Are you unlocking it yourself, or is your cell phone provider doing it? Cingular informed me this week that I can have my phone unlocked for free just by filling out a form with them. I'm not aware of any risks other than losing money in unlocking scams on the internet.
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Wolfram - Dec 13, 2005 11:28:02 am PST #5969 of 10003
Visilurking
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 11:31:55 am PST #5970 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cingular informed me this week that I can have my phone unlocked for free just by filling out a form with them.
Really? Then I guess the risk is minimal, or at least documented.
I wish I'd had the phone unlocked in Kenya. Or even known it was locked -- I didn't even find out until I tried a purchased SIM.
I want mine unlocked on principle. I paid enough for this bitch.
NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2005 11:50:32 am PST #5971 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
It's an unofficial release, but folks might be interested in Google Earth For OS X.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 11:55:07 am PST #5972 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, NASA has something similar.
I want a Google Solar System. Just type the planet or moon's name, and you fly there.
Or Google Galaxy, while I'm at it.
There actually is a program like this, but I didn't like the interface much. Then the PC that I installed the demo on died.
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 12:05:30 pm PST #5973 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Consuela - Dec 13, 2005 12:07:01 pm PST #5974 of 10003
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I can't run Google Earth on my work computer; it keeps crashing. So sad.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2005 12:12:11 pm PST #5975 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's Celestia:
Oh cool - I didn't know about that one.
Open source too, so if there's something about it that sucks I have an alternative to whining about it.
Jon B. - Dec 13, 2005 12:55:26 pm PST #5976 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Has anyone here ever unlocked their phone?
For Luddites like me who are cellphone-less, what does this mean?
evil jimi - Dec 13, 2005 1:13:51 pm PST #5977 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
This is a bit late but going back to Jon's request for help re the large file. There is another alternative; bittorrent. The BT client, Azureus has its own internal tracker, which is used in conjuction with a site such as dyndns.com. The "tracker" can be password protected so that, on the very remote chance, someone else finds the URI, they still can't access the page.
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 1:14:41 pm PST #5978 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
US cellphones are all software-tied to the vendor. I could get a Razr from T Mobile and not be able to use it with my Cingular SIM because of some subsidy code or crap they have in the software. So when I went to Kenya, I bought a local SIM, but couldn't use it in my phone.
Unlocked, with the software code, you can transfer just by moving your card from SIM-enabled phone to SIM-enabled phone. Your phone number moves with you, as well as any address book entries (in a stripped down format) that you saved to the card.