Again, last time I looked into it AT&T would detect the smart phone on their network regardless of whether it was bought separately and add the $30/month data plan to your bill for you.
I've had various unlocked smartphones on AT&T's $20 featurephone data plan for three years now. Smartphone "detection" is a myth.
As an aside who thinks Avatar looks like dances with wolves(only with blue aliens)?
James Cameron, for one
AT&T enforces tethering fees on WinMo by locking the "internet sharing" app to use a different GPRS APN than the phone itself uses. No extra $, no access to the magic APN, no tethering. Of course, if you buy an unlocked (ie unbranded retail, not SIM-unlocked AT&T) WinMo phone, you can just configure internet sharing to use the usual APN, and everything is hunky dory.
With Droid I'd imagine it'll be easier. There are already several tethering solutions for G1 that should work just as well for Droid.
The ability to make anonymous phone calls shouldn't be seen as such an evil.
The way to make anonymous cellular phone calls is to pay cash up-front for a SIM, not to bypass the network's billing system. Anonymity is hardly an excuse for theft of services.
America harbors connectors substantially more interesting than 5-15. Just off the top of my head:
"Having that masters degree doesn't mean anything here."
This is hardly a universal policy. My employer grants an automatic pay-grade bump for a (domestic) master's in addition to a (domestic) BS. (If you have a foreign BS and domestic MS you're started even with domestic fresh-outs)
I can't imagine doing a master's out-of-pocket right out of school, especially in as vague a field as CE or EE. Get a job first, then get a master's on the company's tab when you decide to specialize.
Wow... that's a hell of a citation you chose:
As difficult as the problem seems, there is one energy source that is essentially infinite, is readily available worldwide, and produces no carbon byproducts. The source of that energy is seawater, and the method by which seawater is converted to a more direct fuel for use by commercial and military equipment is simple.
Sure there's tons of energy in seawater... the nuclear reactor required to extract hydrogen from it is just a minor process detail. If that's the current state of the art in Army logistics, I fear for the future
For Palm, and WinMob, a PC was usually necessary to install new applications. (Not sure about BlackBerry, Symbian, or the other common Phone OS environments.)
Now I'm all for bashing Windows Mobile, but let's not get too hasty. I'm on my second WinMob phone and I did all my application installs on both either over the air (download the
I also signed up for the 1-DVD plan just for access to the streaming library via my Tivo HD. When it works, it looks pretty good... but maybe 20% of the titles I've tried to watch have *horrible* problems. I don't mean "zomg it's not HD" sort of problems, but things like audio and video being out of sync by multiple seconds, or the video looks like an analog-scrambled premium channel.
For DVDs they have a "Report a Problem" button right in your queue and respond very quickly to any issue, but streaming video seems to be a best-effort, take-it-or-leave-it sort of proposition. If the quality were a little more consistent maybe I'd consider dropping the DVDs by mail, even with the current limited streaming selection.
I'm not going thought the hassle of number porting.
What hassle? I've ported a few numbers now, and you just have to tell them your old provider and number and wait a few hours for the request to go through. When I did a port in person I had to sign an extra form, but adding a number port to an online cell phone order was just an extra screen to click through.
I'm sorry, but "networking" is not the ticket to success in a technical career.
People who network well usually have more information than those going it alone. That's definitely an advantage for technical workers.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
