You do realize that I pay the same for my 3g data service that every other smartphone user without a 3g chipset pays. ATT does not charge different rates for their edge and 3g networks. If your phone supports it, then it will work.
What ATT are doing is making all the plans the same. I have a Tilt, the wife has an iphone (that I jailbroke and activated amongst other things), we are still ATT customers, but at the time they were not offering corp discounts on iphone plans, so I set her up with the same PDA plan I have for my tilt, its $30 a month. The only thing she lost was visual voicemail, an acceptable loss for keeping our 20% discount.
Also, as for the dane issue, on short rides I do use my car, for longer rides, its nicer to the animals to allow them to move around and stretch. Its a personal preference, if I had kids (my dogs.. and 4 cats are technically my children) I may consider a minivan (or might not...), I am not close minded to other options, however we make our decisions based on our lifestyle and how we choose to spend our money, while still taking into account things like costs and the environment...
Oh, and for the record, the FX35 is actually a car chassis with a SUV body (G35), and is only about 700 pounds heavier. That said my wife and I are fit and not fat, so the weight of our car plus ourselves is probably still less then the average overweight family in a smaller car or small suv....
You will note that I stated that while we do use the SUV to haul stuff and animals around, it is not a daily driver, for that I use my car, which incidentally happens to be a Camry Hybrid.
As for the station wagon comment, note how I stated it, when your spending thousands on something, you have to be happy with it, just because that station wagon is $20k and the SUV is $30k, it amounts to the same thing (budget aside as we make more then enough to cover both prices). Thats alot of money to spend on something that you may not be happy with, especially when if we did commute, we may spend 4+ hours a day in the damn thing
Its called a shuttle run, the bikes in question are freeride/downhill bikes, not geared or designed for generic riding uphills or cross country (and they also weigh a ton, 40 pounds and up). Usually everyone tosses their bikes in a truck or vehicle that can hold a number of them and drive up the side of the mountain, which may or may not be gravel road, tar road, or nothing but rocks and dirt, yes people can climb up, or they squeeze into the vehicle for a short period, or take multiple vehicles,, 1 for people, 1 for bikes.
Sure it would be great if every mountain had a ski lift.. but they don't
I did the hitch rack on my car, max weight is 90 pounds on the Thule T2 (which does support freeride bikes, fortunately my SX trail is 40 pounds, and my rip9 is only 27 pounds)... The majority of the issues is usually the tongue weight for the 1 and 1/4 hitches, not to mention with the weight of the bikes, every bump you hit will increase lateral pressure on the tongue..
I just ignore people who bitch about SUV's, sure there are alot of people who have them who really have no need for them, but there are alot of people who do.. I would like to see someone carry 40 board feet of wood (I also wood work) in a car, or put 2 giant dogs in a car, even in a station wagon, my great dane would have to duck the entire ride, not be able to stretch out at any point....
The vehicles, trucks, SUVs, all have a purpose, they were not just pulled out of thin air to look nice, its not our fault that so many people bought vehicles and never used them for the intended purpose.
I think your missing the point, a shuttle run is usually when everyone tosses their bikes into a 4x4 of sorts and drives up a steep trail or mountain side to the top... and then proceeds to bomb down the side of the mountain... And sure, they could possibly ride up the side on their bikes (which I am sure you are about to suggest), but it is just not possible with downhill or freeride bikes that weigh in at the 40 pound mark and are not geared for cross country style riding... And putting the bikes in a trailer that could very easily flip over on rough terrain is not only dangerous.. but very expensive when the avg cost of those bikes in his pics run about $2k+ each....
I too have a mountain bike, but I do more cross country then downhill or freeride, so I drive to the trail heads (usually parking lots) in my car (camry hybrid). For more rough terrain, we take my wifes SUV (FX35), fits my bikes, camping gear and 2 dogs. I already explained my issue with Station wagons elsewhere, go look for that.
I am so with you on this one.. I mountain bike, I have 2 (Niner Rip9 and Specialized Enduro SX Trail), I do however show up to the trail head in my camry hybrid:) You appear to be loading up for a shuttle run... slightly OT.. which trails?
However, I also happen to own a FX35, which while it is considered a luxury suv, handles just fine on some steep and bumpy back roads (I have the AWD version), with my camping gear and my bike... and sometimes my wife:) I also have 2 dogs, a dalmation and a great dane.. not exactly small dogs, and while I can put them in my camry (its quite an amusing sight...) an SUV is really ideal. While a station wagon probably would have worked, I just cannot see myself or my wife in one. When your spending a shitton of money on somethings, you have to be happy with it, if your not, it will nag for as long as you own it and you won't be happy. So we bought the newused FX. I get about 18 to 22mpg, but for daily commuting I still use my car (wife carpools with neighbours).
I dunno.. last I checked.. the RS4 Avante (an Audi Station wagon) is pretty damn manly.... especially with that 400+ hp supercharged V8:) Then again.. its still a gas guzzler.
Whats in a name.. Democrat.. Republican.. those are just names, the issues they stood for fell by the wayside long ago.
The current crop of politicians have their own agendas, and in many cases, those agendas cross the borders between the party lines, and in some cases, quite far across those borders.
I grew up in South Africa (as a white), and during my stay there (State Dep brat) I was there during both apartheid and after the change. I was always taught to vote my conscience and for what you believe in, which is pretty much what your saying. Since moving back to the US in 96, I have only voted once, the last election, and while I am not registered to vote yet, I may actually vote this election as well.
The point I guess I am trying to make, is that no matter what I feel or think, vote for what you believe in, and for me, voting for the lesser of two evils, is not voting for what I believe in, so if neither of the candidates appeal to me, I won't vote. And while I consider myself a democrat, I would vote for a republican if his ideals match mine.
ps, voting for change for the sake of change is just as bad, take a look at South Africa, sure much of the old apartheid regime is gone, only to be replaced by an equally bad but opposite apartheid regime (point, most companies are required to maintain a 60 to 70% black ratio of employees, regardless of the skill level, so you end up with morons who cannot do the job). Crime is way higher now then before, corruption is rife and hell, the vice president was accused of rape.
The point being, don't just vote for a change to the status quo, becomes sometimes, its not so green on the otherside.
In fact, it would probably make money.. if they charged a monthly fee like the other MMO's
I don't know if I would get involved though.. I managed to kick the MMO habit (after many years of EQ and WoW)... The last thing I need (or rather my wife would kill me) is another MMO to detract from family time... Sure we watch TV together, but there are limits, we prefer to interact with each other rather then with computers.. (that includes mind in gutter activities....)
Its a process that includes programs, applications, training your users, and a bunch of other things.
Unfortunately, when security works as it is supposed to, you rarely see a return on your investment, until you miss something and suddenly the cleanup costs are astronomical.
However, on that same note, there are many companies (I am sure mine is included), that like to use security as a fear mongering tool to generate sales. And while yes, I do work in the security industry, I am a consultant, and I do not favour 1 product over another, I pick the products that suit the job at hand (I prefer to be vendor agnostic)
I know this was a factor for myself, atleast in the late 20's early 30's age category.
I played EQ for 7+ years from early beta, I played EQ2 for abit too, but ended up playing DAoC for abit before moving to WoW. I spend years, thousands of hours, played in the lead horde guild for that time, and got completely burnt out just before the first expansion pack came along.. with multi characters all at level 60....
Once I quit, I have not started a new game, and do not plan to, and I am sure I am not the only one... Those of us who started playing in our late teens early 20's, have probably had enough, especially those of us who finally have families or significant others who demand our attentions, and real life things like going out, playing sports (I mountain Bike) and hobbies (I woodwork), I would just not have time for a game, hell I barely play my Wii or Xbox (original) anymore, I just do not have the time.
Last I checked... Tivo supports the broadcast flag as well, yet those of us (I have 2) with Tivo's had no issues... So I guess the question is, why is Tivo ignoring the broadcast flag (not that I am complaining mind you, I hate the broadcast flag), but I am curious..
For the record, TSA != CBP While the TSA can ask you to turn on your laptop to verify it is actually a laptop, they cannot rummage through your data, the CBP can.
And further more, I can guarantee you that the CBP agent looking at your system, is not just the rubber stamper that stamps your passport, they do have IT trained agents. While they may not be at every border entry point (airports, road checkpoints etc), they do exist, and more will eventually be deployed.
for years. This is not new. They have products (marketed towards the intelligence side of the world initially) that have been able to do DPI in near realtime on OC circuits. They can even take it a step further and do near real time packet replacement and data insertion... This is what you should be afraid of.. not of the fact that they can read your traffic in real time, but they can manipulate it in near realtime. It goes much deeper as well when you tie these types of products into other things like firewalls, IDS/IPS, netflow monitoring, etc etc...
Competition is supposed to bring down the prices of products.. yet all I have seen in the last 6 months is 3 rate hikes (verizon fios)... and I have plenty of options..... oh wait, no I don't.. I have Cable (Comcast can go F themselves into oblivion so thats not an option), and Fios (if I was to include TV then I also have DTV or Dish as an option)..
A duopoly is not competitive, and I have no options for DSL or any other landline based solution other then dialup. Sat internet is not an option, too much latency
in the National Vulnerability Database by NIST.. http://nvd.nist.gov/ and while yes, the acronym does look like some sort of STD, its not. It covers oss and commercial products alike, and is perfectly free.
My particular issue was that when I first started messing with it, I had an unsupported video card (geforce mobile 9600 GS), and I had a intel wireless card that is not supported. Granted, I bought my laptop, then decided to mess with OSX, had I don't it the other way around, I would have selected the hardware to match. That was never my intention, as the laptop is primary for my wife to work from home and requires XP. I also had ACPI issues.
The major kext issues I was talking about, was more along the lines of deleting (or moving to preserve backups) the ACPI and power management kexts out of the libraries so they did not load, this resolved the crash on boot issues, but of course I lost power management functionality that a laptop should have.
Currently, I have a stock 10.5.2 kernel and custom nvidia drivers, I have no wireless yet, but the wired works just fine.
You were correct though, if they are advertising a beige box with OSX installed, they should be selecting hardware identical to whats in the intel based macs, which is not that hard, and should not result in a broken update system.
I disagree. Sure the car analogy gets tossed around all the time, and in some cases a manufacturer might be able to get around fixing a problem due to a potential aftermarket product being installed, but they cannot sue you for installing a Kenwood radio in a Ford when Ford specifies only authorized Ford equipment can be used (yes I know, this has been hashed out in the courts, and it was probably a bad example, and no they cannot void a warranty for using an aftermarket part), but the point is the same, you can write whatever you want in a document, but it needs to be tested in a court of law, and these days, who knows who would win (and bankrupting your opponent does not constitute a win, thats more a forfeit by the losing side, but would still probably set a precedent of sorts).
I would hope that the legal system would rule in favour of you being able to use whatever equipment you want, but who knows:/
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You do realize that I pay the same for my 3g data service that every other smartphone user without a 3g chipset pays. ATT does not charge different rates for their edge and 3g networks. If your phone supports it, then it will work.
What ATT are doing is making all the plans the same. I have a Tilt, the wife has an iphone (that I jailbroke and activated amongst other things), we are still ATT customers, but at the time they were not offering corp discounts on iphone plans, so I set her up with the same PDA plan I have for my tilt, its $30 a month. The only thing she lost was visual voicemail, an acceptable loss for keeping our 20% discount.
Also, as for the dane issue, on short rides I do use my car, for longer rides, its nicer to the animals to allow them to move around and stretch. Its a personal preference, if I had kids (my dogs.. and 4 cats are technically my children) I may consider a minivan (or might not...), I am not close minded to other options, however we make our decisions based on our lifestyle and how we choose to spend our money, while still taking into account things like costs and the environment...
Oh, and for the record, the FX35 is actually a car chassis with a SUV body (G35), and is only about 700 pounds heavier. That said my wife and I are fit and not fat, so the weight of our car plus ourselves is probably still less then the average overweight family in a smaller car or small suv....
You will note that I stated that while we do use the SUV to haul stuff and animals around, it is not a daily driver, for that I use my car, which incidentally happens to be a Camry Hybrid.
As for the station wagon comment, note how I stated it, when your spending thousands on something, you have to be happy with it, just because that station wagon is $20k and the SUV is $30k, it amounts to the same thing (budget aside as we make more then enough to cover both prices). Thats alot of money to spend on something that you may not be happy with, especially when if we did commute, we may spend 4+ hours a day in the damn thing
Umm no, the Prius is not a midsized car, it is a compact car. The camry is a mid-sized, and the avalon is a full sized.
Its called a shuttle run, the bikes in question are freeride/downhill bikes, not geared or designed for generic riding uphills or cross country (and they also weigh a ton, 40 pounds and up). Usually everyone tosses their bikes in a truck or vehicle that can hold a number of them and drive up the side of the mountain, which may or may not be gravel road, tar road, or nothing but rocks and dirt, yes people can climb up, or they squeeze into the vehicle for a short period, or take multiple vehicles,, 1 for people, 1 for bikes.
Sure it would be great if every mountain had a ski lift.. but they don't
I did the hitch rack on my car, max weight is 90 pounds on the Thule T2 (which does support freeride bikes, fortunately my SX trail is 40 pounds, and my rip9 is only 27 pounds)... The majority of the issues is usually the tongue weight for the 1 and 1/4 hitches, not to mention with the weight of the bikes, every bump you hit will increase lateral pressure on the tongue..
I just ignore people who bitch about SUV's, sure there are alot of people who have them who really have no need for them, but there are alot of people who do.. I would like to see someone carry 40 board feet of wood (I also wood work) in a car, or put 2 giant dogs in a car, even in a station wagon, my great dane would have to duck the entire ride, not be able to stretch out at any point....
The vehicles, trucks, SUVs, all have a purpose, they were not just pulled out of thin air to look nice, its not our fault that so many people bought vehicles and never used them for the intended purpose.
I think your missing the point, a shuttle run is usually when everyone tosses their bikes into a 4x4 of sorts and drives up a steep trail or mountain side to the top... and then proceeds to bomb down the side of the mountain... And sure, they could possibly ride up the side on their bikes (which I am sure you are about to suggest), but it is just not possible with downhill or freeride bikes that weigh in at the 40 pound mark and are not geared for cross country style riding... And putting the bikes in a trailer that could very easily flip over on rough terrain is not only dangerous.. but very expensive when the avg cost of those bikes in his pics run about $2k+ each....
I too have a mountain bike, but I do more cross country then downhill or freeride, so I drive to the trail heads (usually parking lots) in my car (camry hybrid). For more rough terrain, we take my wifes SUV (FX35), fits my bikes, camping gear and 2 dogs. I already explained my issue with Station wagons elsewhere, go look for that.
I am so with you on this one.. I mountain bike, I have 2 (Niner Rip9 and Specialized Enduro SX Trail), I do however show up to the trail head in my camry hybrid :) You appear to be loading up for a shuttle run... slightly OT.. which trails?
:) I also have 2 dogs, a dalmation and a great dane.. not exactly small dogs, and while I can put them in my camry (its quite an amusing sight...) an SUV is really ideal. While a station wagon probably would have worked, I just cannot see myself or my wife in one. When your spending a shitton of money on somethings, you have to be happy with it, if your not, it will nag for as long as you own it and you won't be happy. So we bought the newused FX. I get about 18 to 22mpg, but for daily commuting I still use my car (wife carpools with neighbours).
However, I also happen to own a FX35, which while it is considered a luxury suv, handles just fine on some steep and bumpy back roads (I have the AWD version), with my camping gear and my bike... and sometimes my wife
I dunno.. last I checked.. the RS4 Avante (an Audi Station wagon) is pretty damn manly.... especially with that 400+ hp supercharged V8 :) Then again.. its still a gas guzzler.
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Whats in a name.. Democrat.. Republican.. those are just names, the issues they stood for fell by the wayside long ago.
The current crop of politicians have their own agendas, and in many cases, those agendas cross the borders between the party lines, and in some cases, quite far across those borders.
I grew up in South Africa (as a white), and during my stay there (State Dep brat) I was there during both apartheid and after the change. I was always taught to vote my conscience and for what you believe in, which is pretty much what your saying. Since moving back to the US in 96, I have only voted once, the last election, and while I am not registered to vote yet, I may actually vote this election as well.
The point I guess I am trying to make, is that no matter what I feel or think, vote for what you believe in, and for me, voting for the lesser of two evils, is not voting for what I believe in, so if neither of the candidates appeal to me, I won't vote. And while I consider myself a democrat, I would vote for a republican if his ideals match mine.
ps, voting for change for the sake of change is just as bad, take a look at South Africa, sure much of the old apartheid regime is gone, only to be replaced by an equally bad but opposite apartheid regime (point, most companies are required to maintain a 60 to 70% black ratio of employees, regardless of the skill level, so you end up with morons who cannot do the job).
Crime is way higher now then before, corruption is rife and hell, the vice president was accused of rape.
The point being, don't just vote for a change to the status quo, becomes sometimes, its not so green on the otherside.
In fact, it would probably make money.. if they charged a monthly fee like the other MMO's
.. (that includes mind in gutter activities....)
I don't know if I would get involved though.. I managed to kick the MMO habit (after many years of EQ and WoW)... The last thing I need (or rather my wife would kill me) is another MMO to detract from family time... Sure we watch TV together, but there are limits, we prefer to interact with each other rather then with computers
Its a process that includes programs, applications, training your users, and a bunch of other things.
Unfortunately, when security works as it is supposed to, you rarely see a return on your investment, until you miss something and suddenly the cleanup costs are astronomical.
However, on that same note, there are many companies (I am sure mine is included), that like to use security as a fear mongering tool to generate sales. And while yes, I do work in the security industry, I am a consultant, and I do not favour 1 product over another, I pick the products that suit the job at hand (I prefer to be vendor agnostic)
Anything with Verisign's named attached to it?
I know this was a factor for myself, atleast in the late 20's early 30's age category.
I played EQ for 7+ years from early beta, I played EQ2 for abit too, but ended up playing DAoC for abit before moving to WoW. I spend years, thousands of hours, played in the lead horde guild for that time, and got completely burnt out just before the first expansion pack came along.. with multi characters all at level 60....
Once I quit, I have not started a new game, and do not plan to, and I am sure I am not the only one... Those of us who started playing in our late teens early 20's, have probably had enough, especially those of us who finally have families or significant others who demand our attentions, and real life things like going out, playing sports (I mountain Bike) and hobbies (I woodwork), I would just not have time for a game, hell I barely play my Wii or Xbox (original) anymore, I just do not have the time.
No, I hate all reality shows.... well all except Fear Factor.. but that was just amusing gross factor :)
However, I know a number of people who do watch reality shows, with Tivo's, and none of them had any issues
Last I checked... Tivo supports the broadcast flag as well, yet those of us (I have 2) with Tivo's had no issues... So I guess the question is, why is Tivo ignoring the broadcast flag (not that I am complaining mind you, I hate the broadcast flag), but I am curious..
For the record, TSA != CBP
While the TSA can ask you to turn on your laptop to verify it is actually a laptop, they cannot rummage through your data, the CBP can.
And further more, I can guarantee you that the CBP agent looking at your system, is not just the rubber stamper that stamps your passport, they do have IT trained agents. While they may not be at every border entry point (airports, road checkpoints etc), they do exist, and more will eventually be deployed.
for years. This is not new. They have products (marketed towards the intelligence side of the world initially) that have been able to do DPI in near realtime on OC circuits. They can even take it a step further and do near real time packet replacement and data insertion... This is what you should be afraid of.. not of the fact that they can read your traffic in real time, but they can manipulate it in near realtime. It goes much deeper as well when you tie these types of products into other things like firewalls, IDS/IPS, netflow monitoring, etc etc...
Competition is supposed to bring down the prices of products.. yet all I have seen in the last 6 months is 3 rate hikes (verizon fios)... and I have plenty of options..... oh wait, no I don't.. I have Cable (Comcast can go F themselves into oblivion so thats not an option), and Fios (if I was to include TV then I also have DTV or Dish as an option)..
A duopoly is not competitive, and I have no options for DSL or any other landline based solution other then dialup. Sat internet is not an option, too much latency
bad typing month.. did the same with my last thread in another topic...
in the National Vulnerability Database by NIST.. http://nvd.nist.gov/ and while yes, the acronym does look like some sort of STD, its not. It covers oss and commercial products alike, and is perfectly free.
My particular issue was that when I first started messing with it, I had an unsupported video card (geforce mobile 9600 GS), and I had a intel wireless card that is not supported. Granted, I bought my laptop, then decided to mess with OSX, had I don't it the other way around, I would have selected the hardware to match. That was never my intention, as the laptop is primary for my wife to work from home and requires XP. I also had ACPI issues.
The major kext issues I was talking about, was more along the lines of deleting (or moving to preserve backups) the ACPI and power management kexts out of the libraries so they did not load, this resolved the crash on boot issues, but of course I lost power management functionality that a laptop should have.
Currently, I have a stock 10.5.2 kernel and custom nvidia drivers, I have no wireless yet, but the wired works just fine.
You were correct though, if they are advertising a beige box with OSX installed, they should be selecting hardware identical to whats in the intel based macs, which is not that hard, and should not result in a broken update system.
I disagree. Sure the car analogy gets tossed around all the time, and in some cases a manufacturer might be able to get around fixing a problem due to a potential aftermarket product being installed, but they cannot sue you for installing a Kenwood radio in a Ford when Ford specifies only authorized Ford equipment can be used (yes I know, this has been hashed out in the courts, and it was probably a bad example, and no they cannot void a warranty for using an aftermarket part), but the point is the same, you can write whatever you want in a document, but it needs to be tested in a court of law, and these days, who knows who would win (and bankrupting your opponent does not constitute a win, thats more a forfeit by the losing side, but would still probably set a precedent of sorts).
:/
I would hope that the legal system would rule in favour of you being able to use whatever equipment you want, but who knows