I work with a large entertainment company (french speaking clowns...rhymes with puree) based in Canada and all of their people traveling and working in Canada+US have two phones and two numbers...one US and one Canadian. Standard operating procedure. With the corporate sponsorship that they have (Delta, American Express, etc) they don't have a unified mobile phone solution, so I doubt that one exists for an individual.
When I'm working up there I'm issued a Canadian mobile for business and for personal stuff use Google Voice to retrieve voicemails and Skype to call people back stateside.
As an aside...two friends/coworkers have used the Verizon North America plan that you currently have and it is no longer available and they were actively sold new US-only contracts with XYZ perks for changing contracts so hold onto it for as long as you can.
None of this answers your question directly but if you find a solution please let me know because I know a number of people I work with would benefit.
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Use shorten. With plugins which will allow for realtime decompression and playback (with searching within each song) available for XMMS, Winamp, and Macamp the only issue remaining is storage capacity and processing time involved in decompressing the files. Any Celeron or higher will handle the processing necessary and with 120gig drives well below $300 and 160gig starting to come out...that's a healthy sized cd collection.
A number of online communities use shorten for trading live recordings...www.etree.org is one such organization. WAVs are generated from a number of different sources, compressed, checksum's are generated, then the files are distributed freely.
Another great advantage of shorten is that if something comes along that provides better (or more desireable) compression you can un-shorten all of your files to their original state and recompress them using this newer compression scheme....something that no MP3 (or any other compression scheme that I know of) will do.
The US admitted to having the Blackbird in the mid 80s...because they have something better. We see pictures of the new remote controlled spy planes on CNN today...because the US has something better.
The US would only turn off selective availability after it had developed a system which was more accurate than the original system.
Selective Availability was a problem at first because the computing power necessary to account for variable error was unattainable when the system was first rolled out. Crunching the numbers was expensive....especially in a portable situation. Solutions existed but cost was prohibitive.
With GPS receivers costing ~$100 (ie eTrex) what's the point of the EU developing their own satellite system unless it's compatible with all of the existing receivers that are readily available on the market today? And if it is compatible, then can't it really only be as good as the GPS system that's in place today (sans SA.)
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I work with a large entertainment company (french speaking clowns...rhymes with puree) based in Canada and all of their people traveling and working in Canada+US have two phones and two numbers...one US and one Canadian. Standard operating procedure. With the corporate sponsorship that they have (Delta, American Express, etc) they don't have a unified mobile phone solution, so I doubt that one exists for an individual.
When I'm working up there I'm issued a Canadian mobile for business and for personal stuff use Google Voice to retrieve voicemails and Skype to call people back stateside.
As an aside...two friends/coworkers have used the Verizon North America plan that you currently have and it is no longer available and they were actively sold new US-only contracts with XYZ perks for changing contracts so hold onto it for as long as you can.
None of this answers your question directly but if you find a solution please let me know because I know a number of people I work with would benefit.
...let it mellow.
if it's brown...flush it down.
Use shorten. With plugins which will allow for realtime decompression and playback (with searching within each song) available for XMMS, Winamp, and Macamp the only issue remaining is storage capacity and processing time involved in decompressing the files. Any Celeron or higher will handle the processing necessary and with 120gig drives well below $300 and 160gig starting to come out...that's a healthy sized cd collection.
A number of online communities use shorten for trading live recordings...www.etree.org is one such organization. WAVs are generated from a number of different sources, compressed, checksum's are generated, then the files are distributed freely.
Another great advantage of shorten is that if something comes along that provides better (or more desireable) compression you can un-shorten all of your files to their original state and recompress them using this newer compression scheme....something that no MP3 (or any other compression scheme that I know of) will do.
Read http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic-demo.html
It's been down for over two years...I'll pass.
"Note: 1 Sep 1999: The iPic web-server is currently off-line, it will be back shortly. Meantime, please visit the mirror site below."
Mirror site of what's on the iPic FWIW.
The US admitted to having the Blackbird in the mid 80s...because they have something better. We see pictures of the new remote controlled spy planes on CNN today...because the US has something better.
The US would only turn off selective availability after it had developed a system which was more accurate than the original system.
Selective Availability was a problem at first because the computing power necessary to account for variable error was unattainable when the system was first rolled out. Crunching the numbers was expensive....especially in a portable situation. Solutions existed but cost was prohibitive.
With GPS receivers costing ~$100 (ie eTrex) what's the point of the EU developing their own satellite system unless it's compatible with all of the existing receivers that are readily available on the market today? And if it is compatible, then can't it really only be as good as the GPS system that's in place today (sans SA.)