Storage for me is still a factor. To put it in perspective, my phone has more storage than the CR-48.
I thought that going from 60 GB on my old iPod photo to 16 GB on my iPhone would be a problem (couldn't put all my music on it anymore, for instance). With the ability to stream media from home to wherever I happen to be (over either 3G or WiFi), local storage is pretty much only needed for getting through short intervals with no connectivity, such as airline travel. It's ended up being easier to fire up AirVideo (or PlugPlayer) and pick what I want to watch (or listen to) from the 4.5-TB NAS box at home than to have to pick in advance what I might want to watch, reencode it if necessary, and sync it over with iTunes.
I'd think something similar should be possible with the CR-48.
That is another payment methods but I prefer to pay for the exact amount rather than having a prepaid card that I cannot even use fully
Huh? When you redeem the card, the amount on it is credited to your account. If you end up with 50[cents-sign] remaining and want to purchase a song that costs $1.29, that 50[cents-sign] is applied to your purchase and the other 79[cents-sign] can be paid from another source.
Correct, but this toy does something very entertaining that the iPad can't, which is to stream and display video from the home network.
How does wildly inaccurate crap like this get modded "informative?" I've used AirVideo for some time now on my iPhone (yes, it also works on the iPad). It streams video not only over WiFi, but over 3G (if your device supports it), with live reencoding. I have the server component running in a WinXP VM on my MythTV box, streaming MythTV recordings and archived movies and TV shows from a NAS box on the home LAN. Bring along a video cable when you travel and you can stream your entire library of movies and TV shows into nearly any TV.
Then you should be driving in the left lane(s) if you are going slower than the rest of the traffic. Let the faster traffic pass you on the right.
I see that Denis Leary was writing about you when he wrote this. If you're going slower than the rest of the traffic, you belong in the right lane; the left lane is for passing.
$10 per megabyte? Luxury! $10/MB was probably close to what they would've cost in the late '80s, but not the early '80s. (My first hard drive cost $180 for 40 MB in 1990, and that was for a refurbished drive.)
That lie right there is sufficient for the balance of your post to be regarded as null and void. Any moderators who stumble across your post would be well-advised to mark it down to -1, Troll.
(Yes, I realize IHBT. Reality deniers need to be smacked down hard. Repeating a lie over and over does not make it true. The weak-minded might start to believe it, but it doesn't make you any less mendacious.)
The message you won't be hearing is about the Citizens United ruling which led to unrestrained campaign spending this year. The Dems were outspent 7 to 1. That's right, 7 to 1.
While Social Security has it's set of problems, it's wrong to call it a Ponzi scheme.
How do you figure that's the case? It's taking the money you and I are paying in today and handing it out to current retirees. Back when there were 10 or more people working to fund payments to one retiree, this might've been somewhat sustainable, if still crooked. Now that we're down to two people (or so) working for every retiree, the numbers aren't adding up. As with any other Ponzi scheme, at some point, the money will run out. We're just a few years (at most) away from Social Security paying out more than it takes in. It'd probably only be a couple or three decades after that that the money runs out...right around the time that most people here are going to start thinking about retirement.
Nokia doesn't have N900 in U.S. stores outside of New York, NY, and Chicago, IL
I saw one (a dummy, more precisely, not the real thing) at Fry's the other day...first time I'd run across one. Can't say I've seen anybody actually using one, or any other Nokia phone, lately, though.
(This was in Las Vegas, but I suspect other stores would have them as well. Price was somewhere around $450.)
Perhaps this would be more your speed. Given your propensity to dive straight into ad hominem attacks, though, I don't know that it'll make much difference.
Well, I for one have issues with the thought of some banker pilfering my social security retirement.
I'd be more worried about the government raiding your 401(k). Forget about Social Security; the Democrats have already spent all of that money. It's not going to be there for you.
You can fix that. My father taught my mother how to drive a stick back in the mid-'70s. I'd like to get back to something with a manual transmission at some point. My fiancee is making noises about how she doesn't know how and wouldn't want me driving something she can't drive...never mind that you can get the basics down in maybe 5 minutes.
Warren Buffett himself says that the rich do NOT pay enough taxes, and that the taxes on the rich should be higher.
Nobody's stopping him from cutting a big fat check to the Treasury. If he really believes he isn't paying enough, he ought to cash out some of his stock and write a billion-dollar (or whatever) check to Uncle Sam. Until then, I invite him to enjoy a nice big cup of STFU.
While i agree with you as I do that myself when I need to rent a truck, there is a mark difference in renting a Truck for a day and staying under the local mileage limits and renting a car for a day and paying by the mile.
Car rentals have always been unlimited-mileage IME. Moving vans (U-Hauls and such) are the ones that charge a base rate plus mileage. If you're hauling more stuff home from Home Depot or Lowe's than will fit in your vehicle, they'll rent you a truck for an hour or two with no mileage charge (not that you're going to get very far in the short time you have it out).
Don't you have the ability to track the amount of minutes as the month goes by?
I've never seen a mobile phone with a built-in feature to count used minutes, other than a prepaid one.
There's often a counter buried deep in the menus. On my iPhone, it's not quite as deep: Settings -> General -> Usage. It accumulates voice and data usage since the last reset. There's also an app that queries AT&T for voice, text, and data usage in the current billing cycle. I'd swear I had a similar feature on some of my previous phones (even the dumbphones), and none of them have been prepaid.
What version of money would this be that you cannot buy power with?
If there's no significant accumulation of power in the government to begin with, all the money in the world will do you no good here. You can't buy that which doesn't exist.
notepad has size limitations forget what it is but I have hit it on several occasions.
Up through Win9x, it was 64K IIRC. Notepad on WinNT and its descendants may have a limit, but it's larger than you're likely to bump up against unless you're trying to pull some multi-gigabyte logfile (or whatever) into it for browsing.
You've gotta be trolling. 21 million copies sold of her debut album, MTV Music awards, BRIT awards, Grammy nominated, #98 best selling of the 21st century, duet with Eminem, music featured in a big movie, song the opening theme of a US TV show, haircut named after her, sold-out world tours...
Lump me in with the OP. The pop-"culture" fluff you rattled off doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
Keep in mind that in the US and in Canada the dominant cellular system for many decades was CDMA. GSM is a fairly recent development and it makes inroads slowly.
~15 years ago is "fairly recent?" A few seconds' googling turned up this:
Digital systems arrived in the U.S. in the early '90s, with the first U.S. TDMA system launching in 1993 and the first U.S. GSM systems in 1995. In 1996, the first [CDMA] systems were launched.
I'd hesitate to call any of these dominant at any time in the present or past. TDMA is no longer with us, but GSM is supported by two of the four major carriers and CDMA is supported by the other two carriers. If any system had market dominance at any point, I'd have to say it was AMPS, which was the only game in town from the '80s through the mid-to-late-'90s.
PWM on the Apple II's bit-bang speaker output could get you 4 or 5 bits' worth of resolution at 11.025 kHz. I'm not sure who did this first, but I started with 3 bits in the early '90s and others extended it beyond that with more clever coding than I had managed. Sampling audio on the cassette-in jack and playing it through the speaker (at 1 bit per sample) went back to at least the early '80s AFAIK.
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I thought that going from 60 GB on my old iPod photo to 16 GB on my iPhone would be a problem (couldn't put all my music on it anymore, for instance). With the ability to stream media from home to wherever I happen to be (over either 3G or WiFi), local storage is pretty much only needed for getting through short intervals with no connectivity, such as airline travel. It's ended up being easier to fire up AirVideo (or PlugPlayer) and pick what I want to watch (or listen to) from the 4.5-TB NAS box at home than to have to pick in advance what I might want to watch, reencode it if necessary, and sync it over with iTunes.
I'd think something similar should be possible with the CR-48.
Nope...the First Rule of Acquisition is, "Once you have their money, you never give it back."
Huh? When you redeem the card, the amount on it is credited to your account. If you end up with 50[cents-sign] remaining and want to purchase a song that costs $1.29, that 50[cents-sign] is applied to your purchase and the other 79[cents-sign] can be paid from another source.
How does wildly inaccurate crap like this get modded "informative?" I've used AirVideo for some time now on my iPhone (yes, it also works on the iPad). It streams video not only over WiFi, but over 3G (if your device supports it), with live reencoding. I have the server component running in a WinXP VM on my MythTV box, streaming MythTV recordings and archived movies and TV shows from a NAS box on the home LAN. Bring along a video cable when you travel and you can stream your entire library of movies and TV shows into nearly any TV.
Considering it's from the same group of assclowns who rammed 0bamaCare down our throats, this shouldn't be a surprise.
I see that Denis Leary was writing about you when he wrote this. If you're going slower than the rest of the traffic, you belong in the right lane; the left lane is for passing.
$10 per megabyte? Luxury! $10/MB was probably close to what they would've cost in the late '80s, but not the early '80s. (My first hard drive cost $180 for 40 MB in 1990, and that was for a refurbished drive.)
That lie right there is sufficient for the balance of your post to be regarded as null and void. Any moderators who stumble across your post would be well-advised to mark it down to -1, Troll.
(Yes, I realize IHBT. Reality deniers need to be smacked down hard. Repeating a lie over and over does not make it true. The weak-minded might start to believe it, but it doesn't make you any less mendacious.)
Huh? I used a Treo 650 for a couple or three years, and its display didn't look any different than any other LCD I've run across (touchscreen or not).
Umm...no.
How do you figure that's the case? It's taking the money you and I are paying in today and handing it out to current retirees. Back when there were 10 or more people working to fund payments to one retiree, this might've been somewhat sustainable, if still crooked. Now that we're down to two people (or so) working for every retiree, the numbers aren't adding up. As with any other Ponzi scheme, at some point, the money will run out. We're just a few years (at most) away from Social Security paying out more than it takes in. It'd probably only be a couple or three decades after that that the money runs out...right around the time that most people here are going to start thinking about retirement.
...and in other news, the chocolate ration has been increased from 30 grams per week to 20.
I saw one (a dummy, more precisely, not the real thing) at Fry's the other day...first time I'd run across one. Can't say I've seen anybody actually using one, or any other Nokia phone, lately, though.
(This was in Las Vegas, but I suspect other stores would have them as well. Price was somewhere around $450.)
Not anymore...all page requests throw up a password prompt now.
Perhaps this would be more your speed. Given your propensity to dive straight into ad hominem attacks, though, I don't know that it'll make much difference.
I'd be more worried about the government raiding your 401(k). Forget about Social Security; the Democrats have already spent all of that money. It's not going to be there for you.
You can fix that. My father taught my mother how to drive a stick back in the mid-'70s. I'd like to get back to something with a manual transmission at some point. My fiancee is making noises about how she doesn't know how and wouldn't want me driving something she can't drive...never mind that you can get the basics down in maybe 5 minutes.
Nobody's stopping him from cutting a big fat check to the Treasury. If he really believes he isn't paying enough, he ought to cash out some of his stock and write a billion-dollar (or whatever) check to Uncle Sam. Until then, I invite him to enjoy a nice big cup of STFU.
Car rentals have always been unlimited-mileage IME. Moving vans (U-Hauls and such) are the ones that charge a base rate plus mileage. If you're hauling more stuff home from Home Depot or Lowe's than will fit in your vehicle, they'll rent you a truck for an hour or two with no mileage charge (not that you're going to get very far in the short time you have it out).
There's often a counter buried deep in the menus. On my iPhone, it's not quite as deep: Settings -> General -> Usage. It accumulates voice and data usage since the last reset. There's also an app that queries AT&T for voice, text, and data usage in the current billing cycle. I'd swear I had a similar feature on some of my previous phones (even the dumbphones), and none of them have been prepaid.
If there's no significant accumulation of power in the government to begin with, all the money in the world will do you no good here. You can't buy that which doesn't exist.
Up through Win9x, it was 64K IIRC. Notepad on WinNT and its descendants may have a limit, but it's larger than you're likely to bump up against unless you're trying to pull some multi-gigabyte logfile (or whatever) into it for browsing.
Lump me in with the OP. The pop-"culture" fluff you rattled off doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
(Should I end this post with GET OFF MY LAWN!?)
~15 years ago is "fairly recent?" A few seconds' googling turned up this:
I'd hesitate to call any of these dominant at any time in the present or past. TDMA is no longer with us, but GSM is supported by two of the four major carriers and CDMA is supported by the other two carriers. If any system had market dominance at any point, I'd have to say it was AMPS, which was the only game in town from the '80s through the mid-to-late-'90s.
PWM on the Apple II's bit-bang speaker output could get you 4 or 5 bits' worth of resolution at 11.025 kHz. I'm not sure who did this first, but I started with 3 bits in the early '90s and others extended it beyond that with more clever coding than I had managed. Sampling audio on the cassette-in jack and playing it through the speaker (at 1 bit per sample) went back to at least the early '80s AFAIK.