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What Has Number Portability Done For You?
Coldeagle writes "Number portability has been around for a few days now, I was wondering; have any of you fellow Slashdot readers switched carriers? How was your experience, and have you seen any price warring since it went into place?" Or is number portability so far more hype than happenin'?
nothing! but thanks for asking!
I had a pager from Airtouch originally. Airtouch was absorbed into the Verizon monstrosity. A few months ago, the pager broke. When my yearly renewal came up (paying for service a year at a time) I tried to get them to switch the phone number, which was really spiffy, over to a cell phone, and they wouldn't. They wouldn't even entertain the possibility. Now, I know that it means reassigning what T-1 it comes in on, but c'mon people! This isn't exactly rocket science...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Is this why the firefighters light 'backfires'?
I always thought they were just a controlled burn, to elimiate a fuel source and keep the wildfre from traking down a particular path.
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Huh?
I love it. I can write and compile code using a c integer type on a Sun Sparc and then re-compile it for my intel x86 box at home and I don't have to worry about whether I'm *actually* getting an int or a short, and if I'm...wait, what? Phone numbers?
Sorry, nevermind!
I remember reading something about putting out oil field fires by setting off large amounts of dynamite/other explosives near the fires. Seems counter-intuitive, but it worked by sucking out the 02 (and the rest of the atmosphere?) out of the immediate vicinity, leaving the oil field no oxygen for the fire.
find / -name "*.sig" | xargs rm
Both are correct, firefighters light backfires to stop the fire from going down a particular path, but they also do controlled burns to eliminate the fuel in an area as another way of controlling where it can spread. That being said, is anyone else suprised that we've yet to get modded offtopic?
It's sad when choosing an installation directory on your own qualifies you as an "advanced user."
How does blowing up TNT remove oxygen from the atmosphere? o2 isn't a part of the reaction. Most likely, the dynamite would simply blow everything up, scatter the fuel, and 'knock out' the fire the same way that small flames are put out by people blowing on them.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.