You can, go with Nextel Service. They have an awesome network (I have been all over the country and 9 times out of 10 have a better signal than anybody around me), and they have very simple phones like the i530 which is the most durable phone on the market (I ran it over with my 3500lb Chevy Suburban and not a thing wrong with it). Plus you get the Direct Connect:D.
Bull sh__.
Nextel is the most annoying piece of crap network... I have a very close friend who has a "service" job and is supplied Nextel by his company. Almost 20% of every day when he is out in the field, in plain old suburban areas - nothing remote, I call him and get "The Nextel Subscriber You have Called is being located." and then it goes to his voicemail.
My Verizon phone, and I have absolutely no love for them - in fact dislike the company - works 100 times more places than his Nextel. He gets no service skiing, I have 100% signal. He gets no service camping, I have 50% signal.....
And Direct Connect is the most rude most ignorant piece of poop technology ever conceived. And the only thing that keeps me from strangling the next person using it in the airport is the fact that I would go to Guantanimo for eternity as a terrorist... People use that crap in a restaurant, in the airport, libraries, even once in a church! You not only get both sides of the conversation annoyingly - but that stupid beep every time they use it.
How hard is it to just dial their number in the fing phone? I have my wife's cell phone on voice dial. I pick up the phone, open it, and say her name and it dials her number. Works even with the radio on loud or in a loud mall or whatever....
I couldn't imagine the "need" for MS Office anywhere
1. Job applications and resumes. Many companies require they be in Word format.
2. Contracting requirements. I have written many proposals in response to RFPs that specifically state "All documents will be in Microsoft Word, Excell, or Project format". If you want the contract, you use Word, Excell, or Project.
Right or wrong - that is the way it is. I need to eat....
Boing, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and Carnival Cruise Lines have all received money from the federal government. Everything they do is not public domain.
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If more people switch, and more people buy Mac games, more games will come out on the Mac.
(Please ignore the Mac DOOM3. It is a mistake. Please put down the DOOM3 box, and walk away. Look over there, at the other Mac games that at least run acceptably.)
Besides, if you don't play them on the PC then who cares when they come out in relation to the PC? My only gripe is when they make games that won't network with PCs and Macs. That is inexcusable in 2005.
I stopped going to the cinema multiple times to see the same move when the cinema started being more expensive than dinner. Seriously, I have a family of three. For two adults and a child to see a movie at night it costs $26. During the day it costs $18.
And all that is for (with some exceptions) uncomfortable seats, annoying other patrons, no pauses for bathroom breaks, and 20 minutes of ads and previews before the movie starts.
So I stopped going to the cinema all together. Of course they probably blame the loss of my revenue on piracy...
Netflix and a 57inch HD TV and a good surround sound setup are my friends... I have paid for my TV with the money I have saved from not going to the movies.
But I do still go to our "pub" theaters where you sit in a couch or something, watch a second run movie (Like "Life Aquatic" this week). The movie costs $2 a person, and you can drink beer or wine and soda and tea and hard cider, and eat pizza or burgers.... For the same price as the regular theater I get a much better experience and better food.:)
I love OS X, but I love Freedom of Expression more.
Nothing Apple has done with this current court battle has limited your freedom of expression.
You are still able to say "Apple Sucks" or "George W. Bush is a moron" or "The United States is turning fascist" or "Nike eats children". Anything you want.
You are NOT allowed to, however, bribe people into breaking laws - and be exempt from the consequences.
And I believe bloggers are NOT journalists. I do believe they should have rights and protection as well, but they are NOT journalsists. But then again I also believe that not many of the mainstream media employ any actual journalists anymore. With people like Bill O'Reiley and Ann Coulter being praised as journalists when all they really do is use their positions to push agendas - well, it violates the whole reason we have journalists in the first place.
journalists are supposed to present the information.
Which is why bloggers are not journalists, they are opinion column authors at best....
How is Flashblock heavy handed? You can run the flash or not. Works nicely.
And how is it too buggy? Firefox, as of this posting, has 6700 open bugs. Should we not use it either? (Note, Bugzilla does not accept links from Slashdot. Cut and paste the URL or block your referrer to see the list of open bugs)
And how does it *modify* the other plugin? All Flashblock does is changes when the other plugin is called... Flash still works normally, under all circumstances.
I have been using Flashblock reliably under Firefox and Camino for months now, with no issues whatsoever! Most of my coworkers saw it and installed it and I have not heard one complaint.
What else do you mean by getting control of Flash, if it is not just what Flashblock does?
I'm currently running MySoft Technology's Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) shell program for Internet Explorer 5.x and later, which has a very powerful function called AD Hunter. AD Hunter not only blocks mostly pop-up windows, but also the vast majority of "floating" ads, Flash animated ads, a large number of online static ads and even allows you to block ActiveX objects!:-) I wonder why Mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.x doesn't offer this level of blocking control without having to do a lot of manual configuration with third-party add-ons.
Didn't you have to manually configure the third-party add-on MySoft Technology's Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) shell program for Internet Explorer 5.x and later? Or was it installed and configured by default when you bought your computer?
I'm not against these things happening, merely their using HTTP- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Online applications? Good idea. Online applications on my web page? Bad idea. I don't care if the browser is what's used to render it, I guess. Just use a different protocol. So I can check the link properties, and decide if I want to deal with it or not.
Funny. DHTML *is* text. It is just text that is telling your browser to do something, instead of display something.
If you take your statements at face value than you do not have a problem with DHTML but you DO have a problem with transporting images or files over HTTP. Which is, coincidentally, much older and more widespread than DHTML.
Who said anything about Levis and MTV? I never said that it was our "culture" that the terrorists are opposed to.
It is not our culture, but rather our FOREIGN POLICY.
Our government propping up leaders and overthrowing elected governments and things like that, ALL OVER THE WORLD, is what has caused Terrorism to flourish.
Ask ourselves these simple questions: Why Did Osama Bin Laden switch sides? What caused him to stop working FOR the United States and start working Against it? Where did Iraq get all the weapons that they are now shooting at our sons and daughters? Why are people starving in Cuba but Castro is doing fine? Why did we really oust the Taliban from Afghanistan? Do people in other cultures really *want* democracy forced on them?
Generally attacks come to places that have American interests or places that help American interests. But also, there is one thing people seem to overlook - How come no one hates Canada (besides Canadians...)? How come no one burns Swiss flags in protest?
The United States government has a long history of meddling and pushing. Both Republican and Democrat. We have pushed with Military Might. We have meddled with covert actions. We have coerced with financial influence. That is why we are targets for Terrorism.
They don't "hate our freedom and liberty" - they hate our government. And they see the American people who continue to support the governments policies, and who pay tax dollars to fund those policies - as enemy combattants.
The Levis and MTV are just icing on the cake. Just one more reason for them to hate us.
People in the USA are just as guilty of religious fundamentalism, and just as guilty of killing in the name of religion. More people have been killed in the name of Christianity than any other single cause. People resent that over time...
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You can, go with Nextel Service. They have an awesome network (I have been all over the country and 9 times out of 10 have a better signal than anybody around me), and they have very simple phones like the i530 which is the most durable phone on the market (I ran it over with my 3500lb Chevy Suburban and not a thing wrong with it). Plus you get the Direct Connect :D.
Bull sh__.
Nextel is the most annoying piece of crap network... I have a very close friend who has a "service" job and is supplied Nextel by his company. Almost 20% of every day when he is out in the field, in plain old suburban areas - nothing remote, I call him and get "The Nextel Subscriber You have Called is being located." and then it goes to his voicemail.
My Verizon phone, and I have absolutely no love for them - in fact dislike the company - works 100 times more places than his Nextel. He gets no service skiing, I have 100% signal. He gets no service camping, I have 50% signal.....
And Direct Connect is the most rude most ignorant piece of poop technology ever conceived. And the only thing that keeps me from strangling the next person using it in the airport is the fact that I would go to Guantanimo for eternity as a terrorist... People use that crap in a restaurant, in the airport, libraries, even once in a church! You not only get both sides of the conversation annoyingly - but that stupid beep every time they use it.
How hard is it to just dial their number in the fing phone? I have my wife's cell phone on voice dial. I pick up the phone, open it, and say her name and it dials her number. Works even with the radio on loud or in a loud mall or whatever....
Nextel is poop.
I couldn't imagine the "need" for MS Office anywhere
1. Job applications and resumes. Many companies require they be in Word format.
2. Contracting requirements. I have written many proposals in response to RFPs that specifically state "All documents will be in Microsoft Word, Excell, or Project format". If you want the contract, you use Word, Excell, or Project.
Right or wrong - that is the way it is. I need to eat....
Boing, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and Carnival Cruise Lines have all received money from the federal government. Everything they do is not public domain.
How about the "busiest". Man, I don't know if you could add any more information. Maybe elevation points and GPS coordinates... :)
I failed both Science *and* economics. But I kick ass at CounterStrike...
There's a reason I live in a safer city...
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I sense a great distrubance in the force...it is almost as if a million voices around the world crying "don't do it, George!" were suddenly ignored.
OK, most comments have been lame. But this one was coke-through-the-nose funny.
When will it end...
If more people switch, and more people buy Mac games, more games will come out on the Mac.
(Please ignore the Mac DOOM3. It is a mistake. Please put down the DOOM3 box, and walk away. Look over there, at the other Mac games that at least run acceptably.)
Besides, if you don't play them on the PC then who cares when they come out in relation to the PC? My only gripe is when they make games that won't network with PCs and Macs. That is inexcusable in 2005.
Most lawmakers can't even spell DRM. :)
I stopped going to the cinema multiple times to see the same move when the cinema started being more expensive than dinner. Seriously, I have a family of three. For two adults and a child to see a movie at night it costs $26. During the day it costs $18.
:)
And all that is for (with some exceptions) uncomfortable seats, annoying other patrons, no pauses for bathroom breaks, and 20 minutes of ads and previews before the movie starts.
So I stopped going to the cinema all together. Of course they probably blame the loss of my revenue on piracy...
Netflix and a 57inch HD TV and a good surround sound setup are my friends... I have paid for my TV with the money I have saved from not going to the movies.
But I do still go to our "pub" theaters where you sit in a couch or something, watch a second run movie (Like "Life Aquatic" this week). The movie costs $2 a person, and you can drink beer or wine and soda and tea and hard cider, and eat pizza or burgers.... For the same price as the regular theater I get a much better experience and better food.
Maybe not an audiophile, but if I can save a *lot* of space by using 128k AAC vs. 196k MP3, or 196kAAC vs. 256k MP3 - I might as well.
Because it doesn't support AAC?
And I am not talking about iTunes STORE purchases, I am talking about MP4 AAC...
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I love OS X, but I love Freedom of Expression more.
Nothing Apple has done with this current court battle has limited your freedom of expression.
You are still able to say "Apple Sucks" or "George W. Bush is a moron" or "The United States is turning fascist" or "Nike eats children". Anything you want.
You are NOT allowed to, however, bribe people into breaking laws - and be exempt from the consequences.
And I believe bloggers are NOT journalists. I do believe they should have rights and protection as well, but they are NOT journalsists. But then again I also believe that not many of the mainstream media employ any actual journalists anymore. With people like Bill O'Reiley and Ann Coulter being praised as journalists when all they really do is use their positions to push agendas - well, it violates the whole reason we have journalists in the first place.
journalists are supposed to present the information.
Which is why bloggers are not journalists, they are opinion column authors at best....
How is Flashblock heavy handed? You can run the flash or not. Works nicely.
And how is it too buggy? Firefox, as of this posting, has 6700 open bugs. Should we not use it either? (Note, Bugzilla does not accept links from Slashdot. Cut and paste the URL or block your referrer to see the list of open bugs)
And how does it *modify* the other plugin? All Flashblock does is changes when the other plugin is called... Flash still works normally, under all circumstances.
I have been using Flashblock reliably under Firefox and Camino for months now, with no issues whatsoever! Most of my coworkers saw it and installed it and I have not heard one complaint.
What else do you mean by getting control of Flash, if it is not just what Flashblock does?
It's not a Dupe.
Slashdot is just implementing Story Redundancy and failover. That way, if one story crashes we will still be able to read the other.
Even better some places like MacMinute and MacNN are co-locating the story to provide further resistance to outages.
Sweet! $5 XRaid. I'll take two...
I'm currently running MySoft Technology's Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) shell program for Internet Explorer 5.x and later, which has a very powerful function called AD Hunter. AD Hunter not only blocks mostly pop-up windows, but also the vast majority of "floating" ads, Flash animated ads, a large number of online static ads and even allows you to block ActiveX objects! :-) I wonder why Mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.x doesn't offer this level of blocking control without having to do a lot of manual configuration with third-party add-ons.
Didn't you have to manually configure the third-party add-on MySoft Technology's Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) shell program for Internet Explorer 5.x and later? Or was it installed and configured by default when you bought your computer?
First, we need to get Flash under user control
Flashblock does just what you are looking for.
I'm not against these things happening, merely their using HTTP- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Online applications? Good idea. Online applications on my web page? Bad idea. I don't care if the browser is what's used to render it, I guess. Just use a different protocol. So I can check the link properties, and decide if I want to deal with it or not.
Funny. DHTML *is* text. It is just text that is telling your browser to do something, instead of display something.
If you take your statements at face value than you do not have a problem with DHTML but you DO have a problem with transporting images or files over HTTP. Which is, coincidentally, much older and more widespread than DHTML.
Once you are seen as someone who can be trusted, you can then approach people about joining their underground torrents.
And after working your way slowly into their organization, call the MPAA and blow the wistle.
On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog!
Any dumbass who is navigating a boat with a GPS unit that is not waterproof deserves to drown.
Who said anything about Levis and MTV? I never said that it was our "culture" that the terrorists are opposed to.
It is not our culture, but rather our FOREIGN POLICY.
Our government propping up leaders and overthrowing elected governments and things like that, ALL OVER THE WORLD, is what has caused Terrorism to flourish.
Ask ourselves these simple questions: Why Did Osama Bin Laden switch sides? What caused him to stop working FOR the United States and start working Against it? Where did Iraq get all the weapons that they are now shooting at our sons and daughters? Why are people starving in Cuba but Castro is doing fine? Why did we really oust the Taliban from Afghanistan? Do people in other cultures really *want* democracy forced on them?
Generally attacks come to places that have American interests or places that help American interests. But also, there is one thing people seem to overlook - How come no one hates Canada (besides Canadians...)? How come no one burns Swiss flags in protest?
The United States government has a long history of meddling and pushing. Both Republican and Democrat. We have pushed with Military Might. We have meddled with covert actions. We have coerced with financial influence. That is why we are targets for Terrorism.
They don't "hate our freedom and liberty" - they hate our government. And they see the American people who continue to support the governments policies, and who pay tax dollars to fund those policies - as enemy combattants.
The Levis and MTV are just icing on the cake. Just one more reason for them to hate us.
People in the USA are just as guilty of religious fundamentalism, and just as guilty of killing in the name of religion. More people have been killed in the name of Christianity than any other single cause. People resent that over time...