Why are these "x day" stories only widely reported on the day itself, when it's too late to take part?
For once there's a day dedicated to doing something so easy that even I might have bothered making the effort, yet now I'm denied that opportunity for another 364 days.
Yeah, but when you see a number like $298,803,988, it seems a shame to just round it off to the nearest hundred million or so, what with the vast loss of accuracy that would entail.
I think what these guys are doing is cool. But is there something in the ToS which says they can continue to play as long as they don't disconnect? I would imagine that Microsoft could shut this down at any time. Quite how long they'll leave it before they do, with the bad press that would come with it, I don't know.
The point is that if the server was freely available (like the vast majority of PC games until fairly recently) no-one would give a damn whether Microsoft was still supporting it, they'd just keep on playing anyway.
Yup, price is certainly a factor. Although it's worth pointing out that I'd choose the Desire over the iPhone even if the prices were identical.
I don't use many minutes (especially now I can email and IM from my handset) so I went for a contract with 100 mins, unlimited SMS and 3GB of data, all for £10/month. The handset was only £125 too - ridiculously good value!
As a Desire owner who's also played with the iPhone a fair bit, I think I'm pretty well-placed to judge this. It's fairly simple: the Desire is the better phone in almost every respect.
Additionally, I think the author of the article may have a faulty handset. Many of the problems he mentions having with the Desire are not an issue at all on my device. The supposedly oversaturated screen looks beautiful (put it side-by-side with an iPhone and see the difference), I've never had the touch screen remain active during a call, and the "tinny speaker" sounds great to me, giving far greater call quality than I've experienced on a iPhone. He's right that the screen can be difficult to see in bright sunlight, but I solved this problem by living the U.K.
iPhone pros
more extensive app store
50/50
interface - some people consider the iPhone to be slicker and/or easier to use due to its simplicity, while the Desire is far more customisable
touch screen - both devices have beautifully responsive and accurate touch screens - many other smartphones are rendered near-useless by screens that feel horribly sluggish or fail to register touches correctly
Desire pros
better screen (OLED and higher res)
better camera (not just megapixels but quality)
faster processor
multitasking
open app ecosystem (also handy for hackers - put together your own apps with the free API)
web browser - remarkably, despite the slickness of the iPhone browser, the browser on the Desire is even better - and certainly faster to render pages
no need to use iTunes
half the price!
Some of the above will be added in the new iPhone OS, indeed I'm sure the hardware will catch up with (possibly overtake) most of the above too. So if you're a real Apple junkie it might be worth your while waiting for the summer. But if you're after the best smartphone available right now, I don't think there's really any competition.
YouTube has pulled scores of parodies of the 'Hitler Finds Out' scene from the movie The Downfall. Ironically, I had never heard of this movie before this — and now I want to watch it.
So you're saying these takedowns are a good thing, because they've made you aware of the film?
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Plenty of time later to go get all the degrees ya want once you are rolling in dough.
Yeah, that worked out really well for Mark Zuckerberg, didn't it? Oh, wait...
(That's why monitor makers switched to landscape layout at the same time as the switch to digital mandated it for TVs.)
Before that they were portrait?
As a result, the most personal information imaginable is available to anyone who takes the time to troll the database
Hey, database! You know what I SELECTed * FROM last night? Yo momma!
In Soviet Darwin, being drunk is everything.
Well, also not considering the $6m to $8m price tag of the Cray-1 vs the $200 (after rebate and 2 year plan) price tag of the Droid.
Ah, but factor in the 2 year plan and the costs are roughly comparable.
Zappa is contemporary music? I shall remove myself from your lawn forthwith, sir.
Why are these "x day" stories only widely reported on the day itself, when it's too late to take part?
For once there's a day dedicated to doing something so easy that even I might have bothered making the effort, yet now I'm denied that opportunity for another 364 days.
Yeah, but when you see a number like $298,803,988, it seems a shame to just round it off to the nearest hundred million or so, what with the vast loss of accuracy that would entail.
Not really, they only take half a second to delete from your RSS reader.
This is an old trick, just record in studio (people's homes) and then put it all together for the final mix.
How dare you! This isn't just a bunch of separate studio takes stuck together, this is a virtual choir! Oh wait...
Is this one of the early firsts in the new genre of video game mashups?
ROM Check Fail is another awesome little mash-up, well worth checking out
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Hookers
Create beautyfull landscapes in polluted areas
Spell-check Slashdot postings composed while driving
Hey, how do you type that weird O with the line across it?
His satirical and distinctive art is often directed at anti-war, cultural, and anti-capitalist themes.
So he's pro-war, anti-culture and pro-capitalsm? I guess I must have somewhat misinterpreted his art.
I think what these guys are doing is cool. But is there something in the ToS which says they can continue to play as long as they don't disconnect? I would imagine that Microsoft could shut this down at any time. Quite how long they'll leave it before they do, with the bad press that would come with it, I don't know.
The point is that if the server was freely available (like the vast majority of PC games until fairly recently) no-one would give a damn whether Microsoft was still supporting it, they'd just keep on playing anyway.
[citation needed]
Not that I'm disputing this will happen, it's all pretty obvious stuff. But you make it sound like you have inside information?
Yup, price is certainly a factor. Although it's worth pointing out that I'd choose the Desire over the iPhone even if the prices were identical.
I don't use many minutes (especially now I can email and IM from my handset) so I went for a contract with 100 mins, unlimited SMS and 3GB of data, all for £10/month. The handset was only £125 too - ridiculously good value!
As a Desire owner who's also played with the iPhone a fair bit, I think I'm pretty well-placed to judge this. It's fairly simple: the Desire is the better phone in almost every respect.
Additionally, I think the author of the article may have a faulty handset. Many of the problems he mentions having with the Desire are not an issue at all on my device. The supposedly oversaturated screen looks beautiful (put it side-by-side with an iPhone and see the difference), I've never had the touch screen remain active during a call, and the "tinny speaker" sounds great to me, giving far greater call quality than I've experienced on a iPhone. He's right that the screen can be difficult to see in bright sunlight, but I solved this problem by living the U.K.
iPhone pros
50/50
Desire pros
Some of the above will be added in the new iPhone OS, indeed I'm sure the hardware will catch up with (possibly overtake) most of the above too. So if you're a real Apple junkie it might be worth your while waiting for the summer. But if you're after the best smartphone available right now, I don't think there's really any competition.
What about a religion based on freedom of speech?
Any world view that considers humans to be of primary importance should suffice. If only we had a name for such a moral philosophy.
You also made up the word "zwitterionic"
(Goes to check...)
Oh my god!
You did? Sorry, I didn't notice. :)
Isn't that what I just said?
YouTube has pulled scores of parodies of the 'Hitler Finds Out' scene from the movie The Downfall. Ironically, I had never heard of this movie before this — and now I want to watch it.
So you're saying these takedowns are a good thing, because they've made you aware of the film?
I can draw a beautiful picture on page 874 of my personal copy of the federal tax code, but that doesn't make the tax code art.
If you're picture's so damn beautiful, there's no reason it shouldn't be considered art, regardless of what you decided to draw it on.