yea, but your hands are exposed to bacteria in the environment every day. Really you should be washing your hands BEFORE you urinate to keep your warm genitals clean and keep bacteria from growing there.
Because the iPhone is a much better game platform than many of the phones that have come before. Its a very popular phone so there is a large installed base and previous phones which had good gaming were targeted at gamers (a small installed base) rather than at everyone like the iPhone is.
Its not because its apple, its because someone finally made a popular phone that was a good gaming device instead of only getting half of the equation right for this market to grow.
No no no... you've got it all wrong. Chemtrails are susceptible to microwave heating disbursement, but that's a GOOD thing... this way the mind control chemicals they are spreading will disperse faster and they wont need to use as much of that expensive stuff to keep the populations docile.
They cant just implement it though because people would get nervous if the chemtrais just suddenly disappeared so they need a good public justification for the change.
Adults wont buy a PSP or a DS but they already wanted an iPhone.
The gaming market on the iPhone is likely to be a good one to exploit, especially for casual games because your not counting on people spending 200 bucks on a portable gaming system. Instead you are exploiting the fact that many have already spent 200 bucks on an iPhone.
I have been waiting for gaming on phones to take off here. I think the iPhone and the next gen of smart phones that it has inspired might just be the platform to do it.
I think the point that the poster was trying to make is that the tactile feedback is your finger touching a surface.
I think the idea here is that rather than resting your fingers on buttons and then getting tactile feedback from pushing them you hold your finger just above the screen and the tactile feedback is from your finger touching the screen.
If there is no doubt that a slight touch will trigger the action then that should be enough tactile feedback for a button press.
Sometimes in technology things change. There was a time when people thought that big joy sticks were the only way to interact with a game and D-pads (or even thumb joysticks) were a terrible idea.
Is your current laptop fulfilling all your computing needs? Is it fast enough for everything you need?
If the answer to those questions is "yes" then there is no reason for you to run out and buy a mac.
Of course at some point in the future that laptop is going to get long in the tooth (or you will decide that you really want to develop for the iPhone) at that point you might want to consider a replacing it with a mac, but of course, you don't have to.
Hard sciences are cool though. They allow a woman to show that she is smart and capable without necessarily seeming nerdy. The same is true for much of engineering. Being a Chemical Engineer is cool but it doesn't have quite the stink of geekiness that computer science does.
I'm not saying this is all there is to it, but there is little doubt that the general public thinks of computer science as the realm of the hard core geek than many other engineering disciplines.
That's not to say that there aren't plenty of geeks in these fields but its what the general public believes that matters.
Warm up and static stretching are 2 different things. A warm up gets blood flowing to your muscles and might prevent injury but if you bothered to read the article about static stretching (which is what most people think of when they think of stretching) you would have found this line
"Controversy remains about the extent to which dynamic warm-ups prevent injury. But studies have been increasingly clear that static stretching alone before exercise does little or nothing to help."
So static stretching is bad because it weakens your muscles and gives little to no benefit with regard to injury prevention.
Consider that when the rest of the world generally likes and trusts US leadership, the dollar tends to go up. When the rest of the world doubts our president or is unsure of what our president will do the dollar tends to go down.
PR can be very good for the economy. Faith in the government is a huge part of what keeps our economy going.
That depends on the value you place on police protection of their crap.
Without the taxes the rich pay there would be nothing to stop the poor from simply taking what they want from the rich (or the rich would have to pay a nice hefty chunk of money on private security).
And what about the public school system that provides them with a stream of labor for turning their riches into more riches (and hopefully keeps those same people from becoming criminals intent on stealing the rich persons money).
The world is a highly connected place. Just because you don't see the benefit directly doesn't mean its not there.
its not that it is a toy, but lets face it, some pieces of electronics feel more solid than others. They might not actually be more solid but they feel that way.
Hell, the cheep feeling phone might be far superior to the more solid feeling one, but what the customer notices in the first minute or 2 is how it feels. Unless they convinced themselves before they came into the store that this is the phone they want.
These perceptions can have a big impact on the stuff people buy.
You can run a sport bike up to red line and it makes a ton of noise but its high pitched. You as a runner will hear it but the guy in the car might not.
The reason that Harleys are "loud" (really any cruiser, not just Harleys) is that their exhaust note is low pitched. It might not actually be louder than the sport bike but the sound carries and penetrates like the bass notes at a rock concert.
Personally, I do ride a Harley, but I don't run straight pipes or gun my engine in residential neighborhoods. Unlike my less considerate neighbors I can ride right into my garage late at night without alerting everyone.
Those are great once a car is up to the intersection and can see the on coming motorcycle. I don't have one but I have found that riding with my high beams on during the day improves drivers ability to see me coming. I wouldn't mind drivers getting a warning before they even reach the intersection.
Ill tell you this. The idea of a HUD sounds really cool and futuristic, but Id rather not have anything in my field of vision when I'm riding.
I might be willing to deal with an audio warning, but I don't want anything in my field of vision when I'm riding. My life (and sometimes other peoples lives) depends on it.
Exactly. As a rider myself I would be wary of such a system. I'd worry that it would split my concentration and that I wouldn't be as focused on every curb cut and side street as a potential threat.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind it if oncoming cars were alerted to my presence before they come flying out of a side street (or merge into my lane on the highway if possible).
Google will allow you to install apps from different sources. Is it wrong of them to provide a distribution channel for applications designed to work on their devices?
Keep in mind that Windows Mobile devices are used by relatively few people. The people that use them are usually more familiar with the technology and even if they screw up and install one of these apps they will feel like idiots and move on with their lives.
Now imagine the most shrill user you have ever dealt with. Imagine them using such a windows mobile device and installing one of these apps. Now imagine that the place they got this app was from the Google app store. Now imagine there are hundreds of thousands of them.
The difference between the iPhone/Android and windows mobile is the target market. Win mobile isn't currently targeted at the every day user (though it might be in the future). Before the iPhone, smart phones were for technical people and business folks supported by a Tech staff. That's changing now and that means the market has change.
Tell me this. Lets say you had a virus app on your phone racking up charges, but you don't know it yet. Would you actually be upset if the person that provided that app shut it off for you, saving you money?
Now sure, this could be abused, but if it is you will see considerable backlash. I don't think abuse is in googles best interests.
Not much different from what the telco is trying to do with the courts. They stopped the government from providing a service to its citizens. A service that, presumably, the citizens want.
Because I know if I were a big wig in this city and this company was stopping this project, I would make a point of having their permit applications for fiber installation conveniently "lost" behind various pieces of office furniture.
If this gave the telco an opportunity to get ahead its only because the city didn't play hardball.
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yea, but your hands are exposed to bacteria in the environment every day. Really you should be washing your hands BEFORE you urinate to keep your warm genitals clean and keep bacteria from growing there.
No, he is responsible for protecting the space-time continuum. Read the Constitution!
Because the iPhone is a much better game platform than many of the phones that have come before. Its a very popular phone so there is a large installed base and previous phones which had good gaming were targeted at gamers (a small installed base) rather than at everyone like the iPhone is.
Its not because its apple, its because someone finally made a popular phone that was a good gaming device instead of only getting half of the equation right for this market to grow.
No no no... you've got it all wrong. Chemtrails are susceptible to microwave heating disbursement, but that's a GOOD thing... this way the mind control chemicals they are spreading will disperse faster and they wont need to use as much of that expensive stuff to keep the populations docile.
They cant just implement it though because people would get nervous if the chemtrais just suddenly disappeared so they need a good public justification for the change.
Adults wont buy a PSP or a DS but they already wanted an iPhone.
The gaming market on the iPhone is likely to be a good one to exploit, especially for casual games because your not counting on people spending 200 bucks on a portable gaming system. Instead you are exploiting the fact that many have already spent 200 bucks on an iPhone.
I have been waiting for gaming on phones to take off here. I think the iPhone and the next gen of smart phones that it has inspired might just be the platform to do it.
I think the point that the poster was trying to make is that the tactile feedback is your finger touching a surface.
I think the idea here is that rather than resting your fingers on buttons and then getting tactile feedback from pushing them you hold your finger just above the screen and the tactile feedback is from your finger touching the screen.
If there is no doubt that a slight touch will trigger the action then that should be enough tactile feedback for a button press.
Sometimes in technology things change. There was a time when people thought that big joy sticks were the only way to interact with a game and D-pads (or even thumb joysticks) were a terrible idea.
Is your current laptop fulfilling all your computing needs? Is it fast enough for everything you need?
If the answer to those questions is "yes" then there is no reason for you to run out and buy a mac.
Of course at some point in the future that laptop is going to get long in the tooth (or you will decide that you really want to develop for the iPhone) at that point you might want to consider a replacing it with a mac, but of course, you don't have to.
Hard sciences are cool though. They allow a woman to show that she is smart and capable without necessarily seeming nerdy. The same is true for much of engineering. Being a Chemical Engineer is cool but it doesn't have quite the stink of geekiness that computer science does.
I'm not saying this is all there is to it, but there is little doubt that the general public thinks of computer science as the realm of the hard core geek than many other engineering disciplines.
That's not to say that there aren't plenty of geeks in these fields but its what the general public believes that matters.
Warm up and static stretching are 2 different things. A warm up gets blood flowing to your muscles and might prevent injury but if you bothered to read the article about static stretching (which is what most people think of when they think of stretching) you would have found this line
"Controversy remains about the extent to which dynamic warm-ups prevent injury. But studies have been increasingly clear that static stretching alone before exercise does little or nothing to help."
So static stretching is bad because it weakens your muscles and gives little to no benefit with regard to injury prevention.
Never mind the increased impact of actually being president. That's a job that takes a lot out of you physically.
Consider that when the rest of the world generally likes and trusts US leadership, the dollar tends to go up. When the rest of the world doubts our president or is unsure of what our president will do the dollar tends to go down.
PR can be very good for the economy. Faith in the government is a huge part of what keeps our economy going.
That depends on the value you place on police protection of their crap.
Without the taxes the rich pay there would be nothing to stop the poor from simply taking what they want from the rich (or the rich would have to pay a nice hefty chunk of money on private security).
And what about the public school system that provides them with a stream of labor for turning their riches into more riches (and hopefully keeps those same people from becoming criminals intent on stealing the rich persons money).
The world is a highly connected place. Just because you don't see the benefit directly doesn't mean its not there.
we have no idea when this will stop.
It wont
its not that it is a toy, but lets face it, some pieces of electronics feel more solid than others. They might not actually be more solid but they feel that way.
Hell, the cheep feeling phone might be far superior to the more solid feeling one, but what the customer notices in the first minute or 2 is how it feels. Unless they convinced themselves before they came into the store that this is the phone they want.
These perceptions can have a big impact on the stuff people buy.
It depends on the bike.
You can run a sport bike up to red line and it makes a ton of noise but its high pitched. You as a runner will hear it but the guy in the car might not.
The reason that Harleys are "loud" (really any cruiser, not just Harleys) is that their exhaust note is low pitched. It might not actually be louder than the sport bike but the sound carries and penetrates like the bass notes at a rock concert.
Personally, I do ride a Harley, but I don't run straight pipes or gun my engine in residential neighborhoods. Unlike my less considerate neighbors I can ride right into my garage late at night without alerting everyone.
Those are great once a car is up to the intersection and can see the on coming motorcycle. I don't have one but I have found that riding with my high beams on during the day improves drivers ability to see me coming. I wouldn't mind drivers getting a warning before they even reach the intersection.
Ill tell you this. The idea of a HUD sounds really cool and futuristic, but Id rather not have anything in my field of vision when I'm riding.
I might be willing to deal with an audio warning, but I don't want anything in my field of vision when I'm riding. My life (and sometimes other peoples lives) depends on it.
Exactly. As a rider myself I would be wary of such a system. I'd worry that it would split my concentration and that I wouldn't be as focused on every curb cut and side street as a potential threat.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind it if oncoming cars were alerted to my presence before they come flying out of a side street (or merge into my lane on the highway if possible).
yea... any day now its going to be illegal to talk about religion in this country. we will be locking up priests and ministers left and right.
Google will allow you to install apps from different sources. Is it wrong of them to provide a distribution channel for applications designed to work on their devices?
Keep in mind that Windows Mobile devices are used by relatively few people. The people that use them are usually more familiar with the technology and even if they screw up and install one of these apps they will feel like idiots and move on with their lives.
Now imagine the most shrill user you have ever dealt with. Imagine them using such a windows mobile device and installing one of these apps. Now imagine that the place they got this app was from the Google app store. Now imagine there are hundreds of thousands of them.
The difference between the iPhone/Android and windows mobile is the target market. Win mobile isn't currently targeted at the every day user (though it might be in the future). Before the iPhone, smart phones were for technical people and business folks supported by a Tech staff. That's changing now and that means the market has change.
Tell me this. Lets say you had a virus app on your phone racking up charges, but you don't know it yet. Would you actually be upset if the person that provided that app shut it off for you, saving you money?
Now sure, this could be abused, but if it is you will see considerable backlash. I don't think abuse is in googles best interests.
incorrect logical operator.
Apple will release such a notebook AND thousands of people on the internet will start writing about how disappointed they are.
Why shouldn't the government provide communication services if the local residents want them to do just that?
What companies are not permitted to lay down more lines due to government restriction?
Not much different from what the telco is trying to do with the courts. They stopped the government from providing a service to its citizens. A service that, presumably, the citizens want.
Its the Telco that is clearly in the wrong here.
Have they started rolling out fiber?
Because I know if I were a big wig in this city and this company was stopping this project, I would make a point of having their permit applications for fiber installation conveniently "lost" behind various pieces of office furniture.
If this gave the telco an opportunity to get ahead its only because the city didn't play hardball.