I think I remember there's an option buried in the menu system somewhere that lets you change this. But you have to search through the advanced options, and I'm not sure it's even labeled appropriately.
i think it depends on the kid. my son is 6, has several thousand legos (based on the original count off the boxes), and he usually builds most sets once per the instructions, then rips them apart and uses his imagination. part of that may be that the first sets he got were hand me downs, and it took me a year to find where i'd put them, so his only guide was the picture on the box.
Half Price Books is my used bookstore of choice. our city has several of them, and my wife and son go at least once a week. we head straight for the clearance section, and while the majority are $2-3 (usually the hardbacks), they're always selling some books for $0.50-$1 as well.
You can't always find the exact title you want, but I've found some books I forgot about that I'd read when I was a kid, and my son loves browsing through the kids' clearance section.
yep, similar setup at my place. I had an old PIII 733MHZ. I put in a total of 512MB RAM, slackware 12. for backups, it rsync's to another box exactly like it, only with a smaller drive (soon to be replaced by equal sized drives).
Samba shares it out my wife's windows box and to my linux box. we even run apache and gallery on it for pictures and edna on it for mp3s.
the most taxing part is the rsync every night, but after the initial backup it only takes about a minute most days to sync it.
if he's old enough to be out past his curfew, he's old enough to call and say "i'm running late but i'm on my way home now, please don't shut the car off".
yep, i used to get ads in the mail and on my door at an apartment i lived in that advertised DSL was now available in my area. kept getting them for about 3 years. the first year i got one, i signed up and had an appointment for the install, took the day off and found out the day of the installation that it *wasn't* available in my neighborhood. and after than i still kept getting ads for it, specifically targeted to me. i mean, if they mail me a letter, i'm pretty sure they have my address.
Seriously. On a set day, say Sept. 1st, if you're a comcast hsi customer, call them up, ask them what the limit is. Generate enough calls and you'll cause someone besides the cust. service reps some headache. ask you friends, family, co-workers, etc. to call. if you don't get someone who will give you an answer, ask to speak to someone else, or just call back later in the day.
and, while we're at it, don't fill up on gas for a day, let the oil companies feel your wrath!:-)
you're in luck, i'm an admin at the bank that you use!
send me your credit card number, the digits on the back, and your mothers maiden name (so i know its really you, there's lots of sneaky people out there), and i'll reset your password for you.
the motorola l2 isn't a clamshell, but it does have some of the stuff you're looking for. no syncing with linux (that i know of, but i haven't looked for it).
100 speed dials, I press and hold a digit for 2-3 seconds, the phone dials a one digit speed dial. I press one digit and release, followed by hold the next one for 2-3 seconds, it dials a two digit speed dial. - yep, dialing "12#" dials whatever is speeddial 12.
People have multiple home, work, and office numbers. Do not have a stupid menu system that only allows one phone number per person of each type (even if I can put in as many "Others" as I'd like, it's nicer to have them qualified). - yep, as many alternate ones as you want, shows a little symbol for each next to the entry in the phonebook
Sell me a phone without a damn camera, they are a serious problem if you work for a DoD contractor or near a classified space. - yep, no camera
When I'm on the phone, and I ignore a call, I really don't need the obnoxious voice mail alert right in my ear, honest I understood that someone called. - theres a menu option for this
Integrate more and better contact information (hopefully after you have sync, because believe or not, some of us can't stand using a phone to type in information, I'm 6'7" and have large hands and fingers, typing on a phone sucks). - well, you have to buy motorola's software, about $40, but it pulls in from outlook and even does a pretty good job of determining if you have multiple numbers for a particular contact.
Make the cables to connect the phone be storable with or inside of the phone. It sucks to lose a $40 cable because you it's useful and carry it with you all the time, or to never have the cable when you need it, for fear of losing it. Or make it a 4 inch cable, or a cable I can buy at any damn best buy, or that my friends or office are likely to have handy so I can extract information from my phone. - uses a standard mini-usb cable to charge/sync
Store more then 10 incoming, outgoing, and missed calls. Store the start time, and the duration. Oh, and if I call the same person 5 times in a row, I want five entries, not the single most recent one. - stores last 20, no repeats, does show time and duration though
I know in my neighborhood Verizon rolled out FIOS recently. Anyone signing up got a free wireless router. So far I've only detected about 3-4 maximum at a time, but I wonder how long before the neighborhood saturates to the point that it gets too crowded to get a good signal from my own router.
Jerry: It's a finale about nothing. Tony: Nothing? George: Nothing. Tony: WTF do you mean about nothing? George: What'd you do this evening? Tony: Well, I had a meeting with some guys, then I went to dinner with my family. George: There, that's a finale. Tony: How is that a fuckin' finale? Jerry: Well, uh, maybe something happens on the way to dinner.. George: No, no, no. Nothing happens. Jerry: Well, something happens. Tony: Get the fuck outta here!
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I think I remember there's an option buried in the menu system somewhere that lets you change this. But you have to search through the advanced options, and I'm not sure it's even labeled appropriately.
i think it depends on the kid. my son is 6, has several thousand legos (based on the original count off the boxes), and he usually builds most sets once per the instructions, then rips them apart and uses his imagination. part of that may be that the first sets he got were hand me downs, and it took me a year to find where i'd put them, so his only guide was the picture on the box.
Half Price Books is my used bookstore of choice. our city has several of them, and my wife and son go at least once a week. we head straight for the clearance section, and while the majority are $2-3 (usually the hardbacks), they're always selling some books for $0.50-$1 as well.
You can't always find the exact title you want, but I've found some books I forgot about that I'd read when I was a kid, and my son loves browsing through the kids' clearance section.
Yep, we have always been at war with Snakesia..
that's why i always change my password when using utilities like these. although i'm going to stop using them cause they never work..
yep. and if a perl script complains too much, you can turn off warnings and strict..
yep, similar setup at my place. I had an old PIII 733MHZ. I put in a total of 512MB RAM, slackware 12. for backups, it rsync's to another box exactly like it, only with a smaller drive (soon to be replaced by equal sized drives).
Samba shares it out my wife's windows box and to my linux box. we even run apache and gallery on it for pictures and edna on it for mp3s.
the most taxing part is the rsync every night, but after the initial backup it only takes about a minute most days to sync it.
i could almost see them developing something that tracks eye-squinting as "mouse clicks"...
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
you should point it back to your own number, that way it'll remind you on the first message that you forgot to lock your keys.
if he's old enough to be out past his curfew, he's old enough to call and say "i'm running late but i'm on my way home now, please don't shut the car off".
once he found out what's really in them? probably.
yep, i used to get ads in the mail and on my door at an apartment i lived in that advertised DSL was now available in my area. kept getting them for about 3 years. the first year i got one, i signed up and had an appointment for the install, took the day off and found out the day of the installation that it *wasn't* available in my neighborhood. and after than i still kept getting ads for it, specifically targeted to me. i mean, if they mail me a letter, i'm pretty sure they have my address.
Seriously. On a set day, say Sept. 1st, if you're a comcast hsi customer, call them up, ask them what the limit is. Generate enough calls and you'll cause someone besides the cust. service reps some headache. ask you friends, family, co-workers, etc. to call. if you don't get someone who will give you an answer, ask to speak to someone else, or just call back later in the day.
:-)
and, while we're at it, don't fill up on gas for a day, let the oil companies feel your wrath!
you're in luck, i'm an admin at the bank that you use!
send me your credit card number, the digits on the back, and your mothers maiden name (so i know its really you, there's lots of sneaky people out there), and i'll reset your password for you.
arrows on the floor directing people to the nearest exit
and a policy making sure no one uses the floor tile pullers to rearrange those tiles with the arrows on them
the motorola l2 isn't a clamshell, but it does have some of the stuff you're looking for. no syncing with linux (that i know of, but i haven't looked for it).
100 speed dials, I press and hold a digit for 2-3 seconds, the phone dials a one digit speed dial. I press one digit and release, followed by hold the next one for 2-3 seconds, it dials a two digit speed dial. - yep, dialing "12#" dials whatever is speeddial 12.
People have multiple home, work, and office numbers. Do not have a stupid menu system that only allows one phone number per person of each type (even if I can put in as many "Others" as I'd like, it's nicer to have them qualified). - yep, as many alternate ones as you want, shows a little symbol for each next to the entry in the phonebook
Sell me a phone without a damn camera, they are a serious problem if you work for a DoD contractor or near a classified space. - yep, no camera
When I'm on the phone, and I ignore a call, I really don't need the obnoxious voice mail alert right in my ear, honest I understood that someone called. - theres a menu option for this
Integrate more and better contact information (hopefully after you have sync, because believe or not, some of us can't stand using a phone to type in information, I'm 6'7" and have large hands and fingers, typing on a phone sucks). - well, you have to buy motorola's software, about $40, but it pulls in from outlook and even does a pretty good job of determining if you have multiple numbers for a particular contact.
Make the cables to connect the phone be storable with or inside of the phone. It sucks to lose a $40 cable because you it's useful and carry it with you all the time, or to never have the cable when you need it, for fear of losing it. Or make it a 4 inch cable, or a cable I can buy at any damn best buy, or that my friends or office are likely to have handy so I can extract information from my phone. - uses a standard mini-usb cable to charge/sync
Store more then 10 incoming, outgoing, and missed calls. Store the start time, and the duration. Oh, and if I call the same person 5 times in a row, I want five entries, not the single most recent one. - stores last 20, no repeats, does show time and duration though
yep, i never thought i'd need to make one, but sure enough my son managed to lose the burned copy of Sky High when we went on a trip.
heh..my old subaru wagon actually required a special tool to remove the brakes. not a DIY job for me anyway, but it did cost extra at some places.
was it "AT&T engineers are weenies!"?
I know in my neighborhood Verizon rolled out FIOS recently. Anyone signing up got a free wireless router. So far I've only detected about 3-4 maximum at a time, but I wonder how long before the neighborhood saturates to the point that it gets too crowded to get a good signal from my own router.
Jerry: It's a finale about nothing.
Tony: Nothing?
George: Nothing.
Tony: WTF do you mean about nothing?
George: What'd you do this evening?
Tony: Well, I had a meeting with some guys, then I went to dinner with my family.
George: There, that's a finale.
Tony: How is that a fuckin' finale?
Jerry: Well, uh, maybe something happens on the way to dinner..
George: No, no, no. Nothing happens.
Jerry: Well, something happens.
Tony: Get the fuck outta here!
In that case, I'm waiting for the "Mega-happy" ending and then the "Scooby-Doo" ending.
..any of the codecs the porn..i mean video sites i visit ask me to install before i get to see the videos..