Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.

However, all these activities have died out during the 1980s, when the phone network switched to digitally controlled switchboards, causing network hacking to shift to dialing remote computers with modems, when pre-assembled inexpensive home computers were available, and when academic institutions started to give individual mass-produced workstation computers to scientists instead of using a central timesharing system.

For example, if the user dials " 6 " on a North American phone, electrical contacts wired through the cam mechanism inside the phone will open and close six times as the dial returns to home position, thus sending six pulses to the central office.

Soon after the Dolphins ' win in the AFC Championship Game, Shula received a phone call at his home from President Richard M. Nixon at 1: 30 in the morning.

IP set-top boxes have a built-in home network interface that can be Ethernet or one of the existing wire home networking technologies such as HomePNA or the ITU-T G. hn standard, which provides a way to create a high-speed ( up to 1Gbit / s ) local area network using existing home wiring ( power lines, phone lines, and coaxial cables ).

The ITU-T G. hn standard, which provides high-speed local area networking over existing home wiring ( power lines, phone lines and coaxial cables ) is based on a TDMA scheme.

This can sometimes happen at home too, if you pick up your phone to make a call out at the exact second that a call is about to start ringing in.

* The ITU-T G. hn standard, which provides a way to create a high-speed ( up to 1 Gigabit / s ) local area network using existing home wiring ( power lines, phone lines and coaxial cables ), uses CSMA / CA as a channel access method for flows that don't require guaranteed quality of service, specifically the CSMA / CARP variant.

This allowed for extensions to be made for the mobile phone environment, and allowed mobile phone operators to offer the same IN services to subscribers while they are roaming as they receive in the home network.

The ITU-T G. hn standard provides a way to create a high-speed ( up to 1 Gigabit / s ) local area network using existing home wiring ( power lines, phone lines and coaxial cables ).

It not only connects POTS phone lines with the rest of the PSTN, but also replaces DSL by connecting directly to Ethernet wired into the home.

He returns home and ignores the ringing phone.

Once he shone on his own, now he sits home alone and waits for the phone to ring.

Dewey would be killed while he made his daily morning call to his office from a pay phone near his home.

When he and other friends could not get an answer on the phone or from knocking on his door, they finally broke into his Beverly Hills, California home where Lynde was found dead in his bed.

Various methods can be associated with the object, such as a method to return the preferred phone number, the home address, and so on.

While John is in the detective's store, Melissa makes a phone call to him but is cut short when Screwface and his men invade into Hatcher's home and attempts to murder Melissa but they leave upon Hatcher's arrival.

to phone home.

He gets Elliott's help in building a device to " phone home " by using a Speak & Spell toy.

* The ITU-T G. hn standard, which provides a way to create a high-speed ( up to 1 gigabit per second ) Local area network using existing home wiring ( power lines, phone lines and coaxial cables ).

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

He was about to hang up the phone, but a note of hesitancy in the secretary's voice left the conversation open.

I was saved from making the decision as the phone rang, and the girls were upon me instantly.

Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

An excited woman was making an emergency call over the phone: `` Doctor, please come over right away.

The research team was concerned that responses from firms in the state of Washington might not be typical of those throughout the country, or that the results might be different when no phone or personal follow-up was made.

There was even a bare chance that the phone had not been disconnected.

Rourke was talking on the phone when he came back.

It was marked by controversy, anonymous midnight phone calls and veiled threats of violence.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

It was past midnight and we were in bed when the phone rang.

This was essentially a replacement for Apple's connector that had conventional phone jacks instead of Apple's round connectors.

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

She testified that after leaving the EEOC, she had had two " inconsequential " phone conversations with Thomas, and had seen him personally on two occasions ; once to get a job reference and the second time when he made a public appearance in Oklahoma where she was teaching.

He played it over the phone, and she was offered a recording contract, five weeks before her 16th birthday.

It was the primary analog mobile phone system in North America ( and other locales ) through the 1980s and into the 2000s.

The second item was PC with a sound card and a software program called Banpaia, and the third item was a phone that could easily be used for cloning, such as the Oki 900.

Despite finishing with a 6 – 10 record in the 2005 – 2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales, and single-game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened.

The February 2010 issue of Consumer Reports ranked Mediacom amongst the worst cable companies in the United States: 15th of 16 in TV service, 24th of 27 in Internet service, and last of 23 in phone service, based on surveys.