for graphics, yes. but for that other stuff... Sound takes up a lot of space, as does the map itself.
Plus another 512 of ram right now is cheaper than a 256MB DDR2 card:P
Although my newfound employee discount at CompUSA should change that...:P
Doom 3 and other games... keeps it from paging out memory. Also I do run Virtual PC (Solaris, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Fedora) and on occasion if I'm using files that I use a lot and need fast access I make a ram disk.
and when some dipshit convinces the dean that (bootleg) anime counts for "Asian Studies"? You have any idea how hard it is not to laugh in that dean's face?
(Supervisor for ResNet at my school)
because Rutgers girls put out? New Brunswick bars are fantastic? Because the chance of being drunk off your ass only to turn around and see McCormick, the University president drunk right along with you at the party?:P
you're assuming the typical "schlub" municipal employee is going to be doing this stuff. I've yet to see a municipality that's done this and didnt have a small group of IT specialists running the show, answering to whoever. A friend of mine is actually currently setting up such a network, and the most dificult thing seems to be getting Verizon to stop playing the "shell game" with their T1s
Java driver development!?
I was pretty sure Java couldn't TOUCH hardware... At least, thats what I ran into coding something that needed the MAC address of the machine it was running on...
On top of what the other poster said, lots of times (in older phones) they've actually locked the firmware to their service. When I got T-Mobile (the most "standards compliant" service here in the states, GSM wise) my Nokia 3650 (I love this phone) could only go on T-Mobile's service. Now, the 3650 can do 900/1200/1800 if I'm not mistaken, meaning it can pretty much hit any GSM service out there (even in Europe, or at least they told me when I was considering a trip to EU) but after using a nifty lil prgram and giving it my IMEI number, it gave me an unlock code and tadah unlocked phone. Now I can just get a SIM when I'm over there and I dont have to pay out the ass for T-mobiles asstoundingly "world-wide" pricing plans...
I find that the default color callibration settings Apple uses makes it looks soft. After tweaking a few settings, I have yet to see that "dim", "washed out" or "soft" display... the only time I have a problem is when I'm sitting in a poorly lit classroom (UNIX lab) the ambient light sensors take it upon themselves to dim the screen and light up the keyboard...
This on a 15" Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz, and while being slightly disappointing in it's low res my original 550Mhz Titanium G4's screen is still nice and bright.
however, this isn't alwayas true as I bought the Rev . B Powerbook Titanium G4 (550Mhz). It was the worst performing powerbook g4 ever. the 500Mhz with a 100Mhz bus speed was faster than a 550Mhz with a 133 bus speed. The Powerbook G4 wasn't fully realized until it hit the Aluminum series. I never liked the hinges of the titanium. It all seemed too fragile... My 1.25Ghz AlBook feels like it could stop a truck...
it DOES have a wall plug. A small (by my estimate: 1.5 inch x 1.5 inch) square that plugs into the wall (and resembles their laptop power bricks, even has the removable wall plug for extension/international plugs) and has a USB port on the other side (just like the one I got with my 15GB iPod, just that one has a firewire port.).
It's there, open a box and look at it before you bitch.
yes, but I dont want a shitty ass antenna fucking up my portable desktop (oh, whats that? Your Dell isn't a hair under 3 pounds and smaller than a stack of jewel cases?) blow me ass hats. For the portability and internal antennas, it's worth every cent. Do you bitch because laptops are more expensive per performance than desktops? No? This is a laptop with desktop packaging. Shit happens. Deal.
300 Text Messages (in and outgoing) $2.99 a month. Unlimited Text Messages $10 a month.
How is that bankrupting? If the kid prefers text messages, cut back on the voice plan a bit and add unlimited. Now you're not paying anymore, and lil texting Timmy is happy, and parents aren't taking out loans so he can send "omg lol! 2funny" to his friends at the mall.
You're right about the CDMA phones being locked to their carriers, although I've heard a little blurb here and there about how in theory they could interoperate. GSM DOES have the capability of being multi-carrier, but in the US the carriers lock the software to their service. However, these are usually bypassable by either A) buy a european/asian GSM phone and just buying a SIM from the carriers, or B) using software found online to get the unlock code for the phone (usually an algorithm based on the IMEI number) which you enter in and *wham* multi-carrier phone. I'm planning on a European tripto Europe in the next year, so I unlocked my Nokia 3650 (T-Mobile) so when I'm over there I'll just buy a prepaid SIM that has so many minutes and I'll still have my phone.
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iCal has been improved a LOT and Mail is slicker than ever. Hate to say it but Mail whips Thunderbird's ass.
for graphics, yes. but for that other stuff... Sound takes up a lot of space, as does the map itself. Plus another 512 of ram right now is cheaper than a 256MB DDR2 card :P
Although my newfound employee discount at CompUSA should change that... :P
Doom 3 and other games... keeps it from paging out memory. Also I do run Virtual PC (Solaris, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Fedora) and on occasion if I'm using files that I use a lot and need fast access I make a ram disk.
something tells me the guy who wrote that is a champ at "5 Degrees from Kevin Bacon" :P
Wroooooong.
*running a WinXP Home box, checks "System Info" 1.5GB RAM*
If you listen closely, you can almost hear the echo of you talking out your ass
and when some dipshit convinces the dean that (bootleg) anime counts for "Asian Studies"? You have any idea how hard it is not to laugh in that dean's face? (Supervisor for ResNet at my school)
it was called the NGage. You didn't buy it.
because Rutgers girls put out? New Brunswick bars are fantastic? Because the chance of being drunk off your ass only to turn around and see McCormick, the University president drunk right along with you at the party? :P
ehhhhh wrong. Apple has their own lossless codec, Thats why. They don't want to support a competing lossless codec.
clearly a man who hasn't used IIS and MS-SQL :P
I keed.
(not really)
you're assuming the typical "schlub" municipal employee is going to be doing this stuff. I've yet to see a municipality that's done this and didnt have a small group of IT specialists running the show, answering to whoever. A friend of mine is actually currently setting up such a network, and the most dificult thing seems to be getting Verizon to stop playing the "shell game" with their T1s
Java driver development!? I was pretty sure Java couldn't TOUCH hardware... At least, thats what I ran into coding something that needed the MAC address of the machine it was running on...
On top of what the other poster said, lots of times (in older phones) they've actually locked the firmware to their service. When I got T-Mobile (the most "standards compliant" service here in the states, GSM wise) my Nokia 3650 (I love this phone) could only go on T-Mobile's service. Now, the 3650 can do 900/1200/1800 if I'm not mistaken, meaning it can pretty much hit any GSM service out there (even in Europe, or at least they told me when I was considering a trip to EU) but after using a nifty lil prgram and giving it my IMEI number, it gave me an unlock code and tadah unlocked phone. Now I can just get a SIM when I'm over there and I dont have to pay out the ass for T-mobiles asstoundingly "world-wide" pricing plans...
I find that the default color callibration settings Apple uses makes it looks soft. After tweaking a few settings, I have yet to see that "dim", "washed out" or "soft" display... the only time I have a problem is when I'm sitting in a poorly lit classroom (UNIX lab) the ambient light sensors take it upon themselves to dim the screen and light up the keyboard... This on a 15" Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz, and while being slightly disappointing in it's low res my original 550Mhz Titanium G4's screen is still nice and bright.
however, this isn't alwayas true as I bought the Rev . B Powerbook Titanium G4 (550Mhz). It was the worst performing powerbook g4 ever. the 500Mhz with a 100Mhz bus speed was faster than a 550Mhz with a 133 bus speed. The Powerbook G4 wasn't fully realized until it hit the Aluminum series. I never liked the hinges of the titanium. It all seemed too fragile... My 1.25Ghz AlBook feels like it could stop a truck...
it DOES have a wall plug. A small (by my estimate: 1.5 inch x 1.5 inch) square that plugs into the wall (and resembles their laptop power bricks, even has the removable wall plug for extension/international plugs) and has a USB port on the other side (just like the one I got with my 15GB iPod, just that one has a firewire port.).
It's there, open a box and look at it before you bitch.
yes, but I dont want a shitty ass antenna fucking up my portable desktop (oh, whats that? Your Dell isn't a hair under 3 pounds and smaller than a stack of jewel cases?) blow me ass hats. For the portability and internal antennas, it's worth every cent. Do you bitch because laptops are more expensive per performance than desktops? No? This is a laptop with desktop packaging. Shit happens. Deal.
Wow... this is nuts...
I just added more text messages to my plan...
300 Text Messages (in and outgoing) $2.99 a month.
Unlimited Text Messages $10 a month.
How is that bankrupting? If the kid prefers text messages, cut back on the voice plan a bit and add unlimited. Now you're not paying anymore, and lil texting Timmy is happy, and parents aren't taking out loans so he can send "omg lol! 2funny" to his friends at the mall.
err "A European Trip to Europe"... thanks stream of thought and trying to talk to someone while typing a response... be gentile :P
You're right about the CDMA phones being locked to their carriers, although I've heard a little blurb here and there about how in theory they could interoperate. GSM DOES have the capability of being multi-carrier, but in the US the carriers lock the software to their service. However, these are usually bypassable by either A) buy a european/asian GSM phone and just buying a SIM from the carriers, or B) using software found online to get the unlock code for the phone (usually an algorithm based on the IMEI number) which you enter in and *wham* multi-carrier phone. I'm planning on a European tripto Europe in the next year, so I unlocked my Nokia 3650 (T-Mobile) so when I'm over there I'll just buy a prepaid SIM that has so many minutes and I'll still have my phone.
meh, it just means I get to bitchslap anyone who tries this out of the university :)
real men use the terminal and use lynx and wget! :P
teach em in a faraday cage. That'll stop the little fuckers from cheating. :)
I thought this was for governor, not a representative...
Apple wrote an apache module for Rendezvous using their implementation.