Morrison & Foerster said it is hoping that the federal court will award Amado further damages for continuing infringement, out of an escrow account that now has more than $65 million in it.
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In June 2005, an Orange County, Calif., jury awarded Amado $6.1 million, ruling that Microsoft's method of linking its Access database and Excel spreadsheet infringed on Amado's technology.
The original fine was 6.1m, not 9m, while the current one has NOT been set at 65m. Seems "Spy Der Mann" didn't read the short article before submitting.
My point with same-sex marriages is that in my opinion, as well as many others, same-sex marriages are legitimate as are the new laws allowing them. You could also argue that they aren't legitimate and that new laws banning them are therefore good.
I'm not sure what part of my response was factually incorrect, however I stand by my point that there are both good and bad new laws and one blanket statement falls quite short. I have to question at what point we reached the "event horizon" if you will, where all laws past that point were no longer good.
Hey man, thanks alot for agreeing to single-handedly stop this from happening. I was gonna do it, but I gotta wash my hair, so it's nice to know someone's fighting the good fight for the rest of us.
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This is why I love T-mobile. $10 a month, unlimited text and picture messaging (including email) for up to 5 lines (3 in my case). $6 a month, completely unlimited data. On top of that, my Motorola Razr has a mini-USB to USB cable that it came with, allowing me to upload media from my computer to my phone. Instead of paying $3 for a ringtone or whatever the going rate is, I can rip any of my CDs to my computer, then upload them to the phone to use as ringtones.
I don't know if it has to do with it originally being a European company (which I actually first grew to like when I lived in Germany for the half year before they started doing business in the US) that simply bought the network of an American one and went from there, but T-mobile seems to be doing "the right thing" for the most part. And boy is it nice that they unlock your phone for free for you, so if a friend's phone battery dies, said friend can simply stick their SIM card in mine and use it (Unless, of course, they have Verizon, which doesn't use SIM cards).
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There's no such thing as a "good new law".
You're right, same-sex marriages are a horrible thing, just like interracial marriages were 50 years ago when they were new.
The Europeans get all the features I have across 3 different lines for $20? I'd love to see the information on the plan they have, because that's honestly surprising.
I pay $60 base price for a 2 line family plan with 1000 anytime minutes, unlimited nights, weekends, and mobile-to-mobile. $8 adds one more line to the plan. $10 adds unlimited text and picture messaging for every line on the plan. We also pay $1.23 per line in taxes/fees and $7.64 per account in taxes/fees (this all counting as one account). $6 more buys me UNLIMITED data on my phone, which allows me to use Opera and Google Local along with anything else I'd be interested in.
They have great phone service as well as customer service and have been a pleasure to work with compared to any other cell company I've dealt with. If you travel, T-mobile unlocks your phone without a problem to allow you to use any other Sim card with your phone.
I have a Razr, with T-mobile service, and I've been able to modify it to quite an extent. My menus and keypad keys are different from what they default to and I love the usefulness of the phone since I've customized it.
Sending and receiving unlimited text and picture messages to anyone, from or to 3 lines (myself, my brother, and my mother), costs me only $10 for all of us per month.
What phone do you have that takes 4 layers of menus to make a call? This is an absurd claim.
Every phone out there allows you to simply start entering a number and press call (send/enter/ok/whatever) after entering the 10 digits to start the call.
Name a phone that requires 4 menus to make a call.
I have a Razr and I love the UI as well as everything else. Unlike other providers, T-mobile, who I have, leaves their phones completely open and I have been able to customize the menus and keypad on my phone to do exactly what I want. This level of customization is something I definitely seek out when phone-shopping (my last phone was a Motorola A630) and they tend to be Motorolas. Verizon, even though they're a service provider, requires their phones to be so crippled that the Verizon Razr is horrendous compared to the T-mobile unit. Keep that in mind.
I have a Razr with T-mobile service and although your request may not have been default, the combination of the phone with the open service allows me to customize my phone to meet all your specifications. I can edit my keypad buttons (for instance, the T-zones button now opens Opera, which works even though I only pay $6/month for "t-zones" service). All other features are basically bindable to any non-numeric key. The unlimited messaging I have ($10 for unlimited messaging on 3 seperate lines) allows me to send as many text and picture messages as I want, including emails.
First off, I'm a 21 year old college student, for what that's worth, but...
Text messaging is a NECESSITY! For all the talk I hear about text messaging not being big in the US, I don't know a single person who doesn't text message and in many cases, we text message much more than we call. I used to go over my 1000 messages per month plan quite often. If I had to choose one feature outside of calling for my phone to have, it would, without a doubt, be text messaging. I think many people would agree with me.
I agree with the keyboard lock feature.. as a matter of fact, I don't remember any phone in the last 5 years that I've seen without that feature.
Moreso, I definitely agree with your comment on manufacturers versus providers. As I mention in an earlier post in this discussion, the differences between Verizon and T-mobile service on a Motorola Razr are extreme. They range from an approximate x10 difference in menu loading time to differences in customizability to certain features being available but completely disabled. Your best bet is to look to your provider before complaining to your manufacturer.
T-mobile allows you to undelete any deleted messages as long as you're still on the line and reminds you of this fact after every deletion.
And can I suggest going for a phone that might cost you $30 or $40 but is simple as opposed to going for the cool phone that you get money back from? Shop for what you need first and look at prices and finances after you've found the phone you actually want.
I'm happier with my phone and my service provider than any other consumer experience I've had in the last few years, but this seems to be the exception rather than the norm.
Is your phone not customizable? My Razr allows alot of customizing internally (binding important programs (my alarms, Opera, Google Local, etc) to keypad buttons so only one click is needed to start them). If you're willing to connect it to your computer through the included USB cable and do some poking around, you can customize to the point of changing, adding, removing, and moving menu items to more convenient locations. Thanks to the USB cable, all my downloads have been free, while the $6/month unlimited data plan has allowed me to use my applications freely.
My mother on the other hand, while she shares my family plan along with my brother and myself, uses her phone almost exclusively to call us (unlimited mobile-to-mobile included!) or text message us (unlimited messaging on all 3 lines to and from anyone: $10/month) and doesn't need the features that I use. Her phone cost something like $20 or $30 and does what she needs (calls and messaging) well and easily. Sure, she could have gotten a more feature-intensive phone, in many cases for less than what she paid (either free or money-back) but she knew what she wanted and chose her phone based on that. She's very happy with her simple phone (which also has large characters which help her with her eyesight) although after seeing Google Local and Opera on my phone, she's started to get more interested in how her phone might be useful in special circumstances.
1. You don't HAVE to buy a feature-intensive phone. Instead of getting what's "cool" or "in", go for something that fits your needs, even if it's cheaper to get a phone with more features.
2. Your phone may very well be customizable. My experience with T-mobile and Motorola phones has been very positive and they have allowed a huge amount of customization, to the point where my phone does what I want, and not the reverse.
I share a family plan with my brother and mother. The base price is $60 for two lines, costing an additional $8 per additional line. This includes unlimited nights and weekends (which I believe start at 8 or 9 at night), and 1000 "anytime" minutes shared between the three of us. This also includes unlimited calling to T-mobile customers. My mother uses her phone mainly to speak with the two of us, so most of the anytime minutes are split between myself and my brother. This is plenty of anytime minutes and we have never gone over (if it happened, we would upgrade our plan). We also pay $10 a month for unlimited text and picture messaging on all three lines to or from anyone. The $10 price can be used for up to five lines (great deal, it used to cost $10 for 1000 messages on one line.). With the amount of text messaging my brother and I do, this is a fantastic deal (I had months when I used to go over my previous allotment of 1000 messages by quite alot). For my own line, I also pay $6 a month for unlimited data. This allows me to use Opera and Google Local (as well as any other data apps I would like) as often as I want. With the Opera browser, this allows me to basically do anything I would like online from my cell phone while Google Local integrates great with my service and has saved my ass more than once. I love Opera's customizable homepage too, for quick access to the sites and services I tend to visit and use from my cell phone. Outside of taxes, which amount to $1.23 per line and a per-account charge of $7.64, the only other charges are insurance charges ($6 for the only insured phone, through a 3rd party) or one-time fee charges (think 411, downloadable media, etc). Of course, with the unlimited data package, 411 is unnecessary, while the un-crippled state of my phone makes the included USB cord a much more attractive option for downloadable programs and content.
I know I've gone off on quite a tangent, but my point is that some of the optional features are VERY affordable and can be quite useful. Some fairly simple hacking allows me to customize my phone to quite an impressive extent, effectively hiding any features I personally don't use. For instance, voice recording and some very technical settings (the ones that only change when you change providers) don't even show up in my menu system while Opera and Google Local (of which I use one at least daily) are bound to a single click of one of the keypad keys.
It's interesting to note that a friend with the same phone that I own, but with Verizon service instead, had quite a different experience. The most revealing comparison was the fact that pressing the menu key on my phone would take less than a second to bring the menu up, while taking somewhere around 5 seconds to react on hers. This is not a fluke either, as I tested it on another example of the same phone with Verizon service and got the exact same results. I offered to "hack" her phone in an attempt to make it more useable and realized, one hour in, that Verizon crippled the phone to such an extent that it took about 6 hours to upgrade the firmware and settings and still have a fully-functional phone. This, as opposed to the 5 or 10 minute process with T-mobile service, involved an insane combination of flashing the phone with an Alltel package before doing a lengthy series of hex and seem edits. Any other method and the phone would become a paperweight. Verizon doesn't use sim cards either, so her phone isn't useable with other providers or with temporary sim cards in foreign countries. T-mobile not only uses sim cards, but will gladly unlock your phone for you after a couple months of service, allowing use with any other sim card (Whether it's your friend whose phone died or you buying a $20 sim card while abroad instead of paying $.75 or more a minute with your existing service).
Sorry for the Verizon rant in this discussion, but the last 3 years with T-mobile have been amazing compared to the 3.5 years prior to that with Verizon, who did their best to lie and cheat thei
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Whether the marriages were new or not speaks nothing of the law. "In 1967, the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia struck down the last of the anti-miscegenation laws in the United States."
My point with same-sex marriages is that in my opinion, as well as many others, same-sex marriages are legitimate as are the new laws allowing them. You could also argue that they aren't legitimate and that new laws banning them are therefore good.
I'm not sure what part of my response was factually incorrect, however I stand by my point that there are both good and bad new laws and one blanket statement falls quite short. I have to question at what point we reached the "event horizon" if you will, where all laws past that point were no longer good.
Hey man, thanks alot for agreeing to single-handedly stop this from happening. I was gonna do it, but I gotta wash my hair, so it's nice to know someone's fighting the good fight for the rest of us.
This is why I love T-mobile. $10 a month, unlimited text and picture messaging (including email) for up to 5 lines (3 in my case). $6 a month, completely unlimited data. On top of that, my Motorola Razr has a mini-USB to USB cable that it came with, allowing me to upload media from my computer to my phone. Instead of paying $3 for a ringtone or whatever the going rate is, I can rip any of my CDs to my computer, then upload them to the phone to use as ringtones.
I don't know if it has to do with it originally being a European company (which I actually first grew to like when I lived in Germany for the half year before they started doing business in the US) that simply bought the network of an American one and went from there, but T-mobile seems to be doing "the right thing" for the most part. And boy is it nice that they unlock your phone for free for you, so if a friend's phone battery dies, said friend can simply stick their SIM card in mine and use it (Unless, of course, they have Verizon, which doesn't use SIM cards).
You're an idiot?
HOW DARE HE STEAL MY NAME?!
Interesting, phone width has luckily been a non-issue for me. How is Cingular service?
It's the Razr, on which there are VERY noticeable differences between providers.
T-mobile and a Razr but I don't claim my phone is barebones features.. although customization lets me see what I want.
The Europeans get all the features I have across 3 different lines for $20? I'd love to see the information on the plan they have, because that's honestly surprising.
I have T-mobile, and I spent 30 minutes earlier raving about how great they are.
I pay $60 base price for a 2 line family plan with 1000 anytime minutes, unlimited nights, weekends, and mobile-to-mobile. $8 adds one more line to the plan. $10 adds unlimited text and picture messaging for every line on the plan. We also pay $1.23 per line in taxes/fees and $7.64 per account in taxes/fees (this all counting as one account). $6 more buys me UNLIMITED data on my phone, which allows me to use Opera and Google Local along with anything else I'd be interested in.
They have great phone service as well as customer service and have been a pleasure to work with compared to any other cell company I've dealt with. If you travel, T-mobile unlocks your phone without a problem to allow you to use any other Sim card with your phone.
I have a Razr, with T-mobile service, and I've been able to modify it to quite an extent. My menus and keypad keys are different from what they default to and I love the usefulness of the phone since I've customized it.
Sending and receiving unlimited text and picture messages to anyone, from or to 3 lines (myself, my brother, and my mother), costs me only $10 for all of us per month.
What phone do you have that takes 4 layers of menus to make a call? This is an absurd claim.
Every phone out there allows you to simply start entering a number and press call (send/enter/ok/whatever) after entering the 10 digits to start the call.
Name a phone that requires 4 menus to make a call.
Oh god do I wish I had mod points... +10000 :)
I have a Razr and I love the UI as well as everything else. Unlike other providers, T-mobile, who I have, leaves their phones completely open and I have been able to customize the menus and keypad on my phone to do exactly what I want. This level of customization is something I definitely seek out when phone-shopping (my last phone was a Motorola A630) and they tend to be Motorolas. Verizon, even though they're a service provider, requires their phones to be so crippled that the Verizon Razr is horrendous compared to the T-mobile unit. Keep that in mind.
I have a Razr with T-mobile service and although your request may not have been default, the combination of the phone with the open service allows me to customize my phone to meet all your specifications. I can edit my keypad buttons (for instance, the T-zones button now opens Opera, which works even though I only pay $6/month for "t-zones" service). All other features are basically bindable to any non-numeric key. The unlimited messaging I have ($10 for unlimited messaging on 3 seperate lines) allows me to send as many text and picture messages as I want, including emails.
I have T-mobile with a Motorola Razr, and have been much happier than you. I would suggest a different phone?
First off, I'm a 21 year old college student, for what that's worth, but...
Text messaging is a NECESSITY! For all the talk I hear about text messaging not being big in the US, I don't know a single person who doesn't text message and in many cases, we text message much more than we call. I used to go over my 1000 messages per month plan quite often. If I had to choose one feature outside of calling for my phone to have, it would, without a doubt, be text messaging. I think many people would agree with me.
I agree with the keyboard lock feature.. as a matter of fact, I don't remember any phone in the last 5 years that I've seen without that feature.
Moreso, I definitely agree with your comment on manufacturers versus providers. As I mention in an earlier post in this discussion, the differences between Verizon and T-mobile service on a Motorola Razr are extreme. They range from an approximate x10 difference in menu loading time to differences in customizability to certain features being available but completely disabled. Your best bet is to look to your provider before complaining to your manufacturer.
T-mobile allows you to undelete any deleted messages as long as you're still on the line and reminds you of this fact after every deletion.
And can I suggest going for a phone that might cost you $30 or $40 but is simple as opposed to going for the cool phone that you get money back from? Shop for what you need first and look at prices and finances after you've found the phone you actually want.
I'm happier with my phone and my service provider than any other consumer experience I've had in the last few years, but this seems to be the exception rather than the norm.
My mother on the other hand, while she shares my family plan along with my brother and myself, uses her phone almost exclusively to call us (unlimited mobile-to-mobile included!) or text message us (unlimited messaging on all 3 lines to and from anyone: $10/month) and doesn't need the features that I use. Her phone cost something like $20 or $30 and does what she needs (calls and messaging) well and easily. Sure, she could have gotten a more feature-intensive phone, in many cases for less than what she paid (either free or money-back) but she knew what she wanted and chose her phone based on that. She's very happy with her simple phone (which also has large characters which help her with her eyesight) although after seeing Google Local and Opera on my phone, she's started to get more interested in how her phone might be useful in special circumstances.
I did my best to avoid going off on a rant in this post, but my points are:
I share a family plan with my brother and mother. The base price is $60 for two lines, costing an additional $8 per additional line. This includes unlimited nights and weekends (which I believe start at 8 or 9 at night), and 1000 "anytime" minutes shared between the three of us. This also includes unlimited calling to T-mobile customers. My mother uses her phone mainly to speak with the two of us, so most of the anytime minutes are split between myself and my brother. This is plenty of anytime minutes and we have never gone over (if it happened, we would upgrade our plan). We also pay $10 a month for unlimited text and picture messaging on all three lines to or from anyone. The $10 price can be used for up to five lines (great deal, it used to cost $10 for 1000 messages on one line.). With the amount of text messaging my brother and I do, this is a fantastic deal (I had months when I used to go over my previous allotment of 1000 messages by quite alot). For my own line, I also pay $6 a month for unlimited data. This allows me to use Opera and Google Local (as well as any other data apps I would like) as often as I want. With the Opera browser, this allows me to basically do anything I would like online from my cell phone while Google Local integrates great with my service and has saved my ass more than once. I love Opera's customizable homepage too, for quick access to the sites and services I tend to visit and use from my cell phone. Outside of taxes, which amount to $1.23 per line and a per-account charge of $7.64, the only other charges are insurance charges ($6 for the only insured phone, through a 3rd party) or one-time fee charges (think 411, downloadable media, etc). Of course, with the unlimited data package, 411 is unnecessary, while the un-crippled state of my phone makes the included USB cord a much more attractive option for downloadable programs and content.
I know I've gone off on quite a tangent, but my point is that some of the optional features are VERY affordable and can be quite useful. Some fairly simple hacking allows me to customize my phone to quite an impressive extent, effectively hiding any features I personally don't use. For instance, voice recording and some very technical settings (the ones that only change when you change providers) don't even show up in my menu system while Opera and Google Local (of which I use one at least daily) are bound to a single click of one of the keypad keys.
It's interesting to note that a friend with the same phone that I own, but with Verizon service instead, had quite a different experience. The most revealing comparison was the fact that pressing the menu key on my phone would take less than a second to bring the menu up, while taking somewhere around 5 seconds to react on hers. This is not a fluke either, as I tested it on another example of the same phone with Verizon service and got the exact same results. I offered to "hack" her phone in an attempt to make it more useable and realized, one hour in, that Verizon crippled the phone to such an extent that it took about 6 hours to upgrade the firmware and settings and still have a fully-functional phone. This, as opposed to the 5 or 10 minute process with T-mobile service, involved an insane combination of flashing the phone with an Alltel package before doing a lengthy series of hex and seem edits. Any other method and the phone would become a paperweight. Verizon doesn't use sim cards either, so her phone isn't useable with other providers or with temporary sim cards in foreign countries. T-mobile not only uses sim cards, but will gladly unlock your phone for you after a couple months of service, allowing use with any other sim card (Whether it's your friend whose phone died or you buying a $20 sim card while abroad instead of paying $.75 or more a minute with your existing service).
Sorry for the Verizon rant in this discussion, but the last 3 years with T-mobile have been amazing compared to the 3.5 years prior to that with Verizon, who did their best to lie and cheat thei