I have an S56, which I believe is identical to the S55 except for the frequencies.
It sucks. It is a bad phone in every respect except for two: it is very small, and it has decent audio quality.
Syncing would result in duplicate (triplicate, etc.) copies of everything. Plus, you can't fit all the information in an iCal or Address Book entry into the phone's calendar or phone book, so it's pretty much worthless. (For example, if you put someone's home and business address in Address Book, only one of them shows up in the phone. And then the next time you sync, you get a new copy on your Mac that contains the person with just the address that the phone decided to keep.)
Everything else about the phone sucks too. It's just a piece of crap.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I want a scroll wheel that I can somehow paste on my keyboard. It will go right above the arrow keys (just above the left or right key on my inverted-T arrow key section). That way I could scroll easily with my hands on the keyboard. Anyone seen something like this?
Or even more simple: have the person fill out the ballot (punch cards, optical, whatever) and insert it into a machine right there in the little booth. The machine says who it thinks the person voted for. If the person agrees, then the person submits the ballot to the ballot taker. If not, the person rips up the ballot and tries again.
Solves the problem without making too many changes to the current system.
I really don't know how a company would handle sending a bill to your bank instead of your home address.
Most companies can handle it pretty well. I just tell them that my billing address is such and such, but that my home address is such and such. I've come across two companies so far that can't deal with it (one tiny company and one huge company), but the rest have had no problem. I guess it's not too uncommon to a person's billing address to be different from their home address or service address.
I do this with my Bank of America account, for free.
I looked at their site and it looks like you can only receive e-bills through it. PayTrust lets you receive paper bills too; they scan the bill in and show it to you online.
It's lame that all billers can't send e-bills, but at least PayTrust can make all bills seem like e-bills to me.
From paymybills.com: This is no longer an active web site.
Looks like they didn't.
They were bought by PayTrust. They make money by charging $13 a month per user.
Just to make it clear how spectacularly cool this service is: it's not just online bill-paying. All your bills go to them (either electronically or through the regular postal service) and show up on the web. You can even have them pay the bills automatically. It's dang convenient.
Maybe an idea to share the office space with other home workers?
That's what I do. I found a building that had a bunch of freelancers already working in there, so now I pay $200/month to share the space with them. I like it a lot better than working at home.
The rent is tax-deductible and having a separate office means no red flags when trying to deduct a computer from your taxes.
Go to a bar with a friend. Both of you walk up to a pretty girl. You tell her, "I have 120 laser pointers and I'm trying to come up with an interesting way to use them."
The next morning, call your friend and ask him how the girl was in bed.
Even apple cannot make money working with the RIAA members because they are too greedy. Nothing is going to the artists and actual distributers of the damn music. It is all going to the middlemen who are worthless vicious jackals.
Nobody forced the artists to sign the contracts that send all the money to the middlemen.
If you don't like how it works, create your own record company. There's no law saying that the existing record companies are the only ones who can sell music.
You can get exericise machines for cheap at yard sales and through classified listings like Craigslist. People buy them and then leave them sitting around gathering dust. Maybe you'll do the same but at least you can buy the machine for 80% off to start with.
What I want to know is whether there is an upgrade price that's cheaper than the $130 for the "new release". If not, that's just !@#$ insane on Apple's part.
If you bought a computer very recently, the price is $20. The education price is $70.
Apple charges $130 for its major OS updates, which come out roughly every year. So just count on paying that as part of the ongoing price of running your computer.
Give the information to your local newspapers and TV news programs. The spotlight might spur the authorities into action, and the reporters will love you because you saved them from doing any pesky work for themselves.
Would someone please explain to me why bars can't serve alcohol after a certain time to begin with?
Because drunk people can be loud and bothersome, and it's easier to close the bars than to arrest people for being noisy?
Because drunk people shouldn't be driving, so you want to provide public transportation but can't afford to keep it running all night?
Because the cops want to get some sleep?
Because people get very tired late at night and adding just one drink can make them extremely tired, and driving tired can be deadly? (Did you know that if your eyelids are drooping then you're probably experiencing "microsleep" where you are actually asleep for a fraction of a second? That's bad because not only might you miss the road turning, you might also continue to fall asleep.)
Honestly, people are so taken over with consumerism. Do you NEED all that stuff, as the parent mesg states.
I don't understand this reaction. So many people complain that other people are buying things out of "consumerism"; that they don't need the things, but they buy them to show off or something.
I don't get it. I want a PDA because I want to know what time my doctors appointment is, and what floor her office is located on because I can't remember. I want it so that I can find the phone number of someone without carrying around a static phone book. I want it so I can listen to music on the train because I get sick trying to read on the train. I don't want a PDA to look cool or to seem rich or important.
A few years ago, people kept saying that other people bought cell phones just so they could walk around with a cell phone to their ear to look important. WTF? People bought cell phones because it's often very convenient to be able to call someone when you're away from home.
If I had a lot of money, I'd buy an expensive car. Not so I could show people how much money I have, but because leather seats feel nice, powerful engines are fun, cruise control is convenient and navigation systems save me time.
My guess is that certain people want to look down on other people, and one easy way is to criticize them for owning an item that they don't themselves have a use for (or don't know yet that they have a use for).
Yes, I know, true Extreme Programming requires 2 people in the same place.
Don't worry, Joel doesn't understand true Extreme Programming so he won't make you do it.
I'm not convinced that having somebody look over my shoulder while I'm typing increases productivity.
You're 100% correct. That's why XP doesn't suggest that someone looks over your shoulder while you type. It suggests that you work with someone all the time. "Working with" != "being supervised by".
Game boxes should come with two CDs: the first is the full version of the game, and the second is a demo which is an exact copy of the full version except that only the first couple levels are available, or it only lets you play for 2 hours or whatever. (As opposed to a demo version that comes out months before the full version and therefore has bugs.)
If you open the real CD, you can't return the game. If you only open the demo, you can return the game. That way, if it doesn't work on your computer for some reason and you don't feel like waiting for the patches, you can return it.
Game stores could stop people from buying and returning games just to play the demos by providing extra demo CDs, or by giving store credit instead of cash in exchange for a returned game.
Of course, the problem is that it's up to the game publishers to implement this and who knows if they'd be up for it.
Crap. The durn furiners* have finally figured out our political system. Perhaps we can distract them with another war. Or maybe another slutty pop star.
("durn furiners" == "people who are so dumb that they couldn't figure out how to be born in the US")
(obOnTopicComment: I like your idea. Instead of sticking card into three readers, how about having a large number of readers, all of them provided by different organizations and built by different manufacturers. The voter would be required to put the card in two randomly-chosen readers.)
Not that a lot of drinking is possible in the US with all the puritan anti-drinking laws and culture.
Remember when all the Puritans left Britain? They're the ones who founded the US, so while it's very unfortunate that the US is still a relatively puritanical society, it is easy to understand why.
An additional explanation for the alcohol laws here is the relatively recent (last 15 years or so) campaign against drunk driving. I wonder what the alcohol-related fatality rate is in countries like the US with rather restrictive alcohol laws versus less restrictive countries. (I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher in the US.)
I don't have a car here so I have never had any interaction with the cops but I get the impression that they effectively used drivers licenses as ID cards (correct me if I'm wrong) and demand to see them whenever they stop anyone.
Yes, that is the legal purpose of the drivers' license: to show the police that you are allowed to drive and to prove that the license is actually yours. If you are caught driving without your license on your person, you get in big trouble.
However, contrary to what some people say, you are not required to carry your license when you're not driving.
As I said once you have a form of ID that most people carry it then encourages people to ask for it and the whole situation gets worst with time
Agreed. The bigger problem here in the US, IMHO, is the social security number. That's a unique number that just about everyone in the country has, but it's only supposed to be used for retirement benefits. However, a lot of other government agencies and businesses require that you tell them your number. That one unique number can be the key that relates a lot of information about a person. But that's been covered here before...
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I have an S56, which I believe is identical to the S55 except for the frequencies.
It sucks. It is a bad phone in every respect except for two: it is very small, and it has decent audio quality.
Syncing would result in duplicate (triplicate, etc.) copies of everything. Plus, you can't fit all the information in an iCal or Address Book entry into the phone's calendar or phone book, so it's pretty much worthless. (For example, if you put someone's home and business address in Address Book, only one of them shows up in the phone. And then the next time you sync, you get a new copy on your Mac that contains the person with just the address that the phone decided to keep.)
Everything else about the phone sucks too. It's just a piece of crap.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I want a scroll wheel that I can somehow paste on my keyboard. It will go right above the arrow keys (just above the left or right key on my inverted-T arrow key section). That way I could scroll easily with my hands on the keyboard. Anyone seen something like this?
Or even more simple: have the person fill out the ballot (punch cards, optical, whatever) and insert it into a machine right there in the little booth. The machine says who it thinks the person voted for. If the person agrees, then the person submits the ballot to the ballot taker. If not, the person rips up the ballot and tries again.
Solves the problem without making too many changes to the current system.
Most companies can handle it pretty well. I just tell them that my billing address is such and such, but that my home address is such and such. I've come across two companies so far that can't deal with it (one tiny company and one huge company), but the rest have had no problem. I guess it's not too uncommon to a person's billing address to be different from their home address or service address.
I looked at their site and it looks like you can only receive e-bills through it. PayTrust lets you receive paper bills too; they scan the bill in and show it to you online.
It's lame that all billers can't send e-bills, but at least PayTrust can make all bills seem like e-bills to me.
That was one for the record books.
From paymybills.com: This is no longer an active web site.
Looks like they didn't.
They were bought by PayTrust. They make money by charging $13 a month per user.
Just to make it clear how spectacularly cool this service is: it's not just online bill-paying. All your bills go to them (either electronically or through the regular postal service) and show up on the web. You can even have them pay the bills automatically. It's dang convenient.
You missed one:
6. Duplicates are a thing of the past.
That's what I do. I found a building that had a bunch of freelancers already working in there, so now I pay $200/month to share the space with them. I like it a lot better than working at home.
The rent is tax-deductible and having a separate office means no red flags when trying to deduct a computer from your taxes.
The next morning, call your friend and ask him how the girl was in bed.
I think Cartman had a rectenna once.
Nobody forced the artists to sign the contracts that send all the money to the middlemen.
If you don't like how it works, create your own record company. There's no law saying that the existing record companies are the only ones who can sell music.
You can get exericise machines for cheap at yard sales and through classified listings like Craigslist. People buy them and then leave them sitting around gathering dust. Maybe you'll do the same but at least you can buy the machine for 80% off to start with.
Recent studies have shown that stretching before exercise has no effect. So quit wasting your time stretching and get more exercise.
If you bought a computer very recently, the price is $20. The education price is $70.
Apple charges $130 for its major OS updates, which come out roughly every year. So just count on paying that as part of the ongoing price of running your computer.
Give the information to your local newspapers and TV news programs. The spotlight might spur the authorities into action, and the reporters will love you because you saved them from doing any pesky work for themselves.
Or because if the IT staff keep buying hard-to-use equipment?
Because drunk people can be loud and bothersome, and it's easier to close the bars than to arrest people for being noisy?
Because drunk people shouldn't be driving, so you want to provide public transportation but can't afford to keep it running all night?
Because the cops want to get some sleep?
Because people get very tired late at night and adding just one drink can make them extremely tired, and driving tired can be deadly? (Did you know that if your eyelids are drooping then you're probably experiencing "microsleep" where you are actually asleep for a fraction of a second? That's bad because not only might you miss the road turning, you might also continue to fall asleep.)
I don't understand this reaction. So many people complain that other people are buying things out of "consumerism"; that they don't need the things, but they buy them to show off or something.
I don't get it. I want a PDA because I want to know what time my doctors appointment is, and what floor her office is located on because I can't remember. I want it so that I can find the phone number of someone without carrying around a static phone book. I want it so I can listen to music on the train because I get sick trying to read on the train. I don't want a PDA to look cool or to seem rich or important.
A few years ago, people kept saying that other people bought cell phones just so they could walk around with a cell phone to their ear to look important. WTF? People bought cell phones because it's often very convenient to be able to call someone when you're away from home.
If I had a lot of money, I'd buy an expensive car. Not so I could show people how much money I have, but because leather seats feel nice, powerful engines are fun, cruise control is convenient and navigation systems save me time.
My guess is that certain people want to look down on other people, and one easy way is to criticize them for owning an item that they don't themselves have a use for (or don't know yet that they have a use for).
Don't worry, Joel doesn't understand true Extreme Programming so he won't make you do it.
I'm not convinced that having somebody look over my shoulder while I'm typing increases productivity.
You're 100% correct. That's why XP doesn't suggest that someone looks over your shoulder while you type. It suggests that you work with someone all the time. "Working with" != "being supervised by".
If you open the real CD, you can't return the game. If you only open the demo, you can return the game. That way, if it doesn't work on your computer for some reason and you don't feel like waiting for the patches, you can return it.
Game stores could stop people from buying and returning games just to play the demos by providing extra demo CDs, or by giving store credit instead of cash in exchange for a returned game.
Of course, the problem is that it's up to the game publishers to implement this and who knows if they'd be up for it.
("durn furiners" == "people who are so dumb that they couldn't figure out how to be born in the US")
The dictionary is your friend: brouhaha.
Sincerely,
The Spelling Police
(obOnTopicComment: I like your idea. Instead of sticking card into three readers, how about having a large number of readers, all of them provided by different organizations and built by different manufacturers. The voter would be required to put the card in two randomly-chosen readers.)
What if it's http://unique_id_123123i765.spammer.com/?
Remember when all the Puritans left Britain? They're the ones who founded the US, so while it's very unfortunate that the US is still a relatively puritanical society, it is easy to understand why.
An additional explanation for the alcohol laws here is the relatively recent (last 15 years or so) campaign against drunk driving. I wonder what the alcohol-related fatality rate is in countries like the US with rather restrictive alcohol laws versus less restrictive countries. (I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher in the US.)
I don't have a car here so I have never had any interaction with the cops but I get the impression that they effectively used drivers licenses as ID cards (correct me if I'm wrong) and demand to see them whenever they stop anyone.
Yes, that is the legal purpose of the drivers' license: to show the police that you are allowed to drive and to prove that the license is actually yours. If you are caught driving without your license on your person, you get in big trouble.
However, contrary to what some people say, you are not required to carry your license when you're not driving.
As I said once you have a form of ID that most people carry it then encourages people to ask for it and the whole situation gets worst with time
Agreed. The bigger problem here in the US, IMHO, is the social security number. That's a unique number that just about everyone in the country has, but it's only supposed to be used for retirement benefits. However, a lot of other government agencies and businesses require that you tell them your number. That one unique number can be the key that relates a lot of information about a person. But that's been covered here before...