Probably due to ACA's Rate Review Provision. Insurance companies have to justify rate hikes of over 10% to the State. I was on BCBSNC at the time and they were prevented from raising their customary yearly increase that year.
you only buy the phone in the store. You activate at home via iTunes, that is when you choose your data plan and agree to the contract. You leave the store with your iPhone in a box and service still running on your other phone. You can sell the iPhone, open and hack it, or anything else you want to do without ever entering a service contract.
I gave up on waiting for the Kaiser to come to AT&T (I currently have the Cingular 8125 / HTC Wizard, the Kaiser's grandfather) and bought an iPhone yesterday, but I think I can answer a couple of your points:
1. the Kaiser is (was) the codename, the HTC version will be named the P4550. Like Longhorn was for Vista. When released by AT&T, it will be called the "AT&T Tilt".
2. you wouldn't forget *how* to use any feature on the Kaiser, the OS isn't difficult mentally. Physically, yes. Although it makes many features available via fingers & big buttons, many of the features still require the keyboard, the stylus, or some very small and precise fingers. And it is nowhere near as nice to look at. BUT... for things like Google Maps, you're gonna have a version that looks almost as good, is as easy to use (other than the 2-finger zoom functionality that the iPhone has) and is better in some ways (like onboard GPS integration and the mysterious missing "hybrid" view on the iPhone's google Maps software. Not sure why Google left that out, they included it in the Windows Mobile version a year ago).
I have noticed something similar for months (at least 6 months) but it didn't quite work that way. It seems like random URL messages were dropped by Yahoo, not just the first message. I don't seem to be having the problem now, though, not for YouTube or any URLs.
Why do you think you can't use Windows Media Player to rip CDs without DRM. I do it all the time. The "Copy protect music" checkbox is a checkbox (duh) and thus, by definition, it optional (you know, that may be why TFA called it the "Copy protect music option"). AFAIK, it is unchecked by default. The normal user does not check this box and so copies music without DRM by default.
I've been (almost exclusively) doing web development for the last 8 years and doing the majority of my work for the "mobile web" over the last year, so I think I am qualified to say
AMEN. You are 100% right. There are so many reasons why every part of this is a bad idea. Some are common "don't break the net" reasons (that apply to.xxx as well) and others are "but this is supposed to be for mobile?" reasons like the addition 3 keystrokes it will take to hit that "i" (pressing the 4 key 3 times).
But some companies (including mine) do stand to make money from this and so it goes...
They didn't discontinue that feature for existing users (like you were, at the time), they only stopped including the feature for users who signed up afterwards. So unless you were signing up for new accounts, it wouldn't have affected you at all.
trying to sign up for a service and finding out that someone already claims to be sirshannon is like going to a high school reunion and being told "sorry, someone else already said they're you, you can't come in".
Having your nickname stripped from you for no good reason would have to be an psychological blow. Demented and sad, but still a blow.
NeoMedia has sued more than one company for "infringing" on their patents and this patent sounds like the same obvious, but unfortunately patented, idea that NeoMedia is so lawyer-happy over. NeoMedia's patent is for scanning a physical object to retrieve information about that object over the internet. Somehow that is supposed to be different from every single previously existing barcode scanner system because it was across the internet instead of a private network (like your grocery store or department store's private network).
I hope NeoMedia does sue, so Amazon can be the first case to actually make it to court. I can't imagine this patent would hold up if any of the defendants decided to pay their lawyers for a case instead of taking the cheaper way out and settling.
Captured! By Robots' Guitarbot has been doing this for years in a slightly less sophisticated way (think drop-D grunge vs. Steve Vai or something). But Guitarbot gets extra points for also playing bass.
bingo. If I had mod points, you'd get an "insightful" from me.
It took me a few years to finally realize that using longer names that read the same way I think/talk is pretty much the only way I can remember those names later.
I assume that is why CSS has "background-color" instead of "bgcolor". It is tremendously easier to remember that you want to use "background-color" to change the background color instead of trying to remember what cool, clever abbreviation scheme is being used.
Logical naming rules that can be thought, spoken, and written without remember a ton of arbitrary rules makes my life SO much easier. True, "get-process" uses an arbitrary rule for naming, but when you start abbreviating everything, each name gets a different arbitrary rule that will vary drastically from person to person.
However, for all the non-English speaking developers out there, I apologize.
I think it is more like "should the teacher correct you or should the teacher tell the rest of the class how stupid you are and make fun of you?"
I am a big Firefox fan, have been using it as my default browser since some late version of Firebird, and I read a ton of blogs. I had to unsubscribe from Ben's long ago because of his tone and venom. If it was from someone else, I might not have minded it, but it was from someone so closely connected to the browser I love and was so exaggerated and sometimes uninformed (to be kind), that I just couldn't stand it anymore.
The post in question here is typical. He uses a fault in a percieved competitor as a doorway to a leap of logic that is unfounded. Take his premise (Netscape released a flawed product) and his bottom line ("If security is important to you, this demonstration should show that browsers that are redistributions of the official Mozilla releases are never going to give you security updates as quickly as Mozilla will itself for its supported products"). It just isn't that simple. What it should show the reader is that Netscape (AOL?) made a pretty big mistake. To stretch the implication as far as Ben did is something that we have seen too many times from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, politicians, and others who blindly fight for their team, sparing no white lie or leap of logic.
Which is why I unsubscribed from Ben's blog long ago: I don't want to see the man behind the current if I'm going to end up sing "Won't Get Fooled Again": "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
1. There is no go-live license for SQL Server 2005, only for the Express Edition, a scaled-down free version that is a cross between MSDE and an Access.mdb (in that you can copy & paste the database files from one machine to another, unlike previous versions of MSDE).
2. Nope.
3. I prefer to avoid the feature, I don't really like any of the alternatives.
I carry my mp3 player with me to work and back and use it for listening to mp3s about 99% of the time. However, when I am driving, I listen to NPR on the car's stereo. On at least 4 occassions (I've only had it for 2 months), I have used the FM radio on my mp3 player to allow me to leave the car during a "driveway moment", so I could listen to the rest of the story on NPR without having to sit in the parked car for another few minutes.
Although that is the only reason I ever use the FM function on my player, there are millions of people who like the radio and I think they would probably get a lot more use out of that than I do.
I've tried everything I could find, in Outlook, in Word, and in Acrobat (6, full version) but the annoying and darn-near-useless Acrobat toolbar (which is about 1 button) will only go away until I reboot or restart Outlook.
It isn't that bad, but it's quite annoying when I ask for something to happen and it doesn't.
And why would I want to attach an email to my email as a pdf? My Outlook Acrobat toolbar stinks because it smells like desperation.
Anyone know how to get rid of it?
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Sure, if they did that. But they don't when I check.
Probably due to ACA's Rate Review Provision. Insurance companies have to justify rate hikes of over 10% to the State. I was on BCBSNC at the time and they were prevented from raising their customary yearly increase that year.
you only buy the phone in the store. You activate at home via iTunes, that is when you choose your data plan and agree to the contract. You leave the store with your iPhone in a box and service still running on your other phone. You can sell the iPhone, open and hack it, or anything else you want to do without ever entering a service contract.
"No one is dropping $500 to $600 on a phone that doesn't do what they want but they hope down the line additional apps will be available."
that is definitely not true. You meant "I am not dropping... I want but I hope..."
I gave up on waiting for the Kaiser to come to AT&T (I currently have the Cingular 8125 / HTC Wizard, the Kaiser's grandfather) and bought an iPhone yesterday, but I think I can answer a couple of your points:
1. the Kaiser is (was) the codename, the HTC version will be named the P4550. Like Longhorn was for Vista. When released by AT&T, it will be called the "AT&T Tilt".
2. you wouldn't forget *how* to use any feature on the Kaiser, the OS isn't difficult mentally. Physically, yes. Although it makes many features available via fingers & big buttons, many of the features still require the keyboard, the stylus, or some very small and precise fingers. And it is nowhere near as nice to look at. BUT... for things like Google Maps, you're gonna have a version that looks almost as good, is as easy to use (other than the 2-finger zoom functionality that the iPhone has) and is better in some ways (like onboard GPS integration and the mysterious missing "hybrid" view on the iPhone's google Maps software. Not sure why Google left that out, they included it in the Windows Mobile version a year ago).
3. $2000 is too much. But without a 2-year contract, the AT&T Tilt is probably going to cost more than the iPhone. Ouch. Or you can order the P4550 for as low as $850! ouch again.
can you send me an invite? :)
I have noticed something similar for months (at least 6 months) but it didn't quite work that way. It seems like random URL messages were dropped by Yahoo, not just the first message. I don't seem to be having the problem now, though, not for YouTube or any URLs.
Why do you think you can't use Windows Media Player to rip CDs without DRM. I do it all the time. The "Copy protect music" checkbox is a checkbox (duh) and thus, by definition, it optional (you know, that may be why TFA called it the "Copy protect music option"). AFAIK, it is unchecked by default. The normal user does not check this box and so copies music without DRM by default.
So a gerund is what you have when you finish verbing?
"I've been uploading my projects to a Subversion repository and working on them from a variety of locations for years without any path problems."
These weren't ASP.NET projects, were they? If so, how did you get around the project files' hardcoded paths?
I've been (almost exclusively) doing web development for the last 8 years and doing the majority of my work for the "mobile web" over the last year, so I think I am qualified to say
.xxx as well) and others are "but this is supposed to be for mobile?" reasons like the addition 3 keystrokes it will take to hit that "i" (pressing the 4 key 3 times).
AMEN. You are 100% right. There are so many reasons why every part of this is a bad idea. Some are common "don't break the net" reasons (that apply to
But some companies (including mine) do stand to make money from this and so it goes...
They didn't discontinue that feature for existing users (like you were, at the time), they only stopped including the feature for users who signed up afterwards. So unless you were signing up for new accounts, it wouldn't have affected you at all.
I think it was obvious that Motorola's ROKR was born to fail.
trying to sign up for a service and finding out that someone already claims to be sirshannon is like going to a high school reunion and being told "sorry, someone else already said they're you, you can't come in".
Having your nickname stripped from you for no good reason would have to be an psychological blow. Demented and sad, but still a blow.
NeoMedia has sued more than one company for "infringing" on their patents and this patent sounds like the same obvious, but unfortunately patented, idea that NeoMedia is so lawyer-happy over. NeoMedia's patent is for scanning a physical object to retrieve information about that object over the internet. Somehow that is supposed to be different from every single previously existing barcode scanner system because it was across the internet instead of a private network (like your grocery store or department store's private network).
I hope NeoMedia does sue, so Amazon can be the first case to actually make it to court. I can't imagine this patent would hold up if any of the defendants decided to pay their lawyers for a case instead of taking the cheaper way out and settling.
Captured! By Robots' Guitarbot has been doing this for years in a slightly less sophisticated way (think drop-D grunge vs. Steve Vai or something). But Guitarbot gets extra points for also playing bass.
bingo. If I had mod points, you'd get an "insightful" from me.
It took me a few years to finally realize that using longer names that read the same way I think/talk is pretty much the only way I can remember those names later.
I assume that is why CSS has "background-color" instead of "bgcolor". It is tremendously easier to remember that you want to use "background-color" to change the background color instead of trying to remember what cool, clever abbreviation scheme is being used.
Logical naming rules that can be thought, spoken, and written without remember a ton of arbitrary rules makes my life SO much easier. True, "get-process" uses an arbitrary rule for naming, but when you start abbreviating everything, each name gets a different arbitrary rule that will vary drastically from person to person.
However, for all the non-English speaking developers out there, I apologize.
I think it is more like "should the teacher correct you or should the teacher tell the rest of the class how stupid you are and make fun of you?" I am a big Firefox fan, have been using it as my default browser since some late version of Firebird, and I read a ton of blogs. I had to unsubscribe from Ben's long ago because of his tone and venom. If it was from someone else, I might not have minded it, but it was from someone so closely connected to the browser I love and was so exaggerated and sometimes uninformed (to be kind), that I just couldn't stand it anymore. The post in question here is typical. He uses a fault in a percieved competitor as a doorway to a leap of logic that is unfounded. Take his premise (Netscape released a flawed product) and his bottom line ("If security is important to you, this demonstration should show that browsers that are redistributions of the official Mozilla releases are never going to give you security updates as quickly as Mozilla will itself for its supported products"). It just isn't that simple. What it should show the reader is that Netscape (AOL?) made a pretty big mistake. To stretch the implication as far as Ben did is something that we have seen too many times from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, politicians, and others who blindly fight for their team, sparing no white lie or leap of logic. Which is why I unsubscribed from Ben's blog long ago: I don't want to see the man behind the current if I'm going to end up sing "Won't Get Fooled Again": "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
sweet! thanks for the info (and thanks for taking the time to look it up for people like me who are too lazy to do it ourselves).
1. There is no go-live license for SQL Server 2005, only for the Express Edition, a scaled-down free version that is a cross between MSDE and an Access .mdb (in that you can copy & paste the database files from one machine to another, unlike previous versions of MSDE).
2. Nope.
3. I prefer to avoid the feature, I don't really like any of the alternatives.
I carry my mp3 player with me to work and back and use it for listening to mp3s about 99% of the time. However, when I am driving, I listen to NPR on the car's stereo. On at least 4 occassions (I've only had it for 2 months), I have used the FM radio on my mp3 player to allow me to leave the car during a "driveway moment", so I could listen to the rest of the story on NPR without having to sit in the parked car for another few minutes. Although that is the only reason I ever use the FM function on my player, there are millions of people who like the radio and I think they would probably get a lot more use out of that than I do.
I've tried everything I could find, in Outlook, in Word, and in Acrobat (6, full version) but the annoying and darn-near-useless Acrobat toolbar (which is about 1 button) will only go away until I reboot or restart Outlook. It isn't that bad, but it's quite annoying when I ask for something to happen and it doesn't. And why would I want to attach an email to my email as a pdf? My Outlook Acrobat toolbar stinks because it smells like desperation. Anyone know how to get rid of it?
you can squeeze 2 of the letter "y" into the word "system"
people that declare the end (or death of) something are usually selling a competitor.
I think it is like when you go into a restaurant and ask for Coke and they say "how about Pepsi instead?".