Why not simply legislate use of a false number to be illegal? Equate it to fraud and use the laws already on the books. This way you could change it, but use of such an altered phones would violate the law.
Good thing they have that 3-year warranty. When it comes to a laptop, I look at warranty and service first. Laptops are for travelling and should take some kind of abuse, so get the best warranty you can. And unlike a PC, one cannot pop in to the local chop shop and grab a replacement video card: many of the parts are integral. When it breaks, I want it repaired ASAP and on the manufacturer.
In the good ol' days at the.com, the execs all had to have Sony Vaios while I wanted Dell Latitudes for the warranty. The execs were reembursed for their Vaios (each with a 15" screen, firewire, etc.) and ALL developed problems within one year mainly due to LCD panel flex, but also HD problems. Luckily as people were layed off, replacements became available. I was able to rotate some of damaged laptops from use to the repair shop, barely making it within the 1 year warranty. Each repair took an average of 10 days. When one Dell Latitude needed a mobo change (sound problems), a tech arrived the next day and replaced it in 20m. When the doors closed on the company there was a scamble for the Dells.
There is a problem with this? Beats chipping paint, drinking bad coffee, and long deployments in the Navy. The Man has been doing this for a long time; they'll get their money's worth out of these people, trust me. New recruits will probably be sitting on blocks of ice sharing a smoke break with a moose outside of some non-descript warehouse near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
Right on. This is how I ran my development environment. The developers I had needed the freedom to break and destroy, but they also knew the consequences. One floppy later they were back to square one. Marketing folks lost their laptops for a day, minimum penalty. When I am the sole supporter of over 150 curious users in a 24-7 newsroom environment, I have no time for those who know too much. Within 3 months, no one screwed with a single system. My head was LARGE.
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Gmail without the Postini love, why do I want this again? What are they going to call it? FMail?
Why not simply legislate use of a false number to be illegal? Equate it to fraud and use the laws already on the books. This way you could change it, but use of such an altered phones would violate the law.
Good thing they have that 3-year warranty. When it comes to a laptop, I look at warranty and service first. Laptops are for travelling and should take some kind of abuse, so get the best warranty you can. And unlike a PC, one cannot pop in to the local chop shop and grab a replacement video card: many of the parts are integral. When it breaks, I want it repaired ASAP and on the manufacturer.
.com, the execs all had to have Sony Vaios while I wanted Dell Latitudes for the warranty. The execs were reembursed for their Vaios (each with a 15" screen, firewire, etc.) and ALL developed problems within one year mainly due to LCD panel flex, but also HD problems. Luckily as people were layed off, replacements became available. I was able to rotate some of damaged laptops from use to the repair shop, barely making it within the 1 year warranty. Each repair took an average of 10 days. When one Dell Latitude needed a mobo change (sound problems), a tech arrived the next day and replaced it in 20m. When the doors closed on the company there was a scamble for the Dells.
In the good ol' days at the
There is a problem with this? Beats chipping paint, drinking bad coffee, and long deployments in the Navy. The Man has been doing this for a long time; they'll get their money's worth out of these people, trust me. New recruits will probably be sitting on blocks of ice sharing a smoke break with a moose outside of some non-descript warehouse near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
Dallas Quest and Flight Simulator were my first PC games (kicking on a 14" RGB monitor!) Now do I not get lost in the jungle?
And I've been feeling guilty about that slot machine all these years...
Right on. This is how I ran my development environment. The developers I had needed the freedom to break and destroy, but they also knew the consequences. One floppy later they were back to square one. Marketing folks lost their laptops for a day, minimum penalty. When I am the sole supporter of over 150 curious users in a 24-7 newsroom environment, I have no time for those who know too much. Within 3 months, no one screwed with a single system. My head was LARGE.
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