I had an issue with automatic billpay and "paperless" billing with Verizon. Firstly every time I logged into my account in a given month it would NOT automatically pay my bill, without any warning. Second, I was "paperless" so I did not recieve a paper bill OR the guarunteed e-mail notifying me that a payment was due / had automatically been paid. After a late fee I returned to recieving a regular paper invoice with automatic billpay. I complained about the late fee but they did nothing, luckily it was only $5 (not worth more than the 30 minutes I had already spent complaining). Everything seems to be working fine now but I'm not sure I'll be renewing my contract in a year when it expires, even if it means I have to give up talking to my girlfriend for free.
Not to mention how cheap storage is becoming. For only a few hundred dollars I could store more data than I could ever read / view in a lifetime. Its almost getting to the point where the case is the same for media, you can already store thousands of hours of media on a single computer. Why bother to stay connected for anything other than interaction with other users?
Exactly. It doesn't take a computer genious to determine what is a scam. If you aren't EXPECTING the e-mail it is more than likely a scam. Reguardless of it being a scam or not if $RANDOM_BANK sent me an e-mail I wouldn't input personal data as I know I have no account with them.
Yes except MS will just sell Vista to OEMs for something like $5 less per liscense (just like they did w/ XP and 2k) and people will opt to go with Vista instead of paying slightly extra for XP.
Obviously mods shouldn't affect the games rating anyway. I can tape a picture of my penis overtop of my TV while watching a football game but it doesn't change the rating of the game to XXX.
The problem is they don't understand common sense. Obviously the only way for sure exactly what a game entails is to evaluate ALL of it. If ESRB ratings want any credibility this is what will happen.
Thats a little off from my point though. To make something consumer grade it would be nowhere near multiple terabits, more than likely in the low gigabits anytime within the next 10 years in which a ram buffer would be plenty unless you are trying to pirate several hours of media.
Still confused though. Making something inherently high bandwidth is making it bloated. Suppose we did have these super high bandwidth lines, sending media encoded in a normal fashion would be much more bandwidth friendly.
OR they could just have their ram cache data before sending it to the hard drive like it already does. Streaming bloated video isn't going to do a thing to stop piracy, just blow through bandwidth for no reason.
In some areas (of the USA) the "Lemon Law" applies to more than just automobiles. One thing it may apply to is computers and computer components. I'd check your local law and see if it applies, if it does then ask the company for a NEW replacement otherwise you'd like a full refund. If they don't oblige you can simply mention that law. (generally 3 faults requires them to give you a full refund or a completely new replacement)
I have to agree with the guy somewhat. Not because they are going to be sued but because youtube doesn't actually have anything. Their architecture could easily be built for the cost of the company. With the way the internet is these days it doesn't take much to make a good and free service extremely popular.
Nothing ever has. You cannot be completely invisible and fully accountable. You missed a word though, more. They are looking for a greater sense of stability, transparency, and accountability. Completely different than absolutes.
But if it does, it would be nice to be able to download a movie then pick it up in the store at a later time for only slightly more than the cost of the DVD. Instead of spending $10 for the download and another $20 for the dvd you could spend something like $22 for both in a "package"
I think the problem is people building their own computers that don't have enough common sense to buy a motherboard that has the same socket as the processor they want to buy.
1. Socket 775 CPU 2. Socket 939 CPU 3. Socket AM2 CPU
Now match it with a motherboard
a. Socket 939 motherboard b. Socket 775 motherboard c. Socket AM2 motherboard
Instead of making things so general they should push high speed broadband to cell phones. Let people stream WHATEVER they want via them. Youtube, google video, divx files, etc.
THEN distributors can sell specialized content. Nobody is going to pay for a phone to watch football, then another to watch TV shows, then an ipod video to watch movies, etc, etc.
With all the movies on personal myspaces it makes one wonder how many were actually watched Its not often someone will visit the same youtube video daily. Very common for one to visit their friend's myspace daily though.
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I had an issue with automatic billpay and "paperless" billing with Verizon. Firstly every time I logged into my account in a given month it would NOT automatically pay my bill, without any warning. Second, I was "paperless" so I did not recieve a paper bill OR the guarunteed e-mail notifying me that a payment was due / had automatically been paid. After a late fee I returned to recieving a regular paper invoice with automatic billpay. I complained about the late fee but they did nothing, luckily it was only $5 (not worth more than the 30 minutes I had already spent complaining). Everything seems to be working fine now but I'm not sure I'll be renewing my contract in a year when it expires, even if it means I have to give up talking to my girlfriend for free.
Sorry, I meant their opinion and reason for playing GW over WoW is WoW being P2P. I must of been not right in the head as I wrote that.
If you'll notice I never mentioned a specific amount of data. As time progesses the cost per astronimically high amount of storage will only decrease.
Huh? The only reason myself and my friends don't play WoW is because its Pay-to-Play. I'd imagine the case is the same with most Guild Wars players.
All it seems to me to do is to split the market. I guess for Microsoft that would be a good thing though, expecting people to pay for both.
Not to mention how cheap storage is becoming. For only a few hundred dollars I could store more data than I could ever read / view in a lifetime. Its almost getting to the point where the case is the same for media, you can already store thousands of hours of media on a single computer. Why bother to stay connected for anything other than interaction with other users?
Exactly. It doesn't take a computer genious to determine what is a scam. If you aren't EXPECTING the e-mail it is more than likely a scam. Reguardless of it being a scam or not if $RANDOM_BANK sent me an e-mail I wouldn't input personal data as I know I have no account with them.
Yes except MS will just sell Vista to OEMs for something like $5 less per liscense (just like they did w/ XP and 2k) and people will opt to go with Vista instead of paying slightly extra for XP.
..You were a /.'er in my situation what would you ask yourself?
It must be the story-drive nature; Pacman: Run around and as much shit as possible as fast as possible.
Obviously mods shouldn't affect the games rating anyway. I can tape a picture of my penis overtop of my TV while watching a football game but it doesn't change the rating of the game to XXX.
The problem is they don't understand common sense. Obviously the only way for sure exactly what a game entails is to evaluate ALL of it. If ESRB ratings want any credibility this is what will happen.
Thats a little off from my point though. To make something consumer grade it would be nowhere near multiple terabits, more than likely in the low gigabits anytime within the next 10 years in which a ram buffer would be plenty unless you are trying to pirate several hours of media.
Still confused though. Making something inherently high bandwidth is making it bloated. Suppose we did have these super high bandwidth lines, sending media encoded in a normal fashion would be much more bandwidth friendly.
OR they could just have their ram cache data before sending it to the hard drive like it already does. Streaming bloated video isn't going to do a thing to stop piracy, just blow through bandwidth for no reason.
Extremely sorry, I forgot to include a link.
In some areas (of the USA) the "Lemon Law" applies to more than just automobiles. One thing it may apply to is computers and computer components. I'd check your local law and see if it applies, if it does then ask the company for a NEW replacement otherwise you'd like a full refund. If they don't oblige you can simply mention that law. (generally 3 faults requires them to give you a full refund or a completely new replacement)
I have to agree with the guy somewhat. Not because they are going to be sued but because youtube doesn't actually have anything. Their architecture could easily be built for the cost of the company. With the way the internet is these days it doesn't take much to make a good and free service extremely popular.
What are you talking about? Fully transparent AKA Absolutely transparent are invisible.
Nothing ever has. You cannot be completely invisible and fully accountable. You missed a word though, more. They are looking for a greater sense of stability, transparency, and accountability. Completely different than absolutes.
But if it does, it would be nice to be able to download a movie then pick it up in the store at a later time for only slightly more than the cost of the DVD. Instead of spending $10 for the download and another $20 for the dvd you could spend something like $22 for both in a "package"
I think the problem is people building their own computers that don't have enough common sense to buy a motherboard that has the same socket as the processor they want to buy.
1. Socket 775 CPU
2. Socket 939 CPU
3. Socket AM2 CPU
Now match it with a motherboard
a. Socket 939 motherboard
b. Socket 775 motherboard
c. Socket AM2 motherboard
Its common sense.
On top of all that.. theres no point.
Instead of making things so general they should push high speed broadband to cell phones. Let people stream WHATEVER they want via them. Youtube, google video, divx files, etc.
THEN distributors can sell specialized content. Nobody is going to pay for a phone to watch football, then another to watch TV shows, then an ipod video to watch movies, etc, etc.
With all the movies on personal myspaces it makes one wonder how many were actually watched Its not often someone will visit the same youtube video daily. Very common for one to visit their friend's myspace daily though.
Or just call it what it is. If the "podcast" is about news call it "news", if its about politics call it "politics", stories are "stories"..etc..etc..
I'm so glad to see them doing this. I must say the term "podcast" has to be one of the most annoying buzzwords I've ever heard.
A bunch of hot ass Jessica Albas running around would be awesome as hell!