Funnily enough, just a few weeks ago I was looking for a job and a place tried to call me about a job while I was in the middle of an interview for another company. Since I didn't answer, they just sent me an SMS stating their business and instructions on which number to call once I'm available.
I'm in my mid-twenties, I've been using a cell phone for 11 years and I've never had, wanted or needed voice mail service.
I used it on my old computer, but it dropped the ball on a few files I really needed to print (and get right). As a result, I haven't bothered installing Foxit on my current computer yet, and as Adobe Reader isn't bloated enough to have any negative effects on it, I might not.
The problems were with a form written in Japanese (characters displayed right, but the text bled into the margins) and some government forms that had lots of interactive crap.
A friend of mine had a 8Gb memory stick that went bad when we tried copying several hundred photos on it. With the first batch, it seemed to have multiple files with the exact same name in the same directory, which I believe shouldn't be possible. Each one had the same thumbnail too, and I'm pretty sure each could be opened normally. On the other hand, some of the photos we tried copying on it just weren't there. For some reason, we still tried with the second batch of photos. This time as well, many photos simply didn't show up on the stick after being copied. There were also some very, well, odd files present: too small to be photos and with file names consisting only of a few letters (with no extensions).
"Studying a foreign language is mandatory from grades 3 to 9 in the elementary school"
There, fixed that for you. I know many people who took Swedish, German or French (like me). Russian is also a possibility. Of course, most of these people also take English at some point, but I have to say that for me at least, learning English at school was a joke. I started "learning" in the fifth grade, and was reading Pratchett, Gibson and Herbert in English by the end of sixth -- you can bet your ass I didn't learn that in less than two years in school.
You cannot sign away your rights in Finland. There are strict rules about what an employment contract (or any other contract for that matter) can legally include.
I meant "process" in the more general, non-specialized sense. Considering this camera hasn't been designed to write those large raw files, there's every reason to expect it'll be very, very slow at it. A Canon G7 hacked to shoot raw takes approximately 4-5 seconds. Ricoh GRD (which was actually designed to shoot raw) could take over 10 seconds.
Yeah, and 1Ds mark III is, what, ten of these and don't even get me started on medium format digitals. Nevertheless, at $500 this is among the most expensive point & shoot cameras there are (and ridiculously bad value for money, I might add). Apples and oranges, etc.
No, I'm just tired of slashbot besserwissers. You know, people know just a bit more about a given topic than Joe Sixpack and therefore feel the need to wave their knowledge around, for example, by pointing out a simple potential flaw the scientists and engineers who worked for years on a project couldn't possibly have missed but failed to discuss whenever an article about some new technology is posted. Being an insufferable know-it-all is not exactly the height of social elegance either, you know?
Constant bitrate mp3? Also, you're replying to a guy who has dled enough rips to have come across an AVI with two audio tracks: you really think I needed entry level container format education?
Two audio tracks in avi is possible and has been done by at least one (then) well-known anime dvd-ripping group. Probably wasn't very standards compliant, though.
I thought like this too, but I was tricked. Japan started requiring fingerprints after I had already bought the plane tickets and paid the university I was going to. So I thought, what the hell they already know my name, face, social security number and home address. What evil can they do with my prints that they can't do with what they already have?
I suspect it's due to pressure from whoever google buys their maps from. Basically, it's not cool to them to give out that kind of functionality for free. Nokia had to remove a feature from their maps where you could have the route and instructions displayed on the map while tracking your position with the GPS. The map makers (quite correctly) felt it would make people not want to buy the actual navigation package.
My dad had a similar machine, only it had 192MB of RAM. It was slow and unstable with an old Win 98 SE installation. He was ready to scrap it, but I tried putting Win XP on it, and while it was still a bit slow, it became perfectly usable as long as you didn't try running too many apps at the same time. And no more blue screens either.
Assuming you're american, none AFAIK. But you can buy it and use it with any carrier that doesn't force you to use their branded phones. It's probably not even that expensive any more now that it's been superseded by newer models.
I find it odd that whenever there's an article about cell phones, somebody always complains about how they can't do x with their cell phone, forcing me to reply that I can easily do x with my Nokia N95, which was released a year and a half ago. (Several other Nokia models should also work, and I'm fairly sure some Samsung models at least have TV-out ports.)
that's why i'd like to see phone cameras get up to the 3-4 megapixel range and support micro SD slots. there are a few phones with micro SD slots, and on the internet a 1GB micro SD card with a standard sd slot converter runs around $7-10 shipped.
Huh? The newly announced sony-ericsson will have 8MP, and at least Nokia, S-E and Samsung have had 5MP models for over a year.
when i get my next digital camera i'm getting a sd micro card (2gb) for it, because i assume that the smaller electronics use less power.
WTF? With the 3 inch LCD screens, flashes, zooming and focusing, I very seriously doubt the size of the memory card has a noticeable effect on battery life.
For what it's worth, Nokia phones, the S60 series at least, can do more or less the same thing with Nokia PC suite (which is free as in beer). And this is not a new feature, I remember first playing with it over 3 years ago with my previous phone.
I think you should take a look at the top end nokia phones. I spent the last four months in Japan, and I have to say I saw nothing there that could beat my N95 in terms of features. Sure, some had a bigger screen or a tv receiver, but overall I had absolutely no desire to switch.
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Funnily enough, just a few weeks ago I was looking for a job and a place tried to call me about a job while I was in the middle of an interview for another company. Since I didn't answer, they just sent me an SMS stating their business and instructions on which number to call once I'm available. I'm in my mid-twenties, I've been using a cell phone for 11 years and I've never had, wanted or needed voice mail service.
I used it on my old computer, but it dropped the ball on a few files I really needed to print (and get right). As a result, I haven't bothered installing Foxit on my current computer yet, and as Adobe Reader isn't bloated enough to have any negative effects on it, I might not.
The problems were with a form written in Japanese (characters displayed right, but the text bled into the margins) and some government forms that had lots of interactive crap.
There are some that are widely used in Japan. Might be pretty cool if Perfect Dark went "mainstream" in Europe as well.
In Finland, elections are held on Sundays so this argument does not apply.
A friend of mine had a 8Gb memory stick that went bad when we tried copying several hundred photos on it. With the first batch, it seemed to have multiple files with the exact same name in the same directory, which I believe shouldn't be possible. Each one had the same thumbnail too, and I'm pretty sure each could be opened normally. On the other hand, some of the photos we tried copying on it just weren't there. For some reason, we still tried with the second batch of photos. This time as well, many photos simply didn't show up on the stick after being copied. There were also some very, well, odd files present: too small to be photos and with file names consisting only of a few letters (with no extensions).
"Studying a foreign language is mandatory from grades 3 to 9 in the elementary school" There, fixed that for you. I know many people who took Swedish, German or French (like me). Russian is also a possibility. Of course, most of these people also take English at some point, but I have to say that for me at least, learning English at school was a joke. I started "learning" in the fifth grade, and was reading Pratchett, Gibson and Herbert in English by the end of sixth -- you can bet your ass I didn't learn that in less than two years in school.
You cannot sign away your rights in Finland. There are strict rules about what an employment contract (or any other contract for that matter) can legally include.
Getting modded informative was way funnier than the joke.
I meant "process" in the more general, non-specialized sense. Considering this camera hasn't been designed to write those large raw files, there's every reason to expect it'll be very, very slow at it. A Canon G7 hacked to shoot raw takes approximately 4-5 seconds. Ricoh GRD (which was actually designed to shoot raw) could take over 10 seconds.
Yeah, and 1Ds mark III is, what, ten of these and don't even get me started on medium format digitals. Nevertheless, at $500 this is among the most expensive point & shoot cameras there are (and ridiculously bad value for money, I might add). Apples and oranges, etc.
Even if it were possible, it would almost certainly take the camera several seconds to process the image.
For a point & shoot, no it's not.
No, I'm just tired of slashbot besserwissers. You know, people know just a bit more about a given topic than Joe Sixpack and therefore feel the need to wave their knowledge around, for example, by pointing out a simple potential flaw the scientists and engineers who worked for years on a project couldn't possibly have missed but failed to discuss whenever an article about some new technology is posted. Being an insufferable know-it-all is not exactly the height of social elegance either, you know?
Constant bitrate mp3? Also, you're replying to a guy who has dled enough rips to have come across an AVI with two audio tracks: you really think I needed entry level container format education?
Two audio tracks in avi is possible and has been done by at least one (then) well-known anime dvd-ripping group. Probably wasn't very standards compliant, though.
I thought like this too, but I was tricked. Japan started requiring fingerprints after I had already bought the plane tickets and paid the university I was going to. So I thought, what the hell they already know my name, face, social security number and home address. What evil can they do with my prints that they can't do with what they already have?
I suspect it's due to pressure from whoever google buys their maps from. Basically, it's not cool to them to give out that kind of functionality for free. Nokia had to remove a feature from their maps where you could have the route and instructions displayed on the map while tracking your position with the GPS. The map makers (quite correctly) felt it would make people not want to buy the actual navigation package.
40d doesn't have video, you're thinking of 50d. Also, 5d mk2 doesn't suffer from the same problem.
My dad had a similar machine, only it had 192MB of RAM. It was slow and unstable with an old Win 98 SE installation. He was ready to scrap it, but I tried putting Win XP on it, and while it was still a bit slow, it became perfectly usable as long as you didn't try running too many apps at the same time. And no more blue screens either.
Assuming you're american, none AFAIK. But you can buy it and use it with any carrier that doesn't force you to use their branded phones. It's probably not even that expensive any more now that it's been superseded by newer models.
I find it odd that whenever there's an article about cell phones, somebody always complains about how they can't do x with their cell phone, forcing me to reply that I can easily do x with my Nokia N95, which was released a year and a half ago. (Several other Nokia models should also work, and I'm fairly sure some Samsung models at least have TV-out ports.)
Huh? The newly announced sony-ericsson will have 8MP, and at least Nokia, S-E and Samsung have had 5MP models for over a year.
WTF? With the 3 inch LCD screens, flashes, zooming and focusing, I very seriously doubt the size of the memory card has a noticeable effect on battery life.
For what it's worth, Nokia phones, the S60 series at least, can do more or less the same thing with Nokia PC suite (which is free as in beer). And this is not a new feature, I remember first playing with it over 3 years ago with my previous phone.
Last I checked, 7-zip didn't support ACE.
I think you should take a look at the top end nokia phones. I spent the last four months in Japan, and I have to say I saw nothing there that could beat my N95 in terms of features. Sure, some had a bigger screen or a tv receiver, but overall I had absolutely no desire to switch.