I got the LG Optimus Slider for $160 (Virgin Mobile, owned by Sprint) last November because I wanted the physical keyboard, but they have other smartphones with much better specs still in the $200-and-under range. Then I pay $35/mo for unlimited data/voice/text (no contract). I see this phone lasting me about 3 or 4 years before I feel the need to replace it with something better. As it is, it does most apps reasonbly although the ad-supported version of Angry Birds lags a little (paid version without ads runs smoothly) and Netflix doesn't work real well.... but it's a phone. Email, web browsing, other core smartphone functions work beautifully. My favorite third party apps are GasBuddy and Shazam. My least favorite apps are Facebook and Twitter, which I can;t remove without rooting the phone.
If you're going to stick with a phone for at least 3 or 4 years, go with the best phone you can afford. If you're going to replace it every year or two then get a more modest phone because next year's modest phone will likely kick the crap out of this year's best-in-your-budget.
In most cases, it's cheaper - the exceptions tend to be A) if you replace your phone very often with the newest and bestest model and B) if your data/text/voice usage is very high so you need the unlimited plan
Even in both of those cases, contract-free monthly plans like Virgin Mobile are cheaper. I paid $160 for the phone plus $35/mo for unlimited everything. Over the course of two years, I pay $1000 including the phone. Last I saw, ATT/Verizon had plans over $70 that weren't even close to unlimited anything. At $70/month it comes to $1680 (let's assume your phone is "free" with the contract, so no extra cost there). $340/year is quite a bit extra for most people... especially when you consider you're still not getting unlimited everything and there's additional fees for breaking the contract early.
You'd think you could build your own plan by now. My data use varies greatly month to month, but rarely tops 2GB (mostly because my phone doesn't run Netflix well), I average under 50 texts per month (sent and received) and rarely use more than 30 minutes of voice a month. I get unlimited everything from Virgin Mobile for $35/mo, which is a reasonable price imo but Sprint has sucky coverage (including at my apartment and at work). ATT and Verizon have good coverage here (both have cell towers on top of the building where I work) but their cheapest plans that would work for me tend to cost significantly more than I pay for both my cell phone and my landline together.
I think I know where he went wrong. Although he created Slashdot in college, he still went on to graduate. If only he had dropped out then Slashdot would be an Internet sensation and 28 billion people would have accounts. Taco would also be worth eighty trazillion dollars.
That happened to me, then I left her and wound up with a girl who's willing to put up with my spending most of my free time in the basement cuddling with my server rack.
No, it's a hallmark of the bored with too much free time. If you had an employee who spent most of their time recategorizing rather than coming up with something new, would you consider them intelligent? You'd probably think they were lazy or incompetent.
I expect a lot of those half-public places to have some sort of surveillance these days, such as a camera. Sure, there's plenty of places you'd reasonably expect there to be no electronic surveillance, such as the middle of the woods, but almost anywhere outside of nature you can reasonably expect to be recorded even if no one else is around.
Tt costs 425 times as much but probably gets far more usage than that. How many people, businesses and goods use the interstate system compared to trains?
I believe he was arguing that oribiting a planet is a requirement for it to be called a moon... not having a moon as a requirement for being a planet. Not that he was correct, but his argument wasn't that easily defeated.
Religion is like bath salts. Sure, it's a fun fantasy world at first but next thing you know you're stripping naked eating some guy's flesh and drinking his blood.
Crappy summary. The poem is not self-encrypting, rather a program displays the poem once and then encrypts it... it's that program that needs to be cracked. As far as I can tell, the poem itself is just a MacGuffin
Even worse are the games that only display on one monitor, use side-scrolling heavily but don't lock the cursor on the monitor. Then you move the mouse to the edge of the screen that borders the other monitor and the mouse disappears rather than scrolling the view.
I recently downloaded MS Flight with the hopes of doing a cockpit view like that with my five-monitor setup. Sadly, it doesn't seem to give the option to use more than one monitor (unless I just haven't found it yet?)
I'd love to have Freespace 2 or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter using all of the monitors too...
I built a new desk using a standard size 32" hollow core door as the main desktop. It's great for five-across (two 17" and three 22", all widescreen landscape). There is a sixth monitor, an 8" 800x600 ancient LCD industrial monitor that I added for the hell of it. It's powered off Intel HD 3000, Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 4550.... just enough to play Diablo III or Microsoft Flight on the center monitor, or Supreme Commander 2 on two monitors but not much more. Planning on upgrading to a pair of Radeon HD 7850's once they go down in price a little... I don't do a whole lot of brand new games and am perfectly happy on low settings for most games so it works for me.
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Just keep telling yourself that because what we learn in third grade must be the absolute truth, no matter how complex the issues were.
In addition to the other poster's link, here's another about the marijuana forests
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15239501/ns/world_news-weird_news/t/taliban-takes-high-cover/#.UAbTZv3HhvI
I got the LG Optimus Slider for $160 (Virgin Mobile, owned by Sprint) last November because I wanted the physical keyboard, but they have other smartphones with much better specs still in the $200-and-under range. Then I pay $35/mo for unlimited data/voice/text (no contract). I see this phone lasting me about 3 or 4 years before I feel the need to replace it with something better. As it is, it does most apps reasonbly although the ad-supported version of Angry Birds lags a little (paid version without ads runs smoothly) and Netflix doesn't work real well.... but it's a phone. Email, web browsing, other core smartphone functions work beautifully. My favorite third party apps are GasBuddy and Shazam. My least favorite apps are Facebook and Twitter, which I can;t remove without rooting the phone.
If you're going to stick with a phone for at least 3 or 4 years, go with the best phone you can afford. If you're going to replace it every year or two then get a more modest phone because next year's modest phone will likely kick the crap out of this year's best-in-your-budget.
In most cases, it's cheaper - the exceptions tend to be A) if you replace your phone very often with the newest and bestest model and B) if your data/text/voice usage is very high so you need the unlimited plan
Even in both of those cases, contract-free monthly plans like Virgin Mobile are cheaper. I paid $160 for the phone plus $35/mo for unlimited everything. Over the course of two years, I pay $1000 including the phone. Last I saw, ATT/Verizon had plans over $70 that weren't even close to unlimited anything. At $70/month it comes to $1680 (let's assume your phone is "free" with the contract, so no extra cost there). $340/year is quite a bit extra for most people... especially when you consider you're still not getting unlimited everything and there's additional fees for breaking the contract early.
You'd think you could build your own plan by now. My data use varies greatly month to month, but rarely tops 2GB (mostly because my phone doesn't run Netflix well), I average under 50 texts per month (sent and received) and rarely use more than 30 minutes of voice a month. I get unlimited everything from Virgin Mobile for $35/mo, which is a reasonable price imo but Sprint has sucky coverage (including at my apartment and at work). ATT and Verizon have good coverage here (both have cell towers on top of the building where I work) but their cheapest plans that would work for me tend to cost significantly more than I pay for both my cell phone and my landline together.
Try clicking BOTH links to see where they go. HINT: Slashdot is only half of them.
I think I know where he went wrong. Although he created Slashdot in college, he still went on to graduate. If only he had dropped out then Slashdot would be an Internet sensation and 28 billion people would have accounts. Taco would also be worth eighty trazillion dollars.
This just in: Men and Women Are Different!
You can put a man and a woman in the same situation and will often get different results.
Honey is fun, but Cool Whip is a less sticky alternative.
Of course they were married. Why do you think they volunteered?
That happened to me, then I left her and wound up with a girl who's willing to put up with my spending most of my free time in the basement cuddling with my server rack.
So you're saying it's less of a thermal sheet and more of a thermal hospital gown?
Could have something to do with Microsoft owning Skype...
They wanted to use hydrogen, but then then FAA would have required a no-smoking sign.
No, it's a hallmark of the bored with too much free time. If you had an employee who spent most of their time recategorizing rather than coming up with something new, would you consider them intelligent? You'd probably think they were lazy or incompetent.
I expect a lot of those half-public places to have some sort of surveillance these days, such as a camera. Sure, there's plenty of places you'd reasonably expect there to be no electronic surveillance, such as the middle of the woods, but almost anywhere outside of nature you can reasonably expect to be recorded even if no one else is around.
Tt costs 425 times as much but probably gets far more usage than that. How many people, businesses and goods use the interstate system compared to trains?
I will volunteer to be raped by hobos if it means I get to zoom around at 4,000 mph.
I believe he was arguing that oribiting a planet is a requirement for it to be called a moon... not having a moon as a requirement for being a planet. Not that he was correct, but his argument wasn't that easily defeated.
Religion is like bath salts. Sure, it's a fun fantasy world at first but next thing you know you're stripping naked eating some guy's flesh and drinking his blood.
Or just into words? Most people that understand sign language also understand written language.
Crappy summary. The poem is not self-encrypting, rather a program displays the poem once and then encrypts it... it's that program that needs to be cracked. As far as I can tell, the poem itself is just a MacGuffin
Even worse are the games that only display on one monitor, use side-scrolling heavily but don't lock the cursor on the monitor. Then you move the mouse to the edge of the screen that borders the other monitor and the mouse disappears rather than scrolling the view.
I recently downloaded MS Flight with the hopes of doing a cockpit view like that with my five-monitor setup. Sadly, it doesn't seem to give the option to use more than one monitor (unless I just haven't found it yet?)
I'd love to have Freespace 2 or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter using all of the monitors too...
I built a new desk using a standard size 32" hollow core door as the main desktop. It's great for five-across (two 17" and three 22", all widescreen landscape). There is a sixth monitor, an 8" 800x600 ancient LCD industrial monitor that I added for the hell of it. It's powered off Intel HD 3000, Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 4550.... just enough to play Diablo III or Microsoft Flight on the center monitor, or Supreme Commander 2 on two monitors but not much more. Planning on upgrading to a pair of Radeon HD 7850's once they go down in price a little... I don't do a whole lot of brand new games and am perfectly happy on low settings for most games so it works for me.