The last true "open" phones were believe it or not..... Windows Mobile based devices like your Touch Pro. No locked boot loaders, an active custom ROM community, and easily modded. I was hesitant on going with another touch screen only phone after having a Samsung Omnia (small screen + failing/drifting digitizer made it impossible to type), but the newer phones with 4.3" screens made it much easier to type.
I have one sitting in a box of cables. Bought it in 2005 to connect the DVI equipped cable box to the then-new HDTV with HDMI, which was just starting to appear enmass in consumer electronics. What many folks don't realize is HDMI came pretty late in the HDTV era (late 2004). The original HD video interconnect was Firewire, which DVHS used exclusively. DVI become popular after HDCP was incorporated, HDMI was later developed to merge video and audio signals into a single cable.
We have fiber to the home in some parts of the US. Verizon's POTS service on FiOS is a hybrid option. The transport to the home isn't IP based, the connection at the CO is either legacy PSTN or VoIP depending on what service plan you subscribe to.
True retro would be an LED watch from the 70s. They were expensive and required one to push a button to see the time since they used too much power to keep the display on all the time.... Speaking of 1994, maybe I should pull out my circa 1994 model 50 Timex Datalink. I still have the box and software for it somewhere.
If they are from someone called "wiredforservice" everything he lists is overpriced and usually doesn't sell. It only encourages other clueless people to do the same thing.
Most of my web accounts support IMAP. Clients like Thunderbird makes it easy to check all of them in one place and to archive (restrictions limit me from forwarding mail to one account). Quite a bit faster then logging into multiple websites.
Before they got rid of them last year, NJ's safety inspection was a bit of a joke. They never checked for things like dry rotted tires. A car with blown struts would pass if the springs were stiff enough. things like ripped CV boots were never checked. You would fail if your driver's side window didn't work however. Good riddance to that, now its just emissions which was always easy to pass in NJ assuming your car is remotely close to running correctly.
MP3.com's service simply scanned the CDs you owned and via checksum determined what albums they were. In theory you could have borrowed CDs you didn't own and used the service. Of course what if one uploads non-RIAA music to this server, or works that are in the public domain or are free to distribute?
Apple didn't make matters any better. The name "i.Link" came about because Sony didn't want to pay licensing for the Firewire name and logo. Everyone else just called it 1394.
Tapeless AVC-HD cameras of all levels don't have them. HDV MPEG-2 cameras do, its only a matter of time until those cameras are phased out in the pro market (HDV is practically extinct in the consumer market). Studios primarily use SDI as an interconnect between equipment.
Adobe's Create PDF plug-in for one. They just finally updated it to work with FF4 with the 10.1 update... only for it to be broken by FF5 (for no good reason) a few weeks later.
Microsoft does make a CD that does all that, its called ERD Commander (formerly from Winternals). Problem is since they bought out Winternals, the tools (collectively called Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit) has only been available to TechNet, MSDN or "Software Assurance" customers.
The only place I have seen a chip and PIN terminal here is at one local CVS. Its likely a universal model because it has RFID for contactless card transactions too. Those RFID terminals are catching on, but only really at retailers that have their own branded credit card with a big bank like Chase. Its part of their agreement with the bank to install the RFID terminals because all the cards they issue have the chips.
Actually its simple, banks in the US are cheap. Chip and PIN costs money to implement. American Express rolled out chips in their first issue Blue credit card, but later phased it out... cost more then a regular credit card and nobody used the feature (lack of infrastructure in the US, hardly anyone has a chip and PIN terminal here). Same goes for things like implementing two factor authentication for online banking. Its likely the only way a US based bank will improve security is if they are forced to through legislation.
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Most people root their phones to delete the crapware their provider loads the phone up with. That alone can provide a nice performance boost.
The last true "open" phones were believe it or not..... Windows Mobile based devices like your Touch Pro. No locked boot loaders, an active custom ROM community, and easily modded. I was hesitant on going with another touch screen only phone after having a Samsung Omnia (small screen + failing/drifting digitizer made it impossible to type), but the newer phones with 4.3" screens made it much easier to type.
Its likely that the phone is sending the longer messages as MMS or EMS, which is likely NOT covered by the "unlimited text messages" plan.
Heck, how many are still paying a rental fee for a handset from the Ma Bell days?
or Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules when he played Autolycus The King of Thieves?
Yeah, after all they just migrated away from OS/2 1.3.
Your 9600 with a G3/G4 upgrade and some RAM can run 10.4 just fine.
Nah, they'll just switch to Comic Sans.
I have one sitting in a box of cables. Bought it in 2005 to connect the DVI equipped cable box to the then-new HDTV with HDMI, which was just starting to appear enmass in consumer electronics. What many folks don't realize is HDMI came pretty late in the HDTV era (late 2004). The original HD video interconnect was Firewire, which DVHS used exclusively. DVI become popular after HDCP was incorporated, HDMI was later developed to merge video and audio signals into a single cable.
Micro-HDMI is starting to become popular on devices like camcorders and smart phones.
At least you get coffee from them. They took away our coffee machine!
Interestingly enough, one of the broadcast stations here simulcasts Last.fm Discover on its HD2 channel.
We have fiber to the home in some parts of the US. Verizon's POTS service on FiOS is a hybrid option. The transport to the home isn't IP based, the connection at the CO is either legacy PSTN or VoIP depending on what service plan you subscribe to.
True retro would be an LED watch from the 70s. They were expensive and required one to push a button to see the time since they used too much power to keep the display on all the time.... Speaking of 1994, maybe I should pull out my circa 1994 model 50 Timex Datalink. I still have the box and software for it somewhere.
If they are from someone called "wiredforservice" everything he lists is overpriced and usually doesn't sell. It only encourages other clueless people to do the same thing.
Most of my web accounts support IMAP. Clients like Thunderbird makes it easy to check all of them in one place and to archive (restrictions limit me from forwarding mail to one account). Quite a bit faster then logging into multiple websites.
Before they got rid of them last year, NJ's safety inspection was a bit of a joke. They never checked for things like dry rotted tires. A car with blown struts would pass if the springs were stiff enough. things like ripped CV boots were never checked. You would fail if your driver's side window didn't work however. Good riddance to that, now its just emissions which was always easy to pass in NJ assuming your car is remotely close to running correctly.
MP3.com's service simply scanned the CDs you owned and via checksum determined what albums they were. In theory you could have borrowed CDs you didn't own and used the service. Of course what if one uploads non-RIAA music to this server, or works that are in the public domain or are free to distribute?
Apple didn't make matters any better. The name "i.Link" came about because Sony didn't want to pay licensing for the Firewire name and logo. Everyone else just called it 1394.
Tapeless AVC-HD cameras of all levels don't have them. HDV MPEG-2 cameras do, its only a matter of time until those cameras are phased out in the pro market (HDV is practically extinct in the consumer market). Studios primarily use SDI as an interconnect between equipment.
Adobe's Create PDF plug-in for one. They just finally updated it to work with FF4 with the 10.1 update... only for it to be broken by FF5 (for no good reason) a few weeks later.
Believe it or not, I still run across disks infected with NYB and Monkey.B.
Microsoft does make a CD that does all that, its called ERD Commander (formerly from Winternals). Problem is since they bought out Winternals, the tools (collectively called Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit) has only been available to TechNet, MSDN or "Software Assurance" customers.
The only place I have seen a chip and PIN terminal here is at one local CVS. Its likely a universal model because it has RFID for contactless card transactions too. Those RFID terminals are catching on, but only really at retailers that have their own branded credit card with a big bank like Chase. Its part of their agreement with the bank to install the RFID terminals because all the cards they issue have the chips.
Actually its simple, banks in the US are cheap. Chip and PIN costs money to implement. American Express rolled out chips in their first issue Blue credit card, but later phased it out... cost more then a regular credit card and nobody used the feature (lack of infrastructure in the US, hardly anyone has a chip and PIN terminal here). Same goes for things like implementing two factor authentication for online banking. Its likely the only way a US based bank will improve security is if they are forced to through legislation.