come on, the Silmarillion is hardly a story. its much more like an appendix or as wikipedia puts it a legendarium. you couldnt make that a coherent movie any more than you could make the entire bible a single movie. Maybe they could do it like the Animatrix, which would be FREAKING SWEET!
i'm not sure i agree that there is that much more of the Tolkien universe to get through. in that, there is depth, but we are about out of breadth.
I've been wanting to do the same - upgrade my hardware. but the thing is, for me, is that it is just not worth it. i really dont use my phone for much besides surfing the net (twitter & facebook ala tweetdeck mostly), taking photos, playing the occasional low fi game, & email / messaging. video on my phone, just doesnt interest me - id rather read a book. so i just dont see what a fancy new phone (Galaxy S3 is my current fav) is going do for me. this issue is compounded by the fact ive seen no new phones with a hardware keyboard which is a feature i do not want to do without. the only thing i really need in a new phone is a better camera, but that is an endless quest for an amateur photographer. all in all, a new phone would cost me something like $500 or more and I just dont see the point in spending that much money for a nominal upgrade.
please tell us more of your reasons for wanting new hardware, im interested in your use case (i hear ya on the video, but is there more than that?)
My prepaid (T-mobile) plan is $50 a month. that includes unlimited voice and text and 100 meg of 4g data and unlimited 3g data. ya'll should really think about this.
i was paying for the biggest plan - $70 with all of the above but 5gig of 4g, until i recently got a Clear hotspot - now i get unlimited 4g through the hot spot which I also use for my home. that being said id much rather have comcast or something truly high speed, but the wiring the building is too shitty for that to work.
note i DID pay full price for my device - an HTC G2. but like OP said, you can get last gen phones (such as mine) for dirt cheap.
RMS Queen Mary 2 isnt even the largest -
The 'Allure of The Seas' is 1,187.050 ft long and has a beam length of 213 ft but what really puts it over the top of QM2 is that it has capacity for 6000 passengers compared to just 3000 - source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world's_largest_cruise_ships (its gross tonnage is also 225,282)
11 September's events were purely provocative in nature... The reason for 11 September, even simpler: they wanted many to die, and for those who were left to be driven into fear.
I'm convinced of this: I do not know the motives for the attacks on 911. I am also convinced that you do not either. If you would like to bring a source for the information you presented I'd be all ears.
its another shameless Titanic plug - and its getting really dam annoying. using Google news to search 'Titanic' - I find: 23,100 results for the time span of Jan 2, 2012–Apr 9, 2012 and 9,980 for Jan 2, 2011–Jan 2, 2012.
We could probably teach the Chinese a thing or two about media control
what if that domain is youtube, or google, or facebook? i dont think basing of the domain will be appropriate. What i think would work - is looking at the ratio of how many (tweets at people whom do not follow you or whom you do not follow) / (tweets at people who do follow or follow you) - when this gets above a certain threshold, like I dunno 1000:1 then its a fair bet the account is a spammer
we were discussing the rounding of the 50 øre coin. which is why i said - at that level instead of at this level to be clear that i was referring to what was just said and not the article
how did he denigrate his neighbor? - being a brainiac is a good thing, no? I didnt take it as sarcastic because the point of the post was to denigrate the author (humorously)
at that level of rounding people WILL start gaming the system, hell i know i would. coffee costs $1.51 - i'm going to pay with a card. coffee costs 1.49 - i'm going to pay in cash.
interesting stuff! so after doing some more reading - 4G = minimum of 100Mbps if you are on a train or something, but as a pedestrian thats 1Gbps (holy moly!).
is there a mobile network on the planet that is 4G compliant?
but to make everything nice and opaque
In March 2008, the International Telecommunications Union-Radio communications sector (ITU-R) specified a set of requirements for 4G standards, named the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) specification, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 gigabit per second (Gbit/s) for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users).[1]
Since the above mentioned first-release versions of Mobile WiMAX and LTE support much less than 1 Gbit/s peak bit rate, they are not fully IMT-Advanced compliant, but are often branded 4G by service providers. On December 6, 2010, ITU-R recognized that these two technologies, as well as other beyond-3G technologies that do not fulfill the IMT-Advanced requirements, could nevertheless be considered "4G", provided they represent forerunners to IMT-Advanced compliant versions and "a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed".[2]
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it also means that you are paying for services that you are not receiving
yes i've read it, and it is awesome. but you've made my point for me. the Silmarillion isnt a story - it is many stories.
come on, the Silmarillion is hardly a story. its much more like an appendix or as wikipedia puts it a legendarium. you couldnt make that a coherent movie any more than you could make the entire bible a single movie. Maybe they could do it like the Animatrix, which would be FREAKING SWEET!
i'm not sure i agree that there is that much more of the Tolkien universe to get through. in that, there is depth, but we are about out of breadth.
agreed. but the camera that is always with me is the cell phone camera. i cant carry my kit everywhere i go
Ha! not when you figure total cost of ownership
I've been wanting to do the same - upgrade my hardware. but the thing is, for me, is that it is just not worth it. i really dont use my phone for much besides surfing the net (twitter & facebook ala tweetdeck mostly), taking photos, playing the occasional low fi game, & email / messaging. video on my phone, just doesnt interest me - id rather read a book. so i just dont see what a fancy new phone (Galaxy S3 is my current fav) is going do for me. this issue is compounded by the fact ive seen no new phones with a hardware keyboard which is a feature i do not want to do without. the only thing i really need in a new phone is a better camera, but that is an endless quest for an amateur photographer. all in all, a new phone would cost me something like $500 or more and I just dont see the point in spending that much money for a nominal upgrade.
please tell us more of your reasons for wanting new hardware, im interested in your use case (i hear ya on the video, but is there more than that?)
My prepaid (T-mobile) plan is $50 a month. that includes unlimited voice and text and 100 meg of 4g data and unlimited 3g data. ya'll should really think about this.
i was paying for the biggest plan - $70 with all of the above but 5gig of 4g, until i recently got a Clear hotspot - now i get unlimited 4g through the hot spot which I also use for my home. that being said id much rather have comcast or something truly high speed, but the wiring the building is too shitty for that to work.
note i DID pay full price for my device - an HTC G2. but like OP said, you can get last gen phones (such as mine) for dirt cheap.
let me have a go at spinning the verdict - the Samsung Galaxy Tab is LEGALLY hotter than the Ipad.
RMS Queen Mary 2 isnt even the largest - The 'Allure of The Seas' is 1,187.050 ft long and has a beam length of 213 ft but what really puts it over the top of QM2 is that it has capacity for 6000 passengers compared to just 3000 - source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world's_largest_cruise_ships (its gross tonnage is also 225,282)
11 September's events were purely provocative in nature... The reason for 11 September, even simpler: they wanted many to die, and for those who were left to be driven into fear.
I'm convinced of this: I do not know the motives for the attacks on 911. I am also convinced that you do not either. If you would like to bring a source for the information you presented I'd be all ears.
there is no difference between the attacks other than how you rationalize the motives.
never the desired outcome of any fighting body other than an extremist group.
care to explain Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
to quote Neil Stephenson - 'gold is the corpse of value.' this is really just the end of 14 book mega sagas - Wheel of Time anyone?
btw i did love that series
+1 good vocabulary
Where were they when he needed help and support?
bang on.
actually mental illness is a very common defense in murder trials. clinical depression is just one form of mental illness.
well played sir!
its another shameless Titanic plug - and its getting really dam annoying. using Google news to search 'Titanic' - I find: 23,100 results for the time span of Jan 2, 2012–Apr 9, 2012 and 9,980 for Jan 2, 2011–Jan 2, 2012.
We could probably teach the Chinese a thing or two about media control
i agree, i was not clear
what if that domain is youtube, or google, or facebook? i dont think basing of the domain will be appropriate. What i think would work - is looking at the ratio of how many (tweets at people whom do not follow you or whom you do not follow) / (tweets at people who do follow or follow you) - when this gets above a certain threshold, like I dunno 1000:1 then its a fair bet the account is a spammer
we were discussing the rounding of the 50 øre coin. which is why i said - at that level instead of at this level to be clear that i was referring to what was just said and not the article
no. if you can follow what was said in the post i responded to then:
$1.51 with card = $1.51, with cash = $2
$1.49 with cash = $1, with card = $1.49
i thought that was pretty basic.
how did he denigrate his neighbor? - being a brainiac is a good thing, no? I didnt take it as sarcastic because the point of the post was to denigrate the author (humorously)
at that level of rounding people WILL start gaming the system, hell i know i would. coffee costs $1.51 - i'm going to pay with a card. coffee costs 1.49 - i'm going to pay in cash.
is there a mobile network on the planet that is 4G compliant?
but to make everything nice and opaque
In March 2008, the International Telecommunications Union-Radio communications sector (ITU-R) specified a set of requirements for 4G standards, named the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) specification, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 gigabit per second (Gbit/s) for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users).[1]
Since the above mentioned first-release versions of Mobile WiMAX and LTE support much less than 1 Gbit/s peak bit rate, they are not fully IMT-Advanced compliant, but are often branded 4G by service providers. On December 6, 2010, ITU-R recognized that these two technologies, as well as other beyond-3G technologies that do not fulfill the IMT-Advanced requirements, could nevertheless be considered "4G", provided they represent forerunners to IMT-Advanced compliant versions and "a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed".[2]
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#Technical_definition