The single most important reason why I use SMS is:
It's free.
Well, at least with the very old plan that I share (with 3 other people), it's free. A lot of plans nowadays charge you in some fashion for text messaging. We don't even pay tax. And IIRC, we don't even have a limit.
We have free airtime from 8pm to 7am(?) on weekdays and all throughout the weekends. Most of the people who I ever need to "message" on an anytime basis can accept/send sms just fine. No need to call for those little snippets of conversations like:
"Pick me up."; "Can you buy some ___. "; "I'll be going to ___."
With SMS, I never even come close to reaching the 1 hour I'm alotted out of the family plan we share. Most of my "voice-required" dialogues happen after working hours and on weekends anyways.
Oh btw, this is a Cingular plan for those curious minds.
A lot of vehicles that I've seen with televisions or whatnot have them mainly for the people who sit behind the driver and person sitting shotgun. So if they keep the monitors away from the front, I don't think this will be as big a problem.
I'd do a seperate blog from my cell that only includes important info about dropped phone calls, delayed text messages etc.
I wouldn't even have to include all the info for phone calls cuz I could compare the blog entry to my phone bill.
I would then have a nice comprehensive list of things I can complain about.
Now if the companies actually paid attention to complaints and did things that go towards progress, I might even end up with less negative entries and more blog entries that indicate "Great Reception @ somewhere!" or "Fastest Sports Alert Ever!"
Of course, the geeky thing would be to not even consider paying for such a blog-type service.
All I'd have to do is write one or two perl scripts and do some procmail tinkering.
I already have my cell phone / procmail setup to feed me certain useful info from websites or to check if i have important email that I need to look at. Why would I even want to pay for web access through my cell phone? That's what a computer is for. I'm never in THAT much of a hurry.
is from when I had to have been about 2 or 3. Those were the days when I'd get a "shower" from the kitchen sink. By the age of 4 we stuck to a shallow bath in the tub.
For some reason I also have vague memories of being in the womb. But then again, that just might be the Discovery Channel or PBS kicking in =P
This is prolly flamebait or something, but I'm kinda bored right now with it being a slow day (here at work still) and just had to comment...
Every time we have a topic that deals with freedoms, liberties, etc, do we always have to see posts that quote Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, or anybody else? I'm sure most people who read/. are already familiar with these quotes.
In fact, it's not even the quotes themselves that bother me so much as the people who moderate these posts as Insightful. Redundant perhaps, but not really all that insightful.
Maybe there should even be a new mod titled, "Copied & Pasted."
... that I submitted earlier this morning can be found here from the LA Times (free reg, yadda yadda).
This article, I think, does a little better job talking about some of the controversial provisions that would come once the FCC approves.
Some day, we're all gonna miss the days of hooking up two VCRs side-by-side to dub that movie we rented, just like the Gemco salesman showed us. What? We're not supposed to be doing that?
Yeah, those cart games were fun too. Probably my favorites were Scuba Venture and Mouser. IIRC, I only got up to the end of L2 or L3 in Scuba Venture and completed about 3 or 4 rooms of Mouser. This was as a 10-12 year old tho:)
I'm sure with my l33t gaming skillz now I can "pass" those games. LOL
Darn, now I got that Mouser music stuck in my head.
I wonder if anybody ever bought ALL of the available PCjr carts.
Hey! I still have that first Kings Quest for the IBM PCjr. That game rocked! When I was playing that game as a little kid I always hated going into the witch's house. LOL
The PCjr was really a CGA computer, but KQ was one of many games that actually came out in 16 colors.
I still have the original packaging for it. I wonder if anybody has one still shrink-wrapped out there:)
I'm all meteored out from all the really late-night viewings I've done these last two years. There're other things to look for up in the night sky too, y'know.
For example, next Tuesday, Saturn will be in opposition. During opposition, you'll have a chance to see Saturn's rings to the fullest.
AC said:"Have you ever seen someone making xerox copies of a newspaper and reselling them?
Answer to this question and you'll find why piracy does exist and how to fight it.
Every time a product price is overcharged because its producer wants to get the highest possible profit from it, someone, somewhere, will start to think on ways to copy that product or to sell fakes."
If that's your argument, then I guess we'll have to start seeing a lot more advertising and such on everything people pirate. Advertising, both commercial as well as all those classifieds you ignore, is what help make those newspapers you buy cost 25 cents.... errr 35 cents.... errr 50 cents.... err 75 cents.... err a dollar.
At the same time, you might wanna add a few comic strips, cuz those cute little panels of cartoons have been what have helped sold newspapers for ages, probably dating back to when Hogan's Alley was really popular (no, I'm not that old).
"Things sold at fair prices will never get pirated, period."
Maybe I'm reading Wil's question wrong, or maybe everyone else (including Bill Shatner) is.
But I thought Wil's usage of "cool" in that question was to find out if the two of them were in good relation, as opposed to "cool" being hip, rad, happenin', "in orbit" or whatever terminology (antiquated or not) you feel like using.
Bill to Wil: "I look forward to some personal time with you. "
I look forward to another Interview where/. asks exactly what happened during that personal time.
Could somebody please provide a brief definition of what "k12 schools" are?
K-12 means Kindergarten thru 12th grade which is schooling for kids, roughly, from ages 6 thru 17, or 7 thru 18, depending on what part of the year you were born. Many schools consider the 7 years of K-6 (K, 1-6) as elementary school, 7-8 (or 6-8) as middle school, and 9-12 as high school.
A lot of schools outside of the US don't have middle schoool.
Ever wondered why you have a lot of younger foreign classmates in college here in America? Or how an immigrant with all their degress is under 22 years old. Now you know a possible reason.
Before making everybody switch to @comcast.com (or whatever) addresses, they should really think about those AT&T customers who are accustomed to their attbi.com addresses.
They should have something that is easy to remember and allows customers to transition more easily.
Something that takes into account the combination of Comcast, AT&T, & Broadband internet.
I've got it!
ComCast And AT&TBroadBand Internet becomes:
ccaattbbi.com !
Looks like a cat that got run over by its owner just as it was about to come out and admit its preference for both male and female kittens.
Yeah, but that reminds me of all the times my elementary school teachers told me not to define a word with the same word.
How bout this for a translation...
The good news is: There's no bad news.
Whatever.
As the parent comment states, this is good for "us" [Comcast], and whatever happens to "you" [consumers]-- well, as long as "we" [Comcast] have "your" [consumers] money, it doesn't really matter, does it?
My buddy was pissed when he recently found his cable "hook-up" no longer had free HBO and Showtime.
What's next?
I bet they'll start making people pay to watch local television channels.
There are different ways of knowing whether or not someone has read your email.
Some email programs support "read-receipt."
Of the top of my head, I believe the header that causes a read-receipt to be sent to the original sender is "X-Confirm-Reading-To:"
Another common way people can find out if you've read their email is if they include an html img src in the email itself and just check the access logs of that particular image. Not very accurate since someone can turn off images / turn off html / reload the image.
Ooh, look! The most popular referrer to our web page is mail . yahoo . com!
Their website was pretty vague when it comes to security.
I did see a brief mention of supporting SOCSK 4/5 or https.
Also, from the AIM Data Sheet:
Security credentials can be issued by AOL using technology that provides a reliable method of encrypting data between AIM users. A unique one-click system makes credential issuance easy and virtually transparent to users. Credentials are based on industry-standard security technology. Alternatively, enterprises can use existing Public Key Infrastructure services to import security credentials.
Note that this is for AIM itself, not the Enterprise Gateway they are pitching.
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Oh, so we're talking about hard disks?
The single most important reason why I use SMS is:
It's free.
Well, at least with the very old plan that I share (with 3 other people), it's free. A lot of plans nowadays charge you in some fashion for text messaging. We don't even pay tax. And IIRC, we don't even have a limit.
We have free airtime from 8pm to 7am(?) on weekdays and all throughout the weekends. Most of the people who I ever need to "message" on an anytime basis can accept/send sms just fine. No need to call for those little snippets of conversations like:
"Pick me up."; "Can you buy some ___. "; "I'll be going to ___."
With SMS, I never even come close to reaching the 1 hour I'm alotted out of the family plan we share. Most of my "voice-required" dialogues happen after working hours and on weekends anyways.
Oh btw, this is a Cingular plan for those curious minds.
A lot of vehicles that I've seen with televisions or whatnot have them mainly for the people who sit behind the driver and person sitting shotgun. So if they keep the monitors away from the front, I don't think this will be as big a problem.
I'd do a seperate blog from my cell that only includes important info about dropped phone calls, delayed text messages etc.
I wouldn't even have to include all the info for phone calls cuz I could compare the blog entry to my phone bill.
I would then have a nice comprehensive list of things I can complain about.
Now if the companies actually paid attention to complaints and did things that go towards progress, I might even end up with less negative entries and more blog entries that indicate "Great Reception @ somewhere!" or "Fastest Sports Alert Ever!"
Of course, the geeky thing would be to not even consider paying for such a blog-type service.
All I'd have to do is write one or two perl scripts and do some procmail tinkering.
I already have my cell phone / procmail setup to feed me certain useful info from websites or to check if i have important email that I need to look at. Why would I even want to pay for web access through my cell phone? That's what a computer is for. I'm never in THAT much of a hurry.
I'm just glad I have unlimited text messaging.
is from when I had to have been about 2 or 3. Those were the days when I'd get a "shower" from the kitchen sink. By the age of 4 we stuck to a shallow bath in the tub.
For some reason I also have vague memories of being in the womb. But then again, that just might be the Discovery Channel or PBS kicking in =P
... for any of the ring tones I compose on my phones.
I always put one obviously wrong note (or two) in them, just for kicks. Kinda like how Bugs Bunny would play them.
Someone's phone is ringing.....
Oh, that's DEFINITELY mine.
This is prolly flamebait or something, but I'm kinda bored right now with it being a slow day (here at work still) and just had to comment...
/. are already familiar with these quotes.
Every time we have a topic that deals with freedoms, liberties, etc, do we always have to see posts that quote Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, or anybody else? I'm sure most people who read
In fact, it's not even the quotes themselves that bother me so much as the people who moderate these posts as Insightful. Redundant perhaps, but not really all that insightful.
Maybe there should even be a new mod titled, "Copied & Pasted."
I was quite surprised to see pong make the list as a business innovation.
"Nolan Bushnell (b. 1943) gave geeks another reason to stay indoors by introducing Pong" [insert favorite no-life geek joke]
Alas, there was no mention of ping anywhere. (How can we survive without ping?)
I'm sure all businesses were glad to see games eventually enter the workplace.
Also missing from the list: "The Boss Button"
Doesn't matter how many times I click "Faster", it's still slooooow.
Here's an idea... How bout a plain text version of the list? Or am I just not seeing the link?
Since these are all business innovations and ideas (and everything is so slow), did anyone catch what number "Patent, Profit, Repeat" made?
... that I submitted earlier this morning can be found here from the LA Times (free reg, yadda yadda).
This article, I think, does a little better job talking about some of the controversial provisions that would come once the FCC approves.
Some day, we're all gonna miss the days of hooking up two VCRs side-by-side to dub that movie we rented, just like the Gemco salesman showed us. What? We're not supposed to be doing that?
Yeah, those cart games were fun too. Probably my favorites were Scuba Venture and Mouser. IIRC, I only got up to the end of L2 or L3 in Scuba Venture and completed about 3 or 4 rooms of Mouser. This was as a 10-12 year old tho :)
I'm sure with my l33t gaming skillz now I can "pass" those games. LOL
Darn, now I got that Mouser music stuck in my head.
I wonder if anybody ever bought ALL of the available PCjr carts.
Hey! I still have that first Kings Quest for the IBM PCjr. That game rocked! When I was playing that game as a little kid I always hated going into the witch's house. LOL
:)
The PCjr was really a CGA computer, but KQ was one of many games that actually came out in 16 colors.
I still have the original packaging for it. I wonder if anybody has one still shrink-wrapped out there
Ahh, the memories...
I'm all meteored out from all the really late-night viewings I've done these last two years. There're other things to look for up in the night sky too, y'know.
For example, next Tuesday, Saturn will be in opposition. During opposition, you'll have a chance to see Saturn's rings to the fullest.
AC said: "Have you ever seen someone making xerox copies of a newspaper and reselling them?
Answer to this question and you'll find why piracy does exist and how to fight it.
Every time a product price is overcharged because its producer wants to get the highest possible profit from it, someone, somewhere, will start to think on ways to copy that product or to sell fakes."
If that's your argument, then I guess we'll have to start seeing a lot more advertising and such on everything people pirate. Advertising, both commercial as well as all those classifieds you ignore, is what help make those newspapers you buy cost 25 cents.... errr 35 cents.... errr 50 cents.... err 75 cents.... err a dollar.
At the same time, you might wanna add a few comic strips, cuz those cute little panels of cartoons have been what have helped sold newspapers for ages, probably dating back to when Hogan's Alley was really popular (no, I'm not that old).
"Things sold at fair prices will never get pirated, period."
Now that, I cannot argue with.
Maybe I'm reading Wil's question wrong, or maybe everyone else (including Bill Shatner) is.
/. asks exactly what happened during that personal time.
But I thought Wil's usage of "cool" in that question was to find out if the two of them were in good relation, as opposed to "cool" being hip, rad, happenin', "in orbit" or whatever terminology (antiquated or not) you feel like using.
Bill to Wil: "I look forward to some personal time with you. "
I look forward to another Interview where
Wife: Oh honey, you take my breath away.
Husband: No, dear. It's our new Fuel Cell Powered Backup System. I think we just had a blackout.
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http://astroboy.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart
As for the red stuff, I think I came across one photo with red that indicated vegetation of sort. But I doubt that colors always mean the same thing.
The article makes note that some colors [are] "assigned arbitrarily to represent data -- such as levels of heat -- not visible to the human eye."
is if they stretched the Minute Waltz into 24 hours.
Could somebody please provide a brief definition of what "k12 schools" are?
K-12 means Kindergarten thru 12th grade which is schooling for kids, roughly, from ages 6 thru 17, or 7 thru 18, depending on what part of the year you were born. Many schools consider the 7 years of K-6 (K, 1-6) as elementary school, 7-8 (or 6-8) as middle school, and 9-12 as high school.
A lot of schools outside of the US don't have middle schoool.
Ever wondered why you have a lot of younger foreign classmates in college here in America? Or how an immigrant with all their degress is under 22 years old. Now you know a possible reason.
Now if only someone could come up with a hack that'll disable that locking mechanism once you remove the cart from the parking lot
Before making everybody switch to @comcast.com (or whatever) addresses, they should really think about those AT&T customers who are accustomed to their attbi.com addresses.
They should have something that is easy to remember and allows customers to transition more easily.
Something that takes into account the combination of Comcast, AT&T, & Broadband internet.
I've got it!
ComCast And AT&T BroadBand Internet becomes:
ccaattbbi.com !
Looks like a cat that got run over by its owner just as it was about to come out and admit its preference for both male and female kittens.
Yeah, but that reminds me of all the times my elementary school teachers told me not to define a word with the same word.
How bout this for a translation...
The good news is: There's no bad news.
Whatever.
As the parent comment states, this is good for "us" [Comcast], and whatever happens to "you" [consumers]-- well, as long as "we" [Comcast] have "your" [consumers] money, it doesn't really matter, does it?
My buddy was pissed when he recently found his cable "hook-up" no longer had free HBO and Showtime.
What's next?
I bet they'll start making people pay to watch local television channels.
Oh wait... NOOOOOO!!!
There are different ways of knowing whether or not someone has read your email.
Some email programs support "read-receipt."
Of the top of my head, I believe the header that causes a read-receipt to be sent to the original sender is "X-Confirm-Reading-To:"
Another common way people can find out if you've read their email is if they include an html img src in the email itself and just check the access logs of that particular image. Not very accurate since someone can turn off images / turn off html / reload the image.
Ooh, look! The most popular referrer to our web page is mail . yahoo . com!
Their website was pretty vague when it comes to security.
I did see a brief mention of supporting SOCSK 4/5 or https.
Also, from the AIM Data Sheet:
Security credentials can be issued by AOL using technology that provides a reliable method of encrypting data between AIM users. A unique one-click system makes credential issuance easy and virtually transparent to users. Credentials are based on industry-standard security technology. Alternatively, enterprises can use existing Public Key Infrastructure services to import security credentials.
Note that this is for AIM itself, not the Enterprise Gateway they are pitching.
I was reading some of the "features" of this mess and found the following:
-Allows enterprises to create screen names that follow the structure: user@company.com
-Enables an enterprise to validate and manage screen names from the corporate directory
I especially like the first one.
So it makes ents that AOL's next 2 projects in attempts to get more revenue will be:
-ProcIM for AIM
-SpamAssassin for AIM
(Yeah yeah, they can't really use those names, but you know what I'm talking about.)