I needed a GSM phone for international travel and they only had 2 models in the store.
Besides, like Richard Gere in Pretty Woman who stayed on the penthouse floor despite being afraid of heights, it was the the best, and I had to buy the best!
Except for the built-in camera, the T68i already offers all of these features you've been waiting for!
I have the T68i with the bluetooth headset and the "Communicam" and it's an OK phone. It's not all that special. I also don't see what makes this newer version all that special or "a new generation." It seems like a marginal set of tweaks and the permanent installation of the camera.
Not that I'm looking for MORE features. My T68i crashes about once a month, which is totally unacceptable for a phone! It is already feature-bloated. Please, be a phone first and best!!
TiVo never took away any hard drive space that it advertised as being available. They shipped the units with larger hard drives than advertised. The extra space holds the software and all non-user content.
What people are referring to is that if they had hacked their units by installing a larger hard drive, TiVo partitioned some of that space out for reserved space.
Since TiVo doesn't support hacked drives, they don't need to write special code to identify and protect them. Behavior of an upgraded machine was a known risk.
TiVo has the ability to record supplemental content like movie previews, behind-the-scenes footage, and "see this for more info" kind of advertising.
This content is generally accessible from a showcase section that you might browse to see what different networks are promoting, and I think they envisioned things like short broadcast ads that pop-up an on-screen TiVo icon to click for additional information. They also cycle some of this content through a listing on your main menu to promote it independently.
In the UK, the BBC purchased one of these main menu ads to record an entire episode of a new program.
Viewers in the UK were livid about 2 things. First, they felt that recording an entire program during prime time was going too far in exercising corporate control over their equipment. Secondly, they were upset that the program was adult content (post-watershed means it was rated such that it isn't suitable to air during "family hours.") that parents could not block with parental controls or delete from the main menu.
TiVo absolutely learned a lot from that incident (they had inadvertly overlooked the parental control issues) and they will approach new advertising sales opportunities very differently in the future.
Now, having said that, the real reason that they are shutting down UK sales is that the manufacturer of the TiVo box in the UK stopped making it. TiVo doesn't have the capital to invest in the UK market and have shifted to an approach of merely supporting the existing users, but nobody new. In that scenario, no need to run a sales office. Lay them off and spend the money getting new US subscribers.
Here's a test for you. No, I have no idea why this page doesn't use Javascript and calculate your results for you. I've thought about fixing that and sending them an updated page.
I just wonder which ADD-stricken person lacking attention to detail decided to make you calculate your total score only to not refer to it at all in the evaluation!
BTW, my score was 285, with 67 items at 3 or above (scoring suggests that 20 or more indicates ADD). Gee, do you think I just might have it??
I suspect that the reason why we don't have memories from the womb or infancy, because we didn't really know what anything was, so there was no context into which we could place these memories.
Think about it. If I come and show you Rorshach inkblots today, you won't remember what they look like 10 minutes later, let alone 10 years.
But if I came to show you pictures of your favorite PC or your pet, you'd remember for days, months, or even perhaps years if asked to describe what I brought you.
I think that we require some conceptual framework in order to remember something. We don't remember data points, but objects. Without the ability to recognize objects as objects or to give them names or context, how can you remember them?
Oh come now, surely there was a day or two of economics even in your seemingly limited education.
Perhaps if they started calling it an "Open Source" economy, people wouldn't be so quick to defend jingoistic positions that inefficiently allocate labor.
I am in the process of opening a satellite office in India for my company to hire developers and back office personnel, and language doesn't really seem to be a barrier at all.
In fact, my next trip over, I am scheduled to meet with training centers that train call center agents to speak with a midwestern american accent, and even teaches them current events!! So, this is not even socio-economic class-based, as developers earn significantly more than they do.
You have to remember that the country was a UK colony until 1948, English is not nearly the problem I worried that it might be.
This is correct, as I actually participated in this program in College Station.
You could swipe your loyalty card or enter your PIN followed by the verification using the finger scan.
However, the PIN is your phone number, so this is by no means confidential.
Also, the scanners are optical, not capacitive, which makes the imaging process less secure.
What I didn't like about the system, though, was that it didn't add any real convenience or security to the process.
From the convenience perspective (leaving aside security for the moment), I would want a system that allowed me to walk into the store with nothing but my finger and draw upon any registered form of payment. However, I still had to key in my phone number, and due to banking regulations, when I wanted to pay with my debit card, I HAD to swipe it. Thus, totally defeating the purpose.
From a security perspective, I'll leave it to others to worry about the security of this method of verification, but the fact that the program was optional, means that anyone could still walk in with my credit card and elect not to be scanned.
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Besides, like Richard Gere in Pretty Woman who stayed on the penthouse floor despite being afraid of heights, it was the the best, and I had to buy the best!
I have the T68i with the bluetooth headset and the "Communicam" and it's an OK phone. It's not all that special. I also don't see what makes this newer version all that special or "a new generation." It seems like a marginal set of tweaks and the permanent installation of the camera.
Not that I'm looking for MORE features. My T68i crashes about once a month, which is totally unacceptable for a phone! It is already feature-bloated. Please, be a phone first and best!!
Does this mean the developers have to park further away now?
"Yeah, we were like oil and water without a sulfacant!"
Second only to frisking little old ladies in bringing your security station up to the state of the art.
What people are referring to is that if they had hacked their units by installing a larger hard drive, TiVo partitioned some of that space out for reserved space.
Since TiVo doesn't support hacked drives, they don't need to write special code to identify and protect them. Behavior of an upgraded machine was a known risk.
TiVo has the ability to record supplemental content like movie previews, behind-the-scenes footage, and "see this for more info" kind of advertising.
This content is generally accessible from a showcase section that you might browse to see what different networks are promoting, and I think they envisioned things like short broadcast ads that pop-up an on-screen TiVo icon to click for additional information. They also cycle some of this content through a listing on your main menu to promote it independently.
In the UK, the BBC purchased one of these main menu ads to record an entire episode of a new program.
Viewers in the UK were livid about 2 things. First, they felt that recording an entire program during prime time was going too far in exercising corporate control over their equipment. Secondly, they were upset that the program was adult content (post-watershed means it was rated such that it isn't suitable to air during "family hours.") that parents could not block with parental controls or delete from the main menu.
TiVo absolutely learned a lot from that incident (they had inadvertly overlooked the parental control issues) and they will approach new advertising sales opportunities very differently in the future.
Now, having said that, the real reason that they are shutting down UK sales is that the manufacturer of the TiVo box in the UK stopped making it. TiVo doesn't have the capital to invest in the UK market and have shifted to an approach of merely supporting the existing users, but nobody new. In that scenario, no need to run a sales office. Lay them off and spend the money getting new US subscribers.
I do have a formal diagnosis and a prescription. My only problem is in remembering to take it regularly!!
I just wonder which ADD-stricken person lacking attention to detail decided to make you calculate your total score only to not refer to it at all in the evaluation!
BTW, my score was 285, with 67 items at 3 or above (scoring suggests that 20 or more indicates ADD). Gee, do you think I just might have it??
Who the hell is reviewing your timesheets??
I suspect that the reason why we don't have memories from the womb or infancy, because we didn't really know what anything was, so there was no context into which we could place these memories.
Think about it. If I come and show you Rorshach inkblots today, you won't remember what they look like 10 minutes later, let alone 10 years.
But if I came to show you pictures of your favorite PC or your pet, you'd remember for days, months, or even perhaps years if asked to describe what I brought you.
I think that we require some conceptual framework in order to remember something. We don't remember data points, but objects. Without the ability to recognize objects as objects or to give them names or context, how can you remember them?
Oh come now, surely there was a day or two of economics even in your seemingly limited education.
Perhaps if they started calling it an "Open Source" economy, people wouldn't be so quick to defend jingoistic positions that inefficiently allocate labor.
I am in the process of opening a satellite office in India for my company to hire developers and back office personnel, and language doesn't really seem to be a barrier at all.
In fact, my next trip over, I am scheduled to meet with training centers that train call center agents to speak with a midwestern american accent, and even teaches them current events!! So, this is not even socio-economic class-based, as developers earn significantly more than they do.
You have to remember that the country was a UK colony until 1948, English is not nearly the problem I worried that it might be.
This is correct, as I actually participated in this program in College Station.
You could swipe your loyalty card or enter your PIN followed by the verification using the finger scan.
However, the PIN is your phone number, so this is by no means confidential.
Also, the scanners are optical, not capacitive, which makes the imaging process less secure.
What I didn't like about the system, though, was that it didn't add any real convenience or security to the process.
From the convenience perspective (leaving aside security for the moment), I would want a system that allowed me to walk into the store with nothing but my finger and draw upon any registered form of payment. However, I still had to key in my phone number, and due to banking regulations, when I wanted to pay with my debit card, I HAD to swipe it. Thus, totally defeating the purpose.
From a security perspective, I'll leave it to others to worry about the security of this method of verification, but the fact that the program was optional, means that anyone could still walk in with my credit card and elect not to be scanned.