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SBC Might Buy AT&T
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Cingular already bought AT&T Wireless. For SBC (40% owner of Cingular) to buy the remainder of AT&T would be a smart move on their part. It's my impression they're doing it for access to the marketshare rather than any infrastructure or technology they have. What SBC wants is more customers, this is a very direct way to do it.
I do wonder if this will mean SBC can sell local service beyond the 13 state region they are currently in?
It's not crippled the way I see it. I can burn as many copies as I want to CDs, play it on my laptop, my husband's G4, and my iPod. I own the song for as long as the file exists, as I paid to own those bits. I even get a warm fuzzy when I look at the Info window for the song and see my Apple ID and when I bought it.
I'll take DRM if I can get the quality and control over what I buy that I want. Buying per song or per album is great, and I've yet to hear a misplaced blip or skip.
EGM has a good story on the N-Gage and how much it sucks this month. I didn't realize how you have to take off the front plate and the battery underneath to switch out a game. So much for swapping games out on the fly, especially if you don't have a screwdriver with you.
I absolutely love the system to order prints of my digital pictures through iPhoto. Not only is it simple to order (just a few clicks, apple-style), but the prints arrive lightining quick!
To order music through a similar system of Apple's would be a dream! I hope they're having success in offering a variety of services (.Mac, iphoto ordering, etc), and the addition of music seems a natural step for them to take.
SBC plans to start selling LD in the Ameritech region this year, dunno when exactly. Their rates should drop after entry, I think it's the UNE-P pricing scheme that SBC has to use to sell to the CLECs that drove up their prices originally.
... when my foot broke through one of those floor tiles in the server room. Funny, someone told me they were high resistence, that must not be exactly the case;)
We all know the first encounter with the Romulans was in TOS episode "Balance of Terror", featuring none other than Mark Lenard (who went on to play Spock's father Sarek) as the Romulan commander.
let me ask this - Have you tried talking to her? That's going to be your only truly successful way of finding out what she wants and what you should do... though I think it's cool you went to slashdot first, but perhaps you should have tried the message boards at WeddingChannel.com instead?
Due to the problems in diamond production and war conflicts in the regions, getting a diamond alternative, or perhaps a family heirloom diamond are perfectly reasonable alternatives.
But for heaven's sake - ASK HER what she wants!!! Most of my girlfriends and women I chat with online would prefer shopping for a ring with their boyfriends to *guarantee* they get something they like, as opposed to a total surprise with a fugly ring. My husband took me with him, and made the proposal itself a total surprise.
And here we are today, happily married almost two years after we first went ring shopping together:)
The FAQ says it will start deactivating original iTools accounts that have not paid starting in Sept. There's also a blurb about what steps to take to save your email to disk and that you should notify people your address is no longer valid.
Well, shoot. If it's not THX-Certified or doesn't carry the SDDS trademark for a superior listening experience, it's just not the Jacuzzi Enterntaiment Center I'm looking for:P
Quote from the article: "And I think that if a film is marginal, it needs those extra categories to get in. It needs that home box office. It needs that cassette sale to get out of the red or maybe even right up to network television sale. Maybe that is the thing that pushes it into the black. It is very simple. The more films that are in the black, the more films are made, the more men and women are employed by the film industry. "
Yup. Some things produced are so marginal they need every avenue available to them to make their money, but what does the RIAA/MPAA want to do? strangle it with licensing fees... bah, humbug!
When I started college, the following items (in no particular order), would have been quite helpful
a pen with a built in light. Target sells these, and they're awesome! Most of my lecture halls were of course, very dark, making note taking a chore. The pen w/the light made me the envy of my classmates...
a gift certificates to any online or B&M store, target, amazon, walmart, there was always something I needed, and always looked in those places to get it first.
small electronic games, like "lights out", helped pass the time and were fun to share with friends!
"He was running through his neighborhood having hallucinations. I can't think of a drug he could have taken where he would have disintegrated in 15 weeks."
Those are exactly the ones we used. I didn't include the name in my original post since I couldn't remember who manufactured the boards.
We had two of the larger screens, paired side-by-side, and one project capable of projecting an image onto each screen concurrently. We had a windows box that ran the smartboard software, and we'd load our presentations on there, and use the board and markers to write on our slides as we discussed them with the class.
Another monitor hooked up to the same windows box controlled the projection unit. We'd choose sources of either the windows box, a document projector/scanner, our laptops could be hooked up and selected as well, and there was also a VCR option to project video to the smartboard, but we never got to try that feature.
In all, the smartboards were more memorable than the class, but I would have done *much* better in high school had some courses used these boards to illustrate points (Biology, history, math, you name it!)
My university recently purchased a few of these to incorporate into a new Technical Communications course. The smart board was by far smarter than the teacher, but that's beside the point.
The boards were intuitive, responsive, and just plain fun to use. Paired with projectors built into the ceiling and interfaced with the terminal by the smartboards, we had quite the multimedia setup for our course. Special markers also added to the fun by allowing the prof to use different colors to 'overwrite' images on the computer that were projected onto the smartboard. Very very cool, and it never crashed or locked once, which I think is fantastic for such an input-sensitive windows system.
I hope to see more schools and universitites employ this technology, as it has a far greater and instant impact in the classroom than grants for new computers a school doesn't have the money to purchase licenses for.
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Cingular already bought AT&T Wireless. For SBC (40% owner of Cingular) to buy the remainder of AT&T would be a smart move on their part. It's my impression they're doing it for access to the marketshare rather than any infrastructure or technology they have. What SBC wants is more customers, this is a very direct way to do it.
I do wonder if this will mean SBC can sell local service beyond the 13 state region they are currently in?
The Wolf-Man went to my high school, Klein Oak in Spring, TX. That's even funnier! ^_^ no wolves around there at all....
It's not crippled the way I see it. I can burn as many copies as I want to CDs, play it on my laptop, my husband's G4, and my iPod. I own the song for as long as the file exists, as I paid to own those bits. I even get a warm fuzzy when I look at the Info window for the song and see my Apple ID and when I bought it.
I'll take DRM if I can get the quality and control over what I buy that I want. Buying per song or per album is great, and I've yet to hear a misplaced blip or skip.
EGM has a good story on the N-Gage and how much it sucks this month. I didn't realize how you have to take off the front plate and the battery underneath to switch out a game. So much for swapping games out on the fly, especially if you don't have a screwdriver with you.
If they can use the chewbaca defense, I'm calling SHENANIGANS!!!
"Uh oh!"
**not funny unless you've seen the 'Vacation' episode of Sealab 2021**
Until they can put laserbeams on top of sharks' heads, what good is the world's largest laser!?
Indeed, recognizing tools when you see them is a talent! *winkwink*
I absolutely love the system to order prints of my digital pictures through iPhoto. Not only is it simple to order (just a few clicks, apple-style), but the prints arrive lightining quick!
To order music through a similar system of Apple's would be a dream! I hope they're having success in offering a variety of services (.Mac, iphoto ordering, etc), and the addition of music seems a natural step for them to take.
SBC plans to start selling LD in the Ameritech region this year, dunno when exactly. Their rates should drop after entry, I think it's the UNE-P pricing scheme that SBC has to use to sell to the CLECs that drove up their prices originally.
... when my foot broke through one of those floor tiles in the server room. Funny, someone told me they were high resistence, that must not be exactly the case ;)
You're right of course... the 'face to face' bit is what makes the whole episode :)
But what's an episode with pivotal enemies without even seeing them? Hmmm.
Then again, I was impressed with the introduction of the Andorians (much better than "Journey to Babel" with the Andorian assasin).
Bah.
:P
We all know the first encounter with the Romulans was in TOS episode "Balance of Terror", featuring none other than Mark Lenard (who went on to play Spock's father Sarek) as the Romulan commander.
Pppht. I'm a girl too ya know
haiku as a tool
could you have predicted it?
I really doubt it
let me ask this - Have you tried talking to her? That's going to be your only truly successful way of finding out what she wants and what you should do... though I think it's cool you went to slashdot first, but perhaps you should have tried the message boards at WeddingChannel.com instead?
:)
Due to the problems in diamond production and war conflicts in the regions, getting a diamond alternative, or perhaps a family heirloom diamond are perfectly reasonable alternatives.
But for heaven's sake - ASK HER what she wants!!! Most of my girlfriends and women I chat with online would prefer shopping for a ring with their boyfriends to *guarantee* they get something they like, as opposed to a total surprise with a fugly ring. My husband took me with him, and made the proposal itself a total surprise.
And here we are today, happily married almost two years after we first went ring shopping together
Best of luck to you, and you know she'll say yes!
The FAQ says it will start deactivating original iTools accounts that have not paid starting in Sept. There's also a blurb about what steps to take to save your email to disk and that you should notify people your address is no longer valid.
:(
To me that is == no more email for us
I'd suggest you point iTunes to the stream at Tag's Trance, but the CARP legislation got in the way :(
Well, I wouldn't say Miami Vice was popular in the 90s, were they? I was too busy watching ST:TNG and Quantum Leap to notice.
Well, shoot. If it's not THX-Certified or doesn't carry the SDDS trademark for a superior listening experience, it's just not the Jacuzzi Enterntaiment Center I'm looking for :P
Ironic, of course, that the workstations are in the Arts & Humanities building and not the CS building.
Even in 1982!
Quote from the article:
"And I think that if a film is marginal, it needs those extra categories to get in. It needs that home box office. It needs that cassette sale to get out of the red or maybe even right up to network television sale. Maybe that is the thing that pushes it into the black. It is very simple. The more films that are in the black, the more films are made, the more men and women are employed by the film industry. "
Yup. Some things produced are so marginal they need every avenue available to them to make their money, but what does the RIAA/MPAA want to do? strangle it with licensing fees... bah, humbug!
Uh, how about:
Those are exactly the ones we used. I didn't include the name in my original post since I couldn't remember who manufactured the boards.
We had two of the larger screens, paired side-by-side, and one project capable of projecting an image onto each screen concurrently. We had a windows box that ran the smartboard software, and we'd load our presentations on there, and use the board and markers to write on our slides as we discussed them with the class.
Another monitor hooked up to the same windows box controlled the projection unit. We'd choose sources of either the windows box, a document projector/scanner, our laptops could be hooked up and selected as well, and there was also a VCR option to project video to the smartboard, but we never got to try that feature.
In all, the smartboards were more memorable than the class, but I would have done *much* better in high school had some courses used these boards to illustrate points (Biology, history, math, you name it!)
My university recently purchased a few of these to incorporate into a new Technical Communications course. The smart board was by far smarter than the teacher, but that's beside the point.
The boards were intuitive, responsive, and just plain fun to use. Paired with projectors built into the ceiling and interfaced with the terminal by the smartboards, we had quite the multimedia setup for our course. Special markers also added to the fun by allowing the prof to use different colors to 'overwrite' images on the computer that were projected onto the smartboard. Very very cool, and it never crashed or locked once, which I think is fantastic for such an input-sensitive windows system.
I hope to see more schools and universitites employ this technology, as it has a far greater and instant impact in the classroom than grants for new computers a school doesn't have the money to purchase licenses for.