For me, I wanted a bluetooth phone for 2 reasons...
1) My PDA supports it and uses the phone as a modem to get onto the internet. You can't overstate the value of not needing to bring a laptop on business trips. 2) My car supports bluetooth. And a lot more cars do these days. I get an incoming call, the radio turns off and I get a notice on the information center. A press of the button, and I hear audio over my stereo, and I'm talking via a mic in the roof. It doesn't get easier than that.
The catch? You have to connect it to a Pocket PC with both USB Host capability and WiFi first, but once it's up and running you can wirelessly swap tunes with any other similarly equipped iPods.
What are the odds that 2 out of the 14 people who actually buy and use this device will be in range of each other.
Show me a link where I can buy the software and use it with SuSE. I don't want to go buy turbolinux... just the software please... Oddly enough, I only see a windows version available on their page.
Oh wait. You can't do that. So yeah, I'm not going to run out and embrace them. I know, silly isn't it... I just want to buy the software, not a bundle of stuff I don't need.
Sorry to jump in so late... but in my experience it's just the opposite.
I worked retail for 4 years while I was in college, and I noticed that most of the people who pulled off scams (obviously deliberately broken merchandise, "rentals", boomerangs) tended to be what you'd consider affluent people.
I expect the guy in the picture to turn to another soldier and say something like...
"There's something very important I forgot to tell you. Don't cross the streams. It would be bad, very bad"
Right... but at that price point you run into the Zire 72 which has a superior camera and Bluetooth (which, IMO, is far more useful on a handheld than wifi).
I was always amazed at the number of Clies that would come out every 6 months. Compare that with PalmOne, which only seems to release 2 new units every 6 months, and discounts the older units to move them along.
Sony also never seemed to hit that low end that Palm dominates. The Zire line (21 and 31) are cheap, and Palm utterly dominates the sub 150 market. Sony's sub 200 units had been pretty poor.
It's not a subsidy per se, but by providing the deduction there is incentive to buy the more expensive vehicle. The automotive manufacturers stand to profit from that, and the oil industry also makes out.
I love the way people throw around that "green" label like it's a curse or a stigma.
I'm a green kinda guy. I like my outdoors. I recycle. I don't drive a 12mpg SUV that spews pollutants. I do support nuclear power. Hell, set up a nuclear power plant here in my town, it's much cleaner than the alternatives. I don't support population rollback or any nonsense you seem to think I might support.
I don't know where you get your ideas from, but you should venture out from the rock you live under more often.
I think, we the taxpayers, are also paying at least 15K in subsidies for every Hummer sold (Actually, every SUV over 7,000 lbs I believe, but let's attach a brand to that tax evil).
Without that little break, do you think those 12mpg behemoths would be as popular as they are? Or would people go for mid sized suvs that might get 18-22mpg? So isn't the government kind of subsidizing the oil industry indirectly there?
If by technological fixes for sociological problems you mean "making things as easy as possible to fix so that when you've got an outage at 3am, as few clients as possible are disrupted by it" then... yeah, that's what I mean.
So to redirect this, you've never worked in a corporate environment where the support people who are on site at 3am are about as comfortable with a command prompt as you are with the idea of being woken up at 3am.
It's in your best interest to make sure all your utilities are graphical (in our case, Swing) based and that those support people can easily run them.
Please don't paint all environmentalists with one big brush!
I like to consider myself a "green" kinda guy. I recycle, don't drive a SUV, etc. However, that said, bring on the nuclear power plants (provided we can properly secure them from whoever may want to crash a small plane into them... another story tho). Nuclear power is much cleaner than coal power, and the waste, while icky, isn't produced in huge quantities.
Some environmentalists will agree with me, some will disagree. But don't paint everyone with the same label. That'd be like me saying that most republicans are christian conservatives who want to turn the United States into a Christian version of Iran.
Imagine if the infield had Desi Relaford and Marlon Andersen (no offense, I think Marlon's a really nice guy), and Jason Giambia playing SS/2B/1B. Your chances of a perfect game with those infielders just disappeared.
Conversely, if you had players like Rolen, someone simlilar to Brogna in his prime, and a Ordonez quality defensive shortstop, you'd have a better chance.
By using Hotmail, and perhaps MSN Messenger (I don't personally use it, so I don't know), you are creating revenue for Microsoft. Those products do display ads, and ads generate revenue.
Out of curiosity, is Yahoo Mail as popular? How about AIM or ICQ for instant messenging? Are PDAs popular at all?
but none are really threatening the saftey of the driver/passengers
You try driving on the NJ parkway without brake lights and see how safe you feel. What's worse is, it was really hard to tell that they weren't working, because it was an intermittent problem. Sometimes they would work fine, other times they wouldn't come on at all.
Second, my Jetta was in the neighborhood of 24K. Call me silly, but for that much money I expect some basic things... like the windows shouldn't fall into the body of the car on hot days.
I'll grant, it goes like a bat out of hell. It hangs on the corners great. But when you've got to get to work on a regular basis, and the car needs more shop time than it should, it starts to irritate the hell out of you.
I have a VW Jetta now, which is the cousin to the Golf. Same platform, different body.
You probably already know the car is complete and utter crap. Between failing window regulators, broken brake light sensors (check your mail for the recall notice, just got mine), bad ignition coils (not an issue for you diesel folks), bad airflow sensors, etc. it's the worst car you can buy for your money.
I currently have a Jetta 1.8T, which I'm trading in for a '04 Prius. Reason: Space. I'm 6'1 and I consider the Jetta to be okay, but a bit cramped. The Prius seems huge in comparison.
It's not so much the legroom (both cars have plenty) it's the headroom (the Prius kills the Jetta here) and the rear seat room. Asking anyone to spend more than a few minutes in the back of the Jetta, especially behind a taller driver, is an easy way to make them horribly uncomfortable and cranky.
My old company, MarketSource, used to run this website called Ontap.com, which was billed as "the place where college students live online". (Yeah, I know that if you go there now it's a liquor distributor or somesuch, which is actually closer to what college students actually do, but I digress..)
Anyhow, the management had this notion that they could pay for everything with online advertising. Who wouldn't want to run ads aimed at the very lucrative college crowd? And we were paid per ad impression!
Of course, the money coming in wasn't as much as was hoped for by management. Trouble was, nobody was visiting the site. So someone came up with the bright idea of refreshing ads every 30 seconds or so. Which also led to the plea from management to "leave your computer on 24/7 with your browser opened to our site". Kinda like using a thimble to bail out the Titanic, but hey....
This also led to discussion where management would say things like, "We need to make X new feature as complicated as possible... instead of doing it in 3 pages, let's do it in 7 cos then we'll serve more ads".
The only good thing that ever came out of that site was the fact we sent a famous midget (Verne Troyer) off to some 17 year old girl's prom. I hope he didn't hump her like he did the laser in APII.
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Yes, you can. You just can't modify it and call it java.
More likely, you'll just turn off "bluetooth discoverability" after you've paired your devices.
For me, I wanted a bluetooth phone for 2 reasons...
1) My PDA supports it and uses the phone as a modem to get onto the internet. You can't overstate the value of not needing to bring a laptop on business trips.
2) My car supports bluetooth. And a lot more cars do these days. I get an incoming call, the radio turns off and I get a notice on the information center. A press of the button, and I hear audio over my stereo, and I'm talking via a mic in the roof. It doesn't get easier than that.
The catch? You have to connect it to a Pocket PC with both USB Host capability and WiFi first, but once it's up and running you can wirelessly swap tunes with any other similarly equipped iPods.
What are the odds that 2 out of the 14 people who actually buy and use this device will be in range of each other.
Great.
Show me a link where I can buy the software and use it with SuSE. I don't want to go buy turbolinux... just the software please... Oddly enough, I only see a windows version available on their page.
Oh wait. You can't do that. So yeah, I'm not going to run out and embrace them. I know, silly isn't it... I just want to buy the software, not a bundle of stuff I don't need.
Sorry to jump in so late... but in my experience it's just the opposite.
I worked retail for 4 years while I was in college, and I noticed that most of the people who pulled off scams (obviously deliberately broken merchandise, "rentals", boomerangs) tended to be what you'd consider affluent people.
I expect the guy in the picture to turn to another soldier and say something like... "There's something very important I forgot to tell you. Don't cross the streams. It would be bad, very bad"
Right... but at that price point you run into the Zire 72 which has a superior camera and Bluetooth (which, IMO, is far more useful on a handheld than wifi).
I'd disagree on that.
Look at the SJ-27 and 37 for example. The 27 retails for ~179 or so, and is solidly beaten by the 199 Tungsten E.
Bingo!
I was always amazed at the number of Clies that would come out every 6 months. Compare that with PalmOne, which only seems to release 2 new units every 6 months, and discounts the older units to move them along.
Sony also never seemed to hit that low end that Palm dominates. The Zire line (21 and 31) are cheap, and Palm utterly dominates the sub 150 market. Sony's sub 200 units had been pretty poor.
Kind of my point tho....
It's not a subsidy per se, but by providing the deduction there is incentive to buy the more expensive vehicle. The automotive manufacturers stand to profit from that, and the oil industry also makes out.
Well.. you could go to this url to check it out...
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http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/whitepapers/SUVtaxb
And I was slightly wrong.. it's 6,000 lbs, not 7,000 lbs. Line them Chevy TrailBlazers up too.
Lord...
I love the way people throw around that "green" label like it's a curse or a stigma.
I'm a green kinda guy. I like my outdoors. I recycle. I don't drive a 12mpg SUV that spews pollutants. I do support nuclear power. Hell, set up a nuclear power plant here in my town, it's much cleaner than the alternatives. I don't support population rollback or any nonsense you seem to think I might support.
I don't know where you get your ideas from, but you should venture out from the rock you live under more often.
I think, we the taxpayers, are also paying at least 15K in subsidies for every Hummer sold (Actually, every SUV over 7,000 lbs I believe, but let's attach a brand to that tax evil).
Without that little break, do you think those 12mpg behemoths would be as popular as they are? Or would people go for mid sized suvs that might get 18-22mpg? So isn't the government kind of subsidizing the oil industry indirectly there?
Actually.. I'm fairly sure my employer will pay twice as much for air conditioning... otherwise, all those computers will die.
Funny? Kinda. Sad? Kinda. True? Absolutely.
If by technological fixes for sociological problems you mean "making things as easy as possible to fix so that when you've got an outage at 3am, as few clients as possible are disrupted by it" then... yeah, that's what I mean.
Enjoy the fantasy life while you can, Bucky.
So to redirect this, you've never worked in a corporate environment where the support people who are on site at 3am are about as comfortable with a command prompt as you are with the idea of being woken up at 3am.
It's in your best interest to make sure all your utilities are graphical (in our case, Swing) based and that those support people can easily run them.
Please don't paint all environmentalists with one big brush!
I like to consider myself a "green" kinda guy. I recycle, don't drive a SUV, etc. However, that said, bring on the nuclear power plants (provided we can properly secure them from whoever may want to crash a small plane into them... another story tho). Nuclear power is much cleaner than coal power, and the waste, while icky, isn't produced in huge quantities.
Some environmentalists will agree with me, some will disagree. But don't paint everyone with the same label. That'd be like me saying that most republicans are christian conservatives who want to turn the United States into a Christian version of Iran.
See how annoying that is?
I'd agree and disagree.
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Imagine if the infield had Desi Relaford and Marlon Andersen (no offense, I think Marlon's a really nice guy), and Jason Giambia playing SS/2B/1B. Your chances of a perfect game with those infielders just disappeared.
Conversely, if you had players like Rolen, someone simlilar to Brogna in his prime, and a Ordonez quality defensive shortstop, you'd have a better chance.
Just my
Ah, but there's a little catch here...
By using Hotmail, and perhaps MSN Messenger (I don't personally use it, so I don't know), you are creating revenue for Microsoft. Those products do display ads, and ads generate revenue.
Out of curiosity, is Yahoo Mail as popular? How about AIM or ICQ for instant messenging? Are PDAs popular at all?
but none are really threatening the saftey of the driver/passengers
You try driving on the NJ parkway without brake lights and see how safe you feel. What's worse is, it was really hard to tell that they weren't working, because it was an intermittent problem. Sometimes they would work fine, other times they wouldn't come on at all.
Second, my Jetta was in the neighborhood of 24K. Call me silly, but for that much money I expect some basic things... like the windows shouldn't fall into the body of the car on hot days.
I'll grant, it goes like a bat out of hell. It hangs on the corners great. But when you've got to get to work on a regular basis, and the car needs more shop time than it should, it starts to irritate the hell out of you.
I have a VW Jetta now, which is the cousin to the Golf. Same platform, different body.
You probably already know the car is complete and utter crap. Between failing window regulators, broken brake light sensors (check your mail for the recall notice, just got mine), bad ignition coils (not an issue for you diesel folks), bad airflow sensors, etc. it's the worst car you can buy for your money.
I'll never buy a VW/Audi product again.
Ah... the Echo...
A lot of people like to compare the Echo to current hybrids because of it's better than average (for an IC only car) milage.
But here's the rub. The Echo is small. Very small. The Civic isn't much bigger, but it is still bigger. And the Prius is nearly Camry sized.
There are very few places you can get 16cu feet of cargo capacity and still get 45mpg (according to the edmund's long term test of the prius).
I currently have a Jetta 1.8T, which I'm trading in for a '04 Prius. Reason: Space. I'm 6'1 and I consider the Jetta to be okay, but a bit cramped. The Prius seems huge in comparison.
It's not so much the legroom (both cars have plenty) it's the headroom (the Prius kills the Jetta here) and the rear seat room. Asking anyone to spend more than a few minutes in the back of the Jetta, especially behind a taller driver, is an easy way to make them horribly uncomfortable and cranky.
My old company, MarketSource, used to run this website called Ontap.com, which was billed as "the place where college students live online". (Yeah, I know that if you go there now it's a liquor distributor or somesuch, which is actually closer to what college students actually do, but I digress..)
Anyhow, the management had this notion that they could pay for everything with online advertising. Who wouldn't want to run ads aimed at the very lucrative college crowd? And we were paid per ad impression!
Of course, the money coming in wasn't as much as was hoped for by management. Trouble was, nobody was visiting the site. So someone came up with the bright idea of refreshing ads every 30 seconds or so. Which also led to the plea from management to "leave your computer on 24/7 with your browser opened to our site". Kinda like using a thimble to bail out the Titanic, but hey....
This also led to discussion where management would say things like, "We need to make X new feature as complicated as possible... instead of doing it in 3 pages, let's do it in 7 cos then we'll serve more ads".
The only good thing that ever came out of that site was the fact we sent a famous midget (Verne Troyer) off to some 17 year old girl's prom. I hope he didn't hump her like he did the laser in APII.