And speaking of "what can you afford", I've found that with my phone on Verizon and my wife's on AT&T (she's still on her parents' plan after fifteen years of marriage), one of us will have service almost anywhere. If you can split the big two carriers, you can vastly improve your service availability. The new Verizon "unlimited" plans are well above my usage level, and treat Canada, USA, and Mexico as one big no-roaming zone for call and text (though they do throttle you after 500 MB/day data in CA/MX).
There's one person's name on the bill, and that person has pay the whole bill (and subsequently collect from everyone else) every month. When you're all family, this is pretty straightforward. Can be trickier with friends. Furthermore, from the add-on's perspective, would you really want someone else to be able to cancel your phone service at any time, no questions asked, because they're the account holder and you're not?
No argument there, just saying that isn't enough to say his mom only had affairs after he was born. She might just have been a bit more discreet or lucky (not to get caught/pregnant).
My mother didn't start having affairs with other men until after I was born.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but how would you know? Shit, my father-in-law is in his early sixties and just found out that his "dad" wasn't his genetic father. Even if they agreed upon an open relationship at some point after your birth, that doesn't mean she wasn't doing it before that. People who cheat tend not to make a point of telling their SO/spouse when they do so.
I doubt most of them could tell a Greek and a Dane apart, but anyone who's spent their life around a significant European-derived population would have little trouble. Yes, corner cases exist, but really, it's not that hard if you know the populations involved well.
To hell with that. I fly first just so I don't have to deal with that crap. Same reason I spring for the lounge membership - it's well worth it not to have to hang out in the general terminal. I wish lounges still had phone booths so people could make calls without bothering anyone else, but the current system of retiring to an isolated corner to make your calls usually works.
Oh, man, I used that Russian flasher too. On a 5690 Winmodem, IIRC.
As for your speeds, there is a standard protocol (T.38) for sending FAX over VOIP, most ATA's support it. Don't know if there is an equivalent for pure data transmission. The last time I had a modem running over VOIP (ReplayTV 3000 series, best UI of any DVR I've ever used) was ca. 2004, and it worked well enough at 9600 to keep my guide data updated. It probably failed about once a week, but it would get the full info the next night.
Same story in my city. We test on the first of the month at noon (unless there is bad weather). There was a siren mounted on top of the hospital where I used to work; it would always freak out people who weren't from the area.
Yep. I've debated switching to an iPhone for a while now. I don't really want to, because iOS frustrates the hell out of me on my iPad (you do it Steve's way, or you don't do it), and because Android has lots of nice little features that iOS doesn't. Simple example: you can make an Android phone act like a USB storage device. Handy, that. Android lets you rename Bluetooth devices, too. My hospital bought a bunch of Bluetooth systems to play music in the operating rooms. They bought the same system for every room. So iOS users, who can't rename paired devices, have a dizzying list of devices with the same name, and good luck figuring out which one is the right device for this room (often will be two or three within range, so you can't just use discovery). I just went in after hours, paired to each one individually, and renamed them "OR 1", "OR 2", etc.
iOS also has the fuck-you features, like the fact that you can't send a group text to more than ten people unless all are iOS users. Why? Because lock-in.
Oh well. I guess I'll last another year or so on my Nexus 6P, and then I'll just bite the bullet. Maybe Apple will fix some of the more annoying things about iOS by then. It only took, what, five or six years for them to put notifications in iOS? And they're still asking carrier permission to activate tethering, which the 6P has never questioned me about at all.
Why should phone service be obsolete? I despise long text conversations. If you want to have a back-and-forth, call me. When we're done, one of us can write it up and email the other so there's a record of what conclusions were reached - or we can just not, and nobody but the NSA can prove what we discussed.
I dunno. 2 miles = 10560 feet, so total length of runway a little over 33000 feet. 1/6 of that is 5500 feet, which isn't exactly a huge runway for a commercial jet. And yet you'll be expecting the pilot to make a 60 degree turn, partly under lift and partly under ground control, with perfectly smooth transition between the two, in the course of every takeoff or landing? No thanks; I've seen enough dicey landings that I want the pilots to be controlling one major problem (e.g., crosswind) at a time.
Works both ways, though; a strong national government can screw things up everywhere. Consider somethig like low-flow toilets. In hilly, arid California, these are an excellent idea. In flat, wet areas east of the Mississippi, this means that sewage lines get clogged more easily. Regulations that make sense in some places can be lunacy in others, like the old British imperial rule that public buildings' roofs must support the weight of six feet of snow - even in Malaysia.
I've had to provide ID and a credit card anywhere I've stayed, but your point holds even then. Some pimp takes pictures of his girls in a room, probably at some hotel where they never work. Those are the posted photos. Time lag means there's no way to connect the photos to a specific hotel guest.
US-vs-EU divide here, then. In the US, you basically have Panasonic on the high end (it's a Matsushita brand, so might have a different name there), and VTech (based in Hong Kong) on the low end. Never heard of Gigaset until now. Go to Amazon US, look at cordless phones, and you'll see how completely those two dominate. I think the last time I bought a cordless home phone set that wasn't Panasonic was over twenty years ago.
I'm assuming that's one of the VIP-style, have-your-own-leather-recliner-and-yes-there's-beer places? Because per Fandango, you can get a night ticket for an adult in Manhattan (Regal, Union Square) for around $16.50. While I'm sure the popcorn is overpriced, I somehow doubt it's $20.
The last few generations of Panasonic cordless phones (which have basically taken over the entire market for good-quality cordless phones) have the ability to use one handset to power the base. I have VOIP, and my internet infrastructure isn't on a UPS, so I'm still toast, but if I wanted to pay AT&T's rapacious prices for a traditional landline, it would work.
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the British market doesn't have the same basic phone models we have in the US, but these mostly have the same functionality as the one I have in the US. Multiple handsets, plus the base has the ability to Bluetooth to two cell phones. I have a larger home, and we have the five-handset version (the feature is Link2Cell in the US version if you want to check out Amazon's offerings on this side of the pond for comparison). You can leave your cell phone plugged in and charging near the base, but you can still make and receive calls on it (in addition to on a landline, should you still have one - I do, although it's VOIP). I believe the newer ones are able to notify you if you get a text - though not able to read it remotely, which would seem to be a likely feature for the near future.
FAX machines are covered under a different standard, T.38, which just has to be implemented at your VOIP adapter/ATA. The Obihai 200 and 202 both support it, and they're not exactly expensive. If you have a modern hybrid service, where the telephone adapter appears to be analog to you but is VOIP from the internet provider's box upstream, it should already be doing this for you.
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And speaking of "what can you afford", I've found that with my phone on Verizon and my wife's on AT&T (she's still on her parents' plan after fifteen years of marriage), one of us will have service almost anywhere. If you can split the big two carriers, you can vastly improve your service availability. The new Verizon "unlimited" plans are well above my usage level, and treat Canada, USA, and Mexico as one big no-roaming zone for call and text (though they do throttle you after 500 MB/day data in CA/MX).
There's one person's name on the bill, and that person has pay the whole bill (and subsequently collect from everyone else) every month. When you're all family, this is pretty straightforward. Can be trickier with friends. Furthermore, from the add-on's perspective, would you really want someone else to be able to cancel your phone service at any time, no questions asked, because they're the account holder and you're not?
No argument there, just saying that isn't enough to say his mom only had affairs after he was born. She might just have been a bit more discreet or lucky (not to get caught/pregnant).
Well, yes, but that just says she never got pregnant from the affairs. Not that she didn't have them.
My mother didn't start having affairs with other men until after I was born.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but how would you know? Shit, my father-in-law is in his early sixties and just found out that his "dad" wasn't his genetic father. Even if they agreed upon an open relationship at some point after your birth, that doesn't mean she wasn't doing it before that. People who cheat tend not to make a point of telling their SO/spouse when they do so.
"The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed." - William F. Gibson.
I doubt most of them could tell a Greek and a Dane apart, but anyone who's spent their life around a significant European-derived population would have little trouble. Yes, corner cases exist, but really, it's not that hard if you know the populations involved well.
To hell with that. I fly first just so I don't have to deal with that crap. Same reason I spring for the lounge membership - it's well worth it not to have to hang out in the general terminal. I wish lounges still had phone booths so people could make calls without bothering anyone else, but the current system of retiring to an isolated corner to make your calls usually works.
Oh, man, I used that Russian flasher too. On a 5690 Winmodem, IIRC.
As for your speeds, there is a standard protocol (T.38) for sending FAX over VOIP, most ATA's support it. Don't know if there is an equivalent for pure data transmission. The last time I had a modem running over VOIP (ReplayTV 3000 series, best UI of any DVR I've ever used) was ca. 2004, and it worked well enough at 9600 to keep my guide data updated. It probably failed about once a week, but it would get the full info the next night.
Same story in my city. We test on the first of the month at noon (unless there is bad weather). There was a siren mounted on top of the hospital where I used to work; it would always freak out people who weren't from the area.
Yep. I've debated switching to an iPhone for a while now. I don't really want to, because iOS frustrates the hell out of me on my iPad (you do it Steve's way, or you don't do it), and because Android has lots of nice little features that iOS doesn't. Simple example: you can make an Android phone act like a USB storage device. Handy, that. Android lets you rename Bluetooth devices, too. My hospital bought a bunch of Bluetooth systems to play music in the operating rooms. They bought the same system for every room. So iOS users, who can't rename paired devices, have a dizzying list of devices with the same name, and good luck figuring out which one is the right device for this room (often will be two or three within range, so you can't just use discovery). I just went in after hours, paired to each one individually, and renamed them "OR 1", "OR 2", etc.
iOS also has the fuck-you features, like the fact that you can't send a group text to more than ten people unless all are iOS users. Why? Because lock-in.
Oh well. I guess I'll last another year or so on my Nexus 6P, and then I'll just bite the bullet. Maybe Apple will fix some of the more annoying things about iOS by then. It only took, what, five or six years for them to put notifications in iOS? And they're still asking carrier permission to activate tethering, which the 6P has never questioned me about at all.
If she's 25, it's not medicine. Residents (which even wunderkinder would be at that age, in the US) make around $50k/year.
Well, it's not like they put in Unicode support.
Why should phone service be obsolete? I despise long text conversations. If you want to have a back-and-forth, call me. When we're done, one of us can write it up and email the other so there's a record of what conclusions were reached - or we can just not, and nobody but the NSA can prove what we discussed.
The most security-paranoid person I know uses ProtonMail and is sufficiently impressed by it to discuss business issues on it.
That's what public-key crypto was for... even if you wanted it to be universally readable, you could sign it to prove it came from you.
The online buddy list part of ICQ was pretty cool, though. Faster than using finger on a dozen different systems to see who was around.
the curvature per se won't be that strong
I dunno. 2 miles = 10560 feet, so total length of runway a little over 33000 feet. 1/6 of that is 5500 feet, which isn't exactly a huge runway for a commercial jet. And yet you'll be expecting the pilot to make a 60 degree turn, partly under lift and partly under ground control, with perfectly smooth transition between the two, in the course of every takeoff or landing? No thanks; I've seen enough dicey landings that I want the pilots to be controlling one major problem (e.g., crosswind) at a time.
Cigarettes, condoms, flowers for the side girl...
Works both ways, though; a strong national government can screw things up everywhere. Consider somethig like low-flow toilets. In hilly, arid California, these are an excellent idea. In flat, wet areas east of the Mississippi, this means that sewage lines get clogged more easily. Regulations that make sense in some places can be lunacy in others, like the old British imperial rule that public buildings' roofs must support the weight of six feet of snow - even in Malaysia.
I've had to provide ID and a credit card anywhere I've stayed, but your point holds even then. Some pimp takes pictures of his girls in a room, probably at some hotel where they never work. Those are the posted photos. Time lag means there's no way to connect the photos to a specific hotel guest.
US-vs-EU divide here, then. In the US, you basically have Panasonic on the high end (it's a Matsushita brand, so might have a different name there), and VTech (based in Hong Kong) on the low end. Never heard of Gigaset until now. Go to Amazon US, look at cordless phones, and you'll see how completely those two dominate. I think the last time I bought a cordless home phone set that wasn't Panasonic was over twenty years ago.
I'm assuming that's one of the VIP-style, have-your-own-leather-recliner-and-yes-there's-beer places? Because per Fandango, you can get a night ticket for an adult in Manhattan (Regal, Union Square) for around $16.50. While I'm sure the popcorn is overpriced, I somehow doubt it's $20.
The last few generations of Panasonic cordless phones (which have basically taken over the entire market for good-quality cordless phones) have the ability to use one handset to power the base. I have VOIP, and my internet infrastructure isn't on a UPS, so I'm still toast, but if I wanted to pay AT&T's rapacious prices for a traditional landline, it would work.
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the British market doesn't have the same basic phone models we have in the US, but these mostly have the same functionality as the one I have in the US. Multiple handsets, plus the base has the ability to Bluetooth to two cell phones. I have a larger home, and we have the five-handset version (the feature is Link2Cell in the US version if you want to check out Amazon's offerings on this side of the pond for comparison). You can leave your cell phone plugged in and charging near the base, but you can still make and receive calls on it (in addition to on a landline, should you still have one - I do, although it's VOIP). I believe the newer ones are able to notify you if you get a text - though not able to read it remotely, which would seem to be a likely feature for the near future.
FAX machines are covered under a different standard, T.38, which just has to be implemented at your VOIP adapter/ATA. The Obihai 200 and 202 both support it, and they're not exactly expensive. If you have a modern hybrid service, where the telephone adapter appears to be analog to you but is VOIP from the internet provider's box upstream, it should already be doing this for you.