Didn't it get stolen from the Germans first? They're going to prosecute a man, for stealing something, that is itself, stolen. And people got killed when it was originally stolen. From what I know, it was stolen with no lives lost. Maybe they're mad because he was able to accomplish the theft in a more efficient manner.
Then the second phone had a bad habit of answering calls on its own, and then hanging up on people.
That's the reason I took the first phone back. It kept hanging up on me. Eventually, it kept turning off unexpectedly. It was completely annoying. After my second phone, I told them I didn't want the same model. I guess the salesperson could see in my eyes, that I was out for blood. She immediately got her manager. He of course, gave me the StarTac. So far, I have no problems with it.
You might try taking it back, next time it hoses out, and telling them you want another model. If they say they won't give you one (a highly unlikely scenerio), just tell them you'll cancel their service. They're the ones pooching the deal by not giving you a decent phone.
If you decide to go with the Sprint plan, here's some things you'll need to know.
Don't get the Samsung SCH-3500 model. No matter how hard they try to sell you. I've had two of these models quit on me. I finally traded it in for a StarTac and not only can you hear better on them, but they have better glow in the dark readout. And, by the way, are more compact.
If you put the phone on vibrate, so that you don't disturb anyone, such as in a business meeting or movie theatre, the phone will vibrate when you get a call, but then will RING to let you know you have missed a call. When I called Sprint about this poor design they said there is nothing they can do about it. Samsung designed the software and the hardware. When I called Samsung, they said there was nothing they could do. I would have loved to be in the design phase meetings when they made this phone.
The phone also has a keylock function. When this feature is activated, the keys won't respond, until you turn it off. This is in case you have the phone in your pocket, or where ever and you don't want to accidently dial people. The problem is, all the keys are locked behind the hard flip-top cover. All they keys, except for two. One of these non-protected keys is the OK key. Guess what it does. It turns off the key-protect feature. Guess what the other one does. It dials your voice mail (for which you get dinged for minutes). Oh, did I mention the keys on the side of the phone? They are a quick-features key. One of these gets you to the main menu where you can do all kinds of dialing damage - again, getting dinged for cell-phone minutes. Just another example of ingenuity in action.
On the plus side, the voice activated dial worked really well. The only problem is, I used it more to impress chicks, than I did for its functionality. The problems with the phone far outweigh this one little plus.
In the first paragraph, the article says that ICANN would be all for.biz and.dot. WTF would.dot be a TLD for?
This would be for ham radio operators and anyone interested in morse code. They thought about different variations, like.dash and various permutations. But mama always said, "Life is like a slashdot poll. Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks."
Apple did this long ago, with their campaign to put their Macintosh computers in all the schools. Their thinking was, let's get the kiddies used to the Mac during their growing up years and when they get older, they're be ours forever. Not a bad idea (if you recall, Hitler ran a similar campaign), but we all know how this turned out for the both of them.
I would love for someone to feed me cookies and juice while I'm working. I wouldn't turn down an attractive female singing songs to me while I'm debugging some heinous code either. I'd get a box full of toys (which I would gladly share with the other programmers). Currently my job doesn't allow me to take naps, but with daycare it's part of the package.
Many moons ago, the water on Mars held a closed session. All the hydrogen and oxygen got together to discuss the current state of affairs. Apparently, they had to spend a fortune in winter apparel and were pretty upset about the fact that the bikinis the Vogons sold them turned out to be wasted money. They decided that they were going to pack up and move to warmer climes.
Mars pleaded with them not to go, but they had made up their minds. Still, they felt somewhat sentimental, so they decided to leave behind a present. They did some molecular magic, and left behind a face, depicting the future Elvis (they can do this, becuase of a loophole in some Einsteinian formula dealing with temporal mechanics). Once this was completed, they hitched a ride, and spent the next few millions years on the sandy beaches of earth.
It did have water, and does have water now. In fact, it has polar ice caps, I believe. The issue is whether it has liquid water, as wherever we have found liquid water, we have found life.
Scientists have found lots of lifeforms in our extreme environments (they're called extremophiles). We've found life in the coldest of the cold, and in volcanic activities (both land-based and ocean-based). However, there's no rule that says that water == life, or that water can't exist without life.
Although, I don't know what spending billions of dollars to find a few space microbes will accomplish.
My local Wal-Mart is selling a product called Martian Mud. Since one half of the recipe calls for water (I'm assuming Martian water), there is no doubt that Mars has an ample supply. After all, Sam Walton wouldn't get involved in a venture of limited cash making capacity. And we all know that Sam was an honorable man, and that he wouldn't be trying to pull the wool over our collective eyes.
We used to have pumpkin skeet shooting, launched from our very own human powered pumpkin launcher. Two or three people had to jump on the glorified teeter-totter, which got launched the doomed pumpkins a pretty good distance (in the other direction of course).
Slashdot Mirror
I hope NASA starts up a new program which has as its' ultimate goal to send a (dead) whale in orbit.
Nah. It'll just wind up turning into a potted flower anyway.
If this doesn't expose astrology as fake, I don't know what will. With all these extra planets, it's sure to throw off all those readings.
I didn't realized petroleum migrated.
What do you mean? African or European petroleum?
You obviously thought about it too much. Get a life and don't worry about it.
Are we absolutely sure that Frank Abagnale is not pretending to be CmdrTaco?
Yea, but puzzle workers only work 23 days a year. Half that of a programmer.
What if 99% of the net reads slashdot with a karma of +50?
These new breed of robots better understand the command Klaatu.
Didn't it get stolen from the Germans first? They're going to prosecute a man, for stealing something, that is itself, stolen. And people got killed when it was originally stolen. From what I know, it was stolen with no lives lost. Maybe they're mad because he was able to accomplish the theft in a more efficient manner.
Someone call Alanis.
If they fingerprints fit, maybe we'll acquit.
This will lead to unmanned tanks, and other tools of destruction. Soon, wars will be settled by [unmanned] tournaments of Roshambo.
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Then the second phone had a bad habit of answering calls on its own, and then hanging up on people.
That's the reason I took the first phone back. It kept hanging up on me. Eventually, it kept turning off unexpectedly. It was completely annoying. After my second phone, I told them I didn't want the same model. I guess the salesperson could see in my eyes, that I was out for blood. She immediately got her manager. He of course, gave me the StarTac. So far, I have no problems with it.
You might try taking it back, next time it hoses out, and telling them you want another model. If they say they won't give you one (a highly unlikely scenerio), just tell them you'll cancel their service. They're the ones pooching the deal by not giving you a decent phone.
If you decide to go with the Sprint plan, here's some things you'll need to know.
Don't get the Samsung SCH-3500 model. No matter how hard they try to sell you. I've had two of these models quit on me. I finally traded it in for a StarTac and not only can you hear better on them, but they have better glow in the dark readout. And, by the way, are more compact.
If you put the phone on vibrate, so that you don't disturb anyone, such as in a business meeting or movie theatre, the phone will vibrate when you get a call, but then will RING to let you know you have missed a call. When I called Sprint about this poor design they said there is nothing they can do about it. Samsung designed the software and the hardware. When I called Samsung, they said there was nothing they could do. I would have loved to be in the design phase meetings when they made this phone.
The phone also has a keylock function. When this feature is activated, the keys won't respond, until you turn it off. This is in case you have the phone in your pocket, or where ever and you don't want to accidently dial people. The problem is, all the keys are locked behind the hard flip-top cover. All they keys, except for two. One of these non-protected keys is the OK key. Guess what it does. It turns off the key-protect feature. Guess what the other one does. It dials your voice mail (for which you get dinged for minutes). Oh, did I mention the keys on the side of the phone? They are a quick-features key. One of these gets you to the main menu where you can do all kinds of dialing damage - again, getting dinged for cell-phone minutes. Just another example of ingenuity in action.
On the plus side, the voice activated dial worked really well. The only problem is, I used it more to impress chicks, than I did for its functionality. The problems with the phone far outweigh this one little plus.
My rating: 1 out of 4 stars.
What is wrong with this? ICANN should be renamed ICANT because they are so irresponsible and lazy.
I Cannot Accept Net Tyrrany. It can be the protestant arm of ICANN.
In the first paragraph, the article says that ICANN would be all for .biz and .dot. WTF would .dot be a TLD for?
.dash and various permutations. But mama always said, "Life is like a slashdot poll. Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks."
This would be for ham radio operators and anyone interested in morse code. They thought about different variations, like
when we gonna see the .zip, .tar, .gz or even .exe?
.soon
Move the ICANN corporate office to Florida.
Apple did this long ago, with their campaign to put their Macintosh computers in all the schools. Their thinking was, let's get the kiddies used to the Mac during their growing up years and when they get older, they're be ours forever. Not a bad idea (if you recall, Hitler ran a similar campaign), but we all know how this turned out for the both of them.
I would love for someone to feed me cookies and juice while I'm working. I wouldn't turn down an attractive female singing songs to me while I'm debugging some heinous code either. I'd get a box full of toys (which I would gladly share with the other programmers). Currently my job doesn't allow me to take naps, but with daycare it's part of the package.
Sign me up.
From the article:
But no-one knows exactly how many undiscovered asteroids are out there.
Way to go Mr. Wizard.
Many moons ago, the water on Mars held a closed session. All the hydrogen and oxygen got together to discuss the current state of affairs. Apparently, they had to spend a fortune in winter apparel and were pretty upset about the fact that the bikinis the Vogons sold them turned out to be wasted money. They decided that they were going to pack up and move to warmer climes.
Mars pleaded with them not to go, but they had made up their minds. Still, they felt somewhat sentimental, so they decided to leave behind a present. They did some molecular magic, and left behind a face, depicting the future Elvis (they can do this, becuase of a loophole in some Einsteinian formula dealing with temporal mechanics). Once this was completed, they hitched a ride, and spent the next few millions years on the sandy beaches of earth.
The rest is history.
It did have water, and does have water now. In fact, it has polar ice caps, I believe. The issue is whether it has liquid water, as wherever we have found liquid water, we have found life.
Scientists have found lots of lifeforms in our extreme environments (they're called extremophiles). We've found life in the coldest of the cold, and in volcanic activities (both land-based and ocean-based). However, there's no rule that says that water == life, or that water can't exist without life.
Although, I don't know what spending billions of dollars to find a few space microbes will accomplish.
My local Wal-Mart is selling a product called Martian Mud. Since one half of the recipe calls for water (I'm assuming Martian water), there is no doubt that Mars has an ample supply. After all, Sam Walton wouldn't get involved in a venture of limited cash making capacity. And we all know that Sam was an honorable man, and that he wouldn't be trying to pull the wool over our collective eyes.
We used to have pumpkin skeet shooting, launched from our very own human powered pumpkin launcher. Two or three people had to jump on the glorified teeter-totter, which got launched the doomed pumpkins a pretty good distance (in the other direction of course).