are doing this then do it. Switch to cable and use Vonage (or similar) instead. If you totally drop them as a supplier of any service, I can guarantee they will BEG you to come back.
This is what I did. I had MAJOR problems with my DSL provider so I dumped 'em. I also dumped them as my Telco because their "service" was a complete and total rip off (at $55 U.S./month). I switched to cable (at a similar price) and started using Vonage for my home phone service. The result is reliable and hassle-free service at a total savings of around $500 a year.
Suddenly, they are begging me to return at less than half what they were charging me before. Of course their offers have come far too late.
I have been a Netflix user for over three years and I have NEVER waited a week for movies, and I watch a LOT of movies. I have experienced throttling however, but since the news broke about the Frank Chavez lawsuit (http://www.geektronica.com/2005-11-01-stupid-netf lix-class-action-lawsuit) against Netlix and their policy of slowing down voracious viewers, I haven't once noticed a slowdown, which was never more than an an extra day for me anyway.
I watch between about eight and twenty-four movies a month, depending on my schedule. Netflix provides my needs for a very reasonable price (it actually went down after the first year). I really don't mind if they take an extra day once in a while to send me a movie.
Fear of being discovered to be from the U.S. has been going on for years in a different form, where some will actually stick a Canadian flag on their luggage while travelling in Europe and elsewhere.
America is a rich and powerful country. This seriously irks many people who wish they were also rich and powerful, so they too can impose their culture and values on the rest of the world. Of course it doesn't help when some bellicose Yanks act like a bull in a china shop when they travel, but you rarely see complaints about this sort of behaviour of people from places other than the U.S.. It's just that if you are American you are help to a very high standard in the eyes of many because your country is so omnipresent and influential. That's the price of power I guess.
So, if passports advertise your nationality as American then that's really just tough luck. Press your governement to join the most of the rest of the world and allow dual/multiple citizenship so you can travel under a different flag, or stay the hell away from places where Americans are in danger. This may eventually mean you can't travel outside the U.S. however.
Judging by the number of posts on this topic I would say that it is controversial and definitely not drivel. If it was truly worthless the thread would be full of equally worthless replies, which it is not.
Apple also sells professional solutions that millions of people use every single day at work. That has nothing to do with lifestyle and everything to do with productivity.
Yeah nobody would trust MS alright, and least of all the shareholders. Pulling out of an economy the size of Europe is just about the most ill-considered idea I have seen offered on/. in a long time.
Most municipalities practice creative "revenue enhancement." Parking tickets, Speeding tickets (which really should be called the Velocity Tax), and now camera vans, are nothing more than blatant tax grabs. They have absolutely nothing to do with deterence.
Well this story is certainly similar to my own "call dumping" problem I had with AT&T while living in New Jersey around the same time.
Suddenly, unexplained calls to some military base started showing up on my phone bill. I don't now, nor have I ever known, anybody at a military base so I had no idea where these calls were coming from. AT&T of course accused me of making the calls, someone else making the calls on my line, someone was tapping into my phone line, anything but what was really happening; AT&T was dumping unchargeable calls onto my account in the hopes that I wouldn't notice and pay the bill anyway. It all came out in the news several months later that this was in fact what was going on and many people were affected the same way I was.
I no longer do any business whatsoever with AT&T and so long as I have a choice, I never will either.
Then there was the time Earthlink took $120 from my bank account after the DSL installation was cancelled two months before the scheduled date, then took six months and the threat of a lawsuit to return the money.
If you think the NDP is any different than the Liberals or even the Conservatives you're living in dreamland. Bob Rae, the former NDP Premier of Ontario, is now he's running for the leadership of the Liberal Party. So much for party loyalty in the NDP and so much for opportunistic politcal whores.
That sounds logical. The company is also over a hundred years old so it has a lot of family tradition on it's side. It doesn't seem likely that it would sell out so easily. Though a partnership or merger might be seen as a reasonable next step in it's evolution.
Is Nintendo a publicly traded company? If so then there is always the possibility of a hostile takeover, though I'm not sure that would be something Apple would attempt.
"no gaming company was going to waste its time with Apple, and Apple wasn't going to waste its time on games. End of story."
Overly generalized given that there ARE gaming companies making money on mac gaming, some of which are mentioned in the article (and I'll add SOE to that list). While it is true that most gaming companies apparently can't justify the cost for the return, some certainly can and do.
That's NOT the majority of times. If you use the Apple Installer, which many, many apps do, you are prompted for a password. If you use drag and drop you are prompted for a password the first time you run the app.
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It might also be a great way to identify yourself as one of the kooks.
You answered your own question. Protecting the innocent, or at least appearing to do so, is a sure-fire vote getter akin to kissing babies.
"A criminal breaks into a home and causes $2,000 worth of damage and what do we do? Feed him and take car of him in a jail...."
So what are you suggesting as an alternative?
Good suggestion. Dump Telus both as your telco and as your ISP, then pay their stupid fee as it's just not worth small claims court hassles. Tell them why you are doing this then do it. Switch to cable and use Vonage (or similar) instead. If you totally drop them as a supplier of any service, I can guarantee they will BEG you to come back.
This is what I did. I had MAJOR problems with my DSL provider so I dumped 'em. I also dumped them as my Telco because their "service" was a complete and total rip off (at $55 U.S./month). I switched to cable (at a similar price) and started using Vonage for my home phone service. The result is reliable and hassle-free service at a total savings of around $500 a year.
Suddenly, they are begging me to return at less than half what they were charging me before. Of course their offers have come far too late.
Thank you. The misuse of "alternate" is really annoying.
I have been a Netflix user for over three years and I have NEVER waited a week for movies, and I watch a LOT of movies. I have experienced throttling however, but since the news broke about the Frank Chavez lawsuit (http://www.geektronica.com/2005-11-01-stupid-netf lix-class-action-lawsuit) against Netlix and their policy of slowing down voracious viewers, I haven't once noticed a slowdown, which was never more than an an extra day for me anyway.
I watch between about eight and twenty-four movies a month, depending on my schedule. Netflix provides my needs for a very reasonable price (it actually went down after the first year). I really don't mind if they take an extra day once in a while to send me a movie.
Fear of being discovered to be from the U.S. has been going on for years in a different form, where some will actually stick a Canadian flag on their luggage while travelling in Europe and elsewhere.
America is a rich and powerful country. This seriously irks many people who wish they were also rich and powerful, so they too can impose their culture and values on the rest of the world. Of course it doesn't help when some bellicose Yanks act like a bull in a china shop when they travel, but you rarely see complaints about this sort of behaviour of people from places other than the U.S.. It's just that if you are American you are help to a very high standard in the eyes of many because your country is so omnipresent and influential. That's the price of power I guess.
So, if passports advertise your nationality as American then that's really just tough luck. Press your governement to join the most of the rest of the world and allow dual/multiple citizenship so you can travel under a different flag, or stay the hell away from places where Americans are in danger. This may eventually mean you can't travel outside the U.S. however.
"It was the perfect solution"
Sounds like the perfect illegal solution. Too bad everything can't be solved so easily, but that would be anarchy.
Judging by the number of posts on this topic I would say that it is controversial and definitely not drivel. If it was truly worthless the thread would be full of equally worthless replies, which it is not.
Apple also sells professional solutions that millions of people use every single day at work. That has nothing to do with lifestyle and everything to do with productivity.
Yes but pedophiles who work for law enforcement and ISPs will be able to browse with impunity.
Yeah nobody would trust MS alright, and least of all the shareholders. Pulling out of an economy the size of Europe is just about the most ill-considered idea I have seen offered on /. in a long time.
Most municipalities practice creative "revenue enhancement." Parking tickets, Speeding tickets (which really should be called the Velocity Tax), and now camera vans, are nothing more than blatant tax grabs. They have absolutely nothing to do with deterence.
Well this story is certainly similar to my own "call dumping" problem I had with AT&T while living in New Jersey around the same time.
Suddenly, unexplained calls to some military base started showing up on my phone bill. I don't now, nor have I ever known, anybody at a military base so I had no idea where these calls were coming from. AT&T of course accused me of making the calls, someone else making the calls on my line, someone was tapping into my phone line, anything but what was really happening; AT&T was dumping unchargeable calls onto my account in the hopes that I wouldn't notice and pay the bill anyway. It all came out in the news several months later that this was in fact what was going on and many people were affected the same way I was.
I no longer do any business whatsoever with AT&T and so long as I have a choice, I never will either.
Then there was the time Earthlink took $120 from my bank account after the DSL installation was cancelled two months before the scheduled date, then took six months and the threat of a lawsuit to return the money.
"That is sad but true...."
Why is it sad? Is profit a dirty word?
If you think the NDP is any different than the Liberals or even the Conservatives you're living in dreamland. Bob Rae, the former NDP Premier of Ontario, is now he's running for the leadership of the Liberal Party. So much for party loyalty in the NDP and so much for opportunistic politcal whores.
That sounds logical. The company is also over a hundred years old so it has a lot of family tradition on it's side. It doesn't seem likely that it would sell out so easily. Though a partnership or merger might be seen as a reasonable next step in it's evolution.
"Nintendo is not a US Manufaturer as said at the top of the article, it is a Japaneese Manufacturer."
That is only partly true. While it's main branch is in Japan and it's founder was Japanese, it is in reality a large multinational corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
Is Nintendo a publicly traded company? If so then there is always the possibility of a hostile takeover, though I'm not sure that would be something Apple would attempt.
It could never be as banal and hackneyed as one button jokes.
"no gaming company was going to waste its time with Apple, and Apple wasn't going to waste its time on games. End of story."
Overly generalized given that there ARE gaming companies making money on mac gaming, some of which are mentioned in the article (and I'll add SOE to that list). While it is true that most gaming companies apparently can't justify the cost for the return, some certainly can and do.
That's NOT the majority of times. If you use the Apple Installer, which many, many apps do, you are prompted for a password. If you use drag and drop you are prompted for a password the first time you run the app.
I wish them luck too. Afterall, calling your potential customers names is bound to work.
"I design software for Windows, and will retire making a healthly living in that endeavour."
La vie dans un trou.
I disagree. The winning design is MUCH easier to read for me than the runner up, which is busier and therefore more convoluted in appearance.