Would it be possible to backout of the contract now, sign up with someone else, make the drive and ask your neighbors?
Yes, it seems a little shady, but then cell companies are a little shady anyway.
As for living without a landline, it is entirely possible. I'm 21 and for the past 3 years in college, a cell phone has been the only way you can call me. There have been places (like a dorm I once lived in) that lacked phone service, but email was always a way to hunt me down.
Somebody mentioned directory service. I wouldn't be surprised. 411 and google is doing dir service.
They already have local search capabilities, reverse lookup by phone number. So the info is there and the voice implementaion (if they have done previous homework with the phone in search) should be a whiz to do.
As for searching through recorded phone calls, I believe it is an invation of one's privacy ot do so. I consider my phone calls to be private matter. Under the most extreme of circumstances should the police be able to listen in on my calls (such as if I was dating a girl who's father was a drug lord or something. But I'm not so nothing to worry about right...hopefully)
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the government is listening in on phone calls for keywords (TERRORIST BOMB NUCLEAR BOSTON ASSINATE BUSH SHRUB OIL IRAQ IRAN NORTH KOREA CHOKE ON PRETZEL)
And if the gov was, then google would just have to let them comply. It would probably be something implemnted so that only a few high level engineers would know about (and none the wiser...)
*****really ranting now*****
Its already possible easily search through all instant messages in real time, or logs of. I sure hope nobody is doing it (because the things I say)
Here is an open letter to president bush.
Dear President Oily Shrub If you want the Iraq elections to be a "success" in your book...(and failrure to the international community). try to avoid attacking iran in the meantime. its just bad PR and scares people off -a concerned citizen who didnt vote for you
I say stuff like that all the time. I have a friend who tells me I should be the next morning talk show or something.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google has the processing capabilty to be able to process speech.
I remember a few years ago, I was digging through google's lab pages and found some expiremental things they were doing. One of them was to call into one of their office numbers and you would be connected to a server. Say your thing and it would do a search for you.
Grump
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as a bonus, they get to pay a little something to the payphone owner.
and yea, rebate whore as in do the rebate, sell the box, sans upc.
I do the upc rebate game, but i make a little cash on the side by doing cable/dsl home installs for people I know (like my manager at work, family friends, etc). I tend to ask for a price of 75-100 dollars, including hardware. works out for me, and they're happy because going to worst buy and buying the router would have cost them 30-50 and nobody to setup for them.
I know someone who makes about $600 per month in sales, which is enough for a college student to live on (if you have fin aid/loans/mom to pay for school).
How he does it. Deal sites. Rebate whore Price match. invest all your free time on ebay sales. prompt shipping.
I have a Latitude C640 (thank you work place!) and I have a dock station this thing, I think. In class right now, but its pretty darned close.
The dock has 2 pci slots, so I plugged in a radeon 7000 card and so I can run 3 displays (2 crt, laptop LCD).
If you have an insp laptop, it is possible to modify it (and flash with a latitude bios) so that it will work with a latitude dock station.
Note: the latitude c640 requires a 70 watt power supply, but with the dock it demands a 90 watt power supply. I don't have a 90 watt, so it works with the 70 watt, running the cpu at 1.2 gig instead of 2.4 gig. Doesn't matter for me because my work requires me to do simple graphical and text. No fancy graphics, etc.
i guess my system is locked down that I can't even browse. It sucks, really.
I enrolled in this business econ class, dropped it because the professor was like "Don't bother buying the book. just come to class is all you need" kinda type. So I'm screwed because I have work friday that conflicts with the class.
So I dropped. I would like the basic info for the class tho, because I still have to take it later.
Blackboard is a good idea. Its a common place for professors, TA, students to go for information. Its a common medium to submitting homework to the TA. Blackboard can setup in such a way that you can have class mailing lists, discussion forums, a "whiteboard" for virtual meetings.
It is one interface for ALL classes.
Now the problems with blackboard. It is a PIECE OF SHIT system. You ever try to take a timed quiz with it? Ha! don't press that back button, pray that your browser doesn't crash. Why? Because when you start the quiz, it records that you "took the assessment", even if you didn't submit. So fi you hit the back button or lose your session, bam! bye bye quiz. Email your professor and beg and plead for your quiz to be reset. If your lucky, you can still get those points.
Submitting papers/homework online with blackboard? Well they have a "digital drop box". I've used it before and it's fairly convenient (as in i'm a lazy fatass who doesn't go to lecture every day). So in the digital dropbox, there are two buttons. ADD FILE and SEND FILE. Alot of people get screwed over by ADD FILE and think, oh the TA will see it. WRONG! You have to either ADD FILE and then SEND FILE or the TA won't see it otherwise. In release 6, they fixed that problem by adding the ability to upload files in SEND FILE. Still, many students find it is fairly confusing to see ADD FILE and SEND FILE next to eachother.
Lastly, emailing people in the class. God damned, I get like 10 of these "spams" from fellow students. Basically when you use the email function of blackboard, it doesn't any information about what class/section it was from. So I end up getting these emails "The first midterm scores were really low, anyone want to get together for a study group?" uh huh...and is this for bio or for history?
Lastly. Information control. With plain old webpages, students can troll the internet to find class information professors are covering. This is especially important if one wants to "preview" a class. Well, with blackboard. Unless your registered in the class, you have no access to it.
Slashdot Mirror
you probably have the radio set to change increase/decrease volume based on speed.
I do, and I like it that way.
Would it be possible to backout of the contract now, sign up with someone else, make the drive and ask your neighbors?
Yes, it seems a little shady, but then cell companies are a little shady anyway.
As for living without a landline, it is entirely possible. I'm 21 and for the past 3 years in college, a cell phone has been the only way you can call me. There have been places (like a dorm I once lived in) that lacked phone service, but email was always a way to hunt me down.
Grump.
Somebody mentioned directory service. I wouldn't be surprised. 411 and google is doing dir service.
They already have local search capabilities, reverse lookup by phone number. So the info is there and the voice implementaion (if they have done previous homework with the phone in search) should be a whiz to do.
As for searching through recorded phone calls, I believe it is an invation of one's privacy ot do so. I consider my phone calls to be private matter. Under the most extreme of circumstances should the police be able to listen in on my calls (such as if I was dating a girl who's father was a drug lord or something. But I'm not so nothing to worry about right...hopefully)
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the government is listening in on phone calls for keywords (TERRORIST BOMB NUCLEAR BOSTON ASSINATE BUSH SHRUB OIL IRAQ IRAN NORTH KOREA CHOKE ON PRETZEL)
And if the gov was, then google would just have to let them comply. It would probably be something implemnted so that only a few high level engineers would know about (and none the wiser...)
*****really ranting now*****
Its already possible easily search through all instant messages in real time, or logs of. I sure hope nobody is doing it (because the things I say)
Here is an open letter to president bush.
Dear President Oily Shrub
If you want the Iraq elections to be a "success" in your book...(and failrure to the international community). try to avoid attacking iran in the meantime. its just bad PR and scares people off
-a concerned citizen who didnt vote for you
I say stuff like that all the time. I have a friend who tells me I should be the next morning talk show or something.
*******end rant******
I wouldn't be surprised if Google has the processing capabilty to be able to process speech.
I remember a few years ago, I was digging through google's lab pages and found some expiremental things they were doing.
One of them was to call into one of their office numbers and you would be connected to a server. Say your thing and it would do a search for you.
Grump
as a bonus, they get to pay a little something to the payphone owner.
Grump
But atleast I don't have to worry about my 802.11b/g network being hijacked.
I live in a house with lead paint.
no, just kidding.
Grump.
what the heak is CHF?
83 HKD =~10.25 USD.
Yes, he will be just fine.
Grump
In that case you need to visit this site.
by "Deal sites", i mean he lives on fatwallet.com
and yea, rebate whore as in do the rebate, sell the box, sans upc.
I do the upc rebate game, but i make a little cash on the side by doing cable/dsl home installs for people I know (like my manager at work, family friends, etc). I tend to ask for a price of 75-100 dollars, including hardware. works out for me, and they're happy because going to worst buy and buying the router would have cost them 30-50 and nobody to setup for them.
Grump
I know someone who makes about $600 per month in sales, which is enough for a college student to live on (if you have fin aid/loans/mom to pay for school).
How he does it.
Deal sites.
Rebate whore
Price match.
invest all your free time on ebay sales.
prompt shipping.
Grump
I want to know where their energy comes from. not from light probably. Redox on the salts?
Grump who barely passed chem/bio.
married and divorced.
how dare you beep at me!
I have a Latitude C640 (thank you work place!)
and I have a dock station this thing, I think. In class right now, but its pretty darned close.
The dock has 2 pci slots, so I plugged in a radeon 7000 card and so I can run 3 displays (2 crt, laptop LCD).
If you have an insp laptop, it is possible to modify it (and flash with a latitude bios) so that it will work with a latitude dock station.
Note: the latitude c640 requires a 70 watt power supply, but with the dock it demands a 90 watt power supply. I don't have a 90 watt, so it works with the 70 watt, running the cpu at 1.2 gig instead of 2.4 gig. Doesn't matter for me because my work requires me to do simple graphical and text. No fancy graphics, etc.
Grump.
"BSD Socket API for Windows" is in there.
Set your monitor to 1024*768.
Open up notepad, go to file->open
In the open field put in
"c:\windows\system32\winsock.dll"
Full screen notepad.
BSD Socket API for Windows
is in the 4th line.
-Grump
Using XP SP1
According to their advertisements, they are located by a pond.
Its the alcoholic discharge from the brewery into the pond that causes frogs to talk.
Grump
Dear Embedded Janitor,
I ban you from cleaning up my code.
Its the bugs in the code that keep me employed!
Sincerely,
Forest Grump.
I do see Laser Disc players with lasers. I thought the laser was to read the phonograph without damaging it.
LD and vinyl are about the same size.
Grump
Yes, I'm playing dumb.
Wow, I feel old.
My Palm 1000 has 128K of ram.
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Palm_Pilot_1000__5378332
*God may strike me down for this*
but, I go on sunday when everyone is in church.
Well, when there is zero gravity, there is no need to maintain muscle to fight gravity.
So if no need to maintain the muscle, muscle mass will decrease.
i thought it imploded, not "blew up"
i guess my system is locked down that I can't even browse. It sucks, really.
I enrolled in this business econ class, dropped it because the professor was like "Don't bother buying the book. just come to class is all you need" kinda type. So I'm screwed because I have work friday that conflicts with the class.
So I dropped. I would like the basic info for the class tho, because I still have to take it later.
I hate ilearn/blackboard.
Blackboard is a good idea. Its a common place for professors, TA, students to go for information. Its a common medium to submitting homework to the TA. Blackboard can setup in such a way that you can have class mailing lists, discussion forums, a "whiteboard" for virtual meetings.
It is one interface for ALL classes.
Now the problems with blackboard. It is a PIECE OF SHIT system. You ever try to take a timed quiz with it? Ha! don't press that back button, pray that your browser doesn't crash. Why? Because when you start the quiz, it records that you "took the assessment", even if you didn't submit. So fi you hit the back button or lose your session, bam! bye bye quiz. Email your professor and beg and plead for your quiz to be reset. If your lucky, you can still get those points.
Submitting papers/homework online with blackboard? Well they have a "digital drop box". I've used it before and it's fairly convenient (as in i'm a lazy fatass who doesn't go to lecture every day). So in the digital dropbox, there are two buttons. ADD FILE and SEND FILE. Alot of people get screwed over by ADD FILE and think, oh the TA will see it. WRONG! You have to either ADD FILE and then SEND FILE or the TA won't see it otherwise. In release 6, they fixed that problem by adding the ability to upload files in SEND FILE. Still, many students find it is fairly confusing to see ADD FILE and SEND FILE next to eachother.
Lastly, emailing people in the class. God damned, I get like 10 of these "spams" from fellow students. Basically when you use the email function of blackboard, it doesn't any information about what class/section it was from. So I end up getting these emails "The first midterm scores were really low, anyone want to get together for a study group?" uh huh...and is this for bio or for history?
Lastly. Information control. With plain old webpages, students can troll the internet to find class information professors are covering. This is especially important if one wants to "preview" a class. Well, with blackboard. Unless your registered in the class, you have no access to it.
In a nutshell. Blackboard sucks.
Forest Grump, Blackboard User