I'm a recent grad with no loans or credit cards to pay
Recent grad, no loans? Well either you're a lucky bastard or you forgot to mention that one big 15 year loan.
I am also curious as to how much of a pay-cut you're talking about, I think that is highly relevant. Without disclosing the actual amounts you could have provided a percentage. I mean if you were going from 55k to 50k it wouldn't be a big deal given your current situation, however if you were going from 55k to 30k, I could see where this would be a dilemma.
If you don't watch a lot of TV, and the local cable company is unwilling to sell Internet access to those who aren't cable TV customers, then you can't get cable Internet access.
if this happens you better ask for the rep's boss on the other end of the line because they will sell you just road runner and no tv. Many cable companies try to bully people into signing up for cable tv along with their roadrunner, but you don't have to have both. If it was actual policy to have buy both time warner would be in the same boat as microsoft with their bundling issues. However, they simply try to make people think that they need to buy tv to get internet, but when you ask around and talk to enough supervisors at your local cable company you will find that this is a lie.
I disagree with the author having the Google beta products in the list. Simply because a product doesn't change from beta to actual release for a while doesn't necessarily make it vaporware. Gmail has been implementing new features and improving ever since it was initially released as a 'beta'. I think I would file it under vaporware, if we kept reading slashdot posts about an upcoming mail service by Google only to never see anything. Also Google tends to use the term 'beta' quite loosely.
If they weren't patenting their software I would be more upset. While you may disagree with the software patent system in the US, the fact is it exists, and all of your competitors are patenting their software. So if the company you worked for did not get patents, they would get destroyed. Until the patent system changes, you have to PATENT EVERYTHING to cover your own ass if nothing else. Even if you don't plan on suing for infringement, still get patents!
It doesn't sound like they are going to work together necessarily to come up with the prices they will charge, but with the pricing structure they will use. In other words it doesn't matter if one company charges $10/gb and another charges $5/gb, what they are trying to do is all charge $n/gb. If only one company did this nobody would use that ISP. So they all want to try and change policy together. It's all bullshit to me, but I doubt it's considered price fixing.
or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received
I use gmail, they could only monitor bandwidth in this regards. The only way they could limit the number of emails you send/recieve would be the number you send/recieve through their mail servers. Other than that it would have to be covered under their bandwidth limits.
It's because it's a new console, I remember paying 70 for some crappy wayne gretzy hockey game for my n64 when it first came out. It's stupid to pay that much, but people do it...
Maybe if they make more games that have a higher replay value they will find less copies of them showing up used. If you take a game that is only fun the first time you play through it, then why would somebody keep it on their shelf? Personally I always buy used games. EB and gamestop have 90 day warranties on their pre played games and even for 5 buck's less it's good to me.
According to the article, all ipods actually come with a warning specifically warning users that they may cause hearing loss:
The Cupertino-based company ships a warning with each iPod that cautions "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume."
In my opinion this absolutely, beyond belief, nullifies any claim this man may have even thought he had.
I think you're missing the point that this is a beta test, the point of it is to find the bugs that are inevitably in any program. It is a good thing that they are being flooded with bug reports, because they can now see what needs to be fixed before releasing it. Of course I am not saying the final release will be bug free, but hopefully this preview will be successful enough to help Microsoft create a stable release.
Apparently the Boston Globe Doesn't comply with the Payment Card Industry standard, found here: http://usa.visa.com/business/accepting_visa/ops_ri sk_management/cisp.html
Specifically these sections:
9.10 Destroy media containing cardholder information when it is no longer needed for business or legal reasons:
9.10.1 Cross-cut shred, incinerate, or pulp hardcopy materials
9.10.2 Purge, degauss, shred, or otherwise destroy electronic media so that cardholder data cannot be reconstructed
Except for NFL games with the NFLPA liscense, which means they will
be the only ones who can make football games that have the actual player names on them. Who wants an NFL game that doesn't have the names in it? It's too bad because Sega's 2K series was pretty good.
Check out http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=261&i d=707 for a claim that star force makes. They say if you can prove that their software causes the noted problems with dvd drives they will give you $10,000. Not that I believe they would actually pay you, or would expect anybody to travel to Moscow to do it, but it's pretty funny.
This could be good for growing the number of Linux users out there. The only reason I say that is because there are a lot of people out there who aren't complete nerds, and don't know much of anything about Linux, but they are heavy internet users and enjoy computing in general. This audience might not be brave enough to try and install a Linux distro on their own for fear that they'll screw something up. However if there was a link to install a flavor of Linux on Google.com it might tempt them. Furthermore this demographic might be more likely to trust a large company that they've heard of when it comes to their OS, i.e. Microsoft, Google..... whereas they have never heard of mandrake, red hat, ubuntu, or whatever. Now obviously I'm not saying that expert users are going to go install this because they trust Google, you could probably argue the exact opposite, but I do think that these sort of wannabe geeks might try installing Linux if it was provided through a known site to them.
I just installed the toolbar and it went well, I for one like the send to Gmail feature. I have however noticed some issues which I hope they change before finalizing this release. The first is that it adds 8 items into the IE context menu with no way to customize which items are there. I personally don't have any desire to access any of these features from the context menu and I would prefer to clean them up out of my context menu. Similarly I would like to remove 'Blogger' and 'SMS' from the Send to drop-down menu because I will never use them.
(oh and I also used the Google toolbar spell check to correct 3 words in this post before submitting it!)
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I agree, it sounds like it's some crap for people who want to build dvr units??
If protection of productivity was their motive, I think they'd block /.
if this happens you better ask for the rep's boss on the other end of the line because they will sell you just road runner and no tv. Many cable companies try to bully people into signing up for cable tv along with their roadrunner, but you don't have to have both. If it was actual policy to have buy both time warner would be in the same boat as microsoft with their bundling issues. However, they simply try to make people think that they need to buy tv to get internet, but when you ask around and talk to enough supervisors at your local cable company you will find that this is a lie.
I wonder how many hours they spend trying to come up with a name for their program before saying, ah what the hell will just use 'Amazon-Sense'.
I disagree with the author having the Google beta products in the list. Simply because a product doesn't change from beta to actual release for a while doesn't necessarily make it vaporware. Gmail has been implementing new features and improving ever since it was initially released as a 'beta'. I think I would file it under vaporware, if we kept reading slashdot posts about an upcoming mail service by Google only to never see anything. Also Google tends to use the term 'beta' quite loosely.
Google announces plans to colonize mars with human clone army.
If they weren't patenting their software I would be more upset. While you may disagree with the software patent system in the US, the fact is it exists, and all of your competitors are patenting their software. So if the company you worked for did not get patents, they would get destroyed. Until the patent system changes, you have to PATENT EVERYTHING to cover your own ass if nothing else. Even if you don't plan on suing for infringement, still get patents!
It doesn't sound like they are going to work together necessarily to come up with the prices they will charge, but with the pricing structure they will use. In other words it doesn't matter if one company charges $10/gb and another charges $5/gb, what they are trying to do is all charge $n/gb. If only one company did this nobody would use that ISP. So they all want to try and change policy together. It's all bullshit to me, but I doubt it's considered price fixing.
It's because it's a new console, I remember paying 70 for some crappy wayne gretzy hockey game for my n64 when it first came out. It's stupid to pay that much, but people do it...
That would be like forcing used car dealers to kick up to ford every time they sell a used Taurus, or F-150..... not gonna happen.
Maybe if they make more games that have a higher replay value they will find less copies of them showing up used. If you take a game that is only fun the first time you play through it, then why would somebody keep it on their shelf?
Personally I always buy used games. EB and gamestop have 90 day warranties on their pre played games and even for 5 buck's less it's good to me.
Even better! http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/funstuff/brea kout/breakout.htm
Periodic table breakout!
I can see the lawsuits already.... look at how many people sue game makers over shootings, imagine if the games showed kids how to make bombs!
What, this guy's never played Chemistry Hangman? http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/funstuff/hang man/hangman.htm I mean Come on!
In my opinion this absolutely, beyond belief, nullifies any claim this man may have even thought he had.
I think you're missing the point that this is a beta test, the point of it is to find the bugs that are inevitably in any program. It is a good thing that they are being flooded with bug reports, because they can now see what needs to be fixed before releasing it. Of course I am not saying the final release will be bug free, but hopefully this preview will be successful enough to help Microsoft create a stable release.
It looks like 3d realms is hiring, maybe you could help them complete dnf?? http://www.3drealms.com/gethired.html#available
Apparently the Boston Globe Doesn't comply with the Payment Card Industry standard, found here: http://usa.visa.com/business/accepting_visa/ops_ri sk_management/cisp.html
Specifically these sections:
9.10 Destroy media containing cardholder information when it is no longer needed for business or legal reasons:
9.10.1 Cross-cut shred, incinerate, or pulp hardcopy materials
9.10.2 Purge, degauss, shred, or otherwise destroy electronic media so that cardholder data cannot be reconstructed
I hope it stops for deer in the road!
Check out http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=261&i d=707 for a claim that star force makes. They say if you can prove that their software causes the noted problems with dvd drives they will give you $10,000. Not that I believe they would actually pay you, or would expect anybody to travel to Moscow to do it, but it's pretty funny.
This could be good for growing the number of Linux users out there. The only reason I say that is because there are a lot of people out there who aren't complete nerds, and don't know much of anything about Linux, but they are heavy internet users and enjoy computing in general. This audience might not be brave enough to try and install a Linux distro on their own for fear that they'll screw something up. However if there was a link to install a flavor of Linux on Google.com it might tempt them. Furthermore this demographic might be more likely to trust a large company that they've heard of when it comes to their OS, i.e. Microsoft, Google..... whereas they have never heard of mandrake, red hat, ubuntu, or whatever. Now obviously I'm not saying that expert users are going to go install this because they trust Google, you could probably argue the exact opposite, but I do think that these sort of wannabe geeks might try installing Linux if it was provided through a known site to them.
I just installed the toolbar and it went well, I for one like the send to Gmail feature. I have however noticed some issues which I hope they change before finalizing this release. The first is that it adds 8 items into the IE context menu with no way to customize which items are there. I personally don't have any desire to access any of these features from the context menu and I would prefer to clean them up out of my context menu. Similarly I would like to remove 'Blogger' and 'SMS' from the Send to drop-down menu because I will never use them.
(oh and I also used the Google toolbar spell check to correct 3 words in this post before submitting it!)