The Phone Systems

[norsenerd]

What if you bedroom windowfaces the bridge? Huh? Waht then? Yeah. I thought so.

[Ozymandias]

You can't look up at the required angle, probably.<br><br>A bridge that changes colour, eh...gotta get me one of them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[IRT_BMT_IND]

I unlocked my cell phone. If you have a Nokia, it is just a simple as typing in a code.<br>In places such as Europe and Asia, Landlines are almost gone (mainly due to cost, it costs almost 300 dollars US to have a phone line set up if you live in Japan). everyone there uses cell phones instead.

[Ozymandias]

I wouldn't say that...its a bit sweeping tbh. Whilst mobile phones are very popular the humble landline is far from extinct. And yes, a landline is very expensive to put in anywhere around the world. But most houses come with them equiped. Orange tried to do a "Use ur mobile as a home phone" a while back over here in Yurop, but it never took off.

[Softpaw]

I have a landline phone that's infinitely more reliable than my cellphone, which is an old POS. The only perk to the cell is that it costs the same for long distance as it does for local, but I might look into a better long-distance plan for my landline phone.<br><br>And no, I will not be giving out either number to y'all

[norsenerd]

I use phone cards for my land line long distance. They're usualy cheeper and less hastle. I knwo a few poeple who have no land line phone servise dispite havign a land line. They only use their mobile.

[Ozymandias]

I don't phone long distance - i have no need to. Mobile calls to other networks cost waaaaaay too much, and besides - if there were no landlines, how would you get (good) internet?

[norsenerd]

Most of the people who dont; use a land line have a cable modom. Some fo them have an ethernet conection.

[Ozymandias]

I stick by the landline because you don't require another power supply to your telephone if u use it.

[UltimateVG]

<!--QuoteBegin-Henohenomoheji+Jun 23 2004, 01:15 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Henohenomoheji @ Jun 23 2004, 01:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-norsenerd+Jun 23 2004, 11:02 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (norsenerd @ Jun 23 2004, 11:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Were the normal phones running during the blackout? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>why, do you smell a conspiracy? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Not a comspiracy, just the fact that phone lines carry a electrical charge. Now if only there was enough to power the freaking caller I.D. so I wouldn't have to change the batteries, then I would be set.<br><br>90% of the time I don't answer the phone as nowadays it's mainly colleges who want me to attend there. One college actually turned me off to them because they called me so damn much.

[Ozymandias]

(wow who would've thought a thread about <i>phones</i> of all things would get so much response? Not I....)<br><br>I don't use a caller ID. But there again, I don't get a load of random colleges phoning me either. We did get a lot of builders after we had some work done, but we just changed our number. That worked, except Natwest keep phoning us to talk about unpaid loans. The person who had our current number musn't have informed them of the change.

[IRT_BMT_IND]

the fact that normal phones run during a blackout is being used in Bell Canada's new advertising campaign.

[Ozymandias]

Really? I can't believe that! The phones would run whoever was in charge of them! They must really be struggling for something to shout about...

[norsenerd]

"Warnign, weltdown, take cover."<br><br>"Hehe. The joke on them! If there were a mealtdown there would be no power to light that sign."

[Ozymandias]

yeah, the simpsons. <br><br>I fully support Nuclear Power btw