Enough people only know my land line number that I certainly won't get rid of it, or at least the number.
Since AT&T is bailing out on Callvantage, my current "land line" provider, I'll probably go with T-Mobile's $10/month box I can plug my home handsets into and have them port my number to that. And it's less than half the price of Callvantage or Vonage -- FTW.
Frankly, I don't want people calling my cell phone. I'd rather have them call the land line. Sure, I can just as easily not answer my cell phone and let it roll over to VM, but half the time I walk out of the house without my CP anyway, so my land line really is the best way to reach me usually.
The question posed in the body is whether typing has ruined your ability to write things out by hand -- either printing or writing.
For me the answer to that question is yes.
But most people seem to be responding about their ability to spell. In that respect the only thing I've noticed really is that certain words have become hard-wired and I might think "their" but between my brain and the keyboard, "there" is what comes out and I have to back up and correct it.
I've also heard that message sent by the brain to different fingers travel at different speeds. Thus when I'm typing furious furiously, i, o, and u often don't come out in the correct order and I'll have to correct again.
Manufacturers change products to match up with what their customers want all the time.
When that happens we call that a "free market."
It's not always fast though. Sometimes you have to not buy what they're selling -- maybe for a long time -- before they come around.
It's not that my commute is 35 miles -- one-way. It's that four months out of the year the outside temperature averages 30ÂF during my commute.
That's currently (no pun intended) the major drawback to a fully electric commute, because I'm certain that running an electric heater to keep warm will kill the car's driving range.
Unfortunately, if this is like most ventures, it'll be privately funded by VCs, and you won't be able to participate until they go public. Therefore you and I will miss most of the potential for monetary gain.
Of course if you've got enough money to be of interest to a VC then this won't be an issue for you, but then I doubt you'd be whining here on/.
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Enough people only know my land line number that I certainly won't get rid of it, or at least the number.
Since AT&T is bailing out on Callvantage, my current "land line" provider, I'll probably go with T-Mobile's $10/month box I can plug my home handsets into and have them port my number to that. And it's less than half the price of Callvantage or Vonage -- FTW.
Frankly, I don't want people calling my cell phone. I'd rather have them call the land line. Sure, I can just as easily not answer my cell phone and let it roll over to VM, but half the time I walk out of the house without my CP anyway, so my land line really is the best way to reach me usually.
The question posed in the body is whether typing has ruined your ability to write things out by hand -- either printing or writing.
For me the answer to that question is yes.
But most people seem to be responding about their ability to spell. In that respect the only thing I've noticed really is that certain words have become hard-wired and I might think "their" but between my brain and the keyboard, "there" is what comes out and I have to back up and correct it.
I've also heard that message sent by the brain to different fingers travel at different speeds. Thus when I'm typing furious furiously, i, o, and u often don't come out in the correct order and I'll have to correct again.
Manufacturers change products to match up with what their customers want all the time. When that happens we call that a "free market." It's not always fast though. Sometimes you have to not buy what they're selling -- maybe for a long time -- before they come around.
It's not that my commute is 35 miles -- one-way. It's that four months out of the year the outside temperature averages 30ÂF during my commute. That's currently (no pun intended) the major drawback to a fully electric commute, because I'm certain that running an electric heater to keep warm will kill the car's driving range.
Unfortunately, if this is like most ventures, it'll be privately funded by VCs, and you won't be able to participate until they go public. Therefore you and I will miss most of the potential for monetary gain. Of course if you've got enough money to be of interest to a VC then this won't be an issue for you, but then I doubt you'd be whining here on /.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5790AK20090810 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090810/lf_nm_life/us_pacemaker_2