Tmobile is pretty good about giving you unlock codes. After you have passed the two week period where you can cancel your contract, they will give you unlock codes. I've had them for about a year now, and have been pretty happy with them. The Nokia 6610 we bought from them worked flawlessly in the US, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
I pay the tuition for the teacher of the class, I pay the website fee for the person who wrote the text used in the class. If they are different people, then they both get paid. If they are the same, then why shouldn't the extra work of writing your own text be rewarded?
I'm taking a macroeconomics class and I had a choice between an internet version of the class, which all class materials, including the text are part of a pay to access website. Its $40 for the whole semester. The website is run by the professor who wrote the class materials, and after hosting costs, all of the money goes to him. The other choice was to buy a $100 text book which may or may not be bought back by the bookstore, and I have no want to look at after the semester is over. Guess which section of the class I chose. This is what should be making publishers scared, not some people in a border town making photo copies. I got a cheaper class, my professor makes more money, and the publisher can go to hell.
nope, the real reason Aureal went under is they got sued into submission by Creative. It was over some patent involving sending sounds over the PCI bus if I remember. Long story short, aureal wasn't infringing, and the patent was almost thrown out, but the legal bills bankrupted the company. Creative bought the remnants.
I switched a few months ago from an iRiver Slim X350 to a 3rd gen iPod and have been pretty happy with the move. iTunes and the iPod do a wonderful job of keeping my collection organized, as opposed to the old way of having to organize it myself when I burn a mp3 cd. The UI is light years ahead of what I was using with the iRiver player, navigating 20 gigs of mp3s is easier than dealing with 700 megs on the iRiver. Sizewise its alot better as well. I did look at iRIver's hard drive players but I just didnt want to have to manage the mp3s with out iTunes anymore. The only thing I dont like with the iPod is the battery life is the suck compared to my old iRiver player.
The US needs a news channel funded directly by subscribers, not through advertising. Watching coverage of perscription drug coverage laws, followed by the latest ad for Lipitor, or watching people debate military spending followed by an ad for GE should be a giant wakeup call to people that they are being lied to. I can't stand any of the US's cable news stations, makes me glad I at least can get BBC News on the web.
Uh, you havent bought an unlocked cel phone lately, have you. Dont get me wrong, the N-Gage is a piece of crap, but try buying an unlocked cell phone, GBA and mp3 player for that.
I'd say The Daily Show and South Park provide some of the best satire in the US right now. The ad's for next weeks South Park seem to suggest they are going to have some fun with "The Passion".
I have longer than average fingers, and one thing I have trouble with is how closely spaced the number buttons are on most bar style phone. I almost have to get a flip phone just so the buttons are far enough apart not to cause my hand to cramp when I text message.
I bought a new cel phone in hong kong over the holidays. Had all the big technical things I wanted, tri-band and unlocked so I can use it here and when I am in asia or europe with prepaid sims. Bluetooth for syncing with my pc and using as a modem for my palm. It has a beautiful color display that is viewable in sunlight. But the one thing that I cant stand about it is that there is a dedicated button for wap access, but the button to get to the phone book from the stand by screen isnt labeled, even on the screen.
Sony Ericsson has an led flash light that hooks on the end of all of its currently available phones. Hell two weeks ago, we came home from a party to find our power was out. The backlight of our cel phones made it quite easy to navigate to my lantern.
Man the ads really pissed me off from that movie. Mainly at Dave Thomas and RIck Moranis for bastardizing their great McKenzie Brothers act for a low rate disney cartoon.
Before I hung around Hong Kong and Singapore, I would have agreed with you. After seeing all the people packed into their mass transit systems wearing tiny memory based mp3 players hanging off of their necks, this sorta thing is going to be a big seller there. The only way it could sell better there is to integrate it with bluetooth and allow it to be a mobile phone headset. Then it would own that market like you wouldn't believe.
Did the same here, had the firmware updated while I was at it, and had all the AT&T customization removed as well. I wasnt a big fan of the phone to begin with (Wife wanted it, because "Its so small and cute"). Still pisses me off that I have to pay extra for it to work the way Sony Ericksson made the damned thing.
AT&T has started switiching its TDMA based network to GSM (before someone nitpicks, I know GSM is a TDMA based standard) and as such, has started offering GSM phones. They look like any other sim based GSM phone, and many of their phones are tri band, so they can be used all over the world. Small problem though, they are locked to only accept AT&T sim cards, so if you want to use a prepaid sim in Europe or Asia, your screwed. For Nokia phones, this isnt too bad, as their sim locking isn't hard to crack, and there are several programs out there that will generate unlock codes for them. Now Sony Ericksson phones are a whole other ball of wax, their sim unlocking goes to the point that the phones are setup to never accept an unlock code. To unlock the phone requires a service cable, and a phone log, or sending it in to someone with service hardware. T-Mobile will give you the unlock codes after your trial two weeks where you can cancel service with out penalty are up. As someone who travels alot internationally, and has seen what international roaming rates are like, I wont ever get another phone that is not easily unlocked.
We switched last week. After doing some research about what we needed from our cel phone company, we went to T-Mobile. We dont do alot of travelling in the countryside around where we live, we only need coverage along interstates and major cities. GSM was important, beacuse we do alot of international travel, and T-Mobile also has a liberal policy of simunlocking their phones, so we can switch to prepaid sims while are out of the country. Switching from Sprint took about a day, AT&T was about three days. The call to switch was fine. The call to check status after it took more than 24 hours to port, sucked. 1 hour on hold, and no straight answers in sight. That being said, I'm glad its done, my wife and I are finally on the same company and family plan, with no number changes.
When will the FCC wake up and realize this simple idea. A bit flowing around the internet is the same thing whether it is part of a webpage, streaming video, or VoIP. Wanna clean stuff up? Clear out all the rules and make the regulations standard regardless of the type of data being delivered.
And that 53k is only in one direction. downstream. To dial in and receive at 56k, the other side has to be a digital line, ala ISDN. Upstream is only 33.6k
Wrong. AAC is a lossy codec. FLAC is not. So FLAC is exactly the same as the CD you encoded it from, where as AAC is not. Whether you can hear the difference or not is debateable (audiophiles can be really picky, but for me its the pot calling the kettle black, as I bitch about over compressed mpeg video streams on DirectTV).
This is not going to go well, as its been noted MTV doesnt play videos anymore except for TRL and late night. What is more disturbing is what they have done with MTV2. During the day, it seems to be competing with BET for the rap and R&B market. To hear anything else, its always late at night and at weird times. Any show that plays anything slightly out of the American mainstream, like 120 minutes or AMP has to be shown at a time people like me are either asleep or watching a live concert somewhere. Now they want to sell me music online? Nope, sorry, your brand name stands for the same sort of Clear Channel homogenization that I can't stand. I'll stick with iTunes.
To the first reply, lets cut out the middle men. The flag is a symbol of the republic, and that republic is based on the Constitution. The flag could easily be placed on what ever government was in power regardless of form. Now throw out the Constitution, and we no longer have "the republic, for which it stands". As for the second reply, the point of a constitutional republic is that it is a government of laws, not of people. So pledging allegiance to a person or a political party would be even more off base than pledging to the flag. What I am suggesting is quite simply, that if we are to pledge ourselves as a country to something, it should be to our highest laws, not a piece of cloth.
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Tmobile is pretty good about giving you unlock codes. After you have passed the two week period where you can cancel your contract, they will give you unlock codes. I've had them for about a year now, and have been pretty happy with them. The Nokia 6610 we bought from them worked flawlessly in the US, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
I pay the tuition for the teacher of the class, I pay the website fee for the person who wrote the text used in the class. If they are different people, then they both get paid. If they are the same, then why shouldn't the extra work of writing your own text be rewarded?
I'm taking a macroeconomics class and I had a choice between an internet version of the class, which all class materials, including the text are part of a pay to access website. Its $40 for the whole semester. The website is run by the professor who wrote the class materials, and after hosting costs, all of the money goes to him. The other choice was to buy a $100 text book which may or may not be bought back by the bookstore, and I have no want to look at after the semester is over. Guess which section of the class I chose. This is what should be making publishers scared, not some people in a border town making photo copies. I got a cheaper class, my professor makes more money, and the publisher can go to hell.
nope, the real reason Aureal went under is they got sued into submission by Creative. It was over some patent involving sending sounds over the PCI bus if I remember. Long story short, aureal wasn't infringing, and the patent was almost thrown out, but the legal bills bankrupted the company. Creative bought the remnants.
For the tin foil hat crew, I remember reading that Dean's slipping in the polls came soon after he gave a speech against media consolidation.
I switched a few months ago from an iRiver Slim X350 to a 3rd gen iPod and have been pretty happy with the move. iTunes and the iPod do a wonderful job of keeping my collection organized, as opposed to the old way of having to organize it myself when I burn a mp3 cd. The UI is light years ahead of what I was using with the iRiver player, navigating 20 gigs of mp3s is easier than dealing with 700 megs on the iRiver. Sizewise its alot better as well. I did look at iRIver's hard drive players but I just didnt want to have to manage the mp3s with out iTunes anymore. The only thing I dont like with the iPod is the battery life is the suck compared to my old iRiver player.
The US needs a news channel funded directly by subscribers, not through advertising. Watching coverage of perscription drug coverage laws, followed by the latest ad for Lipitor, or watching people debate military spending followed by an ad for GE should be a giant wakeup call to people that they are being lied to. I can't stand any of the US's cable news stations, makes me glad I at least can get BBC News on the web.
Yeah pretty much, especially the texans and the saudis. Both corrupt as hell, love horses, guns,oil and blowing shit up.
If I remember right, XM is partially owned by clear channel. Go buy a sirius instead ;)
I cut down on gaming. To paraphrase Dave Chappelle in Half Baked, I love gaming, but I loves pussy more.
Uh, you havent bought an unlocked cel phone lately, have you. Dont get me wrong, the N-Gage is a piece of crap, but try buying an unlocked cell phone, GBA and mp3 player for that.
I'd say The Daily Show and South Park provide some of the best satire in the US right now. The ad's for next weeks South Park seem to suggest they are going to have some fun with "The Passion".
I have longer than average fingers, and one thing I have trouble with is how closely spaced the number buttons are on most bar style phone. I almost have to get a flip phone just so the buttons are far enough apart not to cause my hand to cramp when I text message.
I bought a new cel phone in hong kong over the holidays. Had all the big technical things I wanted, tri-band and unlocked so I can use it here and when I am in asia or europe with prepaid sims. Bluetooth for syncing with my pc and using as a modem for my palm. It has a beautiful color display that is viewable in sunlight. But the one thing that I cant stand about it is that there is a dedicated button for wap access, but the button to get to the phone book from the stand by screen isnt labeled, even on the screen.
Sony Ericsson has an led flash light that hooks on the end of all of its currently available phones. Hell two weeks ago, we came home from a party to find our power was out. The backlight of our cel phones made it quite easy to navigate to my lantern.
Man the ads really pissed me off from that movie. Mainly at Dave Thomas and RIck Moranis for bastardizing their great McKenzie Brothers act for a low rate disney cartoon.
Before I hung around Hong Kong and Singapore, I would have agreed with you. After seeing all the people packed into their mass transit systems wearing tiny memory based mp3 players hanging off of their necks, this sorta thing is going to be a big seller there. The only way it could sell better there is to integrate it with bluetooth and allow it to be a mobile phone headset. Then it would own that market like you wouldn't believe.
Did the same here, had the firmware updated while I was at it, and had all the AT&T customization removed as well. I wasnt a big fan of the phone to begin with (Wife wanted it, because "Its so small and cute"). Still pisses me off that I have to pay extra for it to work the way Sony Ericksson made the damned thing.
AT&T has started switiching its TDMA based network to GSM (before someone nitpicks, I know GSM is a TDMA based standard) and as such, has started offering GSM phones. They look like any other sim based GSM phone, and many of their phones are tri band, so they can be used all over the world. Small problem though, they are locked to only accept AT&T sim cards, so if you want to use a prepaid sim in Europe or Asia, your screwed. For Nokia phones, this isnt too bad, as their sim locking isn't hard to crack, and there are several programs out there that will generate unlock codes for them. Now Sony Ericksson phones are a whole other ball of wax, their sim unlocking goes to the point that the phones are setup to never accept an unlock code. To unlock the phone requires a service cable, and a phone log, or sending it in to someone with service hardware. T-Mobile will give you the unlock codes after your trial two weeks where you can cancel service with out penalty are up. As someone who travels alot internationally, and has seen what international roaming rates are like, I wont ever get another phone that is not easily unlocked.
We switched last week. After doing some research about what we needed from our cel phone company, we went to T-Mobile. We dont do alot of travelling in the countryside around where we live, we only need coverage along interstates and major cities. GSM was important, beacuse we do alot of international travel, and T-Mobile also has a liberal policy of simunlocking their phones, so we can switch to prepaid sims while are out of the country. Switching from Sprint took about a day, AT&T was about three days. The call to switch was fine. The call to check status after it took more than 24 hours to port, sucked. 1 hour on hold, and no straight answers in sight. That being said, I'm glad its done, my wife and I are finally on the same company and family plan, with no number changes.
When will the FCC wake up and realize this simple idea. A bit flowing around the internet is the same thing whether it is part of a webpage, streaming video, or VoIP. Wanna clean stuff up? Clear out all the rules and make the regulations standard regardless of the type of data being delivered.
And that 53k is only in one direction. downstream. To dial in and receive at 56k, the other side has to be a digital line, ala ISDN. Upstream is only 33.6k
Wrong. AAC is a lossy codec. FLAC is not. So FLAC is exactly the same as the CD you encoded it from, where as AAC is not. Whether you can hear the difference or not is debateable (audiophiles can be really picky, but for me its the pot calling the kettle black, as I bitch about over compressed mpeg video streams on DirectTV).
This is not going to go well, as its been noted MTV doesnt play videos anymore except for TRL and late night. What is more disturbing is what they have done with MTV2. During the day, it seems to be competing with BET for the rap and R&B market. To hear anything else, its always late at night and at weird times. Any show that plays anything slightly out of the American mainstream, like 120 minutes or AMP has to be shown at a time people like me are either asleep or watching a live concert somewhere. Now they want to sell me music online? Nope, sorry, your brand name stands for the same sort of Clear Channel homogenization that I can't stand. I'll stick with iTunes.
To the first reply, lets cut out the middle men. The flag is a symbol of the republic, and that republic is based on the Constitution. The flag could easily be placed on what ever government was in power regardless of form. Now throw out the Constitution, and we no longer have "the republic, for which it stands". As for the second reply, the point of a constitutional republic is that it is a government of laws, not of people. So pledging allegiance to a person or a political party would be even more off base than pledging to the flag. What I am suggesting is quite simply, that if we are to pledge ourselves as a country to something, it should be to our highest laws, not a piece of cloth.