And Syndicate, sure, it's an ancient title, but the intro alone featured the abduction of a person & that person being 'converted' into a biomechanical soldier without a will of his own...
Not to mention the flame thrower that could be used to incinerate people who would then run about screaming before collapsing & dying.
Syndicate was as dark & brooding as Blade Runner and as bloody as Mad Max, you could shoot people, burn them, blow them up or brainwash them.
Syndicate intro
As a geek, i've never had any issue picking out a phone that suited my needs, be it Nokia or HTC (they too have plenty of models) or what have you, it's simple really, you define a set of features you want, and your price range, whatever fits those criteria are already good picks, you just have to further narrow it down to one by looking what the differences are and which is most important, Model A might be slightly faster, but model B has a slightly bigger screen for instance, if you prefer speed over visibility, you'll take A, otherwise you take B.
It's a god damned phone you're buying, it ain't rocket science, choice is golden.
Well, here in Belgium people had to buy their own phones since the beginning, and it's never been an issue of "Oh My God i'm too stupid to pick one!" here, for starters, people can read the capacities of the devices on the box, and secondly, the shop personnel is capable of helping people decide when in doubt by showing them the phones & letting them fumble with them in store.
People aren't complete idiots (well, most aren't anyway), give them a little credit. The morons can go buy an iPhone.
Yes, according to the labels, the bits & bytes you receive on a mobile device are magical and different then the ones you receive on a desktop device....
And frankly, the link is i relevant. The climate is a chaotic system that changes constantly, whether we caused the change or not is less important as to how we prepare for said change.
I'm far more concerned that due to temperature changes & desalination of the oceans certain water-& wind flows change globally then i am with putting the blame on something, heck, we don't even know what the impact would be on a global scale if the desalination of the ocean continues...
My personal setup (having over 90000 pictures):
- Desktop computer with mirrored drives
- Local copy on USB drive
- Local copy on laptop
- Remote copy on flickr account
Most music is still good, you just don't hear it on tv or radio, there are thousands of smaller, less famous bands that make music of epic proportions that rock hard but never get airplay because they're not "trendy"
I don't need translations, my english is good enough, so is my french & dutch, there's no reason not to sell to people capable of consuming your product. I wouldn't mind a (reasonable) delay for translation/dubbing, but it has to be reasonable (and i don't mind having to pay for it)
Fuck proxies, the Internet is a global system, i get enough of that shit from youtube & sony music vids not playing in Belgium, geoblocking is ridiculous, i've got money to spend, if they let me, but no, they'd rather have me pirate
This is also why they're fighting internet based radio systems, for example, last.fm is forbidden to provide streaming to mobile phones over TCP/IP outside of the USA, UK & Germany, the labels won't allow it.
Apparently, the packets you receive wirelessly are somehow different, i dunno.
I'm a big music lover, be it rock, metal, blues... and i buy quite a few cd's direct from the artists, but i wouldn't even want to touch any of those popular pop 'artists' with a 7 foot barge pole, advertisements only work on people who are exposed to them i guess.
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Oooh i remember that one! Good times..... (the C64 i mean)
And Syndicate, sure, it's an ancient title, but the intro alone featured the abduction of a person & that person being 'converted' into a biomechanical soldier without a will of his own...
Not to mention the flame thrower that could be used to incinerate people who would then run about screaming before collapsing & dying.
Syndicate was as dark & brooding as Blade Runner and as bloody as Mad Max, you could shoot people, burn them, blow them up or brainwash them. Syndicate intro
Nokia 3120 Classic (something went foobar with the link :( )
The cheapest one should be this one: Nokia 3120 Classic, took me 5 minutes to figure out their site.
Sorry, i don't buy it (no pun intended).
As a geek, i've never had any issue picking out a phone that suited my needs, be it Nokia or HTC (they too have plenty of models) or what have you, it's simple really, you define a set of features you want, and your price range, whatever fits those criteria are already good picks, you just have to further narrow it down to one by looking what the differences are and which is most important, Model A might be slightly faster, but model B has a slightly bigger screen for instance, if you prefer speed over visibility, you'll take A, otherwise you take B.
It's a god damned phone you're buying, it ain't rocket science, choice is golden.
Well, here in Belgium people had to buy their own phones since the beginning, and it's never been an issue of "Oh My God i'm too stupid to pick one!" here, for starters, people can read the capacities of the devices on the box, and secondly, the shop personnel is capable of helping people decide when in doubt by showing them the phones & letting them fumble with them in store.
People aren't complete idiots (well, most aren't anyway), give them a little credit. The morons can go buy an iPhone.
Yes, according to the labels, the bits & bytes you receive on a mobile device are magical and different then the ones you receive on a desktop device....
We don't, that's the freaking problem!
US people did
It's also the labels that prohibit last.fm from streaming to mobiles in most of the world
last.fm doesn't get to stream this music for free, they have to pay the labels, and the labels set the cost on a 'per country' base as far as i know
This isn't actually last.fm's fault (or choice), i live in Belgium & have to pay too, and frankly, it's worth it.
If you want to assert blame, assert it where it belongs, on the copyright holders & the labels.
And frankly, the link is i relevant. The climate is a chaotic system that changes constantly, whether we caused the change or not is less important as to how we prepare for said change.
I'm far more concerned that due to temperature changes & desalination of the oceans certain water-& wind flows change globally then i am with putting the blame on something, heck, we don't even know what the impact would be on a global scale if the desalination of the ocean continues...
Actually, the CD was invented by Phillips
My personal setup (having over 90000 pictures):
- Desktop computer with mirrored drives
- Local copy on USB drive
- Local copy on laptop
- Remote copy on flickr account
Also, windows has a vast army of clueless users
How can a shellscript execute sudo without somehow providing the password?
Over here in Europe, you can buy cd's everywhere
To stay with Canada: Bryan Adams
Most music is still good, you just don't hear it on tv or radio, there are thousands of smaller, less famous bands that make music of epic proportions that rock hard but never get airplay because they're not "trendy"
I don't need translations, my english is good enough, so is my french & dutch, there's no reason not to sell to people capable of consuming your product. I wouldn't mind a (reasonable) delay for translation/dubbing, but it has to be reasonable (and i don't mind having to pay for it)
Fuck proxies, the Internet is a global system, i get enough of that shit from youtube & sony music vids not playing in Belgium, geoblocking is ridiculous, i've got money to spend, if they let me, but no, they'd rather have me pirate
This is also why they're fighting internet based radio systems, for example, last.fm is forbidden to provide streaming to mobile phones over TCP/IP outside of the USA, UK & Germany, the labels won't allow it.
Apparently, the packets you receive wirelessly are somehow different, i dunno.
I'm a big music lover, be it rock, metal, blues... and i buy quite a few cd's direct from the artists, but i wouldn't even want to touch any of those popular pop 'artists' with a 7 foot barge pole, advertisements only work on people who are exposed to them i guess.
Wait, people still tape songs from radio?! I've not seen a cassette tape in ages! (Or listened to any broadcast radio for that matter...)