I've been using my p800 on both t-mobile and att networks (in the NY tristate area). I bought mine unlocked in Indonesia (for a much cheaper price than can be found here in the states). Since I do a lot of international travel, I buy pre-paid service to avoid getting caught in a yearly contract - I'm not even in the country for half the year. I have to say that ATT's service is by far outstanding compared to T-mobile; cheaper, more service options provided (i.e. access to gprs), and friendler customer service.
I have yet to see another person in the States with a p800, but then again it only sets you back about $700 *cough*
The engagment ring my father gave to my mom came from a "bubble gum" vending maching. Even though they divorced 20 some years ago, to the day that ring is still my mother's favorite... the diamond rings sit untouched...
Diamond rings coming to signify value/love/stability is one of the greatest illusions ever placed before us... Its also quite a cultural phenomena... Us *intelligent* *western* cultures favor this mass marketing ploy like without questioning it the slightest. Any woman that judged me on the size/quality/price of a rock could never get my seed...
I have to admit I was thinking the same thing... even recalling days of striking a flint to a stone. After going through the *blackout* here in NYC, I managed to come up with some interesting solutions to the sudden loss of electricity flow. Got the cordless phone to work by taking a Freeplay radio I had (battery powered from solar, or by hand-crank), and rigging some wires to the DC input of the phone base. Whadda ya know, it worked great! From there, I moved on to lighting up some LED's I had laying around... granted it wasn't room-filling light, but it provided some nice ambient light in the otherwise pure darkness. Not sure how well this would work if I rigged it up to an incandescent bulb...
As far as using ear wax goes... well, when I was a kid I remember setting q-tips aflame and watching in pure awe as the flaming torch created *napalm* droplets of flaming plastic... I'm sure the ear wax would provide a nice *natural* fuel. Land of the lost????
You must be talking about those year-old bags of ice in the bottom of the coolers that have semi-evaporated and turned into a single glacial chunk of dirty ice...
This reminds me of that game they use to have at Showbiz Pizza places when I was a kid - you had some rubber mallet thing and you had to smash down the monster heads popping up... Sure they were easy to knock down at first, but eventually the harder you tried - the faster they popped up from another spot and the game basically ended.
I know this is a horrible analogy to the seriouslness of issues concerned surrounded child pornography... but there is some truth here I think.
What's the use in blocking these IP's - its not going to solve anything... other sites will surely pop up within a blink of the eye... Seems like it would be easier to control and monitor if left as-is... Not to mention that if the pedo's lose material to look at, who's to say that they aren't going to get the urge to go out and physically act on their impulses??
Censorship in any form will never lead to a final solution - it just makes it harder to attain in the long run...
I think people are missing a more important subject that this discussion calls attention to. I don't see Apple as being perfect in any sense, but its their mode of process and willingness to evolve is generally more progressive and open to the end-users experience. The fact that they even post such articles to help guide potential developers for the OS X platform is something of a curiousity. This article brings up issues that stand alone of any os... I work for a company that does interaction design, and from experiece I can see that Apple realizes that under all the "apps and machinery" of the system, the end UI has an emotional connection with users. There's something about an interface that has cohesion and consistency; it becomes an experience rather than a mechanical operation of clicking mouse buttons and dragging windows. I know for a fact that MS is following Apple's lead at this very moment...
For god's sake, the last time I was on a windows machine, I started up WinMX and nearly screamed at the interface... I've never had such an experience on a mac... There's a level of comfort in knowing I can expect an intuitive interface on a mac... Windows? Its the best crapshoot I've ever played with!
It is interesting the connotation behind the words "remote control." Symbolic of how we humans are in an ever-increasing battle to control the environment around us. So along comes the 'universal remote' which allows the greediest of control freaks to covet the power in one isolated unit. And I thought it was bad when my stepfater refused to release his grip from the TV remote... just imagine the power struggles taking place in the average houselhold when the remote controls not only the appliances, but lighting, temperature controls, etc...
That thing better have a hidden book of matches tucked within its injection-molded body... just imagine during a power loss and the remote appears to be working, but the damn lights just aren't responding!!!
"De Beers may be single-handedly responsible for promoting, in less than a century, Amercian, European, Japanese, and, increasingly, Chinese women to expect the "traditional" gift of a diamond engagment ring as a matter of right. "
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Don't know why...
I've been using my p800 on both t-mobile and att networks (in the NY tristate area). I bought mine unlocked in Indonesia (for a much cheaper price than can be found here in the states). Since I do a lot of international travel, I buy pre-paid service to avoid getting caught in a yearly contract - I'm not even in the country for half the year. I have to say that ATT's service is by far outstanding compared to T-mobile; cheaper, more service options provided (i.e. access to gprs), and friendler customer service. I have yet to see another person in the States with a p800, but then again it only sets you back about $700 *cough*
The engagment ring my father gave to my mom came from a "bubble gum" vending maching. Even though they divorced 20 some years ago, to the day that ring is still my mother's favorite... the diamond rings sit untouched... Diamond rings coming to signify value/love/stability is one of the greatest illusions ever placed before us... Its also quite a cultural phenomena... Us *intelligent* *western* cultures favor this mass marketing ploy like without questioning it the slightest. Any woman that judged me on the size/quality/price of a rock could never get my seed...
Flashlight :) hehe...
I have to admit I was thinking the same thing... even recalling days of striking a flint to a stone. After going through the *blackout* here in NYC, I managed to come up with some interesting solutions to the sudden loss of electricity flow. Got the cordless phone to work by taking a Freeplay radio I had (battery powered from solar, or by hand-crank), and rigging some wires to the DC input of the phone base. Whadda ya know, it worked great! From there, I moved on to lighting up some LED's I had laying around... granted it wasn't room-filling light, but it provided some nice ambient light in the otherwise pure darkness. Not sure how well this would work if I rigged it up to an incandescent bulb... As far as using ear wax goes... well, when I was a kid I remember setting q-tips aflame and watching in pure awe as the flaming torch created *napalm* droplets of flaming plastic... I'm sure the ear wax would provide a nice *natural* fuel. Land of the lost????
You must be talking about those year-old bags of ice in the bottom of the coolers that have semi-evaporated and turned into a single glacial chunk of dirty ice...
This reminds me of that game they use to have at Showbiz Pizza places when I was a kid - you had some rubber mallet thing and you had to smash down the monster heads popping up... Sure they were easy to knock down at first, but eventually the harder you tried - the faster they popped up from another spot and the game basically ended.
I know this is a horrible analogy to the seriouslness of issues concerned surrounded child pornography... but there is some truth here I think.
What's the use in blocking these IP's - its not going to solve anything... other sites will surely pop up within a blink of the eye... Seems like it would be easier to control and monitor if left as-is... Not to mention that if the pedo's lose material to look at, who's to say that they aren't going to get the urge to go out and physically act on their impulses??
Censorship in any form will never lead to a final solution - it just makes it harder to attain in the long run...
time to start stockpiling beano!!
I think people are missing a more important subject that this discussion calls attention to. I don't see Apple as being perfect in any sense, but its their mode of process and willingness to evolve is generally more progressive and open to the end-users experience. The fact that they even post such articles to help guide potential developers for the OS X platform is something of a curiousity. This article brings up issues that stand alone of any os... I work for a company that does interaction design, and from experiece I can see that Apple realizes that under all the "apps and machinery" of the system, the end UI has an emotional connection with users. There's something about an interface that has cohesion and consistency; it becomes an experience rather than a mechanical operation of clicking mouse buttons and dragging windows. I know for a fact that MS is following Apple's lead at this very moment...
For god's sake, the last time I was on a windows machine, I started up WinMX and nearly screamed at the interface... I've never had such an experience on a mac... There's a level of comfort in knowing I can expect an intuitive interface on a mac... Windows? Its the best crapshoot I've ever played with!
It is interesting the connotation behind the words "remote control." Symbolic of how we humans are in an ever-increasing battle to control the environment around us. So along comes the 'universal remote' which allows the greediest of control freaks to covet the power in one isolated unit. And I thought it was bad when my stepfater refused to release his grip from the TV remote... just imagine the power struggles taking place in the average houselhold when the remote controls not only the appliances, but lighting, temperature controls, etc... That thing better have a hidden book of matches tucked within its injection-molded body... just imagine during a power loss and the remote appears to be working, but the damn lights just aren't responding!!!
This has been covered and photographed long ago... by many other news organizations... what's different now?
LAN parties!? What's next?? Kegger next weekend at the local NIC... yeehaw!
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"De Beers may be single-handedly responsible for promoting, in less than a century, Amercian, European, Japanese, and, increasingly, Chinese women to expect the "traditional" gift of a diamond engagment ring as a matter of right. "
Would you pay to seed the neighbor's lawn?
iDisk is painfullly SLOW even on broadband...