Amazon.com won't sell me an ebook that I can read on my Bookeen Cybook Opus (an e-ink reader with a smaller screen than average; it fits handily into a trouser pocket.)
So if I want to buy an ebook from Amazon, I have to strip the DRM to read it on my e-reader.
I can DO that - it's not at all difficult - but it's an annoying extra step.
It shocked ME when I got a PS3, because the Xbox 360 can and does charge controllers when it's turned off.
You have to have the controller plugged in before you turn the console off, but the Xbox will remain in a low-power state to charge the controller, and THEN automatically shut off.
It also amazes me that the PS3 doesn't have a 'download quietly and then turn off when the download is finished' function. All you can do is set it to turn off after a number of hours idle - which it will do if the download is done or not, so you have to disable that power saving feature entirely if you want to download a game overnight or something.
At current gas prices, it would take 79,000 miles to recoup the $1500 for the diesel powertrain, assuming you drive highway miles. (1000 miles at 33 MPG gas at $3.79 = $114, 1000 miles at 42 MPG diesel at $4.00 = $95, difference of $19 per thousand miles. These aren't average national prices; they're the price where I am, at the moment.)
Granted, 79K miles is easily within the lifetime of the car, but that'll take the average person quite a long time.
And the extra crapola loaded into the diesel is one reason I don't have one. VW's 'premium' stereo is much more of a pain in the butt to use than the base model and except for the improved suspension, there's none of that stuff I'd actually -want-, but there's no way to get the diesel without it. So it's not really fair to say the diesel only adds $1500; I can't get the diesel without all that other extra stuff, so I might as well consider it part of the diesel engine cost.
/*nitpick*/ F-19 Stealth Fighter, also called Project: Stealth. F117A was the PC and Amiga version. When F-19 Stealth Fighter was released, the government had not yet admitted the existence of the F117./*nitpick*/
VW build a diesel hybrid Golf prototype. Had amazing milage. Decent performance.
They decided not to build it for production because they figured no one would buy a $40,000 Golf.
As it is, the diesel Golf costs enough more than the gas Golf in the US that I can't see why anyone buys one, especially when diesel costs more than gasoline - the increased milage isn't enough to make up the difference.
Depends on the hatchback. For some reason VW Golf/Rabbits are in insane demand - I get letters from dealers out of state with written offers for my 2007 model for about $5000 less than I paid for it. Crazy.
(I'm not selling it, because I like the car. Though if that's typical, maybe that's why there's such a shortage of used ones on the market.)
My e-reader is fine in sunlight. Sounds like a problem with your particular model.
Screen size is a trade-off; my reader has a smaller screen than most others, but it fits nicely in a pocket. I've seen readers with e-ink screens up to 9", but they're more expensive, of course.
NFL2K didn't fail because people assumed it was cheap.
NFL2K sold okay. But then EA got an exclusive license for NFL football, and since then NO ONE ELSE has been able to make an NFL football game.
And realistically, no one's going to buy a football game without the NFL license.
So that's why the competition for Madden failed - EA prevented there from BEING any since 2005.
The exclusivity deal is estimated to be worth 'hundreds of millions' of dollars. So we won't be seeing another 2K Sports football game.. ever, probably.
Which is sad. They were a hell of a lot better than Madden, and forced the Madden team to actually improve their product.
I live in the US, just outside a town of 200,000 people. I'm half a mile from a school.
In order for me to get RELIABLE internet that's faster than dialup would cost me $2,419.60.
Per month.
I use cellular internet. It's not terribly expensive, and it works well enough, and it's fast enough. But it does lag out and drop out a lot, and if I lost my game progress every time it did, I'd get mightily pissed.
I get mad enough as is when Steam decides that since it can sort of see the internet, but not connect to the Steam server, then it won't even start up enough for me to put it in offline mode, so I can't play Steam games nyah nyah.
And that's just a check at the client start, not a constant connection,
... I'd say an Apple Newton 2100. The handwriting recognition is nothing short of amazing (on the 2100 - the original models, it was terrible) and a set of AA batteries lasts dang near forever.
The downside is, you'd have to learn a new gadget before your conference.
He's old, decrepit, disgustingly obese, and his lower body's been replaced with a prosthetic mechanism from one of the dwemer spiders, but he's in there.
The problem with reading books on an LCD display isn't the resolution. It's the fact you're staring at a light bulb the whole time.
My e-ink reader is only 600 x 800, no higher a DPI than some of my LCD-screened gizmos, but it's FAR easier on the eyes.
Also, I fail to understand why 'touch interaction' matters. My reader has a button for next page and a button for previous page, well placed, and a D-pad for navigating menus. What more does it need?
A tablet is not suited to those things. However, those things are not what the vast majority of people use computers for.
Tablets are just fine for checking your Facebook, watching YouTube and Netflix, sending emails, and playing the sorts of games most people play.
I know a few people who have ditched their home internet and just have an iPad and a 3G wifi hotspot. It's all the computer they need, and it carries easily. Heck, it fits in a good-sized purse.
And even EA can't seem to get their games working across Android devices reliably. I can't get Plants vs Zombies to run for more than two minutes on an Asus Transformer Prime with ICS.
Is it any more insane than buying any other toy? I mean, toys are generally pretty useless. There are people who spend more than a car costs on bicycles. Is that insane? People regularly spend thousands of dollars on pretty rocks or pretty pictures that don't do anything at all. That seems more insane to me than buying a toy, but they must enjoy having them. At least I can play with the toy. I've had my money's worth of fun out of it, so it doesn't seem like a waste to me.
Focus follows mouse with clicking titlebar bringing the window to the front is the exact opposite of what I want. I want focus doesn't follow mouse, clicking focuses, but clicking to focus does NOT raise the window to the top. The only WM I ever found that did that was AmiWM, which tried for the AmigaOS 2.X look-and-feel. And managed it, for the most part.
I use Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6. If there's a way to push the topmost window to the bottom of the stack on either, please explain how to do it.
There certainly isn't a widget for it. Is there a keyboard shortcut or modifier-click that will do it?
The only X11 window manager I recall with that feature was one that was specifically trying for the Amiga Workbench look and feel, but I admit I haven't used an X11 based system in ten years.
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Amazon.com won't sell me an ebook that I can read on my Bookeen Cybook Opus (an e-ink reader with a smaller screen than average; it fits handily into a trouser pocket.)
So if I want to buy an ebook from Amazon, I have to strip the DRM to read it on my e-reader.
I can DO that - it's not at all difficult - but it's an annoying extra step.
It shocked ME when I got a PS3, because the Xbox 360 can and does charge controllers when it's turned off.
You have to have the controller plugged in before you turn the console off, but the Xbox will remain in a low-power state to charge the controller, and THEN automatically shut off.
It also amazes me that the PS3 doesn't have a 'download quietly and then turn off when the download is finished' function. All you can do is set it to turn off after a number of hours idle - which it will do if the download is done or not, so you have to disable that power saving feature entirely if you want to download a game overnight or something.
At current gas prices, it would take 79,000 miles to recoup the $1500 for the diesel powertrain, assuming you drive highway miles. (1000 miles at 33 MPG gas at $3.79 = $114, 1000 miles at 42 MPG diesel at $4.00 = $95, difference of $19 per thousand miles. These aren't average national prices; they're the price where I am, at the moment.)
Granted, 79K miles is easily within the lifetime of the car, but that'll take the average person quite a long time.
And the extra crapola loaded into the diesel is one reason I don't have one. VW's 'premium' stereo is much more of a pain in the butt to use than the base model and except for the improved suspension, there's none of that stuff I'd actually -want-, but there's no way to get the diesel without it. So it's not really fair to say the diesel only adds $1500; I can't get the diesel without all that other extra stuff, so I might as well consider it part of the diesel engine cost.
That's a gas hybrid, not diesel.
And really, that's not that great. The diesel Jetta gets 42 MPG. I sincerely hope the hybrid gets much better city-cycle milage.
That is not an Amiga. It's a badge-engineered PC running an OS that has nothing to do with the Amiga OS.
THIS is an Amiga. It's expensive as hell, not very fast, and severely niche. But at least it runs AmigaOS and can run old Amiga code directly. http://acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=7
There are other models in the works - the AmigaOne X1000, for instance - but they're even more hideously expensive, and they're still in beta.
/*nitpick*/ F-19 Stealth Fighter, also called Project: Stealth. F117A was the PC and Amiga version. When F-19 Stealth Fighter was released, the government had not yet admitted the existence of the F117. /*nitpick*/
VW build a diesel hybrid Golf prototype. Had amazing milage. Decent performance.
They decided not to build it for production because they figured no one would buy a $40,000 Golf.
As it is, the diesel Golf costs enough more than the gas Golf in the US that I can't see why anyone buys one, especially when diesel costs more than gasoline - the increased milage isn't enough to make up the difference.
Depends on the hatchback. For some reason VW Golf/Rabbits are in insane demand - I get letters from dealers out of state with written offers for my 2007 model for about $5000 less than I paid for it. Crazy.
(I'm not selling it, because I like the car. Though if that's typical, maybe that's why there's such a shortage of used ones on the market.)
Yes.
My e-reader is fine in sunlight. Sounds like a problem with your particular model.
Screen size is a trade-off; my reader has a smaller screen than most others, but it fits nicely in a pocket. I've seen readers with e-ink screens up to 9", but they're more expensive, of course.
The ending to Mass Effect 3 was nowhere NEAR as annoying as all the whining about it.
It seems especially unlikely in that Microsoft doesn't accept Discover cards - only Mastercard, AmEx, Visa, and PayPal.
So why would someone enter their Discover information on an Xbox anyway?
NFL2K didn't fail because people assumed it was cheap.
NFL2K sold okay. But then EA got an exclusive license for NFL football, and since then NO ONE ELSE has been able to make an NFL football game.
And realistically, no one's going to buy a football game without the NFL license.
So that's why the competition for Madden failed - EA prevented there from BEING any since 2005.
The exclusivity deal is estimated to be worth 'hundreds of millions' of dollars. So we won't be seeing another 2K Sports football game.. ever, probably.
Which is sad. They were a hell of a lot better than Madden, and forced the Madden team to actually improve their product.
Grand Theft Auto III for Android natively supports Playstation 3 gamepads - those are Bluetooth, albeit with the need to use a USB cable to pair them.
It also works just dandy in 1080p with the HDMI out on my tablet.
Not necessarily RELIABLE internet access.
I live in the US, just outside a town of 200,000 people. I'm half a mile from a school.
In order for me to get RELIABLE internet that's faster than dialup would cost me $2,419.60.
Per month.
I use cellular internet. It's not terribly expensive, and it works well enough, and it's fast enough. But it does lag out and drop out a lot, and if I lost my game progress every time it did, I'd get mightily pissed.
I get mad enough as is when Steam decides that since it can sort of see the internet, but not connect to the Steam server, then it won't even start up enough for me to put it in offline mode, so I can't play Steam games nyah nyah.
And that's just a check at the client start, not a constant connection,
... I'd say an Apple Newton 2100. The handwriting recognition is nothing short of amazing (on the 2100 - the original models, it was terrible) and a set of AA batteries lasts dang near forever.
The downside is, you'd have to learn a new gadget before your conference.
I was sad when they canceled the batarang controllers. I have a controller shaped like that for the original Playstation, and it's completely awesome.
Much more comfortable than the stock Sony controller.
Well, there's a dwemer in Morrowind.
He's old, decrepit, disgustingly obese, and his lower body's been replaced with a prosthetic mechanism from one of the dwemer spiders, but he's in there.
The problem with reading books on an LCD display isn't the resolution. It's the fact you're staring at a light bulb the whole time.
My e-ink reader is only 600 x 800, no higher a DPI than some of my LCD-screened gizmos, but it's FAR easier on the eyes.
Also, I fail to understand why 'touch interaction' matters. My reader has a button for next page and a button for previous page, well placed, and a D-pad for navigating menus. What more does it need?
That depends on what you mean by 'in the past'.
Anyone and their hamster could (and did) write games for the Apple II, Commodore 64, Spectrum, and the other 8 bit machines.
A tablet is not suited to those things. However, those things are not what the vast majority of people use computers for.
Tablets are just fine for checking your Facebook, watching YouTube and Netflix, sending emails, and playing the sorts of games most people play.
I know a few people who have ditched their home internet and just have an iPad and a 3G wifi hotspot. It's all the computer they need, and it carries easily. Heck, it fits in a good-sized purse.
And even EA can't seem to get their games working across Android devices reliably. I can't get Plants vs Zombies to run for more than two minutes on an Asus Transformer Prime with ICS.
I have never seen a word other than 'subsidized' used to describe a cell phone's cost being included in the plan.
What other word would you suggest they use?
Is it any more insane than buying any other toy? I mean, toys are generally pretty useless. There are people who spend more than a car costs on bicycles. Is that insane? People regularly spend thousands of dollars on pretty rocks or pretty pictures that don't do anything at all. That seems more insane to me than buying a toy, but they must enjoy having them. At least I can play with the toy. I've had my money's worth of fun out of it, so it doesn't seem like a waste to me.
Focus follows mouse with clicking titlebar bringing the window to the front is the exact opposite of what I want. I want focus doesn't follow mouse, clicking focuses, but clicking to focus does NOT raise the window to the top. The only WM I ever found that did that was AmiWM, which tried for the AmigaOS 2.X look-and-feel. And managed it, for the most part.
I use Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6. If there's a way to push the topmost window to the bottom of the stack on either, please explain how to do it.
There certainly isn't a widget for it. Is there a keyboard shortcut or modifier-click that will do it?
The only X11 window manager I recall with that feature was one that was specifically trying for the Amiga Workbench look and feel, but I admit I haven't used an X11 based system in ten years.