Roaming in other countries is not automactially enabled on the phones. Including Canada.
You have to call and request it. The rep will try and sell you an add on plan that will make it less expensive while you are there, for calls or data, and then when you refuse they note they account. For when situations like this happen.
Most people will not pay an extra ten bucks to cut the costs into 1/10 and figure they will only minimally use the phone.
This always happens with kids. Kids figure they are home, and use the phone, and data card, like they are sitting in the computer room.
You know what, send the pics when you get home, internet cafes are cheap, and the last thing i do when i am away from home is surf the web
Well having been to all Mexico, Venezuela, and even lived in Colombia for 5 years(dual citizen with US where I was born) I did not run across too many peopke who spoke Portuguese. i can name a couple off hand, but only because I worked in a language department at a local uni.
Not all latin americans have everyday access, although it is getting more common. They do have a large amount of internet cafes. But many run Linux. And the ones that do not will not upgrade. If it ain't broke do not fix it.
PHP 4 was released in 2000 and is finally getting an EOL date but is still going to receive patches.
Microsoft XP was released in 2001 and its EOL date is 2009, with security patches until 2014.
So you have two products with the same span of product life, and still going to have patches for security.
Very poor trolling indeed.
Ahhh,
But what about the majority cell phones run Java, while the Iphone does not.
Apple likes to keep java off of their devices because they cannot have true control of it.
They have done this with the mac for years.
So you can develop your app in java and have it run on a slew of phones.
As much of a fan as I have been over the years of AMD the intel core line is nice, even it might be considered a rehash, it still runs cool and quick, and that is what the game is. all about.
Intel ran with the ball this time.
There 386 and 486 clones were great chips, and far better than their intel counterparts.
I remember the Cyrix k5, pretty sucky chip. Then the K6 first runs were hot dog cookers, and the first athlons generated a fair amount of heat as well. I just sunsetted an athlon 1.8 I bought some 5 years ago. Ran well, but a little hot.
720(mostly) mkv with ogg and and ac3 play no hitches, even when i split the screen and surf the web while watching(42 inch lcd) in the living room. 1080 runs without a hitch, and the card is passively cooled.
The CoreDuo 1.8 win xp shows about 18-20 percent cpu usage when chunking out the video and sound.
I use the power DVD codec for on board decoding. and have the cccp one installed as well.
I would reccomend any of the 24xx series if for an htpc.
I have have vista on my main home box, as of last week, because I have to support it at a new job I have, and needed to futz around with it. Pretty, but slow.
VLC works great for me on the windows boxes I use for my home media system. Plays HD contect fine.
The one in the living room is a Core2 1.8 with 1.5 of ram with an ATI 2400 HD card and no problems with HD acceleration in XP.
I do not game much, so this 59 dollar HD card has been great.
Workstation is same setup, with two gigs of ram and vista, no problems with HD video.
Server side is a linux box which runs headless./all rooms have a pc attached to the tv/my guests can surf the web, watch movies, videos/or grab a wireless rumblepad and play any mame game of their choosing.
I can look through my current personal inventory...
Dell Poweredge SC400 server, bought with no OS and it came with windows and Linux drivers - 299 dollars, with 100 dollar rebate. so 200 bucks and bought it new from Dell.
Currently tying on a dual core dell laptop. 400 dollars new, not a refurb. gig of ram and a cd burner, and it came with xp, bought it a year ago.
Dell has been selling 500 dollar boxes with 19 inch lcds for the last 4 years, and somtimes low as 399.
And if you are, how long did you live there, and where are you now and how long have you been there?
Many people who make it big do go home to help, but it is do to tax breaks and PR ops. There is very little altruism involved. I am not saying there are not good people out there, but money and fame tend to make you forget where you come from.
I grew up in New Orleans, which is the third world, and my dad is from Colombia. I go to Colombia and live for six months to a year at the time teaching technology and english, and I do not toot my own horn, I just help the people from my own particular background. I have done five years straight working for pesos and living in my fathers country. I did not pay it lip service, I went native.
Though i will give you that you like william gibson. The third and first world are coming togther. The us is becoming Cases' playground, and Dubai could perhpas Straylight. I live in the strand.
Your name is notquitecajun. I would say it describes Lake Charles.
Well Lake Charles is not really South Louisiana, but lower Texas.
I would say south louisiana are places starting with Lafayette and going to Thibodaux, Houma, LockPort, LaRose.
I was born in Houma, raised in New Orleans, and went to college in Thibodaux. I don't even rate New Orleans as South Louisiana, it is an entity unto intself.
I lived in Lake Chuck for about a year, and it definitley is more redneck than Cajun(my grandparents spoke french before english down in Gibson).
Lafayette has the Atchafalaya, Lake Charles has Moss bluff. Two very different animals.
And the reason the alligators are a nuisance is that in the real South Louisiana is that years ago when the brought in the lily pads to stop the erosion, they overgrow and choked the water, so they brought in the nutria to eat the lily pads, and the nutria bred like the rats they are, and the gators had an instant self replinishing food source. Plus with the restrictions on killing them, they are all over the place now.
Moto split up in the 90s, 3com swallowed them. You might remember the bit sufer modems of the time that all support was dropped from.
The second split in 10 or 15 years.
The problem with Moto is that they were always good at engineering, but not good at asthetics. Now they are good at asthetics, and sometimes engineering.
Gee the mainstream media aware of this issue, one which they are ultimately responsible for?
1. Newspapers and magazines - You gave them all your demographic information in their questionaires and quizzes and contests for years.
2. Nielsen boxes on televisions.
3. Even voting by phone for american idol, and even when Star Search did it.
4. Those annoying survey questions you used to get when you called for a service, to pay a bill. Etc.
Mainstream media is feeling the hurt of the internet still and looking to throw stones anyway they can.
I guarantee the mainstream media has more data on you than any internet company.
Ipaqs have had something similar for years now. You can get sleeves to do many things, even turn them into phones, plus there are Ipaq phones which you can buy sleeves. For.
And I think they have been doing it for years. I remember seeing them in 2004.
i will answer that. I am a half ass colombian(colombian pop) . I grew up in the states, but lived and worked in Colombia for a time, and know, or at least knew their infrastructure fairly well.
Colombia at one point in time had two internet companies. EPM(emtelsa) which is state run and owned. And Telesat, which is privately owned, Enrique Biaz I think was the CEO, offered me job around 2002 when I was running around there. I just didnt want to move to Cali. I liked Manizales.
Anyway Telesat in Colombia is the link that is down, so one provider is down, not the entire country, because most people use the Emtelsa, or whatever the have evolved into.
So while telesat link is down(I think they have changed their name) the country is still online for most everyone else.
Get it straight. Yes there were many clones of the Apple 2.
But there were cloned macs as well with Apple Licensed roms, PowerComputing being, one but there were several others.
The Mac was not a problem solver for clones.
jobs canceled the program when he returned to Apple, or rather raised the prices on the licenses to the manufactuers, to where they would not be able to compete on price points with Apple branded products.
As for the PC clones, the reference manual was handy, but some guys reverse engineered the Phoenix bios and people were able to build clones to the pc.
I would say dos was pirated heavily, but MS cut a deal with MS that was less costly than CPM.
Different world view, cannot blame you for it, just you were fortunate to grow up in the US.
I grew up in the US, but have a Colombian father and was privileged enough to live there as an adult for 5 years, so see how the other side lives.
Priveleged in the sense I got to live and work for pesos, no credit cards, cold showers in the Andes, etc. It changed my life.
Sex between adults and teens is very common and excepted in other countries. I know in Colombia when I was a 30 year old college professor, i could have dated 16 year old girls without too much trouble, parents would encourage it. They saw stability in an older, employed person, rather than a young rake, so to speak.
If you ever read missionary works about Africa, particularly Paul Theroux, you will realize most missionary and peace corp people do get it on with the local people.
And I am not only talking about the visiting teachers, but the native ones as well. It is a cultural thing, and they are are very different culturally than we are.
I would reccomend to anyone that things that thinks are "not THAT different" in Africa(or other countries) to truly vistit them for more than a vacation.
Africa is poverty stricken and a wild and wooly country. If the teacher is the guy with a few coins in his pocket to pay you for sex, to in turn feed your family, then you fuck the teacher.
Culturally, it could be an honor to bang the wise man.
And of course since AIDS is rampany in Africa, I think the numbers are valid.
And if you count no shoes, living in huts, abject poverty, and disease as not different than what we have here, you need to take a leave of abscence and see the rest of the world, not Amsterdam.
I am short and skinny, always have been, and at age 38, none of that adult weight gain has happened. Good metabolism and genetics I suppose.
My girlfriend came to the relationship with an english mastiff. A very small one. Only weighs a 100 lbs, and looks like a giant boxer almost.
BEST DOG Ever. Super smart, sweet, protective, and funny as hell.
Mastiffs might be huge but they are not macho dogs by any means.
Pit Bulls and Rotts, and others are the macho dogs. And bulldogs.
I have had terriers all my life, and they can be little demons. I was unsure of my new giant pet, but I am never going back.
I do think I am compensating for anything.
Maybe my girl is. She is only five foot tall.
DUDE STOP THINKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLES PENISES SO MUCH.
I really did not know us short skinny guys compensated for our heigh or penises with big dogs. I did not know you were looking at my penis when I walked my dog.
Michael Vick and his ilk were certainly short and skinny.
Wait I am short and skinny, buy I am latin colombian. That must mean I keep my cocaine hidden under my giant latin cock.
Fark has a Florida time, besides the stories out of Florida, because Fark was originated in Florida.
Please be advised that most people here in Florida that rate the Florida tag are first and second gen people from up north who come here for the weather, or finish out a parole sentence in a warm climate. OR with the assumption it is easy to scam people in the south, or that becase we live below the mason dixon, we are not as smart as our northern brethern.
Alabama is a hole but has a few good unis as well.
I can find some very nasty places in Jersey, New York, and PA.
What?
The apple//c I owned had uart on board that would not handle anything but a 300 baud modem, and if you bought a hayes a USR into the stores, they would tell you that you had to buy the apple modem for the machine. They would then switch the uart.
I had to go to a different city with my box and tell them my apple modem was not working 1200 baud and up. they replaced the uart.
And my hayes 2400 went to work
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Roaming in other countries is not automactially enabled on the phones. Including Canada. You have to call and request it. The rep will try and sell you an add on plan that will make it less expensive while you are there, for calls or data, and then when you refuse they note they account. For when situations like this happen. Most people will not pay an extra ten bucks to cut the costs into 1/10 and figure they will only minimally use the phone. This always happens with kids. Kids figure they are home, and use the phone, and data card, like they are sitting in the computer room. You know what, send the pics when you get home, internet cafes are cheap, and the last thing i do when i am away from home is surf the web
Rogers communications rapes everyone who roams in Canada. All cell phone companies in other companies will put the screws to the roaming customer.
Well having been to all Mexico, Venezuela, and even lived in Colombia for 5 years(dual citizen with US where I was born) I did not run across too many peopke who spoke Portuguese. i can name a couple off hand, but only because I worked in a language department at a local uni.
Not all latin americans have everyday access, although it is getting more common. They do have a large amount of internet cafes. But many run Linux. And the ones that do not will not upgrade. If it ain't broke do not fix it.
Portgues es epanol mal hablado.
Puto
PHP 4 was released in 2000 and is finally getting an EOL date but is still going to receive patches. Microsoft XP was released in 2001 and its EOL date is 2009, with security patches until 2014. So you have two products with the same span of product life, and still going to have patches for security. Very poor trolling indeed.
Ahhh, But what about the majority cell phones run Java, while the Iphone does not. Apple likes to keep java off of their devices because they cannot have true control of it. They have done this with the mac for years. So you can develop your app in java and have it run on a slew of phones.
Intel has made graphic chips for years. If you have someone just crunching numbers, wood processing, that is all you need.
And Intel does provide complete documentation and creates linux drivers.
Sound like you just got your geek card.
Puto
As much of a fan as I have been over the years of AMD the intel core line is nice, even it might be considered a rehash, it still runs cool and quick, and that is what the game is. all about.
Intel ran with the ball this time.
There 386 and 486 clones were great chips, and far better than their intel counterparts.
I remember the Cyrix k5, pretty sucky chip. Then the K6 first runs were hot dog cookers, and the first athlons generated a fair amount of heat as well. I just sunsetted an athlon 1.8 I bought some 5 years ago. Ran well, but a little hot.
Sure,
720(mostly) mkv with ogg and and ac3 play no hitches, even when i split the screen and surf the web while watching(42 inch lcd) in the living room. 1080 runs without a hitch, and the card is passively cooled.
The CoreDuo 1.8 win xp shows about 18-20 percent cpu usage when chunking out the video and sound.
I use the power DVD codec for on board decoding. and have the cccp one installed as well.
I would reccomend any of the 24xx series if for an htpc.
I have have vista on my main home box, as of last week, because I have to support it at a new job I have, and needed to futz around with it. Pretty, but slow.
VLC works great for me on the windows boxes I use for my home media system. Plays HD contect fine.
The one in the living room is a Core2 1.8 with 1.5 of ram with an ATI 2400 HD card and no problems with HD acceleration in XP.
I do not game much, so this 59 dollar HD card has been great.
Workstation is same setup, with two gigs of ram and vista, no problems with HD video.
Server side is a linux box which runs headless. /all rooms have a pc attached to the tv /my guests can surf the web, watch movies, videos /or grab a wireless rumblepad and play any mame game of their choosing.
"you need large real-time systems running as sufficiently as possible."
Should that not be efficiently as possible?
I can look through my current personal inventory... Dell Poweredge SC400 server, bought with no OS and it came with windows and Linux drivers - 299 dollars, with 100 dollar rebate. so 200 bucks and bought it new from Dell. Currently tying on a dual core dell laptop. 400 dollars new, not a refurb. gig of ram and a cd burner, and it came with xp, bought it a year ago. Dell has been selling 500 dollar boxes with 19 inch lcds for the last 4 years, and somtimes low as 399.
What impoverished country are you from?
And if you are, how long did you live there, and where are you now and how long have you been there?
Many people who make it big do go home to help, but it is do to tax breaks and PR ops. There is very little altruism involved. I am not saying there are not good people out there, but money and fame tend to make you forget where you come from.
I grew up in New Orleans, which is the third world, and my dad is from Colombia. I go to Colombia and live for six months to a year at the time teaching technology and english, and I do not toot my own horn, I just help the people from my own particular background. I have done five years straight working for pesos and living in my fathers country. I did not pay it lip service, I went native.
Though i will give you that you like william gibson. The third and first world are coming togther. The us is becoming Cases' playground, and Dubai could perhpas Straylight. I live in the strand.
Puto
Whoo hee. Baton Rouge is almost Yankee coountry. But spent some time there. The Catery, Georges Under the Bridge, Fluer Di Le Pizza. Tonys Sea food.
Baton Rouge has decent food. Cute girls, but seems to close down in the summer.
Best friend lives in Greenwell Springs.
Your name is notquitecajun. I would say it describes Lake Charles.
Well Lake Charles is not really South Louisiana, but lower Texas.
I would say south louisiana are places starting with Lafayette and going to Thibodaux, Houma, LockPort, LaRose.
I was born in Houma, raised in New Orleans, and went to college in Thibodaux. I don't even rate New Orleans as South Louisiana, it is an entity unto intself.
I lived in Lake Chuck for about a year, and it definitley is more redneck than Cajun(my grandparents spoke french before english down in Gibson).
Lafayette has the Atchafalaya, Lake Charles has Moss bluff. Two very different animals.
And the reason the alligators are a nuisance is that in the real South Louisiana is that years ago when the brought in the lily pads to stop the erosion, they overgrow and choked the water, so they brought in the nutria to eat the lily pads, and the nutria bred like the rats they are, and the gators had an instant self replinishing food source. Plus with the restrictions on killing them, they are all over the place now.
Alligator is good eating though.
I am an actual coon ass!
Moto split up in the 90s, 3com swallowed them. You might remember the bit sufer modems of the time that all support was dropped from.
The second split in 10 or 15 years.
The problem with Moto is that they were always good at engineering, but not good at asthetics. Now they are good at asthetics, and sometimes engineering.
Gee the mainstream media aware of this issue, one which they are ultimately responsible for? 1. Newspapers and magazines - You gave them all your demographic information in their questionaires and quizzes and contests for years. 2. Nielsen boxes on televisions. 3. Even voting by phone for american idol, and even when Star Search did it. 4. Those annoying survey questions you used to get when you called for a service, to pay a bill. Etc. Mainstream media is feeling the hurt of the internet still and looking to throw stones anyway they can. I guarantee the mainstream media has more data on you than any internet company.
Ipaqs have had something similar for years now. You can get sleeves to do many things, even turn them into phones, plus there are Ipaq phones which you can buy sleeves. For.
And I think they have been doing it for years. I remember seeing them in 2004.
i will answer that. I am a half ass colombian(colombian pop) . I grew up in the states, but lived and worked in Colombia for a time, and know, or at least knew their infrastructure fairly well. Colombia at one point in time had two internet companies. EPM(emtelsa) which is state run and owned. And Telesat, which is privately owned, Enrique Biaz I think was the CEO, offered me job around 2002 when I was running around there. I just didnt want to move to Cali. I liked Manizales. Anyway Telesat in Colombia is the link that is down, so one provider is down, not the entire country, because most people use the Emtelsa, or whatever the have evolved into. So while telesat link is down(I think they have changed their name) the country is still online for most everyone else.
Get it straight. Yes there were many clones of the Apple 2. But there were cloned macs as well with Apple Licensed roms, PowerComputing being, one but there were several others. The Mac was not a problem solver for clones. jobs canceled the program when he returned to Apple, or rather raised the prices on the licenses to the manufactuers, to where they would not be able to compete on price points with Apple branded products. As for the PC clones, the reference manual was handy, but some guys reverse engineered the Phoenix bios and people were able to build clones to the pc. I would say dos was pirated heavily, but MS cut a deal with MS that was less costly than CPM.
I pay 20 bucks for my 3g data plan, and my phone regular does a megabit plus to my laptop. No ISDN speeds here.
Different world view, cannot blame you for it, just you were fortunate to grow up in the US.
I grew up in the US, but have a Colombian father and was privileged enough to live there as an adult for 5 years, so see how the other side lives.
Priveleged in the sense I got to live and work for pesos, no credit cards, cold showers in the Andes, etc. It changed my life.
Sex between adults and teens is very common and excepted in other countries. I know in Colombia when I was a 30 year old college professor, i could have dated 16 year old girls without too much trouble, parents would encourage it. They saw stability in an older, employed person, rather than a young rake, so to speak.
If you ever read missionary works about Africa, particularly Paul Theroux, you will realize most missionary and peace corp people do get it on with the local people.
And I am not only talking about the visiting teachers, but the native ones as well. It is a cultural thing, and they are are very different culturally than we are.
I would reccomend to anyone that things that thinks are "not THAT different" in Africa(or other countries) to truly vistit them for more than a vacation.
Africa is poverty stricken and a wild and wooly country. If the teacher is the guy with a few coins in his pocket to pay you for sex, to in turn feed your family, then you fuck the teacher.
Culturally, it could be an honor to bang the wise man.
And of course since AIDS is rampany in Africa, I think the numbers are valid.
And if you count no shoes, living in huts, abject poverty, and disease as not different than what we have here, you need to take a leave of abscence and see the rest of the world, not Amsterdam.
I am short and skinny, always have been, and at age 38, none of that adult weight gain has happened. Good metabolism and genetics I suppose.
My girlfriend came to the relationship with an english mastiff. A very small one. Only weighs a 100 lbs, and looks like a giant boxer almost.
BEST DOG Ever. Super smart, sweet, protective, and funny as hell.
Mastiffs might be huge but they are not macho dogs by any means.
Pit Bulls and Rotts, and others are the macho dogs. And bulldogs.
I have had terriers all my life, and they can be little demons. I was unsure of my new giant pet, but I am never going back.
I do think I am compensating for anything.
Maybe my girl is. She is only five foot tall.
DUDE STOP THINKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLES PENISES SO MUCH.
I really did not know us short skinny guys compensated for our heigh or penises with big dogs. I did not know you were looking at my penis when I walked my dog.
Michael Vick and his ilk were certainly short and skinny.
Wait I am short and skinny, buy I am latin colombian. That must mean I keep my cocaine hidden under my giant latin cock.
Fark has a Florida time, besides the stories out of Florida, because Fark was originated in Florida.
Please be advised that most people here in Florida that rate the Florida tag are first and second gen people from up north who come here for the weather, or finish out a parole sentence in a warm climate. OR with the assumption it is easy to scam people in the south, or that becase we live below the mason dixon, we are not as smart as our northern brethern.
Alabama is a hole but has a few good unis as well.
I can find some very nasty places in Jersey, New York, and PA.
Puto
What? The apple //c I owned had uart on board that would not handle anything but a 300 baud modem, and if you bought a hayes a USR into the stores, they would tell you that you had to buy the apple modem for the machine. They would then switch the uart.
I had to go to a different city with my box and tell them my apple modem was not working 1200 baud and up. they replaced the uart.
And my hayes 2400 went to work
Although he doesn't have the best voice. He did write a slew of hits, Bobby Mcgee and Help me Make it through the night. Was one of the highway men.
1. Rhodes Scholar.
2. Military Helicopter Pilot.
3. Assigned as a professor at West Point but resigned his commission.
4. Golden Gloves boxer.
A true geek in the Heinlein sense. Smart and tough.