And my point is this: It's like complaining about folks using "ain't" -- you can bitch all you want, but it does not help to correct the perceived problem. It just makes you look pedantic.
Wow. You're right. I didn't actually read your post.
Please allow me to retract my previous statement, and insist that the immediate unavailability of vodka combined with a fright of the forthcoming Monday must have clouded my vision and thoughts.
There shouldn't be any trouble doing that with a WRT54G v3. Just about every available third-party firmware supports some fashion of a client mode that you can use, and the V3 is (IIRC) old enough to still be easily hackable.
I used a WRT54GS running Tomato during part of last summer, when my VDSL was on the fritz and AT&T was dragging their feet with fixing it. It worked reliably doing the wireless client/bridge/whatever thing, propped up in an upstairs window where it could see an open network.
What does all that water do for me (the armchair antagonist) sitting in a big hole in the ground called the Aral Sea or the Dead Sea, when it could be providing me with fresh crops, healthier livestock, clean drinking water, and high-tech factories?
[Disclaimer: I live near enough to the Great Lakes in the US that I should really give a shit about both them and other similar things, but I just simply don't. I see them all as resources.]
It's about the same size (both claim to be about 1,000,000 square feet) as the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. And there's a request for petitioners (and money for another 200,000 square feet to house a shuttle) here.
The shuttle, like other Air Force projects, belongs in a building next to the SR-71, F117A, an Apollo command module, a Mercury, a Gemini, and other fun stuff of that ilk. Placing it next to a John Deere is demeaning to both exhibits.:)
Also: Admission to the Air Force museum is free, whereas the Chicago museum wants your money before they let you in. And traffic and parking is so much more pleasant in Dayton than Chicago...
Your argument doesn't make sense. It seems to go something like this: "Because the ARM chip never did get very hot, compared to some other chip, it must be a better performer in terms of MIPS/Watt."
(I had mod points a small number of minutes ago, and I would surely have modded this up [despite knowing almost no French], but they're all gone now. So rather than getting +1, you instead shall be the recipient of this useless acknowledgment.)
Take away service? Ok,that's fair. You don't know what I put on this device, so I can understand if you don't want to support it.
Fair? How? That'd be like an ISP dropping you as a client just because they don't like your operating system. "Fair" would be something closer to running Linux in 1995: The service provider doesn't care that you've got Linux, and probably doesn't even know what it is, but they're happy to continue providing service -- they just can't support you in problem-solving because they don't know how. There's a huge difference between terminating service, and simply not supporting something.
Discontinue updates? I get that, for the same reason as above.
I don't "get that" at all. If there's already no support, then offering updates to these non-supported folks is even cheaper than offering them to people who are eligible for support.
Void warranty? I get that too, since I could easily be an idiot who broke it and that's not your responsibility.
Nope. I don't get that, at all, either. Neither does the Magnuson-Moss Act. Just because I change the software, does not mean that I've broken the hardware. The warranty on the hardware should, therefore, stand.
I use my Droid for this. It works rather well. Supports some 2D stuff, as well.
I used it just a bit ago, for some price comparison and product: I'm in the market for some decent, sub-$100 in-ear headphones. Wal-Mart had some reasonable-looking Sony's on their clearance rack, marked down from $79 to $59.
A quick shot with the barcode reader, and I'm reading reviews of the item in my hand, so I was able to decide whether or not I felt they'd be something worth having. Unfortunately for Wal-Mart, I also got pricing. Newegg has them for $43, so I'll just get some the next time I order from there, but if I were more impulsive (or had a more urgent need), I'd have bought them on the spot.
If that was the point, then yes, I did miss it because it was completely silly. The obvious to the particular problem you just described is simple: Don't put all of your eggs into one basket.
I mean, yeah: I could set it up that way. But I don't. It's much, much cleaner, simpler, and to the point to run a real IM client, communicating over TCP/IP, on a computer that thinks it's a phone, than to deal with any IM-to-SMS hodgepodgery.
The same fraud prevention policies apply equally to both credit and debit cards bearing the Visa or Mastercard logos, for transactions in which Visa or Mastercard is involved.
So, if you only ever use your "debit" card to perform "credit" transactions, and nobody has your PIN, you're just as well protected as you would be with an actual (debt-based) credit card.
However: Neither Visa nor Mastercard can do a damned thing if someone has your card number and your PIN, since a criminal in possession of both of these bits of information will just empty the account using debit transactions and the credit card companies simply aren't in the loop on that. In such cases, it's entirely up to your bank as to how you'll be treated.
More information from the horse's mouth is here. And still more, from that other horse, here.
No. Smartphone data plans are unlimited on Verizon. I work for a medium-sized Verizon retailer, and that's the word from the owner's mouth.
I'd like to show you the fine print that declares this unlimited nature, but I can't, because it ain't fucking there.:) If you care to show me where they say that it is limited, then I'll be all ears.
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You think that California requires registration of journalists?
It must be a strange mind that you live in...
I think you were trying to establish some sort of distinction between the two, but all I see is an apples-to-apples comparison.
And my point is this: It's like complaining about folks using "ain't" -- you can bitch all you want, but it does not help to correct the perceived problem. It just makes you look pedantic.
Ain't ya'll got that, yet?
Wow. You're right. I didn't actually read your post.
Please allow me to retract my previous statement, and insist that the immediate unavailability of vodka combined with a fright of the forthcoming Monday must have clouded my vision and thoughts.
Gosh. If it were that easy to keep things quiet with the FCC, you'd have thought that Apple would've known about it.
Instead, we get this.
Hmm.
Opening the back is handy for cleaning the sensor which from time to time gets a bit grungy during lens changes and such.
It's a simple function which is woefully missing on most DSLRs.
As for the film-rewind widget, who knows. Perhaps they've retasked it in some useful fashion.
There shouldn't be any trouble doing that with a WRT54G v3. Just about every available third-party firmware supports some fashion of a client mode that you can use, and the V3 is (IIRC) old enough to still be easily hackable.
I used a WRT54GS running Tomato during part of last summer, when my VDSL was on the fritz and AT&T was dragging their feet with fixing it. It worked reliably doing the wireless client/bridge/whatever thing, propped up in an upstairs window where it could see an open network.
I've thought about it, and I'm OK with it.
What does all that water do for me (the armchair antagonist) sitting in a big hole in the ground called the Aral Sea or the Dead Sea, when it could be providing me with fresh crops, healthier livestock, clean drinking water, and high-tech factories?
[Disclaimer: I live near enough to the Great Lakes in the US that I should really give a shit about both them and other similar things, but I just simply don't. I see them all as resources.]
The National Museum of the USAF, located in Dayton, OH, seems like just as good of a choice.
It's about the same size (both claim to be about 1,000,000 square feet) as the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. And there's a request for petitioners (and money for another 200,000 square feet to house a shuttle) here.
The shuttle, like other Air Force projects, belongs in a building next to the SR-71, F117A, an Apollo command module, a Mercury, a Gemini, and other fun stuff of that ilk. Placing it next to a John Deere is demeaning to both exhibits. :)
Also: Admission to the Air Force museum is free, whereas the Chicago museum wants your money before they let you in. And traffic and parking is so much more pleasant in Dayton than Chicago...
I think Muslims can be a silly bunch. And I think all this noise about Muhammad is a joke.
In fact, here's a picture of him, just to illustrate how silly this all is:
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Cheaper and just as good, due to skin effect.
Your argument doesn't make sense. It seems to go something like this: "Because the ARM chip never did get very hot, compared to some other chip, it must be a better performer in terms of MIPS/Watt."
You work for Rackspace Hosting, and you use Gmail?
Very punny.
(I had mod points a small number of minutes ago, and I would surely have modded this up [despite knowing almost no French], but they're all gone now. So rather than getting +1, you instead shall be the recipient of this useless acknowledgment.)
I disagree:
Take away service? Ok,that's fair. You don't know what I put on this device, so I can understand if you don't want to support it.
Fair? How? That'd be like an ISP dropping you as a client just because they don't like your operating system. "Fair" would be something closer to running Linux in 1995: The service provider doesn't care that you've got Linux, and probably doesn't even know what it is, but they're happy to continue providing service -- they just can't support you in problem-solving because they don't know how. There's a huge difference between terminating service, and simply not supporting something.
Discontinue updates? I get that, for the same reason as above.
I don't "get that" at all. If there's already no support, then offering updates to these non-supported folks is even cheaper than offering them to people who are eligible for support.
Void warranty? I get that too, since I could easily be an idiot who broke it and that's not your responsibility.
Nope. I don't get that, at all, either. Neither does the Magnuson-Moss Act. Just because I change the software, does not mean that I've broken the hardware. The warranty on the hardware should, therefore, stand.
I use my Droid for this. It works rather well. Supports some 2D stuff, as well.
I used it just a bit ago, for some price comparison and product: I'm in the market for some decent, sub-$100 in-ear headphones. Wal-Mart had some reasonable-looking Sony's on their clearance rack, marked down from $79 to $59.
A quick shot with the barcode reader, and I'm reading reviews of the item in my hand, so I was able to decide whether or not I felt they'd be something worth having. Unfortunately for Wal-Mart, I also got pricing. Newegg has them for $43, so I'll just get some the next time I order from there, but if I were more impulsive (or had a more urgent need), I'd have bought them on the spot.
If that was the point, then yes, I did miss it because it was completely silly. The obvious to the particular problem you just described is simple: Don't put all of your eggs into one basket.
Not on mine, it doesn't.
I mean, yeah: I could set it up that way. But I don't. It's much, much cleaner, simpler, and to the point to run a real IM client, communicating over TCP/IP, on a computer that thinks it's a phone, than to deal with any IM-to-SMS hodgepodgery.
The same fraud prevention policies apply equally to both credit and debit cards bearing the Visa or Mastercard logos, for transactions in which Visa or Mastercard is involved.
So, if you only ever use your "debit" card to perform "credit" transactions, and nobody has your PIN, you're just as well protected as you would be with an actual (debt-based) credit card.
However: Neither Visa nor Mastercard can do a damned thing if someone has your card number and your PIN, since a criminal in possession of both of these bits of information will just empty the account using debit transactions and the credit card companies simply aren't in the loop on that. In such cases, it's entirely up to your bank as to how you'll be treated.
More information from the horse's mouth is here. And still more, from that other horse, here.
You sign your posts on Slashdot with your real name, and a phone number?
*shudder*
But unlimited data (ala unlimited IM) includes unlimited Intarwebs, which is something that I want anyway.
However, I don't want unlimited texting.
(Pro tip to anyone not yet clued in: Google Voice on an Android phone can do SMS for free.)
Yes.
It enables me to see, with a fair amount of certainty, which replies in the thread actually belong to the original poster.
Seconded.
Newer incarnations, most of which I've never tried: Scorched 3D, a browser-playable Java version called Scorch 2000, and others.
Oh, good. This means that iTunes will stop pestering me about upgrading my first-gen iPod Touch to the latest-and-greatest firmware.
No. Smartphone data plans are unlimited on Verizon. I work for a medium-sized Verizon retailer, and that's the word from the owner's mouth.
I'd like to show you the fine print that declares this unlimited nature, but I can't, because it ain't fucking there. :) If you care to show me where they say that it is limited, then I'll be all ears.