No you don't need a smart phone. You also don't need a computer, car, TV, ipod.
For that matter you don't need shoes, a toothbush, medecine or soap.... but damn if they don't make life easier.
Now, for MY job on the other hand, I need this phone. I'm expected to carry this phone and be this 'in touch' at all times. If I'm not, they'll find someone who will. So don't tell me I can do without when responding to email on a timely basis is part of my job.
awe stop whining, with 7500/gram under perfect conditions, there's plenty of room to cut corners on efficiency... Sure, we let a little steam into the atmosphere, warming the earth. And yeah, they don't talk about the 3 tons of radioactive water byproduct. Oh, and cars will all be 3x the size because of the boiler/turbine. And it's deadly to actually handle the stuff. And that china is the only producer of thorium. And you have to spend 85% of the energy generated running the laser. Oh, and you have to plug it into a wall to get enough amps to actually start a cold system, so people actually leave it running 24 hours/day. And that a gram of thorium costs $1000/gram or $5000/gram after taxes. And Al Gore says it kills polar bears, pandas and unicorns.
But after you take all that into account, you still get, oh, something like 25MPg. The Government will think it's a a perfect solution.
May suck for cell phones, but it'll be great for me. I live in an area where I'm just barely out of range of DSL and cable. Not anything like montana or alaska... Southern alabama, Right between Mobile and pascagoula. I'm currently using 3G wireless from verizon, and it pretty much sucks. 1.1MB down, when it works, the rest of the time, SOL.
My stationary USB card in a 3G router would love to site nice and still for this to work.
I just wish they'd figure away to turn the moon around for a while. I'm kinda getting tired of the view, and if there's something different on the other side, i sure as hell want to look at THAT for a while.
It was all good to the end there, then you started sending me these coded ssl certs, and I think you just hacked my computer. damn you smart people and your buffer overflows.
require vehicle fleets to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025
The key words here are FLEET and AVERAGE. None of the car companies are saying they have a problem with 25mpg on a 4cyl econocrap. What they are having a problem with is having a F150, F250 and F350 also average in to that FLEET with that 35mpg focus, and still keep the average up. Sure, not everyone needs and SUV, but many business do need an F250 to pull some heavy equipment.
And companies like nissan have proven you don't have to get 12mpg to get a car to go 0-60 in under 6 seconds.
Your first sentence makes me realize that I made the mistake I usually criticize people for. Comparing a particular apple phone, to the entire gamut of android phones. You over generalize when you compare a single model to an entire brand, or multiple brands of phones all at once.
But I can say that yes, our iphones have both proven to be of better than the Galaxy S, and my boss's Motorola Droid.
All the android people come out screaming about all their advanced features and how they're always ahead of apple. But what they don't do is come out screaming about the high quality of their phones. I've got an ORIGINAL iphone. My wife has a 4. I also have a company supplied Galaxy S, and we've both had blackberries. As far as features, the android phones always win. As for quality, dependability, stability, etc the iphones always win. Blackberry used to have that wrapped up, but they've fallen behind on quality in the last 5 years.
Oh, let me do a good old fashioned fixed that for you:
The masses are hooked on quality in functionality,
Yes, I'm going to buy a 5, not matter what. I'm currently on an ORIGINAL iphone. I need a new phone. I also have a Galaxy S, and it's shit. No, not 'Tha Shiit' but, like a piece of shit. Don't like it. Don't like the seemingly empty android market place. Don't like the the fact that if I use half the features on it my battery is dead in 12 hours.
So yes. I haven't seen a iP5 but I sure as hell am going to be getting one.
You young whipper snappers. Why I was first on/. we didn't have UIDs. All the stories were about OS/2 and 486s and that's the way we liked it! Now where'd I sit that floppy disk?
Eh, they're not far from being able to do it, and meet your requirements. Take an iMac, strip it of everything that makes it expensive, the harddrive, most of the memory, many of the ports etc. Call it a vMac. Have it only connect to a Lion server via VDI. And in reverse, only a Mac can connect to lion. Charge $300-$500 for it. Let Lion run as a guest on a hyper-v host.
Do it again for the mini so people can supply their own monitors. Sell that for $200. Boom, everyone happy. IT guys get to virtualize and do terminals. Professionals get their macs. Apple sells more hardware.
You make it too complicated. Here are the criteria: 1. It is not on fire (sun) 2. It has something not man made orbiting it. 3. It was discovered before 1931 4. It's larger than the smallest listed in #2 (this will pick up mercury which otherwise would have failed my tests.
Or, lets make it even easier. A planet is any one of MVEMJSUNP...
not sure who modded you down, but I was thinking the same thing.
I spent my entire childhood thinking pluto was a planet. To me it will always be a planet. Even my 9yo was originally taught it was a planet. Where's the love? Seriously, after 76 years, NOW you're going to choose to call it a 'dwarf planet'? I think not.
If you have enough gravity to have something orbiting you, then you get to be a planet.
There's got to be an 'in soviet russia' joke here, I'm just not sure what it is yet.
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No you don't need a smart phone. You also don't need a computer, car, TV, ipod.
For that matter you don't need shoes, a toothbush, medecine or soap.... but damn if they don't make life easier.
Now, for MY job on the other hand, I need this phone. I'm expected to carry this phone and be this 'in touch' at all times. If I'm not, they'll find someone who will. So don't tell me I can do without when responding to email on a timely basis is part of my job.
Thanks
Glad I have a 12ga... Been meaning to get a Judge or some other 45. Google for "The Judge"
awe stop whining, with 7500/gram under perfect conditions, there's plenty of room to cut corners on efficiency... Sure, we let a little steam into the atmosphere, warming the earth. And yeah, they don't talk about the 3 tons of radioactive water byproduct. Oh, and cars will all be 3x the size because of the boiler/turbine. And it's deadly to actually handle the stuff. And that china is the only producer of thorium. And you have to spend 85% of the energy generated running the laser. Oh, and you have to plug it into a wall to get enough amps to actually start a cold system, so people actually leave it running 24 hours/day. And that a gram of thorium costs $1000/gram or $5000/gram after taxes. And Al Gore says it kills polar bears, pandas and unicorns.
But after you take all that into account, you still get, oh, something like 25MPg. The Government will think it's a a perfect solution.
Because at the rate the dollar is going, in 5 years $15 billion is only going to buy you a box of girl scout cookies. And I'll take thinmint.
The previous poster is right about supply and demand...
If this is really so easy that it produced $15 billion worth, then the price of graphene is about to plummet.
May suck for cell phones, but it'll be great for me. I live in an area where I'm just barely out of range of DSL and cable. Not anything like montana or alaska... Southern alabama, Right between Mobile and pascagoula. I'm currently using 3G wireless from verizon, and it pretty much sucks. 1.1MB down, when it works, the rest of the time, SOL.
My stationary USB card in a 3G router would love to site nice and still for this to work.
If Lego did do boobies maybe some of us would start playing with legos again ;)
I just wish they'd figure away to turn the moon around for a while. I'm kinda getting tired of the view, and if there's something different on the other side, i sure as hell want to look at THAT for a while.
http://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat_pgsql/pgsql_overview.html
http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager
In spite of this, I use mysql.
It was all good to the end there, then you started sending me these coded ssl certs, and I think you just hacked my computer. damn you smart people and your buffer overflows.
Careful with absolutes like NOTHING...
How about increasing from 1mpg to 2mpg.
Or 1mpg to 10mpg
Can you explain that one again for me? I've read that before and it all made sense, but now it's not adding up in my thick head.
It is clear that going from 10-20 is twice as much as going 20-30....
But in my head 20-40 also seems like twice as much.
The key words here are FLEET and AVERAGE. None of the car companies are saying they have a problem with 25mpg on a 4cyl econocrap. What they are having a problem with is having a F150, F250 and F350 also average in to that FLEET with that 35mpg focus, and still keep the average up. Sure, not everyone needs and SUV, but many business do need an F250 to pull some heavy equipment.
And companies like nissan have proven you don't have to get 12mpg to get a car to go 0-60 in under 6 seconds.
he has high uid. doesn't know what pseudonym means...
I'm glad my iphone isn't controlled by some mega-company... ;)
Your first sentence makes me realize that I made the mistake I usually criticize people for. Comparing a particular apple phone, to the entire gamut of android phones. You over generalize when you compare a single model to an entire brand, or multiple brands of phones all at once.
But I can say that yes, our iphones have both proven to be of better than the Galaxy S, and my boss's Motorola Droid.
All the android people come out screaming about all their advanced features and how they're always ahead of apple. But what they don't do is come out screaming about the high quality of their phones. I've got an ORIGINAL iphone. My wife has a 4. I also have a company supplied Galaxy S, and we've both had blackberries. As far as features, the android phones always win. As for quality, dependability, stability, etc the iphones always win. Blackberry used to have that wrapped up, but they've fallen behind on quality in the last 5 years.
Oh, let me do a good old fashioned fixed that for you:
The masses are hooked on quality in functionality,
Yeah, that was hilarious.
Yes, I'm also an iPhone user.
Yes, I'm going to buy a 5, not matter what. I'm currently on an ORIGINAL iphone. I need a new phone. I also have a Galaxy S, and it's shit. No, not 'Tha Shiit' but, like a piece of shit. Don't like it. Don't like the seemingly empty android market place. Don't like the the fact that if I use half the features on it my battery is dead in 12 hours.
So yes. I haven't seen a iP5 but I sure as hell am going to be getting one.
You young whipper snappers. Why I was first on /. we didn't have UIDs. All the stories were about OS/2 and 486s and that's the way we liked it! Now where'd I sit that floppy disk?
Eh, they're not far from being able to do it, and meet your requirements. Take an iMac, strip it of everything that makes it expensive, the harddrive, most of the memory, many of the ports etc. Call it a vMac. Have it only connect to a Lion server via VDI. And in reverse, only a Mac can connect to lion. Charge $300-$500 for it. Let Lion run as a guest on a hyper-v host.
Do it again for the mini so people can supply their own monitors. Sell that for $200. Boom, everyone happy. IT guys get to virtualize and do terminals. Professionals get their macs. Apple sells more hardware.
No, you're wrong. It IS old, but they descoverred it.
See my rule # 4, it was specifically designed for Mercury and Venus, who are both Larger than pluto, yet have no natural orbiting rock.
Once he realized that they wrote it upside down!!!!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=uae+hamad&hl=en&ll=24.344281,54.325955&spn=0.013939,0.030899&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.223579,93.076172&t=h&z=16
Or is that standard in Arabic, like right to left, or top to bottom writing...
You make it too complicated. Here are the criteria:
1. It is not on fire (sun)
2. It has something not man made orbiting it.
3. It was discovered before 1931
4. It's larger than the smallest listed in #2 (this will pick up mercury which otherwise would have failed my tests.
Or, lets make it even easier.
A planet is any one of MVEMJSUNP...
not sure who modded you down, but I was thinking the same thing.
I spent my entire childhood thinking pluto was a planet. To me it will always be a planet. Even my 9yo was originally taught it was a planet. Where's the love? Seriously, after 76 years, NOW you're going to choose to call it a 'dwarf planet'? I think not.
If you have enough gravity to have something orbiting you, then you get to be a planet.
There's got to be an 'in soviet russia' joke here, I'm just not sure what it is yet.