I'm trying to say they're not really screwing anyone, in fact, they're at least making an attempt to help out. You have a high end phone, but it doesn't support their new network buildout. So, they're giving you a free ENTRY LEVEL phone that does. You can take that, or you can refuse it, and call AWE up, and they will be more than happy to work a deal out with you.
Personally, I'd eBay off the T68i and T226 and buy a T616 with the profits.
they're not phasing out 1900MHz, and 900MHz is Europe only... you know how we are, one standard for world, one standard for USA... They're simply transferring much of their 800/850MHz spectrum to GSM, and since the TDMA network that this is coming from is much more mature, the coverage is greatly improved.
30 days buyer's remorse. Basically, if the service sucked, well, you should have returned the phone. I did when GSM was first released here.
It's simple enough. T68i only supports 1900MHz, T226 supports 1900MHz and 800MHz. Don't like the T226? Two options: Deal with the shitty service (should have read your contract), or pay for an upgrade (and since they're bleeding customers, you can get them pretty cheap).
The 3650 does NOT support GSM850. You can continue service with it, it doesn't bother AT&T. But if you switch to the T226, you can use the GSM850 network. AT&T deployed GSM on 1900MHz in almost all markets because 800MHz (same as GSM850, just screwed up naming scheme) was already in use by TDMA. They are now switching bandwidth from TDMA to GSM. GSM850 has much better propagation and building penetration than GSM1900, but there's no way you can use it with the 3650.
OK, here's the deal. AT&T Wireless sends these users a card saying that they'll be getting an upgraded phone within the next couple weeks. This is ONLY in areas where a GSM850 network now exists. The T68i does NOT support GSM850. So, you've got two options - Keep using your T68i keep on whining and moaning that the service sucks, or use the T226 and use the GSM850 network and the GSM1900 network. Either way, you're not really REQUIRED to send the T68i back, it's just begged that you do so in the papers. They give you a postage-paid box to send it back in.
Yeah, the phone blows. You're the moron that bought a phone that didn't support GSM850. I've had a phone from the BEGINNING that did, and still do. A SonyEricsson T616. It's easy enough to get one cheap, too. It's called a contract extension. And don't whine about the contract either, you COULD go prepaid. ATTWS has some of the best prices in the business. Mod me troll is you like, but hey, caveat emptor. It's your own fault.
What was to strop them from doing it with paper tickets anyway? Everytime I take the PA Turnpike, I'm always wary of the toll guy calling the cops and saying "It only took him 45 minutes to get from the Poconos to Philly".. Times are stamped on those, too.
amen on that. I was once in town waiting in line to use an ATM, and an older woman just couldn't figure it out. So, I instructed her on it, and she withdrew $900 right in front of me. I don't think she understood that she was supposed to keep her pin private. "OK, now it wants your pin." "oh, it's...." "nono, type it in.".. yeesh, people. It's easier than getting money from a teller, for god sakes.
A yellow light indicates to the driver that the light is about to turn red, hence removing his right of way, and transferring it to another lane/road, or the pedestrian via the walk/do not walk signs.
In any event, it's the moron pedestrian's fucking fault for walking out into open traffic. Hell, I remember being taught in grade school to never cross a busy street unless it was parallel to a road with the green light.
These aren't criminal lawsuits, they're civil. You know, we got freezing rain last night, and i was stumbling around drunk last night, and slipped and fell on your icy sidewalk at 4AM, so you owe me a half a million for my broken arm and emotional hardship.
Doing ANYTHING with the code, good or bad is illegal. So if we DID make a patch, we couldn't claim we did.
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Where did the numbers come from?
In the US, most chipped cars will fail an OBD-II test immediately, because the cough up a Diagnostic Trouble Code, usually "checksum not correct" - and that's enough to fail before you get a probe up the rear to check emissions.
The car company has to make everyone happy. So, they make their firmware a little sloppy. Stomp on the gas, and throttle may not respond as quickly as you want - because grandma doesn't expect it to.
The car company doesn't want to make you run on high-octane gasoline, but your local gas station has 94PON, and you don't mind paying for it. Nowadays, you have to adjust timing in the computer.
Also, there's emissions tests. So, for instance, they might run an engine a tad lean so that the numbers ALWAYS come up good. They can also run an engine a tad rich to keep it cooler.
Also, transmission shift points and firmness can be controlled. Ever notice how you can barely feel the shift on an automatic transmission? That's lost power. With a little code, you can have neck-snapping shifts. Also better on the transmission.
Better fuel economy is gotten from tighter fuel injection timings (example, if you're spraying for 10ms, and for 2ms of that, the valve isn't even open, why not just spray for 8ms?), and better spark management (Give spark at 18 degrees before top dead center, and all fuel is burnt. Give spark at 11 degrees before top dead center, and it isn't. More power.)
I used to work for my state's Department of Transportation. I once had a conversation with a traffic engineer about it, and he said the best way to get the inductive coil to sense you is to stop right on the inside of the coil (ie, as close to the wire as you can). Of course, this only works when you can see the sensor. Basically, pull to the left or right of the lane instead of the center.
A little googling will find stories of C-band sattelite dish users seeing ABC/NBC/CBS sending the "via sattelite" transmissions over a usually dead transponder. In the DirecTV case, it's probably fraud - Since there's no way to (cheaply) talk back to the sattelite and verify your subscriber status every time you turn on the reciever, they use smart cards. DCMA or not, he's changing the contents of the smart card to fool his reciever into thinking he's a valid subscriber. It'd be the same as using someone else's keycard to get into a building you're not allowed to be in.
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I'm trying to say they're not really screwing anyone, in fact, they're at least making an attempt to help out. You have a high end phone, but it doesn't support their new network buildout. So, they're giving you a free ENTRY LEVEL phone that does. You can take that, or you can refuse it, and call AWE up, and they will be more than happy to work a deal out with you.
Personally, I'd eBay off the T68i and T226 and buy a T616 with the profits.
they're not phasing out 1900MHz, and 900MHz is Europe only... you know how we are, one standard for world, one standard for USA... They're simply transferring much of their 800/850MHz spectrum to GSM, and since the TDMA network that this is coming from is much more mature, the coverage is greatly improved.
They sent me a letter about it. go to howardforums.com, there's much discussion about it.
30 days buyer's remorse. Basically, if the service sucked, well, you should have returned the phone. I did when GSM was first released here.
It's simple enough. T68i only supports 1900MHz, T226 supports 1900MHz and 800MHz. Don't like the T226? Two options: Deal with the shitty service (should have read your contract), or pay for an upgrade (and since they're bleeding customers, you can get them pretty cheap).
No, I don't. Read the letter from AWE or call them. PhoneScoop.com will tell you that the 3650 supports GSM900, GSM1800, and the US GSM1900.
And most of the time, the people at stores are morons.
The 3650 does NOT support GSM850. You can continue service with it, it doesn't bother AT&T. But if you switch to the T226, you can use the GSM850 network. AT&T deployed GSM on 1900MHz in almost all markets because 800MHz (same as GSM850, just screwed up naming scheme) was already in use by TDMA. They are now switching bandwidth from TDMA to GSM. GSM850 has much better propagation and building penetration than GSM1900, but there's no way you can use it with the 3650.
OK, here's the deal. AT&T Wireless sends these users a card saying that they'll be getting an upgraded phone within the next couple weeks. This is ONLY in areas where a GSM850 network now exists. The T68i does NOT support GSM850. So, you've got two options - Keep using your T68i keep on whining and moaning that the service sucks, or use the T226 and use the GSM850 network and the GSM1900 network. Either way, you're not really REQUIRED to send the T68i back, it's just begged that you do so in the papers. They give you a postage-paid box to send it back in.
Yeah, the phone blows. You're the moron that bought a phone that didn't support GSM850. I've had a phone from the BEGINNING that did, and still do. A SonyEricsson T616. It's easy enough to get one cheap, too. It's called a contract extension. And don't whine about the contract either, you COULD go prepaid. ATTWS has some of the best prices in the business. Mod me troll is you like, but hey, caveat emptor. It's your own fault.
wait a second, Martha killed someone?
or, just rewind the damn ribbon because it usually works just fine for 2 or 3 more runs
it's probably just a timer. IE, take a microwave, pop a bunch of bags, see what the average is, and bam, popcorn button.
What was to strop them from doing it with paper tickets anyway? Everytime I take the PA Turnpike, I'm always wary of the toll guy calling the cops and saying "It only took him 45 minutes to get from the Poconos to Philly".. Times are stamped on those, too.
At least you don't THINK you ever owned a Hummer or a Harley. Maybe you got Enronated and didn't know.
amen on that. I was once in town waiting in line to use an ATM, and an older woman just couldn't figure it out. So, I instructed her on it, and she withdrew $900 right in front of me. I don't think she understood that she was supposed to keep her pin private. "OK, now it wants your pin." "oh, it's ...." "nono, type it in." .. yeesh, people. It's easier than getting money from a teller, for god sakes.
i'm still downloading the video, but i'd assume it's the police video camera.
No, you're wrong. At least in Pennsylvania.
If you aren't in a crosswalk, you don't have the right-of-way EVER.
If you are in a crosswalk, you only have the right of way when you have a WALK sign, or the parallel street has a green light.
Otherwise, you're just a moron who doesn't know how to look for high-speed lumps of steel.
A yellow light indicates to the driver that the light is about to turn red, hence removing his right of way, and transferring it to another lane/road, or the pedestrian via the walk/do not walk signs.
In any event, it's the moron pedestrian's fucking fault for walking out into open traffic. Hell, I remember being taught in grade school to never cross a busy street unless it was parallel to a road with the green light.
These aren't criminal lawsuits, they're civil. You know, we got freezing rain last night, and i was stumbling around drunk last night, and slipped and fell on your icy sidewalk at 4AM, so you owe me a half a million for my broken arm and emotional hardship.
Doing ANYTHING with the code, good or bad is illegal. So if we DID make a patch, we couldn't claim we did.
Where did the numbers come from?
In the US, most chipped cars will fail an OBD-II test immediately, because the cough up a Diagnostic Trouble Code, usually "checksum not correct" - and that's enough to fail before you get a probe up the rear to check emissions.
I don't think any cars actually do that, and I've experienced Ford EEC-IV and EEC-V.
nono, not overclocking. Think of it this way:
The car company has to make everyone happy. So, they make their firmware a little sloppy. Stomp on the gas, and throttle may not respond as quickly as you want - because grandma doesn't expect it to.
The car company doesn't want to make you run on high-octane gasoline, but your local gas station has 94PON, and you don't mind paying for it. Nowadays, you have to adjust timing in the computer.
Also, there's emissions tests. So, for instance, they might run an engine a tad lean so that the numbers ALWAYS come up good. They can also run an engine a tad rich to keep it cooler.
Also, transmission shift points and firmness can be controlled. Ever notice how you can barely feel the shift on an automatic transmission? That's lost power. With a little code, you can have neck-snapping shifts. Also better on the transmission.
Better fuel economy is gotten from tighter fuel injection timings (example, if you're spraying for 10ms, and for 2ms of that, the valve isn't even open, why not just spray for 8ms?), and better spark management (Give spark at 18 degrees before top dead center, and all fuel is burnt. Give spark at 11 degrees before top dead center, and it isn't. More power.)
Remove the space between item= and the rest of the url =)
Slow down coowboy.... it's only been 5 seconds....
?i tem =2984699256&category=21166
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&
That seems to be under $1,000.
I used to work for my state's Department of Transportation. I once had a conversation with a traffic engineer about it, and he said the best way to get the inductive coil to sense you is to stop right on the inside of the coil (ie, as close to the wire as you can). Of course, this only works when you can see the sensor. Basically, pull to the left or right of the lane instead of the center.
FWIW, it's my opinion that it's not.
A little googling will find stories of C-band sattelite dish users seeing ABC/NBC/CBS sending the "via sattelite" transmissions over a usually dead transponder. In the DirecTV case, it's probably fraud - Since there's no way to (cheaply) talk back to the sattelite and verify your subscriber status every time you turn on the reciever, they use smart cards. DCMA or not, he's changing the contents of the smart card to fool his reciever into thinking he's a valid subscriber. It'd be the same as using someone else's keycard to get into a building you're not allowed to be in.