Well, a device like the MiFi will run about $100-150 new. They're not cheap devices. And of course it would come with a carrier-locked SIM. You MIGHT be able to get buy with buying a cheap $30 phone, and putting the SIM in an unlocked data device (and changing the plan to match). I have no idea. I've never known anyone that had to try.
The cheapest prepaid "dumb pipe" is probably around $25/mo. And you typically can't buy just a prepaid SIM here. You usually only get that with the device. It's great here, huh?
Exactly right. I only have minimal needs away from home, and $40 is just not a good value for the money, especially compared to the low usage I'd have.
And that 2GB plan nearly surpasses the combined cost of two prepaid cell phones and VoIP at home for me. Last I knew, T-Mobile only covers the cities well. I drive a lot in the in-between areas. Without VoIP, I only occasionally want maps (could buy a GPS) or shopping comparison (monthly fee probably outweighs the shopping cost-savings).
Not in the US. Way more expensive. Cellular anything is too expensive here. My wife and I each pay $30 for every two months for 300 minutes of prepaid voice. I pay $16 each month for VoIP. Our combined phone costs are $46/mo. but that's the best we can do.
Because cordless phones have caller ID with NAME (without inputting the contact into an address book - seriously, why hasn't the cell world caught up on this?), are nicer to hold if you hate bluetooth, provide a secondary phone when your battery is dead, and because I already paid for a cordless phone. They also stay cooler to the touch during a longer call. I actually have 2 cordless and 2 corded phones on VoIP, and 2 SIP phones at home now (for just my wife and I). I much prefer them to a cell phone. They're super-cheap, too, by comparison.
It's not "on the Internet" which is all this patent probably adds. And it's also more or less a manual process for each cable region, rather than automatically.
Or, the current state-of-the-art becomes the live GPU render preview they work from, and the server-farm still renders an even-higher quality animation. 40 hours per frame is probably an average of all the human hours spent - including modeling and texturing - which won't be sped up by this. You can imagine that if it were 40 hours per frame, then anything over 30 seconds would take years just to render.
I think they're claiming that showing information based on a fairly specific location is new - not the locating itself. Of course, all the ad networks going back to the 90's use IP-based geo-location.
I actually just ran the installer for Rosetta from the Snow Leopard disc on Lion. If you don't already have a Snow Leopard disc, those are of course going to be getting harder to find.
Adobe CS3 is a yellow triangle but I only had minor problems with setting up in Snow Leopard or Lion and they work perfectly well once set up. For that matter, I was able to force Rosetta to install on Lion to get Final Cut Studio v1 installed without a lot of difficulty.
Out of curiosity, which X's and triangles bother you?
Right - if suddenly the market wanted heavier hammers, and since lead is very heavy a lot of manufacturers start embedding lead in the handle. That shouldn't deserve a patent. It's obvious.
I'm a hackintosh Lion user, myself. I have no idea why you wouldn't want Snow Leopard on a Hackintosh OR a Mac. The performance improvements are dramatic. It's the difference between Vista and 7. What's keeping you on Leopard?
No win condition? Not true. You eventually catch up with Mario and beat him up to take the skin back. The gameplay is lousy, and it was a stupid waste of time for me to play that long.
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There are plenty of hotspots out there like that as well, but it tends to cap out around $10/day.
Definitely - most hotels, and most McDonald's locations are the best bets. And often, you can use hotel wifi with no codes - just park outside.
Well, a device like the MiFi will run about $100-150 new. They're not cheap devices. And of course it would come with a carrier-locked SIM. You MIGHT be able to get buy with buying a cheap $30 phone, and putting the SIM in an unlocked data device (and changing the plan to match). I have no idea. I've never known anyone that had to try.
There's email for that.
The cheapest prepaid "dumb pipe" is probably around $25/mo. And you typically can't buy just a prepaid SIM here. You usually only get that with the device. It's great here, huh?
Exactly right. I only have minimal needs away from home, and $40 is just not a good value for the money, especially compared to the low usage I'd have.
And that 2GB plan nearly surpasses the combined cost of two prepaid cell phones and VoIP at home for me. Last I knew, T-Mobile only covers the cities well. I drive a lot in the in-between areas. Without VoIP, I only occasionally want maps (could buy a GPS) or shopping comparison (monthly fee probably outweighs the shopping cost-savings).
Not in the US. Way more expensive. Cellular anything is too expensive here. My wife and I each pay $30 for every two months for 300 minutes of prepaid voice. I pay $16 each month for VoIP. Our combined phone costs are $46/mo. but that's the best we can do.
Because cordless phones have caller ID with NAME (without inputting the contact into an address book - seriously, why hasn't the cell world caught up on this?), are nicer to hold if you hate bluetooth, provide a secondary phone when your battery is dead, and because I already paid for a cordless phone. They also stay cooler to the touch during a longer call. I actually have 2 cordless and 2 corded phones on VoIP, and 2 SIP phones at home now (for just my wife and I). I much prefer them to a cell phone. They're super-cheap, too, by comparison.
And you get get a data plan without voice? Where?
And that VoIP carrier worked on your cell phone and your home cordless as well. That's what I'd like.
There's Google Voice for that.
It's not "on the Internet" which is all this patent probably adds. And it's also more or less a manual process for each cable region, rather than automatically.
Or, the current state-of-the-art becomes the live GPU render preview they work from, and the server-farm still renders an even-higher quality animation. 40 hours per frame is probably an average of all the human hours spent - including modeling and texturing - which won't be sped up by this. You can imagine that if it were 40 hours per frame, then anything over 30 seconds would take years just to render.
I think they're claiming that showing information based on a fairly specific location is new - not the locating itself. Of course, all the ad networks going back to the 90's use IP-based geo-location.
Yeah. The Final Cut Studio installer is PPC-only, while Final Cut Studio itself was universal. I had no problems installing after that.
I actually just ran the installer for Rosetta from the Snow Leopard disc on Lion. If you don't already have a Snow Leopard disc, those are of course going to be getting harder to find.
Just a huge power bill, I'm sure.
Adobe CS3 is a yellow triangle but I only had minor problems with setting up in Snow Leopard or Lion and they work perfectly well once set up. For that matter, I was able to force Rosetta to install on Lion to get Final Cut Studio v1 installed without a lot of difficulty.
Out of curiosity, which X's and triangles bother you?
Right - if suddenly the market wanted heavier hammers, and since lead is very heavy a lot of manufacturers start embedding lead in the handle. That shouldn't deserve a patent. It's obvious.
I'd rather say that convicting is equivalent to granting the patent. You don't want either unless you're absolutely sure.
Just do optical audio out and don't worry about having DAC on the PC. Even if you have to buy an external DAC, you're probably still better off.
I'm a hackintosh Lion user, myself. I have no idea why you wouldn't want Snow Leopard on a Hackintosh OR a Mac. The performance improvements are dramatic. It's the difference between Vista and 7. What's keeping you on Leopard?
No win condition? Not true. You eventually catch up with Mario and beat him up to take the skin back. The gameplay is lousy, and it was a stupid waste of time for me to play that long.
Super Mario 3D land shows Mario in a Tanooki suit right on the front cover. That game just came out 3 days ago in the U.S.