Emergency Call on my phone takes you to a screen where you can dial only previously manually entered emergency numbers.... on my phone, its empty. I still don't understand why on my device I have no choice on whether or not to have "emergency call" appear on the lock screen.
The killer is the not having unlimited voice and texting that goes with the unlimited data. My old MO was "...from my cold dead hands..." however, given that I bought my device outright, I'm month to month, I'm getting ripped off. Its fantastic not having to think about if I should stream some video, or should I download this podcast from wifi instead of in my car... but I also can't use my phone as a phone, or text like I want... do I have enough texts? Do I have enough minutes? its a tradeoff... Maybe I can deal w/ 8GB a month...
Which was brought up in the video. He mentions that from windows 95 to XP... the button says "Start" letting users know this is where you should Start. He mentions that Vista / 7 removed the word start, and that this was foolish, but forgivable because its been so engrained in our computing lives. In windows 8, you would need to know to hover in the corner to make the charms bar appear (which appears from the side of the screen, not the corner). It is NOT intuitive.
I use windows 8 and quite like it... with Classic Start and metro disabled.
I took the win8 plunge to upgrade my PC from Vista. 40 bucks was about the price I paid when I was a student. With Classic Shell, Classic Start, and Win7 taskbar tweaker, I have absolutely no issues with win8.
Maybe to catch up to IE 9? Nine is higher than four, so regular users think that IE must be more mature and feature complete. We'll see what happens when Microsoft decides to change to IE XP or some other version identifier that Mozilla won't be able to copy.
Netflix is getting there. There is no incentive to even copy the movies when I can just stream at a moment's notice, or just have the disk in a day or two. Why the studios are playing games with not allowing Netflix's entire library to be streaming or making Netflix wait 30 days after releases is beyond me. Costs are less for all parties, easier for me to stream means easier for me to watch and pay (via subscription) royalties, Netflix doesn't have to mail me anything... Win Win.
I agree, isn't the entire point of the Iphone to be the multimedia anything, information at your fingertips, everything anywhere device? I use my (winmo) smart phone for work email, internet radio while driving, and occasional web and you-tube. I use 2.5 GB a month. And I think i'm a "light" user. I'm not sitting there with bit torrent running on my phone, and i think the ISP should disconnect someone (on a mobile ISP) if that is what a user is doing. But using the phone for what its for is absurd. This is what the Iphone is meant for. Rich, live, multimedia. AT&T is unable to provide the infrastructure to feed it, so they just say, yeah buy this awesome expensive new phone, but don't use it please! I also wonder if this is a way for them to axe VOIP before someone comes up with something stupid easy for anyone to use on any phone.
And what is worse is most of the Iphone people i talk to think this is fair. "well you should be using WiFi anyway". If there wasn't enough of a reason to not choose AT&T, this should seal the deal. I would recommend Sprint or VZW to anyone. And I hope they destroy AT&T in the advertisements with this.
Hmmm download a movie and risk getting caught, or rip the movie yourself and enjoy the warmth of knowing that there is virtually no way anyone would ever know... however at 5 dollars a pop, it is still better to just get yourself a Netflix account. And the movie gets delivered to your house!
It shouldn't be a requirement to "allow this application to access my personal information". Why a Tetris application REQUIRES such access is the reason i have a boring, application-less profile.
That said, Facebook does make it VERY clear what you are doing... Just because people don't read, care, or think about what they click on (cough cough EULAs) is another argument entirely.
+1 I agree. Now, what I can see is the NSA says, hey put a span tap on fa0/3 and mirror all traffic to this recording device... Said port being a single residential customer, or possibly a medium sized business. Not the whole internet or all ATT customers.
So what do the trunk lines look like after you reach the telco? What happens when you start aggregating several dozen people with this service? Chain is only as strong as the weakest link.
IANAL but i did take a Intro to business law course. In it I learned that browse-wrap agreements/contracts have been struck down time and time again and are not enforceable in a court of law.
Browse-wrap being "by viewing this post you agree to pay me 1000 dollars". Now, if there was a [I agree] button that you click on before entering the site... That could be a valid contract, unless the court decides its unconscionable.
Isn't this already enabled? If I go to http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-a-trap.html I get a phishing warning. An about:config 'safebrowsing' search already shows all the settings and google urls.
Warning Foo.exe is try...[OK]
Warning WinCom.exe is attempting to [Allow]
Warning Internet Explorer is being told to [Permit]
"Ahhh Finally, I can get to the internet. These pop ups are ridiculous."
And this is the problem. To use the car analogy: It can blink and beep a million times that Red 'OIL' Icon, but unless you actually know or pay attention to that warning... well poof.
AND... If the router is acting as your home gateway, the vista machine would be receiving a private IP address from the router, not your ISP. So... problem solved.
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Emergency Call on my phone takes you to a screen where you can dial only previously manually entered emergency numbers.... on my phone, its empty. I still don't understand why on my device I have no choice on whether or not to have "emergency call" appear on the lock screen.
According to this article http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli... , and this, http://poseidonwater.com/, the Poseidon desalination plant produces 50 million gallons per /day/.
The killer is the not having unlimited voice and texting that goes with the unlimited data. My old MO was "...from my cold dead hands..." however, given that I bought my device outright, I'm month to month, I'm getting ripped off. Its fantastic not having to think about if I should stream some video, or should I download this podcast from wifi instead of in my car... but I also can't use my phone as a phone, or text like I want... do I have enough texts? Do I have enough minutes? its a tradeoff... Maybe I can deal w/ 8GB a month...
Which was brought up in the video. He mentions that from windows 95 to XP... the button says "Start" letting users know this is where you should Start. He mentions that Vista / 7 removed the word start, and that this was foolish, but forgivable because its been so engrained in our computing lives. In windows 8, you would need to know to hover in the corner to make the charms bar appear (which appears from the side of the screen, not the corner). It is NOT intuitive. I use windows 8 and quite like it... with Classic Start and metro disabled.
I took the win8 plunge to upgrade my PC from Vista. 40 bucks was about the price I paid when I was a student. With Classic Shell, Classic Start, and Win7 taskbar tweaker, I have absolutely no issues with win8.
http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe
Maybe to catch up to IE 9? Nine is higher than four, so regular users think that IE must be more mature and feature complete. We'll see what happens when Microsoft decides to change to IE XP or some other version identifier that Mozilla won't be able to copy.
Netflix is getting there. There is no incentive to even copy the movies when I can just stream at a moment's notice, or just have the disk in a day or two. Why the studios are playing games with not allowing Netflix's entire library to be streaming or making Netflix wait 30 days after releases is beyond me. Costs are less for all parties, easier for me to stream means easier for me to watch and pay (via subscription) royalties, Netflix doesn't have to mail me anything... Win Win.
And what is worse is most of the Iphone people i talk to think this is fair. "well you should be using WiFi anyway". If there wasn't enough of a reason to not choose AT&T, this should seal the deal. I would recommend Sprint or VZW to anyone. And I hope they destroy AT&T in the advertisements with this.
Hmmm download a movie and risk getting caught, or rip the movie yourself and enjoy the warmth of knowing that there is virtually no way anyone would ever know... however at 5 dollars a pop, it is still better to just get yourself a Netflix account. And the movie gets delivered to your house!
It shouldn't be a requirement to "allow this application to access my personal information". Why a Tetris application REQUIRES such access is the reason i have a boring, application-less profile. That said, Facebook does make it VERY clear what you are doing... Just because people don't read, care, or think about what they click on (cough cough EULAs) is another argument entirely.
I know how, and I also fear it will become implemented... Severely throttle all encrypted traffic.
+1 I agree. Now, what I can see is the NSA says, hey put a span tap on fa0/3 and mirror all traffic to this recording device... Said port being a single residential customer, or possibly a medium sized business. Not the whole internet or all ATT customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerstrip
Are you required to have such a sticker when recording inside your own car?
So what do the trunk lines look like after you reach the telco? What happens when you start aggregating several dozen people with this service? Chain is only as strong as the weakest link.
IANAL but i did take a Intro to business law course. In it I learned that browse-wrap agreements/contracts have been struck down time and time again and are not enforceable in a court of law.
Browse-wrap being "by viewing this post you agree to pay me 1000 dollars". Now, if there was a [I agree] button that you click on before entering the site... That could be a valid contract, unless the court decides its unconscionable.
Isn't this already enabled? If I go to http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-a-trap.html I get a phishing warning. An about:config 'safebrowsing' search already shows all the settings and google urls.
Warning Foo.exe is try...[OK] Warning WinCom.exe is attempting to [Allow] Warning Internet Explorer is being told to [Permit] "Ahhh Finally, I can get to the internet. These pop ups are ridiculous." And this is the problem. To use the car analogy: It can blink and beep a million times that Red 'OIL' Icon, but unless you actually know or pay attention to that warning... well poof.
I defiantly believe engineers would be going for stealth over speed, though I'm just a simple IT guy and not privy to naval design.
AND... If the router is acting as your home gateway, the vista machine would be receiving a private IP address from the router, not your ISP. So... problem solved.
Grammar checking?
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Chalk another reason up to formatting the drive as soon as it comes from the manufacturer. No crapware and no manufacturer eula.