I send/rec over 100 texts a day, and about 50 emails. I have worn out 2 blackberrys. Yes WORN OUT, and had replaced under warranty because the keyboards had worn out. I have also worn out holster after holster, dragging them in and out of it. Not broken mind you, worn them to the point they no longer function correctly due to using them as intended by the manufacturer.
I also use about 1500 min a month.
and I hate, hate, hate, using the phone for any purpose.
but over the two year contract its $40 more expensive than your $399 iphone!!! What if I WANT to minimize my monthly out of pocket... and pay for the whole thing up front?
This lack of option has left a really bad taste in my mouth.:(
Yeah, but the problem is not with the righteous lawsuits... its with the frivolous ones. Own a business for a bit and find out how there are legions of people actively looking for opportunities to sue you and tap your insurance policy.
I witness this from two angles:
1. I owned Brick and Mortar establishment, and slip and fall lawsuits are just a plague. I closed up shop because of the hassle and now only work on the customer site or take their equipment back to our shop.
2. Many of my clients are PI attorneys. Just being in their office frequently and getting to know their business you realize that some of their clients have 4 and 5 lawsuits going at one time. One lady I ran into had to get a plaintiffs ambulance report... the ambulance company had to get very specific about what location she was picked up and dropped off to, as they had serviced her 3 times that day for slip and fall accidents.
We have got to figure out a way to stop the predatory lawsuits while protecting the legitimately hurt people. I dont know the answer to this except that maybe a judge should be able to examine events and circumstances in an attempt to weed the frivolous lawsuits out. But all the judges I know (and I know a few) are so jaded by the process that it just does not happen.
Just ask your teenage daughter what a whale tail is... then ask about muffin top. Then realize that you know nothing about their culture, are really old and prepare to die.
Well after I beat her for a few hours she insisted on taking the advanced courses.
No, really, the school system in general "encourages" kids with aptitude to push farther and harder. She came home with the books and I thought she had taked my college books to school for show and tell.
I am too busy trying to put food on teh table and a roof over their heads to be an overbearing parent.
I remember the first time i played quake, or even descent. I got sick to my stomach after an hour or two, I was sitting too close for too long without breaks and seriously got motion sick... which is funny because I have never actually gotten motion sickness from real life, and I go deep sea fishing and have even ridden airplanes during acrobatic maneuvers.
Well there are plusses and minuses to large monitor use.
I have 2 30" displays, one an apple and one a dell, running in a dual monitor setup on a mac pro.
Yes, you can put ALOT more stuff on a 30" monitor. but for casual browsing, I tend to sit back in my chair with my feet up, and then I find text way too small to read (or I am too old, one of those).
Adjust the text sizes up to a comfortable size and web pages start to not render properly.
When working, sitting forward in the chair, its a great boon to be able to really spread my work out into a logical organization pattern and still be able to see it all at once.
I know, I know, I have alot of money tied up in there, and its not a common thing to spend that much. But WTF, you cannot take it with you, and my kids didnt earn it so beyond a nice 50K nest egg each, they are on their own, I plan to spend it all before I die.
Ah but that just addresses the symptom and not the fundamental problem. You should NEVER accept and email and then not deliver it without a bounce. If a message is spam, decide so at transaction time and terminate the transaction with a failure code.
Email systems that do not do this, yet do not send a bounce message "break" email. Possible to get a false positive and block a legit email with no error message back to sender. This is never a desired operation. If the message get a spam designation and the transaction is ended at smtp time, the onus returns to the sending server to create and deliver the error message back to the sender. For spam, no problem they dont do it anyway, and for ham that was false-positived, the sender gets a descriptive notice why.
well, lemme tell you I must be lucky, coz ASSP handles that stuff on autopilot. Once I installed ASSP, the system returned to a pretty much "set and forget" status. Most of my mail admin duties involve responding to folks who have misconfigured email systems (small domains with admins who aren't following the RFCs...)
I spend more time dealing with other admins who do not have their systems configured correctly than with end users.
Even then this amount of time is so small I do not even budget it.
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I am one of those.
I send/rec over 100 texts a day, and about 50 emails. I have worn out 2 blackberrys. Yes WORN OUT, and had replaced under warranty because the keyboards had worn out. I have also worn out holster after holster, dragging them in and out of it. Not broken mind you, worn them to the point they no longer function correctly due to using them as intended by the manufacturer.
I also use about 1500 min a month.
and I hate, hate, hate, using the phone for any purpose.
not 59.99 try 69.99... add another $240 to your total... and guess what? THE NEW PHONE IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE OLD!
Trickery and lies.
but over the two year contract its $40 more expensive than your $399 iphone!!! What if I WANT to minimize my monthly out of pocket... and pay for the whole thing up front?
:(
This lack of option has left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Canda, Americas Hat.
sweet
That is a very interesting Idea. Have the mars lander create a myspace page as if it were sentient. Neat way to generate excitement and publicity.
Yeah, but the problem is not with the righteous lawsuits... its with the frivolous ones. Own a business for a bit and find out how there are legions of people actively looking for opportunities to sue you and tap your insurance policy.
I witness this from two angles:
1. I owned Brick and Mortar establishment, and slip and fall lawsuits are just a plague. I closed up shop because of the hassle and now only work on the customer site or take their equipment back to our shop.
2. Many of my clients are PI attorneys. Just being in their office frequently and getting to know their business you realize that some of their clients have 4 and 5 lawsuits going at one time. One lady I ran into had to get a plaintiffs ambulance report... the ambulance company had to get very specific about what location she was picked up and dropped off to, as they had serviced her 3 times that day for slip and fall accidents.
We have got to figure out a way to stop the predatory lawsuits while protecting the legitimately hurt people. I dont know the answer to this except that maybe a judge should be able to examine events and circumstances in an attempt to weed the frivolous lawsuits out. But all the judges I know (and I know a few) are so jaded by the process that it just does not happen.
Just ask your teenage daughter what a whale tail is... then ask about muffin top. Then realize that you know nothing about their culture, are really old and prepare to die.
I see what you did there
but battery life SUCKS and the batteries are difficult to find new. Refurb ones are all over ebay.
That said, I really like them.
Sony TX series.
Expensive, but well performing (once you strip out all the unnec. crap) and a loooooong battery life. most also have a cell card built in.
I like it, but I am not so much on a budget.
Well after I beat her for a few hours she insisted on taking the advanced courses.
No, really, the school system in general "encourages" kids with aptitude to push farther and harder. She came home with the books and I thought she had taked my college books to school for show and tell.
I am too busy trying to put food on teh table and a roof over their heads to be an overbearing parent.
Shit, Mine is in public school, and will be taking 2nd year calculus in her senior year. They are pushing them harder and harder.
I remember the first time i played quake, or even descent. I got sick to my stomach after an hour or two, I was sitting too close for too long without breaks and seriously got motion sick... which is funny because I have never actually gotten motion sickness from real life, and I go deep sea fishing and have even ridden airplanes during acrobatic maneuvers.
Well there are plusses and minuses to large monitor use.
I have 2 30" displays, one an apple and one a dell, running in a dual monitor setup on a mac pro.
Yes, you can put ALOT more stuff on a 30" monitor. but for casual browsing, I tend to sit back in my chair with my feet up, and then I find text way too small to read (or I am too old, one of those).
Adjust the text sizes up to a comfortable size and web pages start to not render properly.
When working, sitting forward in the chair, its a great boon to be able to really spread my work out into a logical organization pattern and still be able to see it all at once.
I know, I know, I have alot of money tied up in there, and its not a common thing to spend that much. But WTF, you cannot take it with you, and my kids didnt earn it so beyond a nice 50K nest egg each, they are on their own, I plan to spend it all before I die.
takes less than an hour to install assp, and it does the job for free and without ongoing cost. And it does a better job by adhering to standards.
And it does not take a dedicated piece of hardware to run, it runs just fine on the mail server itself.
Now who is wasting other peoples time and money?
oh fuuuuuuck you.
Oh and for the money? Is there a FREE option? I missed that checkbox.
Default config for cudas is broken, and most folks that buy them arent tweaking them, they just listening to paul harvey and jumping on it.
waaaaaahhhhh. work! waaaahhhhhhh
how about free?
ASSP
I would be really interested to hear what you think of projects like assp and specifically assp.
dear lord, it sounds like you are spending a ton of time and effort on that. Probably money too.
I set up ASSP on a company's server in about an hour, and rarely touch it ever again.
Seriously, no offense or insult intended, check it out.
15-150 users is my target demographic for doing sys admin work and that sounds like what you work with.
Exactly.
Ah but that just addresses the symptom and not the fundamental problem. You should NEVER accept and email and then not deliver it without a bounce. If a message is spam, decide so at transaction time and terminate the transaction with a failure code.
Email systems that do not do this, yet do not send a bounce message "break" email. Possible to get a false positive and block a legit email with no error message back to sender. This is never a desired operation. If the message get a spam designation and the transaction is ended at smtp time, the onus returns to the sending server to create and deliver the error message back to the sender. For spam, no problem they dont do it anyway, and for ham that was false-positived, the sender gets a descriptive notice why.
well, lemme tell you I must be lucky, coz ASSP handles that stuff on autopilot. Once I installed ASSP, the system returned to a pretty much "set and forget" status. Most of my mail admin duties involve responding to folks who have misconfigured email systems (small domains with admins who aren't following the RFCs...)
I spend more time dealing with other admins who do not have their systems configured correctly than with end users.
Even then this amount of time is so small I do not even budget it.