1. Why in your first example would you be editing a CSV file on the PC, when google gives you access to edit the contact right then and there? My Windows Mobile experience is as thus: a. open gmail/contacts in web browser b. Edit contact to suit and save. c. Force an activesync connection on the phone (or wait 30 minutes, as mine automatically polls both my contacts AND calendar and keeps them synched - whether on device or on the internets.)
2. Photos are always kind of a usability issue - DCIM and 100MEDIA seem to be the standard that Canon digital cameras use (my only experiences here) so why would that be different? Since you are already speaking about the Nokia as a bluetooth partnership, we'll assume that WiFi is a "known setup" as well. Outlining my experience: a. Connect to WiFi at home b. Open Total Commander; connect to home share drive (server or PC.) c. Copy files from phone (storage card/dcim/100MEDIA/.) to share. d. Disconnect WiFi.
Listening to music is simple on my phone - however, as most tech people go, I use an alternate program. But with HTC's TouchFlo, there's a "tab" on the main interface that goes directly to music. Scans the entire device (quickly if it's already been scanned once) and then you select music. But, as I haven't used it (I prefer something more along the lines of "select a folder to play every time") I can't speak for how quick it is in comparison to the Nokia device.
I can't believe that an Android device is quite as hard as you make it out to be - unless you're untechie, in which case the scenario you gave at the very least with transferring photos gives me some indication (with bluetooth pairing) that the user is technical enough to understand that piece.
I'll elaborate on the AC that posted a reply to you. In my experience, Facebook does 3 things to find friends for you:
1. Look through your address book and attempt to find people who match that are already in the system by e-mail (and sometimes name) 2. Dig your e-mail address out of other people's address books that they've harvested from e-mail accounts. (this may or may not be a true statement, but judging by your comment...) 3. Offer up "Friends of Friends" - chances are, you're friends with other people's friends, so they offer those too as suggested friends.
I think the scam is that you have to use their in-game cash (Farm Cash) to buy fuel refills for the tractors/harvesters/seeders. They don't have a current way to either get fuel as a gift or to purchase it with coins - the in-game currency that you gain by planting and harvesting crops.
Similarly, expanding your farm's area can be done two ways - with coins or with their Farm Cash. But - for those of us without 200 friends that play farmville on a casual basis, if you want to expand the farm you need to have X number of neighbors for each upgrade if you use coins.
Also, I haven't found a way to get Farm Cash without actually spending real money. Hence, I haven't spent the money on it because like others here, it's just a nice break away from reality for a few minutes. If that means I'm slightly hindered in my "progress towards nothing" then so be it.
I hope we see one of two scenarios play out with what you're speaking of:
1. Tethering. For a low added cost - not the easily double cost of adding tethering to an existing account. I would be willing to pay $5 more to be able to tether to my laptop - even at the crippled 5GB limit imposed by most (all?) carriers today. With ATT, my current carrier, they want another $30 on top of the $30 I pay them already for the PDA plan.
2. That GSM/3g modem in your netbook? Would be cool to see it tied to the already paid for phone/data plan. This way I'm not paying again for a service that I already have. Again - maybe $5 a month to have another device on that internet plan? Kind of like a family plan for internet.....
This would really make the cell broadband options take off, in my opinion - and let's face it, if I'm tethering or using my laptop with a dedicated card, I'm not going to have the mindset to "double dip" with my phone using the data at the same time.....
And based on the load on the box, you might be better off just shutting it off altogether!
Of course, I say that and then did an uptime on my Ubuntu box. All it does is sit there with some basic MRTG and Samba feeding my Windows clients. 0.00 across the board as well. Oh well.....
I have a serious issue with UPS lately. Notably just with the last person to handle my packages.
My address - let's say it's 5224. I have a neighbor who is at 5244. We get incorrect packages - especially since most of my UPS stuff comes "signature not required." This Christmas, I ordered some stuff online for my wife, paid extra for 2 day shipping. Showed delivered Friday. Went round and round with the vendor and then with UPS - they couldn't do anything other than put a trace on the package which would take 8-10 business days. Obviously out of range for anything remotely close to the holiday at hand, I just had my wife go and chat with the neighbor. Turns out the package was there.....
In hindsight, I should have had her give the neighbor our phone number.... but at any rate, over the past 2 years we've had at least 6 such screw ups in each direction with the address and name clearly labelled. And we have had the same UPS guy for the last 10 years. I may just have to buy him reading glasses.
I've NEVER had a problem using FedEx. Sure, having to go pick up an anticipated package if we're not home for delivery sucks. Also doesn't mean they won't screw up the next package, but I'm much more comfortable with them at this point than UPS. It only takes one person to screw up the whole chain in my mind.
You bring up a good point regarding changing the running config vs the saved config.
What I'll do if I'm changing a remote system - POTS or no - is set up a reboot of the device in 15 minutes. After verifying the clock. Then, if something in the config causes an unforseen issue, you just need to wait a little for the switch/router to come back online with it's original config.
Obviously, this can extend the outage window - however, always plan for worst case...
See, this is where people differ in their fix-it methodology. If it would take me more than a weekend to fix it, I typically pay someone else to do it. If it's simple enough for me to fix - and I've fixed a lot of stuff on cars, including performing an engine swap - then I do it.
Somehow I doubt I'd get to mucking around with valve timing for any reason; however if I need to change the basics on the car, it is still available.
Like I said before, common mechanical parts are still able to be swapped. Common wear points still wear out. Your steering joints, ball joints, wheel bearings, brakes, oil, battery are all consumable items that are still able to be replaced.
If you're tearing into an engine, that is probably where most people who do their own maintenance - computer or not - will not go.
Anymore this sounds just like a "GET OFF MY LAWN" comment.
I enjoy maintaining my own vehicle, and while I get the WTF moment when a part costs more than I'm expecting to pay (for instance, Ford wants 600$ for a light controller. 4 relays, a few transistors and caps... WHY!!!) I still notice that a new car has similar components to any other car out there.
Yes, it's a little complicated by the electronics now and then, but you still have a motor, a transmission, battery tires oil younameit it's all there, user serviceable. Even the steering components haven't changed much - and things you do more often are still accessable. Ball joints, brake pads and rotors, oil, wheel bearings etc.
With all the features cars offer today, I've got no complaints.
Not to rock anyone's boat, but seriously? 5GB/month is too little? I use mobile broadband from time to time - VPN into work etc; I'd have to hazard that I could maybe use 200MB/day.
Given 200MB/day and 21 days working, that gets close to 5GB - probably a little too close for comfort, I guess. But while I'd rather have "unlimited" be "unlimited" too, I just don't see why everyone's up in arms, like 5GB isn't a huge amount of data.
That's my main trouble with service from the cell companies.
Let's say I wanted to buy a phone - like my current Fuze/touch pro. So I buy it in full, up front for say 600$ (not sure what they were initially, but this is a good starting point.) There is no way I can go month to month with them without getting one of their packages ($30 data, xx for xx minutes of voice etc.) And - this package is at the exact same price point that the people whose phones are subsidized are paying.
If I bring the phone to the table - or my contract (2 years) runs out, I should get some sort of discount on the service since I'm not paying them back for the phone.
I would be first in line to a decent-coverage network if I could find a carrier like this. But - the catch - it has to cover all of North America; or at least similar to what the bigger 3 have.....
by L4t3r4lu5 --> Apologies for replying to myself, but I realise that you concatenated several words. That's great if you want a 20+ character password, but which user wants that? First name + year of birth: 1R9o8b3. EAsy to remember, shocking to crack.
You were born in the year 4345??? And your real name is Ltrlu?
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Just some thoughts:
1. Why in your first example would you be editing a CSV file on the PC, when google gives you access to edit the contact right then and there? My Windows Mobile experience is as thus:
a. open gmail/contacts in web browser
b. Edit contact to suit and save.
c. Force an activesync connection on the phone (or wait 30 minutes, as mine automatically polls both my contacts AND calendar and keeps them synched - whether on device or on the internets.)
2. Photos are always kind of a usability issue - DCIM and 100MEDIA seem to be the standard that Canon digital cameras use (my only experiences here) so why would that be different? Since you are already speaking about the Nokia as a bluetooth partnership, we'll assume that WiFi is a "known setup" as well. Outlining my experience:
a. Connect to WiFi at home
b. Open Total Commander; connect to home share drive (server or PC.)
c. Copy files from phone (storage card/dcim/100MEDIA/.) to share.
d. Disconnect WiFi.
Listening to music is simple on my phone - however, as most tech people go, I use an alternate program. But with HTC's TouchFlo, there's a "tab" on the main interface that goes directly to music. Scans the entire device (quickly if it's already been scanned once) and then you select music. But, as I haven't used it (I prefer something more along the lines of "select a folder to play every time") I can't speak for how quick it is in comparison to the Nokia device.
I can't believe that an Android device is quite as hard as you make it out to be - unless you're untechie, in which case the scenario you gave at the very least with transferring photos gives me some indication (with bluetooth pairing) that the user is technical enough to understand that piece.
Well then it would just be 100x as AWESOME!!!!
coffeecoffeecoffee...
I'll elaborate on the AC that posted a reply to you. In my experience, Facebook does 3 things to find friends for you:
1. Look through your address book and attempt to find people who match that are already in the system by e-mail (and sometimes name)
2. Dig your e-mail address out of other people's address books that they've harvested from e-mail accounts. (this may or may not be a true statement, but judging by your comment...)
3. Offer up "Friends of Friends" - chances are, you're friends with other people's friends, so they offer those too as suggested friends.
I think the scam is that you have to use their in-game cash (Farm Cash) to buy fuel refills for the tractors/harvesters/seeders. They don't have a current way to either get fuel as a gift or to purchase it with coins - the in-game currency that you gain by planting and harvesting crops.
Similarly, expanding your farm's area can be done two ways - with coins or with their Farm Cash. But - for those of us without 200 friends that play farmville on a casual basis, if you want to expand the farm you need to have X number of neighbors for each upgrade if you use coins.
Also, I haven't found a way to get Farm Cash without actually spending real money. Hence, I haven't spent the money on it because like others here, it's just a nice break away from reality for a few minutes. If that means I'm slightly hindered in my "progress towards nothing" then so be it.
I think you missed the "My provider runs spamassassin" part of the parent post.
I hope we see one of two scenarios play out with what you're speaking of:
1. Tethering. For a low added cost - not the easily double cost of adding tethering to an existing account. I would be willing to pay $5 more to be able to tether to my laptop - even at the crippled 5GB limit imposed by most (all?) carriers today. With ATT, my current carrier, they want another $30 on top of the $30 I pay them already for the PDA plan.
2. That GSM/3g modem in your netbook? Would be cool to see it tied to the already paid for phone/data plan. This way I'm not paying again for a service that I already have. Again - maybe $5 a month to have another device on that internet plan? Kind of like a family plan for internet.....
This would really make the cell broadband options take off, in my opinion - and let's face it, if I'm tethering or using my laptop with a dedicated card, I'm not going to have the mindset to "double dip" with my phone using the data at the same time.....
In that context, shouldn't you say "Sometimes you have to sit down against certain things." :)
Those are two totally seperate entities. If I recall, Divx the format was around before DIVX the scheme to rent you physical product.
And based on the load on the box, you might be better off just shutting it off altogether!
Of course, I say that and then did an uptime on my Ubuntu box. All it does is sit there with some basic MRTG and Samba feeding my Windows clients. 0.00 across the board as well. Oh well.....
I Feel Asleep.....
Not only on your lap, but on your bare skin. Creeping closer to your own naughty bits.
I have a serious issue with UPS lately. Notably just with the last person to handle my packages.
My address - let's say it's 5224. I have a neighbor who is at 5244. We get incorrect packages - especially since most of my UPS stuff comes "signature not required." This Christmas, I ordered some stuff online for my wife, paid extra for 2 day shipping. Showed delivered Friday. Went round and round with the vendor and then with UPS - they couldn't do anything other than put a trace on the package which would take 8-10 business days. Obviously out of range for anything remotely close to the holiday at hand, I just had my wife go and chat with the neighbor. Turns out the package was there.....
In hindsight, I should have had her give the neighbor our phone number.... but at any rate, over the past 2 years we've had at least 6 such screw ups in each direction with the address and name clearly labelled. And we have had the same UPS guy for the last 10 years. I may just have to buy him reading glasses.
I've NEVER had a problem using FedEx. Sure, having to go pick up an anticipated package if we're not home for delivery sucks. Also doesn't mean they won't screw up the next package, but I'm much more comfortable with them at this point than UPS. It only takes one person to screw up the whole chain in my mind.
You bring up a good point regarding changing the running config vs the saved config.
What I'll do if I'm changing a remote system - POTS or no - is set up a reboot of the device in 15 minutes. After verifying the clock. Then, if something in the config causes an unforseen issue, you just need to wait a little for the switch/router to come back online with it's original config.
Obviously, this can extend the outage window - however, always plan for worst case...
Did you just annoy yourself a little there?
See, this is where people differ in their fix-it methodology. If it would take me more than a weekend to fix it, I typically pay someone else to do it. If it's simple enough for me to fix - and I've fixed a lot of stuff on cars, including performing an engine swap - then I do it.
Somehow I doubt I'd get to mucking around with valve timing for any reason; however if I need to change the basics on the car, it is still available.
Like I said before, common mechanical parts are still able to be swapped. Common wear points still wear out. Your steering joints, ball joints, wheel bearings, brakes, oil, battery are all consumable items that are still able to be replaced.
If you're tearing into an engine, that is probably where most people who do their own maintenance - computer or not - will not go.
Anymore this sounds just like a "GET OFF MY LAWN" comment.
I enjoy maintaining my own vehicle, and while I get the WTF moment when a part costs more than I'm expecting to pay (for instance, Ford wants 600$ for a light controller. 4 relays, a few transistors and caps... WHY!!!) I still notice that a new car has similar components to any other car out there.
Yes, it's a little complicated by the electronics now and then, but you still have a motor, a transmission, battery tires oil younameit it's all there, user serviceable. Even the steering components haven't changed much - and things you do more often are still accessable. Ball joints, brake pads and rotors, oil, wheel bearings etc.
With all the features cars offer today, I've got no complaints.
Not to rock anyone's boat, but seriously? 5GB/month is too little? I use mobile broadband from time to time - VPN into work etc; I'd have to hazard that I could maybe use 200MB/day.
Given 200MB/day and 21 days working, that gets close to 5GB - probably a little too close for comfort, I guess. But while I'd rather have "unlimited" be "unlimited" too, I just don't see why everyone's up in arms, like 5GB isn't a huge amount of data.
That's my main trouble with service from the cell companies.
Let's say I wanted to buy a phone - like my current Fuze/touch pro. So I buy it in full, up front for say 600$ (not sure what they were initially, but this is a good starting point.) There is no way I can go month to month with them without getting one of their packages ($30 data, xx for xx minutes of voice etc.) And - this package is at the exact same price point that the people whose phones are subsidized are paying.
If I bring the phone to the table - or my contract (2 years) runs out, I should get some sort of discount on the service since I'm not paying them back for the phone.
I would be first in line to a decent-coverage network if I could find a carrier like this. But - the catch - it has to cover all of North America; or at least similar to what the bigger 3 have.....
I'd much rather be in that facility myself - rather than my digital documents - if nuclear bombs started falling close to my location.
by L4t3r4lu5 --> Apologies for replying to myself, but I realise that you concatenated several words. That's great if you want a 20+ character password, but which user wants that? First name + year of birth: 1R9o8b3. EAsy to remember, shocking to crack.
You were born in the year 4345??? And your real name is Ltrlu?
You made me lol @ the clever use of whargarbl. Thanks!
The WinMo app is the same way - doesn't take into account apps you've blocked or people you've hidden. Ends up having me just "web" to m.facebook.com.
Wiki states that chicken and turkey are identical in amount:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan
It is found in turkey at a level typical of poultry in general.
[quote]I think you meant Tera election volts.[/quote]
Please don't vote for Tera.
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