Kaboom! Wait, wrong Activision Game.
~~sings the Flintstones theme while substituting her own lyrics "Slashdot.. it's been Slashdotted. We're a bunch of funny neeerds!"~~
My ISP offers an SLA with a commercial contract. Of course the price is double that of residential plans.
I've also went to them about complaints of low speeds and was told, "Well, you must have spyware, then." They pretty much ignore residential complaints.
My personal opinion is.. they charge me a premium to use the service, so it should be ad-free on their end. When they want to give me the service for free, I'll take the advertising.
Try about $3000 bucks for the low-end $499 system Dell offers. It's a shame that people don't realize that if they save the weekly payments for 3 months they could buy direct from Dell the same thing they're paying $40/week for 2 years for.
Case isn't closed, no. According to your scenario, disabled folks would still have to plunk down a considerable sum of cash for MS Word (or other MS Office product), so where is their incentive to use ODF/OpenOffice?
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Why not just give Dick Cheney a gun in each hand at a lawyer convention while letting quail fly around the room?
So did the fella who announced it dress up in a military uniform and make the statement to the press on an aircraft carrier?
(side note: how long before someone informs me of the amount of ram my 486 had?) 16 Meg. * crawls under the desk and hides.
Kaboom! Wait, wrong Activision Game. ~~sings the Flintstones theme while substituting her own lyrics "Slashdot.. it's been Slashdotted. We're a bunch of funny neeerds!"~~
My ISP offers an SLA with a commercial contract. Of course the price is double that of residential plans. I've also went to them about complaints of low speeds and was told, "Well, you must have spyware, then." They pretty much ignore residential complaints.
It's an evil plot by Opus Dei! :p
My personal opinion is.. they charge me a premium to use the service, so it should be ad-free on their end. When they want to give me the service for free, I'll take the advertising.
Try about $3000 bucks for the low-end $499 system Dell offers. It's a shame that people don't realize that if they save the weekly payments for 3 months they could buy direct from Dell the same thing they're paying $40/week for 2 years for.
Case isn't closed, no. According to your scenario, disabled folks would still have to plunk down a considerable sum of cash for MS Word (or other MS Office product), so where is their incentive to use ODF/OpenOffice?