Just had issues with the cable company. First was the fact that while I could go into a cablevision store to pickup a HD cable box for no fee (besides the additional monthly cost), Cable cards can only be acquired by getting a technician sent to my house (for a $40 fee). Then when the technician shows up he only has HD cable boxes on his truck and has to return 6 hours later with a cable card. Install took 20 minutes and it worked flawlessly for the 3 months I had it.
Also it is stated numerous times if you do any research on the internet. I also heard that if you request it, they will keep the copper lines intact. I didn't really care, I never used the copper lines in the 2 years I had been in my house anyway, so they can disconnect whatever they want.
I thought most of cingular's 3G phones fall back to EDGE when not in a 3G coverage area. If that is the case, then the entire country could still use the iPhone if it was 3G.
Cingular almost always sim-locks their phones. My treo 650 was sim locked when I bought. Then I called them up last year and told them I was taking a business trip to Ireland and needed the unlock code. The emailed it to me no questions asked.
Well the nice thing about GSM phones is that you could always get one phone from them and then switch to a PDA. I am grandfathered into their $20 unlimited data plan for my treo (they stopped offering it on the treo 3 days after I signed up). I use it as a modem for my laptop regularly and use over 100mb per month usually in data. They have never hit me with anything beyond my $20/month plan.
No, but it makes his point invalid b/c if the math is done correctly, the scores are nearly identical even though one person knew twice as much as the other.
The only real way to eliminate guessing on multiple choice tests is to simply get rid of multiple choice tests.
You only vote for electors in the Electoral college. They can technically vote for whomever they want to be president. They are usually elected from the hard-core ranks of the party, so it doesn't happen often, but it has before. Only 24 states have laws to punish electors for voting differently. But those are punishments, they don't actually force the elector to vote in a certain way. They are known as Faithless Electors
Well currently some cable providers provide a good amount of channels unecrypted via analog. So while they are only required to send OTA signals, some send much more (cablevision sends 50+ channels in the clear in NJ). This allows a customer to just pay for the service and not the additional fees for renting boxes.
The cable companies with save bandwidth with their conversion to switched video.
Also, FYI, some cable companies are already offering bandwidths much higher than 6mb. Cablevisions Boost service provides a 30mb download speed.
I have an ipod Mini and Treo 650. Both are starting to show their age and I want to upgrade them this year if possible. I am going to take a serious look at the iPhone when it comes out (I already have cingular). It would be very convenient for me to replace my ipod and treo with a single device.
Unless you are Google, don't worry about what Google's browser stats are. Instead, look at the browser stats of your OWN web site. Those are your customers.
Well if you have a website that doesn't work well enough in non-IE browsers, most likely those users won't return. Which means that using your own statistics will only reinforce your perception.
Tell me again why a MAC user would _want_ to run vista on their MAC? As most of my company's website users are running windows, it is useful to test on windows. That can be done right now via WinXP, but eventually as the install base switches to Vista, we will want to test that platform.
Didn't someone write an article a few years ago that, if converted to Mpegs, the bandwidth equivalent of the # of movies Netflix sends out on a daily basis exceeds the capacity of the internet (at the time).
It really depends on where you are. I most major cities or suburban areas I never experience dropped calls. I only get them when traveling through less populated areas. The US is a large country and coverage isn't quite 100% yet. You also have to remember that the major providers in the US use incompatible technologies (T-mobile & Cingular are GSM, Verizon & sprint are CDMA), so you don't get the benefits of additional coverage from competitors towers.
Also, Europe has been ahead of the US in mobile use & coverage for a number of years now.
Well it will probably be difficult to get it to work with any other provider than T-Mobile. Cingular & T-Mobile are GSM, all other us mobile providers are CDMA. The problem is that the radios transmit/receive and different frequencies. So it isn't just a software issue, it is a hardware issue. They might come out with a CDMA model at sometime, but I doubt someone will hack it to work on CDMA.
Nothing exciting, that is, except for lots of probes to Mars, Titan, and other bodies, probes that have fundame tally changed out view of the solar system and send back stunning pictures.
Which probably isn't very exciting to the 18-25 year olds in this survey. People traveling to other planets is exciting to the average young person. Robots? Not so much.
According to that same article, the DS is expected to sell 4.5 million this year compared to 2.9 million for the PSP. Which means the DS will sell 50% more this year. If you also factor in the sales of the GBA this year (3.1 million) it begins to look like a trouncing.
The NTP lawsuit claims that certain Palm products infringe seven NTP patents. All seven of the patents asserted are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and have been rejected by the re-examiners as invalid. Palm also noted that the NTP patents disclose a pager-based email service that has nothing in common with the mobile-computing devices invented by Palm.
Palm has been in occasional contact with NTP concerning a license to these patents. When Palm last communicated with NTP many months ago, however, each of the patents already was the subject of re-examination proceedings by the PTO. Palm is disappointed that, after many months of silence and repeated rejections of NTP's claims by the PTO, NTP has chosen to sue on patents of doubtful validity.
Palm respects legitimate intellectual property rights, but will defend itself vigorously against the attempted misuse of the patent and judicial systems to extract monetary value for rights to patents that may ultimately have no value at all.
And the bio-tech companies, the ones that stand to profit from this, are mostly (not all) putting their money toward the use of "adult" stem cells because even if the "embryonic" can be used to do more things, its to dang hard to get them to do it
Or is it b/c if they investigate embryonic stem cells the labs will lose all federal funding for ANY research?
In short, studies have proven that the heat island effect is not as significant as Crichton supposes (by measuring temps on windy days, where the heat island effect is known to be less significant). Also sea level is going down in some areas b/c areas like Scandanavia are still rebounding from the last ice age. The ground is rising as the weight of the glaciers is taking off of it.
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Just had issues with the cable company. First was the fact that while I could go into a cablevision store to pickup a HD cable box for no fee (besides the additional monthly cost), Cable cards can only be acquired by getting a technician sent to my house (for a $40 fee). Then when the technician shows up he only has HD cable boxes on his truck and has to return 6 hours later with a cable card. Install took 20 minutes and it worked flawlessly for the 3 months I had it.
Also it is stated numerous times if you do any research on the internet. I also heard that if you request it, they will keep the copper lines intact. I didn't really care, I never used the copper lines in the 2 years I had been in my house anyway, so they can disconnect whatever they want.
I thought most of cingular's 3G phones fall back to EDGE when not in a 3G coverage area. If that is the case, then the entire country could still use the iPhone if it was 3G.
Cingular almost always sim-locks their phones. My treo 650 was sim locked when I bought. Then I called them up last year and told them I was taking a business trip to Ireland and needed the unlock code. The emailed it to me no questions asked.
Well the nice thing about GSM phones is that you could always get one phone from them and then switch to a PDA. I am grandfathered into their $20 unlimited data plan for my treo (they stopped offering it on the treo 3 days after I signed up). I use it as a modem for my laptop regularly and use over 100mb per month usually in data. They have never hit me with anything beyond my $20/month plan.
You missed the one I have ever heard of.
The only real way to eliminate guessing on multiple choice tests is to simply get rid of multiple choice tests.
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You only vote for electors in the Electoral college. They can technically vote for whomever they want to be president. They are usually elected from the hard-core ranks of the party, so it doesn't happen often, but it has before. Only 24 states have laws to punish electors for voting differently. But those are punishments, they don't actually force the elector to vote in a certain way. They are known as Faithless Electors
The cable companies with save bandwidth with their conversion to switched video.
Also, FYI, some cable companies are already offering bandwidths much higher than 6mb. Cablevisions Boost service provides a 30mb download speed.
No one knows if Verizon will sue the other companies yet. My guess is that they will.
I have an ipod Mini and Treo 650. Both are starting to show their age and I want to upgrade them this year if possible. I am going to take a serious look at the iPhone when it comes out (I already have cingular). It would be very convenient for me to replace my ipod and treo with a single device.
Well if you have a website that doesn't work well enough in non-IE browsers, most likely those users won't return. Which means that using your own statistics will only reinforce your perception.
Tell me again why a MAC user would _want_ to run vista on their MAC? As most of my company's website users are running windows, it is useful to test on windows. That can be done right now via WinXP, but eventually as the install base switches to Vista, we will want to test that platform.
Didn't someone write an article a few years ago that, if converted to Mpegs, the bandwidth equivalent of the # of movies Netflix sends out on a daily basis exceeds the capacity of the internet (at the time).
Technically PATH is run by the Port Authority, not NJ Transit. Hence the name; Port Authority Trans-Hudson.
Also, Europe has been ahead of the US in mobile use & coverage for a number of years now.
Well it will probably be difficult to get it to work with any other provider than T-Mobile. Cingular & T-Mobile are GSM, all other us mobile providers are CDMA. The problem is that the radios transmit/receive and different frequencies. So it isn't just a software issue, it is a hardware issue. They might come out with a CDMA model at sometime, but I doubt someone will hack it to work on CDMA.
Which probably isn't very exciting to the 18-25 year olds in this survey. People traveling to other planets is exciting to the average young person. Robots? Not so much.
According to that same article, the DS is expected to sell 4.5 million this year compared to 2.9 million for the PSP. Which means the DS will sell 50% more this year. If you also factor in the sales of the GBA this year (3.1 million) it begins to look like a trouncing.
Like using a whitelist instead of a blacklist. Only approved sites & services can be used by the citizens. This doesn't seem to hard to get around.
The NTP lawsuit claims that certain Palm products infringe seven NTP patents. All seven of the patents asserted are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and have been rejected by the re-examiners as invalid. Palm also noted that the NTP patents disclose a pager-based email service that has nothing in common with the mobile-computing devices invented by Palm. Palm has been in occasional contact with NTP concerning a license to these patents. When Palm last communicated with NTP many months ago, however, each of the patents already was the subject of re-examination proceedings by the PTO. Palm is disappointed that, after many months of silence and repeated rejections of NTP's claims by the PTO, NTP has chosen to sue on patents of doubtful validity. Palm respects legitimate intellectual property rights, but will defend itself vigorously against the attempted misuse of the patent and judicial systems to extract monetary value for rights to patents that may ultimately have no value at all.
Or is it b/c if they investigate embryonic stem cells the labs will lose all federal funding for ANY research?
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74
In short, studies have proven that the heat island effect is not as significant as Crichton supposes (by measuring temps on windy days, where the heat island effect is known to be less significant). Also sea level is going down in some areas b/c areas like Scandanavia are still rebounding from the last ice age. The ground is rising as the weight of the glaciers is taking off of it.
But I am pretty sure you can't grow sugarcane in most of the US. Although I hear sugar beets provide a decent alternative.