Seriously, I haven't used a VCR other than to play old tapes in years. I have Comcast's HD DVR and I have a Tivo Series 2 that controls a non-dvr Comcast box. Between those, and online streaming from sites like Hulu, Netflix, and some of the networks own sites, I have no need to record using a VCR anymore. If I want to archive something, I burn a DVD.
Today I got an obvious spam call that was spoofed. Caller-id stated "Name Unavailable" and the phone number was "000-000-7774". Of course, there's no 000 area code. I didn't answer and whoever it was didn't leave a message. I'm on the do-not-call list, so I can't report this caller as violating that either due to the spoofing. I also have the feature from my phone company that doesn't allow calls that have caller-id blocked to ring my phone, but it doesn't consider an invalid phone number as being a blocked number.
I've been considering contacting my phone-service provider about enhancing that feature to at least stop these obviously false phone numbers.
You're missing the point. If jail broken iPhones CANNOT access the app store, then 100% of them will have pirated apps, not 38%, and before you claim that it'll be 100% of a much smaller number (thus being a net win), there's no chance of that.
It's not people that jailbreak their iPhones that are being blocked from the app store, it's the people that make the software to jailbreak iPhones that are being blocked.
I was a Compuserve user way before the internet became generally accessible, which was before Compuserve and AOL became internet gateways. I'm fairly sure my Compuserve ID was 71310,2027. It did take me a few minutes of thinking to retrieve it from the deep, dark recesses of my mind. I hung out in the Mac groups and used to play the multiuser game "You Guessed It!" which was a trivia game with teams playing against each other.
Every time the TSA makes flying more inconvenient and/or more uncomfortable, the terrorists have won without having to actually kill or injure anyone. I drive a lot of times to places that I once used to fly to. Driving times of up to nine hours now that were hour and forty-five minute flights.
The TSA is reactive and not proactive, they throw in security measures against methods that are low odds to be tried again. The next attempt is almost certain to be something new that TSA has not even thought of.
I was listening to the Buzz Out Loud podcast yesterday and I feel that had a better idea. Instead of causing a disruption and proving that iPhones are a problem, instead, don't use the AT&T network for an hour. That would get their notice as well.
I've had 5 bars iPhone saying its on 3G and had no data transfers, usually due to an excess of other iPhone users in the area at venues like MacWorld and SF Giants games. I also get really poor signal strength in my condo. Last night I was talking to my sister while on one of the Bay Area Bridges, using a handsfree headset, and the call dropped about the middle of the bridge due to no signal, about 100 feet later it popped back up to 4 or 5 bars and I called her back.
Having said all of that, I can still see the need for SSH access and a Terminal. Can't get those without jailbreaking (yet)
There's a few apps in the iTunes App Store that do SSH with a terminal.
I personally use TouchTerm SSH, a $.99 app. There's also a pro version of it for $4.99.
I agree with the idea of a 24-hour or 48-hour tethering access plan. Most of the time I'm somewhere that there is free or cheap internet access for my laptop, but occasionally I've been somewhere where I've used tethering on my old Sony-Ericsson phone to get online for some quick browsing, such as making an on-line hotel reservation. I really don't need a monthly plan for tethering, as I've had the need maybe 4 to 5 times a year on the average. And I've not had tethering at all for the 11 months I've had my iPhone.
As nice as the browser in my iPhone is, sometimes I can just do things quicker or easier using my laptop's browser.
2. Background usage of audio streaming apps such as Pandora, Slacker, and FStream. If the iPod function can work in the background, there's no reason these other apps shouldn't be able to as well.
3. Record Phone calls. I could do this on my previous cell phone.
4. Video Record. Once again the camrea on my previous cell phone could do this and it wasn't even as good quality as the camera in the iPhone.
I don't really need video recording, but I am a bit miffed that I have no way to record voice calls.
I like this idea, but the legal complexities are an issue. Even in the United States, laws differ from state to state, but the iPhone is sold worldwide...
My old Sony-Ericsson S710a phone from 2005 could record a phone call. It even produced a beep so that the person I was talking to would know that we were being recorded.
I also use Pandora a lot to listen to music. It even works in my car by connecting my iPhone to my car stereo. If I want news or uncensored comedy, I can run AOL Radio or Flycast instead. All these choices work great on a 3G network, and okay on Edge.
I've only ever taken the Metro-North but in my limited experience, there's no such thing as a "train TSA". Smaller stations don't even have people working at them
I believe what I had read about was at Amtrack Stations, and might not have been everyone of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if we had some sort of security checkpoints before boarding the high-speed train to/from Northern and Southern California.
Although from what I've read about train service on the East Coast, getting on the train might end up being as much a hassle with its version of TSA as flying.
I use a TSA openable lock on one of my bags, but pretty much limit what is in that bag to clothing and other stuff of low interest to anyone looking to steal something. My computer, cameras, and phone are in my carryon bags when I travel. My flying since all this started has seriously decreased. I have a trip coming up next month from the San Francisco area to Anaheim, and years ago I probably would have flown instead of what I'm going to do, drive.
The only flight I'm making this year is from the SF area to Orlando, FL.
This was always a favorite thing to do in Vegas, even if I didn't do it every trip. But knowing that it was closing, I made two trips this summer that both included visits to it.
It was more than a couple rides, it was near total immersion into the world of Star Trek. I even took the behind the scenes tour of how it all worked. Quarks Bar and Grill was a cool place to have a drink or a meal and it's unfortunate that it will be closed with the rest of the Star Trek area.
I think I see a difference in perception. To me, despite the name iPhone, I consider it a Internet access device first, an iPod second, and a phone last.
Part of this is due to my home having a landline with unlimited nationwide calling. I think I've used maybe an hour of air time since I got the phone over a month ago, and a lot of that was a call to my insurance company after an accident on my last road trip.
The Map solution is the only one I know of at this time. You're correct that adding a birthday field to a contact does not propagate it to a calendar. As for cut and paste, rumor says that is in the to-do list for enhancements to the iPhone software. Yes, there are some things that still need to be done, but for some of us, some of the things you mention are non-issues.
I have email accounts that work with the iPhone, more than one of them. Gmail being one of them. I had MMS on my old phone, used it maybe 2 or 3 times in 3 years, so that is a non-issue for me. Profiles might be nice, but once again my old phone had them and I rarely made use of them.
Game sounds when ringer set silent, well so does playing iPod video or audio, so maybe that's more a design decision than a real bug.
I haven't stopped flying entirely, although the shock bracelet thing might be enough to do that, but I've decided to drive instead of fly for trips that I once would have flown.
I really think they're trying to end vacation flying and the only people that will fly will be for business.
I used to have a coworker that swore that the best combination was a light blue background using darker blue characters, claiming that some study suggested a lower contrast was less straining. I didn't personally care for it, but others at our company adopted it as well.
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The picketing of funerals strikes me as not something Jesus would have condoned. Jesus was about love, not hate.
These people are twisting the Bible and the word of Jesus to push an agenda of bigotry and hate.
Seriously, I haven't used a VCR other than to play old tapes in years. I have Comcast's HD DVR and I have a Tivo Series 2 that controls a non-dvr Comcast box. Between those, and online streaming from sites like Hulu, Netflix, and some of the networks own sites, I have no need to record using a VCR anymore. If I want to archive something, I burn a DVD.
Today I got an obvious spam call that was spoofed. Caller-id stated "Name Unavailable" and the phone number was "000-000-7774". Of course, there's no 000 area code. I didn't answer and whoever it was didn't leave a message. I'm on the do-not-call list, so I can't report this caller as violating that either due to the spoofing. I also have the feature from my phone company that doesn't allow calls that have caller-id blocked to ring my phone, but it doesn't consider an invalid phone number as being a blocked number.
I've been considering contacting my phone-service provider about enhancing that feature to at least stop these obviously false phone numbers.
For myself, the one type of app I'd like to see be able to multitask is streaming audio, such as Pandora or Slacker.
You're missing the point. If jail broken iPhones CANNOT access the app store, then 100% of them will have pirated apps, not 38%, and before you claim that it'll be 100% of a much smaller number (thus being a net win), there's no chance of that.
It's not people that jailbreak their iPhones that are being blocked from the app store, it's the people that make the software to jailbreak iPhones that are being blocked.
Why wouldn't the iPad not support Microsoft Exchange? The current iPhone/iPod Touch OS does. Why would Apple remove that functionality from the iPad?
I was a Compuserve user way before the internet became generally accessible, which was before Compuserve and AOL became internet gateways. I'm fairly sure my Compuserve ID was 71310,2027. It did take me a few minutes of thinking to retrieve it from the deep, dark recesses of my mind. I hung out in the Mac groups and used to play the multiuser game "You Guessed It!" which was a trivia game with teams playing against each other.
Every time the TSA makes flying more inconvenient and/or more uncomfortable, the terrorists have won without having to actually kill or injure anyone. I drive a lot of times to places that I once used to fly to. Driving times of up to nine hours now that were hour and forty-five minute flights.
The TSA is reactive and not proactive, they throw in security measures against methods that are low odds to be tried again. The next attempt is almost certain to be something new that TSA has not even thought of.
I was listening to the Buzz Out Loud podcast yesterday and I feel that had a better idea. Instead of causing a disruption and proving that iPhones are a problem, instead, don't use the AT&T network for an hour. That would get their notice as well.
I've had 5 bars iPhone saying its on 3G and had no data transfers, usually due to an excess of other iPhone users in the area at venues like MacWorld and SF Giants games. I also get really poor signal strength in my condo. Last night I was talking to my sister while on one of the Bay Area Bridges, using a handsfree headset, and the call dropped about the middle of the bridge due to no signal, about 100 feet later it popped back up to 4 or 5 bars and I called her back.
Having said all of that, I can still see the need for SSH access and a Terminal. Can't get those without jailbreaking (yet)
There's a few apps in the iTunes App Store that do SSH with a terminal. I personally use TouchTerm SSH, a $.99 app. There's also a pro version of it for $4.99.
I agree with the idea of a 24-hour or 48-hour tethering access plan. Most of the time I'm somewhere that there is free or cheap internet access for my laptop, but occasionally I've been somewhere where I've used tethering on my old Sony-Ericsson phone to get online for some quick browsing, such as making an on-line hotel reservation. I really don't need a monthly plan for tethering, as I've had the need maybe 4 to 5 times a year on the average. And I've not had tethering at all for the 11 months I've had my iPhone.
As nice as the browser in my iPhone is, sometimes I can just do things quicker or easier using my laptop's browser.
These are in my priority list:
1. Copy/Cut and Paste
2. Background usage of audio streaming apps such as Pandora, Slacker, and FStream. If the iPod function can work in the background, there's no reason these other apps shouldn't be able to as well.
3. Record Phone calls. I could do this on my previous cell phone.
4. Video Record. Once again the camrea on my previous cell phone could do this and it wasn't even as good quality as the camera in the iPhone.
I don't really need video recording, but I am a bit miffed that I have no way to record voice calls.
I like this idea, but the legal complexities are an issue. Even in the United States, laws differ from state to state, but the iPhone is sold worldwide...
My old Sony-Ericsson S710a phone from 2005 could record a phone call. It even produced a beep so that the person I was talking to would know that we were being recorded.
I also use Pandora a lot to listen to music. It even works in my car by connecting my iPhone to my car stereo. If I want news or uncensored comedy, I can run AOL Radio or Flycast instead. All these choices work great on a 3G network, and okay on Edge.
I've only ever taken the Metro-North but in my limited experience, there's no such thing as a "train TSA". Smaller stations don't even have people working at them
I believe what I had read about was at Amtrack Stations, and might not have been everyone of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if we had some sort of security checkpoints before boarding the high-speed train to/from Northern and Southern California.
Although from what I've read about train service on the East Coast, getting on the train might end up being as much a hassle with its version of TSA as flying.
I use a TSA openable lock on one of my bags, but pretty much limit what is in that bag to clothing and other stuff of low interest to anyone looking to steal something. My computer, cameras, and phone are in my carryon bags when I travel. My flying since all this started has seriously decreased. I have a trip coming up next month from the San Francisco area to Anaheim, and years ago I probably would have flown instead of what I'm going to do, drive.
The only flight I'm making this year is from the SF area to Orlando, FL.
This was always a favorite thing to do in Vegas, even if I didn't do it every trip. But knowing that it was closing, I made two trips this summer that both included visits to it.
It was more than a couple rides, it was near total immersion into the world of Star Trek. I even took the behind the scenes tour of how it all worked. Quarks Bar and Grill was a cool place to have a drink or a meal and it's unfortunate that it will be closed with the rest of the Star Trek area.
I think I see a difference in perception. To me, despite the name iPhone, I consider it a Internet access device first, an iPod second, and a phone last.
Part of this is due to my home having a landline with unlimited nationwide calling. I think I've used maybe an hour of air time since I got the phone over a month ago, and a lot of that was a call to my insurance company after an accident on my last road trip.
The Map solution is the only one I know of at this time. You're correct that adding a birthday field to a contact does not propagate it to a calendar. As for cut and paste, rumor says that is in the to-do list for enhancements to the iPhone software. Yes, there are some things that still need to be done, but for some of us, some of the things you mention are non-issues.
I have email accounts that work with the iPhone, more than one of them. Gmail being one of them. I had MMS on my old phone, used it maybe 2 or 3 times in 3 years, so that is a non-issue for me. Profiles might be nice, but once again my old phone had them and I rarely made use of them.
Game sounds when ringer set silent, well so does playing iPod video or audio, so maybe that's more a design decision than a real bug.
"I type an address for a contact. I can't simply click a hyperlink to see that address in Google Maps? Dumb."
Maybe you are, you touch an address in contacts and it goes right to google maps showing that location.
"And just where do they think they will find a COBOL programmer working for minimum wage?"
Just find one that'll work as a contractor, that gets around that pesky minimum wage problem.
I haven't stopped flying entirely, although the shock bracelet thing might be enough to do that, but I've decided to drive instead of fly for trips that I once would have flown. I really think they're trying to end vacation flying and the only people that will fly will be for business.
I used to have a coworker that swore that the best combination was a light blue background using darker blue characters, claiming that some study suggested a lower contrast was less straining. I didn't personally care for it, but others at our company adopted it as well.