I'll second this. Get an old brickphone like the Nokia 3595 and a tmobile prepaid card (you can find both on ebay for very cheap) and she'll be golden.
The theatre I saw Transformers at wasn't showing it on film. How long do you think it'll be before we start seeing scene releases ripped from the theatre's own digital distribution system?
Let's not forget the massive influx of people there will be at t-mobile hotspots, which they can then tout as huge number gains to stockholders/investors and market to other retail locations for new licensing~
I helped my brother pick up a new laptop from Dell, this was before they started offering XP on machines again. We were both initially worried about him having to run vista but after cleaning up the OEM crapware and installing the latest drivers for his video card, he's had zero problems. He loves it.
Will I be moving to vista, personally? Probably not. Does it simply not work? Of course not.
What is going to end up happening, is all the companies who make the hardware will simply give the software that uses that hardware away fore next to nothing or free.
The funny thing is, I think that console makers (which MS recently became, mmmm) are going to be the ones at the bleeding edge of this idea. They're already half-way there now. My friends are running xboxes for shows, movies, and even my non-tech-savvy friends use Wiis for youtube, weather and news.
support agreements.
xbox live?
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Systems companies have died many times over and I'm not sure they'll come back in the consumer market before set-top boxes or cheap all-in-"wonders" take over. Apple is, argueably, the only consumer systems company left and even they've dumped heavy dollars and time in to stuff like the iPhone, and apple tv.
OTOH, convergence has been a long time coming and every year we hear the death knells of traditional computing and commerce. It hasn't happened yet.
Compression is a necessary part of recording because it's not always related to headroom or loudness... probably not even usually related. The master limiter, digital or otherwise, is a compresser, yes, and you could get away without using one after mixdown. However, unless you're recording folk or maybe bluegrass, I think you're going to be hard pressed to not reach for a compressor. The machine and the act are neither good nor bad, they're only tools, take it to extremes and you take it to extremes, just like anything else.
Apple killed the midrange desktop. Having to drop two large just to get to a machine I can put an expansion card in is ridiculous. I still use my old machines, my powerbook is still my MIDI programmer/librarian, my G4 still tracks audio BUT the last two all-around workstations I've bought have been PCs. If they came out with a quicksilver-ish form factor and stuck a single c2d in it, I'd be all over it.
I'm really excited about even the things you can do with windows mobile but the trade-offs in battery life for "modern" niceities are too great, I think. Wifi and VGA and VNC/radmin/SSH/foo in your hand are all great but not if the thing clunks out and needs recharging half-way through the day.
I started with a Pilot, moved to a III. I flirted with wince devices for a while and have now come back home to the IIIxe. When it breaks, I'll buy another one, they're cheap and plentiful. It doesn't play movies, mp3s or emulators but that's what computers are for.
The HP LXes were better than both, imo. The first beat the newton by few years, I believe. I really wish that form factor didn't stagnate and then die.
Nice. I bet next time someone hits you, you run off the road and get killed. You'll really show them then. Driving like an asshole to stop asshole driving doesn't make sense. Trust me, I live in Massachusetts.
I miss subnotebooks of any type. Japan's the only place that gets the goods these days. Even the smallish 12 and 13" models coming out here are widescreen! Ridiculous!
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I'll second this.
Get an old brickphone like the Nokia 3595 and a tmobile prepaid card (you can find both on ebay for very cheap) and she'll be golden.
He probably just wanted to say "ur doin it wrong" in a nice way.
More like white is the new yellow.
The theatre I saw Transformers at wasn't showing it on film.
How long do you think it'll be before we start seeing scene releases ripped from the theatre's own digital distribution system?
Let's not forget the massive influx of people there will be at t-mobile hotspots, which they can then tout as huge number gains to stockholders/investors and market to other retail locations for new licensing~
Pirates - Making commercial software better than stock since 1979
Hopefully they will be in a fashioned language or non-native language.
I wouldn't mind bringing Firefox to bare in Russian.
I helped my brother pick up a new laptop from Dell, this was before they started offering XP on machines again. We were both initially worried about him having to run vista but after cleaning up the OEM crapware and installing the latest drivers for his video card, he's had zero problems. He loves it.
Will I be moving to vista, personally? Probably not.
Does it simply not work? Of course not.
Illegal in Canada is fine too.
The funny thing is, I think that console makers (which MS recently became, mmmm) are going to be the ones at the bleeding edge of this idea. They're already half-way there now. My friends are running xboxes for shows, movies, and even my non-tech-savvy friends use Wiis for youtube, weather and news.
xbox live?
Systems companies have died many times over and I'm not sure they'll come back in the consumer market before set-top boxes or cheap all-in-"wonders" take over. Apple is, argueably, the only consumer systems company left and even they've dumped heavy dollars and time in to stuff like the iPhone, and apple tv.
OTOH, convergence has been a long time coming and every year we hear the death knells of traditional computing and commerce. It hasn't happened yet.
Compression is a necessary part of recording because it's not always related to headroom or loudness... probably not even usually related.
The master limiter, digital or otherwise, is a compresser, yes, and you could get away without using one after mixdown. However, unless you're recording folk or maybe bluegrass, I think you're going to be hard pressed to not reach for a compressor.
The machine and the act are neither good nor bad, they're only tools, take it to extremes and you take it to extremes, just like anything else.
Apple killed the midrange desktop. Having to drop two large just to get to a machine I can put an expansion card in is ridiculous.
I still use my old machines, my powerbook is still my MIDI programmer/librarian, my G4 still tracks audio BUT the last two all-around workstations I've bought have been PCs.
If they came out with a quicksilver-ish form factor and stuck a single c2d in it, I'd be all over it.
To continue the always-popular vehicle analogy-
If photoshop is a 747, gimp wouldn't be a cessna, it would be a rutan long-ez.
It's an unfair analogy, the GIMP isn't economical or easy to drive.
You do know where you are, right?
I'm really excited about even the things you can do with windows mobile but the trade-offs in battery life for "modern" niceities are too great, I think. Wifi and VGA and VNC/radmin/SSH/foo in your hand are all great but not if the thing clunks out and needs recharging half-way through the day.
I started with a Pilot, moved to a III. I flirted with wince devices for a while and have now come back home to the IIIxe. When it breaks, I'll buy another one, they're cheap and plentiful.
It doesn't play movies, mp3s or emulators but that's what computers are for.
The tactics are tried and proven, too. "Wait for Itanium" worked great at helping to kill Alpha and DEC.
Context, my friend.
If you're running IE in NT for Alpha, you've got more problems than Firefox getting bloaty.
I've been told up and down how percolation is the worst way to make coffee and I don't get it. It's always my favourite.
The HP LXes were better than both, imo. The first beat the newton by few years, I believe.
I really wish that form factor didn't stagnate and then die.
Nice. I bet next time someone hits you, you run off the road and get killed. You'll really show them then.
Driving like an asshole to stop asshole driving doesn't make sense. Trust me, I live in Massachusetts.
What about the cost of bailing out MAGTrak every couple years because no one uses trains?
I miss subnotebooks of any type. Japan's the only place that gets the goods these days. Even the smallish 12 and 13" models coming out here are widescreen! Ridiculous!