On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
My point of course being that everything that sells a newer version says the
same thing.
Not at all. It is almost unheard of for a manufacturer to advertise
the shortcomings of their product. In that vein I actually commend
Try Tech Republic (ZDNet). They often times have videos on all these
devices and their inner workings.
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My point of course being that everything that sells a newer version says the
same thing.
Not at all. It is almost unheard of for a manufacturer to advertise
the shortcomings of their product.
I don't think so.
Ever seen an auto company advertising improved fuel economy, better
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think so.
Ever seen an auto company advertising improved fuel economy, better handling,
etc.?
Ever seen New Improved! 25% More Fiber! on a cereal box?
This is a constant theme, and the previous shortcomings
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
REALLY???
Does that mean I could get an iPhone and find someone to unlock it and put
my chip in it for $49???
Uh Oh! ... Just realized ... I guess as it stands now I would have to
contractually pay ATT/Apple until my 2 yr. contract ran
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM, David K Watson
davidkirkwat...@gmail.comwrote:
I am not going to argue any general claims, but in this case go
back and read Tom's posts when MobileMe was having all its
service problems the first times Apple tried to put in Exchange
support. Tom was at least
On Nov 8, 2009, at 1:03 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Some of that is the duration of the outages. The Sidekick mess was
a few
a week or two, Mobileme was prolonged. Google was out for what a few
hours? Every one is going to have server problems but the time it
takes to
remedy the
On Nov 8, 2009, at 12:34 AM, David K Watson wrote:
Don't be so hard on her, Tom.
She has a brother to do all her computer service for her, for free.
As I said, unwilling convert.
This reminds me of a tearful phone call I took one Monday morning from
a designer. Over the weekend her
Sounds like she needs medication and maybe a life outside of her job. She
probably realized after the fact she lost all her personal stuff she wasn't
supposed to leave on her work machine in the first place.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Nov 8, 2009, at 12:34
Then stop doing it.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:01 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
In the technical discussions conducted on this list this tactic is
especially idiotic.
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On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:06 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Implicit is not the same thing as making direct and unmistakable
references to something. That difference is what I was pointing out
in the current crop of televised Microsoft ads for Windows 7.
It is a bit different in the case of M$
On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:07 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not at all. It is almost unheard of for a manufacturer to advertise
the shortcomings of their product. In that vein I actually commend
Microsoft for being so forthright, even if it is being done in order
to promote and sell the new version
At the time I posted about the M$ $idekick $crewup the story was that
there was no backup and all user files were permanently lost. Only
WFBs thought that was hokedokey.
Who thought that, exactly? What quote can you provide to back that up? Here's
part of my post:
This was just horrendous
On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:48 PM, db wrote:
T-Mobile does not have roll over minutes so $45 is for 1000 mins /
mo ... use them or lose them.
1000 minutes/month. That would require that I spend around 4 per cent
of my waking hours every single day yacking on the cell phone. Heck,
I'm no teenager.
The point isn't that Tom can prove what he said, he is merely rewriting
history to suit his needs now. Just a day or two ago I was lying about
running multiple apps on my phone...a phone he's probably never even seen in
pictures but knows more about then it's own users know becanse Tom Says So.
On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:14 PM, mike wrote:
Sounds like she needs medication and maybe a life outside of her
job. She
probably realized after the fact she lost all her personal stuff she
wasn't
supposed to leave on her work machine in the first place.
Ignorant remark.
For those who do support by phone, this isn't anything. An hour a day in a
ten hour workday spent on the phone is 1200 minutes a month.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:48 PM, db wrote:
T-Mobile does not have roll over minutes so $45 is for 1000
Just a brief comment. If I switch to another app on the iPhone from a
Apple native app such as Safari, Safari will bring up the last page
viewed when I return to it. The iPod player works the same way.
Non-native apps start from the beginning. I can listen to a radio
station with Ootunes on the
Correction, the samsung moment has an 800mhz CPU, one of the fastest on the
market be it iphone, blackberry or android.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
That was all on my phone, an HTC Hero. The moto droid can do the same, all
the android phones are similiar
YMMV for sure. I don't want apps to stop when I move to another, that's the
point. It's not multitasking, it's resuming.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, MrMike6by9 mrmike6...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a brief comment. If I switch to another app on the iPhone from a
Apple native app such as
On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:38 PM, mike wrote:
I read carefully your uninformed bullshit. You cry someone
misunderstands
what you say just when you know they've got it exactly, stick and
move,
never admit you are wrong...
Precisely my point. Asked to present facts, Mike responds with a long
On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:43 PM, MrMike6by9 wrote:
Just a brief comment. If I switch to another app on the iPhone from a
Apple native app such as Safari, Safari will bring up the last page
viewed when I return to it. The iPod player works the same way.
Non-native apps start from the beginning. I can
I responded, in detail. Try reading the posts.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:18 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:38 PM, mike wrote:
I read carefully your uninformed bullshit. You cry someone misunderstands
what you say just when you know they've got it exactly, stick and move,
On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:43 PM, mike wrote:
For those who do support by phone, this isn't anything. An hour a
day in a
ten hour workday spent on the phone is 1200 minutes a month.
I do Mac support. Don't need that many minutes.
On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:32 PM, mike wrote:
Safeway customers now just feel reinforced in their belief Safeway
is the place to be.
And they were happy to be ripped off by Safeway. That tells you
something about their smarts.
We all bow to your obvious superior knowledge of all things. Blah.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:28 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:32 PM, mike wrote:
Safeway customers now just feel reinforced in their belief Safeway is the
place to be.
And they were happy to be ripped
macheist.com is adverting a pack of free programs, some of you mac users
might be interested.
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1000 mins/ mo. That's about 1/2 hr a day on the cell phone...
db
tjpa wrote:
On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:48 PM, db wrote:
T-Mobile does not have roll over minutes so $45 is for 1000 mins /mo
... use them or lose them.
1000 minutes/month. That would require that I spend around 4 per cent
of my
Always doing its best to be helpful, M$ wants to let you know that if
you want to install W7 on a new drive you are a dirty rotten crook.
Windows 7 upgrade 'hacks' not legal, Microsoft suggests
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/02/windows-7-upgrade-hacks-not-legal.aspx?s=gcndaily_041109
Over
On Nov 8, 2009, at 3:48 PM, mike wrote:
macheist.com is adverting a pack of free programs, some of you mac
users
might be interested.
This is real software. I guess their hope is to get you hooked and
then you'll pay for the next upgrade.
Life is especially tough these days for small
No, I think it was only Exchange support and some of the new
MobileMe web apps that they had extended problems with when
Apple was transitioning from .Mac to MobileMe. Mail, storage
and syncing went almost completely unaffected and have
remained so. Apple's failures were with new features that
It's only illegal if you don't already own a qualifying product. You
may remember when I installed Win7 on this machine I had to call MS.
They specifically walked me through installing my upgrade product to a
new bare drive. But I was replacing Vista; just not to the same drive.
On Sun, Nov 8,
It would be difficult to find someone that didn't have a copy of win2k/winxp
or vista and be qualified. I have to say, those who bought full versions of
vista, should have free upgrades or perhaps 20 dollar upgrades.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
It's only
So, once you have done an OS upgrade on your machine, you can no longer do an
annual re-installation of the OS on a reformatted drive. And if the drive on
which the upgrade was done suffers a hardware failure, it is illegal to install
the upgrade OS on the new hard drive? (unless, of course,
First, I forgot that the Droid is by Motorola. Could this be that
company's last gasp at mobile phones? My Moto SLVR was a very attractive
phone that made me sound like I was calling from an undersea cave--on
both Cingular and T-Mobile networks, plus Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica
in Europe. Its
I have no idea what you're talking about, unless you're just being
sarcastic. But I thought I'd point out that an annual re-installation
of the OS hasn't been advisable since the old Win9x days. The whole
WinNT line has always normally been stable enough to run for years.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at
He might have been wanting to take screenshots
You mean like on the iPhone and iPod Touch? That's build-in, no extra
app needed. Can Droid do screenshots too? Can it select and save images?
Betty
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I believe that after a given period of time they are required to give you an
unlock code to allow you open your phone up for any service provider that fits.
(In this case GSM) you can then subscribe to a service and put in the SIM card.
I think that you should be able to use any hardware
Both the unlocking and jailbreaking are done with software?
Depends on the phone. Some phones need a special SIM to unlock, others
must be connected by cable to a PC with bluetooth turned off. Some
phones all you need is an unlock code which is calculated using the
IMEI, model number,
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