Pager on silent/vibrate, under my pillow, tends to work well.
Only so much you can do about the noise of the vibration unit, though.
Have done this with my phone before also.

Oh i'm sure they're related. I'm just not sure that one is to blame for the other.

^^ This.
Get sick of pointing out that 'correlation != causation'.

Zing! The world loves hypocrytes, right?

Mod parent up.

The 40%/10% example above comes straight out of Google Maps and the Nav tool on my Android.
I've been tinkering with iGO recently as an alternative.

Oh c'mon, it's nothing new.
Just ask anyone in emergency services who has to implement road closures due to an accident or similar.
This has a tendency to turn some motorists into melonheads because you've taken them off the one route they know about that gets them from A to B. Even when A is home and B is the same workplace they've commuted to for years.
Taking away people's need to think leaves them utterly without option when they're taken out of the comfort zone - say, for example, when the GPS fails.[1]

At least pre GPS folks actually had to look at a map, plan their route and were at least peripherally aware that alternatives existed. And heck, maybe they'd even carry their map in the car to consult if a road was blocked/closed?

Yes of course my comment was a generalisation. However I do think that the bell curve is being flattened by GPS.

[1]Ironically the one thing the GPS is good at, is 'rerouting' and giving you an option that doesn't require you to stop and consult a map. But my point stands. It actually reminds me of the difference between catching someone their fish for dinner, and teaching them to fish...

1) Smart people who know how to take GPS information and couple it with some commonsense / a genuine interest in being a little self sufficient and a little clever about navigation.

2) People who don't care to know any better, and will simply treat them as a tool that prevents them from having to think. These are the kinds of people who will follow their GPS into a river / off a cliff / the wrong way on a one way street / etc.

When navigating in a foreign country or in a city i'm utterly unfamiliar with, the GPS is golden. But having only had a personal one for the last few months i'm working hard not to let it dilute my head-for-direction, by continuing to look at flat maps, find points of reference, and continue to let the 'relationships' between geographic locations build in my conciousness, particularly in my home city.

I've also found that GPS's don't always make smart navigation decisions; for example I don't believe that adding an additional 40% in distance for a theoretical 10% saving in time is actually smart driving, esp when that time saving is based on projected speed limits and doesn't deal to traffic, traffic lights, road works...

Yes. That closed ecosystem not only restricts your flexibility, but continues to support the opposition.

That said, I still see Apple's ecosystem as more poisonous. I'm willing to wear a small cost on top of my handset cost if my handset then gives me the feature I want (talking to Exchange, for example). OTOH it's not like I can opt-out of that... ... but it's still miles better than buying a Windows phone and spending a whole bunch more money on things that I can do just as well, and with my freedom intact, on another platform.

It could be argued that HTC have 'taken one for the team' but it is indeed criminal that they've had to do so in the first place.

+1 to everyone who thinks this is stupid. In particular given how significant HTML is to the web-as-we-know-it surely there must've been some consultation before making a call like this? With a cacaphony of "NO" coming through here (and very little, if any, support) one has to wonder....

mod parent up, case dismissed, nothing to see here, move along...

misleading blurbs FTL.

Pussyfoot around the wording all you like; "New Zealand ICT" is pretty descriptive all on its own. By their very name, they claim to be 'representative' when they're most clearly not.

One of the key issues with NZICT is that they claim to represent the New Zealand IT community, and yet in reality their membership is governed by commercial size - and of course, all the large outfits with precious few exceptions are the local chapters of the multinational giants (Microsoft, HP, et al).

So what this situation illustrates is

a) The Select Committee process is a joke (as it appears if you have sufficient clout, you can ignore it and go straight to the minister)
and
b) NZICT are shooting a good portion of New Zealand's home grown ICT industry in the foot, and pretending that it's for the good of the industry at large.

By and large the Patent world provides leverage for large firms with large patent portfolios and the budget to play in the legal marketplace. It hurts smaller firms who don't have the capital for prolonged legal battles. The arguments 'for' Patents are not entirely without merit (imho) but the arguments 'against' outweigh them by a mile - unless there's profit to be lost.

Yeah, what he said. Nice to see a sane comment on the subject. I'd have modded you up...

Maybe, and fair point, b ut it could've been mentioned as an aside and would've either been overlooked, or served as a warning to folks to hide their SSID's. If you provide fair warning to folks who then ignore the warning, they have nothing to rant about.

The fact that this has transpired 'on the sly' is half the problem .