Cingular a buddy? Cingular simply didn't cripple their subsidized T68s to prevent them from syncing via bluetooth. I guess that deserves a PR nod from Apple? Whenever the iPhone comes out I hope I can buy it straight from Apple, unlocked with original firmware. That's worth the full-price premium to me.
...from something like Lotus Notes (with web client), that can be operated as a closed intranet mail system?
Or rather, how is this different from the many open source bullentin board systems that have their own internal messaging (with attachment) features? Can't vBulletin or phpBB be configured to do the same thing?
...with tomorrow's release of THX 1138 - Director's Cut. If the cops can watch crime as it happens then they'll probably prioritize what they respond to whether or not it serves the interest of the victim.
Maybe instead of a chicken in every pot we'll eventually have a camera in every bedroom. I pity the person behind the monitors that will have to watch all this stuff.
I've never tried Cingular here, only old TDMA AT&T, Sprint and Voicestream/T-Mobile. The service holes I experienced with Sprint sent me running to Voicestream (now T-Mobile) as soon as it was up, I've been a happy customer ever since and it works where I need it. Where it hasn't worked for me, neither has my friend's Sprint phone, or the Sprint phone would kick into analog roaming at insane rates.
T-Mobile EDGE is supposed to rollout nationwide by the end of the year at a speculated rate of $20/month for unlimited service (I think AT&T's EDGE is $70/month for unlimited).
T-Mobile was also recently and quietly offering combo GPRS/HotSpot plans for $19.99/month; code VTMIHSS for VPN/GRPRS/HS, code TMIHSS for GPRS/HS in case one can still convince a CSR to add it to an existing plan.;-)
...then they should be smart enough not to waste their time and effort buying a crippled Moto V710 in the first place, or otherwise contributing to having more people buy the phones and becoming satisfied customers via a hack.
Who would a hack serve? Those who will continue to support bad business practices and companies.
For a comparable price one can find comparable "unlocked" GSM phones that have the original manufacturer's firmware, have all features enabled, and allow one to get service from any mobile company one chooses, often world-wide with the now commonplace GSM world phones.
If you need just storage and not additional server features, maybe something to consider as a backup is one of the newer external RAID hard drive enclosures. Many are out there with features like...
Firewire 800 and/or USB 2.0 interfaces;
RAID Levels 0, 1+0, 5, 5+ Hot Spare (varies by manufacturer/model);
quick removable drive bays;
drive capacities up to 320GB/drive; and
auto-formating after drive swaps.
I've seen prices ranging from $200 to $1300 depending on features, with some units being more portable than others. Simply Google "firewire RAID 800" as a search.
I'm considering a RAID enclosure as a master archive for my mp3 and media collection (simple mirroring), with an additional portable single drive Firewire 800 hard drive enclosure as a backup for safety and portability. In my case, I have a file server currently but rather replace it with a smaller and quieter RAID box.
Has anyone considered that Elena (and maybe her husband) are probably laughing their butts off at all of the discussion of her web sight? Someone may be thinking "priceless," and she doesn't even have an ad banner.
J&R Computers are located not far from Wall St. near NY City Hall...
http://www.jandr.com/templates/information/direc ti ons.tem
Good selection, great prices. I've been to the store and mail-ordered, always pleased.
Oh yeah, before going there do check out the Apple Store at 103 Prince Street in SoHo (Prince St. just a block or two west of Broadway), just for the pure tourist value (nudge nudge, wink wink).
I'd also recommend buying Euro-style: have the computer plugged in and be satisfied with its performance prior to paying and walking out, and definitely ditto on ensuring transferability of warranty overseas. Being stuck with a lemon with no recourse sucks.
>Was it necessary to detonate over a city? >Why not out past Tokyo harbour, in full view? >Consider it a warning shot, factor in cultural elements. > >Given that one is convinced that nuking a city was >necessary, was it necessary to nuke a second city?
Tokyo was already fire-bombed, but that didn't motivate the Japanese to surrender. A decision was then made to damage morale by inflicting massive civilian casulties since the soldiers certainly weren't being detered from fighting.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima were virtually untouched before the atomic bombings, so those were on the hit list. It took two to get an unconditional surrender.
After years of war, I believe the military planners just wanted to get it over with. Sure, they were probably tests in one aspect, although probably viewed as more efficient, and more protective of U.S. troops' lives, than staging more fire bombings.
I have a collection (boxes) of good components for building respectable PCs (hard drives, CD-roms, cables, sound cards, ram) that aren't necessarily worth auctioning on eBay, but not worth throwing out if someone can use them. Does anyone one know of an organization that accepts parts and rebuilds PCs for schools or charities? I knew of one a few years ago but can't find it on Google now. Thanks in advance.
I have a SS51g with a 2.4-GHz P4, DVD/CD-RW and 120-GB HD installed (SiS651 chipset instead of the Intel 845GE chipset, same otherwise including the heatpipe heatsink/fan combo). The system is pretty quiet where the fan only speeds up and gets noisy prior to system shutdown, aside from one instance while ripping a CD; this is after I reduced the CPU temp at which the fan speeds up from the default BIOS setting (I forgot the exact temp but I dropped it about 15 degrees Celcius if I remember correctly). The top of the case is barely perceptively warm to the touch too.
It's real, I know guys who worked on the cleanup and I was consulted on it at one point. It's great to see a comprehensive write-up now (however old) since there wasn't much press about it at the time.
...but it'll be coming from the mobile phone companies, like SprintPCS's "wireless web" and Voicestream (eventually AT&T too) with their GPRS. Doesn't look like unlimited service anymore, now pay by the minute or MB, at least for a while.
For those of you that regularly get stuck in Vegas for days...
Yeah, it's possible to win as long as you know how to bet and when to walk away. Winning involves basic strategy, some degree of "counting" (more like trend analysis with multi-card decks) as mentioned, as well as a betting strategy. You don't want to run out of money, plain and simple. Casinos make their money when some idiot comes up to a table with $100, places $50 bets, losing it all within 2 to 4 hands.
A general observation from actually playing on the strip in Vegas and a handheld unit for practice was this: start with a large pool of money (say $100) and place bets of 1/20 of your pool ($5 of your $100 pool); if you play basic strategy, not even counting, your pool will fluctuate about +/-50% (roughly). Say your up to $150 having started with $100, you likely won't go higher. Say you're down to $50, keep your cool with the $5 bets and basic strategy (don't deviate), and you'll likely be back up to $100 with time and patience.
Some years ago I had a DOS based blackjack program that also ran simulations, card counting and basic strategy exercises. I threw my observation at the DOS simulator with 1000s of hands played and my basic betting strategy was roughly correct. In the simulator the house still has the advantage and you will eventually bust, but in real life you can increase your bets as you are winning, decrease your bets if the trend looks bad and maybe supporting a decision to just walk.
Eventually you should get comfortable with blackjack to play to float around your pool. So say your pool is up to $150 from the $100 you started with. $7.50 bets are a pain, so just add another $50 out of pocket and you now have $200 to play $10 bets out of (always remember that it was ultimately $150 out of your pocket). Give it 30 to 60 minutes at a fast table and you'll be up to $300, then you can start doing $15 dollar bets, and so on.
I try to keep the chips that represent my out of pocket money separate, so if I do hit a bad losing streak I'll easily know. That's when I leave, but usually after a few hours of playing and lots of free drinks (minus tip money) before I call it a night.
When in Vegas for days I allow myself to lose up to my trip Per Diem. I have had only one net loss of a couple hundred bucks (I played craps), while on all my other trips I either broke even or more often came out ahead $300 to $700 (my first trip was +$500), subsidizing my sidebar trips to Grand Escalante (slot canyons, gotta go), Zion, Bryce, etc. This does take hours, trending of the shoe, and playing tips for especially good dealers.
I'm not advocating anything that'll get you rich; I still stick to $5 tables, $10 if I have to, although I'm getting the confidence to move up to the $25 tables.
If you know basic strategy you should be able to play for hours at least to break even, or after hours not loose much in the process. The entertainment comes from finding a cool table and meeting different people from all over the country, maybe from around the world, some boring, some really interesting, and getting free drinks too.
Never play craps even if playing along with a bunch of old guys that act like they know what they are doing. Any other game is a waste, although I may be able to apply a similar theory to slots, namely those machines that have lower payouts but are perceivably looser (pay out more often); definitely not the networked machines with $million jackpots. Many of the slots are set to provide hours of entertainment to one person who never moves from the same machine, up and down, eventually taking it all away. In one experiment so far a friend and I came out ahead from a networked group of nickel slots, playing for the smaller wins and moving to the next machine.
time-space pathways and "holodecks" (spoiler)...
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Its possible that the "time-space pathways" term might have suggested the soul of a being, and why a cloned individual can't exist for more than a day, without a soul.
Earlier, there is a scene where robots/aliens are gathered around what looks like a table with a viewing screen displaying David in a recreated home. Considering the initial graininess of the images, it suggests that David's recreated home was virtual, as well as the "cloned" Monica and the robot (who tried to explain things to David). Much of what David experienced may have been fabricated by the robots in order to emotionally appease him and lead him to a humane state of rest.
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...if someone could only make a hamsterball input device.
Apple's holding off on buttons until they release the iPod Shuffle Mouse. Just press play for some random mouse action.
Nokia beat Apple with a rotary cell phone, it's their Nokia 7280 (http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,62356,00.html).
Cingular a buddy? Cingular simply didn't cripple their subsidized T68s to prevent them from syncing via bluetooth. I guess that deserves a PR nod from Apple? Whenever the iPhone comes out I hope I can buy it straight from Apple, unlocked with original firmware. That's worth the full-price premium to me.
...from something like Lotus Notes (with web client), that can be operated as a closed intranet mail system?
Or rather, how is this different from the many open source bullentin board systems that have their own internal messaging (with attachment) features? Can't vBulletin or phpBB be configured to do the same thing?
...with tomorrow's release of THX 1138 - Director's Cut. If the cops can watch crime as it happens then they'll probably prioritize what they respond to whether or not it serves the interest of the victim. Maybe instead of a chicken in every pot we'll eventually have a camera in every bedroom. I pity the person behind the monitors that will have to watch all this stuff.
I've never tried Cingular here, only old TDMA AT&T, Sprint and Voicestream/T-Mobile. The service holes I experienced with Sprint sent me running to Voicestream (now T-Mobile) as soon as it was up, I've been a happy customer ever since and it works where I need it. Where it hasn't worked for me, neither has my friend's Sprint phone, or the Sprint phone would kick into analog roaming at insane rates.
;-)
T-Mobile EDGE is supposed to rollout nationwide by the end of the year at a speculated rate of $20/month for unlimited service (I think AT&T's EDGE is $70/month for unlimited).
T-Mobile was also recently and quietly offering combo GPRS/HotSpot plans for $19.99/month; code VTMIHSS for VPN/GRPRS/HS, code TMIHSS for GPRS/HS in case one can still convince a CSR to add it to an existing plan.
...then they should be smart enough not to waste their time and effort buying a crippled Moto V710 in the first place, or otherwise contributing to having more people buy the phones and becoming satisfied customers via a hack.
Who would a hack serve? Those who will continue to support bad business practices and companies.
For a comparable price one can find comparable "unlocked" GSM phones that have the original manufacturer's firmware, have all features enabled, and allow one to get service from any mobile company one chooses, often world-wide with the now commonplace GSM world phones.
- Firewire 800 and/or USB 2.0 interfaces;
- RAID Levels 0, 1+0, 5, 5+ Hot Spare (varies by manufacturer/model);
- quick removable drive bays;
- drive capacities up to 320GB/drive; and
- auto-formating after drive swaps.
I've seen prices ranging from $200 to $1300 depending on features, with some units being more portable than others. Simply Google "firewire RAID 800" as a search. I'm considering a RAID enclosure as a master archive for my mp3 and media collection (simple mirroring), with an additional portable single drive Firewire 800 hard drive enclosure as a backup for safety and portability. In my case, I have a file server currently but rather replace it with a smaller and quieter RAID box.Has anyone considered that Elena (and maybe her husband) are probably laughing their butts off at all of the discussion of her web sight? Someone may be thinking "priceless," and she doesn't even have an ad banner.
J&R Computers are located not far from Wall St. near NY City Hall...
c ti ons.tem
http://www.jandr.com/templates/information/dire
Good selection, great prices. I've been to the store and mail-ordered, always pleased.
Oh yeah, before going there do check out the Apple Store at 103 Prince Street in SoHo (Prince St. just a block or two west of Broadway), just for the pure tourist value (nudge nudge, wink wink).
I'd also recommend buying Euro-style: have the computer plugged in and be satisfied with its performance prior to paying and walking out, and definitely ditto on ensuring transferability of warranty overseas. Being stuck with a lemon with no recourse sucks.
>Was it necessary to detonate over a city?
>Why not out past Tokyo harbour, in full view?
>Consider it a warning shot, factor in cultural elements.
>
>Given that one is convinced that nuking a city was
>necessary, was it necessary to nuke a second city?
Tokyo was already fire-bombed, but that didn't motivate the Japanese to surrender. A decision was then made to damage morale by inflicting massive civilian casulties since the soldiers certainly weren't being detered from fighting.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima were virtually untouched before the atomic bombings, so those were on the hit list. It took two to get an unconditional surrender.
After years of war, I believe the military planners just wanted to get it over with. Sure, they were probably tests in one aspect, although probably viewed as more efficient, and more protective of U.S. troops' lives, than staging more fire bombings.
I have a collection (boxes) of good components for building respectable PCs (hard drives, CD-roms, cables, sound cards, ram) that aren't necessarily worth auctioning on eBay, but not worth throwing out if someone can use them. Does anyone one know of an organization that accepts parts and rebuilds PCs for schools or charities? I knew of one a few years ago but can't find it on Google now. Thanks in advance.
...why not check out the Seimens Xelibri 7 phone; it actually is a clip.
I have a SS51g with a 2.4-GHz P4, DVD/CD-RW and 120-GB HD installed (SiS651 chipset instead of the Intel 845GE chipset, same otherwise including the heatpipe heatsink/fan combo). The system is pretty quiet where the fan only speeds up and gets noisy prior to system shutdown, aside from one instance while ripping a CD; this is after I reduced the CPU temp at which the fan speeds up from the default BIOS setting (I forgot the exact temp but I dropped it about 15 degrees Celcius if I remember correctly). The top of the case is barely perceptively warm to the touch too.
It appears that Directron will build the system for you for an additional $29.
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/sb51g.html
Not sure if installation also includes OS installation or just hardware components.
I bought my SS51g from Directron (quite happy with them) and put my system together myself in well under one hour.
It's real, I know guys who worked on the cleanup and I was consulted on it at one point. It's great to see a comprehensive write-up now (however old) since there wasn't much press about it at the time.
...but it'll be coming from the mobile phone companies, like SprintPCS's "wireless web" and Voicestream (eventually AT&T too) with their GPRS. Doesn't look like unlimited service anymore, now pay by the minute or MB, at least for a while.
For those of you that regularly get stuck in Vegas for days... Yeah, it's possible to win as long as you know how to bet and when to walk away. Winning involves basic strategy, some degree of "counting" (more like trend analysis with multi-card decks) as mentioned, as well as a betting strategy. You don't want to run out of money, plain and simple. Casinos make their money when some idiot comes up to a table with $100, places $50 bets, losing it all within 2 to 4 hands. A general observation from actually playing on the strip in Vegas and a handheld unit for practice was this: start with a large pool of money (say $100) and place bets of 1/20 of your pool ($5 of your $100 pool); if you play basic strategy, not even counting, your pool will fluctuate about +/-50% (roughly). Say your up to $150 having started with $100, you likely won't go higher. Say you're down to $50, keep your cool with the $5 bets and basic strategy (don't deviate), and you'll likely be back up to $100 with time and patience. Some years ago I had a DOS based blackjack program that also ran simulations, card counting and basic strategy exercises. I threw my observation at the DOS simulator with 1000s of hands played and my basic betting strategy was roughly correct. In the simulator the house still has the advantage and you will eventually bust, but in real life you can increase your bets as you are winning, decrease your bets if the trend looks bad and maybe supporting a decision to just walk. Eventually you should get comfortable with blackjack to play to float around your pool. So say your pool is up to $150 from the $100 you started with. $7.50 bets are a pain, so just add another $50 out of pocket and you now have $200 to play $10 bets out of (always remember that it was ultimately $150 out of your pocket). Give it 30 to 60 minutes at a fast table and you'll be up to $300, then you can start doing $15 dollar bets, and so on. I try to keep the chips that represent my out of pocket money separate, so if I do hit a bad losing streak I'll easily know. That's when I leave, but usually after a few hours of playing and lots of free drinks (minus tip money) before I call it a night. When in Vegas for days I allow myself to lose up to my trip Per Diem. I have had only one net loss of a couple hundred bucks (I played craps), while on all my other trips I either broke even or more often came out ahead $300 to $700 (my first trip was +$500), subsidizing my sidebar trips to Grand Escalante (slot canyons, gotta go), Zion, Bryce, etc. This does take hours, trending of the shoe, and playing tips for especially good dealers. I'm not advocating anything that'll get you rich; I still stick to $5 tables, $10 if I have to, although I'm getting the confidence to move up to the $25 tables. If you know basic strategy you should be able to play for hours at least to break even, or after hours not loose much in the process. The entertainment comes from finding a cool table and meeting different people from all over the country, maybe from around the world, some boring, some really interesting, and getting free drinks too. Never play craps even if playing along with a bunch of old guys that act like they know what they are doing. Any other game is a waste, although I may be able to apply a similar theory to slots, namely those machines that have lower payouts but are perceivably looser (pay out more often); definitely not the networked machines with $million jackpots. Many of the slots are set to provide hours of entertainment to one person who never moves from the same machine, up and down, eventually taking it all away. In one experiment so far a friend and I came out ahead from a networked group of nickel slots, playing for the smaller wins and moving to the next machine.
Its possible that the "time-space pathways" term might have suggested the soul of a being, and why a cloned individual can't exist for more than a day, without a soul. Earlier, there is a scene where robots/aliens are gathered around what looks like a table with a viewing screen displaying David in a recreated home. Considering the initial graininess of the images, it suggests that David's recreated home was virtual, as well as the "cloned" Monica and the robot (who tried to explain things to David). Much of what David experienced may have been fabricated by the robots in order to emotionally appease him and lead him to a humane state of rest.
Looks like iMode will be coming to the stats via AT&T...
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