Affected customers should bill Sprint the $175 termination fee. Contract's a contract.
Except the contract is worded in a way that allows Sprint to terminate the service at any time if they choose to, which leaves the customer with absolutely no recourse. As you said, a contract's a contract.
And as long as you keep patronizing these companies that treat you like shit ("Please sir, may I have another?") they will just keep on treating you like shit.
Isn't it about time the US joined the rest of the civilized world and enacted some basic consumer protection laws? Or would that be a commie-pinko-terrorist-pedo-French-socialist-islam ofacist thing to do?
It's not the same group making these statements. The FCC is the one who has said that "security through obscurity" works, while the SDR Forum (an industry group) cited SSL as a counterexample.
Nope. XP ran perfectly fine on my 512MB 900MHz Duron Windows 98SE machine back in 2001. Of course, I've upgraded the machine since then, but it handled XP with no problems.
Who knows, it might actually get popular. I'm sure it would impress chicks. I'm not so sure I want to be hanging around the type of chicks who are interested in horsecock...
If said corporation has a corporate contract with Dell, and Dell is officially standing behind Ubuntu and selling Ubuntu preinstalled, and you can see it as a cost-cutting move to the suits at the same time, then this might help spread the acceptance of Linux in the workplace. But didn't we recently find out that Dell is explicitly not selling Ubuntu machines to business customers, only to home and home office buyers?
I was the victim of identity theft several years ago and had a "credit lock" put on my accounts with all three credit reporting agencies. What this supposedly does is makes it so that the three agencies will contact me first before a line of credit is opened in my name. This is supposed to be in effect for seven years from the time I established it. However, since then, I have opened two lines of credit and never once been contacted them as they claimed they would. These guys feel no obligation to follow their own guidelines. Why would they follow someone else's?
I'm betting that within 6 to 9 months Apple will either buy out or break their 2-year exclusivity contract with AT&T. I'm sure the penalties will be high if they do break it, but it will probably be more than made up for in sales.
Actually, it was at (Score:2, Flamebait) at the time that I posted my comment. It's likely that whoever modded it that way posted in the thread, thereby eliminating all their mods in this story. But I assure you, it was there.
The problem is now: Is a person is going to use that extra few percent?
How true. I just picked up an Athlon64 X2 3800+ to replace my single core 3500+. Naturally, there isn't much of a performance difference between the two. However, having the dual cores does seem to balance the machine out a bit. For instance, I can play a video fullscreen on one monitor and browse the web on the other without having the video stutter if I happened to hit a page with lots going on. Did I need the new processor? Not at all. But I figured it'll at least hold me over a bit longer, especially as software that can take advantage of multi-cores becomes more prevalent.
I was playing it for a while and I gave up when the computer was suddenly able to do exactly what you describe--ridiculous combos would pop up out of nowhere that would wipe out all my HP.
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Affected customers should bill Sprint the $175 termination fee. Contract's a contract.
Except the contract is worded in a way that allows Sprint to terminate the service at any time if they choose to, which leaves the customer with absolutely no recourse. As you said, a contract's a contract.
And as long as you keep patronizing these companies that treat you like shit ("Please sir, may I have another?") they will just keep on treating you like shit.
I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be...
Isn't it about time the US joined the rest of the civilized world and enacted some basic consumer protection laws? Or would that be a commie-pinko-terrorist-pedo-French-socialist-islam ofacist thing to do?
You nailed it.
It's not the same group making these statements. The FCC is the one who has said that "security through obscurity" works, while the SDR Forum (an industry group) cited SSL as a counterexample.
from what I have read the battery will work efficiently through about two years of "normal" usage.
I've had my iPhone for a little over two years now and I can confirm that this is the case.
You weren't aware that Mossberg operates a consumer watchdog organization on the other side of the country under an alias?
Nope. XP ran perfectly fine on my 512MB 900MHz Duron Windows 98SE machine back in 2001. Of course, I've upgraded the machine since then, but it handled XP with no problems.
I was the victim of identity theft several years ago and had a "credit lock" put on my accounts with all three credit reporting agencies. What this supposedly does is makes it so that the three agencies will contact me first before a line of credit is opened in my name. This is supposed to be in effect for seven years from the time I established it. However, since then, I have opened two lines of credit and never once been contacted them as they claimed they would. These guys feel no obligation to follow their own guidelines. Why would they follow someone else's?
News for NERDS! I think this fits the bill rather well, considering he is one of the oldest comic characters I can think of.
When I was a kid I remember seeing a comic book featuring Methuselah...
Yes, but it's justified
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A-one, a-two, a-three. Three.
Lard, sugar, vanilla, other nasties.
[pendant]Many of us feel that summaries should be shorter than the post that they summarize.[/pendant]
Totally offtopic, but what's the "pendant" tag do?
I'd be laughing all the way to the mortuary, if it were me...
And I'd be really creeped out if I were the coroner...
I'm betting that within 6 to 9 months Apple will either buy out or break their 2-year exclusivity contract with AT&T. I'm sure the penalties will be high if they do break it, but it will probably be more than made up for in sales.
The findings may apply to other threaded discussions, maybe even here at Slashdot.
Won't apply to me. I use the "nested" view for comments.
Actually, it was at (Score:2, Flamebait) at the time that I posted my comment. It's likely that whoever modded it that way posted in the thread, thereby eliminating all their mods in this story. But I assure you, it was there.
It should be really easy to detect which Windows machine has had the blue pill used on it--it's the one that's able to stay up for four hours.
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The problem is now: Is a person is going to use that extra few percent?
How true. I just picked up an Athlon64 X2 3800+ to replace my single core 3500+. Naturally, there isn't much of a performance difference between the two. However, having the dual cores does seem to balance the machine out a bit. For instance, I can play a video fullscreen on one monitor and browse the web on the other without having the video stutter if I happened to hit a page with lots going on. Did I need the new processor? Not at all. But I figured it'll at least hold me over a bit longer, especially as software that can take advantage of multi-cores becomes more prevalent.
Gotta love /. moderation. You get modded flamebait when you correct the spelling in your own post... : p
Action heavy, huh? So I guess they're planning on using some of their unused Manhunt 2 code in the game?
I was playing it for a while and I gave up when the computer was suddenly able to do exactly what you describe--ridiculous combos would pop up out of nowhere that would wipe out all my HP.
Gotcha. Thanks for the info.