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T-Mobile HotSpot users will get five years of Starbucks WiFi access after AT&T switchover {Engadget}
Feb 12th 2008 6:04PM True, but the TM HotSpot ubiquity was the reason I bought into the UMA concept. Plus it just picks up the HS location and switches right over without issue or fuss. You have to admit this is a significant dent in the case for using their UMA service--especially for a fee.
T-Mobile HotSpot users will get five years of Starbucks WiFi access after AT&T switchover {Engadget}
Feb 12th 2008 5:49PM what about the HotSpot phone service (UMA) from TMobile? That was the major reason I bought my Curve and now it sounds like my phone's going to grow less useful less than 4 months into its life.
Music Thing: VW's free guitar deal {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2006 2:37AM There's nothing cool about Slash selling out for a has-been car manufacturer hawking a cruddy guitar to go along with its lame car. I guess the Velvet Revolver thing isn't paying too much. Shame. Wonder what Gibson thinks about Slash playing this Playskool guitar when they've dumped tons of cash into his ass on the stage and in their custom shop.
No Loitering, Fifteen Minute Parking: Crystal Cove car show threatened by The Irvine Co. {Autoblog}
Oct 4th 2006 1:54AM Somebody isn't shooting straight here. I think there's something hidden in the message from Irvine Company (other than the obvious "F U!" to the attendees) and the city government. I'm positive it has something to do with somebody on the hill complaining. (I'm sure it won't be long before PCH traffic is blocked between the hours of 9PM and 9AM if they have it their way--except for their use of course.) I've spent nearly every Saturday at that show since mid-last year and there's nothing "out of control" at the show. It's cleared out by 9 and most of the businesses there open well after that. There's no backed up traffic into PCH, no lines to get into the center, no jammed traffic in the center, no problem with parking (even after the pricks at Trader Joes blocked "their" portion of th parking lot).
I lived in Laguna Beach when the side of the beautiful hill started to get developed by the Irvine Company years ago. It was the best piece of coastline left south of Malibu and it's been taken for overpriced tract homes, Starbucks and Gap--and now apparently not for anybody else's use. I now live in Irvine and mountain bike what's left of that coastal section every day. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't see more development coming closer to the "protected" land and animals (though I see less of the animals these days). I'd certainly consider myself "pro-environment" but I'm not for unreasonable development. What I can't stand is a system of government that works in collusion with big companies to serve, not the interests of all citizens, but those willing to pay the most to get representation. It's a shame and should be a learning lesson for us all. Let them take and inch and you better be ready to bend over and tell them who's daddy.
I'm not sure where the owners of these fine cars and motorcycles live, but I can promise you the majority are from the local area and I know for a fact that many are from Laguna Beach (#8) including some of the greatest contributors to the car culture of southern California. #8, it might be $5M for one of those tract homes on the hill (thanks for the correction and I'm sure you'll let us know that you fly first class, have a Platinum Amex, your kid attends private school and the rest of us eat piss for dinner--such attitude) but that $5M home (which is probably plummeting quickly towards $3M) should have no more representation in government (and let's be honest, the Irvine Co seems to be the real government on the Irvine Ranch) than someone coughing up an honest week's worth of wages in rent.
Sure, it's private property. Sure, it was nice of them to host for the last 3 years. It sure isn't nice of them to kick us out now that the land behind the shopping center is more than the dust bowl it was for the last 6 years. It's just too damn bad the Irvine Co is the local monopoly. Organizing any kind of boycott against them would result in your shriveling to nothingness from starvation.
I wonder if the state of California would be interested in letting us organize at the Los Trancos parking lot for a nominal fee of some sort.
DirecTV's HD DVR coming in August? {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2006 2:16PM I have yet to see a single HD DVR perform well in tests. They crash worse than most anything I've ever seen out of Redmond.
Unpacking the Motorola Q {Engadget Mobile}
May 24th 2006 2:01PM How many times has it crashed? Lock up when the phone rings? Crappy Bluetooth reception? Chokes when you're using another application and the phone rings? Poor RF? Come on, be honest.
US issues first RFID passports {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2006 3:21PM Read 1984? Are you kidding? The average American isn't even reading 2006.
