Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:00:28 -0500, Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In rec.arts.sf.science Chuk Goodin <cgoodin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> My phone actually takes a significant fraction of a minute to go from 
>> "off" to "ready to use" (and a few more seconds after that to hook into

>> the local cellular network), and the media player can take more than a 
>> minute to open particularly large (like, hundreds of megabytes, not 
>> gigabytes) directories.
>
>Most phones take a long time to become ready when turning them on, but
the 
>way most of them are used you should basically never have to turn them 
>off. My phone gets turned off when taking commercial flights and that's 
>basically all.

Yeah, mine is very rarely actually turned off either.
-- 
chuk