I was wrong, google is not billing this as an early termination fee. They are calling it an equipment recovery fee. I am set for my phone for the next two years (thank you $350 ETF from big red) but I would like to see someone challenge the new fee in court.
I apologise in advance if this has already been discussed in previous stories:
An early termination fee is for the early termination of a contract. Now I only skim the contract that I signed when I just bought my smart phone (HTC Eris) with Verizon a few months ago but I don't recall a contract with google or HTC. Only Verizon. How can Google charge an ETF when I don't have a contract with them?
Verizon hasn't ripped up streets because there are ways to run conduit without digging trenches. I do agree that you 'could' have the different ISPs sharing the same rigid conduit. The conduit would have to be new to avoid all the problems you have with trying to stuff more wire into existing pipes(I know it looks like it would fit but trying pulling that for miles after a couple of 90 degree bends) I think you are oversimplifying things and getting a little squirly with the car analogies.
You don't think there is some sort of multiplexing that could be done at the last mile for the $small_ISP of your choice to lease the last mile? I am genuinely ignorant here and would like to know.
"Despite all who liked Vista - and there were many - no, it was not a good operating system if you use simple consumer metrics: a) it frustrated people, b) it caused many working Windows systems to no longer work, c) it created confusion without end."
let me try:
Despite all who liked Ubuntu- and there were many - no, it was not a good operating system if you use simple consumer metrics: a) it frustrated people, b) it caused many working Windows systems to no longer work, c) it created confusion without end.
What they charge per book matters. I am not sure how many people you are going to get to buy an e-book for the same price that they could pick up a physical copy at their local book store or less if they bought it used on amazon. I am going to hold judgment until I see some prices.
"Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline."
These groups can aggregate information but they are not really a primary information source. As an idea it sounds a bit like digg but in practice digg doesn't exactly function that way.
I bet your right about my contract with my ISP. I am putting my money on them not enforcing that (pretty safe). Liability is not as clear cut as you make it seem. Especially not here in Florida.
Run your own fiber from the edge of neighborhood to the next one.
Hell why not go whole hog and make most of the spectrum into one open cloud Wait a minute. I quit an apprenticeship(electrical) because I hate digging ditches. Now you want me to dig ditches and run conduit again(I know you were going to put that fiber in rigid conduit)? Who is going to pay me? What about the equipment? What are you going to do with a very large file on a handset anyway? What can WiMax do that 3g can't?
Sounds nice though. Good luck with that.
Go ahead. I leave my wi-fi open for that very reason. I may get burned one day or I may change my posture before that. When I want security on the web I may switch over to my Linux partition and make sure the site I am using SSL but for playing games and browsing/. I am happy to let my neighbor use some of my bandwidth.
Additionally there is software to authorize users once they have paid for access but that brings with it another host of issues.
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but will it run Crysis!?
Is this the same man who couldn't/wouldn't be separated from his blackberry?
That this SCO is doing this or that there is a legal avenue for them to do it?
... the patent war has
I was wrong, google is not billing this as an early termination fee. They are calling it an equipment recovery fee. I am set for my phone for the next two years (thank you $350 ETF from big red) but I would like to see someone challenge the new fee in court.
I apologise in advance if this has already been discussed in previous stories: An early termination fee is for the early termination of a contract. Now I only skim the contract that I signed when I just bought my smart phone (HTC Eris) with Verizon a few months ago but I don't recall a contract with google or HTC. Only Verizon. How can Google charge an ETF when I don't have a contract with them?
Tip your waiter.
Verizon hasn't ripped up streets because there are ways to run conduit without digging trenches. I do agree that you 'could' have the different ISPs sharing the same rigid conduit. The conduit would have to be new to avoid all the problems you have with trying to stuff more wire into existing pipes(I know it looks like it would fit but trying pulling that for miles after a couple of 90 degree bends) I think you are oversimplifying things and getting a little squirly with the car analogies. You don't think there is some sort of multiplexing that could be done at the last mile for the $small_ISP of your choice to lease the last mile? I am genuinely ignorant here and would like to know.
How'd that work out for Spore?
"Despite all who liked Vista - and there were many - no, it was not a good operating system if you use simple consumer metrics: a) it frustrated people, b) it caused many working Windows systems to no longer work, c) it created confusion without end." let me try: Despite all who liked Ubuntu- and there were many - no, it was not a good operating system if you use simple consumer metrics: a) it frustrated people, b) it caused many working Windows systems to no longer work, c) it created confusion without end.
What they charge per book matters. I am not sure how many people you are going to get to buy an e-book for the same price that they could pick up a physical copy at their local book store or less if they bought it used on amazon. I am going to hold judgment until I see some prices.
"Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline." These groups can aggregate information but they are not really a primary information source. As an idea it sounds a bit like digg but in practice digg doesn't exactly function that way.
Hey, go easy on them. They worked really hard on that rocket. I don't see you making one.
That's what she said.
Anyone else read 'India joins' as Indiana Jones?
I.. just.. I HAVE TO USE SCO UNIX EVERY DAY.. =(
/goes off to corner and cries
so go ahead and have your laughs
I bet your right about my contract with my ISP. I am putting my money on them not enforcing that (pretty safe). Liability is not as clear cut as you make it seem. Especially not here in Florida.
Go ahead. I leave my wi-fi open for that very reason. I may get burned one day or I may change my posture before that. When I want security on the web I may switch over to my Linux partition and make sure the site I am using SSL but for playing games and browsing /. I am happy to let my neighbor use some of my bandwidth.
Additionally there is software to authorize users once they have paid for access but that brings with it another host of issues.