Microsoft doesn't back up its data? That's potentially problematic.
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Calli - Oct 11, 2009 5:47:40 am PDT #11334 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2009 6:05:19 am PDT #11335 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Did someone stick a fridge magnet on the server again?
le nubian - Oct 11, 2009 6:16:59 am PDT #11336 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Umm? What Jensen said.
le nubian - Oct 11, 2009 6:20:40 am PDT #11337 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Here's a comment on the engadget page about the story:
If tmobile thinks that they can buy me off with a 19.99 credit after losing every phone # contact i gathered for the last 3-5 years of my life they are sorely mistaken. Class actions here we come. Goodbye tmobile, goodbye sidekick. This is more than unacceptable. Other then this post i am absolutely speechless from rage.
Jessica - Oct 11, 2009 6:27:34 am PDT #11338 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My boss' non-work phone is a Sidekick. Luckily she's got everything backed up at home.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 8:47:20 am PDT #11339 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you guys locally back up your phones? I have no doubt that I'd be expecting Microsoft to back up their service to me, but I'm still pretty OCD about it--my contacts and calendar and to do list are duplicated once on the Mac and once on the PC, aside from an actual phone backup on the PC.
Liese S. - Oct 11, 2009 8:54:43 am PDT #11340 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't. But I'm not in the applicable user group. My phone was free with purchase of contract and doesn't connect to my computer in any way.
I would still be pretty pissed if I lost all my contact info. So I should probably do something manually, huh?
Tom Scola - Oct 11, 2009 8:58:05 am PDT #11341 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
With a Sidekick, I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box. The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 9:02:33 am PDT #11342 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think there's a way to back up your data out of the box
Panic stations.
The Sidekick is a dumb terminal that is tethered to their servers.
You're basically running VNC or its ilk?
::clutches E61i tightly::
Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2009 4:39:17 pm PDT #11343 of 25501
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart