Do you still have a land line?

[Buffy]

Monogram patterns have already been worn out by numerous designers and are soooo yesterday. Leather is timeless. :hihi:

Well, its still gotta have *some* identifiable mark on it. I do appreciate subtlety though, and if there's a "mark" that appears more often in my closet its a Gucci snaffle bit. Of course anyone with taste will be able to spot a Hermes scarf halfway down Fifth Avenue....

 

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery, :shrug:

Buffy

[sanctus]

An option is missing in the poll: I do not have a mobile phone at all (kind of principle, why would I waint to be joinable all the time?)...only land line. But you have to know that I'm a big exception in Switzerland too...

[freeztar]

An option is missing in the poll: I do not have a mobile phone at all (kind of principle, why would I waint to be joinable all the time?)...only land line.

 

So you would be choice #1 or 2. I don't understand why you think there is an option missing.

 

As far as mobile phones are concerned, I know several people who refuse to get one because they don't want to be able to be contacted at any time. It's a simple objection to overcome though, just don't pick up your phone if you don't want to. :)

[InfiniteNow]

As far as mobile phones are concerned, I know several people who refuse to get one because they don't want to be able to be contacted at any time. It's a simple objection to overcome though, just don't pick up your phone if you don't want to. :)

 

There's more to it than that. Over at Swans On Tea today, an interesting post was made about Large Sibling. Check it out, I'll be watching. :eek:

[Buffy]

There's more to it than that. Over at Swans On Tea today, an interesting post was made about Large Sibling. Check it out, I'll be watching. :eek:

This locator function is something you can disable on many phones: I know I have it off on my Razr. On the latest iPhone update, they added a feature that does this cell-triangulation to give your approximate position for *yourself*, and I haven't found the "off" switch for it.

 

With The Patriot Act of course, I'm sure that the powers that be are using this heavily, and can probably override any blocks you may have set.

 

I also am under the impression that 3G (now common on the other side of teh pond, where this post seems to come from) makes all of this much worse.

 

You have no privacy, get over it, :)

Buffy

[Buffy]

Seriously, NO ONE here uses VOIP (that's "Cable TV Phone" folks)???

 

Thank you for your time, you've been so much more than kind, :)

Buffy

[freeztar]

There's more to it than that. Over at Swans On Tea today, an interesting post was made about Large Sibling. Check it out, I'll be watching. :)

 

I'm not really concerned about this. I have to agree with Uncle Al's response there.

 

Also, this would only work if your cell phone is on.

[InfiniteNow]

Seriously, NO ONE here uses VOIP (that's "Cable TV Phone" folks)???

 

Many of my co-workers who have signed up for the company's official "work at home" program have it, as it's mandated by the company (who pays for it) to ensure no disconnect in service. I still keep my chair and my desk onsite though, so haven't signed up.... yet.

[CraigD]

Until a few years ago, I had 2 landlines, a relic of the days when I needed a dedicated line for a dialup modem connection to an ISP or various work hosts. This after suffering hair-rending frustration during the time I spent most of my time on a call-back dialup server (your call it, enter a code, and it calls you back), and also had call waiting (which could only be disabled by punching in a * code with the phone off-hook, when originating, not receiving a call), and a modem that would drop connections using protocols like telnet on a call waiting tone. Ah, the good old 20th century!

 

Along with housemates, my youngest son (24) got his first landline last year, when the last unsecured wifi within range of his house went away. I suggested they all just emigrate to Starbucks, but apparently their at-home lifestyle isn’t Starbucks-appropriate enough for that. ;)

 

The coolest among us might be people who live in public wifi land (eg: Philadelphia PA USA) and use VOIP for everything. I’ve not yet met such a person.

 

I no longer us my home landline for any work-related calls. The only problem I’ve had with this is forgetting to keep a charge on my mobile during a long call, and leaving the house to discover it’s nearly dead.

 

I’ve a general gripe that, as mobile phones have shunk to sub-STrek communicator dimensions, nothing on the market has taken advantage of it by filling some of the old space and mass with more battery. I’d pay a premium for such a phone, and suspect that many like-minded folk would also, but have yet to see one advertised. The invisible hand of the capitalism is sometimes inscrutable.

[Southtown]

Do you still have a land line?

Off and on. lol

 

Ps I thought it was called LAN line? Probly wrong though since it'd actually be wan, huh?

[TheBigDog]

I switched to Vonage a couple of years ago so I guess I am the first VOIP guy. We also use VOIP at our office. I have internet through my cable provider, but I don't subscribe to cable. I have a Blackberry for work.

 

Bill

[Moontanman]

No, I had the last of them removed a couple of years ago. I used to have them around the perimeter of the yard but over the years the neighbors complained about the explosions and stray dog parts raining down all over their roofs. I kinda miss them, it made visiting the neighbors a lot more exciting kept my kids in the yard and made the neighborhood kids (the ones that survived) much better at reading a map:evil:

[Buffy]

No, I had the last of them removed a couple of years ago...

 

Well, the PETA folks--or the black helicopters from the HSA--will be at your door in the morning now...

 

Oh that's very different, :rolleyes:

Buffy

[Moontanman]

Well, the PETA folks--or the black helicopters from the HSA--will be at your door in the morning now...

 

Oh that's very different, :rolleyes:

Buffy

 

Oh my god! they are circling the house now, four no five helicopters! Please have mercy, I only got one letter wrong, please... my spell checker was only off by one stinking letter! They're getting lower, oh no, they are colliding with each other, oh dear god what a horrible carnage! Nothing left but a huge pile of flames and smoking rotors.... Humpf.... they must not have been black helicopters, maybe all they could get tonight was the gray training helicopters.....

[Buffy]

Don't worry, the HSA can only afford the Keystone Cops these days... :cheer:

 

Oh the humanity, :rolleyes:

Buffy

[sanctus]

Ok, freez you are right option 1 or 2, but what is exactly a land line and what is the difference between local and long distance? I thought it was just a normal (=no mobile) phone, but then I don't get what a local normal phone would be...

 

As for your easy trick, the problem is not that I'm reachable all the times properly speaking, but that if I have a mobile, people expect me to be reachable all time... for example someone knows I'm traveling by train to somewhere and hence they know I hear the phone (or see the missed call in the following hour) and hence they expect me to answer.

I have exactly this attitude, every time I call someone on a mobile and he/she doesn't reply I get upset because I say "you have a mobile so you have to be reachable, so why the (...) don't you answer".

[Becca]

i know what you mean Sanctus, it's hard not to get annoyed when people don't answer their mobiles because you know that they're almost always in their pockets. i don't mind being contactable at all time of the day and night because nobody really calls me. honestly most of my calls are for my boyfriend because he is one of those annoying people who don't answer their phones. GGRRRRRRRR.