The scroll wheel was nice. Being able to locate the music you wanted to listen to quickly definitely made for a better experience. Touch screens have since made that much less important.
The carriers want to fuck with the phones too much for that. Look at what AT&T did, took off the front facing camera and disabled the FM radio. That's even without all the junk they want to install.
Also, at most grocery stores, I can swipe my card while the checkout person is still scanning the goods, leaving me simply to press "OK" to the total (and in the case of Walmart, not even that).
Yes. Incredibly, checks are still very popular here. No check guarantee cards though so you then have the rigmarole that they want your driver license number and phone number written on the check too.
Front first puts the boot/trunk in the optimal place for loading from the shopping cart. The alternative is to make ten trips carrying heavy/overloaded bags squeezing between your vehicle and the SUV that parked too close to you
A much better scheme in many places would be to simply rearrange the parking places. The local Walmart has double rows of angles parking, The lanes between each row are wide enough for two vehicles to pass in each direction. The simple answer would be to have one lane per row of cars, allowing people to drive straight in and straight out of the parking spaces.
And that's presuming that all the lives and injuries would be prevented. I'd imagine in many if not most cases, these accidents are due to driver inexperience or incompetence and these cameras would not help at all.
Interestingly, there are (embryonic) plans for implementing a quite extensive (for the US) high speed passenger rail network. I wonder if the two might not be related? They want to push the rail network so they make flying less popular...
I don't have to hear it every day but I've flown plenty of times. It really doesn't suck, you don't have to pay attention and it's not like there's a quiz. Non-intrusive safety measures are where it's at (or should be).
Which is to say, by behaving the way we are, we are encouraging terrorists to attempt easy terrorist acts that have no chance of actual success simply because merely by making these half-assed attempts, they can get exactly as much reaction as if it was a well-thought-out and planned-to-the-last detail devastating attack. At this rate, all terrorists need to do is glue a couple of wires to the back of a mobile phone to cause billions of dollars of impact to the economy.
Time to grow some balls and tell the government "enough".
Not only that. You choose to get in a plane and fly, the governmentmakes you stand in a security line. Such a terrorist act would turn people against the government (who the sheep think are supposed to keep you safe), blowing up planes turns them against the terrorists.
I look at it the other way. If I'm going to be sexually assaulted (which is what either of these are), I'm going to make them work for it and not have them just sit back in a chair and have a computer do it for them.
First though, I'm going to avoid flying wherever possible.
The iphone is really where palm should have taken the T/X. Unfortunately, they went all Treo and Windows. I was still using the T/X fairly regularly up until I got an Android device recently (and I've still used it a couple of times since)
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The device I'm describing is a host to both peripherals. This is the first one I could find but there are others too, some with screens.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/434761-REG/Belkin_F5U203_USB_Anywhere_USB.html
And shockingly, the pass-phrase was "12345"
There are a couple of devices out there that can do USB->USB transfers. You'd just need the right cables and adapters I think.
The scroll wheel was nice. Being able to locate the music you wanted to listen to quickly definitely made for a better experience. Touch screens have since made that much less important.
+1 to this. Never buying Samsung again
The carriers want to fuck with the phones too much for that. Look at what AT&T did, took off the front facing camera and disabled the FM radio. That's even without all the junk they want to install.
The one before last got rid of the HBC. I have it back now but there's another update needs to be installed to use the Wii shop.
I like this idea. Someone should make a short video based on it that could be substituted for the anti-piracy ads when you "Jesus" a movie.
Also, at most grocery stores, I can swipe my card while the checkout person is still scanning the goods, leaving me simply to press "OK" to the total (and in the case of Walmart, not even that).
Yes. Incredibly, checks are still very popular here. No check guarantee cards though so you then have the rigmarole that they want your driver license number and phone number written on the check too.
The MOT is a simple list of tests. If it's not on the list, it won't cause an MOT fail. You can still get "done" for it.
I am a bit muddled on my laws so I can't say definitively which jurisdiction, on reflection, it's probably the US.
Front first puts the boot/trunk in the optimal place for loading from the shopping cart. The alternative is to make ten trips carrying heavy/overloaded bags squeezing between your vehicle and the SUV that parked too close to you
A much better scheme in many places would be to simply rearrange the parking places. The local Walmart has double rows of angles parking, The lanes between each row are wide enough for two vehicles to pass in each direction. The simple answer would be to have one lane per row of cars, allowing people to drive straight in and straight out of the parking spaces.
I have driven one. It sucked royally. They'd never make it in the US.
Illegal for regular cars in many jurisdictions. I believe that would be most/all of the US and also in the UK
And that's presuming that all the lives and injuries would be prevented. I'd imagine in many if not most cases, these accidents are due to driver inexperience or incompetence and these cameras would not help at all.
Interestingly, there are (embryonic) plans for implementing a quite extensive (for the US) high speed passenger rail network. I wonder if the two might not be related? They want to push the rail network so they make flying less popular...
http://www.sustainablecityblog.com/2009/07/new-group-to-advocate-for-high-speed-rail-in-us/
I don't have to hear it every day but I've flown plenty of times. It really doesn't suck, you don't have to pay attention and it's not like there's a quiz. Non-intrusive safety measures are where it's at (or should be).
Which is to say, by behaving the way we are, we are encouraging terrorists to attempt easy terrorist acts that have no chance of actual success simply because merely by making these half-assed attempts, they can get exactly as much reaction as if it was a well-thought-out and planned-to-the-last detail devastating attack. At this rate, all terrorists need to do is glue a couple of wires to the back of a mobile phone to cause billions of dollars of impact to the economy.
Time to grow some balls and tell the government "enough".
Was the aim of the terrorist to blow up a plane or to incite terror? Because if it's the latter, he seems to have been eminently successful.
Not only that. You choose to get in a plane and fly, the government makes you stand in a security line. Such a terrorist act would turn people against the government (who the sheep think are supposed to keep you safe), blowing up planes turns them against the terrorists.
Careful, dangerously close...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/11/twitter-joke-trial-appeal-verdict
A "dual" eh? I hope you checked with your wife first...
I look at it the other way. If I'm going to be sexually assaulted (which is what either of these are), I'm going to make them work for it and not have them just sit back in a chair and have a computer do it for them.
First though, I'm going to avoid flying wherever possible.
It's 2010. Depending on how you split your decades (usually it's by the third digit), that could count as last decade.
The iphone is really where palm should have taken the T/X. Unfortunately, they went all Treo and Windows. I was still using the T/X fairly regularly up until I got an Android device recently (and I've still used it a couple of times since)