The UK has had an interesting history of nationalization disasters going all the way back to the R101. I am not a big fan of big government but frankly the BBC seems like a case where Government support is a good thing. I am not big fan of Murdoch but in this case I have to just sit back and wish the folks in the UK the best of luck. I don't live in the UK so in the end it isn't any of my business. I just hope they don't mess up BBC America.
"Yeah, poverty sucks. Sorry to hear you're too fucking poor to own the most powerful console. I just drank 100 dollars worth of booze last night. Sorry, clown, I'm not laying awake at night that a console got a price drop."
You sad, sad little person... I can't help it if you wish to flush money down the tubes. I am sure some PS3 user is not all that happy about Sony saying that there would be no price drop and then hello...
As far as your bragging about that $100 worth of booze. I am really happy for you. You know people that have real money don't go around trying to impress anybody. And as far as fanboy goes... Have a nice day.
"But that type of network? Filesystem?" Microsoft/Samba. Since that is available on everything. "As for my DS, well, Opera DS doesn't support flash, so no videos. And my Play-Yan micro requires MPEG-4/AAC in 352x240 or lower, on a SD card. " That is why Nintendo needs to come up with it's own media player for the DS. You connect to your Wii over wifi and you can browse your media. Nintendo could always offer a USB TV tuner and create Wii TV.
If you have a PS3 this is great news well except for that nasty price drop. Ouch. Last I heard MGS may not be exclusive to the PS3. Until the games are on the market it is all just hype. It is still an improvement for Sony.
Not really. At the time computers where still big. Every kid thought that they would write the next Pac Man and every parent was buying their kids a C64, AppleII, CoCo, or Ti99/4a. That was around the same time as WarGames which was also a big computer movie. I know because I went to both. Tron was full of eye candy but it was very shallow. You just didn't care what happened. IMHO WarGames was the computer movie. Where do you think the terms War dialer and War driving come from? I wonder how many modems that movie sold!
People might buy a PS2 because they. 1. Had one and it broke. 2. They always wanted on and it is cheap. 3. They really want a Wii but they are sold out and want a console now and will get a Wii when they are available.
The PS2 can't really "steal" a Wii sale because at least here Wiis are hard to get. They come in and are sold out in a day or two.
"- Sell the 80-GB console for $199.95 (The Wii killer)" Not going to happen. Sony is already loosing money on each console. "- Announce a 300-GB console with bundled DVR software and lifetime subscription to channel guide for $499 (The Tivo killer)" Actually a good plan if they also put in a cable card slot. Even better let you store the files on your network and allow live streaming to your PSP. I doubt that they could do it for $499. "- Announce free signing for any GPL Linux Distributions (The PC killer)" You don't need to sign Linux. Along those lines I would say a port of OpenOffice included free with each PS3 might help move a few units. Offer it with a good browser, OpenOffice, Quicken, and a good email program and you may get some sales. Just don't make me reboot the bloody thing to use it. You could justify it as an extra PC to do home with.
Frankly if Sony gave the PS3 away I doubt that it would kill the Wii. People that have never owned a console are buying Wiis because it is fun. Sort of like the way DSs are selling.
Over all I have to say that selling a prodcut for a lot less then it costs you too make seems like a good way to go broke.
But every PS2 is also a sale that "could" be going to the PS3. GOW2 seems like a big hit for Sony. But why isn't it a big hit for the PS3? I doubt that every PS2 sold is a lost Wii sale. Nintendo last time I looked was selling every Wii they made.
Did you see the latest lineup from Honda! It was totally LAME if you are a hardcore driver! Most of their cars waste weight and performance on things like a back seat! Who needs more than one seat or two at the max! Some of their cars are also pretty slow. Who cares about fuel mileage! They are pushing the hard core drivers to Lamborghini and Ferrari! How will ever survive with just the casual driver market!
I wouldn't worry. I get the feeling that you will see more "Hard core" games for the Wii. It is selling like hot cakes and people will write for it.
Wii Fit may be a HUGE hit. You may not like it but then I hate fighting games with a passion.
I hate to say it but that really sounds like wishful thinking. 1. The PS3 may not really be more powerful than the 360. You can have a very fast system but if it is too hard to program for you will loose to less powerful systems in the long run. Just as Intel about that. They have learned that lesson a few times. The 360 is much easier to program for and has a much larger installed user base currently. Game producers have to look at the number of games they can expect to sell and the cost i.e. "difficulty" of producing them. The PS3 has the smallest customer base and the highest development costs. The only market that the PS3 outsells the 360 is Japan and as far as I can tell the Wii outsells it in every market. Also the Wii has the lowest development costs. 2. Nintendo a one trick pony? Well as the DS has proven a good innovative UI can beat shear horsepower. Sorry but that pony has shown many tricks over the years. 3. Nintendo is currently making money hand over fist with the Wii. The PS3s sales went up after the price cut but what will that do to Sony's profits? I still predict that Nintendo will offer the Wii HD in about two or three years. It will play all the old wii and GC games but will offer higher resolution graphics and a faster processor speed. No one will really care about there "investment" in the orginal Wii being usless since they didn't pay nearly as much for there Wii as the PS3 or 360. 4. It's the games. The Wii has more fun games than the PS3. It will keep selling for a good long time. 5. Nintendo can cut the price tomorrow if it wants to and still make money. So it will be a popular "why not" console. 6. I get the feeling that even Sony isn't all that thrilled with the PS3 as a platform. Why are they still making and selling the PS2? Nintendo killed the GC and Microsoft killed the XBox. Also why did God of War II come out for the PS2 and not the PS3?
The PS3 may pull out of it's current problems and do well. The odds of becoming the number one selling console I see as being slim to none.
"Why is the application built into Ubuntu to play music named "Movie Player"? Because it plays video as well as audio. I thinking Microsoft would get a little bent if they called it Media Player. Most of your other problems sound like a video driver/X11/ Monitor issue. I had some of the same problems. 1. What video card are you using? Do you have the correct drivers selected. If it is an ATI then the historically bad ATI Linux drivers may be the issue. 2. What monitor is selected. This is the one that got me. If your Monitor isn't auto detected then you will be stuck at lower resolution and things will be pretty ugly. That is one thing I like better about OpenSuse. With SAX2 if it can not detect your monitor you have a huge library to select from manually. I have the same issue with Windows not detecting my LCD at my office. I use a KVM so it doesn't do the auto detect correctly. I have to plug my monitor directly into my Windows Box and let it detect the monitor then plug it into my kvm! Ubuntu does seem to just work for about 99% of the people that use it. Just like Windows seems to also just work for a good number of people. Sometimes Windows Doesn't just work. My sister in law built her husband a new system. She works at EDS in QA and has a degree in IT. She couldn't get WindowsXP to load on that system. She ended up having to slipstream SP2 on to the the XP install. Why? Because her new system used a SATA driver and her MSDN XP install didn't support it. Now if she was trying to load Linux all she would have had to do is download a new ISO but with Windows she had to look up how to slipstream SP2 and make a new CD herself. When you don't buy hardware with the OS installed you sometimes have to make big effort to make it work right. Doesn't matter if it is Linux or Windows.
"if it's proprietary, you better be prepared to sell it or it's going to die a death of obscurity without anyone even hearing about it." Eventually yes but making it open source will not make insure that will not happen. There are probably billions of lines of proprietary software out there. A lot of it was written to do one specific job. Not everybody is going to take the time to release code as FOSS because it takes a lot of work to release code as FOSS and to manage the project.
"places where life is cheap tend to not be very civilized [see Baghdad, Darfur, Texas]" Please... Stop being an idiot. I happen to be anti death penalty. The reasons are simple. 1. Revenge is wrong. I couldn't kill a helpless person without hating them or seeking revenge. 2. It is wrong to ask someone to do something that you can not bring yourself to do.
Unless you can never make an error and execute people with out hate and or without seeking revenge then it is just wrong.
Of course I have to admit that every once in a while I see somebody that makes me question my better nature.
My wife is also anti death penalty and she is born and breed in Texas. so feel better pushing your own little bigotry? Do you think your little nasty post convinced anyone? Or do you think tossing insults like that moved them to agree with you?
Yes it is better then Vi. With vi. 1. Learn vi. 2. find your monitor scan frequences and what not. 3. find where the config file is. 4. learn how the conifg file works. 5. make a copy of the config file in case you blow it. 6. Make the change in the config file. 7. Restart X or if you don't know how reboot. 8. If works stop. 9 If not then copy the default config file over your new on and start again at step 2.
With Yast. 1. Run Sax2 by clicking on it. 2. Pick monitor. 3. Test it. 4. Done
Well lets start counting every one of the Linksys routers that that ran Linux and all the Tivos ever sold. Then throw all the NSLU users and goodness knows what other little device that used Linux. Now for fun throw in everybody that uses Google:) Everybody uses Linux.
The Wii is massively out selling the PS3 in Japan. On a bright note the PS3 is out selling the 360 in Japan. The Japanese seem to be very nationalistic when it comes to game consoles. I don't think any of the Japanese game houses are porting heavily to the 360 for the Japanese market. My guess is that they don't think Japanese customers would buy the 360 even if it had the software and the consumers in Japan see no reason to buy the 360 because of the lack of software they like. From what I hear FSPs are not big sellers in Japan and I see no reason that they would like NFL based games. Now Golf and Baseball maybe if they changed the teams and players to Japanese teams. Kind of reminds me of when Toyota was going to produce real pickups in the US. I heard a lot of people say they would never buy a real pickup from Toyota. Toyota managed to over come this by producing a really good pickup. Maybe Microsoft can do the same.
I can promise you that right now the water from my well is far warmer then 60F and since I live in florida I can also promise you that it isn't because of any hot springs.
You see that is what I find so odd I use my A900 to check my email when I am away from the office. I can check my mail and if I really have to I can respond but usually I just call if it is critical. I can surf the web with my phone as well. For media I use my of all things iPod nano. Or I watch Sprint TV on me phone. I just can not see the value in a $600 iPhone. Maybe when it comes down I will. I really don't see why Apple didn't make the battery swappable like every other phone on the planet. The one as I said killer app for the IPhone would be a google local navigation system. When I am traveling I use Google local on my phone all the time. The one bad thing is that it doesn't offer a navigation system. It is great when I am going with my wife to Texas and we are getting hungry. We just see what food is in the towns near us. Or when I am trying to find a radio shack in a strange town because a sales rep forgot to bring their usb to serial converter to the convention. Just me mind you but I think it would be a great tool. Well I am almost at the new phone point and the iPhone just isn't going to do it for me. Maybe in a year or two when some competitors are out that are not so closed and the price has dropped I will think about it. I admit that part of me really wants a keyboard on my next phone since I use it more for network stuff than actually talking to people.
Actually I think the reason that Apple didn't go with Verizon is that Verizon demands that they control the UI of the phone. Apple lets somebody else control the UI? Not going to happen in my life time. I just can not imagine that the market is really that large. I guess a million sales is good but will it keep going? What about the copy-cats comming soon to the other Cell phone makers? SSH is a VERY limited requirement for a smart phone. But there are many little programs that one could really use on a smartphone in different industries. Everything from Contact management to order entry. All of which are locked out on the IPhone. Web apps may take the place of some but who knows. What I haven't seen is what I would consider the IPhone killer app. Goggle local+GPS+navigation. Seems like it should be coming soon.
You see I just can not figure out the market for it. It doesn't have the depth of software that the Palm or even Windows Mobil phones have. It doesn't have the enterprise hooks of the the Crackberry. It lacks high speed access. It is Expensive. On the plus side it is stylish. The Browser may be very good for a mobile device. The pain the rear battery I do think will comeback to bite people. It really is just a bad idea for the user but a good idea for the company since it will mean a revenue stream. If I could develop for it and get things like SSH for it I would love one. That and it would have to be available from someone besides AT&T. They are evil. I also don't like Verizon because they cripple their phones.
The tanks I see are not all that deep. "Temperatures at the surface of the earth are controlled by the Sun and the atmosphere, except for areas such as hot springs and lava flows. From shallow depths to about 200 ft (61 m) below the surface, the temperature is constant at about 55F (11C). In a zone between the near surface and about 400 ft (122 m), the gradient is variable because it is affected by atmospheric changes and circulating ground water. Below that zone, temperature almost always increases with depth. However, the rate of increase with depth (geothermal gradient) varies considerably with both tectonic setting and the thermal properties of the rock."
I got this from a friend of mine the is a geologist that works for Chevron. The fuel tanks I have seen are not 200 feet deep. As I said the proof that it is worth doing is that the oil companies do it in Canada where it works to there benefit.
The Ipod was an entertainment device. A smart phone is a tool. If you IPod runs out of battery life oh well you don't get to listen to your NIN mix playlist on the way home from work. If you Phone dies you may be in more trouble. Unless your cell is just an entertainment device. I charge my Cell every night so that it is always ready to work. Apple does seem to have a hit. People have faith that Apple will produce great products. This may be a let down for them
The PS3 sold out as well. My guess is that you will see a second generation IPhone in about two years. Just when the batteries in this phone start croaking. Notice I did say I might be wrong. The IPhone may just become the IPod phones.
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The UK has had an interesting history of nationalization disasters going all the way back to the R101. I am not a big fan of big government but frankly the BBC seems like a case where Government support is a good thing. I am not big fan of Murdoch but in this case I have to just sit back and wish the folks in the UK the best of luck. I don't live in the UK so in the end it isn't any of my business. I just hope they don't mess up BBC America.
"Yeah, poverty sucks. Sorry to hear you're too fucking poor to own the most powerful console. I just drank 100 dollars worth of booze last night. Sorry, clown, I'm not laying awake at night that a console got a price drop."
You sad, sad little person... I can't help it if you wish to flush money down the tubes. I am sure some PS3 user is not all that happy about Sony saying that there would be no price drop and then hello...
As far as your bragging about that $100 worth of booze. I am really happy for you. You know people that have real money don't go around trying to impress anybody.
And as far as fanboy goes...
Have a nice day.
"But that type of network? Filesystem?"
Microsoft/Samba. Since that is available on everything.
"As for my DS, well, Opera DS doesn't support flash, so no videos. And my Play-Yan micro requires MPEG-4/AAC in 352x240 or lower, on a SD card. "
That is why Nintendo needs to come up with it's own media player for the DS. You connect to your Wii over wifi and you can browse your media. Nintendo could always offer a USB TV tuner and create Wii TV.
If you have a PS3 this is great news well except for that nasty price drop. Ouch.
Last I heard MGS may not be exclusive to the PS3.
Until the games are on the market it is all just hype.
It is still an improvement for Sony.
Not really. At the time computers where still big. Every kid thought that they would write the next Pac Man and every parent was buying their kids a C64, AppleII, CoCo, or Ti99/4a. That was around the same time as WarGames which was also a big computer movie. I know because I went to both. Tron was full of eye candy but it was very shallow. You just didn't care what happened. IMHO WarGames was the computer movie. Where do you think the terms War dialer and War driving come from? I wonder how many modems that movie sold!
People might buy a PS2 because they.
1. Had one and it broke.
2. They always wanted on and it is cheap.
3. They really want a Wii but they are sold out and want a console now and will get a Wii when they are available.
The PS2 can't really "steal" a Wii sale because at least here Wiis are hard to get. They come in and are sold out in a day or two.
"- Sell the 80-GB console for $199.95 (The Wii killer)"
Not going to happen. Sony is already loosing money on each console.
"- Announce a 300-GB console with bundled DVR software and lifetime subscription to channel guide for $499 (The Tivo killer)"
Actually a good plan if they also put in a cable card slot. Even better let you store the files on your network and allow live streaming to your PSP. I doubt that they could do it for $499.
"- Announce free signing for any GPL Linux Distributions (The PC killer)"
You don't need to sign Linux. Along those lines I would say a port of OpenOffice included free with each PS3 might help move a few units. Offer it with a good browser, OpenOffice, Quicken, and a good email program and you may get some sales. Just don't make me reboot the bloody thing to use it. You could justify it as an extra PC to do home with.
Frankly if Sony gave the PS3 away I doubt that it would kill the Wii. People that have never owned a console are buying Wiis because it is fun. Sort of like the way DSs are selling.
Over all I have to say that selling a prodcut for a lot less then it costs you too make seems like a good way to go broke.
But every PS2 is also a sale that "could" be going to the PS3. GOW2 seems like a big hit for Sony. But why isn't it a big hit for the PS3? I doubt that every PS2 sold is a lost Wii sale. Nintendo last time I looked was selling every Wii they made.
Why rip them to a USB drive? Keep them on your server and us wifi to watch them on TV. Or maybe also on your DS over wifi :)
Did you see the latest lineup from Honda!
It was totally LAME if you are a hardcore driver!
Most of their cars waste weight and performance on things like a back seat! Who needs more than one seat or two at the max!
Some of their cars are also pretty slow. Who cares about fuel mileage!
They are pushing the hard core drivers to Lamborghini and Ferrari! How will ever survive with just the casual driver market!
I wouldn't worry. I get the feeling that you will see more "Hard core" games for the Wii. It is selling like hot cakes and people will write for it.
Wii Fit may be a HUGE hit. You may not like it but then I hate fighting games with a passion.
I hate to say it but that really sounds like wishful thinking.
1. The PS3 may not really be more powerful than the 360. You can have a very fast system but if it is too hard to program for you will loose to less powerful systems in the long run. Just as Intel about that. They have learned that lesson a few times. The 360 is much easier to program for and has a much larger installed user base currently. Game producers have to look at the number of games they can expect to sell and the cost i.e. "difficulty" of producing them. The PS3 has the smallest customer base and the highest development costs. The only market that the PS3 outsells the 360 is Japan and as far as I can tell the Wii outsells it in every market. Also the Wii has the lowest development costs.
2. Nintendo a one trick pony? Well as the DS has proven a good innovative UI can beat shear horsepower. Sorry but that pony has shown many tricks over the years.
3. Nintendo is currently making money hand over fist with the Wii. The PS3s sales went up after the price cut but what will that do to Sony's profits? I still predict that Nintendo will offer the Wii HD in about two or three years. It will play all the old wii and GC games but will offer higher resolution graphics and a faster processor speed. No one will really care about there "investment" in the orginal Wii being usless since they didn't pay nearly as much for there Wii as the PS3 or 360.
4. It's the games. The Wii has more fun games than the PS3. It will keep selling for a good long time.
5. Nintendo can cut the price tomorrow if it wants to and still make money. So it will be a popular "why not" console.
6. I get the feeling that even Sony isn't all that thrilled with the PS3 as a platform. Why are they still making and selling the PS2? Nintendo killed the GC and Microsoft killed the XBox. Also why did God of War II come out for the PS2 and not the PS3?
The PS3 may pull out of it's current problems and do well. The odds of becoming the number one selling console I see as being slim to none.
"Why is the application built into Ubuntu to play music named "Movie Player"?
Because it plays video as well as audio. I thinking Microsoft would get a little bent if they called it Media Player.
Most of your other problems sound like a video driver/X11/ Monitor issue. I had some of the same problems.
1. What video card are you using? Do you have the correct drivers selected. If it is an ATI then the historically bad ATI Linux drivers may be the issue.
2. What monitor is selected. This is the one that got me. If your Monitor isn't auto detected then you will be stuck at lower resolution and things will be pretty ugly. That is one thing I like better about OpenSuse. With SAX2 if it can not detect your monitor you have a huge library to select from manually. I have the same issue with Windows not detecting my LCD at my office. I use a KVM so it doesn't do the auto detect correctly. I have to plug my monitor directly into my Windows Box and let it detect the monitor then plug it into my kvm!
Ubuntu does seem to just work for about 99% of the people that use it. Just like Windows seems to also just work for a good number of people. Sometimes Windows Doesn't just work. My sister in law built her husband a new system. She works at EDS in QA and has a degree in IT. She couldn't get WindowsXP to load on that system. She ended up having to slipstream SP2 on to the the XP install.
Why? Because her new system used a SATA driver and her MSDN XP install didn't support it. Now if she was trying to load Linux all she would have had to do is download a new ISO but with Windows she had to look up how to slipstream SP2 and make a new CD herself.
When you don't buy hardware with the OS installed you sometimes have to make big effort to make it work right. Doesn't matter if it is Linux or Windows.
"if it's proprietary, you better be prepared to sell it or it's going to die a death of obscurity without anyone even hearing about it."
Eventually yes but making it open source will not make insure that will not happen.
There are probably billions of lines of proprietary software out there. A lot of it was written to do one specific job. Not everybody is going to take the time to release code as FOSS because it takes a lot of work to release code as FOSS and to manage the project.
"places where life is cheap tend to not be very civilized [see Baghdad, Darfur, Texas]"
Please... Stop being an idiot.
I happen to be anti death penalty. The reasons are simple.
1. Revenge is wrong. I couldn't kill a helpless person without hating them or seeking revenge.
2. It is wrong to ask someone to do something that you can not bring yourself to do.
Unless you can never make an error and execute people with out hate and or without seeking revenge then it is just wrong.
Of course I have to admit that every once in a while I see somebody that makes me question my better nature.
My wife is also anti death penalty and she is born and breed in Texas. so feel better pushing your own little bigotry? Do you think your little nasty post convinced anyone? Or do you think tossing insults like that moved them to agree with you?
Yes it is better then Vi.
With vi.
1. Learn vi.
2. find your monitor scan frequences and what not.
3. find where the config file is.
4. learn how the conifg file works.
5. make a copy of the config file in case you blow it.
6. Make the change in the config file.
7. Restart X or if you don't know how reboot.
8. If works stop.
9 If not then copy the default config file over your new on and start again at step 2.
With Yast.
1. Run Sax2 by clicking on it.
2. Pick monitor.
3. Test it.
4. Done
Well lets start counting every one of the Linksys routers that that ran Linux and all the Tivos ever sold. :)
Then throw all the NSLU users and goodness knows what other little device that used Linux.
Now for fun throw in everybody that uses Google
Everybody uses Linux.
The Wii is massively out selling the PS3 in Japan. On a bright note the PS3 is out selling the 360 in Japan. The Japanese seem to be very nationalistic when it comes to game consoles. I don't think any of the Japanese game houses are porting heavily to the 360 for the Japanese market. My guess is that they don't think Japanese customers would buy the 360 even if it had the software and the consumers in Japan see no reason to buy the 360 because of the lack of software they like. From what I hear FSPs are not big sellers in Japan and I see no reason that they would like NFL based games. Now Golf and Baseball maybe if they changed the teams and players to Japanese teams.
Kind of reminds me of when Toyota was going to produce real pickups in the US. I heard a lot of people say they would never buy a real pickup from Toyota. Toyota managed to over come this by producing a really good pickup. Maybe Microsoft can do the same.
Sorry after the last hurricane I was without power for 9 days. Still had phone.
I can promise you that right now the water from my well is far warmer then 60F and since I live in florida I can also promise you that it isn't because of any hot springs.
You see that is what I find so odd I use my A900 to check my email when I am away from the office. I can check my mail and if I really have to I can respond but usually I just call if it is critical. I can surf the web with my phone as well. For media I use my of all things iPod nano. Or I watch Sprint TV on me phone. I just can not see the value in a $600 iPhone. Maybe when it comes down I will. I really don't see why Apple didn't make the battery swappable like every other phone on the planet. The one as I said killer app for the IPhone would be a google local navigation system. When I am traveling I use Google local on my phone all the time. The one bad thing is that it doesn't offer a navigation system. It is great when I am going with my wife to Texas and we are getting hungry. We just see what food is in the towns near us. Or when I am trying to find a radio shack in a strange town because a sales rep forgot to bring their usb to serial converter to the convention.
Just me mind you but I think it would be a great tool. Well I am almost at the new phone point and the iPhone just isn't going to do it for me. Maybe in a year or two when some competitors are out that are not so closed and the price has dropped I will think about it. I admit that part of me really wants a keyboard on my next phone since I use it more for network stuff than actually talking to people.
Actually I think the reason that Apple didn't go with Verizon is that Verizon demands that they control the UI of the phone. Apple lets somebody else control the UI? Not going to happen in my life time.
I just can not imagine that the market is really that large. I guess a million sales is good but will it keep going? What about the copy-cats comming soon to the other Cell phone makers?
SSH is a VERY limited requirement for a smart phone. But there are many little programs that one could really use on a smartphone in different industries. Everything from Contact management to order entry. All of which are locked out on the IPhone. Web apps may take the place of some but who knows.
What I haven't seen is what I would consider the IPhone killer app. Goggle local+GPS+navigation. Seems like it should be coming soon.
You see I just can not figure out the market for it.
It doesn't have the depth of software that the Palm or even Windows Mobil phones have.
It doesn't have the enterprise hooks of the the Crackberry.
It lacks high speed access.
It is Expensive.
On the plus side it is stylish.
The Browser may be very good for a mobile device.
The pain the rear battery I do think will comeback to bite people. It really is just a bad idea for the user but a good idea for the company since it will mean a revenue stream.
If I could develop for it and get things like SSH for it I would love one. That and it would have to be available from someone besides AT&T. They are evil. I also don't like Verizon because they cripple their phones.
The tanks I see are not all that deep.
"Temperatures at the surface of the earth are controlled by the Sun and the atmosphere, except for areas such as hot springs and lava flows. From shallow depths to about 200 ft (61 m) below the surface, the temperature is constant at about 55F (11C). In a zone between the near surface and about 400 ft (122 m), the gradient is variable because it is affected by atmospheric changes and circulating ground water. Below that zone, temperature almost always increases with depth. However, the rate of increase with depth (geothermal gradient) varies considerably with both tectonic setting and the thermal properties of the rock."
I got this from a friend of mine the is a geologist that works for Chevron. The fuel tanks I have seen are not 200 feet deep.
As I said the proof that it is worth doing is that the oil companies do it in Canada where it works to there benefit.
The Ipod was an entertainment device. A smart phone is a tool.
If you IPod runs out of battery life oh well you don't get to listen to your NIN mix playlist on the way home from work.
If you Phone dies you may be in more trouble. Unless your cell is just an entertainment device.
I charge my Cell every night so that it is always ready to work.
Apple does seem to have a hit. People have faith that Apple will produce great products. This may be a let down for them
The PS3 sold out as well.
My guess is that you will see a second generation IPhone in about two years. Just when the batteries in this phone start croaking.
Notice I did say I might be wrong. The IPhone may just become the IPod phones.