Being someone who bought one just less than two weeks ago, I'm going to see if I can return it.
I wasn't OVERLY impressed with the performance (on a 2.0Ghz iMac), but I assumed that it would be optimized in the future, as had been the case in previous iterations of OSX.
Now that I learn the platform I bought has 0 future ahead of it, I see no reason to keep it around if I don't have to.
(That, and it has a stuck pixel which is annoying the hell out of me).
If you RTFA (gasp!) you'll find that it was a lawsuit against Fox by J Random Scriptwriter who claimes that the LxG movie was ripped off from some random script that was submitted.
The studio settled, which was basically saying to the world (from Alan's point of view) "The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen was a ripoff of some random screenwriter".
* no automatic transition to classic input when the word you're trying to type is unknown. The only ones that get that one right are Siemens.
The nokia does a pretty good job of this -- when the word you're typing is unknown, one of the two selector buttons turns into "Spell", and you hit that, and are taken into a seperate window to spell the word out with classic input methods. Then hit "save" and it replaces the word with that, and it's added to your dictionary. What I would like is automatic completion of words when there's only one word in the dictionary that matches... The Mortorola one my wife has tried to do this, but the interface on it otherwise is horrible.
I can't argue the trilingual issue, though -- let alone the character set issue (my wife, and consequently my son, both speak russian).
I tried that for a while. I had a nice set of macros set up to auto-generate my resume in PDF -- looked really clean, professional, and effective.
I got one interview in about 6 months with it.
I started sending out a crappy-looking Word document shortly thereafter. I then got about 5 interviews, and a part-time job doing web programming -- which I ended up leaving shortly thereafter for a full-time job.
Sorry, but I'll stick with the Word documents, even if it's ugly and a pain in the ass.
FYI, the Rez / Lumines creator has a game coming out in the US for the DS (it's been out in Japan for a while) called Meteos. If you want the japanese version, you can import it from lik-sang.
Aaaand.... they released a new version with the NIC built in, because hardly anyone bought the network adapter, and they needed to revise thier online strategy.
They released it seperately, realized they made a mistake doing it that way, and fixed the mistake.
The DS cannot. The GBA/SP can, with a cable, be used as a controller for certain games on the GCN.
However, the DS, while it plays GBA games, does not have a game link cable (so you can't play multiplayer GBA games on it at all), so you certainly can't plug in one of the controller link cables.
The usage of the word "pirate" for copyright infringer is centuries old.
As early as 1755, it was used to describe people who copied books unlawfully.
I hear that there are people out there calling people who break into computers "hackers" instead of "crackers", though. Might want to go fight that battle.
There's a difference between "available from nVidia" and "available on a motherboard". Even if nVidia makes it, will any motherboard manufacurers include it? Or will they just go with the standard RealTek/AC97 onboard sound solutions?
There were only one or two actual boards that used the full SoundStorm solution -- because of it's price, it was relegated to Deluxe models, and the standard onboard sound solutions were used on the normal boards.
There's a clause in the criminal code that came up in the last election here about certain uses of child pornography (and various other sorts of things which would normally be illegal) being legal in cases where it is in "the public good". Harper, attempting to appeal to the emotional idiot demographic, attacked this exception even though it (obviously) is a good thing.
(I'm not saying Harper thought it was a bad thing -- he's too intelligent for that. But he was (stupidly) attempting to capatalize on the discovery of a young girl's body that had been found during the run-up election by playing the "Liberals are soft on child porn" card. To say the least, it backfired.)
So, yeah, if it helps catch the actual perpetrators, then yes, it is okay.
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You get 512M in cereal boxes these days.
May 5, 1995
May 5, 2005
You're right, because there's only one John Smith in the country, and next time we see his name, we'll know exactly who it is!
When is google going to be building an ecom site to go along with this?
If *I* do not use a free hotmail account, but a majority of my *customers* use free hotmail accounts, that still screws me over.
They just chose that name, so the GNU clone of it would have to at least find an original name...
Even if you've activated the AppleCare?
Being someone who bought one just less than two weeks ago, I'm going to see if I can return it.
I wasn't OVERLY impressed with the performance (on a 2.0Ghz iMac), but I assumed that it would be optimized in the future, as had been the case in previous iterations of OSX.
Now that I learn the platform I bought has 0 future ahead of it, I see no reason to keep it around if I don't have to.
(That, and it has a stuck pixel which is annoying the hell out of me).
If you RTFA (gasp!) you'll find that it was a lawsuit against Fox by J Random Scriptwriter who claimes that the LxG movie was ripped off from some random script that was submitted.
The studio settled, which was basically saying to the world (from Alan's point of view) "The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen was a ripoff of some random screenwriter".
I'd be pissed too....
* no automatic transition to classic input when the word you're trying to type is unknown. The only ones that get that one right are Siemens.
The nokia does a pretty good job of this -- when the word you're typing is unknown, one of the two selector buttons turns into "Spell", and you hit that, and are taken into a seperate window to spell the word out with classic input methods. Then hit "save" and it replaces the word with that, and it's added to your dictionary. What I would like is automatic completion of words when there's only one word in the dictionary that matches... The Mortorola one my wife has tried to do this, but the interface on it otherwise is horrible.
I can't argue the trilingual issue, though -- let alone the character set issue (my wife, and consequently my son, both speak russian).
Someone needs to turn on predictive text on thier phone. On mine (Nokia 3100) the string :
Hey, girlfriend, you can text all your best pals to tell them where you are going and what you are wearing.
comes out as
4391*044753743631*096802260839802550
*deep breath for lameness filter*
968702378072570860835508436094373096
*another deep breath for lameness filter*
8027304646402630942809680273093274641
With the advantage of being able to see the letters as you are typing them.
I tried that for a while. I had a nice set of macros set up to auto-generate my resume in PDF -- looked really clean, professional, and effective.
I got one interview in about 6 months with it.
I started sending out a crappy-looking Word document shortly thereafter. I then got about 5 interviews, and a part-time job doing web programming -- which I ended up leaving shortly thereafter for a full-time job.
Sorry, but I'll stick with the Word documents, even if it's ugly and a pain in the ass.
Does this use Firewire 800 or just 400?
No indication on their site anywhere that I can see.
Apply s/rogers\.com/gmail.com/ to my account's email address.
Thanks!
FYI, the Rez / Lumines creator has a game coming out in the US for the DS (it's been out in Japan for a while) called Meteos. If you want the japanese version, you can import it from lik-sang.
Wow. That was one of the most useless comments I have ever seen........
Aaaand.... they released a new version with the NIC built in, because hardly anyone bought the network adapter, and they needed to revise thier online strategy.
They released it seperately, realized they made a mistake doing it that way, and fixed the mistake.
The DS cannot. The GBA/SP can, with a cable, be used as a controller for certain games on the GCN.
However, the DS, while it plays GBA games, does not have a game link cable (so you can't play multiplayer GBA games on it at all), so you certainly can't plug in one of the controller link cables.
The usage of the word "pirate" for copyright infringer is centuries old.
As early as 1755, it was used to describe people who copied books unlawfully.
I hear that there are people out there calling people who break into computers "hackers" instead of "crackers", though. Might want to go fight that battle.
Google used to provide 'fallback' search results to Yahoo when Yahoo couldn't find things in it's directory.
There's a difference between "available from nVidia" and "available on a motherboard". Even if nVidia makes it, will any motherboard manufacurers include it? Or will they just go with the standard RealTek/AC97 onboard sound solutions?
There were only one or two actual boards that used the full SoundStorm solution -- because of it's price, it was relegated to Deluxe models, and the standard onboard sound solutions were used on the normal boards.
There's a clause in the criminal code that came up in the last election here about certain uses of child pornography (and various other sorts of things which would normally be illegal) being legal in cases where it is in "the public good". Harper, attempting to appeal to the emotional idiot demographic, attacked this exception even though it (obviously) is a good thing.
(I'm not saying Harper thought it was a bad thing -- he's too intelligent for that. But he was (stupidly) attempting to capatalize on the discovery of a young girl's body that had been found during the run-up election by playing the "Liberals are soft on child porn" card. To say the least, it backfired.)
So, yeah, if it helps catch the actual perpetrators, then yes, it is okay.
That's actually the "Bradbury Butterfly Effect".
It's showing up again (I seem to remember that story of his being turned into an Outer Limits episode), but it's being remade as A Sound of Thunder