The "Reality" element that you deride actually shapes a story out of the raw footage. If you want to just see their experience, you could go to Disneyland, get on Star Tours and look at the person in the seat next to you.
Their is nothing inherently wrong with Reality TV. There is good reality tv and bad. Blanket statements are mental laziness.
Im sorry but the simple question I am asking is: How come they didn't just put a compact flash slot in to begin with instead of force feeding everyone the Memory Stick®.
I concede that this is what 90% of the posts on this thread will be. At least I am relatively early!
I cancelled my Verizon service and switched to Cingular because of these practices.
The craziest element of this policy is that they are only pissing off the more technically inclined of their customers which must surely be a minority. Most people are probably more like my wife and her friends who take advantage of all of the over priced "services" that Verizon is forcing you to use. They will glady pay a quarter to send a picture easily rather than figure out how to sendit via bluetooth to another phone or to their computer.
Unfortunately for Verizon, these same less technically inclined friends always seek my advice when making purchasing decisions. I direct all of them away from Verizon on principle now. They don't even understand the issues, they just follow my advice. I am exactly the kind of customer that Verizon doesnt want to piss off. I will cost them 20 customers by the time I am done.
While they are not truly evil, I believe that they are self defeating.
I hope that this will help me to explain the value of RSS to my non-tech inclined friends and family. RSS has completely changed my web experience, again. When tabs arrived I had a simliar experience. I felt more empowered to manage my own web experience. Eventually I was auto-loadind 30 or more tabs. I was drowning again...until I caught on to RSS.
RSS saves me time. I absorb less garbage stimuli (ads, images, meandering sites) and I can put my limitied time and energy into the things that truly interest me. I am a fan of RSS and cant wait to see if Google can serve it up simply to those who recoil at another intimidating internet acronym.
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The "Reality" element that you deride actually shapes a story out of the raw footage. If you want to just see their experience, you could go to Disneyland, get on Star Tours and look at the person in the seat next to you. Their is nothing inherently wrong with Reality TV. There is good reality tv and bad. Blanket statements are mental laziness.
I concede that this is what 90% of the posts on this thread will be. At least I am relatively early!
The craziest element of this policy is that they are only pissing off the more technically inclined of their customers which must surely be a minority. Most people are probably more like my wife and her friends who take advantage of all of the over priced "services" that Verizon is forcing you to use. They will glady pay a quarter to send a picture easily rather than figure out how to sendit via bluetooth to another phone or to their computer.
Unfortunately for Verizon, these same less technically inclined friends always seek my advice when making purchasing decisions. I direct all of them away from Verizon on principle now. They don't even understand the issues, they just follow my advice. I am exactly the kind of customer that Verizon doesnt want to piss off. I will cost them 20 customers by the time I am done.
While they are not truly evil, I believe that they are self defeating.
RSS saves me time. I absorb less garbage stimuli (ads, images, meandering sites) and I can put my limitied time and energy into the things that truly interest me. I am a fan of RSS and cant wait to see if Google can serve it up simply to those who recoil at another intimidating internet acronym.
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