OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[CGVT]

CG - All fine and good but realize the Death Star cares not about you they just want your $$$

LOL! But none of them give a shit about me. They all just want your $$$

[Sweatpants Murphy]

yes it is part of your EULA when you buy it.

Tether Berry customers have been threatened heavily by Verizon.

sprint and at&t also frown upon tethering. wireless companies would rather you pay $60/month for mobile broadband, which would be fine if they didn't limit your usage. 5 GB per month unless you get a work discount that qualifies for unlimited MBB.

as for tether berry...I installed it on my curve and only got something similar to dial up speed, but I imagine if I used a tour it would have been faster. a co-worker of mine had a htc touch pro with an app that turned the phone into a wifi hotspot and was never caught.

[Drew]

Drew - the iphone has been a boon to tmobile as they are the 2nd most predominant national GSM carrier next to AT&T. It is not illegal for them to support the device even though they do not sell it (yet)

I was just offering some logic as to why jailbreaking probably isn't illegal. Carriers other than AT&T such as t-mobil, sprint, verizon wouldn't allow you to hook up your i-phone if it was....right?

[Topweasel]

This is where I'm getting lost Top. You may think it silly of Coop to assume that the less technically able will be able to reset their jailbroken phone...I still don't understand why they need to jailbrake their phone.

I get that there are things that you can't do with a factory standard iPhone that maybe you should be able to do, but what is it that people need to do that they can't with a standard iPhone?

If I can't set the clock on my VCR, then does it matter whether or not my VCR can do scheduled recordings?

If you install an application and its deleted and you have to attempt to get a refund from the creator of the software even though it was apple who decided you shouldn't have it, that's all encompassing. If you want to run a second app the rest let you why not the "most versatile" smart phone.

I had a user at my current job just last week not understand that having 1.5 GB of available space on her laptop was killing her performance. But she wanted to be able to run 10 programs like everyone else.

To me its about consumer rights. I can't recommend the most restrictive product to users. I understand that our rights as consumers are going away and I can't tell others to purchase the devices that take them away the fastest. Its why I was an early adopter of HD-DVD.

[Topweasel]

yes it is part of your EULA when you buy it.

Tether Berry customers have been threatened heavily by Verizon.

Not quite a EULA is a non-binding contract. Its to minimize the trouble they could get into for taking action against you. Like the 2 million Xboxs banned for modding. Its not illegal to alter a piece of equipment you got but they can deny access to services they provide for making such mods. AT&T can disallow access to their phone and internet connections for jailbreaking your phone but they wouldn't get away with prosecuting someone for making alterations to their own product. Now a person providing Jailbreaking to the public might be a different scenario.

[Sweatpants Murphy]

I was just offering some logic as to why jailbreaking probably isn't illegal. Carriers other than AT&T such as t-mobil, sprint, verizon wouldn't allow you to hook up your i-phone if it was....right?

just t-mobile because, like at&t, it's a GSM network...sprint and verizon are CDMA

[Drew]

just t-mobile because, like at&t, it's a GSM network...sprint and verizon are CDMA

WDYS?

[Sweatpants Murphy]

HIJKLMNOP

[Drew]

Does anyone know how to get rid of the double underlined words on web pages that force pop-bubble ads, or is that part of the web-page?

[-Deborah-]

It's part of the web page, it's pretty damn annoying. I haven't seen a way to kill them yet.

[romster]

I mentioned in the past I had computer difficulties. Well, I got the thing back limping along but made plans to buy a new computer sometime in the near future probably closer to spring. The thing was 5 years old anyway.

My sister was here at Thanksgiving and she's real smart with computer hardware and configured my last computer for me. So she decides to configure a new one for me and it happened to be black Friday and she found a killer deal at Dell of 40% off. So I got an $800 desktop for $500.

I'm not sure exactly what I got other than a Dell with Windows 7 and a 20 inch monitor but holy cow! It is lightning fast. I had no idea what I've been missing.

[-Deborah-]

Nice!!

[The Ken]

go to belarc.com and it will tell you what you have

[DanO]

"My sister was here at Thanksgiving and she's real smart ................."
------------------------It's nice to know someone in the family is..........

GO LIONS "09" !!!!!!!!!

[CGVT]

Drew, I had one when I loaded a game from Facebook (I know, I know...) I googled remove whatever the add was and found out how to get rid of it. It was easy enough that I could do it, so it was really easy...