Obstacle courses are not like driving on a highway. If someone swerves into you and you aren't paying attention, you have the accident. If you aren't paying attention as something happens, you may collide with it. There may be no CHANCE to put down the phone. If you hit a pedestrian, chances are putting the phone down as you're doing it is not going to help.
Liability? No one has a right to cell phone connectivity wherever they go. If it's that important, they should be checking to see whether they have signal when they get where they are going. That is an asinine argument.
Bullshit. Where would you be that someone would be jamming you and A) they wouldn't notice and turn the jammer off or B) there wouldn't be another phone just as nearby that might actually work (unlike the useles cell network -- last time I called 911, call dropped)?
Are you one of those fantastic people that has a bag that is exactly as large as the airlines allow, packs everything in that bag, brings the max allowed number of different types of items (carry-on suitcase, personal item, etc.), and gets on the plane with all that shit?
You people are great: can't lift their suitcase into the overhead half the time because of all the shit that's packed in there, take up 3x as much space as people who check their luggage like you're supposed to, make it take forever to get off the plane, and ensure that the last few people on the plane will be gate-checking their purses instead of taking them on board.
Why? So you can avoid having your luggage lost? I must have flown almost every month last year and had my luggage lost 0 times, always checking luggage. Folks like you are the only reason I enjoy the liquids-in-your-carryon ban -- at least I have a chance of being able to wedge my jacket into the overhead nowadays.
JetBlue is unimpressive. Their planes are nice, but their staff is apparently not interested in doing anything for you in any flight (they show up a little while and then disappear and act put out if you ask for something). I'm sure this isn't true in every case, but I don't really make one-off observations. The other thing is that they have TV there, which mesmerizes people into not looking at any other aspect of the flight. That, and the "hey, fun, we're all in this together" sham. It's still flying on a plane, and cleaning around my seating area doesn't become "fun" because the stewardess said so. As for the TV, well, if you fly red-eye, TV is unimportant; half of the channels have weight belt/dog stairs/girls gone wild commericials, and JetBlue is still willing to charge for the movie.
When you take all that away, they're really no better than any other carrier. Continental still serves food if it's time for food, which is more than I can say for other domestic carriers. They also fly more often (JetBlue is often a "you're going when we are" situation).
This is not even correct. As you may have seen, Gore may have been more correct than you think. I've seen reports that if Greenland melts (which is happening much faster than expected), we really could have 7 meters of sea-level rise; about 22 feet.
Locking and unlocking does not dramatically change the makeup of the phone. On a Treo, it was a very very minor change (in fact, part of the firmware -- one just had to type the right numbers). I'd find it hard to believe that it could blow up unless it were intentional.
The unlock did not brick the phone in such cases, the update did. If an update bricked my phone, the phone is going back -- I don't care what I did to it prior. How is Apple going to prove anything one way or the other?
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What about Sears? How about Andy's IGA Foodliner, Shop 'n Save, etc.? There's also a True Value hardware.
I mean, yeah, there's probably noplace else where you can buy all that in one store, but that hardly counts.
As for clothing, I'm not sure... does Sears sell clothing?
Supermarkets? Even K-Mart? Thanks for the example, since this is totally out of my area.
Where HAD people shopped, since Wal*Mart is relatively new.
How small does this small town have to be? I grew up in a small town, and I don't personally know anyone from there who shops at one.
I have access to and choose not to (I use "choose" loosely here, since it's a near moral imperative).
Obstacle courses are not like driving on a highway. If someone swerves into you and you aren't paying attention, you have the accident. If you aren't paying attention as something happens, you may collide with it. There may be no CHANCE to put down the phone. If you hit a pedestrian, chances are putting the phone down as you're doing it is not going to help.
I would argue that if someone doesn't know how to be considerate in public, THEY are the one who needs to go back to their fucking house.
Liability? No one has a right to cell phone connectivity wherever they go. If it's that important, they should be checking to see whether they have signal when they get where they are going. That is an asinine argument.
Bullshit. Where would you be that someone would be jamming you and A) they wouldn't notice and turn the jammer off or B) there wouldn't be another phone just as nearby that might actually work (unlike the useles cell network -- last time I called 911, call dropped)?
What are the odds of someone carrying a cell-phone jammer next to you in the middle of nowhere?
Folks like me would patronize them.
Seriously, you're in a damn restaurant. You honestly say "oh, this one doesn't have decent reception"? How about the food, Jackson?
Why would you drive in DC?
Are you one of those fantastic people that has a bag that is exactly as large as the airlines allow, packs everything in that bag, brings the max allowed number of different types of items (carry-on suitcase, personal item, etc.), and gets on the plane with all that shit?
You people are great: can't lift their suitcase into the overhead half the time because of all the shit that's packed in there, take up 3x as much space as people who check their luggage like you're supposed to, make it take forever to get off the plane, and ensure that the last few people on the plane will be gate-checking their purses instead of taking them on board.
Why? So you can avoid having your luggage lost? I must have flown almost every month last year and had my luggage lost 0 times, always checking luggage. Folks like you are the only reason I enjoy the liquids-in-your-carryon ban -- at least I have a chance of being able to wedge my jacket into the overhead nowadays.
You from Portland by any chance?
No one has flown 727's for years, and JetBlue never flew 727's.
Plenty of pilots swing onto the runway at full throttle. Very little of what happens on the ground is up to the pilot anyway, as far as I know.
JetBlue is unimpressive. Their planes are nice, but their staff is apparently not interested in doing anything for you in any flight (they show up a little while and then disappear and act put out if you ask for something). I'm sure this isn't true in every case, but I don't really make one-off observations. The other thing is that they have TV there, which mesmerizes people into not looking at any other aspect of the flight. That, and the "hey, fun, we're all in this together" sham. It's still flying on a plane, and cleaning around my seating area doesn't become "fun" because the stewardess said so. As for the TV, well, if you fly red-eye, TV is unimportant; half of the channels have weight belt/dog stairs/girls gone wild commericials, and JetBlue is still willing to charge for the movie.
When you take all that away, they're really no better than any other carrier. Continental still serves food if it's time for food, which is more than I can say for other domestic carriers. They also fly more often (JetBlue is often a "you're going when we are" situation).
This is not even correct. As you may have seen, Gore may have been more correct than you think. I've seen reports that if Greenland melts (which is happening much faster than expected), we really could have 7 meters of sea-level rise; about 22 feet.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070908-21002600-bc-greenland-glacier.xml
(this one doesn't have those numbers, but you can see that this is apparently happening much more rapidly than thought)
It's a WMA stream, looks like, or probably other things too if you want. Just look for how to play Windows Media files in your distro on Google.
One has an ever-increasing myriad of reasons to forget about shopping at Wal*Mart.
Ah, but they do their homework and buy Linux compatible office printers!
Locking and unlocking does not dramatically change the makeup of the phone. On a Treo, it was a very very minor change (in fact, part of the firmware -- one just had to type the right numbers). I'd find it hard to believe that it could blow up unless it were intentional.
The unlock did not brick the phone in such cases, the update did. If an update bricked my phone, the phone is going back -- I don't care what I did to it prior. How is Apple going to prove anything one way or the other?
He doesn't seem to feel that jurisdiction applies to him, at any rate, so it seems only natural.
It does appear that way.
Long URL, eh?
So where did you get this thing? Available for sale? Rigged up yourself...?