Hail/.,
I went and bought a Palm Pre last month, my 30 day trial is coming up, and sadly, I am taking it back. It had a great browser that rivaled iphone's Safari. I've got a 3G and I'm sticking with it, but I've been looking for a way out for months, actually ever since the novelty of jailbreaking wore off. Jailbreaking became a necessity for me to use the phone efficiently. The bluetooth problem above is elegantly solved by SBSettings, an app in Cydia. You swipe over the clock and gain access to all battery-wasting settings, without quitting the app you're using. It also has a "quick notes" and "quick calc" feature that is perfect for when I'm doing online banking in Safari and need to make a quick calculation. Or need to store some data.
Anyway, the Palm Pre is going back because Sprint's network is intolerable. It rarely worked inside, and if it did it was very low signal. The phone suffered and couldn't do many of its out-of-the-box features because so much of it is cloud/online/web based. I really wanted to support it, but being with Sprint for two years would be awful. I dislike AT&T very much because of their disregard for current customers. They're always trying to woo new ones. An area of Florida (Panama City) got a 3G tower LAST MONTH. They were 2G/Edge for the last, well, forever.
The extra charges for navigation, outrageous text messaging packages (I've tried boycotting text messages, the normies and technophobes can't cope), the Fees passed on to me that are taxes and IMHO a cost of doing business, add to that the taxes I am required to pay in addition to their taxes (I'm considering sending a bill to AT&T for a "Customer State and Local Service Fee" to recover the costs of being their customer), the lack of 1 year contract agreements any more, and a host of other things really makes my blood boil with AT&T.
I also just added a line to my account and the rep at the store didn't have the option of adding the line with my own equipment, he only had the option to add a 2 year agreement. He said he'd email his manager and hopefully they do this. I've got written confirmation so I don't want to hear from naysayers. If they don't, it's just one more thing.
But where to go?
I am anything but an Apple Fanboy. I fucking hate Apple, Steve Jobs, and wish that he had a better reason to withhold standard features (bluetooth stereo took nearly 3 years, with the 3.0 update--and guess what, my iphone 2G can do it!), copy and paste, video, third party apps, etc.) than "to protect future sales of our products"
That's the ugly side of capitalism. I'm praying that the Nokia N900 will be released in the U.S. and that I can find an acceptable plan. The shitty thing about subsidizing phones (cause we Americans want our shit cheap or free!) is that it gets you to a certain price point month to month. There is much less of an advantage to buying a phone full price in the U.S. because the monthly plans are priced to recover costs of the subsidized phones. When your contract is over, you'll still be paying nearly $90 a month for the iphone plans, not to mention being called a dweeb by fanboys because of a subtle design nuance and an upgraded flash memory packaged as "iPhone 6! Better than Sex!"
Let me say in closing that jailbreaking solves a lot of issues, I've got tethering, video, SBSettings, and all sorts of cool shit FIRST and possibly exclusively. It's EASY and worth the short amount of time it takes.
There is a store called "Weird Stuff" in california that would probably have some old disks. They have literally hundreds and hundreds of old old stuff. I can't really explain it all here, but try googling the store, give them a call, and let 'em look for you.
I wanted to throw out that in order to advance science, you must trust that the people before you were rigorous, thorough, and any number of synonyms enough that their work is solid to stand upon.
Insert quote: That guy... great because he was standing on the shoulders of giants. You know who I'm talking about.
That's a bit of faith, and if you find some work to be a sham, or lack an insight that was not possible in the past, then you have to go back to the drawing board.
I have to agree with the (child?) post below. While companies that produced cigarettes denied any health risks, it is still up to the individual, whether you are physically or psychologically addicted, or not.
Frankly, I think the whole notion of "smoker vs non-smoker", "smoking section", "No Smoking" and recently the emergence of "Breathe Easy Zones" at a university in town (and many others around the country) fuel rebellion on the part of smokers.
1. There is too much emphasis on the habit of smoking, while the person and their freedoms go ignored, even abused.
2. Second hand smoke is annoying, even as a smoker I am bothered by it, but it is a well-funded and erroneous myth that it is responsible for some "45,000" deaths a year. That's ridiculous--no one's death certificate lists "Second-hand smoke" as the cause. The numbers were obtained by masquerading heart attack sufferers as "victims of second-hand smoke." So the worker-safety issue is a fallacy.
3. Smoking is a small pleasure that 1/4 of American men (not sure about women's numbers) enjoy. It is easily attackable politically and with fines and in this Tolerance 2.0 politically correct attitude of the US appalls me someone that smokes tobacco is not accepted as a person and a human being.
4. People have been steadily increasing in rates of asthma, though the rates of smoking have declined. In my lifetime I have never smoked inside a building besides a bar or a private residence (and this is very rare). Some bars are even smoke free, depending on your state.
The point of #4 is that there are myriad other factors contributing to asthma, exacerbations, COPD, and other respiratory diseases. My estimate is diesel exhaust, relaxing air quality standards, and other pollution that you cannot see.
So please, for the sake of humanity, leave the smokers alone. People pick on us because it's so easy to visualize and yes, it can be annoying. But there are dozens of other invisible contaminants that are lowering your sperm count, hurting your lungs, causing your DNA to mutate, poisoning you slowly (mercury, bisphenol-A, PCBs, dioxin, particle pollution, blah blah blah).
I urge you to check out the book Dissecting an anti-smokers' mind to confirm some of my points above.
Hola,
$15 for a 24-pack is "good to above average" concerning Bud, Coors, Miller. Of course, you can always get a suitcase of Natty for ~10.99 if you've spent all your cash on tuition/hookers.
Yes it's pretty easy to unlock the first gen, if you don't use it as a phone it's not worth the money because you can get better storage on a regular ipod...The way to unlock it is use "Ziphone" which goes up to the current firmware, and is "push button" easy!
When i JB'd mine I had problems with connecting to YouTube, and could not read some of my email accounts.
Other than that, it's fun for the real hardcore nerds. I have plenty of fun with the "Apple" firmware on its own, i'm on my fourth month with the thing, have talked to someone who says "it gets old" but he's a a K-fed level douchebag.
Besides that, I have to put out there that XP will remain a stalwart for older PCs. If Microsoft were to give everyone a new set of hardware, maybe (the collective "we," which doesn't include any of you assholes on/.) all upgrade to Vista, but until then, cheap computers are plentiful, the American dollar is buying less gasoline, and that alone excites consumer buying habits enough to make us "Save a buck" and use a PC (not a Mac--Macs are for rich kids / yuppies / graphic designers -- no offense intended, my rich ex-girlfriend was wild in bed and took me all over the world!) until high-end hardware is cheap enough, our old computers break, and we have lost all access to p2p b/c comcast is metering the pirate bay and all the wonderful XP variants. I recommend one in particular, and I see no problem installing it at the small business where I work, because they paid for the OEM license, and all they want is a computer that works, not a bunch of junk software and offers to sign up for ad-supported free internet (they pay for business broadband already). It's called weismosis. I'll have to check on that. If i'm not modded down to flamebait or troll, i'll definitely reply with a link or re-seed the torrent myself.
In the meantime, I've got some gin to drink, and mod points to waste. Peace out,/.!
A few people from S. America told me that besides "gringos" (which means white U.S. citizens if you were just born yesterday), they call (Americans/Gringos/United Statians) "north americans" or informally just refer to everyone as american(o/a)s from either North or South.
Not all/.ers follow common sense lines of thinking, but it's common sense to refer to YOUR America as THE AMERICA. It brings people together, and helps create an "other" that you can berate and if push comes to shove, steal their oil!
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Double Sigs!
hear hear!
Wish I had mod points!!!
To stray from the car analogy... a computer expert is out in the jungle searching for weeds that sting, poison, or otherwise get in the way of all the other software... which is also a bunch of crazy plants. crap i just dropped my iphone.
no time to replace my sig. i just dropped my iphone. i'm not a mac fanboy but god i love this phone.
The researchers aren't explaining metaphysically "Why?" we learn by repetition,
The researchers aren't stating "Repetition works, you should try it sometime because it's a brand new discovery!!"
The only point of this experiment is that the researchers found the neurotransmitter and receptor sites that were shown to cause repetition to work, all we learn is that the chemical (mGlu) facilitates long-term learning...
Long term memory creation is called coding in the psych literature, which may appeal to some of the pretentious and humble nerds alike.
Now I love you guys, but we need to start moderating these "captain obvious" comments and stop making them in the first place. 10 Read
20 Think
30 React
40 Goto 10
I may have just reached this conclusion prematurely, but I always thought that it was high schoolers who think they know everything undergrads know they know nothing...etc. phds know a lot about a subject but then realize it's only the tip of the iceberg.
Your sig has been bothering me for awhile, and I must appeal for you to consider my view.
While the NIPRNet itself does not carry sensitive information, Paller argued that the ultimate aim of such attacks is to "own" the opponent's computer.
we got teh pwnd by Ch1n@ r0fl/\/\@0
I couldn't resist and don't see it anywhere else:-p.
We need a security education class in public school perhaps? Less gullible and greedy populace? A database of serials so real customers aren't frustrated by losing their key, and subsequently installing all kinds of horrible software in search of a key? That last one could be government sponsored or from a small tax on software sales or creators.
There are things average windows users can learn to protect themselves:
Have a "sandbox" computer to test unknown sites or to test software..
Use firefox.. Disable certain services (actually it's a lot of them I disable)
Enough anecdoting, you people add something. I'm done.
Two and a half years ago, I forgot to lock my truck.
A thief came by and stole:
1. A cup of change (for the meter)
2. A fresh pack of Kamel Red Lights
3. My entire wallet of CDs -- a ratio of 90% store-bought CDs and 10% assorted collections of mixes from parties, birthdays, longs nights of ecstasy, and the kind of presents girls with too much time on their hands make for you.
I went to ye olde Wal-Mart, bought a satellite radio, and I haven't bought a single CD since. I can record off the radio legally, the songs save on my radio for ~90 days (XM just imposed some time limits on the songs), and I can also put MP3s on the unit with a USB cord (the little trapezoid type). I haven't downloaded any music in ages, as I can get all the popular crap on the radio and I feel justified in re-acquiring the CDs that I had previously purchased on the Internet. Whether due to my own incompetence or not, I'm not going to spend another $1000 dollars replenishing my lifetime collection of CDs.
I can only imagine how some of the older folks feel. Who the hell wants to replace their collection of records, tapes, 8-tracks, et cetera everytime a new medium is embraced by a bloated industry in order to SELL more copies. It's not about the music!
Viva la revolution! P.S. XM is 12.99 a month, so it's not like I found the free solution, but it has the wonderful ratio of entertainment hours per monthly fee as those crack-like MMORPG games (UO, WoW, EQ...)
For anyone in the Tallahassee, FL area in the freecycle local chapter:
CALL THE DAMN ADMINISTRATOR AND GET MY MEMBERSHIP APPROVED!
I can put quotes in my posts too. -Me
Hola,
I don't believe the companies editing out smoking was in there, but it's been awhile since I've read it. There actually are companies in the real world making money from religious nuts by editing out profanity and sex but I haven't heard of anything for smoking.
Assholes.
Amen, brother!
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Work as a fucking team. Stop the insanity. The argument for arguments' sake. It's terrible. Even the best of us do it. Just UNIFY!
Hail /.,
I went and bought a Palm Pre last month, my 30 day trial is coming up, and sadly, I am taking it back. It had a great browser that rivaled iphone's Safari. I've got a 3G and I'm sticking with it, but I've been looking for a way out for months, actually ever since the novelty of jailbreaking wore off. Jailbreaking became a necessity for me to use the phone efficiently. The bluetooth problem above is elegantly solved by SBSettings, an app in Cydia. You swipe over the clock and gain access to all battery-wasting settings, without quitting the app you're using. It also has a "quick notes" and "quick calc" feature that is perfect for when I'm doing online banking in Safari and need to make a quick calculation. Or need to store some data.
Anyway, the Palm Pre is going back because Sprint's network is intolerable. It rarely worked inside, and if it did it was very low signal. The phone suffered and couldn't do many of its out-of-the-box features because so much of it is cloud/online/web based. I really wanted to support it, but being with Sprint for two years would be awful. I dislike AT&T very much because of their disregard for current customers. They're always trying to woo new ones. An area of Florida (Panama City) got a 3G tower LAST MONTH. They were 2G/Edge for the last, well, forever.
The extra charges for navigation, outrageous text messaging packages (I've tried boycotting text messages, the normies and technophobes can't cope), the Fees passed on to me that are taxes and IMHO a cost of doing business, add to that the taxes I am required to pay in addition to their taxes (I'm considering sending a bill to AT&T for a "Customer State and Local Service Fee" to recover the costs of being their customer), the lack of 1 year contract agreements any more, and a host of other things really makes my blood boil with AT&T.
I also just added a line to my account and the rep at the store didn't have the option of adding the line with my own equipment, he only had the option to add a 2 year agreement. He said he'd email his manager and hopefully they do this. I've got written confirmation so I don't want to hear from naysayers. If they don't, it's just one more thing.
But where to go?
I am anything but an Apple Fanboy. I fucking hate Apple, Steve Jobs, and wish that he had a better reason to withhold standard features (bluetooth stereo took nearly 3 years, with the 3.0 update--and guess what, my iphone 2G can do it!), copy and paste, video, third party apps, etc.) than "to protect future sales of our products"
That's the ugly side of capitalism. I'm praying that the Nokia N900 will be released in the U.S. and that I can find an acceptable plan. The shitty thing about subsidizing phones (cause we Americans want our shit cheap or free!) is that it gets you to a certain price point month to month. There is much less of an advantage to buying a phone full price in the U.S. because the monthly plans are priced to recover costs of the subsidized phones. When your contract is over, you'll still be paying nearly $90 a month for the iphone plans, not to mention being called a dweeb by fanboys because of a subtle design nuance and an upgraded flash memory packaged as "iPhone 6! Better than Sex!"
Let me say in closing that jailbreaking solves a lot of issues, I've got tethering, video, SBSettings, and all sorts of cool shit FIRST and possibly exclusively. It's EASY and worth the short amount of time it takes.
There is a store called "Weird Stuff" in california that would probably have some old disks. They have literally hundreds and hundreds of old old stuff. I can't really explain it all here, but try googling the store, give them a call, and let 'em look for you.
I wanted to throw out that in order to advance science, you must trust that the people before you were rigorous, thorough, and any number of synonyms enough that their work is solid to stand upon. Insert quote: That guy... great because he was standing on the shoulders of giants. You know who I'm talking about. That's a bit of faith, and if you find some work to be a sham, or lack an insight that was not possible in the past, then you have to go back to the drawing board.
Frankly, I think the whole notion of "smoker vs non-smoker", "smoking section", "No Smoking" and recently the emergence of "Breathe Easy Zones" at a university in town (and many others around the country) fuel rebellion on the part of smokers.
1. There is too much emphasis on the habit of smoking, while the person and their freedoms go ignored, even abused.
2. Second hand smoke is annoying, even as a smoker I am bothered by it, but it is a well-funded and erroneous myth that it is responsible for some "45,000" deaths a year. That's ridiculous--no one's death certificate lists "Second-hand smoke" as the cause. The numbers were obtained by masquerading heart attack sufferers as "victims of second-hand smoke." So the worker-safety issue is a fallacy.
3. Smoking is a small pleasure that 1/4 of American men (not sure about women's numbers) enjoy. It is easily attackable politically and with fines and in this Tolerance 2.0 politically correct attitude of the US appalls me someone that smokes tobacco is not accepted as a person and a human being.
4. People have been steadily increasing in rates of asthma, though the rates of smoking have declined. In my lifetime I have never smoked inside a building besides a bar or a private residence (and this is very rare). Some bars are even smoke free, depending on your state. The point of #4 is that there are myriad other factors contributing to asthma, exacerbations, COPD, and other respiratory diseases. My estimate is diesel exhaust, relaxing air quality standards, and other pollution that you cannot see.
So please, for the sake of humanity, leave the smokers alone. People pick on us because it's so easy to visualize and yes, it can be annoying. But there are dozens of other invisible contaminants that are lowering your sperm count, hurting your lungs, causing your DNA to mutate, poisoning you slowly (mercury, bisphenol-A, PCBs, dioxin, particle pollution, blah blah blah).
I urge you to check out the book Dissecting an anti-smokers' mind to confirm some of my points above.
Hola, $15 for a 24-pack is "good to above average" concerning Bud, Coors, Miller. Of course, you can always get a suitcase of Natty for ~10.99 if you've spent all your cash on tuition/hookers.
Yes it's pretty easy to unlock the first gen, if you don't use it as a phone it's not worth the money because you can get better storage on a regular ipod...The way to unlock it is use "Ziphone" which goes up to the current firmware, and is "push button" easy! When i JB'd mine I had problems with connecting to YouTube, and could not read some of my email accounts. Other than that, it's fun for the real hardcore nerds. I have plenty of fun with the "Apple" firmware on its own, i'm on my fourth month with the thing, have talked to someone who says "it gets old" but he's a a K-fed level douchebag.
TRAFFIC JAMES CARJACKED ME!
Yes, it's lost all meaning. Blog, bloggers, blogging, blogosphere. I've got blogophobia.
Besides that, I have to put out there that XP will remain a stalwart for older PCs. If Microsoft were to give everyone a new set of hardware, maybe (the collective "we," which doesn't include any of you assholes on /.) all upgrade to Vista, but until then, cheap computers are plentiful, the American dollar is buying less gasoline, and that alone excites consumer buying habits enough to make us "Save a buck" and use a PC (not a Mac--Macs are for rich kids / yuppies / graphic designers -- no offense intended, my rich ex-girlfriend was wild in bed and took me all over the world!) until high-end hardware is cheap enough, our old computers break, and we have lost all access to p2p b/c comcast is metering the pirate bay and all the wonderful XP variants. I recommend one in particular, and I see no problem installing it at the small business where I work, because they paid for the OEM license, and all they want is a computer that works, not a bunch of junk software and offers to sign up for ad-supported free internet (they pay for business broadband already). It's called weismosis. I'll have to check on that. If i'm not modded down to flamebait or troll, i'll definitely reply with a link or re-seed the torrent myself.
In the meantime, I've got some gin to drink, and mod points to waste. Peace out, /.!
they make you preview now!! How 193
A few people from S. America told me that besides "gringos" (which means white U.S. citizens if you were just born yesterday), they call (Americans/Gringos/United Statians) "north americans" or informally just refer to everyone as american(o/a)s from either North or South.
/.ers follow common sense lines of thinking, but it's common sense to refer to YOUR America as THE AMERICA. It brings people together, and helps create an "other" that you can berate and if push comes to shove, steal their oil!
Not all
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Double Sigs!
hear hear! Wish I had mod points!!! To stray from the car analogy... a computer expert is out in the jungle searching for weeds that sting, poison, or otherwise get in the way of all the other software... which is also a bunch of crazy plants. crap i just dropped my iphone.
no time to replace my sig. i just dropped my iphone. i'm not a mac fanboy but god i love this phone.
The researchers aren't explaining metaphysically "Why?" we learn by repetition,
The researchers aren't stating "Repetition works, you should try it sometime because it's a brand new discovery!!"
The only point of this experiment is that the researchers found the neurotransmitter and receptor sites that were shown to cause repetition to work, all we learn is that the chemical (mGlu) facilitates long-term learning...
Long term memory creation is called coding in the psych literature, which may appeal to some of the pretentious and humble nerds alike.
Now I love you guys, but we need to start moderating these "captain obvious" comments and stop making them in the first place.
10 Read
20 Think
30 React
40 Goto 10
I may have just reached this conclusion prematurely, but I always thought that it was high schoolers who think they know everything undergrads know they know nothing...etc. phds know a lot about a subject but then realize it's only the tip of the iceberg.
Your sig has been bothering me for awhile, and I must appeal for you to consider my view.
While the NIPRNet itself does not carry sensitive information, Paller argued that the ultimate aim of such attacks is to "own" the opponent's computer. :-p.
we got teh pwnd by Ch1n@ r0fl/\/\@0
I couldn't resist and don't see it anywhere else
We need a security education class in public school perhaps? Less gullible and greedy populace? A database of serials so real customers aren't frustrated by losing their key, and subsequently installing all kinds of horrible software in search of a key? That last one could be government sponsored or from a small tax on software sales or creators.
There are things average windows users can learn to protect themselves:
Have a "sandbox" computer to test unknown sites or to test software..
Use firefox..
Disable certain services (actually it's a lot of them I disable)
Enough anecdoting, you people add something. I'm done.
Poor college kids don't pay insurance for old music CDs. It's just a bad investment. Not even considering all the shit you can download for free.
Two and a half years ago, I forgot to lock my truck.
A thief came by and stole:
1. A cup of change (for the meter)
2. A fresh pack of Kamel Red Lights
3. My entire wallet of CDs -- a ratio of 90% store-bought CDs and 10% assorted collections of mixes from parties, birthdays, longs nights of ecstasy, and the kind of presents girls with too much time on their hands make for you.
I went to ye olde Wal-Mart, bought a satellite radio, and I haven't bought a single CD since. I can record off the radio legally, the songs save on my radio for ~90 days (XM just imposed some time limits on the songs), and I can also put MP3s on the unit with a USB cord (the little trapezoid type). I haven't downloaded any music in ages, as I can get all the popular crap on the radio and I feel justified in re-acquiring the CDs that I had previously purchased on the Internet. Whether due to my own incompetence or not, I'm not going to spend another $1000 dollars replenishing my lifetime collection of CDs.
I can only imagine how some of the older folks feel. Who the hell wants to replace their collection of records, tapes, 8-tracks, et cetera everytime a new medium is embraced by a bloated industry in order to SELL more copies. It's not about the music!
Viva la revolution!
P.S. XM is 12.99 a month, so it's not like I found the free solution, but it has the wonderful ratio of entertainment hours per monthly fee as those crack-like MMORPG games (UO, WoW, EQ...)
For anyone in the Tallahassee, FL area in the freecycle local chapter: CALL THE DAMN ADMINISTRATOR AND GET MY MEMBERSHIP APPROVED! I can put quotes in my posts too. -Me
Hola, I don't believe the companies editing out smoking was in there, but it's been awhile since I've read it. There actually are companies in the real world making money from religious nuts by editing out profanity and sex but I haven't heard of anything for smoking. Assholes. Amen, brother!