It wasn't the iPhone, it was MetroPCS, Cricket, Straight Talk, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile. The fact is, you don't need to sign a 2 year contract for an "unlimited everything" plan on a budget these days. T-Mobile's prices aren't good enough to compete with the real budget carriers, and their network and device selection isn't good enough to compete with AT&T and Verizon, so they're kinda stuck in the middle. Sprint is feeling the same pain (although, their Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid divisions are gaining customers). Apparently, there's not much market for people who are just a _little_ cheap.
There's pictures online of Mr. Poole nude that apparently were found by "anonymous" members of his beloved site. For someone so concerned with anonymity, it hasn't worked out so well for him. 4chan is the asshole of the internet (and yes, every once in awhile it farts to humorous results). Say what you will about Facebook, it has lots of popular time-wasting online games and it's a great way to share (family friendly) photos with your friends and relatives. To top it off, Facebook seems to have a business model that's working, as well.
To use a car analogy*, this is like the guy who owns the local scrap yard commenting on how Toyota runs their business.
First, let's address the whole Clear-as-ISP issue. Unless you don't mind outages and hidden usage caps (read the forums on Clear.com, it's full of horror stories), Clear is absolutely impossible to use as a wired ISP replacement. Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh. If you're coming from AOL dial-up, it's an improvement in that you might actually be able to get a standard definition YouTube video to stream. If you watch NetFlix, expect to have plenty of bathroom and snack breaks inserted into your movies - courtesy of Clear. And finally, as a reward for all your patience, they'll cap your speeds back to the stone age. Oh, and when you finally get fed up with them and cancel, they'll either nail you with a termination fee, lose the modem/Clear Spot/etc. that you returned and you'll have plenty of of helpful, friendly conversations with their customer support attempting to get it all sorted out. Yes, I've tried Clear. Big mistake.
Second, the phone service. If you are in a position in your life where you never have to worry about an "important" phone call, I envy you. VoIP over cellular data plans is a novelty that works well enough to make an outgoing call, only if the bandwidth conditions are good enough where you happen to be at the moment. It's also worth noting that most cellular data connections begin to degrade heavily if you're in a moving vehicle - forget about a clear, distortion free call while you're in a car. If you want a phone that actually works as a phone, don't be a damn cheapskate and get an actual phone. Boost (which runs on Sprint's network) has unlimited everything for $50 (and the refills can usually be found for $47 online), Simple Mobile works with any T-Mobile phone and is $60 for unlimited everything and Straight Talk (which sells phones that use either AT&T or Verizon's networks) is $45 for unlimited everything.
So yes, you can go the Clear route, pay $45 a month, have crappy Internet access at home and a ghetto-rigged VoIP phone that is dead weight more-often-than-not - or - you can pay $45 to $60 for *real* unlimited cellular service and get a DSL or cable connection at home that won't suck. Your choice.
There's one of these at my local mall too. I'm thinking it would be easier to modify one of those little mini RC helicopters to do some serious damage to the strings than it would be to mess around with fricken lasers at a mall. High powered laser + populated area = bad idea.
Or the low tech approach of training some sort of rodent to climb up into the machine and chew on the strings would likely work as well...
XBMC media center ScummVM DOSBox MAME/Snes/Nes/Genesis Emulators Lockinfo 3G Unrestrictor Mobile terminal (root shell access)
But hey, if you don't mind that your device isn't actually "yours", then no, you don't need to jailbreak. I own an iPod Touch 4th gen and it'll be the last Apple product I ever buy if Apple finally beats the jailbreakers at some point in the future.
Cops will be the good guys when they are replaced by robots. Until then, they are just as lazy, corruptible, malicious, greedy, biased, and negligent as the rest of humanity.
Humans can at least exercise reasonable judgment over the enforcement of laws. How often have you been pulled over by a cop, only to be given a warning or a reduced ticket? About a year ago, I entered an intersection 0.6 seconds too late and ended up with an automated ticket that can't be disputed in court, nor could I face my accuser (since it is a machine). A human being would either not notice the roughly half-second difference, or would agree that it was safer to proceed through rather than slam on the brakes.
I'm sure a hypothetical future scenario of a hover drone detecting marijuana smoke, scanning your RFID national ID card and telling you to remain where you are for your apprehension by the authorities is not that far off. About the only good that could possibly come from that, though, is making people realize how bad absolute enforcement of every law on the books actually can be.
Unless you work in HVAC, then it's like rocket science... Unless you're a rocket scientist, in which case it's like brain surgery... Unless you're a brain surgeon, etc...
The submitter mentioned nothing about "prior art", that was all Timothy. I'll admit though, this story is pretty daft. "Water is being shipped to a bottling plant", wow, I think Captain Obvious is the one due some royalties.
1. Get app rejected by Apple 2. Generate attention by complaining about Apple's draconian policies 3. Resubmit app with required changes & Profit!
...and top-40 radio predicts iTunes top sellers
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Digg seems to be heavily slanted towards news that falls into the "odd/strange" category and whatever useless viral videos happen to be hottest at the moment. It's the top-40 station of news sites, and it doesn't surprise me much that what will be posted on Digg can be easily predicted by looking at other social networking sites.
Maybe what we need is something like the X Prize for a reliable way of automatically sorting trash. It seems there's some decent profit in recyclables, so why does sorting through trash still require manual labor?
buffer overflow exploits, quantum physics, the pre-big bang universe and phone company math make my head hurt. Understanding this sort of thing must be like having a set of truck nuts hanging from your geek card.
Say you want to go burglarize someone's house, but you need to make it appear that you're posting on Facebook from your parents' basement? Well there's an app for that too!
While this is probably great if most of the parking is city owned and the meter readers are ticket happy (Miami, perhaps?), us suburban dwellers have an entirely worse problem if we accidentially park somewhere we're not supposed to - the vehicle will be towed. And if you think parking tickets are sneaky, you haven't experienced how frustrating it is to have your car towed because you didn't see that "Tow Away Zone" sign that was behind a shrub, underneath a street light with a burned out bulb.
At that point, an iPhone becomes no more helpful than a free Nokia. You'll be calling a friend or a cab for a ride to the towing company to get your car back. Course, I am not dissing the iPhone here - I have one myself. But seriously, we get it, it has a decent web browser. It's not newsworthy every time someone discovers they can order pizza on their iPhone, buy stuff on eBay or find out while they're in the store that Amazon is still selling plasma TVs for cheaper than Circuit City's going-out-of-business prices.
Sure, because there is no way the Wii would come with Extensive Parental Controls.
Not to mention, it includes the best parental control possible: not connecting the Wii to the Internet.
Of course, those of us who have become familiar with these religious fundies know that they're not going to stop at just attacking the Wii. It's also violence in videogames in general, profanity on Xbox Live, Paganism in Harry Potter, gays wanting to marry, etc. They pick a hot topic to get some attention and then milk it for all it's worth to push their full agenda. (Peta does the same thing, too. "Oh, while you're here looking at the brutality of seal clubbing, perhaps you should reconsider that delicious, juicy hamburger you're thinking about having for lunch.")
Religious Fundies Say: "Yeah, porn on the Wii is bad, but wait until you see the full attack your children are under by the media companies, the gays and the video game manufacturers... Oh noes, your family has no chance to survive, make your time!"
Seriously, parents just need to stand up and tell these control freaks "I'll raise my kids myself, FOAD, KTHXBAI!"
Most of us, we've got some measure of sexual stuff in our life somehow, so when this gay sex thing comes along, it's like "Yeah, I'm not all about doing that". When the guy who hasn't looked at a naked girl since 1972 sees the gay sex though, it's like "Wow! This is the best thing ever! I've got to do this all the time!"
June 28, 1969 called. It wants its misinformed homophobia back.
When you signed up with T-Zones you were told web and e-mail.
But nowhere does it say you must use only the browser the phone shipped with. That's the crux of the matter, and T-Mobile has decided to draw the line in the sand with technical means, not clearer contractual terms.
That's pretty sleazy business tactics, if you ask me.
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I thought it was: NASCAR for the crashes, Superbowl for the commercials, PlayBoy for the articles and 4chan for the lulz.
It wasn't the iPhone, it was MetroPCS, Cricket, Straight Talk, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile. The fact is, you don't need to sign a 2 year contract for an "unlimited everything" plan on a budget these days. T-Mobile's prices aren't good enough to compete with the real budget carriers, and their network and device selection isn't good enough to compete with AT&T and Verizon, so they're kinda stuck in the middle. Sprint is feeling the same pain (although, their Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid divisions are gaining customers). Apparently, there's not much market for people who are just a _little_ cheap.
Where do you buy this mythical $230 dual core 15.4" eMachines laptop? Used on eBay or Craigslist? Their current model eME443-BZ602, is $329.99.
Cue the DNF jokes, in 3, 2, 1...
There's pictures online of Mr. Poole nude that apparently were found by "anonymous" members of his beloved site. For someone so concerned with anonymity, it hasn't worked out so well for him. 4chan is the asshole of the internet (and yes, every once in awhile it farts to humorous results). Say what you will about Facebook, it has lots of popular time-wasting online games and it's a great way to share (family friendly) photos with your friends and relatives. To top it off, Facebook seems to have a business model that's working, as well.
To use a car analogy*, this is like the guy who owns the local scrap yard commenting on how Toyota runs their business.
* Wikipedia has portmanteaus, /. has car analogies
First, let's address the whole Clear-as-ISP issue. Unless you don't mind outages and hidden usage caps (read the forums on Clear.com, it's full of horror stories), Clear is absolutely impossible to use as a wired ISP replacement. Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh. If you're coming from AOL dial-up, it's an improvement in that you might actually be able to get a standard definition YouTube video to stream. If you watch NetFlix, expect to have plenty of bathroom and snack breaks inserted into your movies - courtesy of Clear. And finally, as a reward for all your patience, they'll cap your speeds back to the stone age. Oh, and when you finally get fed up with them and cancel, they'll either nail you with a termination fee, lose the modem/Clear Spot/etc. that you returned and you'll have plenty of of helpful, friendly conversations with their customer support attempting to get it all sorted out. Yes, I've tried Clear. Big mistake.
Second, the phone service. If you are in a position in your life where you never have to worry about an "important" phone call, I envy you. VoIP over cellular data plans is a novelty that works well enough to make an outgoing call, only if the bandwidth conditions are good enough where you happen to be at the moment. It's also worth noting that most cellular data connections begin to degrade heavily if you're in a moving vehicle - forget about a clear, distortion free call while you're in a car. If you want a phone that actually works as a phone, don't be a damn cheapskate and get an actual phone. Boost (which runs on Sprint's network) has unlimited everything for $50 (and the refills can usually be found for $47 online), Simple Mobile works with any T-Mobile phone and is $60 for unlimited everything and Straight Talk (which sells phones that use either AT&T or Verizon's networks) is $45 for unlimited everything.
So yes, you can go the Clear route, pay $45 a month, have crappy Internet access at home and a ghetto-rigged VoIP phone that is dead weight more-often-than-not - or - you can pay $45 to $60 for *real* unlimited cellular service and get a DSL or cable connection at home that won't suck. Your choice.
There's one of these at my local mall too. I'm thinking it would be easier to modify one of those little mini RC helicopters to do some serious damage to the strings than it would be to mess around with fricken lasers at a mall. High powered laser + populated area = bad idea.
Or the low tech approach of training some sort of rodent to climb up into the machine and chew on the strings would likely work as well...
I sure hope they recycled that helium. Aren't we supposed to be running out?
Off the top of my head...
XBMC media center
ScummVM
DOSBox
MAME/Snes/Nes/Genesis Emulators
Lockinfo
3G Unrestrictor
Mobile terminal (root shell access)
But hey, if you don't mind that your device isn't actually "yours", then no, you don't need to jailbreak. I own an iPod Touch 4th gen and it'll be the last Apple product I ever buy if Apple finally beats the jailbreakers at some point in the future.
Now they just need to realize that people don't really buy albums any more...
There, fixed that for you.
Cops will be the good guys when they are replaced by robots. Until then, they are just as lazy, corruptible, malicious, greedy, biased, and negligent as the rest of humanity.
Humans can at least exercise reasonable judgment over the enforcement of laws. How often have you been pulled over by a cop, only to be given a warning or a reduced ticket? About a year ago, I entered an intersection 0.6 seconds too late and ended up with an automated ticket that can't be disputed in court, nor could I face my accuser (since it is a machine). A human being would either not notice the roughly half-second difference, or would agree that it was safer to proceed through rather than slam on the brakes.
I'm sure a hypothetical future scenario of a hover drone detecting marijuana smoke, scanning your RFID national ID card and telling you to remain where you are for your apprehension by the authorities is not that far off. About the only good that could possibly come from that, though, is making people realize how bad absolute enforcement of every law on the books actually can be.
Unless you work in HVAC, then it's like rocket science... Unless you're a rocket scientist, in which case it's like brain surgery... Unless you're a brain surgeon, etc...
The submitter mentioned nothing about "prior art", that was all Timothy. I'll admit though, this story is pretty daft. "Water is being shipped to a bottling plant", wow, I think Captain Obvious is the one due some royalties.
1. Get app rejected by Apple
2. Generate attention by complaining about Apple's draconian policies
3. Resubmit app with required changes & Profit!
Digg seems to be heavily slanted towards news that falls into the "odd/strange" category and whatever useless viral videos happen to be hottest at the moment. It's the top-40 station of news sites, and it doesn't surprise me much that what will be posted on Digg can be easily predicted by looking at other social networking sites.
Maybe what we need is something like the X Prize for a reliable way of automatically sorting trash. It seems there's some decent profit in recyclables, so why does sorting through trash still require manual labor?
buffer overflow exploits, quantum physics, the pre-big bang universe and phone company math make my head hurt. Understanding this sort of thing must be like having a set of truck nuts hanging from your geek card.
That's easy. Just start running out of ideas for plots relating to the Goa'uld.
Say you want to go burglarize someone's house, but you need to make it appear that you're posting on Facebook from your parents' basement? Well there's an app for that too!
My first thought was "Why does Texas need a zombie to terminate the employment of ants, and how did they get a job in the first place?"
Then I realized, this is Texas, afterall.
While this is probably great if most of the parking is city owned and the meter readers are ticket happy (Miami, perhaps?), us suburban dwellers have an entirely worse problem if we accidentially park somewhere we're not supposed to - the vehicle will be towed. And if you think parking tickets are sneaky, you haven't experienced how frustrating it is to have your car towed because you didn't see that "Tow Away Zone" sign that was behind a shrub, underneath a street light with a burned out bulb.
At that point, an iPhone becomes no more helpful than a free Nokia. You'll be calling a friend or a cab for a ride to the towing company to get your car back. Course, I am not dissing the iPhone here - I have one myself. But seriously, we get it, it has a decent web browser. It's not newsworthy every time someone discovers they can order pizza on their iPhone, buy stuff on eBay or find out while they're in the store that Amazon is still selling plasma TVs for cheaper than Circuit City's going-out-of-business prices.
Not to mention, it includes the best parental control possible: not connecting the Wii to the Internet.
Of course, those of us who have become familiar with these religious fundies know that they're not going to stop at just attacking the Wii. It's also violence in videogames in general, profanity on Xbox Live, Paganism in Harry Potter, gays wanting to marry, etc. They pick a hot topic to get some attention and then milk it for all it's worth to push their full agenda. (Peta does the same thing, too. "Oh, while you're here looking at the brutality of seal clubbing, perhaps you should reconsider that delicious, juicy hamburger you're thinking about having for lunch.")
Religious Fundies Say:
"Yeah, porn on the Wii is bad, but wait until you see the full attack your children are under by the media companies, the gays and the video game manufacturers... Oh noes, your family has no chance to survive, make your time!"
Seriously, parents just need to stand up and tell these control freaks "I'll raise my kids myself, FOAD, KTHXBAI!"
June 28, 1969 called. It wants its misinformed homophobia back.
While it was funny in its own right, what movie was it paraphrased from?
But nowhere does it say you must use only the browser the phone shipped with. That's the crux of the matter, and T-Mobile has decided to draw the line in the sand with technical means, not clearer contractual terms.
That's pretty sleazy business tactics, if you ask me.