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Why do almost all major companies charge more for mobile laptop internet service than data plans for phones one the same network technology and hardware chips. Now my question is not about the rationale, I already know computer based users, on average, consume much more bandwidth resources and that justifies charging more. My question is really why do they do it considering it's incredibly easy to tether the computer to a modern smartphone using wifi, usb, or bluetooth without any possible way for the provider to find out. Even though that may be considered dishonest and what not, I think it actually makes the company seem dishonestly charging you more for something everyone can easily get without paying more. Besides tethering, I have heard simply puting the SIM card that was activated for a phone into the computer's hardware will acheive the same thing. And finally, on a related note, why do many companies charge more for "BlackBerry internet service" than other phones. Again, I'm not talking about compnanies with different 2G and 3G services, I'm talking about the majority of North American providers who are providing the exact same technology and service at different prices to BlackBerries, Laptops, and other smartphones at 3 different price points. The incredible ease of circumventing it undetectably (and arguably, with a good legal argument of ignorance or unfairness) makes it just seem to me that they are pathetically and hopelessly trying to over charge the "hopefully ignorant" customers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberto75780 ( talk • contribs) 00:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I have a powerpc mac (ie not intel) and was misled into downloading firefox 4, which does not work on my AMD architecture. Where do I find a universal version of firefox 3? Robinh ( talk) 06:38, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
(OP) I asked on the firefox help page and got this: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html (my comment was that googling didn't seem to help, which is corroborated by the responses here). There is also a third-party version at http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox (but I haven't tried it yet). Best wishes, Robinh ( talk) 07:12, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
As a form of chain letter in the form of mobile phone SMS, the SMS would usually contain interesting factoids or a sad emotional story promising the recipient good luck if they forward such SMS to ten hundred people (or bad luck if they dont). Is it true that these chain SMS was actually started by any mobile network operator in order to boost their revenue? I heard about this somewhere but I cant find info on this on the net. ќמшמφטтгמ torque 07:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Basically you're reporting a rumor you heard, and asking others to tell you whether it's true or false. You might be interested in TinyURL. Com/TruFut which will be a truth-futures market, whereby the uncontested buy/sell orders will establish a de facto estimate of truth-value of the rumor/allegation, and conflicting estimates will result in actual buy/sell transactions whereby the more-correct estimator ultimately gains funds at the expense of the person who was mistaken. 198.144.192.45 ( talk) 17:20, 28 March 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)
Hey, my Computer works Completely fine, exept for the 'C' button. It started with that button sometimes not working and then Coming bak to work again without problems and then it just stopped working again. It happened a few times before it now has stopped working for good, or so it seems... But when it worked it seems to do so just fine, and sinCe it had worked/not worked several times, then the button at least is not ruined or broken. Taking the "hood" of the button off and plaCe it bak on doesnt help either. Maybe it is some adjustments or Configuration needed to be done? It's impossible to write effetively without all buttons..
Any Clues as to what to do and what might be the problem?
All C's in this text has simply been Copied and pasted ofC..
Crossing my fingers that someone knows what to do. tnx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.121.35 ( talk) 08:42, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
tnx, tried that though. looks like my keyboard might be ready to be replaSed I guess.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.121.35 ( talk) 09:55, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Are there any free cross compilers like Javaground they only give you a 30 day trial and then you have to purchase the licence, I am looking to develop iphone apps using Windows, thanks Mo ainm ~Talk 15:49, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Heading says it all. Thanks 20.137.18.50 ( talk) 16:46, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm making a graph for a presentation that would be a bit more fun if I could have it animated in some way other than making the different series just appear as I click forward (which is easy to do in Keynote, for example).
The date is quite straightforward -- the X axis are years, the two columns in the Y axis are the values for two countries. The Y data starts out small but soon gets quite large — this is what I'd hope the animation would emphasize, by "zooming out" in some way to reflect the change of scale I go through the timeline.
None of the tools I have at my disposal (Powerpoint, Keynote, Excel, Numbers) seems to do this. Google Docs doesn't seem to. The Google Visualization API [6] doesn't seem to quite do it either.
Is there something obvious I am missing?
Again, just to help you understand what I want -- imagine I had a series that was something like:
1910 -- 2
1920 -- 4
1930 -- 8
1940 -- 30
1950 -- 300
1960 -- 2000
or something like that. If graphed on a line graph all at once, the small parts just look small. What I'd love is that if I showed only 1910-1920, the y axis would be modified so that its top was the max data. Then I click forward, and it adds the 1930-1940 data to the visible set, adjusting the axis. Then I click ahead and 1950-1960 get added, and now we're really bowled over, because we thought the previous jump was large, but it is really dwarfed by comparison. And so on, so that what seemed like a big deal originally ends up looking very small compared to the later trends.
Obviously I could just set it up to do this with a series of graphs, which is what I'll probably end up doing anyway. But it would be wonderful if there was some slick way that this sort of transition would be done automatically -- e.g. it would add the data and then "zoom" out a bit to adjust the axis. -- Mr.98 ( talk) 17:14, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
_ _ | | _ | | | | _ | | | | | | _ | | | | | | | | ^ _ | | | | | | | | | | | _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------------------------------------------->
I will be traveling to Kampala, Uganda for a few weeks this summer. I asked the local tour guide there and he said while there won' tbe WiFi access in the rooms that I will be staying, I can get a "wireless internet access card" that will help me access the Internet. What could this "wireless internet access card" be? Is it some sort of 3G modem card that will let my laptop access the Internet via cell phone towers much like the wireless hotspotting feature on my smartphone? If so, would anyone know roughly how much it will cost and how fast the service will be in a city like Kampala? Thanks. Acceptable ( talk) 22:08, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
You can also use an Iridium satellite phone to connect to the internet. Count Iblis ( talk) 15:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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Why do almost all major companies charge more for mobile laptop internet service than data plans for phones one the same network technology and hardware chips. Now my question is not about the rationale, I already know computer based users, on average, consume much more bandwidth resources and that justifies charging more. My question is really why do they do it considering it's incredibly easy to tether the computer to a modern smartphone using wifi, usb, or bluetooth without any possible way for the provider to find out. Even though that may be considered dishonest and what not, I think it actually makes the company seem dishonestly charging you more for something everyone can easily get without paying more. Besides tethering, I have heard simply puting the SIM card that was activated for a phone into the computer's hardware will acheive the same thing. And finally, on a related note, why do many companies charge more for "BlackBerry internet service" than other phones. Again, I'm not talking about compnanies with different 2G and 3G services, I'm talking about the majority of North American providers who are providing the exact same technology and service at different prices to BlackBerries, Laptops, and other smartphones at 3 different price points. The incredible ease of circumventing it undetectably (and arguably, with a good legal argument of ignorance or unfairness) makes it just seem to me that they are pathetically and hopelessly trying to over charge the "hopefully ignorant" customers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberto75780 ( talk • contribs) 00:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I have a powerpc mac (ie not intel) and was misled into downloading firefox 4, which does not work on my AMD architecture. Where do I find a universal version of firefox 3? Robinh ( talk) 06:38, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
(OP) I asked on the firefox help page and got this: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html (my comment was that googling didn't seem to help, which is corroborated by the responses here). There is also a third-party version at http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox (but I haven't tried it yet). Best wishes, Robinh ( talk) 07:12, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
As a form of chain letter in the form of mobile phone SMS, the SMS would usually contain interesting factoids or a sad emotional story promising the recipient good luck if they forward such SMS to ten hundred people (or bad luck if they dont). Is it true that these chain SMS was actually started by any mobile network operator in order to boost their revenue? I heard about this somewhere but I cant find info on this on the net. ќמшמφטтгמ torque 07:35, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Basically you're reporting a rumor you heard, and asking others to tell you whether it's true or false. You might be interested in TinyURL. Com/TruFut which will be a truth-futures market, whereby the uncontested buy/sell orders will establish a de facto estimate of truth-value of the rumor/allegation, and conflicting estimates will result in actual buy/sell transactions whereby the more-correct estimator ultimately gains funds at the expense of the person who was mistaken. 198.144.192.45 ( talk) 17:20, 28 March 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)
Hey, my Computer works Completely fine, exept for the 'C' button. It started with that button sometimes not working and then Coming bak to work again without problems and then it just stopped working again. It happened a few times before it now has stopped working for good, or so it seems... But when it worked it seems to do so just fine, and sinCe it had worked/not worked several times, then the button at least is not ruined or broken. Taking the "hood" of the button off and plaCe it bak on doesnt help either. Maybe it is some adjustments or Configuration needed to be done? It's impossible to write effetively without all buttons..
Any Clues as to what to do and what might be the problem?
All C's in this text has simply been Copied and pasted ofC..
Crossing my fingers that someone knows what to do. tnx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.121.35 ( talk) 08:42, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
tnx, tried that though. looks like my keyboard might be ready to be replaSed I guess.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.121.35 ( talk) 09:55, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Are there any free cross compilers like Javaground they only give you a 30 day trial and then you have to purchase the licence, I am looking to develop iphone apps using Windows, thanks Mo ainm ~Talk 15:49, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Heading says it all. Thanks 20.137.18.50 ( talk) 16:46, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm making a graph for a presentation that would be a bit more fun if I could have it animated in some way other than making the different series just appear as I click forward (which is easy to do in Keynote, for example).
The date is quite straightforward -- the X axis are years, the two columns in the Y axis are the values for two countries. The Y data starts out small but soon gets quite large — this is what I'd hope the animation would emphasize, by "zooming out" in some way to reflect the change of scale I go through the timeline.
None of the tools I have at my disposal (Powerpoint, Keynote, Excel, Numbers) seems to do this. Google Docs doesn't seem to. The Google Visualization API [6] doesn't seem to quite do it either.
Is there something obvious I am missing?
Again, just to help you understand what I want -- imagine I had a series that was something like:
1910 -- 2
1920 -- 4
1930 -- 8
1940 -- 30
1950 -- 300
1960 -- 2000
or something like that. If graphed on a line graph all at once, the small parts just look small. What I'd love is that if I showed only 1910-1920, the y axis would be modified so that its top was the max data. Then I click forward, and it adds the 1930-1940 data to the visible set, adjusting the axis. Then I click ahead and 1950-1960 get added, and now we're really bowled over, because we thought the previous jump was large, but it is really dwarfed by comparison. And so on, so that what seemed like a big deal originally ends up looking very small compared to the later trends.
Obviously I could just set it up to do this with a series of graphs, which is what I'll probably end up doing anyway. But it would be wonderful if there was some slick way that this sort of transition would be done automatically -- e.g. it would add the data and then "zoom" out a bit to adjust the axis. -- Mr.98 ( talk) 17:14, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
_ _ | | _ | | | | _ | | | | | | _ | | | | | | | | ^ _ | | | | | | | | | | | _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------------------------------------------->
I will be traveling to Kampala, Uganda for a few weeks this summer. I asked the local tour guide there and he said while there won' tbe WiFi access in the rooms that I will be staying, I can get a "wireless internet access card" that will help me access the Internet. What could this "wireless internet access card" be? Is it some sort of 3G modem card that will let my laptop access the Internet via cell phone towers much like the wireless hotspotting feature on my smartphone? If so, would anyone know roughly how much it will cost and how fast the service will be in a city like Kampala? Thanks. Acceptable ( talk) 22:08, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
You can also use an Iridium satellite phone to connect to the internet. Count Iblis ( talk) 15:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)