Do each of the two 5GB data plans contribute to the same data pool or are they separate?
for example, let's say you downloaded 8GB to your computer while tethered, and 1GB directly to the phone.
Will you be charged for 3 extra gigs while tethered and have 4 gigs while not tethered go to waste, or will you just have 9GB of your 10GB used up?
Knowing verizon, I fear the answer..
Are we certain this isn't a scam to exploit slashdot traffic? I'm a proud purveyer of the occasional pornography, but that website claimed I visited hundreds of adult sites i've never even heard of.
I respectfully disagree and here is why -
People buy audio books and pay an incredible premium... I think the average $15 book is at least twice that on CD. Who knows how much of this goes to the author (or reader in the case where it's read by someone other than the author), but anyway.. I think there is value added in a professional audio rendition.
The issue at hand is clear-cut to me because it's support for the disabled, but I imagine if the Kindle provided purchasers of a text copy of the book with a free version of the book-on-tape, we would all have a lot more trouble viewing Mr. Blunt as the tremendous prick he is.
Hopefully, if the time ever comes when technology can dynamically generate a reading of the book as good as the author could do, the entire media industry will have already figured out how to sell their products in such a way that people want to buy it (maybe not so piecemeal..)
Agreed. A TTS program could never read the material with the same voice, cadence, emotion/gravitas/whatever, as the author or a professional voice actor with knowledge of the material could do.
This is greed, but I understand that Roy Blunt, Jr. feels cornered wth many people claiming print media is a dying format (a point with which I strongly disagree, and looking at the prices of first edition classics on ebay should support me).
This place could use a little cleanup, just look at that mess of spam emails, phishing attempts, viruses and sites developed offering no services but rather only search engine optimized pages designed to accrue ad money a fraction of a penny at a time. I'm not sure if fascist misogyny is the path to our answer but I'm willing to give it a shot!
This isn't really on-topic, and in fact it might even be against slashdot policy, but I trust you guys a lot more than I trust a web search when it comes to finding questionably legal software to be used for (what I belive to be) legal purposes. So here is the question: What is a good DVD-ripping software which I can use to make backup copies of my copy-protected DVDs? I think I have bought enough copies of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, if my current copy gets scratched or worn out like the last ones I'd like a contingency plan that doesn't involve plopping down another 20 bucks. I guess I would prefer an open-source/freeware solution but I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for a useful product. Thanks for the input, and I apologize if this is not appropriate.
Probably no one reading this anymore but for anyone who honestly doesn't think Seanbaby is funny, you should try reading his unedited articles on his own website, www.seanbaby.com or some of his work for www.oldmanmurray.com. I think it takes a lot more intelligence to appreciate than a fart joke but if you are seriously above the occasional fart joke then you might want to just forget about comedy altogether.
bladesjester, I think you are still talking about your martial arts training. I am sure you are very tough but we are discussing Seanbaby vs. Uwe Boll in a boxing match.
From what I hear it's still pretty much the case that windows is the...well, not necessarily preferred, but frequently required... OS for gaming. A friend of mine in the world of Warcraft tells me that the Vista RC1 gets 10 fps higher than winXP.
My understanding was that there was not a sufficiently explicit one, knowledge which I think even a cursory reading of any of the articles mentioned in the last week or two would yield. If this helps at all, Mirriam Webster says a planet is a : any of the seven celestial bodies sun, moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Saturn that in ancient belief have motions of their own among the fixed stars b (1) : any of the large bodies that revolve around the sun in the solar system (2) : a similar body associated with another star
When speaking about barycenters it seems necessary to have at least two bodies in the system, it is a relative term so the dicussion has to be focused only within the system within which the context is. The sun is orbitting some cosmically larger system, I am not an astronomer but it's more than likely that if you could pick one object that the sun orbits around, the barycenter of the sun and that object does not fall within that object, is the sun also a planet?
Compact Discs are still my preferred format for audio, DVDs came out AFTER CDs and already we are being expected to upgrade our video collections again? I just bought Indiana Jones on DVD last week, I don't think I'm ready yet.
Also, how will this affect NetFlix and other media rental services?
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Do each of the two 5GB data plans contribute to the same data pool or are they separate? for example, let's say you downloaded 8GB to your computer while tethered, and 1GB directly to the phone. Will you be charged for 3 extra gigs while tethered and have 4 gigs while not tethered go to waste, or will you just have 9GB of your 10GB used up? Knowing verizon, I fear the answer..
Are we certain this isn't a scam to exploit slashdot traffic? I'm a proud purveyer of the occasional pornography, but that website claimed I visited hundreds of adult sites i've never even heard of.
yeah, your right.
I respectfully disagree and here is why - People buy audio books and pay an incredible premium... I think the average $15 book is at least twice that on CD. Who knows how much of this goes to the author (or reader in the case where it's read by someone other than the author), but anyway.. I think there is value added in a professional audio rendition. The issue at hand is clear-cut to me because it's support for the disabled, but I imagine if the Kindle provided purchasers of a text copy of the book with a free version of the book-on-tape, we would all have a lot more trouble viewing Mr. Blunt as the tremendous prick he is. Hopefully, if the time ever comes when technology can dynamically generate a reading of the book as good as the author could do, the entire media industry will have already figured out how to sell their products in such a way that people want to buy it (maybe not so piecemeal..)
Agreed. A TTS program could never read the material with the same voice, cadence, emotion/gravitas/whatever, as the author or a professional voice actor with knowledge of the material could do. This is greed, but I understand that Roy Blunt, Jr. feels cornered wth many people claiming print media is a dying format (a point with which I strongly disagree, and looking at the prices of first edition classics on ebay should support me).
count it. Nice work Slashdot, that's a website designed to accomodate millions of concurrent users
This place could use a little cleanup, just look at that mess of spam emails, phishing attempts, viruses and sites developed offering no services but rather only search engine optimized pages designed to accrue ad money a fraction of a penny at a time. I'm not sure if fascist misogyny is the path to our answer but I'm willing to give it a shot!
This isn't really on-topic, and in fact it might even be against slashdot policy, but I trust you guys a lot more than I trust a web search when it comes to finding questionably legal software to be used for (what I belive to be) legal purposes. So here is the question: What is a good DVD-ripping software which I can use to make backup copies of my copy-protected DVDs? I think I have bought enough copies of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, if my current copy gets scratched or worn out like the last ones I'd like a contingency plan that doesn't involve plopping down another 20 bucks.
I guess I would prefer an open-source/freeware solution but I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for a useful product.
Thanks for the input, and I apologize if this is not appropriate.
Probably no one reading this anymore but for anyone who honestly doesn't think Seanbaby is funny, you should try reading his unedited articles on his own website, www.seanbaby.com or some of his work for www.oldmanmurray.com. I think it takes a lot more intelligence to appreciate than a fart joke but if you are seriously above the occasional fart joke then you might want to just forget about comedy altogether.
bladesjester, I think you are still talking about your martial arts training. I am sure you are very tough but we are discussing Seanbaby vs. Uwe Boll in a boxing match.
I'll have to ask, she keeps using it so I'm guessing not too frequently. Gamespot did a report on Vista's backwards compatibility with games designed for XP and it looks like all Blizzard's games got the green checkmark.
From what I hear it's still pretty much the case that windows is the ...well, not necessarily preferred, but frequently required... OS for gaming. A friend of mine in the world of Warcraft tells me that the Vista RC1 gets 10 fps higher than winXP.
My understanding was that there was not a sufficiently explicit one, knowledge which I think even a cursory reading of any of the articles mentioned in the last week or two would yield. If this helps at all, Mirriam Webster says a planet is
a : any of the seven celestial bodies sun, moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Saturn that in ancient belief have motions of their own among the fixed stars
b (1) : any of the large bodies that revolve around the sun in the solar system (2) : a similar body associated with another star
When speaking about barycenters it seems necessary to have at least two bodies in the system, it is a relative term so the dicussion has to be focused only within the system within which the context is. The sun is orbitting some cosmically larger system, I am not an astronomer but it's more than likely that if you could pick one object that the sun orbits around, the barycenter of the sun and that object does not fall within that object, is the sun also a planet?
Compact Discs are still my preferred format for audio, DVDs came out AFTER CDs and already we are being expected to upgrade our video collections again? I just bought Indiana Jones on DVD last week, I don't think I'm ready yet.
Also, how will this affect NetFlix and other media rental services?