Or the Rogers "unlimited plan" where unlimited means "25MB a month" and every byte over that gets charged. We can't make Canadian money jokes any more since the CDN$ has reached parity with the US$. But we can make Canadian megabyte jokes!
I think the split is 55/45 so I think there's going to be at least some influence there. Now that I recall, Vodafone Blackberries have a custom theme applied that is mostly red with cutesey BeOS style icons.
Verizon's biggest problem is themselves. They have the best coverage in my experience by far, but everything else about them drives customers away. They disable features on the phones, they customize the OS on the phones to ensure Verizon lock-in. They are the cellular version of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. "What you want extra butter for your bread?! NO SOUP FOR YOU!"
I've never been to Europe so I don't know how Vodafone treats their customers (Vodafone is part owner of Verizon Wireless) so I don't know who's influencing these decisions.
I've dumped bios data from a Dell laptop before and snooped around using the strings command in Linux. I found the words "Back in the saddle" , some compiler information, a few snips of code and lots of error messages in plain text. On one bios at least, there was a warning inside that the bios was a beta release and not for production use.
Well here's how I see it. AT&T is the largest GSM service in the US and since GSM is pretty much a world standard, so that shuts out Verizon CDMA (which in my opinion has better coverage than AT&T) If Europe wanted to do the same thing keeping everything GSM would be a wise decision.
This reminds me of a scene from Good Morning Vietnam. (From memory)
"The problem with the Viet Cong is, we can't find them. It's hard to find a Vietnamese man named Charlie, they're all named Nguyen or Dao or something like that."..."So we walk around asking people "Are you the enemy?" and if they say "Yes" then we shoot them."
While were on the subject of poking in the registry, how about making the registry a file system that is mounted and can be checked for errors? Or at least some kind of format that isn't obfuscated. Make it a real database or something.
Or if that's too hard, why not make regedit part of the Computer Management MMC screen? Or for that matter, allow me to have multiple copies of regedit running. I'm finding myself comparing registry entries between computers a lot but when windows will only let you have one copy running at a time, you have to do the "Open Network Registry" thing and have the registries all in one big tree instead of side by side for comparing.
Ok here's another feature request, how about make it so that windows is never in a state where it cannot boot? Why not integrate something like ERD Commander or BartPE into the OS itself? Make it a recovery partition that is read only, but will boot the computer up and allow you to run tools without needing a separate disk. (AS/400's can do this) Once you have windows up and running after installation the system will start building an emergency repair partition using files and drivers it verifies are good. If it detects an internet connection, windows will flag the network drivers as good and copy them over to the recovery partition and make them read only so you'll have internet access while in recovery mode. Then add in some kind of tool that will run MD5 sums on the system files of the non booting OS and compare them to an online database to identify a possible file that is corrupt or even say something like "Version 2.1.2 of somefile.dll cannot be used with version 2.2.0 of someotherfile.dll" Or "Your tcpip.sys does not match any official microsoft releases, it is most likely infected with a virus or corrupt. Would you like to replace it with a known good version?" (Or even offer to validate your license key and download a good copy of the file directly from MS)
I've had this phone about 7 months now and I can't believe I completely forgot about Opera Mini in that time frame after trying in vain to make it work on my old phone. Thanks for reminding me!
I think a lot of the slowness in the cell phone is due to the limited resources of the phone. When I browse the internet on my EVDO phone it still seems like it takes about 10 seconds to display most basic websites. When I tether my laptop to it, the speed is nearly indistinguishable from a home broadband connection.
Last time I bought a HD, the shrink wrap on the box had hundreds of little brand logos all over it and the top flap had a paper seal over it. I worked a return counter at Incredible Universe (before Fry's bought them) and one of the other return employees took back a 2GB drive that had a 100MB drive in the box. The drive was the wrong brand, the rubber seals around the outside of the drive had been peeled off (you could see the platters and heads) and the drive had been spray painted black to look like a WD drive. I said "How could you have missed this?" and he said "I thought that's the way it was supposed to look". I was the king of the return counter. I checked every box, every serial number and most people when you said the serial numbers don't match, they snatch up the box and storm out of the store. I had one lady tell me that if we didn't refund her 1 year old ink jet printer, she was going to just leave it there. So we said "OK" and she left it. We put it on top of a shelf and it sat. Some other guy, I still remember his name, Thomas Blair, used to try to pull stuff all the time and I'd always rush to serve him next because I knew he was going to try to pull something again. One time he slipped one past another employee and returned a completely different stereo inside a box. So I told my department manager and he pulled up the transaction and voided it. So when the guy checked his CC statement he'd see we canceled the transaction.
I've got my own Fry's story. I worked there for about 6 months after Incredible Universe was bought. A user brought in a smoked motherboard that had the CPU fan wires running between the processor and the socket. He claimed that nowhere in the instructions did it say that you couldn't route the wires that way, we called the store manager at home and he said "full refund".
I remember some copy protection in the early 90's for a game. You had to look up a number in a table in the manual. But the text was black on very dark brown. I'm assuming that it wasn't able to be copied by a copy machine because there wasn't enough contrast between the two colors.
Here's my take. If I were designing something like this inexpensively, I'd use the two bars shown to adjust the angle of the shaft to lean it forward or backward. The shaft would be connected to the engine output via a universal joint pulled from a car drive shaft. I'd use the tail rotor to adjust the direction the helicopter was pointing. This would be a simple helicopter, so you'd be missing the ability to strafe.
Around in the Dallas area, we've got both Time Warner and Charter servicing different areas. The TW boxes that I have (formerly Comcast) are made by GI and Motorola (same box, different logo) and I don't recall them havging cable card slots. My girlfriend has Charter service and all her boxes (DVR's by Scientific Atlanta) have cable card slots but they are empty.
How does it not constitute internet access? Simple. Lets say Verizon or AT&T comes along and says, "We're no longer running copper POTS lines to houses, we are only using fiber" But the problem ends up being those people still need phone service.
So what they do is run fiber to the house and install a VOIP box on a limited bandwidth connection (such as 128k), but they configure it to block all traffic except the ports that their VOIP service uses. So now you have phone service as you normally would, but if you want internet, you have to call them and upgrade to another package. The hardware is already in your house, you just need to plug into it once they unlock the service.
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Or the Rogers "unlimited plan" where unlimited means "25MB a month" and every byte over that gets charged. We can't make Canadian money jokes any more since the CDN$ has reached parity with the US$. But we can make Canadian megabyte jokes!
I think the split is 55/45 so I think there's going to be at least some influence there. Now that I recall, Vodafone Blackberries have a custom theme applied that is mostly red with cutesey BeOS style icons.
Verizon's biggest problem is themselves. They have the best coverage in my experience by far, but everything else about them drives customers away. They disable features on the phones, they customize the OS on the phones to ensure Verizon lock-in. They are the cellular version of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. "What you want extra butter for your bread?! NO SOUP FOR YOU!"
I've never been to Europe so I don't know how Vodafone treats their customers (Vodafone is part owner of Verizon Wireless) so I don't know who's influencing these decisions.
Then again, who cares anyway. TV is already dead,
Have you tried checking your fuse box?
I've dumped bios data from a Dell laptop before and snooped around using the strings command in Linux. I found the words "Back in the saddle" , some compiler information, a few snips of code and lots of error messages in plain text. On one bios at least, there was a warning inside that the bios was a beta release and not for production use.
Well here's how I see it. AT&T is the largest GSM service in the US and since GSM is pretty much a world standard, so that shuts out Verizon CDMA (which in my opinion has better coverage than AT&T) If Europe wanted to do the same thing keeping everything GSM would be a wise decision.
Did the idea for the show come from a single inspiration, or was it a process?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000#Inspirations_and_influences
So what is "our software"?
This reminds me of a scene from Good Morning Vietnam. (From memory)
"The problem with the Viet Cong is, we can't find them. It's hard to find a Vietnamese man named Charlie, they're all named Nguyen or Dao or something like that."..."So we walk around asking people "Are you the enemy?" and if they say "Yes" then we shoot them."
While were on the subject of poking in the registry, how about making the registry a file system that is mounted and can be checked for errors? Or at least some kind of format that isn't obfuscated. Make it a real database or something.
Or if that's too hard, why not make regedit part of the Computer Management MMC screen? Or for that matter, allow me to have multiple copies of regedit running. I'm finding myself comparing registry entries between computers a lot but when windows will only let you have one copy running at a time, you have to do the "Open Network Registry" thing and have the registries all in one big tree instead of side by side for comparing.
Ok here's another feature request, how about make it so that windows is never in a state where it cannot boot? Why not integrate something like ERD Commander or BartPE into the OS itself? Make it a recovery partition that is read only, but will boot the computer up and allow you to run tools without needing a separate disk. (AS/400's can do this) Once you have windows up and running after installation the system will start building an emergency repair partition using files and drivers it verifies are good. If it detects an internet connection, windows will flag the network drivers as good and copy them over to the recovery partition and make them read only so you'll have internet access while in recovery mode. Then add in some kind of tool that will run MD5 sums on the system files of the non booting OS and compare them to an online database to identify a possible file that is corrupt or even say something like "Version 2.1.2 of somefile.dll cannot be used with version 2.2.0 of someotherfile.dll" Or "Your tcpip.sys does not match any official microsoft releases, it is most likely infected with a virus or corrupt. Would you like to replace it with a known good version?" (Or even offer to validate your license key and download a good copy of the file directly from MS)
UMD movies... About the only Sony media format that ever won was BetaCam for video production.
Well SimCity certainly couldn't be much bloat. I ran it on a Tandy 1000 with a single disk drive and probably less than 640k.
If you think about this like a lever. A change in yaw of 1mm on the sender side could shift the end point many kilometers.
I wonder if they'll hire Crudpuppy to take his place?
I've had this phone about 7 months now and I can't believe I completely forgot about Opera Mini in that time frame after trying in vain to make it work on my old phone. Thanks for reminding me!
I think a lot of the slowness in the cell phone is due to the limited resources of the phone. When I browse the internet on my EVDO phone it still seems like it takes about 10 seconds to display most basic websites. When I tether my laptop to it, the speed is nearly indistinguishable from a home broadband connection.
So who's fault is it that Mars' temperature rises and falls with the Earth's temperature?
Last time I bought a HD, the shrink wrap on the box had hundreds of little brand logos all over it and the top flap had a paper seal over it. I worked a return counter at Incredible Universe (before Fry's bought them) and one of the other return employees took back a 2GB drive that had a 100MB drive in the box. The drive was the wrong brand, the rubber seals around the outside of the drive had been peeled off (you could see the platters and heads) and the drive had been spray painted black to look like a WD drive. I said "How could you have missed this?" and he said "I thought that's the way it was supposed to look". I was the king of the return counter. I checked every box, every serial number and most people when you said the serial numbers don't match, they snatch up the box and storm out of the store. I had one lady tell me that if we didn't refund her 1 year old ink jet printer, she was going to just leave it there. So we said "OK" and she left it. We put it on top of a shelf and it sat. Some other guy, I still remember his name, Thomas Blair, used to try to pull stuff all the time and I'd always rush to serve him next because I knew he was going to try to pull something again. One time he slipped one past another employee and returned a completely different stereo inside a box. So I told my department manager and he pulled up the transaction and voided it. So when the guy checked his CC statement he'd see we canceled the transaction.
I've got my own Fry's story. I worked there for about 6 months after Incredible Universe was bought. A user brought in a smoked motherboard that had the CPU fan wires running between the processor and the socket. He claimed that nowhere in the instructions did it say that you couldn't route the wires that way, we called the store manager at home and he said "full refund".
I remember some copy protection in the early 90's for a game. You had to look up a number in a table in the manual. But the text was black on very dark brown. I'm assuming that it wasn't able to be copied by a copy machine because there wasn't enough contrast between the two colors.
Here's my take. If I were designing something like this inexpensively, I'd use the two bars shown to adjust the angle of the shaft to lean it forward or backward. The shaft would be connected to the engine output via a universal joint pulled from a car drive shaft. I'd use the tail rotor to adjust the direction the helicopter was pointing. This would be a simple helicopter, so you'd be missing the ability to strafe.
You can't un-GPL GPL'd software.
If anyone would have a go at it, it would have to be Microsoft. Their legal dept has deep pockets.
Around in the Dallas area, we've got both Time Warner and Charter servicing different areas. The TW boxes that I have (formerly Comcast) are made by GI and Motorola (same box, different logo) and I don't recall them havging cable card slots. My girlfriend has Charter service and all her boxes (DVR's by Scientific Atlanta) have cable card slots but they are empty.
Will this be you?
How does it not constitute internet access? Simple. Lets say Verizon or AT&T comes along and says, "We're no longer running copper POTS lines to houses, we are only using fiber" But the problem ends up being those people still need phone service.
So what they do is run fiber to the house and install a VOIP box on a limited bandwidth connection (such as 128k), but they configure it to block all traffic except the ports that their VOIP service uses. So now you have phone service as you normally would, but if you want internet, you have to call them and upgrade to another package. The hardware is already in your house, you just need to plug into it once they unlock the service.
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