Reach out and touch someone

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I have 2 land lines at the house. One is a regular line. The other is a "Digital Subscriber Line". Then there are the mobiles.

Hey Chris. I live at a digital data center. 24/7/365 total access. LMAO AND LOL.

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Or a cell phone or cable connection...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I've got a 3x cordless phone landline system here on mains power, but I also have an older line powered phone for blackouts.

Cheers.

I have Vonage for my home phone service; and I have an AT&T cordless phone system. (A base unit with answering machine, and four cordless handsets.) If power goes out; I have my Vonage voicemail ready to take calls. When power is restored, my AT&T system will tell me if there are any VM's to be retrieved. I haven't had a traditional corded phone for years; however, I do see the need and potential use for it on traditional land line service. However; with Vonage, even a traditional corded phone is useless in a power outage, because the Vonage device needs power and internet to run.

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When I first learned that there was no dial tone on my line without actual phone service, i got a Magic Jack. Plugged it into a computer and signed up. Plugged all the phone wiring in the house into it. Worked fine. Computer and router on a UPS so I would still have phone in case of power outage. Also got a cordless system that not only plugs into a regular phone jack, it also connects to my cell via bluetooth. That way, when I get home I can plug the cell in and leave it, and use the cordless handsets. I also ran an extension cord from the cordless base to the UPS so it would still work. All fine and dandy, until the UPS batteries crapped out. One of these days, I should replace them or the whole unit. And then the city of Naperville said to have the Magic Jack registered with their 911 system, I have to pay a fee. Plus Magic Jack raised its rates, so I just dropped it. (It's still damn cheap; I just decided I don't need it.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

When I first learned that there was no dial tone on my line without actual phone service, i got a Magic Jack. Plugged it into a computer and signed up. Plugged all the phone wiring in the house into it. Worked fine. Computer and router on a UPS so I would still have phone in case of power outage. Also got a cordless system that not only plugs into a regular phone jack, it also connects to my cell via bluetooth. That way, when I get home I can plug the cell in and leave it, and use the cordless handsets. I also ran an extension cord from the cordless base to the UPS so it would still work. All fine and dandy, until the UPS batteries crapped out. One of these days, I should replace them or the whole unit. And then the city of Naperville said to have the Magic Jack registered with their 911 system, I have to pay a fee. Plus Magic Jack raised its rates, so I just dropped it. (It's still damn cheap; I just decided I don't need it.)

Where I live Verizon doesn't replace landlines with new copper, they want to abandon in place landlines, so service got worse and worse, eventually I moved to a cell phone w/Verizon, now I have a cell phone with Virgin Mobile, $20 for 400 minutes and no contract.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I got a cell phone because the land line people
were charging $45.oo a month Canadian!
($12.53 USD)

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I got a cell phone because the land line people
were charging $45.oo a month Canadian!
($12.53 USD)

I am almost $80 a month for the landline but that includes internet and unlimited calling with caller id and forwarding. Because the line might be used to make business calls, I need a clean, Reliable line and from what I have seen of voice over IP, it could use improvement. One day Grainger lost their server and it took out their ordering system and all of their communications. I couldn't call them to place an order or even find out what was wrong. I drove down their to place an order in person and the best I could do was to leave the information and have them enter the order when everything came up. Yes, they made a mistake on the order. I wanted two and they gave me one. Good thing the second one was intended as a spare.

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I got a cell phone because the land line people
were charging $45.oo a month Canadian!
($12.53 USD)

I think you are a bit off on your conversion Ian;)

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I got a cell phone because the land line people
were charging $45.oo a month Canadian!
($12.53 USD)

I think you are a bit off on your conversion Ian;)

Current prices are:
45.00 CAD / 39.63 USD

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I think you are a bit off on your conversion Ian;)

Whoops....

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Maxwell Smart voice, "Missed by this much." :-D

Cheers.

I read in the latest Scientific American, that (my guess) in about two years,
electronic devices will able to be charged without the use of a power cord.
The "wireless" portion will be ultrasound transmission, from a power-ultrasound
box, to a ultrasound-power box on the particular device.

As an aside -- I wonder how the inventors will figure out how to avoid
driving nearby dogs crazy.

I read in the latest Scientific American, that (my guess) in about two years,
electronic devices will able to be charged without the use of a power cord.
The "wireless" portion will be ultrasound transmission, from a power-ultrasound
box, to a ultrasound-power box on the particular device.

As an aside -- I wonder how the inventors will figure out how to avoid
driving nearby dogs crazy.

And I wonder how safe this is for anyone?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Why wait 2 years, when you can buy it now?

Of course it is terribly wasteful of energy, and generates all sorts of RF fields we don't really understand yet, but hey. That hasn't stopped us before.

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They appear to all be magnetic coupling devices, for power transfer.
The ultrasonic ones are not, supposedly, plagued with the drop-off of
intensity, with distance, but -- there might be some other safety issues
to resolve. I'd have to read more. . .

Ultra-sound obeys the inverse square law as RF. Its just that they start with a much higher energy density so you don't notice it as much

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

How much better is than the current inductive charging?

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Rob -- You might read, "Wireless Charging with Sound Waves", by Meredith Perry,
p. 52, the Scientific American, Dec. 2014 issue.