I've never owned a cell phone (or palm or similar device). What I really want is portable instant messaging with everyone I care about connected, but that's not going to happen. A cell phone would seem to be a reasonable substitute at my end.
What's J2ME, and why do you want it to be enabled but not actually in service?
Rude people bug me, so while I don't know that I wouldn't end up being rude at times, I'd certainly strive to avoid it. My husband had to get a cell phone as part of his job almost a year ago, and he uses it very little -- so there's hope.
By the way, I can assure you that if I ever did get a cell phone, it wouldn't ring during Shabbat or Yom Tov services. :-) (Well, it could ring at home, which would be technically "during", but it wouldn't be present...)
I think it *is* possible to have a cell phone without rudeness -- I did for years (or at least I like to think so...):-)
And, just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean it has to be on...most have free voice mail, so you can leave it off and periodically check messages.
I am contemplating getting one too -- mostly so Ralph and I can reach each other while I'm at school.
Ok, I will accept that theoretically, one can avoid having ones manners dissapear while one owns a cellphone. Perhaps the people who I see every day being incredibly rude were that way all along, and I just don't notice the people using cellphones politely, because they're not in my face. But I'm not totally convinced about this...
Well, polite people who use cell phones unobtrusively fade out of view pretty much by definition, yes? You'd have to make a conscious effort to pay attention to everyone around you in order to tally up what proportion of users are rude about it (at least when you're watching).
Mind, I suspect that the results of such a study would be depressing. I think I'd rather not actually know...
And I will agree that there are many, many rude people with cell phones. Like my classmates (I'm in grad school) who are so important that they can't turn their phones off in class, folks who answer their phones in the library computer lab and proceed to have a conversation...it's very frustrating.
What's J2ME, and why do you want it to be enabled but not actually in service?
J2ME = Java 2 Micro Edition. I should've written "J2ME/MIDP", which would specify Java that will run on your cell phone. Not every phone out there can run J2ME/MIDP; in fact, very few in the US can. And Java's cool, so of course it should be turned on.
By the way, I can assure you that if I ever did get a cell phone, it wouldn't ring during Shabbat or Yom Tov services.
Of course, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I think I was getting a bit carried away. :-)
Ah. So if you don't want the phone service anyway, why not just get a PDA instead? (I'm blithely assuming that at least some of them support Java by now...)
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Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 10:56 am (UTC)What's J2ME, and why do you want it to be enabled but not actually in service?
Rude people bug me, so while I don't know that I wouldn't end up being rude at times, I'd certainly strive to avoid it. My husband had to get a cell phone as part of his job almost a year ago, and he uses it very little -- so there's hope.
By the way, I can assure you that if I ever did get a cell phone, it wouldn't ring during Shabbat or Yom Tov services. :-) (Well, it could ring at home, which would be technically "during", but it wouldn't be present...)
Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 01:04 pm (UTC)And, just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean it has to be on...most have free voice mail, so you can leave it off and periodically check messages.
I am contemplating getting one too -- mostly so Ralph and I can reach each other while I'm at school.
Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 01:50 pm (UTC)Mind, I suspect that the results of such a study would be depressing. I think I'd rather not actually know...
Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 04:15 pm (UTC)Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-13 01:39 pm (UTC)J2ME = Java 2 Micro Edition. I should've written "J2ME/MIDP", which would specify Java that will run on your cell phone. Not every phone out there can run J2ME/MIDP; in fact, very few in the US can. And Java's cool, so of course it should be turned on.
By the way, I can assure you that if I ever did get a cell phone, it wouldn't ring during Shabbat or Yom Tov services.
Of course, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I think I was getting a bit carried away. :-)
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Date: 2002-02-13 01:52 pm (UTC)Ah. So if you don't want the phone service anyway, why not just get a PDA instead? (I'm blithely assuming that at least some of them support Java by now...)
Re: Java
Date: 2002-02-18 11:21 am (UTC)