From the responses I have seen posted, I would like to clear up a few facts... 1. Calls can overlap -- call waiting, call conferencing... if you (A) have a conversation with (B) and (C) calls, you tell (B) you need to talk to (C) and switch the call over. Problem arises when (B) doesn't bother to hang up and the call overlaps... 2. T-mobile will not block a number - their system is not set up that way. 3. Just because the caller ID shows up as 'Number unavailable' doesn't mean you don't know who it is... if the cell phone identifies as an unknown caller but matches the number to a contact in your phone book, the contact's name will show up... 4. If a rep really did hang up on you and you remember the dates/times, you can file a complaint with another rep who has the ability to look at the notes from your previous calls and find out who you spoke to. The reps don't hang up on customers because they feel like it, there is normally a 3 strikes warning if you start using bad language or a dead air script if they cannot hear you. If they hang up on you, it is immediately flagged so its not in the rep's best interest to ever disconnect without following the proper chain. 5. If you are really worried about cloning, go to the t-mobile website http://www.t-mobile.com/Contact.aspx and write a letter or e-mail or send us a fax with a detailed description of what you think has happened.
Troy and Riker are a few generations younger than the cast characters of Enterprise. I guess the producers hae gotten worse then ever - that or Jonathan Frakes wants to relive his glory days! Everything went downhill the day Roddenbury died and now we have to deal with his wife, Majel and Bergen and that other dude (can't remember his name right now). If they are going to cancel the series, at least let it be done in style instead of subjecting fans to this drivel.
Eve Online, a game by Crowd Control Productions (CCP) released in 2003, makes extensive use of transparent windows and window docking in their application. They have not filed for a patent but have utilized the technology for more than 12 months without legal challenge and prior to this filing. Tell everyone you know until this can be overturned. The technology is already in the public domain and should not be 'pirated' by Apple Computers in this blatent attempt to extend patent to 'look and feel' and other non-tangible aspects of visual theory. One could as much patent the stroke and pressure of a brush on canvas or the color of the sky in first use as to patent the 'modal type' of an interface based on principle pre-existing concepts in digital color theory (alpha channel transparency). The website for this game is http://www.eve-online.com/ - there are indeed others, but this is a blatent example which invalidates this patent. Tell a friend, tell an attorney, tell Microsoft if you have to (ewww!).
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From the responses I have seen posted, I would like to clear up a few facts ... ... if you (A) have a conversation with (B) and (C) calls, you tell (B) you need to talk to (C) and switch the call over. Problem arises when (B) doesn't bother to hang up and the call overlaps... ... if the cell phone identifies as an unknown caller but matches the number to a contact in your phone book, the contact's name will show up...
1. Calls can overlap -- call waiting, call conferencing
2. T-mobile will not block a number - their system is not set up that way.
3. Just because the caller ID shows up as 'Number unavailable' doesn't mean you don't know who it is
4. If a rep really did hang up on you and you remember the dates/times, you can file a complaint with another rep who has the ability to look at the notes from your previous calls and find out who you spoke to. The reps don't hang up on customers because they feel like it, there is normally a 3 strikes warning if you start using bad language or a dead air script if they cannot hear you. If they hang up on you, it is immediately flagged so its not in the rep's best interest to ever disconnect without following the proper chain.
5. If you are really worried about cloning, go to the t-mobile website http://www.t-mobile.com/Contact.aspx and write a letter or e-mail or send us a fax with a detailed description of what you think has happened.
Troy and Riker are a few generations younger than the cast characters of Enterprise. I guess the producers hae gotten worse then ever - that or Jonathan Frakes wants to relive his glory days! Everything went downhill the day Roddenbury died and now we have to deal with his wife, Majel and Bergen and that other dude (can't remember his name right now). If they are going to cancel the series, at least let it be done in style instead of subjecting fans to this drivel.
Eve Online, a game by Crowd Control Productions (CCP) released in 2003, makes extensive use of transparent windows and window docking in their application. They have not filed for a patent but have utilized the technology for more than 12 months without legal challenge and prior to this filing. Tell everyone you know until this can be overturned. The technology is already in the public domain and should not be 'pirated' by Apple Computers in this blatent attempt to extend patent to 'look and feel' and other non-tangible aspects of visual theory. One could as much patent the stroke and pressure of a brush on canvas or the color of the sky in first use as to patent the 'modal type' of an interface based on principle pre-existing concepts in digital color theory (alpha channel transparency). The website for this game is http://www.eve-online.com/ - there are indeed others, but this is a blatent example which invalidates this patent. Tell a friend, tell an attorney, tell Microsoft if you have to (ewww!).