Most carriers should allow you to block either all messages or specific numbers. Granted Sprint doesn't make it easy to find the option on their website, I did find it and found out how to block ALL texting or just certain numbers.
I don't know if anyone else watched all of the comercials, but the 2nd one (How-To) states in fine print that the phone is only available with a new 2 year user agreement.
If any complications do occur, there will be a half hour lag between questions and answers between mission control and the crew. That definitely posses problems in an emergency, especially a time critical one such as a pregnancy, heart attack, etc.
Why would a 'hacker' be using AOL (dial up i presume - who pays for high speed AND AOL?) to access the internet? Wouldn't he be a little more sophisticated and have DSL or cable? If you get banned, more on to a better ISP, end of story.
I don't use the bluetooth is because my desktop doesn't have a card for it, I don't own a head set (I don't see the point), and I don't know anyone else with a bluetooth phone to transfer files with.
..regular old cell phones that could be used to make calls, text, and maybe take the occasional photo? Cell phones are becoming so over bloated with features that 90% of users don't use, or may not even know how to use. They simply buy it because they have to have the 'best' phone on the block. All these features also create more distractions for when people are trying to drive and use their phone.
Granted, I replaced my old VI660 with an A900, the only feature I don't really use is bluetooth. Other than that, I actually use it for photos, to play mp3s while working out, and what phones are supposed to be used for.
Wouldn't it be just as easy to remote desktop to your PC at home to download files then just upload them using a Gmail HDD program (or 1 of many other ways) so you can access them at school? Or just remote desktop to your home and when you go visit, bring back your new files on a flash drive/cd.
...is that the internal workings of the Flight Data Recorder are going to be ran by the iPod, IE, the iPod will be in a protected (black) box to survive the crash. However, I think they are still taking a pretty big risk with a hard drive based iPod, but I have no idea what they use now, it very well could be a hard drive based system. Otherwise, they can just use one of those flash based systems that can survive 2000g impacts.
We called to cancle our account numerous times becuase they CONTINUED to bill use for a year of service. Finally, we cancled the Credit Card. Now we keep getting Past-Due notices with threats of Collection Agencies because we stopped paying for a service we didn't want and coulnd't get rid of.
So you're saying that if I turned in links/photos of all the morons at my HS who posted photos of them drinking on their myspace that they will go to jail?
Technically, aircrafts are rated (for FAA approval) to fly with only half of their engines in working order. Feasibly, if the fuel situation was gonna cause an emergency situation, I could see an engine being shut down to conserver fuel.
My school has eliminated paper from the grade system. A teacher gives out an assignment, grades it, then puts it right into their PC. From the program (Grade Quick), they can also make attendence sheets, seating charts, and a vast amount of other stuff. They can even make say...homework ONLY 15% of your final grade and the program does all the math, saving a lot of time. If you want to know your grade, most teachers will just let you ask and they will show it to you. With the help of a 3rd party group (Edline), they can publish the grades to the web so you can view them from any where at anytime (when the teacher updates it).
As for grading assigments, my math tests have almost always been "show your work, and write the answer on the sheet." I've never gotten credit for only doing work but having the wrong answer. And the only multiple choice tests I have had were exams in 7th grade math, and Honors Algebra II.
Personally, I like the idea of inputing it all into a computer on a desk like that. I'm sure it could be adapted to have you put the EXACT answer you got and not do multiple choice...but it'd be difficult becuase so many problems in math can have varying answers based on rounding and other factors.
Satellite radio. You can find a station you like, and listen to it wherever. I like XM for its comedy stations and it also plays some pretty decent music.
I don't mind sleeping with a 747 next to my bed, hell, i leave the TV on most of the time at night too when I sleep. I like noise. When I lost power a few weeks ago, I had the hardest time sleeping due to the complete silence in my room.
Hence I install an I have all my critical applications (AV, spybots, and ad-aware) on CD to install after setting up windows. It saves me from downloading them everytime I do a reinstall. Once those programs are installed/updated, I go through the long boring process installing windows updates and rebooting about 10 times.
Go with the most basic Nextel serviced phone from Motoroloa. The basic model can have SMS, but that doesn;t mean you pay for it. The phone has a B&W screen (i thought they died) and is fairly indestructable. My dads run his over with a froklift, if it does die, you can pop the chip out (with the addy book and settings) and put it in another similar phone and you're ready to go.
My school uses deepfreeze on all its machines. Ironically, it doesn't work on the Windows 98 machines in the computer labs (haha, go figure). It doesn't even seem to work on the machines with XP (you install something and it stays even if you reboot). I'm sure it could be easily turned off, i've never tried becuase i'd rather not loose my network access rights before I graduate.
From what i've gathered off that schools FAQ, I would be charged by simply installing firefox on the network hardrive. I've done this at my school to A) avoid storing my history for everyone to see, B) Be able to have my own bookmarks, and C) to avoid IE's annoying pop ups. I'm not worried about my Network drive being checked, we have a tech staff of about 5 for 7 schools for 5500 students. If I really wanted to be sneaky, I'd just install it on a thumbdrive.
Hell, I've know "student aides" (who assist teachers during a period) to copy exams from the teachers HDD to a thumbdrive without the teacher knowing.
Land 747's with that case if it was full of LED fans. Hell, it probably sounds like a 747 taking off with all the fans, lol. But its still pretty cool.
First, Air travel is much quicker for the distance. Traveling from coast to coast by plane can be done in 8-10 hours or so. By train, it'd take ages.
Secondly, Trains are known to be behind in schedule. Usually, flights are on time 90%-95% of the time, unless there is an issue with the weather (storm system, snow, etc).
Third, Air travel is cheap. You can fly anywhere for about $200-$300 (coach class ofcourse). Trains are quite a bit more expensive if you are traveling long distances.
Fourth, Trains have inconvenient times to depart. Example, my small city of Toledo ohio only has trains leaving at 4 Am to go to chicago. Why go that early when I can fly on a flight thats more convenient (flights to chicago alomst every hour).
Finally, Most major cities in the US are spread far apart, making it hard to get a train to go to all of them. A plane can go where trains can't (over mountains and such). Cities in Europe are much closers together, making it easier to take a train becuase it is quicker then 30 min drive to airport, 2 hours to get on flight, 2 hour flight, then 1 hour to get to where you need to be in the other city.
Same situation here also. Verizon is rolling out 3 Mbps/768 Kbps DSL for $30/month with a free wireless router. Many people are switching to that as opposed to the other option which is 3 Mbps/512 Kbps Cable for $45/month. This means TONS of unsecured 802.11g routers in my area. Good for when I need a connection when I am away from my desk!
You would know far in advance of that. If there was any type of problem with interferance, the Flight Crew would make an annoucement asking people to double check their cell phones/other electronic devices, or simply tell everyone to shut them off (such as taxi, takeoff, climbing, descending, and landing procedures require.)
I am a member of a FIRST Team. IT involves a lot of work and money, but if your are willing to do it, go at it. The competition Game is released each year in Mid-Jan. Then there is a 6 week build period where you build the robot and program its autonomous mode and functions using C. In March are regional compeitions, and in April is the Championship event (which is this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Atlanta, GA)The only draw back to the program is the $15,000+ cost per year to go to competitions, build a robot, etc. Many schools do offer this program as a class and give credit for taking it.
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Most carriers should allow you to block either all messages or specific numbers. Granted Sprint doesn't make it easy to find the option on their website, I did find it and found out how to block ALL texting or just certain numbers.
I don't know if anyone else watched all of the comercials, but the 2nd one (How-To) states in fine print that the phone is only available with a new 2 year user agreement.
Even if the DoD blocks these sites, who says soldiers who arrange for temporary satellite internet services won't be able to access them?
If any complications do occur, there will be a half hour lag between questions and answers between mission control and the crew. That definitely posses problems in an emergency, especially a time critical one such as a pregnancy, heart attack, etc.
Why would a 'hacker' be using AOL (dial up i presume - who pays for high speed AND AOL?) to access the internet? Wouldn't he be a little more sophisticated and have DSL or cable? If you get banned, more on to a better ISP, end of story.
I don't use the bluetooth is because my desktop doesn't have a card for it, I don't own a head set (I don't see the point), and I don't know anyone else with a bluetooth phone to transfer files with.
..regular old cell phones that could be used to make calls, text, and maybe take the occasional photo? Cell phones are becoming so over bloated with features that 90% of users don't use, or may not even know how to use. They simply buy it because they have to have the 'best' phone on the block. All these features also create more distractions for when people are trying to drive and use their phone. Granted, I replaced my old VI660 with an A900, the only feature I don't really use is bluetooth. Other than that, I actually use it for photos, to play mp3s while working out, and what phones are supposed to be used for.
Wouldn't it be just as easy to remote desktop to your PC at home to download files then just upload them using a Gmail HDD program (or 1 of many other ways) so you can access them at school? Or just remote desktop to your home and when you go visit, bring back your new files on a flash drive/cd.
...is that the internal workings of the Flight Data Recorder are going to be ran by the iPod, IE, the iPod will be in a protected (black) box to survive the crash. However, I think they are still taking a pretty big risk with a hard drive based iPod, but I have no idea what they use now, it very well could be a hard drive based system. Otherwise, they can just use one of those flash based systems that can survive 2000g impacts.
We called to cancle our account numerous times becuase they CONTINUED to bill use for a year of service. Finally, we cancled the Credit Card. Now we keep getting Past-Due notices with threats of Collection Agencies because we stopped paying for a service we didn't want and coulnd't get rid of.
So you're saying that if I turned in links/photos of all the morons at my HS who posted photos of them drinking on their myspace that they will go to jail?
Technically, aircrafts are rated (for FAA approval) to fly with only half of their engines in working order. Feasibly, if the fuel situation was gonna cause an emergency situation, I could see an engine being shut down to conserver fuel.
My school has eliminated paper from the grade system. A teacher gives out an assignment, grades it, then puts it right into their PC. From the program (Grade Quick), they can also make attendence sheets, seating charts, and a vast amount of other stuff. They can even make say...homework ONLY 15% of your final grade and the program does all the math, saving a lot of time. If you want to know your grade, most teachers will just let you ask and they will show it to you. With the help of a 3rd party group (Edline), they can publish the grades to the web so you can view them from any where at anytime (when the teacher updates it).
As for grading assigments, my math tests have almost always been "show your work, and write the answer on the sheet." I've never gotten credit for only doing work but having the wrong answer. And the only multiple choice tests I have had were exams in 7th grade math, and Honors Algebra II.
Personally, I like the idea of inputing it all into a computer on a desk like that. I'm sure it could be adapted to have you put the EXACT answer you got and not do multiple choice...but it'd be difficult becuase so many problems in math can have varying answers based on rounding and other factors.
Satellite radio. You can find a station you like, and listen to it wherever. I like XM for its comedy stations and it also plays some pretty decent music.
I don't mind sleeping with a 747 next to my bed, hell, i leave the TV on most of the time at night too when I sleep. I like noise. When I lost power a few weeks ago, I had the hardest time sleeping due to the complete silence in my room.
Hence I install an I have all my critical applications (AV, spybots, and ad-aware) on CD to install after setting up windows. It saves me from downloading them everytime I do a reinstall. Once those programs are installed/updated, I go through the long boring process installing windows updates and rebooting about 10 times.
Go with the most basic Nextel serviced phone from Motoroloa. The basic model can have SMS, but that doesn;t mean you pay for it. The phone has a B&W screen (i thought they died) and is fairly indestructable. My dads run his over with a froklift, if it does die, you can pop the chip out (with the addy book and settings) and put it in another similar phone and you're ready to go.
My school uses deepfreeze on all its machines. Ironically, it doesn't work on the Windows 98 machines in the computer labs (haha, go figure). It doesn't even seem to work on the machines with XP (you install something and it stays even if you reboot). I'm sure it could be easily turned off, i've never tried becuase i'd rather not loose my network access rights before I graduate.
From what i've gathered off that schools FAQ, I would be charged by simply installing firefox on the network hardrive. I've done this at my school to A) avoid storing my history for everyone to see, B) Be able to have my own bookmarks, and C) to avoid IE's annoying pop ups. I'm not worried about my Network drive being checked, we have a tech staff of about 5 for 7 schools for 5500 students. If I really wanted to be sneaky, I'd just install it on a thumbdrive.
Hell, I've know "student aides" (who assist teachers during a period) to copy exams from the teachers HDD to a thumbdrive without the teacher knowing.
Land 747's with that case if it was full of LED fans. Hell, it probably sounds like a 747 taking off with all the fans, lol. But its still pretty cool.
First, Air travel is much quicker for the distance. Traveling from coast to coast by plane can be done in 8-10 hours or so. By train, it'd take ages. Secondly, Trains are known to be behind in schedule. Usually, flights are on time 90%-95% of the time, unless there is an issue with the weather (storm system, snow, etc). Third, Air travel is cheap. You can fly anywhere for about $200-$300 (coach class ofcourse). Trains are quite a bit more expensive if you are traveling long distances. Fourth, Trains have inconvenient times to depart. Example, my small city of Toledo ohio only has trains leaving at 4 Am to go to chicago. Why go that early when I can fly on a flight thats more convenient (flights to chicago alomst every hour). Finally, Most major cities in the US are spread far apart, making it hard to get a train to go to all of them. A plane can go where trains can't (over mountains and such). Cities in Europe are much closers together, making it easier to take a train becuase it is quicker then 30 min drive to airport, 2 hours to get on flight, 2 hour flight, then 1 hour to get to where you need to be in the other city.
Same situation here also. Verizon is rolling out 3 Mbps/768 Kbps DSL for $30/month with a free wireless router. Many people are switching to that as opposed to the other option which is 3 Mbps/512 Kbps Cable for $45/month. This means TONS of unsecured 802.11g routers in my area. Good for when I need a connection when I am away from my desk!
"Microsoft Windows crashed and caused me to get in an accident."
You would know far in advance of that. If there was any type of problem with interferance, the Flight Crew would make an annoucement asking people to double check their cell phones/other electronic devices, or simply tell everyone to shut them off (such as taxi, takeoff, climbing, descending, and landing procedures require.)
I am a member of a FIRST Team. IT involves a lot of work and money, but if your are willing to do it, go at it. The competition Game is released each year in Mid-Jan. Then there is a 6 week build period where you build the robot and program its autonomous mode and functions using C. In March are regional compeitions, and in April is the Championship event (which is this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Atlanta, GA)The only draw back to the program is the $15,000+ cost per year to go to competitions, build a robot, etc. Many schools do offer this program as a class and give credit for taking it.