You are absolutely correct. A contract with an IPhone REQUIRES the subscription to the EDGE service @ $20 a month. simply put, the $18 comes from that, with AT&T covering costs for EDGE on the remaining $2. The majority of non-Iphone at&t subscribers do not subscribe to edge, so there is no real loss for AT&T on this deal.
Simply put, Aspiring is a verb, Aspirational is an adjective.
Further more.... Aspiring based on the verb aspire, which uses the part of the definition "a desire or ambition to achieve something" Aspiring is the Gerund form of the base, which changes the verb to a present participle, indicating that the action is taking place now.
Aspirational is based on the noun aspiration, which is very similar to the definition of aspire, yet has a stronger emphasis, " a strong desire to achive something high or great. Aspiration is also synonymous with ambition, which is used to define aspire. Aspirational is the adjective form, which simply describes the person (Gates), and defines his continued act of aspiring into a state of being, in which he becomes Aspirational.
*......Come on, if you are going to challenge my grammar, actually challenge it.
And yes, I cringe at poor grammar, and I am guilty of it myself on occasion, but when perfectly valid grammar use is questioned, I feel the record should be corrected. Typo's also happen, but the making up of words can be a very effective tool to creatively display one's attitude toward a subject.
Aspirational is a word, and it makes perfect sense in that context.
Aspirational: "showing a desire or ambition to achieve something, especially self-improvement or material success."
Bill Gates aspired to become rich and powerful and create the best marketed products available on the PC Market. He had a strong desire and nothing was going to stand in his way. because he was Aspirational, he inspired others to also drive toward their goals, thereby becoming inspirational to those who wanted to be Aspirational.
Aspirational is an state in one's inner being, inspirational is the effect one has on another's inner being.
Don't knock a word just because you have a small vocabulary and haven't heard it before.
That's 160% of everything you're worth! My God, what a profit. No wonder everyone's suing-as-a-revenue-stream these days. Look at the return! Great idea, only you will have a problem collecting the judgment. ....Now if we could only write off the un-collected amount on our taxes....
There is a difference between the privacy given up by being in public, and being TRACKED/MONITIORED.
I would have no problem with this system though for traffic billing, as long as there was Ironclad Legalese written into the program which limits the access to simply a billing nature.
How about the Trackpoint on thinkpads and such? Everyone I know with a thinkpad (including myself:D) swears by the little thing. I think you got the wording wrong, Everyone I know swears AT the little thing.
There's one thing bothering me, even if their claim is true, it is not saving energy overall. What is the cost that Blackle has created in order for their users to save pennies?
Let's say the cost savings per hour for the average user is 1 watt (I'm being generous)
Blackle, in order to provide this service, has setup at least a web server & router (let's just say 1 set, for convenience)
That Web server is running off of power probably a 600 watt device. With all the accessories for the web server, we are looking at around 1500 watts.
Blackle's search still goes through google, so they are reducing none of the traffic from googles servers.
So ultimately they'd need a minimum of 1500 users using blackle, 24 hours a day, to even break even on those energy costs.
I don't see the possibility of this ending up saving us energy at all.
Something else comes to mind... what about users still on dial-up? Won't the transmission of this user information completely clog the line? The answer to that is simple.... Vista does not support the hardware of Dial up Modems!
Do you not understand the concept of the cell phone contract?
Simply put, basic cell phones retail at $200 (us) and any of the extra features will cost you more (The razr when it first came out retailed for over $500, the palm phones are pushing $900)
However, users are reluctant to pay that much for a phone (but they ultimately do).
Cell phone company A buys the phone from manufacturer for $200....Cell Phone company then tells customer B, sign a 2 year contract, and we'll give you the phone for free. If you break the contract, It will cost you $200 (the cost of the phone). The basic service contract (say $35/month) then incorporates an approximate billing cost of $10 per month to pay for your phone. At the end of 2 years, you have paid $240 for that phone (initial cost plus interest). The cell phone company has been making $25 a month off of you to pay for services and to gain profit. At the end of the 2 years, you can continue the service monthly, but you are now giving the phone company an extra $10 a month that you WERE paying for the cost of your phone.
This leaves you with 2 choices:
Pay for the phone up front and get the flexability of no contract, or
finance the phone with the cell phone company and agree to stay a customer for 2 years.
Either way, the Cell phone company will profit, but only by signing a contract do you guarantee customer service (leaglly speaking) and get the chance at a free phone. If you go without the contract, you are ultimately signing a contract and breaking it on day 1. Without a contract you paid $200 up front, as well as give the phone company the money that would be financing your phone. With the contract, if you decide to break the contract, you can pay the $200 at that point. If on the off chance you stay with that company more than 2 years, with a contract, you get a "Free" phone. Signing that contract does nothing but benefit the customer, and provide investment planning opportunity for the phone company.
as a sidenote, eliminating all cell phone contracts across all phone carriers may reduce the retail prices of phones slightly, but may have a much further reaching effect on the overall economy. Contracts, regardless of the type, are one of the key stabalizers in our capitalistic growth economy.
There is NO WAY Global Warming could ever make life better......
Case in point:
Global Warming will increase overall tempuratures, everywhere.
Thus the tempurature in hell will rise.
This will reduce the chance of hell freezing over.
If hell never freezes over, how will the Vikings ever win a Superbowl???
That would not be a better life.
Earlier this week I got to have fun with a game I legally purchased -twice- despite being unable to find my CD. After downloading the iso and using Daemon Tools, I was 'Enabled' to play my game again A year ago, I legally purchased the board game Monopoly. Yesterday I couldn't find it, so I walked to Wal-Mart, grabbed a new one off the shelves, and walked out. As the cops were wrestling me to the ground, I told them I had bought it a year ago, but I had lost it, so its ok to just take another one......
my cd got scratched, so I downloaded a cracked version to play the game I had already bought Last week, I brushed my new porche against the side of the tunnel, and it got scratched. I bought that car fair and square, and the cheap paint got scratched. My dealer woudn't give me a new car because my old one was scratched. How unfair of him!
I know there are no physical costs to downloading a new ISO for your lost cd rom, but it skews the line a bit. Take care of your crap, don't lose it, and you won't have to download an illegal copy.
This is how China will become the star of the next century. Right now US schools are churing out corporate zombies that are discouraged from taking "uncool" and "too hard" classes like math and science. The Chineese and Indians are slowly surpassing Americans in talent and ability, while US schools are focusing on turing out MBAs.
Sooner or later, they will realize that they don't need the US to manage them, and will proceed to cut us out of the loop and leave us with a bunch of middle-manager types that don't produce anything besides TPS reports. Now, wait a minute here, we will still have a need for the MBAs.... who else will make the executive decision to put the cover sheets on those TPS reports?
TurboTax online has a few key points in their EULA that will protect thiem from these fiascos.
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the software and services are provided "as-is" and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, intuit, its affiliates, licensors, participating financial institutions, third-party content or service providers, retailers, distributors, dealers and suppliers (collectively, "suppliers") disclaim all guarantees and warranties, express or implied, regarding the software or services, including any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, title, merchantability, and non-infringement. intuit does not warrant that software or services are secure, free from bugs, viruses, interruption, errors, or other program limitations or my personal favorite, don't buy the software until you print clause....
you may use the software without charge up to the point you decide to print or electronically file your tax return. printing or electronically filing your return reflects your satisfaction with software, at which time you will be required to pay or register for the product.
From the law linked in the parent...
Damages are limited to either twice the claimant's income in the year prior to imprisonment or $20,000, whichever is greater, for each year of imprisonment. The claimant shall also be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees. Please people. when quoting your own law, get the facts straight. These amounts are for YEARS of imprisonment. Odds are, the state would rule at 12/365ths this amount plus attorney fees. The minor has no income, so the income amount would be defaulted to 12/365ths of 20k, or $657. The kid's parents cannot claim their income as they were not imprisioned. Know a law before you try to use it.
Better to plead guilty to something you never did and get a few weeks in jail and probation and be labeled for life than wait in jail to see what happens Again, from your own law, it stipulates that a confession null and voids the rights to sue for wronful imprisonment. Now, in confessing, you still have a case for coersion or torture.
People, People, People, Does no one read anymore?
First of all, I apologise to pedestrian crossing for putting this response on his wonderfully reproduced
This list is the opinion of PC World Editors, they are asking the readers to comment and vote for themselves....From TFA
Agree with our take? Great. Disagree? Even better. Take our poll and let us know what your number 1 tech product is. You can vote for any of the 50 in our story--or click "Other" and enter any item you love as a write-in.
Some say the Title is wrong:.... From TFA
Note: We define "all time" as starting from the earliest days of the personal computer...so don't expect to see the cotton gin and the transistor radio on the list.
Some say
PC Mag doesn't know what they are talking about. ... I say RTFA
And, oh yeah, you may think our choices are ridiculous or that we've left out much more important products. Have at us. Smack us down righteously.
Some say
what are the metrics? .... Again RTFA (See a pattern here?)
So what's the best tech product to come out of the digital age? And what qualifies a product as being "best"? First and foremost, it must be a quality product. In many cases, that means a piece of hardware or software that has truly changed our lives and that we can't live without (or couldn't at the time it debuted). Beyond that, a product should have attained a certain level of popularity, had staying power, and perhaps made some sort of breakthrough, influencing the development of later products of its ilk.
so now that I have basically re-written the entire article that is in TFA before the list, goto the article, read through their reasoning for each product, and vote for your favorite!
1) We are Wisconsinites, not Wisconsonians, get it right!
2) Alum is both refering to both the individual status as well as the group of (plural) distinguished alumni from this great university. Using alum allows an individual to be unique while being a part of something under the same context.
3) they are bubblers, not drinking fountains.
I love reading the funny comments many users place on slashdot. However, I prefer that Facts are available to those that want the truth.
1) The RIAA has jurisdiction over RECORDINGS as given to them by their members. Nothing else. The have jusrisdiction over Britney Spears' recording of "Baby...one more time", but they cannot prevent you from singing it yourself.
2) Thus, Given singing in the shower, or any other acapella public performance, is not a recording, RIAA has no Jurisdiction. The rights infringed on in this circumstance belong to the Songwriter or Publisher. Their rights are protected by BMI, ASCAP, or other similar organization. However, the difference between these rights is that you inherently have the right to perform and record these songs yourself, all that is required is that you pay performance fees to the publisher for it's use. They cannot deny that use.
3) If I sell albums of my favorite Bon Jovi songs, that I recorded myself singing and instrumentally performed myself, I can do that. No matter if it sounds almost identical to Bon Jovi's recordings, the RIAA cannot prevent me from distributing those albums. However, Bon Jovi (who writes most, if not all of their own songs) has the right to sue me for their due right to use roalties.
I hope that clears a few things up..... Thanks for your intelectual understanding of the issue.
PS. I only referenced Britney Spears as she was one of the only artist that I could think of that everyone knows, but doesn't write her own music (I could have used any of the the teeny bopper artists of the late 90's, but chose the beautiful, bald one)
The One issue in the US is that phones would have to be cross network compatable. This was simple to do in Finland, because all cellular telcos use GSM. However, with the US coverage separated out into GSA, CDMA, Triband, etc, it has forced the telco's to work with the manufacturers to sell phones compatable with their network.
When it comes to telco's in the US, you can never compare what the rest of the world is doing and think it is simple to do in the US. It's exponentially more difficult as the land size/population increases.
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Do you realize that when you google "bogipigips", the only result you get is this slashdot thread. I guess you have defined a new word :)
Stop Giving the Terrorists Ideas...
have another shot of tequilla, eventually the letters will blur together
You are absolutely correct. A contract with an IPhone REQUIRES the subscription to the EDGE service @ $20 a month. simply put, the $18 comes from that, with AT&T covering costs for EDGE on the remaining $2. The majority of non-Iphone at&t subscribers do not subscribe to edge, so there is no real loss for AT&T on this deal.
Simply put, Aspiring is a verb, Aspirational is an adjective.
Further more....
Aspiring based on the verb aspire, which uses the part of the definition "a desire or ambition to achieve something"
Aspiring is the Gerund form of the base, which changes the verb to a present participle, indicating that the action is taking place now.
Aspirational is based on the noun aspiration, which is very similar to the definition of aspire, yet has a stronger emphasis, " a strong desire to achive something high or great. Aspiration is also synonymous with ambition, which is used to define aspire.
Aspirational is the adjective form, which simply describes the person (Gates), and defines his continued act of aspiring into a state of being, in which he becomes Aspirational.
*......Come on, if you are going to challenge my grammar, actually challenge it.
And yes, I cringe at poor grammar, and I am guilty of it myself on occasion, but when perfectly valid grammar use is questioned, I feel the record should be corrected. Typo's also happen, but the making up of words can be a very effective tool to creatively display one's attitude toward a subject.
Aspirational is a word, and it makes perfect sense in that context.
Aspirational: "showing a desire or ambition to achieve something, especially self-improvement or material success."
Bill Gates aspired to become rich and powerful and create the best marketed products available on the PC Market. He had a strong desire and nothing was going to stand in his way. because he was Aspirational, he inspired others to also drive toward their goals, thereby becoming inspirational to those who wanted to be Aspirational.
Aspirational is an state in one's inner being, inspirational is the effect one has on another's inner being.
Don't knock a word just because you have a small vocabulary and haven't heard it before.
For year's I've been trying to "get a life"
Now I'll finally be able to create one!
There is a difference between the privacy given up by being in public, and being TRACKED/MONITIORED.
I would have no problem with this system though for traffic billing, as long as there was Ironclad Legalese written into the program which limits the access to simply a billing nature.
sorry, the Romans hold (held) the trademark to the cross, not JC. Does Michael Jordan own the trademark to Hanes? no, he just wears their boxers.
There's one thing bothering me, even if their claim is true, it is not saving energy overall. What is the cost that Blackle has created in order for their users to save pennies?
Let's say the cost savings per hour for the average user is 1 watt (I'm being generous)
Blackle, in order to provide this service, has setup at least a web server & router (let's just say 1 set, for convenience)
That Web server is running off of power probably a 600 watt device.
With all the accessories for the web server, we are looking at around 1500 watts.
Blackle's search still goes through google, so they are reducing none of the traffic from googles servers.
So ultimately they'd need a minimum of 1500 users using blackle, 24 hours a day, to even break even on those energy costs.
I don't see the possibility of this ending up saving us energy at all.
This was on TechDirt last week, I am quite dissapointed in /. for getting behind the times.
Simply put, basic cell phones retail at $200 (us) and any of the extra features will cost you more (The razr when it first came out retailed for over $500, the palm phones are pushing $900)
Cell phone company A buys the phone from manufacturer for $200....Cell Phone company then tells customer B, sign a 2 year contract, and we'll give you the phone for free. If you break the contract, It will cost you $200 (the cost of the phone). The basic service contract (say $35/month) then incorporates an approximate billing cost of $10 per month to pay for your phone. At the end of 2 years, you have paid $240 for that phone (initial cost plus interest). The cell phone company has been making $25 a month off of you to pay for services and to gain profit. At the end of the 2 years, you can continue the service monthly, but you are now giving the phone company an extra $10 a month that you WERE paying for the cost of your phone.However, users are reluctant to pay that much for a phone (but they ultimately do).
This leaves you with 2 choices:
- Pay for the phone up front and get the flexability of no contract, or
- finance the phone with the cell phone company and agree to stay a customer for 2 years.
Either way, the Cell phone company will profit, but only by signing a contract do you guarantee customer service (leaglly speaking) and get the chance at a free phone. If you go without the contract, you are ultimately signing a contract and breaking it on day 1. Without a contract you paid $200 up front, as well as give the phone company the money that would be financing your phone. With the contract, if you decide to break the contract, you can pay the $200 at that point. If on the off chance you stay with that company more than 2 years, with a contract, you get a "Free" phone. Signing that contract does nothing but benefit the customer, and provide investment planning opportunity for the phone company.as a sidenote, eliminating all cell phone contracts across all phone carriers may reduce the retail prices of phones slightly, but may have a much further reaching effect on the overall economy. Contracts, regardless of the type, are one of the key stabalizers in our capitalistic growth economy.
There is NO WAY Global Warming could ever make life better......
Case in point:
Global Warming will increase overall tempuratures, everywhere.
Thus the tempurature in hell will rise.
This will reduce the chance of hell freezing over.
If hell never freezes over, how will the Vikings ever win a Superbowl???
That would not be a better life.
my cd got scratched, so I downloaded a cracked version to play the game I had already bought Last week, I brushed my new porche against the side of the tunnel, and it got scratched. I bought that car fair and square, and the cheap paint got scratched. My dealer woudn't give me a new car because my old one was scratched. How unfair of him!
I know there are no physical costs to downloading a new ISO for your lost cd rom, but it skews the line a bit. Take care of your crap, don't lose it, and you won't have to download an illegal copy.
Sooner or later, they will realize that they don't need the US to manage them, and will proceed to cut us out of the loop and leave us with a bunch of middle-manager types that don't produce anything besides TPS reports. Now, wait a minute here, we will still have a need for the MBAs.... who else will make the executive decision to put the cover sheets on those TPS reports?
Better to plead guilty to something you never did and get a few weeks in jail and probation and be labeled for life than wait in jail to see what happens Again, from your own law, it stipulates that a confession null and voids the rights to sue for wronful imprisonment. Now, in confessing, you still have a case for coersion or torture.
First of all, I apologise to pedestrian crossing for putting this response on his wonderfully reproduced
- This list is the opinion of PC World Editors, they are asking the readers to comment and vote for themselves....From TFA
- Some say the Title is wrong:.... From TFA
- Some say
PC Mag doesn't know what they are talking about.
... I say RTFA
- Some say
what are the metrics? .... Again RTFA (See a pattern here?)
so now that I have basically re-written the entire article that is in TFA before the list, goto the article, read through their reasoning for each product, and vote for your favorite!Did no one here see the 2004 movie National Treasure.... Benjamin Franklin invented these multi colored glasses centuries ago. see image here
1) We are Wisconsinites, not Wisconsonians, get it right! 2) Alum is both refering to both the individual status as well as the group of (plural) distinguished alumni from this great university. Using alum allows an individual to be unique while being a part of something under the same context. 3) they are bubblers, not drinking fountains.
I love reading the funny comments many users place on slashdot. However, I prefer that Facts are available to those that want the truth.
1) The RIAA has jurisdiction over RECORDINGS as given to them by their members. Nothing else. The have jusrisdiction over Britney Spears' recording of "Baby...one more time", but they cannot prevent you from singing it yourself.2) Thus, Given singing in the shower, or any other acapella public performance, is not a recording, RIAA has no Jurisdiction. The rights infringed on in this circumstance belong to the Songwriter or Publisher. Their rights are protected by BMI, ASCAP, or other similar organization. However, the difference between these rights is that you inherently have the right to perform and record these songs yourself, all that is required is that you pay performance fees to the publisher for it's use. They cannot deny that use.
3) If I sell albums of my favorite Bon Jovi songs, that I recorded myself singing and instrumentally performed myself, I can do that. No matter if it sounds almost identical to Bon Jovi's recordings, the RIAA cannot prevent me from distributing those albums. However, Bon Jovi (who writes most, if not all of their own songs) has the right to sue me for their due right to use roalties.
I hope that clears a few things up..... Thanks for your intelectual understanding of the issue.
PS. I only referenced Britney Spears as she was one of the only artist that I could think of that everyone knows, but doesn't write her own music (I could have used any of the the teeny bopper artists of the late 90's, but chose the beautiful, bald one)
The One issue in the US is that phones would have to be cross network compatable. This was simple to do in Finland, because all cellular telcos use GSM. However, with the US coverage separated out into GSA, CDMA, Triband, etc, it has forced the telco's to work with the manufacturers to sell phones compatable with their network.
When it comes to telco's in the US, you can never compare what the rest of the world is doing and think it is simple to do in the US. It's exponentially more difficult as the land size/population increases.