I don't trust a rent-a-cop to understand that an blackened or penny-coated lens renders the camera inoperable. Sorry, but I have too little faith in people to trust that I won't be hassled over that.
I'll check it out. Do you know if I can load my large library of eBooks onto it? I currently run mobipocket and have about 400Mb of documents, books, papers and whatnot on my xD card.
That's where I got my i730, which by now is hopelessly out of date. I mean, seriously - it only supports 802.11b
I'd LIKE something cutting edge, but for some reason the corporations of the world have declared that everybody wants/needs a camera.
The Samsung i730 non-camera PDA/smartphone is exactly what I need and want, but I need a replacement as it is showing the wear and tear. I want a smartphone just like this but WITHOUT A *&!*&@ CAMERA! I go in and out of courtrooms and secure facilities all the time. I want to keep my phone with me and I don't want to leave it out in the car where it could be stolen or - even worse - ring without me being there to answer it. Verizon refuses to sell me the phone I want claiming that Samsung and Motorola told them that such phones can't be made.
I had an email exchange with Motorola about this issue:
Me: I want a bluetooth-enabled smartphone/PDA without a camera. Verizon says that you are refusing to make one.
Them: We don't sell cellphones. Talk to Verizon.
Me: I did talk to Verizon. They say you won't produce the phone I want to buy.
Them: We make cellphones very happy good.
Me: I will give you money if you give me a cell phone that has the features I want.
Them: ?Script_error
This is a significant alteration to the service provided and (certainly) comes with no reduction in cost. Somebody who wants out of their Comcast contract and has the requisite tenacity should be able to get out from under them and switch to somebody else.
Ok, time to clear the slate of all of these bad jokes. Seriously, we appear to have quartz and quartz of them... have we lost our marble? That's enough for now... time to get into mica and drive to work.
Once the prawn industry realizes that without the rare earth elements they won't be able to push Brazilian flatulence prawn on the 22" flat screen monitors it'll only take them a few minutes to come up with a solution.
For that matter, tell them they can't take ANY more pictures of Japanese naked squid sumo girls until they find a way to produce cheap gas (not the B.F.P. kind) and the problem will be solved.
Japan's customers are being offered 1Tb connections for three-fiddy/month. Meanwhile, Comcast has announced that they are going to redirect 95% of their R&D and deployment budgets to paying for Washington lobbyists and contributions to national party coffers to get FCC oversight to be eliminated.
I am confident enough about the safety of these systems that should somebody wish to provide a demonstration installation I would be more than happy to accept delivery to my back yard, so long as I am given unlimited energy plus a 10% share of the sale of power to the neighbors. Yes, these things are -that- safe.
I'm not much of a coffee drinker, nor am I a starbucks wallflower. But from time to time there have been occasions when I liked to grab a nice cup of herbal tea and just chill in a comfy chair in a coffeeshop. Starbucks was never on the list because they are/were the only shop in town that didn't offer free wifi.
Recently Yahoo announced that they were selling my music account to RealNetworks at twice the current subscription fee. Based on the poor history of that company there isn't a snowball's chance that I'll get a subscription to Rhapsody. Knowing that Real has security flaws in what they -claim- is a cleaned up version of their adware engine is no particular shocker. I don't care what happens to them - does anybody still use them anyway?
I'd considered something like that, but at times I'd come in and find that Firefox had grabbed over 300Mb of memory to sit there and do nothing. Granted, shutting down Firefox isn't that big of a deal - I saw it cause the problem and found a painless workaround. But it is still a symptom of something that isn't quite right: an application shouldn't progressively grab more and more resources as it just sits there doing nothing.
As for global warming, by running the PCs I'm generating heat in this one tiny room so the furnace doesn't have to burn all of the extra fuel to heat the entire building.
If I don't shut down Firefox when I leave work for the day my system will be at a dead crawl in the morning - it shouldn't do this. (The only other program that acts like this is MS Streets & Trips). I am annoyed that Firefox is painfully slower to load certain pages - I do a lot of work for an in-house Quickbase application and MSIE blows firefox out of the water performance-wise, to the point where the same page in MSIE will load 3-5 times faster than it will in Firefox.
It is "suddenly" starting to get used now because the cost of installing/using this equipment is less than the cost of not using it. There are other factors as well - as more and more foreigners buy US companies what little shreds of employee loyalty will go out the window.
Remember, the cost of insurance is going through the roof. These machines will ALWAYS win out because you don't need to pay for health care, you don't need to pay for mandatory sexual harassment training, you never have to worry that firing somebody will trigger a racial or age discrimination lawsuit, you'll never have to provide a pension, disability insurance, unemployment insurance, family leave, military leave or (and this is one of the big ones) unions.
How about the recent crack down on 'illegal aliens' in the states?
Newsflash: when robots and machines result in less expense to produce produce they will be used. That simple. Once upon a time they used Manuel for manual labor in the wheat and cotton fields. Then along came machines and the farmers had a choice of a couple of machines that never needed rest and eliminate all of his HR problems. Coal mining requires a mere fraction of the labor once needed and has seen production gains on an order of magnitude. Pecans once had to be picked by hand, now they have that gizmo that simply shakes the tree and catches everything that falls out.
The push for automated warehouses and such is inevitable and logical. Consider the meatpacking industry, magnet to the illegal immigrants. Once somebody figures out a way to build a butcher robot do you think for one second that all of the illegals won't suddenly find themselves out of a job? Or, in the immediate future, construction. Once they have the house-building fabrication devices or even true modular methods do you suppose for one instant that there will be a single thought of concern for the illegals?
They are here because people are willing to give them money only because they are cheaper than the currently available alternatives.
1. Corporations do not make the decision to call and harass me, individuals within the corporation do. If you were to fine the person who authorized those calls even fifty cents the calls would stop. Forever.
2. The phone companies should be forced to provide - at no charge - an option to reject calls with blocked or out of area caller ID. Even for those customers who don't subscribe to caller ID. Such calls are invariably sales or other solicitation pitches and, as they are always unwanted, harassing and NOT protected by law. Since the phone company has taken explicit steps to allow people to obfuscate their identification for the purpose of harassment they are co-conspirators. Ideally the people who made the decision to authorize this harassment would be punished, but as that is exceptionally unlikely just force them to provide free call blocking. Cut into their revenue stream? Charge the calling banks $1.00 for every number they dial that is blocked. Now THAT would be incentive for people to honor the DNC lists!
I was a $0 downloader... the head guy in the office did a pre-order and paid ($6? $8? something like that) but never received the link to email so I paid $0 to re-download the copy he originally bought but never received.
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I don't trust a rent-a-cop to understand that an blackened or penny-coated lens renders the camera inoperable. Sorry, but I have too little faith in people to trust that I won't be hassled over that.
I'll check it out. Do you know if I can load my large library of eBooks onto it? I currently run mobipocket and have about 400Mb of documents, books, papers and whatnot on my xD card.
That's where I got my i730, which by now is hopelessly out of date. I mean, seriously - it only supports 802.11b I'd LIKE something cutting edge, but for some reason the corporations of the world have declared that everybody wants/needs a camera.
The Samsung i730 non-camera PDA/smartphone is exactly what I need and want, but I need a replacement as it is showing the wear and tear. I want a smartphone just like this but WITHOUT A *&!*&@ CAMERA! I go in and out of courtrooms and secure facilities all the time. I want to keep my phone with me and I don't want to leave it out in the car where it could be stolen or - even worse - ring without me being there to answer it. Verizon refuses to sell me the phone I want claiming that Samsung and Motorola told them that such phones can't be made. I had an email exchange with Motorola about this issue: Me: I want a bluetooth-enabled smartphone/PDA without a camera. Verizon says that you are refusing to make one. Them: We don't sell cellphones. Talk to Verizon. Me: I did talk to Verizon. They say you won't produce the phone I want to buy. Them: We make cellphones very happy good. Me: I will give you money if you give me a cell phone that has the features I want. Them: ?Script_error
This is a significant alteration to the service provided and (certainly) comes with no reduction in cost. Somebody who wants out of their Comcast contract and has the requisite tenacity should be able to get out from under them and switch to somebody else.
Please... no moh jokes
Ok, time to clear the slate of all of these bad jokes. Seriously, we appear to have quartz and quartz of them... have we lost our marble? That's enough for now... time to get into mica and drive to work.
Once the prawn industry realizes that without the rare earth elements they won't be able to push Brazilian flatulence prawn on the 22" flat screen monitors it'll only take them a few minutes to come up with a solution. For that matter, tell them they can't take ANY more pictures of Japanese naked squid sumo girls until they find a way to produce cheap gas (not the B.F.P. kind) and the problem will be solved.
Since when did the constitution matter to the supreme court? I can't think of very many times they've put legal ahead of "secure".
Japan's customers are being offered 1Tb connections for three-fiddy/month. Meanwhile, Comcast has announced that they are going to redirect 95% of their R&D and deployment budgets to paying for Washington lobbyists and contributions to national party coffers to get FCC oversight to be eliminated.
I am confident enough about the safety of these systems that should somebody wish to provide a demonstration installation I would be more than happy to accept delivery to my back yard, so long as I am given unlimited energy plus a 10% share of the sale of power to the neighbors. Yes, these things are -that- safe.
I'm not much of a coffee drinker, nor am I a starbucks wallflower. But from time to time there have been occasions when I liked to grab a nice cup of herbal tea and just chill in a comfy chair in a coffeeshop. Starbucks was never on the list because they are/were the only shop in town that didn't offer free wifi.
Recently Yahoo announced that they were selling my music account to RealNetworks at twice the current subscription fee. Based on the poor history of that company there isn't a snowball's chance that I'll get a subscription to Rhapsody. Knowing that Real has security flaws in what they -claim- is a cleaned up version of their adware engine is no particular shocker. I don't care what happens to them - does anybody still use them anyway?
Already lodged my complaint of anti-competitive behavior. They've stopped deals that were less obnoxious than that one....
I pay nothing, I buy no product. No risk, fun while it lasts, if it fails I have nothing invested.
You're kidding, right? The ability to forever filter out and select only the songs that you want for free? Sign me up.
Miner 2049 on the Commodore PET.
IE Tab, IE View, PDF Download, Adblock Plus, User Agent Switcher, Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics, BugMeNot, ChatZilla, DictionarySearch, FireFTP, FlashBlock, ForecastFox Enhanced - nothing else.
As for global warming, by running the PCs I'm generating heat in this one tiny room so the furnace doesn't have to burn all of the extra fuel to heat the entire building.
If I don't shut down Firefox when I leave work for the day my system will be at a dead crawl in the morning - it shouldn't do this. (The only other program that acts like this is MS Streets & Trips). I am annoyed that Firefox is painfully slower to load certain pages - I do a lot of work for an in-house Quickbase application and MSIE blows firefox out of the water performance-wise, to the point where the same page in MSIE will load 3-5 times faster than it will in Firefox.
Remember, the cost of insurance is going through the roof. These machines will ALWAYS win out because you don't need to pay for health care, you don't need to pay for mandatory sexual harassment training, you never have to worry that firing somebody will trigger a racial or age discrimination lawsuit, you'll never have to provide a pension, disability insurance, unemployment insurance, family leave, military leave or (and this is one of the big ones) unions.
Newsflash: when robots and machines result in less expense to produce produce they will be used. That simple. Once upon a time they used Manuel for manual labor in the wheat and cotton fields. Then along came machines and the farmers had a choice of a couple of machines that never needed rest and eliminate all of his HR problems. Coal mining requires a mere fraction of the labor once needed and has seen production gains on an order of magnitude. Pecans once had to be picked by hand, now they have that gizmo that simply shakes the tree and catches everything that falls out.
The push for automated warehouses and such is inevitable and logical. Consider the meatpacking industry, magnet to the illegal immigrants. Once somebody figures out a way to build a butcher robot do you think for one second that all of the illegals won't suddenly find themselves out of a job? Or, in the immediate future, construction. Once they have the house-building fabrication devices or even true modular methods do you suppose for one instant that there will be a single thought of concern for the illegals?
They are here because people are willing to give them money only because they are cheaper than the currently available alternatives.
2. The phone companies should be forced to provide - at no charge - an option to reject calls with blocked or out of area caller ID. Even for those customers who don't subscribe to caller ID. Such calls are invariably sales or other solicitation pitches and, as they are always unwanted, harassing and NOT protected by law. Since the phone company has taken explicit steps to allow people to obfuscate their identification for the purpose of harassment they are co-conspirators. Ideally the people who made the decision to authorize this harassment would be punished, but as that is exceptionally unlikely just force them to provide free call blocking. Cut into their revenue stream? Charge the calling banks $1.00 for every number they dial that is blocked. Now THAT would be incentive for people to honor the DNC lists!
I was a $0 downloader... the head guy in the office did a pre-order and paid ($6? $8? something like that) but never received the link to email so I paid $0 to re-download the copy he originally bought but never received.
A simulation of a commercial nuclear plant would be cool, as would an updated version of WeatherWar.