Simply not true: my dad just recently bought a cell phone and then went to a provider to subscribe for the service. (Its his first cell phone, in case you wonder) Of course he didn't get reductions because he didn't buy the phone "by way of" the provider. If the provider just give you the choice between 3 Nokia's, 2 Ericsons and you want a funky Siemens....Where is your choice?
The phone and the service are two differnt products and are treated that way. You need both to be able to phone...but you also need gas and a car to drive.
As for FAX...hey I never FAX..not even with the dead-paper machine. Email would be more nifty ^_^ and technically I should be able to do that with my 5 year old phone (I saw some choice "Email" in "Phone Setup" somewhere)
Oh, yes....I tried to put my phone on retirement by giving it to my sister but she refused it because she thinks it is just a capitalistic toy. (Weird sister, I know) And I just can't bring it over my heart to ditch a perfectly good working phone,... heck I coudn't even ditch my 286 until it's memory fried.
full sized SIM cards but AFIK the majority of GSM phones sold have a reduced size SIM
I guess you don't know that all SIM cards come in standard size and that you just have to "push-out" the SIM chip. You just keep the rest of the plastic somewhere safe and you can put the SIM-chip back in place if you need it. Those SIM are technically the same, it's just the plastic around that differs. Besides the small one is standardized in size too.
At least it worked that way for the 3 SIM-cards (from different providers) I already had.
As for US phones, I did know there were many standards but in my naivity I presumed they were all SIM-based. Stupid me of course.
maybe if employers PAID service people enough money to live on, the tipping culture wouldn't be necessary
Interesting tought, but well... I live in a country where tipping is not needed (you know, on the bill it states service included etc...) I do tip tough, for two reasons:
a) when a waiter/cleaner/whatever did a very good job I want to show him/her my appreciation. Money does that better than a smile:-)
b) I hate walking around with tons of coins in my pockets, so I usually round up whem it is reasonable to do so. (no, I'm *not* rich..I just like it easy)
Oh, and if you think a) and b) do not fit together...If I tip you just coins, you fall in category b)...otherwhise you're in b)
Good question:-) Really, I would have preffered to give a link, but I didn't find any.
It is not *that* stupid, throw-away phones: while on vacation you woudn't want your 100$ cell-phone stolen (trouble with contacting your provider to lock your SIM etc...) For the rest I don't see much uses.
For the kids perhaps: "You only get *one* cell-phone per month and don't start whining";-)
Lower the quality: Let them automagically break down after 'warranty period + 1 day' (what, they already do that?)
I know you meant it funny (had a good laugh), but actually I heared once of throw-away-cell phones: you phoned until a certain amount was reached and then you'd throw them away. Probably a hoax because I did some searches on google and dind't find anything.
At the same time, however, those numbers reflect a shrinking pool of first-time buyers--meaning [...] manufacturers face the not-so-simple task of selling replacement phones to people who already own one and are often locked into a lengthy subscriber contract
How does "lengthy subscriber contract" affect my cell phone? I mean, I go to the shop, buy a new phone and put in my SIM-card..Voila, changed phone and kept subscription. I know cell-phones work differently in the US/Japan...but isn't it SIM-based too?
average life span of a wireless phone dropped recently to about 25 months from 32 months.
Well, that clearly depends on the person. In the last 5 years my brother got 3 different cell-phones. Mostly because they fell out of his pocket and broke...they don't repair broken cell-phones. As for myself I have still the same bulky cell-phone I had for the last 5 years (= 60 months). I like the (fast and compact) interface and the only thing I really lack is an addressbook for sending SMS's.
Oh, and I can use it for self defense: I bet no-one will want my cell-phone smaked in his face;-)
[...PC market...] On one hand, these companies promoted the Internet and digital music to drive consumer sales.
Heh? Computer companies promoted digital music? Hey, MPAA...sue them! Hey are helping prirates.
A long time ago I had one: a 486DX-25 card that fitted in my old IBM PS/2 model 50 (that's an 80286 at 10Mhz). (Don't start bitching that the architecture was Microchannel and it was propriary as hell) The card also had 8Meg RAM onboard and was called MicroMaster, IIRC. Actually it acted a bit like a motherboard on the motheboard. I used it for nearly 5 year until the original RAM of the 286 fried....so that POST failed
The documentation claimed that it could even act as a multiprocessor machine (a 286 combined with a 486 machine sounds weird to me but hey!) if the OS supported it. Never actually had the oppurtunity to test it:-(
You mean the *original* PPro:-) So many people forget that P-II was just a modified PPro (MMX added IIRC).
My Pentium Pro 200 is still my machine of choice today (as Workstation...weird huh?) and now I'm looking forward to some nice AMD chip to replace it. Thunderbid 1.5G sounds of my leage;-)
I tried ZoneAlarm on my principal PC, but unfortunately it is also the NAT server for my network and ZoneAlarm doesn't support NAT:-(
Doesn't anyone know a similar program that monitors access to the internet (even logging would be fine, I'm not that paranoid) without having to disabling the NAT.
Besides, don't tell me I should set up a Linux box with a proxy and firewall, my mom already threathend to kill me because of all those UTP cables running trough the house.
I had it all the time on too. It made everything easier and the first time I had to use Word I was so confused because I missed the tags. It was soo much easier to clean up a mess you made in the layout, instead of pressing "Undo" a dozen of times and hoping not to lose too much stuff (read: the "Word" way)
The good old time will never come back:-(
Tu == subject. Te == object. :-))) Actually I wrote that down and but erased it because I tought: if it's wrong I will stand there as an idiot and I will get flamed to death by real grammar nazi's.
Thanx for the helpful info:-)
Glad you take it with humour ^_^ Well, I'm not a native french speaker either...nor am I a native english speaker:-)
Here you go:
Your version: ca c'est tres amuse. mais je suis american - donc...vas tu faire enculer!
My version:
C'est très amusant, mais je suis un Americain - donc vas-te faire enculer!
Remarks:
The first "ca" was not needed (sorry dont have the cedille on my keyboard for the c) You alread refer to the previous sentence with "C'est" what is short for "celà est" or "ca est"
When referring to your nationality it sounds awkward to me to omit the article ("un")...I could be mistaken of course
"Tu" and "Te" would both be translated into english as "you", but they are different. Unfortunately I lack the grammar lingo to explain the difference.
"Se faire enculer" is not a very nice thing to say, by the way.
In case you see in me a grammar Nazi or so, don't be mistaken...I barely know the grammar of the languages I speak/write: I do it by feeling and that works quite well.
You finally make sense, my dear AC. It's about money and not technology we're talking. Joe Sixpack only wants the best price/quality which has nothing to do with "the latest" or the "hippest". (Which is what you claimed in your previous post) If DSL/Cable were too expensive he would definately stick with his phoneline and the success of Cable/DSL would be comparable to HDTV (close to nil)
Just remember that you seem to live in a lucky part of the globe. *sobs* I'd happily pay the double I pay now (for ISDN) to have Cable or DSL
I fully agree. I loved all those sierra's with the command line interface, I've spent hours playing them and learned more English that way than by going to school.
Those games shouldn't really die, perhaps it would be possible to redesign the genre in a FP perspective (you know, 3D, you see what the hero sees..and *no* friggin guns, please). Of course commandline-like interface would be fairly difficult, but one-mouse-command method could offer a solution. Even better keyboard triggered actions: like pressing 'U' for 'use' while you've got a certain object selected in your inventory. IMHO it must be possible to save the genre that way (lotsa eyecandy + adventure), but I'm no game designer.
Consider the fact that many countries don't even have DSL or Cable. My country hasn't got it yet and ISDN is the fastest thing we can get (except Leased lines, but I'm not Rockafeller). No I don't live in a third-world country if you wondered.
If Joe Sixpack really likes new technology (take with block of salt please) that much as you claim, where is that HDTV? Or those fancy network computers Sun is always talking about? And now we're at it....Linux is perhaps not new but it is "the latest", so why isn't Joe Sixpack using Linux?
But then, why do I reply to AC's....I'm bored yes...
As other posts already pointed out, it's because Joe Sixpack only knows of his phoneline to access the internet. Most people have no concept of networks and don't really understand what they do (Try to explain to your mom how a cellphone *network* works...no that's a challenge!)
On the other hand, consider this: you have your TiVO and your son has his dreamcast, now there you have a problem! Suddenly you have lack of phone lines. I bet the TiVO and the dreamcast would work normally on a shared 56K modem, but they can't because their modems are "integrated". Even if you have two lines, you double the cost for no really good reason. Perhaps an optional Ethernet-port (some cartrige-style stuff) would be a solution for this. Like pop out the modem, pop in the ethernet...
The only reason why I have an Ethernet at home is because of internet-connection-sharing. I mean, if my brother sits chatting the whole evening, there is no reason why I can't use the leftover-bandwith I'm paying for...so I download Mozilla M17 when he chats at virtually no cost since he would have been online anyway.
Datamining is exactly the art of classifying people as detailed as possible, while still maintaining a high level of efficiency in information retrieval afterwards.
Yes, I know...but then consider: if they used the data correctly I won't get those annoying commercials about tampons anymore...but only about beer and computers. If datamining is done correctly (and morally, now that gets tricky) it could be a good thing for consumers and producers.
About the condoms: you damn very well I didn't use any in my whole life so... I just don't care;-)
:-) If you're so paranoid, why do you have a homepage? Okay, I admit you're very consequent: you don't divulge much about yourself. (No real name, password protection on the interesting stuff....good job)
I can understand your concern with companies that track you by your purchases with plastic money. But then I wonder: what value does it have to them to know what you do personally. To the companies you are just Joe Sixpack, a stupid drone, a number. I may be too trusting, but all the records are just ditched in one big database and conclusions are drawn about the average consumer. It's the average consumer that is important to them, not *you* as a person. I may be wrong of course: I'm often wrong.
As for alcohol and condoms? Why are those sensitive?!? Hey, hello everyone...yesterday I bought a bottle of Rum! See, nobody even stirs;-) As for condoms,...errr...it's a good thing to protect oneself no? The corn-chips part is really not clear to me, I don't know corn-chips, sorry.
About the original poster: I think he was just pissed because his browser/particular setup was not supported. I can understand his anger, but it really has not much to do with privacy. Besides, what difference does it make to the online-shop if you're running Lynx, Opera, Neoplanet, Mozilla M17, Netscape or Explorer...it's just a matter of rendering.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't care either and I do use those cards too. I'm probably not paranoid enough ^_^ It's just that most people tend to forget the *use* of the fidelity cards and would bitch about giving away personal info online, but would be happily using their discount cards. As a real nerd I pay nearly everything with creditcard and shun the use of that impractical thing called "cash". Especially coins...so heavy and clumsy: it's only good for paying parking because there is no plastic alternative there.
Well I surely hope you don't use a fidelity card at your local Brick&Mortar store. They track your buying habits that way too you know.
Besides you are going to find me a lamer, but *I* do click on the banners of the sites that I like. The day that advertisers get the clue that internet advertising isn't that effective, we will lose a lot of great sites because of lack of funding. I could be wrong of course.
Very cute indeed (yes I actually looked at the high res pic), you must be very proud ^_^
But honestly, since you seem to be involved in some way with these clothes, it *is* a hoax, isn't it?
I didn't claim 800Meg on X, but just on the minimum install I could get *with* X. I tried to exclude tons of packages, but that package wanted sendmail and that other package wanted something else etc....
Give me a way to install Linux with X in less (or about) 300 meg and I'll be eternally grateful... I won't use 60% of what default installs give me. I'm pretty good in thinning out Windoze, but with Linux I just can't... (read: dare)
I just need to be able to run Netscape, a good Mail client, Staroffice, Java2 and I'm done. Not much to ask is it?
Oh, did I mention that I never smoke crack...
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Simply not true: my dad just recently bought a cell phone and then went to a provider to subscribe for the service. (Its his first cell phone, in case you wonder) Of course he didn't get reductions because he didn't buy the phone "by way of" the provider. If the provider just give you the choice between 3 Nokia's, 2 Ericsons and you want a funky Siemens....Where is your choice?
The phone and the service are two differnt products and are treated that way. You need both to be able to phone...but you also need gas and a car to drive.
As for FAX...hey I never FAX..not even with the dead-paper machine. Email would be more nifty ^_^ and technically I should be able to do that with my 5 year old phone (I saw some choice "Email" in "Phone Setup" somewhere)
Oh, yes....I tried to put my phone on retirement by giving it to my sister but she refused it because she thinks it is just a capitalistic toy. (Weird sister, I know) And I just can't bring it over my heart to ditch a perfectly good working phone,... heck I coudn't even ditch my 286 until it's memory fried.
I guess you don't know that all SIM cards come in standard size and that you just have to "push-out" the SIM chip. You just keep the rest of the plastic somewhere safe and you can put the SIM-chip back in place if you need it. Those SIM are technically the same, it's just the plastic around that differs. Besides the small one is standardized in size too.
At least it worked that way for the 3 SIM-cards (from different providers) I already had.
As for US phones, I did know there were many standards but in my naivity I presumed they were all SIM-based. Stupid me of course.
Interesting tought, but well... I live in a country where tipping is not needed (you know, on the bill it states service included etc...) I do tip tough, for two reasons: :-)
a) when a waiter/cleaner/whatever did a very good job I want to show him/her my appreciation. Money does that better than a smile
b) I hate walking around with tons of coins in my pockets, so I usually round up whem it is reasonable to do so. (no, I'm *not* rich..I just like it easy)
Oh, and if you think a) and b) do not fit together...If I tip you just coins, you fall in category b)...otherwhise you're in b)
Good question :-) Really, I would have preffered to give a link, but I didn't find any.
It is not *that* stupid, throw-away phones: while on vacation you woudn't want your 100$ cell-phone stolen (trouble with contacting your provider to lock your SIM etc...) For the rest I don't see much uses.
For the kids perhaps: "You only get *one* cell-phone per month and don't start whining";-)
I know you meant it funny (had a good laugh), but actually I heared once of throw-away-cell phones: you phoned until a certain amount was reached and then you'd throw them away. Probably a hoax because I did some searches on google and dind't find anything.
How does "lengthy subscriber contract" affect my cell phone? I mean, I go to the shop, buy a new phone and put in my SIM-card..Voila, changed phone and kept subscription.
I know cell-phones work differently in the US/Japan...but isn't it SIM-based too?
average life span of a wireless phone dropped recently to about 25 months from 32 months.
Well, that clearly depends on the person. In the last 5 years my brother got 3 different cell-phones. Mostly because they fell out of his pocket and broke...they don't repair broken cell-phones. ;-)
As for myself I have still the same bulky cell-phone I had for the last 5 years (= 60 months). I like the (fast and compact) interface and the only thing I really lack is an addressbook for sending SMS's.
Oh, and I can use it for self defense: I bet no-one will want my cell-phone smaked in his face
[...PC market...] On one hand, these companies promoted the Internet and digital music to drive consumer sales.
Heh? Computer companies promoted digital music? Hey, MPAA...sue them! Hey are helping prirates.
The card also had 8Meg RAM onboard and was called MicroMaster, IIRC. Actually it acted a bit like a motherboard on the motheboard. I used it for nearly 5 year until the original RAM of the 286 fried....so that POST failed
The documentation claimed that it could even act as a multiprocessor machine (a 286 combined with a 486 machine sounds weird to me but hey!) if the OS supported it. Never actually had the oppurtunity to test it :-(
You mean the *original* PPro :-) So many people forget that P-II was just a modified PPro (MMX added IIRC). ;-)
My Pentium Pro 200 is still my machine of choice today (as Workstation...weird huh?) and now I'm looking forward to some nice AMD chip to replace it. Thunderbid 1.5G sounds of my leage
Simple: buy this thing with a memory stick and store your MP3's downloaded with Napster on it. ;-)
Voilà, beating them with their own technology
I tried ZoneAlarm on my principal PC, but unfortunately it is also the NAT server for my network and ZoneAlarm doesn't support NAT :-(
Doesn't anyone know a similar program that monitors access to the internet (even logging would be fine, I'm not that paranoid) without having to disabling the NAT.
Besides, don't tell me I should set up a Linux box with a proxy and firewall, my mom already threathend to kill me because of all those UTP cables running trough the house.
I had it all the time on too. It made everything easier and the first time I had to use Word I was so confused because I missed the tags. It was soo much easier to clean up a mess you made in the layout, instead of pressing "Undo" a dozen of times and hoping not to lose too much stuff (read: the "Word" way) :-(
The good old time will never come back
Tu == subject. Te == object.
:-))) Actually I wrote that down and but erased it because I tought: if it's wrong I will stand there as an idiot and I will get flamed to death by real grammar nazi's. :-)
Thanx for the helpful info
Here you go:
Your version:
ca c'est tres amuse. mais je suis american - donc...vas tu faire enculer!
My version:
C'est très amusant, mais je suis un Americain - donc vas-te faire enculer!
Remarks:
In case you see in me a grammar Nazi or so, don't be mistaken...I barely know the grammar of the languages I speak/write: I do it by feeling and that works quite well.
LOL...You are funny! You *did* write that french phrase incorrectly on purpose , didn't you?
...those dirty fingerprints on my CD's.
Just remember that you seem to live in a lucky part of the globe. *sobs* I'd happily pay the double I pay now (for ISDN) to have Cable or DSL
Those games shouldn't really die, perhaps it would be possible to redesign the genre in a FP perspective (you know, 3D, you see what the hero sees..and *no* friggin guns, please).
Of course commandline-like interface would be fairly difficult, but one-mouse-command method could offer a solution. Even better keyboard triggered actions: like pressing 'U' for 'use' while you've got a certain object selected in your inventory. IMHO it must be possible to save the genre that way (lotsa eyecandy + adventure), but I'm no game designer.
Consider the fact that many countries don't even have DSL or Cable. My country hasn't got it yet and ISDN is the fastest thing we can get (except Leased lines, but I'm not Rockafeller). No I don't live in a third-world country if you wondered.
If Joe Sixpack really likes new technology (take with block of salt please) that much as you claim, where is that HDTV? Or those fancy network computers Sun is always talking about? And now we're at it....Linux is perhaps not new but it is "the latest", so why isn't Joe Sixpack using Linux?
But then, why do I reply to AC's....I'm bored yes...
On the other hand, consider this: you have your TiVO and your son has his dreamcast, now there you have a problem! Suddenly you have lack of phone lines. I bet the TiVO and the dreamcast would work normally on a shared 56K modem, but they can't because their modems are "integrated". Even if you have two lines, you double the cost for no really good reason. Perhaps an optional Ethernet-port (some cartrige-style stuff) would be a solution for this. Like pop out the modem, pop in the ethernet...
The only reason why I have an Ethernet at home is because of internet-connection-sharing. I mean, if my brother sits chatting the whole evening, there is no reason why I can't use the leftover-bandwith I'm paying for...so I download Mozilla M17 when he chats at virtually no cost since he would have been online anyway.
Datamining is exactly the art of classifying people as detailed as possible, while still maintaining a high level of efficiency in information retrieval afterwards.
Yes, I know...but then consider: if they used the data correctly I won't get those annoying commercials about tampons anymore...but only about beer and computers. If datamining is done correctly (and morally, now that gets tricky) it could be a good thing for consumers and producers.
About the condoms: you damn very well I didn't use any in my whole life so... I just don't care ;-)
I can understand your concern with companies that track you by your purchases with plastic money. But then I wonder: what value does it have to them to know what you do personally. To the companies you are just Joe Sixpack, a stupid drone, a number. I may be too trusting, but all the records are just ditched in one big database and conclusions are drawn about the average consumer. It's the average consumer that is important to them, not *you* as a person. I may be wrong of course: I'm often wrong.
As for alcohol and condoms? Why are those sensitive?!? Hey, hello everyone...yesterday I bought a bottle of Rum! See, nobody even stirs ;-) As for condoms,...errr...it's a good thing to protect oneself no? The corn-chips part is really not clear to me, I don't know corn-chips, sorry.
About the original poster: I think he was just pissed because his browser/particular setup was not supported. I can understand his anger, but it really has not much to do with privacy. Besides, what difference does it make to the online-shop if you're running Lynx, Opera, Neoplanet, Mozilla M17, Netscape or Explorer...it's just a matter of rendering.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't care either and I do use those cards too. I'm probably not paranoid enough ^_^
It's just that most people tend to forget the *use* of the fidelity cards and would bitch about giving away personal info online, but would be happily using their discount cards.
As a real nerd I pay nearly everything with creditcard and shun the use of that impractical thing called "cash". Especially coins...so heavy and clumsy: it's only good for paying parking because there is no plastic alternative there.
Besides you are going to find me a lamer, but *I* do click on the banners of the sites that I like. The day that advertisers get the clue that internet advertising isn't that effective, we will lose a lot of great sites because of lack of funding. I could be wrong of course.
Very cute indeed (yes I actually looked at the high res pic), you must be very proud ^_^
But honestly, since you seem to be involved in some way with these clothes, it *is* a hoax, isn't it?
I didn't claim 800Meg on X, but just on the minimum install I could get *with* X. I tried to exclude tons of packages, but that package wanted sendmail and that other package wanted something else etc....
Give me a way to install Linux with X in less (or about) 300 meg and I'll be eternally grateful... I won't use 60% of what default installs give me. I'm pretty good in thinning out Windoze, but with Linux I just can't... (read: dare)
I just need to be able to run Netscape, a good Mail client, Staroffice, Java2 and I'm done. Not much to ask is it?
Oh, did I mention that I never smoke crack...