Unfortunately it doesn't work that way in the US. Generally, you buy the phone from the company that provides your service, or an agent that works on behalf of the company. A couple of reasons for this.
One is the dominant of CDMA over GSM. CDMA phones do not use a SIM card and thus are generally tied in hardware to work with a particular provider. Its sometimes possible (I've heard of an AT&T TDMA phone being set up with Cingular TDMA service, but that's the exception rather than the norm).
Even the GSM providers make this tricky. When you buy the phone, it is generally locked so that only that provider's SIM cards will work unless a special unlock code is provided. Which is not easy to get. I had a Pacific Bell (became Cingular during the 1 year contract) GSM phone (Nokia 6190). After over three years with the company, I decided to get a T-Mobile Sidekick and cancel the Cingular service. The Cingular rep would not give me the unlock phone for my Nokia; I had wanted to be able to put the T-Mobile SIM card in it as a backup for the Sidekick.
Sure, as GSM grows a market could develop for independant GSM phone sales, however how would they compete? The cell phone companies heavily subsidize the cost of the phone itself through the service charges; the amount you pay when you buy your phone is usually less than the wholesale cost for the phone. In order to be a viable business, an independant retailer would have to charge more than wholesale, and how would they compete with somebody selling a phone for less than wholesale?
Incidentally, I have found the best way to get through to a live agent when calling Cingular is to select the option for "I want to cancel my service." In fact, that's the only way I've found...
They don't offer that anymore, so eventually, once my phone dies, I'll have to switch to another plan.
Not necessarily. You may be able to "upgrade" to a new phone and keep your current plan. My mother has an ancient Verizon plan she was able to keep when she got a new phone. She did have to sign a new 2-year contract, but she has the same plan.
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MIDI. It uses instructions rather than sampled sounds and is thus very small. A silent recording in MIDI format will sound exactly the same as a silent recording in AAC format.
... so for flights that involve a non-major city, it's a safe bet that if you pick US Airways you're going to go through PIT
Not necessarily. US Airways also maintains hubs at Philadelphia (PHL) and Charlotte (CLT). Also, you could end up on a code-share flight operated by United, in which case you'd be going through somewhere like Chicago (ORD) or Washington (IAD).
Norton AntiVirus is still around on the Mac, it is currently at version 9. Network Associates/McAfee also puts out Virex. Apple actually includes Virex as part of a.Mac subscription.
Looking at the virus definitions, it looks like most of the signatures are for Windows viruses. There are the old Mac and HyperCard viruses that it keeps a look out for as well.
The problem is, Internet Explorer was really slow and felt kind of crappy. To this day, whenever you launch it, it bugs you about "making it the default application" while ignoring your request to not display the message again.
When it first came out, IE 5 was quite good. It remains one of the best web browsers I've used on OS 9, at least partially because the newer project like Mozilla Firebird focus on OS X.
I haven't had the default application problem with IE, and my default browser is Firebird. I only use IE when Firebird chokes on a IE-centric website. This role will continue to work for now, until FrontPage comes up with new ways to break HTML.
Remember too, IE 5 on the Mac has it's own rendering engine, Tasman, and when it came out it was the most standards-compliant browser available on the Mac.
When I signed up for the Albertsons card, there was a box you could check and they would give you the card without giving them any personal information.
Interesting. The Mac Plus my parents bought in 1990 (on sale since it was the end of production, and they were replacing a 128) had the keyboard with the numeric keypad built in.
(As far as "Windows does this by shoving every window title into the taskbar," well, no, it doesn't for me. On W2k, here, individual Apps behave differently. DreamWeaver pre-MX showed every open page as a task bar icon; from MX on it's just got one item on the bar at all times. Sometimes Windows will open several instances of a given app on me, depending on how I chose the documents I wanted to open. Highly idiosyncratic behavior for a very basic function.)
The problem Windows has here is that there are two different windowing models that programs can use.
Single Application Window: The application itself is in a window, with individual windows within that window. Access does this. Things get really strange when the child windows move past the edge of the parent window, and the parent window suddenly gains scrollbars! And the application gets a single taskbar item.
Multiple Document Interface: Each window acts like a separate instance of the application. Internet Explorer does this. Each window gets its own taskbar item.
Personally, I prefer the Mac way of doing things. It's pretty much MDI, but things like toolbars and the menu bar get fixed in place. I don't see the point of each window having its own toolbar and menubar, since you're generally only using one window at a time, and to use a tool or menu from another window, you have to bring the target window to the front anyway. Also saves space.
Back to the taskbar. It gets even more inconsistent with XP. It used to be that if you had too many items in the taskbar, they got too small to be useful. Now, when you get too many, related items (like several different Internet Explorer windows) into a single taskbar item that pops up a menu of windows when you click on it. Like what the Dock does.
My final taskbar complaint has to do with the way Windows names windows. Often, the title of the window is the application name followed by the document name. Especially as the taskbar items start to get small, all you see is several identical icons with the first few letters of text all the same, since it's the same application name. The icon should tell you the application, just give me the document name.
If a user can't easily find a feature, it might as well not exist. Putting Import Bookmarks in the Debug menu, which you get to by typing an obscure command in Terminal, is not easy to find.
It's not an issue for new computer users who don't have any bookmarks to import, but it is for those who have been doing this for a while.
While I'm writing, I might as well add that I don't agree too much with Tog, but I do agree that the Finder windows tend to be too big. Try using 800x600 some time.
Yes, I have used both (WMP 6.3 for OS 8/9) as well as the current OS X version. The OS X version is about like RealOne Player. Both do what they need to and are amazingly ugly. QuickTime is much preferred.
It's not who is paying for the ads, it is who is getting the revenue. Slashdot getting cash is good, while biased, inaccurate web site (Winsupersite) getting cash is bad.
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One is the dominant of CDMA over GSM. CDMA phones do not use a SIM card and thus are generally tied in hardware to work with a particular provider. Its sometimes possible (I've heard of an AT&T TDMA phone being set up with Cingular TDMA service, but that's the exception rather than the norm).
Even the GSM providers make this tricky. When you buy the phone, it is generally locked so that only that provider's SIM cards will work unless a special unlock code is provided. Which is not easy to get. I had a Pacific Bell (became Cingular during the 1 year contract) GSM phone (Nokia 6190). After over three years with the company, I decided to get a T-Mobile Sidekick and cancel the Cingular service. The Cingular rep would not give me the unlock phone for my Nokia; I had wanted to be able to put the T-Mobile SIM card in it as a backup for the Sidekick.
Sure, as GSM grows a market could develop for independant GSM phone sales, however how would they compete? The cell phone companies heavily subsidize the cost of the phone itself through the service charges; the amount you pay when you buy your phone is usually less than the wholesale cost for the phone. In order to be a viable business, an independant retailer would have to charge more than wholesale, and how would they compete with somebody selling a phone for less than wholesale?
Incidentally, I have found the best way to get through to a live agent when calling Cingular is to select the option for "I want to cancel my service." In fact, that's the only way I've found...
Not necessarily. You may be able to "upgrade" to a new phone and keep your current plan. My mother has an ancient Verizon plan she was able to keep when she got a new phone. She did have to sign a new 2-year contract, but she has the same plan.
The Lilo & Stitch TV series is on Disney Channel and ABC.
And Shrek was by DreamWorks, which isn't actually Warner Brothers...
% touch hush.c
% gcc -o hush hush.c
ld: Undefined symbols:
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MIDI. It uses instructions rather than sampled sounds and is thus very small. A silent recording in MIDI format will sound exactly the same as a silent recording in AAC format.
Lots of people do this every day.
Innoventions will be even more like QVC.
Not necessarily. US Airways also maintains hubs at Philadelphia (PHL) and Charlotte (CLT). Also, you could end up on a code-share flight operated by United, in which case you'd be going through somewhere like Chicago (ORD) or Washington (IAD).
Looking at the virus definitions, it looks like most of the signatures are for Windows viruses. There are the old Mac and HyperCard viruses that it keeps a look out for as well.
I think Google does store the thumbnail. I've done image searches where I see the thumbnail, when I click on it the image is is 404 Not Found.
The problem was when people clicked on the thumbnails, they then get brought to the original page with the full size image.
Just like Slashdot. It's not being mentioned on Slashdot that's the problem, the problem is everyone clicking on the link.
When it first came out, IE 5 was quite good. It remains one of the best web browsers I've used on OS 9, at least partially because the newer project like Mozilla Firebird focus on OS X.
I haven't had the default application problem with IE, and my default browser is Firebird. I only use IE when Firebird chokes on a IE-centric website. This role will continue to work for now, until FrontPage comes up with new ways to break HTML.
Remember too, IE 5 on the Mac has it's own rendering engine, Tasman, and when it came out it was the most standards-compliant browser available on the Mac.
CNN has QuickTime video here: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9804/20/gates.co mdex/
while true ; do curl http://www.sco.com -o /dev/null -s ; done
Also, you'll need to be running bash, not tcsh (the default shell prior to 10.3).
What about the man who invented the Internet?
Troi: Captain, I'm picking up hostile intentions.
Oh, wait... wrong show.
When I signed up for the Albertsons card, there was a box you could check and they would give you the card without giving them any personal information.
Good news for United Airlines and Qantas Airways.
I'm pretty sure that the flip site of the tape contained a similar tutorial for MacWrite and MacPaint.
Interesting. The Mac Plus my parents bought in 1990 (on sale since it was the end of production, and they were replacing a 128) had the keyboard with the numeric keypad built in.
The problem Windows has here is that there are two different windowing models that programs can use.
- Single Application Window: The application itself is in a window, with individual windows within that window. Access does this. Things get really strange when the child windows move past the edge of the parent window, and the parent window suddenly gains scrollbars! And the application gets a single taskbar item.
- Multiple Document Interface: Each window acts like a separate instance of the application. Internet Explorer does this. Each window gets its own taskbar item.
Personally, I prefer the Mac way of doing things. It's pretty much MDI, but things like toolbars and the menu bar get fixed in place. I don't see the point of each window having its own toolbar and menubar, since you're generally only using one window at a time, and to use a tool or menu from another window, you have to bring the target window to the front anyway. Also saves space.Back to the taskbar. It gets even more inconsistent with XP. It used to be that if you had too many items in the taskbar, they got too small to be useful. Now, when you get too many, related items (like several different Internet Explorer windows) into a single taskbar item that pops up a menu of windows when you click on it. Like what the Dock does.
My final taskbar complaint has to do with the way Windows names windows. Often, the title of the window is the application name followed by the document name. Especially as the taskbar items start to get small, all you see is several identical icons with the first few letters of text all the same, since it's the same application name. The icon should tell you the application, just give me the document name.
If a user can't easily find a feature, it might as well not exist. Putting Import Bookmarks in the Debug menu, which you get to by typing an obscure command in Terminal, is not easy to find.
It's not an issue for new computer users who don't have any bookmarks to import, but it is for those who have been doing this for a while.
While I'm writing, I might as well add that I don't agree too much with Tog, but I do agree that the Finder windows tend to be too big. Try using 800x600 some time.
Yes, I have used both (WMP 6.3 for OS 8/9) as well as the current OS X version. The OS X version is about like RealOne Player. Both do what they need to and are amazingly ugly. QuickTime is much preferred.
1. Mac OS X
2. Mac OS Classic
It's not who is paying for the ads, it is who is getting the revenue. Slashdot getting cash is good, while biased, inaccurate web site (Winsupersite) getting cash is bad.