It has always done that much for free. By "navigation" Nokia means (voiced) turn by turn directions while simultaneously tracking your gps position. I'm pretty sure the app you downloaded won't do that yet.
I don't think you can equate GPS with navigation. There's tons of useful stuff you can do with a gps without the latter. You can set a point on the map and then have the gps track you on your way there. It just won't tell you where to turn; you need to look at the map and figure it out on your own. It has been enough for me for the past few years.
MGmaps (not Mobile Google Maps, but Mobile Gmaps. a free (as in beer) 3rd party client) does exactly this. One big issue is the filesystem: individual tiles are small but they end up taking tons of space once you put them on a FAT32 SD card.
It's usable but you have to fine tune what zoom levels you store (= get the zoomed in tiles only for dense urban areas).
Mgmaps has supported locally stored google (and other vendors) maps for years. Works on (almost?) any phone that lets you install java applications. There are tools to automatically download selected areas at whatever zoom levels you want to.
Last time I tried, Google didn't mind spidering the maps, but they'd ban you if you went for the satellite data. I believe the download programs have good proxy support to circumvent this, though.
What good is the internet if they don't have the right to a private connection? blah blah blah Echelon
Look, I've run into that filter exactly once, which caused me to shrug and move on. It blocks child porn, some regular porn that looks like it might be child porn, and some guy's blog that contains a list of everything that is blocked. Yes, there is an ideological problem there, and yes, Finland isn't perfect. But are you seriously raising the question over whether having a broadband connection is any good if you can't access, what, a few hundred non-free porn sites and a single whiny blog?
Nintendo DS. iPhone is utterly insignificant next to that. Also, to generalize a bit, American games tend not to be so hot in Japan. And even if they were, Civ has been on the DS for ages.
My wife had been diagnosed with depression before our marriage, so I knew there'd probably be some rough times ahead, and of course there have been. If she needs me to be a rock, I am. My objection was specifically to manufactured bullshit tests, not genuine issues.
Your case, as you describe it, sounds a bit different to me: either he didn't realize you needed him, in which case you failed to communicate, or he purposefully ignored you, in which case he's an asshole. Maybe it was both, I can't know, of course. If my wife developed a habit of needing me to solve little crises all the time, that would be something we'd have to discuss, but I wouldn't dream of simply ignoring her like that.
You're stating opinions. That in itself I have no problem with. What does somewhat concern me is that your perspective seems to be that your own way of looking at some of these things is the only possible way...and with all due respect, it isn't.
So, you're using a truthism that happens to apply to you and your relatives as a basis for saying Kokuyo does not know how his relationship works, that his relationship is doomed because he doesn't live like your stereotype says he should. Are you for real? That level of arrogance is unusual even for/..
As a half of a geek couple just entering into our fourth year, I found myself really nodding along while reading your third paragraph. By all means be nice and be a good partner, but don't forget to tell your SO what he/she needs to do in order to be nice and a good partner to you. Otherwise you may end up harboring resentments because you think your partner isn't putting as much effort into being nice as you are.
The last paragraph, I didn't care so much for: one of the things that brought us together was our inability to play social games (like "testing your husband"). Takes all kinds I guess, but treating the relationship as a game is not something you necessarily have to put up with. YMMV.
This is a silly meme; the amount of arguments does not correlate with succesful marriages. That said, do try to find a solution (together!) to any conflicts that you will encounter. Couples that suffer in silence don't last.
Well argued. However, there's an inherent problem when it comes to biodiversity, which you mentioned as a point in the favour of organic food. Growing "organic food" means less yield per acre, so in order to produce the same amount of food as can be done by... inorganic(?) farming, you'd need more fields. And fields are the antithesis of biodiversity.
You'll probably recognize the golden arcs and the reassuring smile of col. Sanders. The other icons represent Japanese hamburger fast food chains and convenience store chains. It's like this everywhere in Japan (I haven't used Google Maps elsewhere).
Google maps has this too. Like when you're wandering around the scenic temples in eastern Kyoto and you're starting to get hungry, just glance at your google maps and friendly, bright icons will show you the nearest Mcdonald's. And hey, Teriyaki Mcburgers are local, right?
Experience points are still necessary, but instead of being general experience, they are specific for each skill. They may be called something different, but the abstraction is still there.
Betrayal at Krondor had no experience points. Every time you used a skill you had a small (possibly random) chance of getting better at it. This chance could be made bigger by making the character "concentrate" on specific skills.
It's not until an article is posted on a subject you already know a lot about that you begin to appreciate just how many people on slashdot really don't even bother to understand the summary, let alone RTFA. Too many people seem to flat out dismiss any facts presented in the summary they don't like and rush to post a ridiculous strawman argument with no real understanding of either the news article or the background of the issue discussed.
Former diet member Shkei Arai () and current diet member Marutei Tsurunen would like to to have words with you. And Obama? Have you been to Japan post his election? Seems like every bookstore has a section devoted to just him. I bet if he moved to Japan now and became eligible for elections, he'd own them.
What kind of pages are you browsing if having protection against those attacks is necessary? Assuming you're not constantly going to unknown porn and warez sites, is there really much of a risk?
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x.264 isn't a decoder so it's not related to video playback in any way
RTFA. This whole news is about making the navigation free too.
It has always done that much for free. By "navigation" Nokia means (voiced) turn by turn directions while simultaneously tracking your gps position. I'm pretty sure the app you downloaded won't do that yet.
I don't think you can equate GPS with navigation. There's tons of useful stuff you can do with a gps without the latter. You can set a point on the map and then have the gps track you on your way there. It just won't tell you where to turn; you need to look at the map and figure it out on your own. It has been enough for me for the past few years.
If you are talking about cars, why would you run the phone, or a dedicated gps unit for that matter, on batteries?
MGmaps (not Mobile Google Maps, but Mobile Gmaps. a free (as in beer) 3rd party client) does exactly this. One big issue is the filesystem: individual tiles are small but they end up taking tons of space once you put them on a FAT32 SD card.
It's usable but you have to fine tune what zoom levels you store (= get the zoomed in tiles only for dense urban areas).
Mgmaps has supported locally stored google (and other vendors) maps for years. Works on (almost?) any phone that lets you install java applications. There are tools to automatically download selected areas at whatever zoom levels you want to.
Last time I tried, Google didn't mind spidering the maps, but they'd ban you if you went for the satellite data. I believe the download programs have good proxy support to circumvent this, though.
What good is the internet if they don't have the right to a private connection? blah blah blah Echelon
Look, I've run into that filter exactly once, which caused me to shrug and move on. It blocks child porn, some regular porn that looks like it might be child porn, and some guy's blog that contains a list of everything that is blocked. Yes, there is an ideological problem there, and yes, Finland isn't perfect. But are you seriously raising the question over whether having a broadband connection is any good if you can't access, what, a few hundred non-free porn sites and a single whiny blog?
You do realize US spends more, way more, on health care per capita than Finland does, right?
3.5mm stereo plug is what Nokia has used for it in the past.
Nintendo DS. iPhone is utterly insignificant next to that. Also, to generalize a bit, American games tend not to be so hot in Japan. And even if they were, Civ has been on the DS for ages.
Nokia is not a Japanese company. In fact, Nokia recently abandoned the Japanese market completely due to their continuing dismal sales there.
...or Japan, who've used push email instead of SMS & MMS for years.
My wife had been diagnosed with depression before our marriage, so I knew there'd probably be some rough times ahead, and of course there have been. If she needs me to be a rock, I am. My objection was specifically to manufactured bullshit tests, not genuine issues.
Your case, as you describe it, sounds a bit different to me: either he didn't realize you needed him, in which case you failed to communicate, or he purposefully ignored you, in which case he's an asshole. Maybe it was both, I can't know, of course. If my wife developed a habit of needing me to solve little crises all the time, that would be something we'd have to discuss, but I wouldn't dream of simply ignoring her like that.
You're stating opinions. That in itself I have no problem with. What does somewhat concern me is that your perspective seems to be that your own way of looking at some of these things is the only possible way...and with all due respect, it isn't.
So, you're using a truthism that happens to apply to you and your relatives as a basis for saying Kokuyo does not know how his relationship works, that his relationship is doomed because he doesn't live like your stereotype says he should. Are you for real? That level of arrogance is unusual even for /..
As a half of a geek couple just entering into our fourth year, I found myself really nodding along while reading your third paragraph. By all means be nice and be a good partner, but don't forget to tell your SO what he/she needs to do in order to be nice and a good partner to you. Otherwise you may end up harboring resentments because you think your partner isn't putting as much effort into being nice as you are.
The last paragraph, I didn't care so much for: one of the things that brought us together was our inability to play social games (like "testing your husband"). Takes all kinds I guess, but treating the relationship as a game is not something you necessarily have to put up with. YMMV.
Couples that don't argue never last
This is a silly meme; the amount of arguments does not correlate with succesful marriages. That said, do try to find a solution (together!) to any conflicts that you will encounter. Couples that suffer in silence don't last.
Well argued. However, there's an inherent problem when it comes to biodiversity, which you mentioned as a point in the favour of organic food. Growing "organic food" means less yield per acre, so in order to produce the same amount of food as can be done by... inorganic(?) farming, you'd need more fields. And fields are the antithesis of biodiversity.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.004449,135.769166&spn=0.003168,0.005788&z=18
You'll probably recognize the golden arcs and the reassuring smile of col. Sanders. The other icons represent Japanese hamburger fast food chains and convenience store chains. It's like this everywhere in Japan (I haven't used Google Maps elsewhere).
Google maps has this too. Like when you're wandering around the scenic temples in eastern Kyoto and you're starting to get hungry, just glance at your google maps and friendly, bright icons will show you the nearest Mcdonald's. And hey, Teriyaki Mcburgers are local, right?
Experience points are still necessary, but instead of being general experience, they are specific for each skill. They may be called something different, but the abstraction is still there.
Betrayal at Krondor had no experience points. Every time you used a skill you had a small (possibly random) chance of getting better at it. This chance could be made bigger by making the character "concentrate" on specific skills.
It's not until an article is posted on a subject you already know a lot about that you begin to appreciate just how many people on slashdot really don't even bother to understand the summary, let alone RTFA. Too many people seem to flat out dismiss any facts presented in the summary they don't like and rush to post a ridiculous strawman argument with no real understanding of either the news article or the background of the issue discussed.
Former diet member Shkei Arai () and current diet member Marutei Tsurunen would like to to have words with you. And Obama? Have you been to Japan post his election? Seems like every bookstore has a section devoted to just him. I bet if he moved to Japan now and became eligible for elections, he'd own them.
What kind of pages are you browsing if having protection against those attacks is necessary? Assuming you're not constantly going to unknown porn and warez sites, is there really much of a risk?