I don't have any plan or contracts, either. I'm on T-Mobile's lowest-tier plan in my area, too ($19.99/month). You don't have to have a contract to have low-cost data with T-Mobile.
I know that the mobile phone companies have different rates in different areas. Wherever you live is getting ripped off. Maybe there's not much competition there.
It depends on what state you're in. In some states only one person has to know a telephone call is being recorded. In other states, both parties have to be informed. I don't think there is any American state where you can record the call without either party knowing; at least not without a badge and a court document.
Note that informed may or may not equal CONSENT, again depending on what state you're in.
Good luck to you with this. I had months and months of problems with Verizon that started when I asked the to install a second line in my home for a fax machine and instead they disconnected my primary line, leaving me without any service.
The only way I was able to get their attention and straighten things out was to file a complaint with the state public utilities commission. Then suddenly they were falling all over me to help me out.
I will NEVER use Verizon again. I'd rather switch to paper mail for the rest of my life than rely on their craptastic service and infrastructure.
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop when all these Indians are dumped for cheaper African labor.
From what I've read, it's already happening. Not in IT yet, but in manufacturing. Clothing used to have "Made in the U.S.A." labels. Then it was "Made in Mexico." Then "Made in China." Now it's "Made in Sri Lanka" and "Made in Senegal."
IT is next.
It's going to be fun listening to all those African helpdesk people. But I don't know how to make that little click! noise with my throat that they do in order to talk back to them.
In my experience, it typically takes 5-8 tries to get a fax through to China via VOIP. If I hook the machine up to good old copper it goes through the first time.
I live in a neighborhood where five or six major motion pictures are filmed each year (Batman Begins, The Weatherman, The Break Up, etc...). Whenever the movie crews are shooting on the street they put up big signs on the sidewalks telling people that if they walk through they may end up in the background of a film and if they don't want to be, they should walk the other way until filming is over. The signs seem pretty standardized, so it appears that this has passed muster with lawyers somewhere.
Keep in mind that the correct phrase is, "the customer is always right."
And more importantly, the man who coined it (Marshall Field) is long out of business because he couldn't successfully compete with the other companies that bought him out (These days all of his hard work and good intentions are just another Macy's store).
One of the reasons the broadcasters would rather not transmit in high-definition is multicasting.
As others have noted, the broadcasters were happy with NTSC and didn't want to change. The federal government made them change to digital in order to reclaim needed spectrum. The broadcasters fought it for years and years because of the expense involved. Even at a small station, a basic transition is over a million dollars.
The carrot that the feds added to the stick to get the broadcasters to go along with it was multicasting. Traditional TV sees it as a way to help compete somewhat with cable, once they get enough content assembled. This will take years, but will happen eventually. In some markets the multi-casts include 24 hour local news, 24 hour local weather channels, local election results, music videos. In some small and medium markets (Cincinnati and Rochester leap to mind) the second-tier networks are available only as multicast (WKRC-DT.2 is CW in the Cincinnati market).
Traditional TV knows something that the internet is only just learning -- content is king (note the frequent use of the word "local" above). Now that the broadcasters have more channels to fill, they're working on ways to fill them. But again... it will take time.
(FWIW, I don't have an HDTV. I have an 18-year-old Sony that still works great.)
on one of the tabs, you should see a "When laptop screen is closed:" option. It's probably set to "Suspend". Change it to "Do nothing".
I don't think that's quite what he's looking for.
I think he's looking for an option that reads more like "When laptop screen is closed and no keyboard or mouse are plugged in, do nothing, otherwise actually go to sleep."
He seems to be looking for a bit more intelligence in his OS than what is currently available to him. If OS X gets him what he's looking for, then good for him. I will almost always advocate using the best tool for the job.
So... since it's useless to you no one else should have it?
Wireless sync is a magical wonderful thing when implemented well, as it can be on the Apple platform.
My last phone was a SonyEricsson Z600. When I'd come home from work each night my Powerbook would detect it entering the house, check to see if it had already synced that day, and if not -- it would sync automagically. I never had to dock it with the computer; just go about my routing of plugging it in to its charger in another room.
I don't know if it's possible on Windows, but I imagine it is. I did it on the Apple with ProximitySync and the built-in iSync application.
It's an example of how technology SHOULD work -- unobtrusive and helpful. Two things Microsoft in general and it's Zune in particular are not noted for.
I bought a SanDisk Cruzer 2gig flash drive. When I plugged it in, I found that it had some dopey software that ran upon insertion and a whole bunch of nonsense that curiously resembled spyware.
For all you know, it could have been spyware. Not too long ago I bought a couple of MP4 players from some back alley markets in China to play videos on. They're identical to the SanDisk and other ones you see in most American malls these days, except without the branding on them yet ($35 there, $199 here, and I probably still got rippied off). But two of the three I bought came with viruses on them. I run OS X, so I wasn't infected and didn't even notice them until I absent-mindedly plugged one in while I had Virtual PC running XP and it popped up a window talking about human rights in China.
Interestingly, it also claimed "this not virus!!" even though it copied itself to my Virtual PC volume and onto another flash drive I had hooked up to the system.
I'm with you, brotha. I legally purchased Leopard almost a year ago, and I'm STILL unable to install it on my Commodore 64. Apple says it's not supported hardware!
When will these multi-national corporations understand that I have the freedom and right to use the software on any machine I see fit? Greedy short-sighted companies like Apple don't understand that they'd made a TON of money if only people could use OS X on a GameCube or a PSP or a toaster. Think about how many toasters there are in the world! There's a HUGE potential market for OS X unbundled from Apple hardware!
Lock-in sucks, and I won't support any computer company that doesn't put forth the money, time, and effort to make their software run on every possible combination of electronics hardware in the world.
They're stifling my constitutional freedom of liberty!
The U.S. voting system does not meet international mandated guidelines for a "democratic" election
Umm.. "mandated" by whom? Last I checked, the United States was a soverign nation and allowed to do whatever it wants within its own borders without having elections influenced by outside "international" bodies.
Can you come up with a citation, or are you talking out of your ass?
Who exactly is going to "mandate" something to the United States, and with what army are they going to back it up? I'm sure you're not speaking of the United Nations -- a political body so bogged down in paperwork and petty bickering that it makes Microsoft look like a nimble 90's tech startup.
I tried something similar to this recently with one of my web sites where the forum was getting spammed, and it didn't work out.
I did find out quite quickly that there are several daily dozen visitors to my forum that are Americans working for energy companies and living in Russia or Nigeria or similar places who use the forum as a way of combatting homesickness.
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We're talking about data, not voice.
Incoming free calls are irrelevant to me since I rarely use more than 15 minutes of calls (inbound or outbound) per month.
But I use gobs of data.
I don't have any plan or contracts, either. I'm on T-Mobile's lowest-tier plan in my area, too ($19.99/month). You don't have to have a contract to have low-cost data with T-Mobile.
I know that the mobile phone companies have different rates in different areas. Wherever you live is getting ripped off. Maybe there's not much competition there.
It depends on what state you're in. In some states only one person has to know a telephone call is being recorded. In other states, both parties have to be informed. I don't think there is any American state where you can record the call without either party knowing; at least not without a badge and a court document.
Note that informed may or may not equal CONSENT, again depending on what state you're in.
T-Mobile - unlimited internet (including FTP and SSH) for $15/month. Or web/e-mail only for $5.00/month.
If you don't have cell data because of the expense you need a new job or a new phone company.
Good luck to you with this. I had months and months of problems with Verizon that started when I asked the to install a second line in my home for a fax machine and instead they disconnected my primary line, leaving me without any service.
The only way I was able to get their attention and straighten things out was to file a complaint with the state public utilities commission. Then suddenly they were falling all over me to help me out.
I will NEVER use Verizon again. I'd rather switch to paper mail for the rest of my life than rely on their craptastic service and infrastructure.
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop when all these Indians are dumped for cheaper African labor.
From what I've read, it's already happening. Not in IT yet, but in manufacturing. Clothing used to have "Made in the U.S.A." labels. Then it was "Made in Mexico." Then "Made in China." Now it's "Made in Sri Lanka" and "Made in Senegal."
IT is next.
It's going to be fun listening to all those African helpdesk people. But I don't know how to make that little click! noise with my throat that they do in order to talk back to them.
Our phones have worked without a hitch through hits by two category 2 tornados and an ice storm.
Dude, either God hates you or it's time to move.
If only it worked.
In my experience, it typically takes 5-8 tries to get a fax through to China via VOIP. If I hook the machine up to good old copper it goes through the first time.
I live in a neighborhood where five or six major motion pictures are filmed each year (Batman Begins, The Weatherman, The Break Up, etc...). Whenever the movie crews are shooting on the street they put up big signs on the sidewalks telling people that if they walk through they may end up in the background of a film and if they don't want to be, they should walk the other way until filming is over. The signs seem pretty standardized, so it appears that this has passed muster with lawyers somewhere.
Insurance companies and municipalities and tax assessors offices have been doing this for decades for both subscription and free services.
Just because it's Microsoft doesn't make it news.
And before anyone asks, no... they are not legally obligated to edit people out of any of the pictures.
If I go to Home Depot and get a blue screen door, will the Windows police think my house has crashed and go home?
Keep in miund that 'the consumer is always right'
Keep in mind that the correct phrase is, "the customer is always right."
And more importantly, the man who coined it (Marshall Field) is long out of business because he couldn't successfully compete with the other companies that bought him out (These days all of his hard work and good intentions are just another Macy's store).
One of the reasons the broadcasters would rather not transmit in high-definition is multicasting.
As others have noted, the broadcasters were happy with NTSC and didn't want to change. The federal government made them change to digital in order to reclaim needed spectrum. The broadcasters fought it for years and years because of the expense involved. Even at a small station, a basic transition is over a million dollars.
The carrot that the feds added to the stick to get the broadcasters to go along with it was multicasting. Traditional TV sees it as a way to help compete somewhat with cable, once they get enough content assembled. This will take years, but will happen eventually. In some markets the multi-casts include 24 hour local news, 24 hour local weather channels, local election results, music videos. In some small and medium markets (Cincinnati and Rochester leap to mind) the second-tier networks are available only as multicast (WKRC-DT.2 is CW in the Cincinnati market).
Traditional TV knows something that the internet is only just learning -- content is king (note the frequent use of the word "local" above). Now that the broadcasters have more channels to fill, they're working on ways to fill them. But again... it will take time.
(FWIW, I don't have an HDTV. I have an 18-year-old Sony that still works great.)
on one of the tabs, you should see a "When laptop screen is closed:" option. It's probably set to "Suspend". Change it to "Do nothing".
I don't think that's quite what he's looking for.
I think he's looking for an option that reads more like "When laptop screen is closed and no keyboard or mouse are plugged in, do nothing, otherwise actually go to sleep."
He seems to be looking for a bit more intelligence in his OS than what is currently available to him. If OS X gets him what he's looking for, then good for him. I will almost always advocate using the best tool for the job.
Wireless sync is totally useless to me.
So... since it's useless to you no one else should have it?
Wireless sync is a magical wonderful thing when implemented well, as it can be on the Apple platform.
My last phone was a SonyEricsson Z600. When I'd come home from work each night my Powerbook would detect it entering the house, check to see if it had already synced that day, and if not -- it would sync automagically. I never had to dock it with the computer; just go about my routing of plugging it in to its charger in another room.
I don't know if it's possible on Windows, but I imagine it is. I did it on the Apple with ProximitySync and the built-in iSync application.
It's an example of how technology SHOULD work -- unobtrusive and helpful. Two things Microsoft in general and it's Zune in particular are not noted for.
Congrats! You've just won the "Microsoft Apologist of the Year Award!" Head on over to Redmond to pick up your check.
I bought a SanDisk Cruzer 2gig flash drive. When I plugged it in, I found that it had some dopey software that ran upon insertion and a whole bunch of nonsense that curiously resembled spyware.
For all you know, it could have been spyware. Not too long ago I bought a couple of MP4 players from some back alley markets in China to play videos on. They're identical to the SanDisk and other ones you see in most American malls these days, except without the branding on them yet ($35 there, $199 here, and I probably still got rippied off). But two of the three I bought came with viruses on them. I run OS X, so I wasn't infected and didn't even notice them until I absent-mindedly plugged one in while I had Virtual PC running XP and it popped up a window talking about human rights in China.
Interestingly, it also claimed "this not virus!!" even though it copied itself to my Virtual PC volume and onto another flash drive I had hooked up to the system.
With OS X's DRM, I'm locked into Apple hardware.
I'm with you, brotha. I legally purchased Leopard almost a year ago, and I'm STILL unable to install it on my Commodore 64. Apple says it's not supported hardware!
When will these multi-national corporations understand that I have the freedom and right to use the software on any machine I see fit? Greedy short-sighted companies like Apple don't understand that they'd made a TON of money if only people could use OS X on a GameCube or a PSP or a toaster. Think about how many toasters there are in the world! There's a HUGE potential market for OS X unbundled from Apple hardware!
Lock-in sucks, and I won't support any computer company that doesn't put forth the money, time, and effort to make their software run on every possible combination of electronics hardware in the world.
They're stifling my constitutional freedom of liberty!
Big enter key please, with a backspace above that, like just about every other computer keyboard I've used in my life.
So... because you've had a limited life experience means everyone else's choices should be limited to the ones that you've encountered?
The same way they keep you from running up and down the plane mid-flight shouting "we're all gonna die!".
Sedation? I know someone who was almost sedated on a Air France flight to Houston. Just couldn't take the turbulence.
I saw this on a flight from Brussels to Chicago last month. Guy on the aisle reading a nudie magazine in very plain view of many people.
Interestingly, he actually seemed to be reading the articles. Because he spent quite a lot of time even on pages without any pictures of naked bits.
Ah. There's the confusion. You said "international mandated," which made me think you were referencing an external force.
The U.S. voting system does not meet international mandated guidelines for a "democratic" election
Umm.. "mandated" by whom? Last I checked, the United States was a soverign nation and allowed to do whatever it wants within its own borders without having elections influenced by outside "international" bodies.
Can you come up with a citation, or are you talking out of your ass?
Who exactly is going to "mandate" something to the United States, and with what army are they going to back it up? I'm sure you're not speaking of the United Nations -- a political body so bogged down in paperwork and petty bickering that it makes Microsoft look like a nimble 90's tech startup.
I tried something similar to this recently with one of my web sites where the forum was getting spammed, and it didn't work out.
I did find out quite quickly that there are several daily dozen visitors to my forum that are Americans working for energy companies and living in Russia or Nigeria or similar places who use the forum as a way of combatting homesickness.
Guess I'll have to try something else.
Yeah -- multinational corporations all suck. Just like the one that your .sig links to. Hypocrite.