If the phone isn't advertised as having GPS capability, the odds of it existing and being activated during a 911 call are practically nil. The call routing is also done by the tower and not the phone. I find this whole business very strange. I'm from Europe and in 2003 my Alcatel 311 made calls to 911 and 112 (european emergency number) with a locked keypad or without a SIM. My bet would be that it's just a lie to make you buy a new phone.
You are right in saying that it's a scam. But the castle is not the most major Romanian tourist site, far from it, and the actual yearly income is something around a 300.000 Euro, nowhere near 10 million. In my opinion, the state should pass. There is no particular reason that it should own this castle, as no matter who will buy it will have to keep it opened to tourists. But, as you said, it is just a scam by the owners together with corrupt County Council members to swindle the state out of an outrageous amount. Frankly I'm pretty angry: this particular scam will cost me around 10 Euro.
Seriously, the magnifying glass is used in Windows 95 and is still copied from Itunes in your opinion? Just because in XP it's switched to the right? BTW, when the hell did Itunes appear anyway and how long was the icon in XP's betas?
And the sound icon in my XP system tray is almost monochrome now, not yellow. Maybe it was still yellow in 2000.
Anyway, the final look of Vista may not be what we have all seen so far. XP beta 2 was radically different from XP final. Maybe the final look is kept "close to the chest" by Microsoft too.
Same here. The next Heroes Of Might And Magic will have Starforce and I won't buy it (or download it) because of this. To understand my addiction to this game, I own every single title in the series (except Chronicles, those were just greedy moneygrabs from 3DO) and I'm currently replaying HOMM2: The Price of Loyalty. But I won't touch HOMM 5 with a ten foot pole because of Starforce.
Bingo! you win the prize for the most clueless comment of the day.
Emulation is hard. The Wine project has been started 13 years ago, and they still support only a handfull of applications. Apple has only been able to emulate their past architectures because they owned or licensed all the specifications for them. To emulate Windows would mean to use reverse engineering, which is a whole different ball game, and to expose themselves to potential lawsuits from Microsoft.
Plus, if there's anything to be learned from the whole OS/2 experience it's that perfect emulation of your rival's platform brings no market advantage.
In my opinion, Apple would just use a virtual machine and tell users to run Vista in that. For them, it is the perfect solutions. People would still have acces to their strategic apps on their platform, and there would also be a great incentive to port them to run natively on MacOS.
No one forces you to use the USB interface on the phone. You can remove the card and use a card reader. Also, the ROKR is not limited to 100 songs, the iTunes player on it is. Any other java mp3 player (and there are several for ROKR) will take any number of songs you can fit on the card (which tops currently at 1GB).
The fact that it will cause less crimes than it will commit it not the point. If I were to take it to the extreme we could do away with the whole justice system and imprison every arrested person, since the odds that the person being arrested by the police is guilty of something are pretty much higher than said person being innocent. So why would a few victims of this system count, if we could save all those money the judiciary cost us? But that's not the point either. I come from a former communist state in Eastern Europe, and we used to live in constant fear of informers. Apparently more than one in ten people were informers for the secret police, and everything you said or did could potentially go into your file. If you were considered even a minor threat to national security, you clud be whisked away in the dead of night and never be heard from again, and you family would not be allowed to even talk about it for fear they might share the same faith. We used to look to the West as to a dream land of freedom, so imagine my dismay to see these developements: Patriot Act in the US, people being arrested and imprisoned without a proper trial, around the clock surveillance in the UK. I can see where this is going, I've been there already and it's baffling for me that I have to argue against it. But I know I would do anything to never go back again.
I had an 8086 with 640k and 20GB hard drive, so that's possible. Can't be bothered to look in the attic for it now, but it had a 13" color monitor and a VGA card. The year was 1984, if I'm not mistaken. I bet it still works if I plug it in.
Of course it's not and I never said it was. I just pointed out that neither is OS X, contrary to what many of its users think. I still think it's just a cheap publicity shot by Jobs, since there's no way in hell OS X would run well on such a system. Remember, there's only 1GB of storage and 128 of RAM. How much does a typical install of OS X take? There are Linux solutions running on mobile phones and even watches if I'm not mistaken. If a phone can run OS X i'll eat my hat. Microsoft's Windows Mobile would have been a credible proposition, and I don't think it would have had many supporters here even if it were more fitted for the job. Which, for the record, I don't think it would have been.
First, OS X is not Unix-based, it's Unix-like, since it's not using officialy licensed Unix code. Second, I don't think these laptops will be very powerful, so there's also the question how well would OS X perform on them. With Linux they can use a custom configuration (probably with XFCE) that would be pretty snappy. Getting OS X would be of no use if the system would crawl.
And still people read e-books on their cell phones. My phone can display about 19 lines of text with cleartype, which is very readable. It's not the ideal e-book display, but it has one grat advantage over anything else: the phone is always with me. I had for about 6 months now and I've read about 4 or 5 books on it. If I get 15 minutes of spare time I can take it out and read. I can imagine the same thing with video. There are plenty of phones with 320x240 displays and I think videos would be pretty watchable on those.
In this case accomodation doesn't imply that they have to give the client something that s/he isn't allergic to, but simply to inform them if any of the items on the menu contain the said allergenic. If they don't have safe items on the menu, the only solution for the customer is to go someplace else. Exactly how nonsmoking persons should find nonsmoking restaurants.
I think it is a logical assertion if you consider those military contracts are awarded partially in order to keep the civilian aircraft line going. Think of it as a symbiotic relationship: if the military contracts weren't there the civilian line wold probably fold, but if there was no civilian line the government wouldn't be quite so eager to award them those fat military contracts.
What if I try to run it five years from now and Valve's servers aren't there anymore? Steam is not about piracy. It's about control. Although I had a valid licence for if from my 9600xt box, I still got the warez copy because it didn't suck as much. My net connection is crappy, my computer isn't on 24/7 so it would have taken me about a month to download the game via Steam anyway. But it still wasn't the point. Even if I had broadband I wold have never installed Steam on my computer. It's DRM pure and simple, and my rights don't need to be managed by some company.
I played it. I found a machine while I was on vacation once in a very smoky bar (the best place to play pinball in my opinion) and played it to death. When I came back, in about a week or so, I found another one in a bar that just opened near my home. They just got the machine and it was their only one, and the employees didn't really know what to do with it. I inserted a coin and showed all the really cool stuff the machine could do. I must say I felt a million bucks looking at their faces:) (Of course I didn't tell them I had played the same machine for hours every day for the past week)
After reading this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3546229.stm I stand corrected. My impression was that VW was trying to move into the upscale market and leave Skoda in its place. Since they apparently own Audi who is already there, this appears to be a more boneheaded idea than I thought. I am a fan of VW Golf, but no way in hell I'm paying that much.
Except that, as it also said in another comment and even in TFA, for Lithium batteries it doesn't matter how long you leave them in the charger, as long as they're fully charged, because after they're charged the voltage is simply cut. There is no trickle current or anything. The battery was properly charged every time.
I definitely agree about Luna being ugly. But this KDE theme is more similar with Watercolor, the theme used in Whistler Beta2. I liked the fact that the window controls were not standing out from the background since I already hit them by reflex and without looking at this point. This theme has that. Also the blue shade is not the violent blue in Luna. It's not the prettiest theme, but it's not ugly and it's very functional. At least in my opinion.
Are you looking at the same screenshots as everyone else? I find the theme to be nice and very understated, unlike Karamba wich was an eyesore. I don't see any similarities with Luna, with its multicolored fat buttons. Oh, well. Whoever modded you insightful probably didn't look at the screenshots either.
What do you mean there is no rule of ethics agains descovering something about yourself? This is not you discovering whether you like or not aunt Maggie's blueberry pie. This is more similar to insider trading: getting acces to information that you're not supposed to use and using it to gain a personal advantage. As one previous poster said, the fact that he saw that he was not likely to be admitted (the admissions on the server were not final, remember), allowed him to concentrate on applying to other schools. He bent the rules and he knows it. This type of person would be very likely to engage in unethical business practices, as long as they are not "clearly" wrong (you see, the information was not hidden, you just had to modify the URL in a certain way to read it, and it's not like you're forging your admission or anything, what's so wrong about that) and rationalize their behaviour as I've seen it done on many posts here. I for one applaud the way Harvard chose to deal with this potentially embarrasing situation. People who let the curiosity get the best of them and break the rules for a seemingly trivial but in fact very important matter are damaged goods. Not Harvard material.
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If the phone isn't advertised as having GPS capability, the odds of it existing and being activated during a 911 call are practically nil.
The call routing is also done by the tower and not the phone.
I find this whole business very strange. I'm from Europe and in 2003 my Alcatel 311 made calls to 911 and 112 (european emergency number) with a locked keypad or without a SIM. My bet would be that it's just a lie to make you buy a new phone.
You are right in saying that it's a scam. But the castle is not the most major Romanian tourist site, far from it, and the actual yearly income is something around a 300.000 Euro, nowhere near 10 million.
In my opinion, the state should pass. There is no particular reason that it should own this castle, as no matter who will buy it will have to keep it opened to tourists. But, as you said, it is just a scam by the owners together with corrupt County Council members to swindle the state out of an outrageous amount. Frankly I'm pretty angry: this particular scam will cost me around 10 Euro.
It's so obvious to the objective viewer.
How do you know, have you ever talked to one?
Seriously, the magnifying glass is used in Windows 95 and is still copied from Itunes in your opinion? Just because in XP it's switched to the right? BTW, when the hell did Itunes appear anyway and how long was the icon in XP's betas?
And the sound icon in my XP system tray is almost monochrome now, not yellow. Maybe it was still yellow in 2000.
Anyway, the final look of Vista may not be what we have all seen so far. XP beta 2 was radically different from XP final. Maybe the final look is kept "close to the chest" by Microsoft too.
Same here. The next Heroes Of Might And Magic will have Starforce and I won't buy it (or download it) because of this. To understand my addiction to this game, I own every single title in the series (except Chronicles, those were just greedy moneygrabs from 3DO) and I'm currently replaying HOMM2: The Price of Loyalty. But I won't touch HOMM 5 with a ten foot pole because of Starforce.
Bingo! you win the prize for the most clueless comment of the day.
Emulation is hard. The Wine project has been started 13 years ago, and they still support only a handfull of applications. Apple has only been able to emulate their past architectures because they owned or licensed all the specifications for them. To emulate Windows would mean to use reverse engineering, which is a whole different ball game, and to expose themselves to potential lawsuits from Microsoft.
Plus, if there's anything to be learned from the whole OS/2 experience it's that perfect emulation of your rival's platform brings no market advantage.
In my opinion, Apple would just use a virtual machine and tell users to run Vista in that. For them, it is the perfect solutions. People would still have acces to their strategic apps on their platform, and there would also be a great incentive to port them to run natively on MacOS.
Yeah, and if I had no feet I wouldn't wear shoes either. So, what's your point?
No one forces you to use the USB interface on the phone. You can remove the card and use a card reader. Also, the ROKR is not limited to 100 songs, the iTunes player on it is. Any other java mp3 player (and there are several for ROKR) will take any number of songs you can fit on the card (which tops currently at 1GB).
The fact that it will cause less crimes than it will commit it not the point. If I were to take it to the extreme we could do away with the whole justice system and imprison every arrested person, since the odds that the person being arrested by the police is guilty of something are pretty much higher than said person being innocent. So why would a few victims of this system count, if we could save all those money the judiciary cost us?
But that's not the point either. I come from a former communist state in Eastern Europe, and we used to live in constant fear of informers. Apparently more than one in ten people were informers for the secret police, and everything you said or did could potentially go into your file. If you were considered even a minor threat to national security, you clud be whisked away in the dead of night and never be heard from again, and you family would not be allowed to even talk about it for fear they might share the same faith. We used to look to the West as to a dream land of freedom, so imagine my dismay to see these developements: Patriot Act in the US, people being arrested and imprisoned without a proper trial, around the clock surveillance in the UK. I can see where this is going, I've been there already and it's baffling for me that I have to argue against it. But I know I would do anything to never go back again.
The power of habit. Please read that as 20MB hard drive, not 20GB.
I had an 8086 with 640k and 20GB hard drive, so that's possible. Can't be bothered to look in the attic for it now, but it had a 13" color monitor and a VGA card. The year was 1984, if I'm not mistaken. I bet it still works if I plug it in.
Of course it's not and I never said it was. I just pointed out that neither is OS X, contrary to what many of its users think.
I still think it's just a cheap publicity shot by Jobs, since there's no way in hell OS X would run well on such a system. Remember, there's only 1GB of storage and 128 of RAM. How much does a typical install of OS X take? There are Linux solutions running on mobile phones and even watches if I'm not mistaken. If a phone can run OS X i'll eat my hat. Microsoft's Windows Mobile would have been a credible proposition, and I don't think it would have had many supporters here even if it were more fitted for the job. Which, for the record, I don't think it would have been.
First, OS X is not Unix-based, it's Unix-like, since it's not using officialy licensed Unix code.
Second, I don't think these laptops will be very powerful, so there's also the question how well would OS X perform on them. With Linux they can use a custom configuration (probably with XFCE) that would be pretty snappy. Getting OS X would be of no use if the system would crawl.
And still people read e-books on their cell phones. My phone can display about 19 lines of text with cleartype, which is very readable. It's not the ideal e-book display, but it has one grat advantage over anything else: the phone is always with me. I had for about 6 months now and I've read about 4 or 5 books on it. If I get 15 minutes of spare time I can take it out and read. I can imagine the same thing with video. There are plenty of phones with 320x240 displays and I think videos would be pretty watchable on those.
In this case accomodation doesn't imply that they have to give the client something that s/he isn't allergic to, but simply to inform them if any of the items on the menu contain the said allergenic. If they don't have safe items on the menu, the only solution for the customer is to go someplace else. Exactly how nonsmoking persons should find nonsmoking restaurants.
I can't seem to find it on the new site, but I remember also reading a disclaimer that the reviews were selected, so this comes as no surprise to me.
I think it is a logical assertion if you consider those military contracts are awarded partially in order to keep the civilian aircraft line going. Think of it as a symbiotic relationship: if the military contracts weren't there the civilian line wold probably fold, but if there was no civilian line the government wouldn't be quite so eager to award them those fat military contracts.
What if I try to run it five years from now and Valve's servers aren't there anymore?
Steam is not about piracy. It's about control. Although I had a valid licence for if from my 9600xt box, I still got the warez copy because it didn't suck as much. My net connection is crappy, my computer isn't on 24/7 so it would have taken me about a month to download the game via Steam anyway. But it still wasn't the point. Even if I had broadband I wold have never installed Steam on my computer. It's DRM pure and simple, and my rights don't need to be managed by some company.
I played it. I found a machine while I was on vacation once in a very smoky bar (the best place to play pinball in my opinion) and played it to death. When I came back, in about a week or so, I found another one in a bar that just opened near my home. They just got the machine and it was their only one, and the employees didn't really know what to do with it. I inserted a coin and showed all the really cool stuff the machine could do. I must say I felt a million bucks looking at their faces:) (Of course I didn't tell them I had played the same machine for hours every day for the past week)
After reading this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3546229.stm I stand corrected. My impression was that VW was trying to move into the upscale market and leave Skoda in its place. Since they apparently own Audi who is already there, this appears to be a more boneheaded idea than I thought. I am a fan of VW Golf, but no way in hell I'm paying that much.
I don't think Audi is a VW brand. Other than that, spot on.
Except that, as it also said in another comment and even in TFA, for Lithium batteries it doesn't matter how long you leave them in the charger, as long as they're fully charged, because after they're charged the voltage is simply cut. There is no trickle current or anything. The battery was properly charged every time.
I definitely agree about Luna being ugly. But this KDE theme is more similar with Watercolor, the theme used in Whistler Beta2. I liked the fact that the window controls were not standing out from the background since I already hit them by reflex and without looking at this point. This theme has that. Also the blue shade is not the violent blue in Luna.
It's not the prettiest theme, but it's not ugly and it's very functional. At least in my opinion.
Are you looking at the same screenshots as everyone else?
I find the theme to be nice and very understated, unlike Karamba wich was an eyesore. I don't see any similarities with Luna, with its multicolored fat buttons.
Oh, well. Whoever modded you insightful probably didn't look at the screenshots either.
What do you mean there is no rule of ethics agains descovering something about yourself? This is not you discovering whether you like or not aunt Maggie's blueberry pie. This is more similar to insider trading: getting acces to information that you're not supposed to use and using it to gain a personal advantage. As one previous poster said, the fact that he saw that he was not likely to be admitted (the admissions on the server were not final, remember), allowed him to concentrate on applying to other schools. He bent the rules and he knows it. This type of person would be very likely to engage in unethical business practices, as long as they are not "clearly" wrong (you see, the information was not hidden, you just had to modify the URL in a certain way to read it, and it's not like you're forging your admission or anything, what's so wrong about that) and rationalize their behaviour as I've seen it done on many posts here. I for one applaud the way Harvard chose to deal with this potentially embarrasing situation. People who let the curiosity get the best of them and break the rules for a seemingly trivial but in fact very important matter are damaged goods. Not Harvard material.