Comment Re:Lets wait and see (Score 2) 535
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Which is all that was needed to make it interesting to teenage boys as well.
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Which is all that was needed to make it interesting to teenage boys as well.
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I live outside Fairbanks, AK. In the outdoor section of the local paper late last fall, was an unconfirmed mention that "a friend" of the editor was using a fixed-wing drone and FPV setup to locate moose. I don't recall any mention of success.
I had a hard time finding a translation "walgvogel" other than as dodo, so I'll put it here for others. From An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language I discovered that:
Walgvogel in Dutch means "nauseous bird;" it seems that the sailors killed them so easily that they were surfeited of them.
I also discovered that both dodo and booby (the bird) are probably portuguese words.
They certainly can't say you're not allowed to have a data-capable phone which doesn't have a data plan.
Is that right? I thought that their networks are sufficiently under their control to allow them to exclude whomever (and whatever) they want. Am I wrong?
Perhaps a carrier like T-Mobile ignores out-of-defined-use of smartphones, but do other carriers?
unlimited calling ad unlimited texting
That should be "and," rather than "ad." GCI doesn't serve up ads as you use their service.
I don't have a contract, and will never have another one again. When I was on a contract, I hated being locked in when I discovered that AT&T sucks in interior Alaska and couldn't switch without incurring a penalty. (While in Cantwell, I had a signal, but couldn't make a call: They couldn't tell me why. There were at least two more reasons I wanted to switch away.)
I have a vague memory, though, of reading that carriers can get the model of your phone, and will happily add data if they find you're using a smart phone without a data plan. Perhaps I should be more bold.
Right now, I'm paying $30/mo for a local plan, with an older phone. It includes unlimited calling ad unlimited texting with 1 GB of data and fantastic coverage. I don't have a strong incentive anymore for trying to dump the data fees, though I did give it serious thought and eliminated the possibility because of the limitations I perceived.
Do you mind sharing which carrier you use?
My daughter has an iPhone without a data plan. .
How did you (or she) manage that? Every carrier I've seen requires data with any smartphone connected to the network, and I thought I read that they can detect the phone. I've thought about doing exactly this, but haven't been bold enough to give it a go.
deploy
verb (used without object)
4. to come into a position ready for use: the plane can't land unless the landing gear deploys.
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