duck wrote:
Also, is it true that you can be charged for receiving calls or messages in the US?
No. At least, not verizon (which is really vodaphone), tmobile, or mother bell.
I get the point of phone subsidies, so long as it's not a smartphone. It's great for grandma who needs a large-print phone (free) and basic 300 minutes service for $25 a month. As soon as you need that data connection the price skyrockets. But yesh, I went to the apple store, bought a phone, went to verizon and made damn sure there was no 'early termination fee' before getting their service. So when something better came along I could move it.
The thing I don't like about samsung phones, and I've seen this happen twice now to my father-in-law, is that after 2 years the network sends an OTA update that bricks it, forcing you to get a new one. Was working before, 'required' network update, OK to start? and then it never reboots. I haven't updated my i-phone since OS 6.1.2, you can turn off all auto-updates and it will just run peachy pretty much forever. Just like my old nokia brick phone with snakes and parachutes. My wife has an old HTC incredible and the problem with that is a lot of the newer apps and games don't even run on it. I shouldn't say "old" as it is newer than my iphone 4s. And it is up-to-date according to the update program, running android version 2.whatever. No patches for it.
But hammie, I think you missed a few points. My cellphone is my internet connection for my computer and xbox as well, via mywi.
http://www.intelliborn.com/mywi.html
I agree, watching a movie on a cellphone is not a cinematic experience. But you can do a lot of other cool things with it.
Also, I'm canadian. After 9 months of working for the biggest bunch of
cheats and liars
I've ever met, they've finally decided to not pay me for the last time. So earlier this month, after told I may not see a paycheck again and could they pretty-please pay me in their worthless stocks, I demanded to be laid off along with a bunch of other guys. Nothing says merry christmas quite like "you're not getting paid for december and we don't know when you'll get your check from november". And never mind the fact that's a violation of many laws to pay monthly in the first place; the big one in Ohio is of course minimum wage. When they first started these shenanigans two months after I started, I started bitching to ohio's department of commerce and never stopped. But they continued not paying me.
So anyways, that's all well and good, but my wife IS american. Thankfully, she's finally thinking that, yes, the US is really not as great as the greasy goobers say it is, and she's finally thinking of moving back do Canada with me. Maybe a
trip to my hometown
helped. Not to say that Canada is without faults, but the more sleazy aspects of life are certainly toned back a fair bit. And the food is a helluva lot better. We've had this conversation before:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16726740&p=7351234#p7351234
The original argument was how patriotic she and her family was, since of course her father was USAF. I countered that my grandfather was in the RCAF in the 50s and 60s and now those two get along great. An F16 mechanic and a radar engineer.
I know if the great and glorious 'AMP moteur verks' tried half of their shenanigans in canada (or probably any other country in the world), every single one of these men:
http://ampelectricvehicles.com/our-comp ... ement-team
would be in prison. In the USA they are free to weasel more and more investor money while keeping their façade of building electric trucks.
Not so much that they didn't pay their employees, they didn't pay
anybody
. For almost two months, not even the landlord. A fair bit of my time, as an engineer, was spent talking to angry parts suppliers and trying to get enough free samples to get a vehicle built. And their finished product is rather mickey-mouse especially with regards to safety. A big part of the reason why they moved away from the GM kappa-cars and daimler's grand cherokee and ML450. The heavy truck industry has many fewer regulations than passenger cars.
However, we did get that great pig of an old Navistar 1652SC to under 1 kWh/mile. With most of the original allison 2400. And that's gotta be worth
something
. Doesn't matter how sleazy the boss is, awesome is as awesome does
I also got to spend a fair bit of time at honda's
unofficial skunkworks
and see the new NSX among other things. If you took jeremy clarkson here, he would die. (to quote him directly, from that millau bridge episode of top gear, "if you brought an american here, he would die")
Aaaaannnyways
, and I apologize for the rant, but the fact is if you don't have anything more important to worry about than your phone bill, or the price of minutes in china, life must be pretty good
Maybe I'm reaching for a computing midlife crisis soon, and will go back to it
(Maradona)
(DavidVilla) A1186 (Xavi) d800 (Pique) d820 (Neymar)
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iphone 4s, 7.0.4 w/ Evasi0n.
The disk with my aperture library has slowly been eating itself into oblivion. Two days ago aperture refused to open the library, and after attempting all else (including chmod -R 777 the .aplibrary, as the first errors were permissions-related) I decided a verify/repair of the disk, and disk utility has decided it's so bad the volume won't mount.
ZFS seems overkill on a root disk which in my case is barely ~70GB and doesn't grow much. Super easy to backup and restore.