It's not always just to save pennies; a through-hole connector has to go through all of the layers of the board. By using a surface-mount connector you only lose the space on the top layer and can route things in the layers beneath (modulo signal-crosstalk issues).
To exchange the SD card, you have to tore open the phone.
I'm sorry, but just under the battery cover (as on the Samsung Focus) isn't really tearing open the phone, especially when other phones (except those from Apple) have had user-replaceable microSD cards in the same location for years. Samsung made a very poor design decision in this regard, especially if it was aware of this particular Windows 7 'feature'.
But for phones like the HTC 7 Mozart where you have to unscrew and disassemble the whole phone to replace the card, then, yes, I agree; it's 'user-serviceable' only for a very determined class of user who is knowingly violating the warranty and should know what they're in for.
And when you turn around and sell that car, you can sell the leather seats, fancy paint job, cruise control, etc. as well. Not so with most forms of DLC; those are usually tied into an account in some way making them impossible to resell.
Or they could have made the default option for Personalized Menus 'off' for Office XP/2003. None of this 'word processor trying to be smarter than you' stuff-- I prefer my menu layouts to be deterministic, thank you.
Darwinia and Multiwinia (and 'that hacking game' Uplink) were done by Introversion Software, not Ambrosia; Ambrosia just does Introversion's Mac ports.
Skyhook's reliance on wireless APs doesn't work so well when the APs move. I took my APs with me when I moved to a new place, but my iPhone (which uses Skyhook's assisted-GPS) thought I was always at my old place for months until I realized what was going on and that I should submit my AP MAC addresses to correct their location.
It's possible that it sees an AP near you that's recently been moved.
Though using joe is kind of unpleasant on Windows (I have a hunch I am one of a small handful of people who actually do use it on Windows via cygwin). Using Console helps to make it bearable (at least then you can resize it to larger than 80chars).
How about making it so all telemarketers have to register a certain caller ID that say would be (C)*insert name of company here*, then it would be trivial to block all corporate calls. Thus making it easy to have a caller ID filter to purchase to block all telemarketer calls. This would be a lot easier than the do not call list, more effective and wouldn't censor anyone.
These people are already blatantly ignoring the Do Not Call list. Why would they bother to give a legitimate caller ID string?
Isn't this somewhat akin to what the much-hyped KillerNIC was all about-- a separate device to offload network activity (for example, BitTorrent downloads)?
The release date for the Riddick game was 1 June 2004.
The premiere for the Riddick movie was 3 June 2004. So it could be argued that the game came first.
(And I never noted that 'crappy movie means good game'. I noted that 'good game means crappy movie'.)
In Reign of Fire's case, the movie came out before the games did; the movie premiered 9 July 2002, while the games didn't come out until 22 Oct 2002 (PS2 and XBOX), 31 Oct 2002 (GBA), and 26 Nov 2002 (GC); Thus, in this case, 'bad movie -> bad games'
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It's not always just to save pennies; a through-hole connector has to go through all of the layers of the board. By using a surface-mount connector you only lose the space on the top layer and can route things in the layers beneath (modulo signal-crosstalk issues).
To exchange the SD card, you have to tore open the phone.
I'm sorry, but just under the battery cover (as on the Samsung Focus) isn't really tearing open the phone, especially when other phones (except those from Apple) have had user-replaceable microSD cards in the same location for years. Samsung made a very poor design decision in this regard, especially if it was aware of this particular Windows 7 'feature'.
But for phones like the HTC 7 Mozart where you have to unscrew and disassemble the whole phone to replace the card, then, yes, I agree; it's 'user-serviceable' only for a very determined class of user who is knowingly violating the warranty and should know what they're in for.
What next? Cars have to be drivable by blind people?
A bunch of students at VA Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory have been working on that, actually: Blind Driver Challenge.
Also of interest: Linux's CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capabilities flag, which would allow giving a process the ability to attach to lower-than-1024 ports without giving it full root.
Not every XP SP3 machine was bitten. There were some XP SP3 machines here that were affected, but just as many that weren't.
It's possible that they did test against XP SP3, and just got 'lucky'.
And when you turn around and sell that car, you can sell the leather seats, fancy paint job, cruise control, etc. as well. Not so with most forms of DLC; those are usually tied into an account in some way making them impossible to resell.
Or they could have made the default option for Personalized Menus 'off' for Office XP/2003. None of this 'word processor trying to be smarter than you' stuff-- I prefer my menu layouts to be deterministic, thank you.
Why? He's not saying anything nasty about his publishers.
Darwinia and Multiwinia (and 'that hacking game' Uplink) were done by Introversion Software, not Ambrosia; Ambrosia just does Introversion's Mac ports.
EV:Nova was all Ambrosia though.
Leopard added a lot more over Tiger than SP2 did over XP.
That happens on Windows, too. Why can't Firefox keep Windows 98 support? Why can't Halo 2 support XP?
So you're contrasting OS upgrade fees for OS X... versus not upgrading Windows.
Guess what? There are upgrade fees to go from XP to Vista to 7, too.
Skyhook's reliance on wireless APs doesn't work so well when the APs move. I took my APs with me when I moved to a new place, but my iPhone (which uses Skyhook's assisted-GPS) thought I was always at my old place for months until I realized what was going on and that I should submit my AP MAC addresses to correct their location.
It's possible that it sees an AP near you that's recently been moved.
Yep. joe + GNU make is the way I do it too.
Though using joe is kind of unpleasant on Windows (I have a hunch I am one of a small handful of people who actually do use it on Windows via cygwin). Using Console helps to make it bearable (at least then you can resize it to larger than 80chars).
How about making it so all telemarketers have to register a certain caller ID that say would be (C)*insert name of company here*, then it would be trivial to block all corporate calls. Thus making it easy to have a caller ID filter to purchase to block all telemarketer calls. This would be a lot easier than the do not call list, more effective and wouldn't censor anyone.
These people are already blatantly ignoring the Do Not Call list. Why would they bother to give a legitimate caller ID string?
Isn't this somewhat akin to what the much-hyped KillerNIC was all about-- a separate device to offload network activity (for example, BitTorrent downloads)?
To be fair, the iPod dock connector carries more than just USB. And the USB dock cables work on pretty much any model iPod.
Indie games can be quite fun for a while and often are cheap (eg Audiosurf is just $10, and Defcon is $15).
Unless, of course, you want it for Mac-- in which case, it's $25. Actually, you can get all three of Introversion's games (Uplink, Darwinia, and Defcon for $33.20 for Windows/Linux, but Ambrosia charges $25-28 each for the OS X versions.
And people wonder why everyone games on Windows.
It's at least a year old; My Sanyo 4920 (sigh, the 4900 was so much better) is RL-capable, and I've had it for just over a year now.
I've never actually used Ready Link-- full-duplex communication seems much more logical.
Sprint has the 'walkie-talkie' feature. It's called Ready Link.
The movie came out after the game.
The release date for the Riddick game was 1 June 2004. The premiere for the Riddick movie was 3 June 2004. So it could be argued that the game came first.
(And I never noted that 'crappy movie means good game'. I noted that 'good game means crappy movie'.)
In Reign of Fire's case, the movie came out before the games did; the movie premiered 9 July 2002, while the games didn't come out until 22 Oct 2002 (PS2 and XBOX), 31 Oct 2002 (GBA), and 26 Nov 2002 (GC); Thus, in this case, 'bad movie -> bad games'
Let's see. . .
Super Mario Brothers-- good game(s), movie sucked.
Street Fighter-- good game, movie sucked.
Tomb Raider-- good game, movie(s) sucked.
Maybe the Riddick movie is based on the game?
The linked page says 5pm CET.
The countdown on the page gives an hour and a half, so it'll be down at 10am CST (or 4pm for you GMT fanatics).
But can they withstand brute force?
I don't think it's economically viable to have enough armor plating on the chips to withstand a good knock with a sledgehammer.
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