I have the LG Optimus. It runs 2.2, which if you look at a lot of current phones on the market, they are still running 2.2. A friend of mine just got an HTC Desire - which I'd say is mid-range - and it's running 2.2. Sure, my Optimus may be "low end" but am I willing to pay 3 times as much per month for a high-end contract phone? No way. I'm happy with my low end phone and it's low end price.
VM recently raised the price to $35/mo for 300 mins and unlimited data/texts. Current customers can retain the old price as long as they keep their account active.
You might be surprised how many emails get printed. Non-computer savvy people love to print emails. It's such a costly issue that a new signature has been catching on in my office that reads "Please think of the environment before you print this email."
I don't think GameSpot is at fault completely. I can see where someone who doesn't purchase used games very often may be misled in thinking that DLC would be available if it was advertised on the cover. However, most used game buyers and used product buyers in general are aware that items that might be included in a new condition item may not be in a used condition item. I don't expect digital codes to work for me if I buy a used game or any other item.
If I were GameStop, I would add a disclaimer somewhere explaining that digital codes in used games may not work. I think this lawsuit has some merit but it ultimately frivolous. GameStop has a pretty lenient return policy. You have 7 days to return your used game. If you buy a game for the DLC and it doesn't work, just return it.
Agreed. If Google allows the user to choose their own password, you might as well just post your medical history openly on your own website.
I didn't read the article (duh) but if Google plans to monetize this venture further by serving ads, I can only image the future emotional trauma: I just got diagnosed with liver cancer and am reviewing my medical records, and on the sidebar I read funerals-r-us.com is having a special on blue caskets!
You can do that with a third-party application called Orb. You can use Orb to stream from PC to Wii, as well as other game systems and some PDAs. Orb is Windows-only, unfortunately, but there's a Linux alternative called Jinorza.
I don't think you're crying wolf. Underhandedly adding popup ads and redirecting to ad farms has already happened. Remember cjb.net? It was widely used a few years ago, especially for freebie website with long urls (angelfire, geocities, etc.) Now your-url.cjb.net (which they promised would always be free with no ads) has a popup, another popup, and an interstitial.
Maybe I'm pessimistic but I expect to see tinyurl.com taking the same route in a year or two after they have established dominance in the url redirection market.
I think they are still covered because you have the option to disable the advertisements news feed if you wish. In fact, when you say you like a product or service you are taken to a confirmation screen that asks if it's okay to post this item in your news feed. So, that's actually pro-actively making users aware, since most users don't bother to wade through all the privacy settings.
Facebook might be upsetting some privacy hounds with this new service, but I don't think they are breaking any laws. The market will just have to decide whether this is an acceptable use of their site, and I don't think that will be a problem because the benefits of Facebook outweigh the privacy drawbacks for most users.
35 cents? Get thee to a post office! It costs 41 cents to mail a complaint to Congress! That can really add up over time; no wonder only the mentally ill use snail mail.
Your new lossless (yet still lossy) file is 30mb+. The original product purchased was a lossy audio file with a small file size, probably to be used on an digital audio player, with a storage capacity of let's say 1GB.
Not only do I now have a different product, but now I cannot use it in the same way as promised when I purchased it. Going back to my original analogy, now the CD-R's the store sent me are actually mini-discs.
...with a serious loss to quality. Does that matter to no one? It's not actually the same product once you burn a LOSSY audio file to CD then rip it back into LOSSY again. It's not the same lossy file, it's a lossy file of a lossy file. Big difference!
A store could never get away with sending you CD-Rs when you ordered DVD-Rs by just saying that its the basically the same thing, one product just has a little more space. So why can music-subscription companies?
I am also a big Trillian fan. I've converted lots of people to using it over the years. If you don't care for GAIM (and neither do I), check out Pidgin. It's still GAIM, of course, but it is much improved over the GAIM releases. And it's very easy to compile.
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners.
Oh? Oh really? Could it be because people in poverty are concerned with other things like maybe FOOD or SHELTER or basic HEALTHCARE? Did someone skip Psycho 101?
In other news, Lexus and Mercedes cars aren't selling well among the <$15,000 income bracket...even with the new HDTV-specific commercials. Analysts are stumped...
Really, I don't understand why the *AA's 'evidence' in these matters is relevant, let alone compelling.
Most of these cases end up before judges who have no idea how to turn a computer on, much less understand dynamic IP addresses, file-sharing, spyware, adware, wifi hacking, or any of the myriad factors that could provide doubt in a case like this.
Well, for me on WinXP... Opera 9.21 - redirects Firefox 2.0.0.4 - redirects IE7 - redirects
Clear your cache? I'm not really sure what the problem is. I have been redirected to https going back quite a while now. No special hosts file or extensions or anything. And the only firewall I have is on my router, and there's nothing special there either.
Groklaw has an interesting writeup about this situation, with insightful quotations from Eben Moglen on the Microsoft/Novell agreement. Here's a brief excerpt:
The business model of threatening to sue people works if the people are 12-year-olds. It does not work real well if they are the pillars of finance capitalism. So as a party engaged in annual "be very afraid" tours, you're going to start to get pushback by enterprise customers who say, "That's *us* you're threatening."
Now what if you could reduce their sense of being the people who are made afraid? What if you could find a way to give them quiet and peace -- and make a little money on the side -- so that the only people who are left quaking when you did your annual "Be Very Afraid" tour were the developers themselves? Now you would have given yourself a major ecological boost in swinging your patents around and threatening to hurt people.
Deals for patent safety create the possibility of that risk to my clients, the development community. If enterprise thinks that it can go and buy the software my clients make from some party who gives them peace from the adversary in return for purchasing a license from them, then enterprises may think they have made a separate peace, and if they open the business section one morning and it says "Adversary Makes Trouble for Free Software", they can think, "Not my problem. I bought the such-and-such distribution, and I'm OK."
This process of attempting to segregate the enterprise customers, whose insistence on their rights will stop the threatening, from the developers, who are at the end the real object of the threat, is what is wrong with the deals.
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I have the LG Optimus. It runs 2.2, which if you look at a lot of current phones on the market, they are still running 2.2. A friend of mine just got an HTC Desire - which I'd say is mid-range - and it's running 2.2. Sure, my Optimus may be "low end" but am I willing to pay 3 times as much per month for a high-end contract phone? No way. I'm happy with my low end phone and it's low end price.
VM recently raised the price to $35/mo for 300 mins and unlimited data/texts. Current customers can retain the old price as long as they keep their account active.
You might be surprised how many emails get printed. Non-computer savvy people love to print emails. It's such a costly issue that a new signature has been catching on in my office that reads "Please think of the environment before you print this email."
I don't think GameSpot is at fault completely. I can see where someone who doesn't purchase used games very often may be misled in thinking that DLC would be available if it was advertised on the cover. However, most used game buyers and used product buyers in general are aware that items that might be included in a new condition item may not be in a used condition item. I don't expect digital codes to work for me if I buy a used game or any other item.
If I were GameStop, I would add a disclaimer somewhere explaining that digital codes in used games may not work. I think this lawsuit has some merit but it ultimately frivolous. GameStop has a pretty lenient return policy. You have 7 days to return your used game. If you buy a game for the DLC and it doesn't work, just return it.
There's a nice overlay image here to see the size difference.
Agreed. If Google allows the user to choose their own password, you might as well just post your medical history openly on your own website.
I didn't read the article (duh) but if Google plans to monetize this venture further by serving ads, I can only image the future emotional trauma: I just got diagnosed with liver cancer and am reviewing my medical records, and on the sidebar I read funerals-r-us.com is having a special on blue caskets!
Get off my lawn.
;)
Fear not! There's always time for a rushed sequel.
You can do that with a third-party application called Orb. You can use Orb to stream from PC to Wii, as well as other game systems and some PDAs. Orb is Windows-only, unfortunately, but there's a Linux alternative called Jinorza.
I don't think you're crying wolf. Underhandedly adding popup ads and redirecting to ad farms has already happened. Remember cjb.net? It was widely used a few years ago, especially for freebie website with long urls (angelfire, geocities, etc.) Now your-url.cjb.net (which they promised would always be free with no ads) has a popup, another popup, and an interstitial.
Maybe I'm pessimistic but I expect to see tinyurl.com taking the same route in a year or two after they have established dominance in the url redirection market.
FWIW I've yet to see an advertisement so extreme using a photo of one of my friends. All that has appeared so far is the following lines of text:
...with links to said products/services. I have yet to see any photos whatsoever in the news feed with regard to advertisements.
"Firstname Lastname" just installed the Video Games application. If you like video games you should install this application too.
"Firstname Lastname" is a fan of Motorola Razr.
I think they are still covered because you have the option to disable the advertisements news feed if you wish. In fact, when you say you like a product or service you are taken to a confirmation screen that asks if it's okay to post this item in your news feed. So, that's actually pro-actively making users aware, since most users don't bother to wade through all the privacy settings.
Facebook might be upsetting some privacy hounds with this new service, but I don't think they are breaking any laws. The market will just have to decide whether this is an acceptable use of their site, and I don't think that will be a problem because the benefits of Facebook outweigh the privacy drawbacks for most users.
35 cents? Get thee to a post office! It costs 41 cents to mail a complaint to Congress! That can really add up over time; no wonder only the mentally ill use snail mail.
"...the possibility that Alzheimer's memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.
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Well, I'd hardly call any form of diabetes "novel."
It's still not the same product.
Your new lossless (yet still lossy) file is 30mb+. The original product purchased was a lossy audio file with a small file size, probably to be used on an digital audio player, with a storage capacity of let's say 1GB.
Not only do I now have a different product, but now I cannot use it in the same way as promised when I purchased it. Going back to my original analogy, now the CD-R's the store sent me are actually mini-discs.
...with a serious loss to quality. Does that matter to no one? It's not actually the same product once you burn a LOSSY audio file to CD then rip it back into LOSSY again. It's not the same lossy file, it's a lossy file of a lossy file. Big difference!
A store could never get away with sending you CD-Rs when you ordered DVD-Rs by just saying that its the basically the same thing, one product just has a little more space. So why can music-subscription companies?
I am also a big Trillian fan. I've converted lots of people to using it over the years. If you don't care for GAIM (and neither do I), check out Pidgin. It's still GAIM, of course, but it is much improved over the GAIM releases. And it's very easy to compile.
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners.
Oh? Oh really? Could it be because people in poverty are concerned with other things like maybe FOOD or SHELTER or basic HEALTHCARE? Did someone skip Psycho 101?
In other news, Lexus and Mercedes cars aren't selling well among the <$15,000 income bracket...even with the new HDTV-specific commercials. Analysts are stumped...
Really, I don't understand why the *AA's 'evidence' in these matters is relevant, let alone compelling.
Most of these cases end up before judges who have no idea how to turn a computer on, much less understand dynamic IP addresses, file-sharing, spyware, adware, wifi hacking, or any of the myriad factors that could provide doubt in a case like this.
Well, for me on WinXP...
Opera 9.21 - redirects
Firefox 2.0.0.4 - redirects
IE7 - redirects
Clear your cache? I'm not really sure what the problem is. I have been redirected to https going back quite a while now. No special hosts file or extensions or anything. And the only firewall I have is on my router, and there's nothing special there either.
Personally, I'm waiting for Goobuntu.
Oh, I kid.
http://mail.google.com as well as http://gmail.com already automatically redirect to https://
Update your bookmarks?
The business model of threatening to sue people works if the people are 12-year-olds. It does not work real well if they are the pillars of finance capitalism. So as a party engaged in annual "be very afraid" tours, you're going to start to get pushback by enterprise customers who say, "That's *us* you're threatening."
Now what if you could reduce their sense of being the people who are made afraid? What if you could find a way to give them quiet and peace -- and make a little money on the side -- so that the only people who are left quaking when you did your annual "Be Very Afraid" tour were the developers themselves? Now you would have given yourself a major ecological boost in swinging your patents around and threatening to hurt people.
Deals for patent safety create the possibility of that risk to my clients, the development community. If enterprise thinks that it can go and buy the software my clients make from some party who gives them peace from the adversary in return for purchasing a license from them, then enterprises may think they have made a separate peace, and if they open the business section one morning and it says "Adversary Makes Trouble for Free Software", they can think, "Not my problem. I bought the such-and-such distribution, and I'm OK."
This process of attempting to segregate the enterprise customers, whose insistence on their rights will stop the threatening, from the developers, who are at the end the real object of the threat, is what is wrong with the deals.
Immediately upon reading this post, I hit Ctrl-F to search for "Uwe Boll." Why does that feel like a Freudian tell of some sort?
I hope you appreciate your male privilege... while you have it.