The scientists have since discovered that their initial findings were incorrect - adding lime to the sea does not reduce CO2. However, they do reiterate that it adds a bit of zing to a grilled tuna.
...are strong evidence that underground homebrew developers don't know what to do other than to make emulators and ports of Doom and Quake. Creating (or porting) an NES emulator to the button-less iPhone? The emulators are impossible to play. The only thing you can do with them is show it to someone and say, "look how much free time I have."
Which is my point. Steve said he had successfully made the iPhone "more affordable". I don't think he can make that claim as long as plans cost $60 per month or more. The difference in the cost now is either quite negligible, or, if unlimited data now costs an extra $10 per month as has been claimed on engadget, then he's succeeded in making it LESS affordable, not more affordable.
I can afford the iPhone itself. In fact, I could afford the old $399 iPhone. What I can't afford is over $60 per month for the minimum plan (over $60 when you add in the various fees they tack on for fun). If they offered a $30 per month plan I would probably buy one. If they had a $20 plan, I'd be buying one now. I don't need a lot of talk time. In fact, I'd be willing to pay for every call as I so rarely make calls. I just want the unlimited data. Hell, give me no voice calls at all, no SMS, just data and I'll use my pay-as-you-go phone for the extremely infrequent calls I need to make with it.
Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, Alladin, etc, look and play fantastic. NES games, on the other hand, are hard to take these days. They are great, but only in nostalgic recollection. Who really wants to play Super Mario Bros. without games saves? It's more fun to play the SNES update in Super Mario All Stars. On the other hand, Playstation games don't hold up as well even though they are newer, because they come across as, for the most part, weak versions of Playstation 2 games. SNES games seem entirely different from any current or just previous generation console. So I vote for the SNES. It's stood the test of time.
Something that many don't realize about the iPhone/iPod touch's virtual keyboard is that it corrects *before* you type as well. That is, if you type TR it knows that the next letter isn't likely to be, for example, S, so if your finger is a bit too far off to the right of A, intended as part of TRAIN, it will still register as A because it expands the area that will register as A and decreases the area that will register as S, since that is much more likely to be what you meant.
It works much better on my iPod touch. For one I automatically get mobile view instead of defaulting to (an extremely slow to load) full html view, and now there is a "basic html" option, which works a lot faster than how the full html view worked before. The full html view is no longer available, though.
... it isn't available anywhere, or hardly anywhere. Perhaps they should concentrate on expanding coverage rather than upping the speeds available to a very select few?
... you get piracy. We have a modchip in our Gamecube and primarily (by far) it is used for homebrew, backups of our purchased games (sorry, but I do think I should be allowed to backup our purchased games), and to play games from other regions (region-coding is extremely irritating and stupid - why make it hard for us to buy and play games we want to play?) Have I ever downloaded a game ("pirated")? Yes, I have. I've only done it a handful of times, and have always ended up tossing it out (or buying the game), but none-the-less, when the possibility is there, you're bound to try it at some point. And some will continue to do it and won't toss out their pirated games.
If Nintendo et. al. provided a means for backing up games, free tools for developing and running homebrew (or for a very nominal fee), and eliminated region-coding, then modchips wouldn't be necessary for these legitimate purposes, and there wouldn't be the temptation to try pirating games at all. They choose not to provide these things. Wouldn't it be easier and less costly to them to provide this stuff? It would also make customers happy.
There are some Apple fans who do what you are saying, but mostly what we see is people saying that Apple fans will do what you are saying. I am an Apple fan, but I'm not happy with the approach they are taking with the iPhone and iPod touch. Which isn't to say I wouldn't buy one (in fact I'm getting a touch - I can't afford a $60 per month phone bill, so no iPhone for me). They are still great devices, but the restrictions are irritating and a bit disheartening. Still, they are pretty fantastic devices anyway. I hope that, with time, Apple will open the things up, but for now you do have to decide if the devices, as delivered, are adequate. For me, the touch is still pretty damn nice (and if I could afford $60 per month, I probably would get an iPhone.) Yeah, I'd like the touch to have more capacity, but I'll manage. I'd like it to have the Maps and Mail apps, but I can live without them. If hackers manage to make those apps work on the touch, or provide good substitutes, I'll be hacking them into place (as long as their is a way to revert back to stock if needed.)
Once my Laser printer cancer is found I'm going to sue the pants off of Microsoft. Their web servers fuel the pages that get printed on the HP Laser printer perhaps only 8 feet from my desk, and the more web sites served by IIS, the more Microsoft sponsored laser printing particles end up inside me. I mean, it's bad enough to be killed by legitimately printed documentation for a project, but to be killed by articles from Vanity Fair is something all together different.
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The scientists have since discovered that their initial findings were incorrect - adding lime to the sea does not reduce CO2. However, they do reiterate that it adds a bit of zing to a grilled tuna.
"It's a bit like trying to exercise in a room when the gym is full of smokers."
It's even worse when they are smoking.
Invade!
...are strong evidence that underground homebrew developers don't know what to do other than to make emulators and ports of Doom and Quake. Creating (or porting) an NES emulator to the button-less iPhone? The emulators are impossible to play. The only thing you can do with them is show it to someone and say, "look how much free time I have."
... going to make something other then emulators and ports of Doom/Quake/Etc?
Which is my point. Steve said he had successfully made the iPhone "more affordable". I don't think he can make that claim as long as plans cost $60 per month or more. The difference in the cost now is either quite negligible, or, if unlimited data now costs an extra $10 per month as has been claimed on engadget, then he's succeeded in making it LESS affordable, not more affordable.
I can afford the iPhone itself. In fact, I could afford the old $399 iPhone. What I can't afford is over $60 per month for the minimum plan (over $60 when you add in the various fees they tack on for fun). If they offered a $30 per month plan I would probably buy one. If they had a $20 plan, I'd be buying one now. I don't need a lot of talk time. In fact, I'd be willing to pay for every call as I so rarely make calls. I just want the unlimited data. Hell, give me no voice calls at all, no SMS, just data and I'll use my pay-as-you-go phone for the extremely infrequent calls I need to make with it.
I agree. The Community Choice Award is the most likely to be shut down by the government.
The specs list ethernet, but no mention of wifi? If it doesn't have built-in wifi, I don't see how it can compete with the Eee PC
Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, Alladin, etc, look and play fantastic. NES games, on the other hand, are hard to take these days. They are great, but only in nostalgic recollection. Who really wants to play Super Mario Bros. without games saves? It's more fun to play the SNES update in Super Mario All Stars. On the other hand, Playstation games don't hold up as well even though they are newer, because they come across as, for the most part, weak versions of Playstation 2 games. SNES games seem entirely different from any current or just previous generation console. So I vote for the SNES. It's stood the test of time.
Anyone who thinks abortion should be criminalized is a crazed far right-wing nut job religious fanatic!
Something that many don't realize about the iPhone/iPod touch's virtual keyboard is that it corrects *before* you type as well. That is, if you type TR it knows that the next letter isn't likely to be, for example, S, so if your finger is a bit too far off to the right of A, intended as part of TRAIN, it will still register as A because it expands the area that will register as A and decreases the area that will register as S, since that is much more likely to be what you meant.
It works much better on my iPod touch. For one I automatically get mobile view instead of defaulting to (an extremely slow to load) full html view, and now there is a "basic html" option, which works a lot faster than how the full html view worked before. The full html view is no longer available, though.
... it isn't available anywhere, or hardly anywhere. Perhaps they should concentrate on expanding coverage rather than upping the speeds available to a very select few?
... you get piracy. We have a modchip in our Gamecube and primarily (by far) it is used for homebrew, backups of our purchased games (sorry, but I do think I should be allowed to backup our purchased games), and to play games from other regions (region-coding is extremely irritating and stupid - why make it hard for us to buy and play games we want to play?) Have I ever downloaded a game ("pirated")? Yes, I have. I've only done it a handful of times, and have always ended up tossing it out (or buying the game), but none-the-less, when the possibility is there, you're bound to try it at some point. And some will continue to do it and won't toss out their pirated games.
If Nintendo et. al. provided a means for backing up games, free tools for developing and running homebrew (or for a very nominal fee), and eliminated region-coding, then modchips wouldn't be necessary for these legitimate purposes, and there wouldn't be the temptation to try pirating games at all. They choose not to provide these things. Wouldn't it be easier and less costly to them to provide this stuff? It would also make customers happy.
How do I order the "new black is the new white" color?
There are some Apple fans who do what you are saying, but mostly what we see is people saying that Apple fans will do what you are saying. I am an Apple fan, but I'm not happy with the approach they are taking with the iPhone and iPod touch. Which isn't to say I wouldn't buy one (in fact I'm getting a touch - I can't afford a $60 per month phone bill, so no iPhone for me). They are still great devices, but the restrictions are irritating and a bit disheartening. Still, they are pretty fantastic devices anyway. I hope that, with time, Apple will open the things up, but for now you do have to decide if the devices, as delivered, are adequate. For me, the touch is still pretty damn nice (and if I could afford $60 per month, I probably would get an iPhone.) Yeah, I'd like the touch to have more capacity, but I'll manage. I'd like it to have the Maps and Mail apps, but I can live without them. If hackers manage to make those apps work on the touch, or provide good substitutes, I'll be hacking them into place (as long as their is a way to revert back to stock if needed.)
It wasn't turning up anything exciting anyway.
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Once my Laser printer cancer is found I'm going to sue the pants off of Microsoft. Their web servers fuel the pages that get printed on the HP Laser printer perhaps only 8 feet from my desk, and the more web sites served by IIS, the more Microsoft sponsored laser printing particles end up inside me. I mean, it's bad enough to be killed by legitimately printed documentation for a project, but to be killed by articles from Vanity Fair is something all together different.
wump in the box
YouTube Video Strip-Searching is due in January '08
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Uh, no, VoIP sounds horrible too. You need to get a different landline phone, perhaps.
I have never heard a cellphone that sounded anywhere near as good as even a cheap landline phone.