This is probably true in US and Europe, but here in Asia, the phones usually aren't subsidized, and still, people change phones regularly and far more often than people who are bound by carrier plans. I've been eyeing the Nokia 6630 for a while and finally I'm gonna be buying one this month to replace my aging N-Gage QD. And I'm only buying because there's a price drop from almost $400 to $300.
Then it would no longer be shiny. The scratching problem also affects other devices that have the same type of shiny surfaces. I have a 3-year old 128 MB Muvo that's been totally abused, and the battery case is cracked, but it's not even scratched, but my three months old 1 GB Muvo (new shiny surface) and iPod shuffle are so completely scratched that they can't be scratched any longer.
eDonkey's adware is optional, although the install process is a bit tricky. You have to click different buttons to decline the install, so it's very easy to install something by mistake. A lot of people still use eDonkey, or even Overnet, because of the incorrect way the newer versions handle unicode.
Actually, the part where the T1000 got shattered is where the T800 says the hasta line. So presumably it thought that the T1000 is dead. It only said 'we don't have much time' when the T1000 started melting and reforming. Killing the T1000 at the end by molten steel seem like an accidental move, I don't think the T800 has any knowledge about how the T1000 will react to molten steel.
Actually, PowerPoint works really well with a widescreen display. During designing, the extra area of the widescreen display can be used to show the small slides/outline, without eating into your main view. When actually running the presentation, PowerPoint has an option (set up show) to automatically change the display resolution.
The E398/ROKR is more than a just phone with MP3 capability though, which just about any phone can do these days. It also has built-in stereo speakers that's loud enough to be used regularly, and has flashing lights that pulse with either the music it's playing itself or the surrounding music.
I know these features seem to be useless, but the market that the E398/ROKR is aimed at, they seem to dig this stuff.
I think this is just overreaction by Reuter and other slashdotters. Internet based phone is incredibly common in China, you can buy "IP Phone cards" that work with any phone for ridiculously cheap prices. (100 RMB cards selling for 50 RMB, plus buy one get one free.)
Skype has always been somewhat blocked in China since they signed the agreement with tom.com. Sometimes buying credits directly from Skype.com doesn't work unless you're an existing user. Sometimes the entire skype.com site is blocked.
As for popularity, QQ has far more users and is known by even non-computer users...
The ROKR phone is identical to the existing E398 and the "E398 Hijacked by MTV", with just a music button added. The E398's are already marketed as music phones and do have pretty good audio playback quality through either the onboard stereo speakers or the headphones.
The E398 also has a large hacking community and many hacked firmware available. I wouldn't be surprised if the ROKR firmware becomes available for the regular E398.
Baidu (and 3721, and all other bigger Chinese search engines) all have spyware disguised as helpful utilities. That's why they're popular, and generally, once you used one search engine and installed their utility, you're forced to use that site permanently.
The original version of Myst on Windows sucked. It used Quicktime to do the animations, which at that time only supported 256 colors. I had a video card that supported more than 256 colors, and when I go to any screen, I can immediately see which parts of the screen I needed to click on.
See, language support is extremely important for us non-English users. I don't know anyone that uses anything besides iTunes or Windows Media Player because they have full Unicode support. Having menu in 20 languages is not the same as being able to display song names in the correct language.
Maybe one reason is Rio has no markets outside of the US (or any English speaking area)? Where I live everyone has an MP3 player, but I've never seen the Rio in person and none of my friends have even heard of the brand.
Nokia makes more than cellular phones, they also make things like routers and other networking equipment that compete directly with Cisco.
At my company we have cable manufacturing equipment made by Nokia, and they are also one of our larger customers, buying cables for laying cellular networks.
Hmm, it might not be anti-aliasing like on monitors, but my Laserjet printers have something called resolution enhancement technology. With RET disabled, all the text have jaggies even at 1200 dpi. With RET enabled everything is completely smooth, and low resolution outlook look smeared like you described.
Don't all modern printers have anti-aliasing enabled by default? On our 1200 dpi printers, I can easily see jaggies if the anti-aliasing is disabled, otherwise the lines are completely smooth.
I don't know if the Fitta/Jazz thing is real or not, but here in southeast asia, the Honda Jazz and Fit are two different cars. They do look extremely similar though.
Actually, depends on which model of Canon. Eventhough all models have removable printheads, for some models have the printheads available for purchase anywhere, and cost no more than the price of a single HP ink cartridge. But for others the printheads are considered "part of the printer", and are only available at Canon service centers.
Actually, I noticed many of the current fingerprint scanning devices all claim that they only work with living tissues. So you only get to lose your finger to the thieves.
It may not be obvious for people who work in smaller companies, or if the company deals only with locals. But at my company, we're located in three different countries, and we regularly call all over the world. When we first had voip, we had to go to one single computer to make/receive calls, Skype actually works from any computer on the LAN, and allows calls to other Skype users both within and outside the company, and to regular phones, and it always works.
Now some of our computers have Bluetooth headsets for handsfree skyping.
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This is probably true in US and Europe, but here in Asia, the phones usually aren't subsidized, and still, people change phones regularly and far more often than people who are bound by carrier plans. I've been eyeing the Nokia 6630 for a while and finally I'm gonna be buying one this month to replace my aging N-Gage QD. And I'm only buying because there's a price drop from almost $400 to $300.
Yah, and they have a special edition that's red and gold and looks exactly like tne other original controller.
Then it would no longer be shiny. The scratching problem also affects other devices that have the same type of shiny surfaces. I have a 3-year old 128 MB Muvo that's been totally abused, and the battery case is cracked, but it's not even scratched, but my three months old 1 GB Muvo (new shiny surface) and iPod shuffle are so completely scratched that they can't be scratched any longer.
eDonkey's adware is optional, although the install process is a bit tricky. You have to click different buttons to decline the install, so it's very easy to install something by mistake. A lot of people still use eDonkey, or even Overnet, because of the incorrect way the newer versions handle unicode.
Actually, the part where the T1000 got shattered is where the T800 says the hasta line. So presumably it thought that the T1000 is dead. It only said 'we don't have much time' when the T1000 started melting and reforming. Killing the T1000 at the end by molten steel seem like an accidental move, I don't think the T800 has any knowledge about how the T1000 will react to molten steel.
Actually, PowerPoint works really well with a widescreen display. During designing, the extra area of the widescreen display can be used to show the small slides/outline, without eating into your main view. When actually running the presentation, PowerPoint has an option (set up show) to automatically change the display resolution.
The E398/ROKR is more than a just phone with MP3 capability though, which just about any phone can do these days. It also has built-in stereo speakers that's loud enough to be used regularly, and has flashing lights that pulse with either the music it's playing itself or the surrounding music.
I know these features seem to be useless, but the market that the E398/ROKR is aimed at, they seem to dig this stuff.
Unfortunately, USB 2.0 usually needs drivers to activate. Depending on the motherboard, booting from USB might be really really slow.
Hmm, must try it out now...
I think this is just overreaction by Reuter and other slashdotters. Internet based phone is incredibly common in China, you can buy "IP Phone cards" that work with any phone for ridiculously cheap prices. (100 RMB cards selling for 50 RMB, plus buy one get one free.)
Skype has always been somewhat blocked in China since they signed the agreement with tom.com. Sometimes buying credits directly from Skype.com doesn't work unless you're an existing user. Sometimes the entire skype.com site is blocked.
As for popularity, QQ has far more users and is known by even non-computer users...
The ROKR phone is identical to the existing E398 and the "E398 Hijacked by MTV", with just a music button added. The E398's are already marketed as music phones and do have pretty good audio playback quality through either the onboard stereo speakers or the headphones.
The E398 also has a large hacking community and many hacked firmware available. I wouldn't be surprised if the ROKR firmware becomes available for the regular E398.
Baidu (and 3721, and all other bigger Chinese search engines) all have spyware disguised as helpful utilities. That's why they're popular, and generally, once you used one search engine and installed their utility, you're forced to use that site permanently.
The original version of Myst on Windows sucked. It used Quicktime to do the animations, which at that time only supported 256 colors. I had a video card that supported more than 256 colors, and when I go to any screen, I can immediately see which parts of the screen I needed to click on.
See, language support is extremely important for us non-English users. I don't know anyone that uses anything besides iTunes or Windows Media Player because they have full Unicode support. Having menu in 20 languages is not the same as being able to display song names in the correct language.
Maybe one reason is Rio has no markets outside of the US (or any English speaking area)? Where I live everyone has an MP3 player, but I've never seen the Rio in person and none of my friends have even heard of the brand.
Nokia makes more than cellular phones, they also make things like routers and other networking equipment that compete directly with Cisco.
At my company we have cable manufacturing equipment made by Nokia, and they are also one of our larger customers, buying cables for laying cellular networks.
Skype doesn't work with dial-up connections. It normally needs 5K/sec in/out. Yahoo and other IM voice chats need only 3K/sec.
Hmm, it might not be anti-aliasing like on monitors, but my Laserjet printers have something called resolution enhancement technology. With RET disabled, all the text have jaggies even at 1200 dpi. With RET enabled everything is completely smooth, and low resolution outlook look smeared like you described.
It's already Saturday here. Why can't these be posted in advance?
Don't all modern printers have anti-aliasing enabled by default? On our 1200 dpi printers, I can easily see jaggies if the anti-aliasing is disabled, otherwise the lines are completely smooth.
I don't know if the Fitta/Jazz thing is real or not, but here in southeast asia, the Honda Jazz and Fit are two different cars. They do look extremely similar though.
Actually, depends on which model of Canon. Eventhough all models have removable printheads, for some models have the printheads available for purchase anywhere, and cost no more than the price of a single HP ink cartridge. But for others the printheads are considered "part of the printer", and are only available at Canon service centers.
Actually, I noticed many of the current fingerprint scanning devices all claim that they only work with living tissues. So you only get to lose your finger to the thieves.
It may not be obvious for people who work in smaller companies, or if the company deals only with locals. But at my company, we're located in three different countries, and we regularly call all over the world. When we first had voip, we had to go to one single computer to make/receive calls, Skype actually works from any computer on the LAN, and allows calls to other Skype users both within and outside the company, and to regular phones, and it always works.
Now some of our computers have Bluetooth headsets for handsfree skyping.
Probably depends on where you are, but even the lower end laptops I see nowadays have 15.4" widescreens with 1280x800 resolution.
But I agree that the hard drive is the bottleneck. I have 1 GB of RAM but once it needs to load anything off the drive it gets really slow...
Vexed has been ported to just about every known platform. Try searching for irked.