Not sure about older phones, but I have both my cell phones(personal and work), set to vibrate when i receive SMS. That way, if I am asleep, I wont be brought to ringing reality, or be interrupted in a meeting at work.
It is a new common assumpion that everyone has a cell phone. Thanks to digital networks, it is affordable to even the average joe to be connected at all times. They have long since eclipsed pagers as "the thing to have", making them, in some situations, more of a status symbol than as a way to stay connected. Pagers were at one time seen to be something carried by drug dealers and doctors, but never so with cellphones. This is probably due to the fact that everyone likes to have conversations, talking or by messaging. This trend is only going to continue, and get bigger and badder, hell, even smaller as well.
I think that sums it up for me.
Feel free to mod me down if this is redundant, just dont have time to read all the posts at work. Would subscribers have a better chance at becoming moderators? I am a frequent reader, but rarely post dut to time, but I sure wouldnt mind the occasional chance to lay some smack down on some punks.
Now, back to the McCave(im a programmer for McDonald's)
22 year old me: Hi, im you 10 years from now. Screw nintendo games, play outside some more,and ask for a C or C++ program/compiler/books for xmas, qbasic will get you nowhere. Also, screw the cool kids, most of them live in trailers now. Hmm, dont F up college, do dumb stuff now so you wont do it later. And quit worrying.
Heck, I've got friends who claim to know everything. After something has occurred, they paint themselves to have known the whole time. Unlike me, of course, who really *did* know it was going to happen. Well, sometimes, anyway.
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Not sure about older phones, but I have both my cell phones(personal and work), set to vibrate when i receive SMS. That way, if I am asleep, I wont be brought to ringing reality, or be interrupted in a meeting at work.
It is a new common assumpion that everyone has a cell phone. Thanks to digital networks, it is affordable to even the average joe to be connected at all times. They have long since eclipsed pagers as "the thing to have", making them, in some situations, more of a status symbol than as a way to stay connected. Pagers were at one time seen to be something carried by drug dealers and doctors, but never so with cellphones. This is probably due to the fact that everyone likes to have conversations, talking or by messaging. This trend is only going to continue, and get bigger and badder, hell, even smaller as well. I think that sums it up for me.
Feel free to mod me down if this is redundant, just dont have time to read all the posts at work. Would subscribers have a better chance at becoming moderators? I am a frequent reader, but rarely post dut to time, but I sure wouldnt mind the occasional chance to lay some smack down on some punks. Now, back to the McCave(im a programmer for McDonald's)
22 year old me:
Hi, im you 10 years from now.
Screw nintendo games, play outside some more,and ask for a C or C++ program/compiler/books for xmas, qbasic will get you nowhere.
Also, screw the cool kids, most of them live in trailers now.
Hmm, dont F up college, do dumb stuff now so you wont do it later.
And quit worrying.
Heck, I've got friends who claim to know everything. After something has occurred, they paint themselves to have known the whole time. Unlike me, of course, who really *did* know it was going to happen. Well, sometimes, anyway.
I could see myself dual booting winXP for Starcraft and MS access, then redhat or suse for php/perl, etc.
If this puppy will play starcraft under winex, and let me browse net and play with php/perl, I'd definitely consider it.