Ooooh, I know you're creditworthy by your platinum watch-card!
Actually, I can wear my money right now. I know how to fold a bill of paper money into a wearable ring. It uses no tape/staples and unfolds back into perfectly normal, spendable currency.
We used to use Eudora around here. I don't know why, it was before I got hired. Well we have lots of people that STILL USE IT! Version 3 even. We try to push them towards Thundirbird. I mean there is nothing I can think of that Eudora does that Thundirbird doesn't (other than suck) and lots of things it can't do.
Well, Eudora 3 can't do SMTP authentication, which a lot of ISP's are reqiring now to cut down the amount of spam out there.
Oh, and Eudora can't change it's interface in 4 years.:-)
Don't forget, this is the US. Cellular used to be fair, they took a loss on your handset and then recovered it through a year long contract. Later on GSM intruduced the idea of locking the phone so that it would be useless except with a specific carrier.
Talk about demonizing GSM. Do you have anything to support the idea that phone were freely interchangable between carriers before GSM, because it seems to me they have *always* been locked when they came from the provider.
This is where the rift between the US and the rest of the world occurs. Elsewhere in the world, after the cellular company recovered their costs and made some profit they would gladly unlock the handset so you could take it to another carrier if you wished. In the US, this was almost unheard of. In fact, try asking anyone at a retail store about getting this done and 99.99% of the time they'll say it can't be done.
Since Europe has been GSM longer than the U.S., wouldn't Euopean's cell phones be locked to carrier, too? GSM seems to be responsible for this according to you. T-Mobile will unlock your phone if you've been a customer for at least six months, according to many posters in past artcles on this issue.
Before all of this mess, when you could take your phone to any carrier, the phones were of higher quality because they weren't meant to get thrown away.
And you're blaming the cell phone carriers for this? This is the handset manufacturer's fault. They have stated (at least I saw a quote of Sony-Ericsson) that they want people to be buying a new handset once a year.
Don't forget that all of these re-usable handsets winding up in the trash are bad for the environment. I don't see the environmentalists raising a stink about that, I wonder why?
Because you can take you phone/batteries ect and...
1) Donate them to programs that refirbish the phone and give them to victims of domestic abuse for use in emergencies?
2) or take them to Best Buy and drop them in that big bin labeled "Cell Phone/Battery Recycling"?
Keeping customers' phone numbers private is a feature of every wireless service provider. In the not-too-distant future, I expect it to become a premium feature -- we will be forced to py a higher price and read even more paperwork before we will be guaranteed that our phone numbers will not be distributed to the next corporate entity that bids on them.
I called T-Mobile the other day to request I NOT be included in the cell phone directory. The customer care rep I got didn't know anything about it. He had to put me on hold to "research" it (probably meant ask helpdesk). Either they don't have the directory set up yet, which everything I've read in the media states otherwise, or they simply have not bothered to create a way for customers to preemptivly opt-out (they don't want to give us the oppertunity until after they have published the first list, making the whole point of opting out moot). Once the number's out there some other anonymous third party can pass the number around.
That was over three years ago! I'm not under contract with T-Mobile now but I still am a customer, I wonder if they'll say I have to get back ON contract to get off the directory.
My plan's so old I still get the first incoming minute free. Does that mean I can't sue for cost of minutes if I get telemarketer calls?
Since people are reporting to Macrumors they are already recieving their copies of Office 2004, the guy's story he though he was downloading a "public beta" really don't hold up in my mind.
Why is this documentary called "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water"?
The episode of Star Trek: TNG that title refrences had nothing to do with Kiligons or their language, culture, ect.
Well, when I was in school there were textbook rental fees (from like second or third grade all the way through high school). Usually between ten and thirty dollars per book.
Yes, an obvious problem. Which is why all of these laptop programs have some sort of insurance for the machines and the parents usually end up paying the premium (like $50 or so if I remember right). Less than they would spend on the rental fees for all those textbooks.
No they haven't. You get +1 for Funny from me for the joke. Mostly because I had to talk to some girl in India last week about my Dell's financing, and I don't think she understood some of what I said.
I would throw stuff at them. What are they going to do? It becomes a choice, which is more important? The person throwing popcorn at them or the conversation on the phone. They can't go complain to the management because you can excuse it on the fact they were interfering with your enjoyment of the film.
"G5 sales are still disappointing, and look to be so again this quarter. You tried to avoid the main point of any threat specifically from Apple, other than the empty promise that these things that aren't selling, have been out in the market place for a while now, are suddenly going to turn around and start selling like hotcakes.
They sold like hotcakes when they first came out. Nobody's buying right now because they've been expecting updated ones for the past month and a half. Why would you buy a computer when you thought an updated (like everything gains +.4Ghz) system with other hardware bugs worked out was about to be released?
The G5 is supposed to hit up to 3Ghz by this fall. Many people are waiting for THAT to happen before they buy.
Wouldn't that mean the Mozilla group could just rename FireFox to 'Internet Explorer' and Microsoft couldn't do anything because they'd be able to use Microsoft's own arguements against them in court?
(I'm not attacking you) It says 80 hours of continuous MD operation. It doesn't say the disc was spinning all that time. Goddammit, PR flacks, how many hours of standard, 1x portable CD player spin time is that?
Uh, Minidisc players spin contantly, just like portable CD players, and spin faster when they are reading ahead for their anti-skip (just like portable CD players). Minidisc is an audio format just like Audio CD, not merely a data storage format like a hard drive based player has.
Not only that, there is no Tools -> Options command in IE. The command is labeled "Internet Options" and if the command is not labeled exactly the same thing usually the user will say they don't see it.
To add to the confusion, choosing the command in Internet Explorer brings up a window labeled not "Internet Options" but "Internet Properties", the icon in the control panels folder is also labeled "Internet Options" so every place other than the window itself it is called something else. The terms "Properties" and "Settings" are interchanged repeatedly in Windows apps. It has been this way since Windows 95/IE4
So the parents' whole comment is wrong on every angle.
They would be a good way to get rid of them and all their noobie internet users opening email attachments to see the "details" of people they've never heard of.
in a related note of irony, I'm posting this from an AOL trial connection, but I'm not using the AOL browser, just conecting through it and minimizing it so I can use FireFox instead
Would it be fraud if software companies put up files of crap that mimic their own titles, in an attempt to put people off p2p?
No, the RIAA already does this with p2p networks. They flood the services with songs that are nothing more than the chorus or first verse looped a half dozen times. There was an issue of Wired last year talking about the end of the Music Industry (as we know it) and this was mentioned as one way they fight piracy.
Hahaha, sounds like market rebirth and suicide all in one swoop. A new era of people paying for MP3 apps again when iTunes 7.0 and WMP 10 no longer play regular MP3's. And the bankruptcy filings of all the companies who try to launch new digital music players (hardware) that cannot play the most popular format on the internet.
None of the companies now want to admit it, they say they're all against piracy, but you don't see any of them selling players that will not play MP3s. Because the vendors know the majority of their users are people who DO steal music over peer to peer networks. Any player that does not play the unprotected format will fail in the marketplace.
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Why do I feel like that Best Buy Puppet example in the begining of this story was tacked on simply to stick in a Microsoft Bash.
Since the book was about Linux, there was no real practical reason for including it. Is the book going to tell how to get around the XP problem?
No.
That's a lot of type to say simply "some wireless cards aren't supported by Linux out of the box".
How about wearing one's wealth on their sleeve?
Ooooh, I know you're creditworthy by your platinum watch-card!
Actually, I can wear my money right now. I know how to fold a bill of paper money into a wearable ring. It uses no tape/staples and unfolds back into perfectly normal, spendable currency.
We used to use Eudora around here. I don't know why, it was before I got hired. Well we have lots of people that STILL USE IT! Version 3 even. We try to push them towards Thundirbird. I mean there is nothing I can think of that Eudora does that Thundirbird doesn't (other than suck) and lots of things it can't do.
:-)
Well, Eudora 3 can't do SMTP authentication, which a lot of ISP's are reqiring now to cut down the amount of spam out there.
Oh, and Eudora can't change it's interface in 4 years.
What mobile phone carrier has towers in that region? Perhaps they meant satellite phone instead?
Also, what kind of battery life do transmitters packed in ice get?
Talk about demonizing GSM. Do you have anything to support the idea that phone were freely interchangable between carriers before GSM, because it seems to me they have *always* been locked when they came from the provider.
This is where the rift between the US and the rest of the world occurs. Elsewhere in the world, after the cellular company recovered their costs and made some profit they would gladly unlock the handset so you could take it to another carrier if you wished. In the US, this was almost unheard of. In fact, try asking anyone at a retail store about getting this done and 99.99% of the time they'll say it can't be done.
Since Europe has been GSM longer than the U.S., wouldn't Euopean's cell phones be locked to carrier, too? GSM seems to be responsible for this according to you. T-Mobile will unlock your phone if you've been a customer for at least six months, according to many posters in past artcles on this issue.
Before all of this mess, when you could take your phone to any carrier, the phones were of higher quality because they weren't meant to get thrown away.
And you're blaming the cell phone carriers for this? This is the handset manufacturer's fault. They have stated (at least I saw a quote of Sony-Ericsson) that they want people to be buying a new handset once a year.
Don't forget that all of these re-usable handsets winding up in the trash are bad for the environment. I don't see the environmentalists raising a stink about that, I wonder why?
Because you can take you phone/batteries ect and...
1) Donate them to programs that refirbish the phone and give them to victims of domestic abuse for use in emergencies?
2) or take them to Best Buy and drop them in that big bin labeled "Cell Phone/Battery Recycling"?
I called T-Mobile the other day to request I NOT be included in the cell phone directory. The customer care rep I got didn't know anything about it. He had to put me on hold to "research" it (probably meant ask helpdesk). Either they don't have the directory set up yet, which everything I've read in the media states otherwise, or they simply have not bothered to create a way for customers to preemptivly opt-out (they don't want to give us the oppertunity until after they have published the first list, making the whole point of opting out moot). Once the number's out there some other anonymous third party can pass the number around.
That was over three years ago! I'm not under contract with T-Mobile now but I still am a customer, I wonder if they'll say I have to get back ON contract to get off the directory. My plan's so old I still get the first incoming minute free. Does that mean I can't sue for cost of minutes if I get telemarketer calls?
Since people are reporting to Macrumors they are already recieving their copies of Office 2004, the guy's story he though he was downloading a "public beta" really don't hold up in my mind.
Why is this documentary called "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water"? The episode of Star Trek: TNG that title refrences had nothing to do with Kiligons or their language, culture, ect.
Well, when I was in school there were textbook rental fees (from like second or third grade all the way through high school). Usually between ten and thirty dollars per book.
Yes, an obvious problem. Which is why all of these laptop programs have some sort of insurance for the machines and the parents usually end up paying the premium (like $50 or so if I remember right). Less than they would spend on the rental fees for all those textbooks.
No they haven't. You get +1 for Funny from me for the joke. Mostly because I had to talk to some girl in India last week about my Dell's financing, and I don't think she understood some of what I said.
I would throw stuff at them. What are they going to do? It becomes a choice, which is more important? The person throwing popcorn at them or the conversation on the phone. They can't go complain to the management because you can excuse it on the fact they were interfering with your enjoyment of the film.
It's a comment that adds nothing to the discussion and just goes to insult the community in some fashion.
They sold like hotcakes when they first came out. Nobody's buying right now because they've been expecting updated ones for the past month and a half. Why would you buy a computer when you thought an updated (like everything gains +.4Ghz) system with other hardware bugs worked out was about to be released?
The G5 is supposed to hit up to 3Ghz by this fall. Many people are waiting for THAT to happen before they buy.
Wouldn't that mean the Mozilla group could just rename FireFox to 'Internet Explorer' and Microsoft couldn't do anything because they'd be able to use Microsoft's own arguements against them in court?
Uh, Minidisc players spin contantly, just like portable CD players, and spin faster when they are reading ahead for their anti-skip (just like portable CD players). Minidisc is an audio format just like Audio CD, not merely a data storage format like a hard drive based player has.
Ohhhhhh, Mac-on-Linux. Not Linux on Mac.
Really? How is it I ran Debian on my Quadra 700 then?
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
Not only that, there is no Tools -> Options command in IE. The command is labeled "Internet Options" and if the command is not labeled exactly the same thing usually the user will say they don't see it. To add to the confusion, choosing the command in Internet Explorer brings up a window labeled not "Internet Options" but "Internet Properties", the icon in the control panels folder is also labeled "Internet Options" so every place other than the window itself it is called something else. The terms "Properties" and "Settings" are interchanged repeatedly in Windows apps. It has been this way since Windows 95/IE4 So the parents' whole comment is wrong on every angle.
They would be a good way to get rid of them and all their noobie internet users opening email attachments to see the "details" of people they've never heard of.
in a related note of irony, I'm posting this from an AOL trial connection, but I'm not using the AOL browser, just conecting through it and minimizing it so I can use FireFox instead
Would it be fraud if software companies put up files of crap that mimic their own titles, in an attempt to put people off p2p? No, the RIAA already does this with p2p networks. They flood the services with songs that are nothing more than the chorus or first verse looped a half dozen times. There was an issue of Wired last year talking about the end of the Music Industry (as we know it) and this was mentioned as one way they fight piracy.
$29.95 a month is how much cable modem service is where I live. Eat that Cincinatti!
Hahaha, sounds like market rebirth and suicide all in one swoop. A new era of people paying for MP3 apps again when iTunes 7.0 and WMP 10 no longer play regular MP3's. And the bankruptcy filings of all the companies who try to launch new digital music players (hardware) that cannot play the most popular format on the internet. None of the companies now want to admit it, they say they're all against piracy, but you don't see any of them selling players that will not play MP3s. Because the vendors know the majority of their users are people who DO steal music over peer to peer networks. Any player that does not play the unprotected format will fail in the marketplace.
When it is proven in court SCO has no legitimate ownership of Linux, do you think the company will be able to get a refund?