You have Media Net Unlimited ($19.99) which isn't elligible on PDA's anymore, those require a $39.99 plan. Cingular has rearranged features to be restricted to certain types of phones. So a new account with the iPhone will be restricted to PDA data plans which are much more expensive. Older accounts with older features can slip through the cracks however. And you can still get away with it by faking your IMEI but they're closing in on this too. Older accounts will be swept to remove tethering capabilities for Media Net plans to eliminate that at some point. Enjoy it now if you have $19.99 and a PDA, it won't last.
Yes I work for Cingular and am getting a kick out of all these posts blah blah.
Oh we also got this announcement today, the $499 and $599 are with a 2 year contract. I don't think it'll be discounted at all, like Wal-Mart doesn't get to discount the iPod.
And it could be about an illegal race across the galaxy with Riker and Troi in one ship, Quark and Odo in another, Tom Paris and Harry Kim in the Delta Flyer and two guys from Enterprise (don't get it here). With special guest stars such as the heads of Sammy Davis jr and Dean Martin, and Burt Reynolds and Dom Delouise with prosthetic foreheads.
I love Trek but two wash-ups (Trek and JMS) joining forces can only hurt the memory of both. Though I wouldn't mind if they'd give it a shot and finally shut JMS up about it.
Why does it bother some of y'all so much? Some throw away Hotmail addresses for a $300 device seems like a pretty good deal.
Is it the whole corporate machine thing? Or the 'spamming' your friends? "Hey Joe, go make a new Hotmail address and sign up for a free trial on my card. Here's $10 for the 4 minutes of trouble for making an email account."
I could sell an iPod on Ebay and heat my house for 4 fucking months with the proceeds, OR feed my family (me) for 3 months(I eat light).
Boo-hoo, if only I'd used those 30 total minutes rounding up friends to make a fake email, I could have improved myself and taken over Steve Jobs... job. Why didn't I listen to BWY?
And WHY did I spend 5 minutes flaming some chump on Slashdot? I wouldn't be stuck at piddly Apple and could have taken over Bill's job by now:`(
It's already available for Cingular phones... phone rather. Currently only the Nokia 6620 can use it. $9.99/month for the MobiTV subscription and $19.99 for unlimited internet access (Media Works - unlimited wireless internet, 1500 sms and 200 mms).
Currently there's about 20 different channels, Fox, CNN, Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel en espanol, etc.
It's a soft rolloout so no announcements yet. Which is a good thing since we'd (customer service) would get a kajillion irate callers screeching about not being able to watch streaming video on their analog bag phones.
Oh god, I hope I just didn't/. Cingular customer service:O
I don't know your rate plan, if you were on a Prefered Nation, it's possible to roam in your city. Or if your alpha tags/irdb are out of date (as is wont to happen when people don't power cycle their phone often or don't get those downloads), you can roam.
It doesn't bill incorrectly for roaming. Roaming charges are billed from another carrier and sent to Cingular, that's how we know you were roaming.
The other thing is called call delivery, don't ask me to explain it but it's on most bills, a call from the same number will appear twice, at either the same time or while in the time of that call, one with the billing code(with the code P = Peak, O = Offpeak, N or W = Weekends )... the other with a 4 next to it or no denotation, it denotes call delivery and if you add it up on your detailed billing, it's not charging you extra for it, it's not counted at all.
I work at Cingular and I have to say as late as yesterday, _after_ the announcement, there were still people threatening to leave for AT&T. I actually was able to explain the man's bill, explain the merger with AT&T and 'save' him.
That being said, if someone called in, freaked out and was a dick and didn't want to hear anything but "Here's free service for a year, your colon tastes mighty fine, sir!", then threatened to go to AT&T, I just kept my orange trap shut and winked at the tiny Nelson Muntz on my shoulder
Not knowing your circumstances, we'll refrain (as with any large company, some people do get squashed).
I wonder if there's a mercenary market for reps... "I read you bill, ten dollar.... eet's beeling correctly, senior... haahahaaahahaaaaa..."
Does Google SMS work everywhere? Can I find pizza restaurants in Palermo?
Right now, Google SMS only works in the U.S. We're working hard to make it available when and wherever you're on the go. In the meantime, how about a little slice of heaven in Little Italy? (try 'pizza 10013')
I'm quite pissed that Han and Greedo shoot simultaneously. Seriously, what kinda bullshit is that? I want Lucas to release it as it was originally intended in 1997, with Greedo shooting first.
This could become a kind of credit check for businesses/membership in some organization etc.
It's just for law enforcement now, but I'm sure large companies could eventually gain access to it.
My employer with the ability to track my hotmail/ip across the various places I've been on the intarweb (with faster and larger databases it's not _that_ inconceivable), seeing some of the rabid things I've said about them (all of which I meant in the best possible light, sir), deciding to invoke the "up to and including termination" clause in every company e-mail, paper, fax, stapler, lunch I receive from them...
Maybe that's a little doomsday-ish, but how about just accessing it to check on potential hirees? Chuck there never made any unpatriotic remarks/admire Nazi uniforms (really though, I think everyone can agree they were snappy dressers) or talk about anything we don't like on the internet. Hire Chuck and red flag Rebel_Princess' application for future use, oh and enter it into the database as flagged, she'll have to pimp herself out to pay rent... that's what the little bitch gets for not tossing my salad to get this job.
Being a CSR, you get sent to the store because trying to instruct/walk-through customers on how to do anything on their phones is far too time consuming to bother with - the blunt end being, you're gonna fuck it up anyway and get sent to a store, cut your losses and get to the other people waiting. If we had the ability to yank the phone out of your hands after you've unsuccessfully tried turning on your phone for the 19th time, we would sir. This doesn't apply to 1% of the calls, sorry if I sound a bit cranky, but after the 40th "What rate plan am I on?" and the answer of "See, at the top of your bill? In giant fucking letters that says Rate Plan and Rate Plan Summary? Well if ignore that, it's a trick! You're real rate plan is unlimited daytime with rollover, unlimited mobile to mobile and unlimited nights and weekends... sorry to mislead you there, but we can't just have everyone know they're on that plan, only the ones clever enough to call in!"
Thank you for choosing Slashdot and have a nice day.
What if he entered into OSS as a selling point to ultimately work at MS? Or MS recruited him to go into OSS with the ultimate goal of bringing him over to them so they can say "Look at all these OSS folk who saw the light!".
Both those and your scenarios are equally as likely (that is to say, not at all).
My personal experience with myself (Rebel_Princess) has noticed a tendency to shed ideals for a bigger paycheck. Example, I would never have used a chain to choked to death a giant slug while on Alderaan without cash/power incentives. And I looked good doing it! Win/Win really.
It's the other carriers that charge AT&T for AT&T customers to use their towers, ATT has no control over that. In addition, the other carriers bill ATT at their convenience, that's why the roaming charges can show up months later and at some hefty prices (mostly by unfriendly carriers). So when you get massive roaming charges two months after the fact and get all pissed off at ATT (or whoever), ask your carrier who you roamed onto before deciding to port out, to avoid the jackass companies that did it to you (usually Verizon)
What do you suggest the carriers do? Eat that cost cause you were too busy downloading ringtones to see the flashing ROAMING or EXTEND on your phones screen?
Is it some sort of Slashdot in-joke to mod an off-topic and uninteresting post as +5 Interesting? There's nothing about it in the Slashdot Wiki entry:\
Our circulation statistics continued to grow which helped us secure more funding as it was available.
Couldn't an underused library just spend its waking hours checking books in and out by themselves, making it look like they have high traffic?
It's a shame that Libraries aren't simply funded well no matter what, though I'm certain a system like that would be abused. What happens when all this information becomes digitized? Libraries closing or becoming Internet only? Seems like that'd be the equivalent to the Library of Alexandria burning to me. Quick lookup and ability for unlimited viewers at any time is nice, but I'd give a nut for hardcopies of some of the stuff on my hard drive.
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You have Media Net Unlimited ($19.99) which isn't elligible on PDA's anymore, those require a $39.99 plan.
Cingular has rearranged features to be restricted to certain types of phones. So a new account with the iPhone will be restricted to PDA data plans which are much more expensive. Older accounts with older features can slip through the cracks however.
And you can still get away with it by faking your IMEI but they're closing in on this too. Older accounts will be swept to remove tethering capabilities for Media Net plans to eliminate that at some point.
Enjoy it now if you have $19.99 and a PDA, it won't last.
Yes I work for Cingular and am getting a kick out of all these posts blah blah.
Oh we also got this announcement today, the $499 and $599 are with a 2 year contract. I don't think it'll be discounted at all, like Wal-Mart doesn't get to discount the iPod.
That would be a Deist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deist
I've been archiving my porn collection for years like this.
Thor, the Pizza Delivery God is a favorite of my kids, as is the Bang Barge Sagas.
Same price to send/receive.
... a cure for ugly. I'll save a fortune on paper bags.
I love Trek but two wash-ups (Trek and JMS) joining forces can only hurt the memory of both. Though I wouldn't mind if they'd give it a shot and finally shut JMS up about it.
Is it the whole corporate machine thing? Or the 'spamming' your friends? "Hey Joe, go make a new Hotmail address and sign up for a free trial on my card. Here's $10 for the 4 minutes of trouble for making an email account."
I could sell an iPod on Ebay and heat my house for 4 fucking months with the proceeds, OR feed my family (me) for 3 months(I eat light).
Boo-hoo, if only I'd used those 30 total minutes rounding up friends to make a fake email, I could have improved myself and taken over Steve Jobs... job. Why didn't I listen to BWY?
And WHY did I spend 5 minutes flaming some chump on Slashdot? I wouldn't be stuck at piddly Apple and could have taken over Bill's job by now :`(
OHH why oh bwy??
Currently there's about 20 different channels, Fox, CNN, Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel en espanol, etc.
It's a soft rolloout so no announcements yet. Which is a good thing since we'd (customer service) would get a kajillion irate callers screeching about not being able to watch streaming video on their analog bag phones.
Oh god, I hope I just didn't /. Cingular customer service :O
Christ, our (Americas) best hope for policy reform lies in other countries being outraged at said policies?
It doesn't bill incorrectly for roaming. Roaming charges are billed from another carrier and sent to Cingular, that's how we know you were roaming.
The other thing is called call delivery, don't ask me to explain it but it's on most bills, a call from the same number will appear twice, at either the same time or while in the time of that call, one with the billing code(with the code P = Peak, O = Offpeak, N or W = Weekends )... the other with a 4 next to it or no denotation, it denotes call delivery and if you add it up on your detailed billing, it's not charging you extra for it, it's not counted at all.
That being said, if someone called in, freaked out and was a dick and didn't want to hear anything but "Here's free service for a year, your colon tastes mighty fine, sir!", then threatened to go to AT&T, I just kept my orange trap shut and winked at the tiny Nelson Muntz on my shoulder
Not knowing your circumstances, we'll refrain (as with any large company, some people do get squashed).
I wonder if there's a mercenary market for reps... "I read you bill, ten dollar.... eet's beeling correctly, senior... haahahaaahahaaaaa..."
Does Google SMS work everywhere? Can I find pizza restaurants in Palermo?
Right now, Google SMS only works in the U.S. We're working hard to make it available when and wherever you're on the go. In the meantime, how about a little slice of heaven in Little Italy? (try 'pizza 10013')
Their dad's closet, underneath shoeboxes of tax returns? The young miss section of the Sears catalog?
Saved me in pre-internet days.
I'm quite pissed that Han and Greedo shoot simultaneously. Seriously, what kinda bullshit is that? I want Lucas to release it as it was originally intended in 1997, with Greedo shooting first.
Stop raping my 20's Lucas!! *shakes fist*
*whack*
"Howsabout some fries with that?"
*kick*
"How bout _this_ combo meal!"
*punch*
It's just for law enforcement now, but I'm sure large companies could eventually gain access to it.
My employer with the ability to track my hotmail/ip across the various places I've been on the intarweb (with faster and larger databases it's not _that_ inconceivable), seeing some of the rabid things I've said about them (all of which I meant in the best possible light, sir), deciding to invoke the "up to and including termination" clause in every company e-mail, paper, fax, stapler, lunch I receive from them...
Maybe that's a little doomsday-ish, but how about just accessing it to check on potential hirees? Chuck there never made any unpatriotic remarks/admire Nazi uniforms (really though, I think everyone can agree they were snappy dressers) or talk about anything we don't like on the internet. Hire Chuck and red flag Rebel_Princess' application for future use, oh and enter it into the database as flagged, she'll have to pimp herself out to pay rent... that's what the little bitch gets for not tossing my salad to get this job.
Caller - "Yeah I'm calling about my phone..." CSR - *grits teeth*
If we had the ability to yank the phone out of your hands after you've unsuccessfully tried turning on your phone for the 19th time, we would sir.
This doesn't apply to 1% of the calls, sorry if I sound a bit cranky, but after the 40th "What rate plan am I on?" and the answer of "See, at the top of your bill? In giant fucking letters that says Rate Plan and Rate Plan Summary? Well if ignore that, it's a trick! You're real rate plan is unlimited daytime with rollover, unlimited mobile to mobile and unlimited nights and weekends... sorry to mislead you there, but we can't just have everyone know they're on that plan, only the ones clever enough to call in!"
Thank you for choosing Slashdot and have a nice day.
Both those and your scenarios are equally as likely (that is to say, not at all).
My personal experience with myself (Rebel_Princess) has noticed a tendency to shed ideals for a bigger paycheck. Example, I would never have used a chain to choked to death a giant slug while on Alderaan without cash/power incentives. And I looked good doing it! Win/Win really.
What do you suggest the carriers do? Eat that cost cause you were too busy downloading ringtones to see the flashing ROAMING or EXTEND on your phones screen?
Yes, just what I need, alien Jehovah's Witnesses beaming into my living room.
Is it some sort of Slashdot in-joke to mod an off-topic and uninteresting post as +5 Interesting? There's nothing about it in the Slashdot Wiki entry :\
Couldn't an underused library just spend its waking hours checking books in and out by themselves, making it look like they have high traffic?
It's a shame that Libraries aren't simply funded well no matter what, though I'm certain a system like that would be abused.
What happens when all this information becomes digitized? Libraries closing or becoming Internet only? Seems like that'd be the equivalent to the Library of Alexandria burning to me. Quick lookup and ability for unlimited viewers at any time is nice, but I'd give a nut for hardcopies of some of the stuff on my hard drive.
An Enterprise case would would produce faster benchmarks...
And then there's me.