112 wpm, 9 character errors on Typing Pal. I'm fast, I'm not perfectly accurate, and I've played the piano since age 5 (am now 22). Make your own conclusions.
Speaking of mountain bike magazines, I'm a fan of Decline. Flow is a lame Maxim-turned-off-road ripoff with poor writing and editing. Dirt Rag is good, but I don't go out of my way to buy it. All of these are trumped by Litter Mag. (For those who aren't mountain bike nerds it's a parody, although the creator has printed up at least one issue -- I have a printed copy.)
If you want just the non-gaming functionality, any of the series 60 phones will do it for you: Nokia 3650, 3660 (3650 with a standard keypad), the original 7650, 6600, etc.
Are you in Grant County? My parents moved from the city/town of Moses Lake, in Grant County, only shortly after the ZIPP fiber optic network made it to their outside-town-boundaries house. I was disappointed, since my webserver suddenly went from being on a low latency link of more than adequate bandwidth (ie, my friends didn't complain about how slow it was) to a high latency cable link that barely pulls 30kB/sec upload; it's slow enough that my non-nerd friends complain about it and unreliable enough that uploads by my contributors often fail. It's a shame, although you admittedly do have to put up with living in rural Central Washington to get ZIPP/fiber...;-)
Thanks. I actually only keep three (yes, three) bookmarks in my Firefox install, so it was trivial to recreate them. This because my IE install is what I use for work-related surfing -- Firefox is what I use for my non-work/procrastination surfing, and I only check my provider's webmail, one message board, and slashdot during the day.
I had that thought as well. Must be deliberate on the part of iRiver -- they've already struck out with their iDerivative company name, and the "pimp" factor might be just what this product needs...
Funny how we want all the good things (e.g. movies, and music, customer service, long lasting products, teachers who can teach). But we're not really willing to pay for it.
This is not entirely true. At least in some fields quality products that are backed up by good customer service and with a resulting premium price tag succeed. For example, in the downhill mountain biking world, Avalanche Downhill Racing rear shock absorbers are widely regarded as being the best, despite the fact that they cost $550, whereas other shocks will typically run $300 or so...
Harvard should link to http://www.harvard.edu/ or http://www.fas.harvard.edu/ if you want the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (the undergraduate institution that everybody loves) not "hardvard.edu".
geeks with poor hygiene definitely exist. in several higher cs and math classes i've run across classmates that had a level of stink and hair-mattedness suggesting lengthy (read: much more than a day, perhaps a week!) intervals between bathing...
It's a valid point to say that people convicted of a felony shouldn't be allowed to vote. But you should look into how racist the US judicial system is. Black people get convicted of a lot more crimes, and sent away for much longer terms. That by the very definition is racism, and the only way you can say it is fair is by taking the position that black people are subhuman (naturally commit more and worse crimes than white people).
actually, this is not the only interpretation. black on black violence, especially murder, is very high. thus the high incarceration rate of blacks is not surprising. black people DO commit more and worse crimes than white people, if you consider murder "worse". (it's another argument entirely whether the murder of one person is more deleterious than the white collar fraud of enron and worldcom that wiped out untold numbers of pensioners' retirement savings.) this is not to say that blacks are subhuman, to which conclusion you so hastily jump.
source, albeit a few years out of date: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/vvr98pr.htm
and relevant quote: "The study also showed that blacks were murdered at far higher rates than other U.S. residents. During 1998 there were 23 blacks murdered compared to 4 whites and 3 victims of other races per 100,000 persons of each racial group."
a second source to back up my claim specifically about black on black violence: http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/02/murder.rate/
and its relevant quote: "The report also found that from 1976 to 1997, 85 percent of white murder victims were killed by whites and 94 percent of black victims were killed by blacks. During the same period, blacks were seven times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and eight times more likely than whites to commit homicides." [paragraph break removed]
Furthermore, I bet many in the Slashdot target group at least are salaried, so this whole $40/hr extra point is moot for them. Longer hours for the salaryman == good for the company, but bad for the worker.
I used to think as you did: I'd ditched my Palm years ago due to lack of use, and routinely carry around a SLR kit to support my photography habit. Despite this I still find my phone (a Nokia 3650, one of the many do-it-all wonders) to be useful, and indeed wouldn't trade it for a normal phone now. First off, it was free thanks to a Amazon/T-Mobile rebate deal, and this was only with a one year@$40/month obligation. Second, it works beautifully with iSync and my Bluetooth dongle, including grabbing the pics I have associated with my contacts in the OS X Address Book and syncing all of my iCal calendars. Finally, the camera portion of it is useful in an entirely different way than my SLR. Sure, it's fixed focus, noisy, and has funky color. But it captures the moment when it's called for, and the images are entirely workable for web use.
It's also a quite decent phone, with good reception according to howardchui.com and my own experience on the west and east coasts. (To tell the truth, I use it less as a phone than as a way to check my email and browse the web with Opera [for Symbian 6 -- released but no longer supported].)
As evidence of the utility of phonecams I present my website, typically filled with pseudo-artsy low depth of field shots, but also sprinkled with phone pics. A recent gallery.
This is not true at all universities. My Ivy League alma mater has a retention rate over 4 years somewhere around 96%, and a few points higher over 5. (Sorry, I can't find a reference in my cursory googling.) The difference? They don't let in students that they don't think can cut it, and they nurse students who have fallen off the bandwagon back. For example: fail a course and you're out of school for a year, and must work for at least 6 months of that year.
Of course, most schools don't the luxury of choosing from eager, qualified students, but my point stands: not all colleges in America are as the parent post states.
You are giving way too much power to a group that already has too much power.
And which group is this? Computer nerds with too much time on their hands? (Not that that's a bad thing... ) Your "rebuttal" looks good on paper, but I think it might be bad in practice.
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Actually some superzooms (for small sensor cameras) have fast, constant apertures. See the Panasonic FZ10 for instance, a 4 MP camera with a 35-420mm equivalent constant f/2.8 zoom.
Of course, my personal view is that zooms are lame -- give me the pure optics of a prime (non-zoom lens) any day. But then again I shoot with a Canon D30 with "only" 3.2 MP, so what do I know.;-)
The article stated that the impact was by a "fragment simulating particle", but it was not stated that the image was simulated. Indeed, looking at the larger version of the picture reveals that it's a photo, grid-like background notwithstanding. In particular note the softness of the photo and the wispy strands of kevlar hanging around the edges. I doubt that a computer generated graphic would have either of these characteristics.
I, too, had this problem with my 1st gen 5 gig iPod. I fixed it by buying a $5 radio shack headphone splitter. Voila, no more flaky headphone business.
(Mine had actually gotten to the point where the all-metal jack of my Sony MDR-V6 headphones would cause the device to short out and shut down, as the plastic rim had completely broken off.)
Your point about 250 GB not being available in iPod-sized packages is true, but there's an important error: iPods use 1.8" hard drives. iPod mini's use even smaller drives (1"). 2.5" is the notebook size and drives of that size are capacious in cheap in comparison to 1.8" and 1" beasties.
I am posting this from my Nokia 3650, using Opera. Yes, Opera, as in the PC web browser - it's been out for Symbian 6 phones for a while now, although it is regrettably no longer in development. Combine a "real" browser, a built in pop and imap client and t-mobile's $4.99 per month all you can eat gprs and there's your compelling mobile experience. Caveats: the cheap t-mobile gprs plan has ports 22 and 443 blocked, and Opera chokes on large web pages. So it's not perfect, but it's enough to give me access to my mail, the BBC news and slashdot on the road or on the train...
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Actually, the correct romanization of the term for "foreigner" in Japanese is "gaijin", note the "i".
112 wpm, 9 character errors on Typing Pal. I'm fast, I'm not perfectly accurate, and I've played the piano since age 5 (am now 22). Make your own conclusions.
My stats are even more lopsided (then again my sample size is small, these are my search engine referrers since Dec 2003):
Google(129)- 98.47%
Yahoo(2)- 1.52%
Speaking of mountain bike magazines, I'm a fan of Decline. Flow is a lame Maxim-turned-off-road ripoff with poor writing and editing. Dirt Rag is good, but I don't go out of my way to buy it. All of these are trumped by Litter Mag. (For those who aren't mountain bike nerds it's a parody, although the creator has printed up at least one issue -- I have a printed copy.)
If you want just the non-gaming functionality, any of the series 60 phones will do it for you: Nokia 3650, 3660 (3650 with a standard keypad), the original 7650, 6600, etc.
Are you in Grant County? My parents moved from the city/town of Moses Lake, in Grant County, only shortly after the ZIPP fiber optic network made it to their outside-town-boundaries house. I was disappointed, since my webserver suddenly went from being on a low latency link of more than adequate bandwidth (ie, my friends didn't complain about how slow it was) to a high latency cable link that barely pulls 30kB/sec upload; it's slow enough that my non-nerd friends complain about it and unreliable enough that uploads by my contributors often fail. It's a shame, although you admittedly do have to put up with living in rural Central Washington to get ZIPP/fiber... ;-)
Thanks. I actually only keep three (yes, three) bookmarks in my Firefox install, so it was trivial to recreate them. This because my IE install is what I use for work-related surfing -- Firefox is what I use for my non-work/procrastination surfing, and I only check my provider's webmail, one message board, and slashdot during the day.
Somehow it thought that it would be proper to import my IE favorites and cookies, overwriting my existing Firefox settings while doing so. Oh well.
I had that thought as well. Must be deliberate on the part of iRiver -- they've already struck out with their iDerivative company name, and the "pimp" factor might be just what this product needs...
Harvard should link to http://www.harvard.edu/ or http://www.fas.harvard.edu/ if you want the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (the undergraduate institution that everybody loves) not "hardvard.edu".
geeks with poor hygiene definitely exist. in several higher cs and math classes i've run across classmates that had a level of stink and hair-mattedness suggesting lengthy (read: much more than a day, perhaps a week!) intervals between bathing...
actually, this is not the only interpretation. black on black violence, especially murder, is very high. thus the high incarceration rate of blacks is not surprising. black people DO commit more and worse crimes than white people, if you consider murder "worse". (it's another argument entirely whether the murder of one person is more deleterious than the white collar fraud of enron and worldcom that wiped out untold numbers of pensioners' retirement savings.) this is not to say that blacks are subhuman, to which conclusion you so hastily jump.
source, albeit a few years out of date: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/vvr98pr.ht
and relevant quote: "The study also showed that blacks were murdered at far higher rates than other U.S. residents. During 1998 there were 23 blacks murdered compared to 4 whites and 3 victims of other races per 100,000 persons of each racial group."
a second source to back up my claim specifically about black on black violence: http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/02/murder.rate/
and its relevant quote: "The report also found that from 1976 to 1997, 85 percent of white murder victims were killed by whites and 94 percent of black victims were killed by blacks. During the same period, blacks were seven times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and eight times more likely than whites to commit homicides." [paragraph break removed]
Furthermore, I bet many in the Slashdot target group at least are salaried, so this whole $40/hr extra point is moot for them. Longer hours for the salaryman == good for the company, but bad for the worker.
It's also a quite decent phone, with good reception according to howardchui.com and my own experience on the west and east coasts. (To tell the truth, I use it less as a phone than as a way to check my email and browse the web with Opera [for Symbian 6 -- released but no longer supported].)
As evidence of the utility of phonecams I present my website, typically filled with pseudo-artsy low depth of field shots, but also sprinkled with phone pics. A recent gallery.
So sort by price on the left side of the page. Example search sorted by price, in their pseudo-grid (not the kind of grid that pricegrabber has).
This is not true at all universities. My Ivy League alma mater has a retention rate over 4 years somewhere around 96%, and a few points higher over 5. (Sorry, I can't find a reference in my cursory googling.) The difference? They don't let in students that they don't think can cut it, and they nurse students who have fallen off the bandwagon back. For example: fail a course and you're out of school for a year, and must work for at least 6 months of that year.
Of course, most schools don't the luxury of choosing from eager, qualified students, but my point stands: not all colleges in America are as the parent post states.
And which group is this? Computer nerds with too much time on their hands? (Not that that's a bad thing... ) Your "rebuttal" looks good on paper, but I think it might be bad in practice.
Actually some superzooms (for small sensor cameras) have fast, constant apertures. See the Panasonic FZ10 for instance, a 4 MP camera with a 35-420mm equivalent constant f/2.8 zoom.
Of course, my personal view is that zooms are lame -- give me the pure optics of a prime (non-zoom lens) any day. But then again I shoot with a Canon D30 with "only" 3.2 MP, so what do I know. ;-)
The article stated that the impact was by a "fragment simulating particle", but it was not stated that the image was simulated. Indeed, looking at the larger version of the picture reveals that it's a photo, grid-like background notwithstanding. In particular note the softness of the photo and the wispy strands of kevlar hanging around the edges. I doubt that a computer generated graphic would have either of these characteristics.
I, too, had this problem with my 1st gen 5 gig iPod. I fixed it by buying a $5 radio shack headphone splitter. Voila, no more flaky headphone business.
(Mine had actually gotten to the point where the all-metal jack of my Sony MDR-V6 headphones would cause the device to short out and shut down, as the plastic rim had completely broken off.)
Your point about 250 GB not being available in iPod-sized packages is true, but there's an important error: iPods use 1.8" hard drives. iPod mini's use even smaller drives (1"). 2.5" is the notebook size and drives of that size are capacious in cheap in comparison to 1.8" and 1" beasties.
.com is really annoying.)
Reference: news.com.com article (that extra
I am posting this from my Nokia 3650, using Opera. Yes, Opera, as in the PC web browser - it's been out for Symbian 6 phones for a while now, although it is regrettably no longer in development. Combine a "real" browser, a built in pop and imap client and t-mobile's $4.99 per month all you can eat gprs and there's your compelling mobile experience. Caveats: the cheap t-mobile gprs plan has ports 22 and 443 blocked, and Opera chokes on large web pages. So it's not perfect, but it's enough to give me access to my mail, the BBC news and slashdot on the road or on the train...
I can't find a concrete reference, but I believe that Canon ships more units and grosses more than Sony.