Depends on the provider. AT&T Wireless charges $.10 for each outgoing (unless you buy a plan that includes a certain amount), but all incoming are free.
I use AT&T Wireless over here in the States. We pay $.10 per outgoing message (although you can pay a certain amount monthly to get a better deal), but all incoming messages are completely free. You can also send email to @attwireless.com, or something like that, and it goes right through to the person's phone as SMS.
Now, I tested Google's thing a little bit ago, and the reply message came from 46645, and I'm sure they have to pay a certain amount just to have that short number. Maybe they've got a deal with providers to increase outgoing messages and make them a few more bucks.
The Club may be pretty easy to defeat, but it still takes more time and equipment than stealing any other random car.
I drive a very common and not very valuable car (Ford Focus), and when I put my Club on I don't even bother to lock it. All I'm counting on is a thief noticing it and deciding he'd rather steal the Clubless car next to mine.
It's like the two guys running from the bear. I don't have to outrun the bear, just the other guy. With my car, I don't have to defeat the crook. I just have to be tougher than the car beside mine.
I like the idea of Open Source, but I don't think it should be forced on people, and I'm sure lots of people here agree with me. I also don't think software should be patentable. I do think it should be copyrightable, though.
The difference is that with a patent, you're covering an entire process. You've patented going from A to B, and nobody else can do that without paying you off. With a copyright, you've only restricted one path between A and B, and others are free to find their own.
With real inventions, it doesn't tend to work this way. I could invent a light bulb with a filament made from cork, and Bob could invent one with a filament made from pasta. In my limited experience I think both would be valid and neither would be able to sue the other. Software patents, however, seem to always deal with the results, and not the processes. Someone is given a software patent for the equivalent of every light bulb, no matter what materials it uses. This is the problem.
You must not have heard of very many programming classes. I took one at the local community college four years or so ago, and it was all VB. Most of the work was done in the school computer labs. Our textbook included a watered-down version, but I got a full version for my own use from a friend.
This was a regular college course (no extraordinary fees) for people with little to no programing experience.
Except that one of Sony's biggest moneymakers with the PSP is probably going to be ports of PS1 games.
Just like Nintendo's been bringing all their SNES stuff to the GBA. Some of it's been updated or combined with even older stuff, but a huge portion of the title list is remakes or remasters, and nearly all of them have sold fantastically. Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission, Sword of Mana, the Mario games, Mario Kart, Zelda...
Sony would be shooting themselves in the financial foot to not do it Nintendo's way. Sure, they'd get a huge install base, but they'd have to put a lot more work into making games, and games are where the money is made. If everybody's got a PSP and fifty great free games from the PS1, why would they buy many new ones? The tech on them won't be much of an improvement, and they'd be competing against games from every genre.
Actually, the color in these pictures is really very interesting.
What really stands out is that while all the soil and the sky are a dim, rusty red, the rocks in the pictures are grey-black.
That gives us a good start on considering the differences between the ubiquitous dust and the actual rocks. We'll obviously get a lot more information when the rover begins sampling.
Rio has had their Nitrus player out for a few months now. It's got a very small hard drive with a 1.5GB capacity, and is selling for about $175-$200. Apple's iPod is currently priced higher than Rio's Karma, which has comparable storage space (20GB). Can Apple really produce something with better specs at a lower price? It would sure be a first for them.
They're just called Key Deer. You might find some as far as Key West, but not many. The vast majority of them (about 600, with the entire population at 700 or 800) are found on Big Pine Key and No Name Key.
They're very small, standing about two or two and a half feet at the shoulder and weighing maybe 80 pounds.
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Phobos and Diemos (the Martian moons) are both significantly smaller than our moon, so their effect on the planet is much less.
If you really want to think about a celestial coincidence, watch a solar eclipse. The fact that the angular dimensions of both the sun and moon from Earth are nearly identical (depending on orbital variations, you sometimes get annular eclipses, where a narrow ring of the sun is visible) has always entertained me. Especially when you consider that the moon's orbit is (very, very) slowly changing, and intelligent life is around at just the right time to appreciate the effect.
No, the ridge is not fixed relative to the coastline. The coastlines of Europe, Africa, and the Americas are all moving steadily away from the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Now, I'm not saying that the ridges themselves don't move at all. But they are not moved by the same forces that move the plates themselves over hotspots. They are the cause for the plates moving. Also, in the case of the subduction around the Juan de Fuca plate (off the American Northwest), it's far more likely that the majority of the motion is coming from the North American plate, diverging from the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Well, the easiest answer for your question is that the mid-Atlantic ridge probably isn't moving. Material is produced there, the plates themselves slide away from it, and in other areas are subducted (or subduct). So it's perfectly reasonable for the ridge to have remained in one place for a long time.
It's also possible that there's a relationship between the causes of hot spots and of the ridge itself, so that the two are moving, but move in concert.
Well, I'm glad that you're lucky enough to see every single movie that comes out. Most people, however, only have the time and money to see some. And I can say that I am thoroughly grateful that I could read reviews that told me that such and such a film was not only a romantic comedy, which I may not be interested in, but that it was a bad romantic comedy. That lets me spend my $9 on the good horror or sci-fi movie.
If you don't mind the cancer risk, you could just rip all the shielding out of a microwave and keep it running. That should do a pretty good job of it.
Well, if the ship moved normally when at warp, and there was stuff there to create a shockwave, maybe it'd apply.
But the warp tech used doesn't just push the ship. It creates a bubble around the ship (thus the long nacells parallel to the direction of travel), and the bubble itself moves. So the aerodynamics of the ship itself would only be a concern when moving at impulse.
His iPod, gameboy, and PDA can be replaced by a laptop...
I don't know about that. I'm a college student, and I take my laptop with me to school every day. I've also got a lot of downtime between classes, most of which I spend connected to the school's excellent wireless network.
I have found that ever since I got the laptop (and my cellphone), I essentially stopped using my PDA. Most of the computer-like functions can be served by the laptop, and the quickest contact info is in my phone. That works well.
But I still carry my GBA with me most days. If I've only got a few minutes, I don't want to have to wait to boot up and shut down my laptop just to play a game. If I happen to take public transportation, taking the laptop out to play (especially if it's crowded and standing room only) is stupid overkill.
Even more so for an iPod. I'm looking into getting an mp3 player (probably the Rio Karma), because I want something that can be in my pocket while I'm walking around. I want something that I can hook up to my car stereo. I want something small, durable, and specialized. If the only time I listen to music is when I'm sitting at a desk, then my laptop would be fine. Otherwise it's far too limited.
Yeah, because there's all those websites that talk about faucet and washer porn without using the word how.
Except, when I searched that phrase, the first link is "How to fix leaky faucet," then "Fred and Gerry on leaky faucets," another, "How to fix leaky faucet," next is "Repair a leaky faucet in six steps," then "Repair a leaky washer-type faucet," and it just goes on from there.
Too bad none of those had to do with fixing leaky faucets.
Who needs desk space with a thing like this? If you're going to make a spider case, especially one that looks as cool as this one, doesn't it sort of have to be mounted on the wall?
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Depends on the provider. AT&T Wireless charges $.10 for each outgoing (unless you buy a plan that includes a certain amount), but all incoming are free.
I use AT&T Wireless over here in the States. We pay $.10 per outgoing message (although you can pay a certain amount monthly to get a better deal), but all incoming messages are completely free. You can also send email to @attwireless.com, or something like that, and it goes right through to the person's phone as SMS.
Now, I tested Google's thing a little bit ago, and the reply message came from 46645, and I'm sure they have to pay a certain amount just to have that short number. Maybe they've got a deal with providers to increase outgoing messages and make them a few more bucks.
The Club may be pretty easy to defeat, but it still takes more time and equipment than stealing any other random car.
I drive a very common and not very valuable car (Ford Focus), and when I put my Club on I don't even bother to lock it. All I'm counting on is a thief noticing it and deciding he'd rather steal the Clubless car next to mine.
It's like the two guys running from the bear. I don't have to outrun the bear, just the other guy. With my car, I don't have to defeat the crook. I just have to be tougher than the car beside mine.
I'm not a programmer. Not a real one, at least.
I like the idea of Open Source, but I don't think it should be forced on people, and I'm sure lots of people here agree with me. I also don't think software should be patentable. I do think it should be copyrightable, though.
The difference is that with a patent, you're covering an entire process. You've patented going from A to B, and nobody else can do that without paying you off. With a copyright, you've only restricted one path between A and B, and others are free to find their own.
With real inventions, it doesn't tend to work this way. I could invent a light bulb with a filament made from cork, and Bob could invent one with a filament made from pasta. In my limited experience I think both would be valid and neither would be able to sue the other. Software patents, however, seem to always deal with the results, and not the processes. Someone is given a software patent for the equivalent of every light bulb, no matter what materials it uses. This is the problem.
You must not have heard of very many programming classes. I took one at the local community college four years or so ago, and it was all VB. Most of the work was done in the school computer labs. Our textbook included a watered-down version, but I got a full version for my own use from a friend.
This was a regular college course (no extraordinary fees) for people with little to no programing experience.
Except that one of Sony's biggest moneymakers with the PSP is probably going to be ports of PS1 games.
Just like Nintendo's been bringing all their SNES stuff to the GBA. Some of it's been updated or combined with even older stuff, but a huge portion of the title list is remakes or remasters, and nearly all of them have sold fantastically. Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission, Sword of Mana, the Mario games, Mario Kart, Zelda...
Sony would be shooting themselves in the financial foot to not do it Nintendo's way. Sure, they'd get a huge install base, but they'd have to put a lot more work into making games, and games are where the money is made. If everybody's got a PSP and fifty great free games from the PS1, why would they buy many new ones? The tech on them won't be much of an improvement, and they'd be competing against games from every genre.
Wow, four whole tracks. That's about two hundred and fifty one fewer than Ogg Vorbis, if I recall correctly.
Exactly.
If the ideas in your software are original enough that you need to worry about them being copied, then you should apply for a patent.
The icons on the HUD look different from those in Prime, if I'm remembering correctly. Does this mean it's going to have different beams and visors?
Definitely agreeing with you there.
I'd be especially thrilled if they made the face button layout on the GBA like that on the GC controller, with the different sizes and shapes.
There was an article that ran in the Miami Herald a week ago, about a local contestant for the job. Not sure how far he's gotten since, though.
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Actually, the color in these pictures is really very interesting.
What really stands out is that while all the soil and the sky are a dim, rusty red, the rocks in the pictures are grey-black.
That gives us a good start on considering the differences between the ubiquitous dust and the actual rocks. We'll obviously get a lot more information when the rover begins sampling.
Rio has had their Nitrus player out for a few months now. It's got a very small hard drive with a 1.5GB capacity, and is selling for about $175-$200. Apple's iPod is currently priced higher than Rio's Karma, which has comparable storage space (20GB). Can Apple really produce something with better specs at a lower price? It would sure be a first for them.
They're just called Key Deer. You might find some as far as Key West, but not many. The vast majority of them (about 600, with the entire population at 700 or 800) are found on Big Pine Key and No Name Key.
They're very small, standing about two or two and a half feet at the shoulder and weighing maybe 80 pounds.
Phobos and Diemos (the Martian moons) are both significantly smaller than our moon, so their effect on the planet is much less.
If you really want to think about a celestial coincidence, watch a solar eclipse. The fact that the angular dimensions of both the sun and moon from Earth are nearly identical (depending on orbital variations, you sometimes get annular eclipses, where a narrow ring of the sun is visible) has always entertained me. Especially when you consider that the moon's orbit is (very, very) slowly changing, and intelligent life is around at just the right time to appreciate the effect.
No, the ridge is not fixed relative to the coastline. The coastlines of Europe, Africa, and the Americas are all moving steadily away from the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Now, I'm not saying that the ridges themselves don't move at all. But they are not moved by the same forces that move the plates themselves over hotspots. They are the cause for the plates moving. Also, in the case of the subduction around the Juan de Fuca plate (off the American Northwest), it's far more likely that the majority of the motion is coming from the North American plate, diverging from the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Well, the easiest answer for your question is that the mid-Atlantic ridge probably isn't moving. Material is produced there, the plates themselves slide away from it, and in other areas are subducted (or subduct). So it's perfectly reasonable for the ridge to have remained in one place for a long time.
It's also possible that there's a relationship between the causes of hot spots and of the ridge itself, so that the two are moving, but move in concert.
Well, I'm glad that you're lucky enough to see every single movie that comes out. Most people, however, only have the time and money to see some. And I can say that I am thoroughly grateful that I could read reviews that told me that such and such a film was not only a romantic comedy, which I may not be interested in, but that it was a bad romantic comedy. That lets me spend my $9 on the good horror or sci-fi movie.
If you don't mind the cancer risk, you could just rip all the shielding out of a microwave and keep it running. That should do a pretty good job of it.
Well, if the ship moved normally when at warp, and there was stuff there to create a shockwave, maybe it'd apply.
But the warp tech used doesn't just push the ship. It creates a bubble around the ship (thus the long nacells parallel to the direction of travel), and the bubble itself moves. So the aerodynamics of the ship itself would only be a concern when moving at impulse.
Exactly! Because no self-respecting adult wants to play a game that doesn't have lots of blood, hookers, drugs, and gratuitous violence.
His iPod, gameboy, and PDA can be replaced by a laptop...
I don't know about that. I'm a college student, and I take my laptop with me to school every day. I've also got a lot of downtime between classes, most of which I spend connected to the school's excellent wireless network.
I have found that ever since I got the laptop (and my cellphone), I essentially stopped using my PDA. Most of the computer-like functions can be served by the laptop, and the quickest contact info is in my phone. That works well.
But I still carry my GBA with me most days. If I've only got a few minutes, I don't want to have to wait to boot up and shut down my laptop just to play a game. If I happen to take public transportation, taking the laptop out to play (especially if it's crowded and standing room only) is stupid overkill.
Even more so for an iPod. I'm looking into getting an mp3 player (probably the Rio Karma), because I want something that can be in my pocket while I'm walking around. I want something that I can hook up to my car stereo. I want something small, durable, and specialized. If the only time I listen to music is when I'm sitting at a desk, then my laptop would be fine. Otherwise it's far too limited.
Yeah, because there's all those websites that talk about faucet and washer porn without using the word how.
Except, when I searched that phrase, the first link is "How to fix leaky faucet," then "Fred and Gerry on leaky faucets," another, "How to fix leaky faucet," next is "Repair a leaky faucet in six steps," then "Repair a leaky washer-type faucet," and it just goes on from there.
Too bad none of those had to do with fixing leaky faucets.
Who needs desk space with a thing like this? If you're going to make a spider case, especially one that looks as cool as this one, doesn't it sort of have to be mounted on the wall?
Come on, guys. Really.
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