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Tom Scola - Jul 02, 2007 9:54:22 am PDT #2066 of 25496

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The more I read able CableCard, the more confused I get. I'm sure that's exactly how the cable companies want it.

Check out this article, for instance.

The FCC can set all the deadlines they want, but the cable companies and 3rd party manufacturers are just going to keep pointing fingers at each other.

§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 9:58:05 am PDT #2067 of 25496

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oy. My brain is broken.

Jessica - Jul 03, 2007 5:17:53 am PDT #2068 of 25496

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Dear Treo,

Your repeated failure this morning to send picture text messages accompanied by your random restarting is really not helping your case for not being traded in for an iPhone. Don't push your luck.

Love,

Your human master

Tom Scola - Jul 03, 2007 5:23:55 am PDT #2069 of 25496

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I'm pretty sure I signed a new contract with Sprint last fall, but according to Sprint's website, my contract expired in 2005.

Hmmm....

§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 9:10:36 am PDT #2070 of 25496

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Strange thing here. I have an Access table that swears the column type is integer, but there are text values in it. But this means I can't use it in a WHERE clause of a SELECT statement.

On the one hand, I'm trying to work out how it got that way. In the meanwhile--anyone seen anything like that? I need that query, dammit.

eta: Never mind. Something's linked weird so that browsing the table doesn't show you the integer value--instead it shows you the text value cross-referenced from another table. Huh. I didn't know you could do that.

NoiseDesign - Jul 03, 2007 9:34:53 am PDT #2071 of 25496

Our wings are not tired

Just to help the case I'm loving my iPhone.

Jessica - Jul 03, 2007 10:46:51 am PDT #2072 of 25496

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

How's the stripped down OSX, ND?

NoiseDesign - Jul 03, 2007 11:10:31 am PDT #2073 of 25496

Our wings are not tired

It works really well. It is OS X but it is all locked down so the user can't get to any of the os bits.

Jessica - Jul 04, 2007 3:17:23 am PDT #2074 of 25496

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Maybe I'll go to the Apple Store today and see if I can play with one. I can't afford it and I'm still under contract with Verizon, but....want.

ION, I'm having an issue with Google apps (Gmail and Reader). At some point in the past week or so they've stopped automatically opening external links in new tabs, which was a feature I really appreciated. I can't find a setting to switch it back in any of the help menus. Anyone else having this problem and fixed it? (Or could it be a Firefox issue and not a Google one?)

NoiseDesign - Jul 04, 2007 3:31:39 am PDT #2075 of 25496

Our wings are not tired

I can certainly say the I'm very impressed with my iPhone. Make no mistake about how locked down Apple has made it though. It works they way they want it to and there is no real way to add anything. Hopefully that will change eventually but even with that limitation it is doing the main things I need my phone to do and it is doing them very well.

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