Honestly, the last four times I was on a plane, I had left my cell phone on, to see what would actually happen (it's not like they check all the devices on your person to see if they are on or not) , and I didn't receive signal at any point during the flights until within about 2 minutes of landing or takeoff. Outside of that, too high for the signals to reach.
Therefore, this isn't really all that much. And, should something bad ever happen involving airplanes again, a lot more people would have their phones on them to notify people with.
is that a direct dial from the U.S., or does it have to be done with country code? (ie, does it use the ten-digit US convention?) A ton of those numbers,even ones with legit purposes, are actually billed by phone sex ops...
International calls often have excess surcharges billed to them by carriers in the middle.. and I don't know what the country code to the area you were calling is, but I bet it's used predominantly by phone sex operators...
But, the Sanyo phones account for more than 50% of all Sprint handset sales since the addition of the ReadyLink service. Hell, I personally sold over 100 ReadyLink phones specifically to people who wanted to be able to "chirp", within a week of it's release. And the clip of selling ReadyLink capable phones has NOT slowed down one bit.
Maybe if you just buy a data cable, then you can actually manipulate your data using a real computer, as well.. it's much better than having a stupid memory chip that can be destroyed, shorted, cloned, erased, and other bad things.
Sprint and Verizon's group-talk works much the same way, and it's free, whereas with Nextel, only the 2-way directconnect is free, you pay for all group calls.
I/O, I'd expect better than this comment from you:P
"pay up front for the phone"?? Where are you buying your equipment? Oh, wait, you're in Iowa aren't you.. yeah.. Iowa isn't actually Sprint, it's some partner that supplies Sprint with the service, and they don't provide instant rebates. Virtually everywhere else in the country you get anywhere from $150 to $290 off each phone with activation...
Bzzt. Verizon's prices are basically the same (within $5 and/or 100 minutes) of all the other major players. Verizon does not have a market corner on cool phones, but they are getting some nice ones. They also have the market cornered on network reliablity, absolutely period, and no one else will ever touch them.
Cingular's phones are definitely cool, but only on the high end. The low end cool phones are completely cornered by Sprint. Also Sprint and Verizon's handsets are FAR more reliable, as they will not allow a phone to suck ass and make their networks look like crap.
But if you want the coolest phones, you get T-Mobile. Of course, you'll never be able to make a call without the other party going "What? I can't understand you." but you'll ahve an awesome phone.
if Sprint goes through with this, and doesn't just gut all of Nextel, and offer every one of their customers a great deal on a Sprint phone with ReadyLink, they are completely stupid.
Nextel's network sucks, Nextel's telephone service sucks, and Sprint's ReadyLink works a lot better (albeit somewhat differently) than DirectConnect.
Umm.. hello... virtually every ID is like this now and has been for years.
Now, apparently the slashdot people have gotten so bad that not only do they hardly ever leave their parents basements, when they do they don't even have identification on them, considering the last time i saw a state ID or DL that did not have such security measures was probably in the early 90's.
OS/2 Warp v4 included IBM's full, very expensive voice recognition software, only lacking the very expensive dictionaries that the full version supported. It could still learn quite well on it's own, though.
The only problem I had with it was that a very speedy for the time 80MHz machine with 96MB RAM was quite bogged down by it. I played with it shortly after upping to 128MB on a 166MHz, and it was quite nice.
Unfortunatly, Windows/Linux/most other OS's are virtually impossible to manipulate via voice.
Ahh.. those were the days. Sit thirty feet away from the computer... say "Menu. File. Open. Down. Down. OK." sure, we now have wireless mice that will allow me to achieve the same thing much faster.. but.. the only wireless mice in that era were really awful IR based ones.
You can remove at least 49 downloads from that counter, because I've had to download it at least 50 times (probably more) before I managed to get one that didn't crash every time I clicked a link.
Well, since the hash computes over a certain size of blocks of the file, and you have to wholesale replace the -entire- block with a block that has the same MD5, to hash to the same overall MD5, then verifying a relatively randomized set of bytes, across the file, would give you a much better representation of "are user A and user B going to send me the same file, or files that are intentionally made to look alike but really aren't".
I was only referring to the use for P2P applications to determine if two different people were serving the same files, in the case of someone poisoning a P2P share.
hmm.. he's got a pretty good idea for me to do a quick PHP script to do this though , so I can at least weed out a few of my duplicate MP3 files... but then, there will be many that are actually same songs but different files, due to not being the same dataset... oh well.
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Honestly, the last four times I was on a plane, I had left my cell phone on, to see what would actually happen (it's not like they check all the devices on your person to see if they are on or not) , and I didn't receive signal at any point during the flights until within about 2 minutes of landing or takeoff. Outside of that, too high for the signals to reach.
Therefore, this isn't really all that much. And, should something bad ever happen involving airplanes again, a lot more people would have their phones on them to notify people with.
ah, yes, i love my 8200, i just upgraded from the 8100 about a week ago.. going to exchange it for the 7400 now that it's out. *drool*
all sanyo needs is megapixel+ cameras, and bluetooth (especially with something besides just headset mode.. sigh) and they will absolutely rock.
is that a direct dial from the U.S., or does it have to be done with country code? (ie, does it use the ten-digit US convention?) A ton of those numbers ,even ones with legit purposes, are actually billed by phone sex ops...
International calls often have excess surcharges billed to them by carriers in the middle.. and I don't know what the country code to the area you were calling is, but I bet it's used predominantly by phone sex operators...
And the Expos back to Montreal, and the Dodgers back to Brooklyn, and the Astros back to Washington.
But, the Sanyo phones account for more than 50% of all Sprint handset sales since the addition of the ReadyLink service. Hell, I personally sold over 100 ReadyLink phones specifically to people who wanted to be able to "chirp", within a week of it's release. And the clip of selling ReadyLink capable phones has NOT slowed down one bit.
"chirp" is a feature that all the kids want now.
Actually, Nokia's phones are consistently top notch... except for the ones they make for Sprint.
It's too bad all the other networks that Nokia makes good phones for suck ass.
Maybe if you just buy a data cable, then you can actually manipulate your data using a real computer, as well.. it's much better than having a stupid memory chip that can be destroyed, shorted, cloned, erased, and other bad things.
Sprint and Verizon's group-talk works much the same way, and it's free, whereas with Nextel, only the 2-way directconnect is free, you pay for all group calls.
I/O, I'd expect better than this comment from you :P
"pay up front for the phone"?? Where are you buying your equipment? Oh, wait, you're in Iowa aren't you.. yeah.. Iowa isn't actually Sprint, it's some partner that supplies Sprint with the service, and they don't provide instant rebates. Virtually everywhere else in the country you get anywhere from $150 to $290 off each phone with activation...
Bzzt. Verizon's prices are basically the same (within $5 and/or 100 minutes) of all the other major players. Verizon does not have a market corner on cool phones, but they are getting some nice ones. They also have the market cornered on network reliablity, absolutely period, and no one else will ever touch them.
Cingular's phones are definitely cool, but only on the high end. The low end cool phones are completely cornered by Sprint. Also Sprint and Verizon's handsets are FAR more reliable, as they will not allow a phone to suck ass and make their networks look like crap.
But if you want the coolest phones, you get T-Mobile. Of course, you'll never be able to make a call without the other party going "What? I can't understand you." but you'll ahve an awesome phone.
if Sprint goes through with this, and doesn't just gut all of Nextel, and offer every one of their customers a great deal on a Sprint phone with ReadyLink, they are completely stupid.
Nextel's network sucks, Nextel's telephone service sucks, and Sprint's ReadyLink works a lot better (albeit somewhat differently) than DirectConnect.
Now, was the boy from Istanbul, or was he from Constantinople?
So.. why not just use your ICQ account, to talk to those AIM people?
If you haven't been around long enough to have an ICQ account.. well.. you just haven't been around.
It completely escapes me as to why any self-respecting Slashdot user would have an AIM account
Jesus christ, it's "ancient news day" on slashdot.. I don't know how much more of this I can take, and I'm only two articles in so far today.
Umm.. hello... virtually every ID is like this now and has been for years.
Now, apparently the slashdot people have gotten so bad that not only do they hardly ever leave their parents basements, when they do they don't even have identification on them, considering the last time i saw a state ID or DL that did not have such security measures was probably in the early 90's.
OS/2 Warp v4 included IBM's full, very expensive voice recognition software, only lacking the very expensive dictionaries that the full version supported. It could still learn quite well on it's own, though.
The only problem I had with it was that a very speedy for the time 80MHz machine with 96MB RAM was quite bogged down by it. I played with it shortly after upping to 128MB on a 166MHz, and it was quite nice.
Unfortunatly, Windows/Linux/most other OS's are virtually impossible to manipulate via voice.
Ahh.. those were the days. Sit thirty feet away from the computer... say "Menu. File. Open. Down. Down. OK." sure, we now have wireless mice that will allow me to achieve the same thing much faster.. but.. the only wireless mice in that era were really awful IR based ones.
And you can't dictate with a mouse.
me plagued by spam mail long time!
Firefox, Mozilla, Opera 7.54, and IE all give me the same results:
The ORIGINAL window that came from secunia.com, opens to what citibank is trying to show in the popup, while no new window opens. Hmm.
You can remove at least 49 downloads from that counter, because I've had to download it at least 50 times (probably more) before I managed to get one that didn't crash every time I clicked a link.
Well, since the hash computes over a certain size of blocks of the file, and you have to wholesale replace the -entire- block with a block that has the same MD5, to hash to the same overall MD5, then verifying a relatively randomized set of bytes, across the file, would give you a much better representation of "are user A and user B going to send me the same file, or files that are intentionally made to look alike but really aren't".
I was only referring to the use for P2P applications to determine if two different people were serving the same files, in the case of someone poisoning a P2P share.
When I saw this, I read it as "Heroin"... then I thought...
"Heroin. It combines the power of assembly language, with the ease of use of assembly language."
(an old quote, usually applied to "C")
hmm.. he's got a pretty good idea for me to do a quick PHP script to do this though , so I can at least weed out a few of my duplicate MP3 files... but then, there will be many that are actually same songs but different files, due to not being the same dataset... oh well.