Notice how "Stay Advertisement Free... we promise to never offer advertising space in our service or on our pages..." changed to the much more formal and significantly less friendly "Avoid Spam... when you sign up for the Service, we understand that to mean you want to communicate with us and hear from us about our products and services..."
Slippery slope indeed. Livejournal, take a look back up that slope to where you started. It's a nice place up there.
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"A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a nearly identically configured Dell Precision Workstation 490. The Mac is about $947 cheaper..."
For $3/month, you can add a "Dial up & Fax" option to your current Cingular phone service plan. This lets you use your cell phone as a plain old fashioned Bluetooth Modem, dialing into one of your ISP's dialup numbers.
The catches:
- You have to already have an ISP with dialup numbers.
- You spend your voice minutes on internet access.
- It's slow as hell. 9600bps = 1.2KBps. Enough for email and instant messaging, not quite enough to happily browse today's graphics-heavy www.
I've tested this, successfully, on a 12" Powerbook, a RAZR V3, and one of Yahoo's dialup numbers.
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Notice how "Stay Advertisement Free... we promise to never offer advertising space in our service or on our pages..." changed to the much more formal and significantly less friendly "Avoid Spam... when you sign up for the Service, we understand that to mean you want to communicate with us and hear from us about our products and services..."
Slippery slope indeed. Livejournal, take a look back up that slope to where you started. It's a nice place up there.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060823/ap_on_hi_te/te ch_test_mac_pro_3
"A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a nearly identically configured Dell Precision Workstation 490. The Mac is about $947 cheaper..."
For $3/month, you can add a "Dial up & Fax" option to your current Cingular phone service plan. This lets you use your cell phone as a plain old fashioned Bluetooth Modem, dialing into one of your ISP's dialup numbers.
The catches:
- You have to already have an ISP with dialup numbers.
- You spend your voice minutes on internet access.
- It's slow as hell. 9600bps = 1.2KBps. Enough for email and instant messaging, not quite enough to happily browse today's graphics-heavy www.
I've tested this, successfully, on a 12" Powerbook, a RAZR V3, and one of Yahoo's dialup numbers.