I have my mom set up this way and it's a good low-cost way to go for a phone that isn't being used much. Does anyone know if ringtones and games are charged against your Top-Up'd balance or is it a separate charge on the credit card?
Yeah I have my mom set up this way. It's a good value if you don't use your cell phone much or want one just for outbound calling. The only downside is that Virgin uses the Sprint CDMA network which doesn't always have the best coverage.
Dude, I always have the urge to take a leak when I get into an elevator (must be the gravity or something.) I can't imagine being in there for *days*!
Also, are these things going to have any kind of ventilation? There's always that guy who has to turn it into a dutch oven from time to time. That's gonna seem like one long-ass ride...
I constantly come across people at work that have 17 and 19 inch monitors and they run them at 800x600 res. Drives me up the wall trying to help them with a problem and they're shuffling windows everywhere. What's worse, you have people who run this res on LCDs which actually results in worse looking text because this isn't the panel's native resolution.
When the heck are they going to apply this technology to the stupid PDA!?!?! I just love having to reload and reinstall every single !#%$@ thing ever time I happen to leave the thing in a drawer for a few weeks. Totally useless as a occasional reference device unless you're using and charging it every single !#@$@% day!
Ooh, I'm wincing at that hacksaw comment. What's a DIY project without the opportunity to buy more tools?
We recently tiled up our bathrooms, so we shelled out a "whopping" $70 for a no-name-brand tilesaw over at Harbor Freight. Worked great and now my brother's going to use it for his kitchen. Worth every penny.
Maybe they should have included Sony, ToshibaSamsung, NEC, or some other companies that actually sell a shitload of drives on the retail market. Lite-On was a good call, though.
Sony doesn't make their burners anymore. They outsourced this to Liteon quite a while ago.
Well the manufacturer's sure are taking advantage of it. Have you shopped for a BTO (Built To Order) system lately? How the heck would you be able to offer all those different types of options without standard interfaces and modularity?
While it's true that good optics are more important than sheer number of megapixels, the 2MP threshold is important because it's really the minimum resolution at which you can have a decent looking 4x6 print. 1.3MP images still look fuzzy when printed at that size.
Actually WirelessKnowledge had a competitor to Blackberry's service called Workstyle which ran on RIM devices which allowed you to host and control your wireless data replication behind your own firewall rather than relying on BB's data services. Too bad the company couldn't sustain itself because it had some solid engineering behind the product. The appeal of Workstyle was that it would not only support RIM, but locally cached push-to-phone, PPC, and Palm groupware (calendar, contacts, email) as well.
This would be an interesing move on MS's part. It would definitely give them some additional capabilities that I think they're looking for. It would give them access to content for they MSN media services, new integration capabilities with home, automotive and mobile electronics. I think we'd see some really cool convergent devices coming to market.
iTunes and a lot of other media managers out there assume that you have all your files meticulously tagged in order to use the sorting and grouping capabilities of players. Well this might work okay for most iPod users that download their files from iTMS, but for me, not all my files are always tagged correctly, and I don't want to go thru the hassles of retagging them to be correct. I just want to dump files down to a directory and then point the player to shuffle on that directory.
What they could do is couch the DRM detection as a "feature" to help user's identify potentially harmful or infringing content. Maybe this could be pointed out to the user in the media player delivering the content, or in the file system where an icon could identify the content that wasn't authorized.
Uh yeah, I don't know what theater you've been in, but I'm always annoyed by people's cell phones going off in the theater (a couple times people have actually taken the call during the movie) and people talking during the movie. For this "privilege" I have to shell out $15? (Ticket + snacks) No thanks, I'll wait for the DVD and then I can watch it and also entertain people who come over to watch it again.
No, that was 4GL. OOP was supposed to make programming more structured, easier to manage, and quicker to code. While many programmers will swear up and down that it has achieved these goals, researchers were never able to quantify any performance boosts in OOP development.
OOP has definitely achieved the structuring goal. We are now capable of designing and visualizing larger and more complex systems with more reliability then we've ever had in the past. This is due to the level and quality of the tools available and also to the engineering concepts like OOP, UDM, etc.
Likewise, if the standards for a software project are properly designed (the job of the software engineer), I would imagine that skilled Joes could contribute code to the project that could be successful. Again, the SoftE would check that code to make sure it was done correctly and to standard.
Well this is pretty much the thinking to this whole outsourcing deal. But in the few outsourcing projects that I have seen firsthand there's been nothing but problems with the outsourced code. This stems mainly from the lack of foresight in what the underlying business process need is for the code and a failure to properly analyze the possible failure modes of the code. You kinda have to know what it is that you are building and what's it's overall function should be outside of knowing that it has two input parameters and returns an output value.
Actually this reminds me of a funny story (and eerily enough it was from the 1980's). I was in a book store in the computer section looking for some software book, and a guy next to me says, "Hey are you a programmer?"
I reply, "Yes I'm a software engineer, so yes I have been known to do some programming." (yes I make a distinction between 'programmer' and 'engineer'.)
He says, "What languages do you use?"
I reply, "Well I'm currently using Pascal, but I also use C on occasion."
He says, "Oh well I like Lotus 1-2-3."
[Sound of eyes slowly rolling back into head...]
Sure any monkey can program, but there's a world of difference between hacking out code and architecting a solution. Just as in the real physical world, anyone can put together a bridge, but when you really engineer something you take into account other things that contribute to the lifetime and integrity of the solution. For making physical bridges this might include materials science, physical design modeling, stress analysis, usage modeling, etc. For software development this includes data modeling, business workflow analysis, network/load simulation, data performance analysis, etc.
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Well if he had thrown Gigli in there I'm sure the charges would have been thrown out of court...
I'm interested in finding a good DVD-R jukebox. Could somebody point out some good ones to take a look at?
I have my mom set up this way and it's a good low-cost way to go for a phone that isn't being used much. Does anyone know if ringtones and games are charged against your Top-Up'd balance or is it a separate charge on the credit card?
Yeah I have my mom set up this way. It's a good value if you don't use your cell phone much or want one just for outbound calling. The only downside is that Virgin uses the Sprint CDMA network which doesn't always have the best coverage.
Dude, I always have the urge to take a leak when I get into an elevator (must be the gravity or something.) I can't imagine being in there for *days*! Also, are these things going to have any kind of ventilation? There's always that guy who has to turn it into a dutch oven from time to time. That's gonna seem like one long-ass ride...
For those of you who don't know what the issues are with these voting machines (and more importantly, the voting machine companies.) Take a look at the HBO documentary: Hacking Democracy. http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/ index.html
It's also apparently available to be viewed on Google video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-723679120 7107726851
I constantly come across people at work that have 17 and 19 inch monitors and they run them at 800x600 res. Drives me up the wall trying to help them with a problem and they're shuffling windows everywhere. What's worse, you have people who run this res on LCDs which actually results in worse looking text because this isn't the panel's native resolution.
"1.2 Gigawatts! Great scott!"
Well seeing as how many lives he's potentially ruined already, it wouldn't surprise me if he ended up as a real-life CSI case somewhere.
... because what goes on in Vegas...
When the heck are they going to apply this technology to the stupid PDA!?!?! I just love having to reload and reinstall every single !#%$@ thing ever time I happen to leave the thing in a drawer for a few weeks. Totally useless as a occasional reference device unless you're using and charging it every single !#@$@% day!
Ooh, I'm wincing at that hacksaw comment. What's a DIY project without the opportunity to buy more tools? We recently tiled up our bathrooms, so we shelled out a "whopping" $70 for a no-name-brand tilesaw over at Harbor Freight. Worked great and now my brother's going to use it for his kitchen. Worth every penny.
Well the manufacturer's sure are taking advantage of it. Have you shopped for a BTO (Built To Order) system lately? How the heck would you be able to offer all those different types of options without standard interfaces and modularity?
While it's true that good optics are more important than sheer number of megapixels, the 2MP threshold is important because it's really the minimum resolution at which you can have a decent looking 4x6 print. 1.3MP images still look fuzzy when printed at that size.
Actually WirelessKnowledge had a competitor to Blackberry's service called Workstyle which ran on RIM devices which allowed you to host and control your wireless data replication behind your own firewall rather than relying on BB's data services. Too bad the company couldn't sustain itself because it had some solid engineering behind the product. The appeal of Workstyle was that it would not only support RIM, but locally cached push-to-phone, PPC, and Palm groupware (calendar, contacts, email) as well.
This would be an interesing move on MS's part. It would definitely give them some additional capabilities that I think they're looking for. It would give them access to content for they MSN media services, new integration capabilities with home, automotive and mobile electronics. I think we'd see some really cool convergent devices coming to market.
iTunes and a lot of other media managers out there assume that you have all your files meticulously tagged in order to use the sorting and grouping capabilities of players. Well this might work okay for most iPod users that download their files from iTMS, but for me, not all my files are always tagged correctly, and I don't want to go thru the hassles of retagging them to be correct. I just want to dump files down to a directory and then point the player to shuffle on that directory.
We need to break our addiction to foreign oil. Convert all your DRM tracks into non-DRM'd MP3 for the good of the nation!!!
What they could do is couch the DRM detection as a "feature" to help user's identify potentially harmful or infringing content. Maybe this could be pointed out to the user in the media player delivering the content, or in the file system where an icon could identify the content that wasn't authorized.
Uh yeah, I don't know what theater you've been in, but I'm always annoyed by people's cell phones going off in the theater (a couple times people have actually taken the call during the movie) and people talking during the movie. For this "privilege" I have to shell out $15? (Ticket + snacks) No thanks, I'll wait for the DVD and then I can watch it and also entertain people who come over to watch it again.
Actually this reminds me of a funny story (and eerily enough it was from the 1980's). I was in a book store in the computer section looking for some software book, and a guy next to me says, "Hey are you a programmer?" I reply, "Yes I'm a software engineer, so yes I have been known to do some programming." (yes I make a distinction between 'programmer' and 'engineer'.) He says, "What languages do you use?" I reply, "Well I'm currently using Pascal, but I also use C on occasion." He says, "Oh well I like Lotus 1-2-3." [Sound of eyes slowly rolling back into head...]
Sure any monkey can program, but there's a world of difference between hacking out code and architecting a solution. Just as in the real physical world, anyone can put together a bridge, but when you really engineer something you take into account other things that contribute to the lifetime and integrity of the solution. For making physical bridges this might include materials science, physical design modeling, stress analysis, usage modeling, etc. For software development this includes data modeling, business workflow analysis, network/load simulation, data performance analysis, etc.