Worked in cellular sales for a few years now, remember the same issue with poor battery life on our Telus V3's when they launched, so many customers. Ugh.
Just visit motomodders.net, find yourself your previous firmware and downgrade it yourself; as far as I know the first gen firmware in the CDMA phones in Canada (Telus/Bell) were in the same boat. The issue was caused mostly by backlight time out settings being set -way- too high (twenty minutes for display time out) in the settings pane. Changing those settings, and replacing the -very- strained battery should have been the logical fix for Verizon, assuming the issue is akin to the one that was present in Canada.
Now, downgrading isn't -easy-, but it is possible. Just find yourself the required software (read: visit your favorite torrent site), follow the instructions on http://www.motomodders.net/ and you should have your bluetooth capabilities back. The primary reason I'm with Rogers up in Canada, even though they -used- to be partnered with AT&T, is because they are far less prone to locking features of the phone out. I find CDMA providers to be the worst for doing stupid things like that.
I tried to email him, in a desperate attempt to educate him on how Microsoft is -not- a retailer in this instance, and it's up to the retail stores to enforce the proper sale of 17+ games, but it was returned undeliverable due to his mailbox being full.
Personally I'd rather -not- be putting pressure on my laptops LCD panel, it's not designed for things like that. The graphire III i have now does a more than suitable job at my on-the-go tablet needs.
I'm with you on this one, I play a ton of racing games (simulation, arcade is cheesy and boring) and I actually credit it for how well I drive. Never taken drivers ed, never had any 'training'. Hell, I drove maybe three times ever before getting my full drivers license (first try I might add). There have been several occasions, mainly down dirt roads, or icy conditions in the winter, where I figure, had I -not- spent so much time playing such games, i wouldn't have been able to recover from imminent spin outs, or certain doom involving cement pilings.
Have fun listening to your spanish, evangelism, and the bbc:P. At least, that's all I've ever picked up on mine.
I like satellite radio (XM) for the electronica stations, the old school hip hop stations, and the decades stations. I love the fact the ONLY ad's I've ever heard, are for shows on the channel I'm listening to, or adverts for others stations that may interest me. That, and satellite radio doesn't skip when I have my sub woofers pounding, cd's; mp3 or not, do.
When I do get a macbook, I will want to run windows via Bootcamp. I'll only use it to play games though.
However, I would probably never end up using parallels, so would I have to purchase the super expensive version of Vista to install on my X86 PC BASED HARDWARE? I will NOT be emulating it at all, so do I still fall in the "you're gonna run it on a mac, you gotta buy the ball busting version" category?
Purely for curiosity purposes, I won't be touching vista for many, many years.
I can see a reason HP would be quite interested in what Dell is doing with their 'brand' of printers. Every Dell printer I've ever seen is a Lexmark that's been re-branded with the Dell logo and a different ink cartridge and print head. Now obviously that printer is going to be using the same ink as the Lexmark counterpart, just with the cartridge modified a little bit to fit in the modified print head to stop you from just buying Lexmark ink. As far as I know, you can buy Lexmark ink and just switch the plastic tops on the Lexmark branded ink with the Dell top. I'm not sure if this works with ALL their ink, but a good majority of the older cartridges for sure. Now the interesting part. Lexmark doesn't manufacture their own ink, which explains why it's so expensive, but where do they get the ink from? HP. So HP makes the ink for Lexmark, Lexmark sells rebranded ink to Dell, and the sucker buying a Dell printer pays out the ass for his ink. HP is on the first rung on this ladder, the profit filtering down from Dell is probably pretty decent and HP probably doesn't really want to lose the share in that; so if Dell is changing things around in their printer market, HP is gonna want to be the first to know about it. HP will lose a chunk of profit if Dell goes with another manufacturer, or decides to start making their own line of printers from 'scratch', so one would think HP would need to know before hand what's going on, to prevent profit loss.
We have that title in the store i work in:), a video rental place. There's a softcore version, and the X rated version. The X rated version comes with both the DVD and HD-DVD version of the title. The softcore one is only a very edited DVD suitable for an R or 18A rating.
However, because of the title, it's put right beside Pirates of the Caribbean 2. I'd be a liar if I said unsuspecting parents never grabbed the wrong title on many occasions. Many, MANY irate phone calls have been received by me and my fellow staff due to this title, and it's entertaining every time:D.
US Measurements done in feet. Am I to assume that you've found a new system for measurement using feet that is different from the SAE standard foot? Because last I checked... You can't measure in feet using the metric system.
...Yeah, i think that app is going to be the reason I fail at college. I spent four hours (swear on it) messing around with it yesterday when I should have been studying. There's something exponentially addicting about it.
Wrong. Find a startac with a slim battery, compare sizes (not including the antenna on the startac) and you'll see that there is in fact a 1mm difference in thickness. Otherwise, the two phones are almost exactly the same size when folded closed.
Last weekend I was at EB, they'd just sold out their last one. Not five minutes later there was a purolator truck outside and a guy unloading another shipment of Wii's and Wii accessories. Those too were being snapped up pretty quick, but the crowning moment of being there? Hearing this:
Customer: Hi, I'd like Twilight Princess for PS3.
EB Employee: Uhm... What?
Customer: Zelda, for PS3
EB Employee: Uhh, yeah.. that's not for PS3, that's a Nintendo Wii game.
Customer: So...?
EB Employee: Ma'am, you need to have a Nintendo Wii *points to the display beside the counter* to play Twilight Princess, or a Game Cube, when it's released for that.
Customer: So I can't play Zelda on PS3?
EB Employee: No.
Customer: So I spent 5 hours in the cold to buy my son a PS3, so he could play the new Zelda, but now he can't?
EB Employee: The new Zelda is for Wii, not PS3, I can show you our PS3 selection if you'd like?
Customer: No, I want Zelda for PS3.
and it pretty much continued like that for a couple minutes before she grasped the concept that she wasn't going to be playing zelda on her ps3. Makes me wonder how many other confused non-gamers are out there in a similar situation.:)
Those clicks could be a data life saver:p. On a few occasions I've been woken up by the infamous "click WHRRRRRRRRRRRRRR click WHRRRRRRR" noise. The first clicking noise made me wake up, and by the second whrrr, I'd had the system unplugged to prevent even more platter damage.
When said asteroid is altered TOO much, and we end up sending a large pile of rock plummeting towards us anyways? Perhaps faster than we can do anything about it?
At least in my experience anyways. Most of the college students I know, run limewire and wonder why their computers run like crap. Gee, could it be the spyware and viruses? I think there should be a one week course on preventing this before anyone is allowed to use the internet.
I think you really may be on to something with this, I know I'd buy one...
Or pull an "MS" with your idea! Kankraka's dedicated weather video thing! Patent pending!
In all seriousness though, that'd be something to seriously consider looking into. NOAA would have to start broadcasting video on those same frequencies, or use a dual channel broadcast system, one for video, one for audio and have dual receivers in the unit. It shouldn't be all that hard to implement, and I could see the sale of such a product taking off, specially in storm prone areas. Just need the government to co-operate:P
I don't think you've found a loophole there, I'm sure Cingular has thought of this. I know my service provider (Rogers Wireless) locks all MIDI and MP3's downloaded to remain on the phone. However, I'm willing to bet a card reader would do the trick.
What about people like me? I'm an XM user (and Howard Stern is on Sirius, not XM) and I have my kit hooked directly to the deck in my car. I don't use an FM transmitter for anything. The sound quality is crap compared to CD or a direct connection, it's really prone to getting interference (as you've experienced it sounds like) and it's tedious to have all those wires running all over your car. Why should people who hook their stuff up properly do they DON'T interfere with other peoples business end up getting reamed because of everyone else? And I think TFA was referring to the ground based XM signal repeaters. Those only broadcast on frequencies the satellite radios can receive/decode and pose no threat to you listening to your MP3 player.
I don't live in that big of a city (metro pop, around 1 million) in Canada, and every major station has RDS enabled. Hell, RDS isn't that expensive to implement so a lot of community stations could do it as well for relatively cheap. Most new cars are coming equipped with a means of decoding RDS as well, you'll see it primarily in GM vehicles.
Who downloads any music in a wma format? Unless you're using a pay service, why would you bother downloading music in such a horrible format? I won't touch anything music related that's encoded in windows media audio. I've even gone so far as to remove the codec from winamp. If you download music in WMA format, you DESERVE the DRM included.
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Just visit motomodders.net, find yourself your previous firmware and downgrade it yourself; as far as I know the first gen firmware in the CDMA phones in Canada (Telus/Bell) were in the same boat. The issue was caused mostly by backlight time out settings being set -way- too high (twenty minutes for display time out) in the settings pane. Changing those settings, and replacing the -very- strained battery should have been the logical fix for Verizon, assuming the issue is akin to the one that was present in Canada.
Now, downgrading isn't -easy-, but it is possible. Just find yourself the required software (read: visit your favorite torrent site), follow the instructions on http://www.motomodders.net/ and you should have your bluetooth capabilities back. The primary reason I'm with Rogers up in Canada, even though they -used- to be partnered with AT&T, is because they are far less prone to locking features of the phone out. I find CDMA providers to be the worst for doing stupid things like that.
I tried to email him, in a desperate attempt to educate him on how Microsoft is -not- a retailer in this instance, and it's up to the retail stores to enforce the proper sale of 17+ games, but it was returned undeliverable due to his mailbox being full.
:)
I guess many, many people beat me to it.
Personally I'd rather -not- be putting pressure on my laptops LCD panel, it's not designed for things like that. The graphire III i have now does a more than suitable job at my on-the-go tablet needs.
I'm with you on this one, I play a ton of racing games (simulation, arcade is cheesy and boring) and I actually credit it for how well I drive. Never taken drivers ed, never had any 'training'. Hell, I drove maybe three times ever before getting my full drivers license (first try I might add). There have been several occasions, mainly down dirt roads, or icy conditions in the winter, where I figure, had I -not- spent so much time playing such games, i wouldn't have been able to recover from imminent spin outs, or certain doom involving cement pilings.
I like satellite radio (XM) for the electronica stations, the old school hip hop stations, and the decades stations. I love the fact the ONLY ad's I've ever heard, are for shows on the channel I'm listening to, or adverts for others stations that may interest me. That, and satellite radio doesn't skip when I have my sub woofers pounding, cd's; mp3 or not, do.
When I do get a macbook, I will want to run windows via Bootcamp. I'll only use it to play games though. However, I would probably never end up using parallels, so would I have to purchase the super expensive version of Vista to install on my X86 PC BASED HARDWARE? I will NOT be emulating it at all, so do I still fall in the "you're gonna run it on a mac, you gotta buy the ball busting version" category? Purely for curiosity purposes, I won't be touching vista for many, many years.
I can see a reason HP would be quite interested in what Dell is doing with their 'brand' of printers. Every Dell printer I've ever seen is a Lexmark that's been re-branded with the Dell logo and a different ink cartridge and print head. Now obviously that printer is going to be using the same ink as the Lexmark counterpart, just with the cartridge modified a little bit to fit in the modified print head to stop you from just buying Lexmark ink. As far as I know, you can buy Lexmark ink and just switch the plastic tops on the Lexmark branded ink with the Dell top. I'm not sure if this works with ALL their ink, but a good majority of the older cartridges for sure. Now the interesting part. Lexmark doesn't manufacture their own ink, which explains why it's so expensive, but where do they get the ink from? HP. So HP makes the ink for Lexmark, Lexmark sells rebranded ink to Dell, and the sucker buying a Dell printer pays out the ass for his ink. HP is on the first rung on this ladder, the profit filtering down from Dell is probably pretty decent and HP probably doesn't really want to lose the share in that; so if Dell is changing things around in their printer market, HP is gonna want to be the first to know about it. HP will lose a chunk of profit if Dell goes with another manufacturer, or decides to start making their own line of printers from 'scratch', so one would think HP would need to know before hand what's going on, to prevent profit loss.
We have that title in the store i work in :), a video rental place. There's a softcore version, and the X rated version. The X rated version comes with both the DVD and HD-DVD version of the title. The softcore one is only a very edited DVD suitable for an R or 18A rating.
However, because of the title, it's put right beside Pirates of the Caribbean 2. I'd be a liar if I said unsuspecting parents never grabbed the wrong title on many occasions. Many, MANY irate phone calls have been received by me and my fellow staff due to this title, and it's entertaining every time :D.
US Measurements done in feet. Am I to assume that you've found a new system for measurement using feet that is different from the SAE standard foot? Because last I checked... You can't measure in feet using the metric system.
Awesome.. I'll only be sued for around 17.5k well, if i get caught, also if they suddenly can sue canuckers.
I just have to say I love the way your post + your sig connect, wicked. Entertaining blog too :)
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...Yeah, i think that app is going to be the reason I fail at college. I spent four hours (swear on it) messing around with it yesterday when I should have been studying. There's something exponentially addicting about it.
Wrong. Find a startac with a slim battery, compare sizes (not including the antenna on the startac) and you'll see that there is in fact a 1mm difference in thickness. Otherwise, the two phones are almost exactly the same size when folded closed.
Customer: Hi, I'd like Twilight Princess for PS3.
EB Employee: Uhm... What?
Customer: Zelda, for PS3
EB Employee: Uhh, yeah.. that's not for PS3, that's a Nintendo Wii game.
Customer: So...?
EB Employee: Ma'am, you need to have a Nintendo Wii *points to the display beside the counter* to play Twilight Princess, or a Game Cube, when it's released for that.
Customer: So I can't play Zelda on PS3?
EB Employee: No.
Customer: So I spent 5 hours in the cold to buy my son a PS3, so he could play the new Zelda, but now he can't?
EB Employee: The new Zelda is for Wii, not PS3, I can show you our PS3 selection if you'd like?
Customer: No, I want Zelda for PS3.
and it pretty much continued like that for a couple minutes before she grasped the concept that she wasn't going to be playing zelda on her ps3. Makes me wonder how many other confused non-gamers are out there in a similar situation. :)
Those clicks could be a data life saver :p. On a few occasions I've been woken up by the infamous "click WHRRRRRRRRRRRRRR click WHRRRRRRR" noise. The first clicking noise made me wake up, and by the second whrrr, I'd had the system unplugged to prevent even more platter damage.
When said asteroid is altered TOO much, and we end up sending a large pile of rock plummeting towards us anyways? Perhaps faster than we can do anything about it?
At least in my experience anyways. Most of the college students I know, run limewire and wonder why their computers run like crap. Gee, could it be the spyware and viruses? I think there should be a one week course on preventing this before anyone is allowed to use the internet.
I think you really may be on to something with this, I know I'd buy one... Or pull an "MS" with your idea! Kankraka's dedicated weather video thing! Patent pending! In all seriousness though, that'd be something to seriously consider looking into. NOAA would have to start broadcasting video on those same frequencies, or use a dual channel broadcast system, one for video, one for audio and have dual receivers in the unit. It shouldn't be all that hard to implement, and I could see the sale of such a product taking off, specially in storm prone areas. Just need the government to co-operate :P
I don't think you've found a loophole there, I'm sure Cingular has thought of this. I know my service provider (Rogers Wireless) locks all MIDI and MP3's downloaded to remain on the phone. However, I'm willing to bet a card reader would do the trick.
What about people like me? I'm an XM user (and Howard Stern is on Sirius, not XM) and I have my kit hooked directly to the deck in my car. I don't use an FM transmitter for anything. The sound quality is crap compared to CD or a direct connection, it's really prone to getting interference (as you've experienced it sounds like) and it's tedious to have all those wires running all over your car. Why should people who hook their stuff up properly do they DON'T interfere with other peoples business end up getting reamed because of everyone else? And I think TFA was referring to the ground based XM signal repeaters. Those only broadcast on frequencies the satellite radios can receive/decode and pose no threat to you listening to your MP3 player.
I don't live in that big of a city (metro pop, around 1 million) in Canada, and every major station has RDS enabled. Hell, RDS isn't that expensive to implement so a lot of community stations could do it as well for relatively cheap. Most new cars are coming equipped with a means of decoding RDS as well, you'll see it primarily in GM vehicles.
There's people like me who bought their new PC now because they didn't even want a chance of Vista being pre-installed on their new computer.
Who downloads any music in a wma format? Unless you're using a pay service, why would you bother downloading music in such a horrible format? I won't touch anything music related that's encoded in windows media audio. I've even gone so far as to remove the codec from winamp. If you download music in WMA format, you DESERVE the DRM included.
The moon has no ice!? It's like some outer space motel 6! *ducks*
That's actually not a half bad idea. I'd even buy it knowing that it's just a game about eating cereal.