Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago?
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Your further along in things than I was.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago?
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--MacGyver proved that you could solve any problem with a rubber band, a pen, and a paperclip.--
Yeah, it's all true too but don't forget duck tape and homemade explosives.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago?
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What software other than the OS did they make for the Apple II? I think there might have been an Apple basic but Microsoft Basic was on many different machines at the time.
Different business models either sell a lot of software on many machines you don't make or sell a little software or even give it away to push you hardware. Now things are really, really different.
This happens to cell phones too like breaking OBEX compatibility or making it very hard to use so they can sell you more ring tones. It's BS that should be against the law or at the very least they shouldn't say it has Bluetooth compatibility if it doesn't meet the standard fully.
Why do we have to do that here? I think most people understand what a brick does. You fry that soldered in bios chip through updating and you will come to know what it is.
--The only real bit of news in there is that some people are experiencing infinite loops in the update process, which does suck.--
Yeah, they don't have to mess with the bios every time but I bet they do. I would recommend having a PS3 on battery backup becuase if anything goes wrong during the update you are screwed and you are right, this goes back a long way with Sony. A PSP locked completely after one such update for no apparent reason. It had to be sent back to Sony with about a six month wait and then I think they finally got a new one.
They shouldn't futz with the bios so much during these updates to go after hackers because they are going to get some unhappy customers in the process.
It can also become a problem if there is a power failure or something like being cut off by your ISP while the said update is taking place which basically flashes the bios. Now do you see the issues?
Yeah, they want you to reformat that hard drive every once in a while so you can't sell your games and then still play them from your hard drive. That doesn't take much to do with a PS3.
I saw a bricked PSP that wasn't hacked or anything. Sony just fubared a bunch for the hell of it.
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Yeah, Wozniak wanted things open. The "other Steve" wants to benefit off of BSD but then close up stuff tighter than Microsoft does now. I knew they were somewhat like this all of the time especially when they sued Microsoft for their look and feel issues over Windows. Why can't all graphical user interfaces have a trashcan instead of a recycle bin? There is a lot of this in the industry that just makes it tough on the user when switching programs and I guess that's what most Electronic/Software/Media companies want.
As anyone who has ever watched Max Headroom in the 80's knows these things need to be kept separate by separate companies. When you control it all the quality suffers. Apple used to be a hardware company and Microsoft was a software company and all was well. Now they are both into everything. I wonder how long it will take Apple to crack into gaming and really hit the big time? Sony is an absolute power in electronics/media/. They farm out their gaming development. The new PS3 looks like the best toy I have ever seen. Apple tries to be a toy maker, but their toys ain't no fun any more.
I have used email to successfully reply to SMS and it has worked on every phone that I have tried it on.
What I was saying IS that if you have a data phone there is no need for you to have SMS to send a text message to a voice phone via email. Google Baby. And the reverse is also true IF you can get the "texting to you party" to use a Gmail address. So with a data phone it really is possible to save a little bit that way.
We'll yeah, outside the cites it's basically unavailable. Right now we are in a rural area and CDMA is all there is. Most of this is Alltel and Verizon (1XEV) which are the same basically. Now those Alltel towers in our area will be divested to AT&T and no one here has quad band phones so I'm sure service will suffer. I know AT&T will not bother much with their newly acquired towers. They are going to leave the rural market to Verizon and there is not going to be any so called competition that the FED's thought this would promote. They should have let Verizon have ALL of Alltel's towers but they have to divest 15 million rural customers to AT&T. They will add 2+2 and figure out they can't sell enough iPhones in this market and not give a crap about data, service, or anything else, or they would have already put their own towers up as Verizon did and upgrade all of what they own.
Now I'm not sure why but a quad band Blackberry is slightly slower on CDMA than GSM but only ever so slightly, so I really, really wish Verizon would go to GSM to provide better interoperability with the rest of the networks in the world.
Even my old 8330 Blackberry has several chat clients. And why do you need to use SMS if you have a data plan? With that you have email, duh. OTOH last.fm doesn't have a Blackberry client. Verizon CDMA 1XEV doesn't have as much mojo as AT&T's GSM does but it almost does AND it sure has better coverage so I'm not so sure that Apple is going to do anything here for the long term. Android is slowly but surely picking up steam and it doesn't have as much crazy vendor lock in.
I guess that's OK for those that want stuff to just work, but what if it doesn't. Apple isn't mistake free but is given more of a free pass here than other machines.
I don't see mention of this but I hear you can be fined for NOT filling one out. The other day I got a post card asking me why I haven't filled mine out yet. We'll I haven't seen it to start with.
--Some states had slaves, some Indian Tribes had slaves, not everyone in the United States did and at the time many countries had slavery or serfdom.--
Britain abolished slavery first. That's why they got their cotton from us. Hell the cotton gin probably wasn't even invented by Eli Whitney, but one of his slaves trying have it a little easier.
Maybe there is a Nuclear core with fission going on to explain the heat. In fact it is possible that this is happening at the very center of the earth's core. It's hard to say really what caused this. As anyone can guess, I guess.
This one might work with a huge space plane. Just dropping the passengers off along the way, we'll I'm sure Martin Baker could design something for ejection and reentry.
--Looking at China, I don't see how that system could survive. The old revolutionary leaders are getting to the age where they might start dying off any day now, and if the power games that will inevitably follow do not rip the country to shreds I will be very amazed.--
Even though they are Communist, I don't think you can compare them to the Russians. They are very different. The Chinese do have patience. Americans have never developed this, so we shall see which way is better.
Yeah them Rocky Mountains seem to be the hard part. Maybe we could use a couple of neutron bombs on the places where we want to cross. It might be like getting an xray every time you pass by but that doesn't cost quite as much as 50 bajillion.
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Your further along in things than I was.
--MacGyver proved that you could solve any problem with a rubber band, a pen, and a paperclip.--
Yeah, it's all true too but don't forget duck tape and homemade explosives.
What software other than the OS did they make for the Apple II? I think there might have been an Apple basic but Microsoft Basic was on many different machines at the time.
Different business models either sell a lot of software on many machines you don't make or sell a little software or even give it away to push you hardware. Now things are really, really different.
This happens to cell phones too like breaking OBEX compatibility or making it very hard to use so they can sell you more ring tones. It's BS that should be against the law or at the very least they shouldn't say it has Bluetooth compatibility if it doesn't meet the standard fully.
"The article doesnt describe bricking."
Why do we have to do that here? I think most people understand what a brick does. You fry that soldered in bios chip through updating and you will come to know what it is.
--The only real bit of news in there is that some people are experiencing infinite loops in the update process, which does suck.--
Yeah, they don't have to mess with the bios every time but I bet they do. I would recommend having a PS3 on battery backup becuase if anything goes wrong during the update you are screwed and you are right, this goes back a long way with Sony. A PSP locked completely after one such update for no apparent reason. It had to be sent back to Sony with about a six month wait and then I think they finally got a new one.
They shouldn't futz with the bios so much during these updates to go after hackers because they are going to get some unhappy customers in the process.
It can also become a problem if there is a power failure or something like being cut off by your ISP while the said update is taking place which basically flashes the bios. Now do you see the issues?
Yeah, they want you to reformat that hard drive every once in a while so you can't sell your games and then still play them from your hard drive. That doesn't take much to do with a PS3.
I saw a bricked PSP that wasn't hacked or anything. Sony just fubared a bunch for the hell of it.
Yeah, Wozniak wanted things open. The "other Steve" wants to benefit off of BSD but then close up stuff tighter than Microsoft does now. I knew they were somewhat like this all of the time especially when they sued Microsoft for their look and feel issues over Windows. Why can't all graphical user interfaces have a trashcan instead of a recycle bin? There is a lot of this in the industry that just makes it tough on the user when switching programs and I guess that's what most Electronic/Software/Media companies want.
As anyone who has ever watched Max Headroom in the 80's knows these things need to be kept separate by separate companies. When you control it all the quality suffers. Apple used to be a hardware company and Microsoft was a software company and all was well. Now they are both into everything. I wonder how long it will take Apple to crack into gaming and really hit the big time? Sony is an absolute power in electronics/media/. They farm out their gaming development. The new PS3 looks like the best toy I have ever seen. Apple tries to be a toy maker, but their toys ain't no fun any more.
http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/
Email can send to SMS.
SMS can send to Email.
Therefore with a data plan SMS is redundant.
Just use gmail or something like that to send to "cell phone number"@cellphone provider.com.
Now, getting people NOT to text(SMS) you to your phone number but use your email address is the only problem here.
I have used email to successfully reply to SMS and it has worked on every phone that I have tried it on.
What I was saying IS that if you have a data phone there is no need for you to have SMS to send a text message to a voice phone via email. Google Baby. And the reverse is also true IF you can get the "texting to you party" to use a Gmail address. So with a data phone it really is possible to save a little bit that way.
http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/
Here is how:
* AT&T: number@txt.att.net
* Qwest: number@qwestmp.com
* T-Mobile: number@tmomail.net
* Verizon: number@vtext.com
* Sprint: number@messaging.sprintpcs.com or number@pm.sprint.com
* Virgin Mobile: number@vmobl.com
* Nextel: number@messaging.nextel.com
* Alltel: number@message.alltel.com
* Metro PCS: number@mymetropcs.com
* Powertel: number@ptel.com
* Suncom: number@tms.suncom.com
* U.S. Cellular: number@email.uscc.net
So I think there is something you don't understand or maybe was taken out of context somehow.
We'll yeah, outside the cites it's basically unavailable. Right now we are in a rural area and CDMA is all there is. Most of this is Alltel and Verizon (1XEV) which are the same basically. Now those Alltel towers in our area will be divested to AT&T and no one here has quad band phones so I'm sure service will suffer. I know AT&T will not bother much with their newly acquired towers. They are going to leave the rural market to Verizon and there is not going to be any so called competition that the FED's thought this would promote. They should have let Verizon have ALL of Alltel's towers but they have to divest 15 million rural customers to AT&T. They will add 2+2 and figure out they can't sell enough iPhones in this market and not give a crap about data, service, or anything else, or they would have already put their own towers up as Verizon did and upgrade all of what they own.
Now I'm not sure why but a quad band Blackberry is slightly slower on CDMA than GSM but only ever so slightly, so I really, really wish Verizon would go to GSM to provide better interoperability with the rest of the networks in the world.
Even my old 8330 Blackberry has several chat clients. And why do you need to use SMS if you have a data plan? With that you have email, duh. OTOH last.fm doesn't have a Blackberry client. Verizon CDMA 1XEV doesn't have as much mojo as AT&T's GSM does but it almost does AND it sure has better coverage so I'm not so sure that Apple is going to do anything here for the long term. Android is slowly but surely picking up steam and it doesn't have as much crazy vendor lock in.
I guess that's OK for those that want stuff to just work, but what if it doesn't. Apple isn't mistake free but is given more of a free pass here than other machines.
I bet that lock pick was a credit card if there wasn't a deadbolt present.
You know when you have to take a shit, you take a shit. What's your point?
It was illegal then. Under national emergencies like the war on whatever, things can and do change by executive order.
I don't see mention of this but I hear you can be fined for NOT filling one out. The other day I got a post card asking me why I haven't filled mine out yet. We'll I haven't seen it to start with.
--Some states had slaves, some Indian Tribes had slaves, not everyone in the United States did and at the time many countries had slavery or serfdom.--
Britain abolished slavery first. That's why they got their cotton from us. Hell the cotton gin probably wasn't even invented by Eli Whitney, but one of his slaves trying have it a little easier.
Maybe there is a Nuclear core with fission going on to explain the heat. In fact it is possible that this is happening at the very center of the earth's core. It's hard to say really what caused this. As anyone can guess, I guess.
Hmm.......Your time is coming.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=TNI-LAX&MS=wls&PC=%2523ff0000&RC=%2523000080&DU=mi
This one might work with a huge space plane. Just dropping the passengers off along the way, we'll I'm sure Martin Baker could design something for ejection and reentry.
So are trains. Civil War WWI etc
--Looking at China, I don't see how that system could survive. The old revolutionary leaders are getting to the age where they might start dying off any day now, and if the power games that will inevitably follow do not rip the country to shreds I will be very amazed.--
Even though they are Communist, I don't think you can compare them to the Russians. They are very different. The Chinese do have patience. Americans have never developed this, so we shall see which way is better.
Yeah them Rocky Mountains seem to be the hard part. Maybe we could use a couple of neutron bombs on the places where we want to cross. It might be like getting an xray every time you pass by but that doesn't cost quite as much as 50 bajillion.