You can turn off SMS: contact AT&T and tell them to disable SMS for your phone number. This is exactly what I've done and I highly recommend it. I save $5/month in texting charges, and I can still send and receive texts for free. Here's how:
1. Sign up for Google Voice. 2. Tell people your new Google Voice "texting" number (and use it for voice if you want). 3. Buy Prowl at the App Store for $2.99 4. Push your Google Voice SMS messages to your iPhone via Prowl. You can do it with Fluid and a script on a Mac. 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!!! (free texting)
I recently canceled texting completely on my iPhone 3GS. Texting fees are outrageous and I'm not putting up with them anymore. If you want to text me, send it to my email address. Your phone probably supports texting to an email address and you don't even realize it. You can also reply to free texts I send you and I get notified instantly.
Sure, I can't receive texts sent to my phone number, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make if I'm going to help my country kick this ridiculous habit of overpaying for tiny emails.
According to the article, "The root USB node (IOUSBDevice) still identifies the device as a Palm Pre...This means that Apple can very easily update iTunes to block the Pre."
They can try to see if any little details are missing, but in the end any probing they do can easily be met by Palm.
So what you're saying is that if Apple blocks it, Palm can counter? That much is true. It'd be the same cat-and-mouse game that we see in jailbreaking phones today or in circumventing DRM.
As long as it was merely free, the item had no value. But once it was trash, it was worth having.
I think that's because even if you claim you're offering something for free, there's still a feeling that they owe you. Whereas they owe a trash can nothing.
Most Christians are NOT fundamentalists. You lumping all God-loving people into a crazy fundamentalist camp is a worse straw-man argument than calling evolution "darwinism".
Unfortunately, no. The iPhone 3G does not come with any text messages included, so they charge you $.20 for each outgoing and incoming text. Canceling the service only saves you those per-usage charges.
Prices will go down when people stop using the service.
That's exactly what I just did last month with my new iPhone. I asked AT&T to completely cancel my texting service.
I can still be reached via email, and I can even text other people at no extra cost using various internet services, but I can no longer be reached via text.
I encourage you to do the same if you have unlimited internet on your phone. I understand that not everyone's phone can send and receive email very easily (or at all), but why not start making that push now?
When people ask me if I got their text I explain my stance on absurd texting charges (for both sending and receiving) and tell them I canceled my texting service. People have been surprisingly understanding and I haven't had any problems so far.
Of course, I'm substituting an expensive internet plan for a cheaper texting plan. But I feel that unlimited internet on a good cell phone is worth the price, whereas texting is not.
OK, this is probably going to get modded -1 homosexual, but what's wrong with putting a rainbows in Diablo III? Would you really enjoy a game that was entirely dark and creepy? I think something as beautiful as a rainbow would give you a nice contrast for when the game gets darker.
I distinctly remember one scene in Diablo II where you clear out a den of vile creatures and suddenly the room lights up and sparkles. I see nothing wrong with a video game taking your breath away with beauty, even rainbow beauty.
If God is omniscient, then he knows what I am about to do and everything I will do in my life. If he knows that, than I can't truly have free will. If God is outside of time, I don't see the problem here. God could assume a future perspective (e.g. after your death), and see all the decisions you made in your lifetime. That doesn't mean he controlled you or took away those decisions.
unpredictability doesn't imply free will. The GP didn't say that. He said that predictability precludes it. In other words, it may be possible to disprove free will scientifically, but not to prove it.
Your idea about having a say in the initial conditions of the universe is interesting. If that were the case, we would have a say in our actions. But for that to work we would require complete foreknowledge of every event before it happened. That would include foreknowledge of everyone else's actions. In which case their decisions would be predetermined.
The only way I could see your idea working is if all our souls sat down before the creation of the universe, fired up the universe simulator, and played out the course of everyone's lives in one giant game. Then they reverse-engineer the entire resulting universe into a set of "initial conditions" (assuming one such set exists), hand the plans over to God and say, "start 'er up!".
So now that I think of it, yes, it's perfectly plausible!
Anyone know of general solutions to this sort of problem? This is/. You must rephrase your question if you want an immediate response: "There are NO general solutions to this sort of problem."
Thank goodness for people with decompilers and sniffers and such that actually check the software they use for malicious behavior. If it weren't for you guys I'd never be able to trust the software I use. Again, thank you.
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You can turn off SMS: contact AT&T and tell them to disable SMS for your phone number. This is exactly what I've done and I highly recommend it. I save $5/month in texting charges, and I can still send and receive texts for free. Here's how:
1. Sign up for Google Voice.
2. Tell people your new Google Voice "texting" number (and use it for voice if you want).
3. Buy Prowl at the App Store for $2.99
4. Push your Google Voice SMS messages to your iPhone via Prowl. You can do it with Fluid and a script on a Mac.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!! (free texting)
I recently canceled texting completely on my iPhone 3GS. Texting fees are outrageous and I'm not putting up with them anymore. If you want to text me, send it to my email address. Your phone probably supports texting to an email address and you don't even realize it. You can also reply to free texts I send you and I get notified instantly.
Sure, I can't receive texts sent to my phone number, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make if I'm going to help my country kick this ridiculous habit of overpaying for tiny emails.
For some reason people think all thieves are badasses that will kick your ass if you mess with them. Thieves are scum. That doesn't make them tough.
This is impossible for Apple to block.
According to the article, "The root USB node (IOUSBDevice) still identifies the device as a Palm Pre...This means that Apple can very easily update iTunes to block the Pre."
They can try to see if any little details are missing, but in the end any probing they do can easily be met by Palm.
So what you're saying is that if Apple blocks it, Palm can counter? That much is true. It'd be the same cat-and-mouse game that we see in jailbreaking phones today or in circumventing DRM.
Coincidentally, Chase Jarvis commented on the New Yorker's cover in his blog yesterday:
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/
Speaking of YesScript, I highly recommend it.
As long as it was merely free, the item had no value. But once it was trash, it was worth having.
I think that's because even if you claim you're offering something for free, there's still a feeling that they owe you. Whereas they owe a trash can nothing.
Most Christians are NOT fundamentalists. You lumping all God-loving people into a crazy fundamentalist camp is a worse straw-man argument than calling evolution "darwinism".
Speak for your own corner of Europe. The name Oprah Winfrey most definitely rings a bell in mine.
Oprah is obviously not as powerful as Angela Merkel...
Speaking for my own corner of the United States, ;-)
"Angela who ?"
FYI - the man's name is Mark Goffeney. (The YouTube video doesn't even cite this amazing man's name.)
Goffeney has more dexterity in his toes than I have in my fingers. Congratulations to him for daring to learn guitar with no arms!
I was wondering how you were going to work that into a car analogy.
Thanks! I was using the AIM app on my iPhone to text people, and sometimes a web service. This'll be faster :-)
Unfortunately, no. The iPhone 3G does not come with any text messages included, so they charge you $.20 for each outgoing and incoming text. Canceling the service only saves you those per-usage charges.
Prices will go down when people stop using the service.
That's exactly what I just did last month with my new iPhone. I asked AT&T to completely cancel my texting service.
I can still be reached via email, and I can even text other people at no extra cost using various internet services, but I can no longer be reached via text.
I encourage you to do the same if you have unlimited internet on your phone. I understand that not everyone's phone can send and receive email very easily (or at all), but why not start making that push now?
When people ask me if I got their text I explain my stance on absurd texting charges (for both sending and receiving) and tell them I canceled my texting service. People have been surprisingly understanding and I haven't had any problems so far.
Of course, I'm substituting an expensive internet plan for a cheaper texting plan. But I feel that unlimited internet on a good cell phone is worth the price, whereas texting is not.
OK, this is probably going to get modded -1 homosexual, but what's wrong with putting a rainbows in Diablo III? Would you really enjoy a game that was entirely dark and creepy? I think something as beautiful as a rainbow would give you a nice contrast for when the game gets darker.
I distinctly remember one scene in Diablo II where you clear out a den of vile creatures and suddenly the room lights up and sparkles. I see nothing wrong with a video game taking your breath away with beauty, even rainbow beauty.
Also shocking:
"'It grew exponentially, so I stopped giving out my home address,' she says, adding, 'I am concerned about the environment.'"
She gave our her home address.
A quick search for "iCall" brings up this dupe from 23 days ago:
iCall Brings Seamless VoIP To IPhone Users
I suppose a Wikipedia link is in order:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
Argh! Looks like I still have a few bugs to work out...
I hacked the first post system. Nominate me!
Your idea about having a say in the initial conditions of the universe is interesting. If that were the case, we would have a say in our actions. But for that to work we would require complete foreknowledge of every event before it happened. That would include foreknowledge of everyone else's actions. In which case their decisions would be predetermined.
The only way I could see your idea working is if all our souls sat down before the creation of the universe, fired up the universe simulator, and played out the course of everyone's lives in one giant game. Then they reverse-engineer the entire resulting universe into a set of "initial conditions" (assuming one such set exists), hand the plans over to God and say, "start 'er up!".
So now that I think of it, yes, it's perfectly plausible!
"There are NO general solutions to this sort of problem."
In case you're like me and don't know how to edit your user stylesheet:
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/user-style-sheets.html
Thanks for the tip, Bogtha!
Thank goodness for people with decompilers and sniffers and such that actually check the software they use for malicious behavior. If it weren't for you guys I'd never be able to trust the software I use. Again, thank you.