I do generally like MMORPGs, but I found myself uninstalling FFXI and cancelling my subscription in order to make room for my MAME collection (true story).
I'd rather play the classics - I especially like the MegaDrive (it's not a Genesis, silly Americans) versions of Sonic the Hedgehog. I've been meaning to pick up an old console on eBay so I can play them properly again, it was amazing when I saved my money for weeks to buy it back then and it still kicks the ass of many experiences out there. I do love new games too (UT2004, Soul Calibur 2 and the highly innovative Jet Set Radio series) but more often than not the simple elegance of a well done old game will win out.
Why is it that computers remove the common sense of perfectly intelligent people?
I know people who would happliy email their bank details despite the fact that they would not snail mail them to an untrusted source in a million years. Just becuase they don't understand something doesn't mean that they can forget basic sense, so why does it happen so often?
That's a helluva price to pay for service - I just worked out that 2.5TB of ECC RAM from the shop I work at would cost $319,479.82 without even using a bulk discount so you're paying $4.4million for the hardware linking it together (which can't cost more than a mill) leaving at least $3.5 million to have an engineer with a few spare parts on call. I'd take a job that pays like that any day.
Good point, but it's made redundant by the fact that Galileo was silenced in his time anyway. If the fact were that Wikipedia would censor something otherwise published then your point is fair, but instead it would censor something that was censored anyway.
Also modern society is much more diverse in ideas. While many subjects are taboo, the likelihood is there will be people open minded enough to accept people think differently to them and leave the articles as they are.
P900s do not cost twice as much, they're about GBP450 compared to GBP330 for the 6600. I own a P900 myself and would not in a million years swap, even if you offered me a 6600 and 200 cash in exchange. I can happily manipulate 640x480 pics in the P900's paint program so I don't know what you mean about it not being fast enough for fullscreen images. The P900 uses a touchscreen and has better software available, which is a very big plus. The one advantage I do see of the 6600 is the standard memory card rather than being tied to Sony memory sticks.
I refer you to my own post here. I paid less including a full years contract with a free phone than the selling price of the handset alone. I have checked all the details and there is no cancellation fee after the year is up and the phone is mine to do as I want with.
I don't even see unlocking as an issue personally. It's so cheap and easy that I just pick up the phone and either generate a code on my computer (free) or get it cable unlocked at work/at the market (~5GPB). It hasn't ever become a problem AFAICS.
They are small, but by no means the smallest (Google for the Panasonic GD55 if you want to see a really small phone). There are 8 different Xelibris available and IIRC the SIM just goes under the battery in them. It was a while ago that I used one but I'm pretty sure it just slides in.
Xelibris are not prototypes and do not have built in SIMs. I've used them infact, they're production models and work just the same as other GSM phones.
I'm well aware of unlocking, providers lock the phones here too and it only costs 10GBP maximum to get them unlocked - the very shop I work in does it. If the parent of my previous post was wrong, then surely my point still stands and you can just sell off the upgrade and switch SIMs?
Ugh, the 7250i is overpriced and horrrible compared to the Sony Ericsson T610. The 7250i has a screen about half the size, 4096 colours compared to 65,000, no bluetooth and poorly designed Nokia keys rather than standard ones. For those priveledges you'll pay at least 20 more for the 7250i.
I do know what I'm talking about - I've used both extensively in the course of my job and the 7250i is only being bought because people have the irrational desire to own a Nokia despite their inferior build quality and specifications. For budget-mid range phones I'll concede that the Nokias aren't bad, 3310 is cheap and solid and the 3100 is an OK colour screen phone for not too much cash. Anything with a camera or a Smartphone you should look to other brands. While Motorollas used to be horrible, the new V300, V525 and V600 are really nice. The Sony smartphones (P800/900) are amazing pieces of kit and if you can afford one you should jump at it.
It all makes sense now! I never knew US phones didn't always need a SIM. Here in the UK you always have a SIM and the handset (normally included unless you go for Pay as you Go) is yours to do what you want with. The networks are so competetive you can often sell your free upgrade and make more than the year's contract cost. The phone I have was selling for ~450GBP on eBay when I got it, but the contract including the free phone and all the SMS/MMS/Minutes/GPRS that I need only cost 300GBP for the whole year.
I may be ignorant, but don't you own the phone your provider gives you? If you take out a contract and get Phone A free, then a year later they give you Phone B as an 'upgrade' aren't Phones A and B both your property meaning that you can use the SIM card in Phone A and just eBay Phone B?
In the shop I work in we demo projectors regularly. 1000 lumens can be seen adequately when projected through a sheet of perspex onto a blue wall in full indoor lighting. On a proper white screen with the lights dimmed 700 lumens should be fine. Even better for lumen-optimisation is using it to project onto a sheet of paper from behind - looks like a nice flatscreen TV, very portable and doesn't depend on light conditions nearly so much.
If I were buying a proper projector for home cinema I'd go for 1900+ but something cheap and portable to show up charts or a slideshow of my graphic work would work fine with 700.
I use an Epson 880 too, and I just about print enough to use up the ink before it dries out. The mistake you are making, however, is buying official cartridges. I use Jet-Tec ink cartridges and they are ~9GBP for a pack of 2 black or ~11GBP for 2 colour (in US terms that's about $10 per cartridge maximum). The quality is slightly lower but it's pretty damn good on photo paper when neccesary, and the rest of the time I'm just printing documents or posters.
How did he manage to rack up $300k in that time? 3.5mill/month isn't an enormous amount of traffic and hosting packages with hundreds of GBs of bandwidth are relatively cheap.
The worst comapny for making you shell out on memory are Sony. On average a Sony MS Duo is twice the price of a comparably sized SD or MMC card, and offers no real benefit AFAICS. Even worse, they change things within their own format meaning that 95% of existing devices can only use Duo standard cards (which aren't released larger than 128MB) so if you want 256 or 512 you need a Duo Pro compatible device.
In case you can't tell, I'm not happy that they crippled my P900 to only use Duo standard. I understand that they want to make money rather than being SD compatible, but what possible reason could there be for not letting it use Duo pros?
If you're going down that line of election rigging, you don't even need to break the tape. Just walk past the machines with a fair size magnet and you should do a good job of frying/invalidating the screens and/or memory.
Don't mod this funny BTW, I'm deadly serious and AFAICS it's quite possible.
They're big Linux users, so they obviously believe it's good for some things at least. They also have such a large userbase that this service could conceivably dent Windows' market share if advertised properly on the front page. They have such an enormous backend cluster that it should survive, and they could subsidise more servers by showing adverts during the download.
You can easily fry phones this way too - a power outage during a firmware upgrade on a phone can easily kill it, and when it's a top of the range device that's a lot of money.
On most Nokia Symbian60 phones even the factory reset can kill them. If you select 'Clear all' from the menu you'll be OK, but there's also the industrial strength reset code ( *#7370# if anyone is interested) that I think reinstalls the OS from the internal memory and wipes everything in the process. If the battery dies or the user touches the on off switch during the process (which can take up to 15 mins) it doesn't install and your only hope is to have it reflashed by the manufacturer. This is why we generally don't tell customers the code.
If there is a chip that can monitor what you think and those thoughts can be transmitted over a network then someone with a reciever chip could see what you are thinking.
If you read 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter you'll get a good insight into the possible consequences. While the book is centred around the idea that wormholes can be used to view anyone at any time, knowing what people think would have the same effect of first causing terrible unrest but eventually destroying barriers and allowing everyone to work together. It's a very interesting read and I feel that every day we get closer to that reality.
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I do generally like MMORPGs, but I found myself uninstalling FFXI and cancelling my subscription in order to make room for my MAME collection (true story).
I'd rather play the classics - I especially like the MegaDrive (it's not a Genesis, silly Americans) versions of Sonic the Hedgehog. I've been meaning to pick up an old console on eBay so I can play them properly again, it was amazing when I saved my money for weeks to buy it back then and it still kicks the ass of many experiences out there. I do love new games too (UT2004, Soul Calibur 2 and the highly innovative Jet Set Radio series) but more often than not the simple elegance of a well done old game will win out.
Why is it that computers remove the common sense of perfectly intelligent people?
I know people who would happliy email their bank details despite the fact that they would not snail mail them to an untrusted source in a million years. Just becuase they don't understand something doesn't mean that they can forget basic sense, so why does it happen so often?
That's a helluva price to pay for service - I just worked out that 2.5TB of ECC RAM from the shop I work at would cost $319,479.82 without even using a bulk discount so you're paying $4.4million for the hardware linking it together (which can't cost more than a mill) leaving at least $3.5 million to have an engineer with a few spare parts on call. I'd take a job that pays like that any day.
Good point, but it's made redundant by the fact that Galileo was silenced in his time anyway. If the fact were that Wikipedia would censor something otherwise published then your point is fair, but instead it would censor something that was censored anyway.
Also modern society is much more diverse in ideas. While many subjects are taboo, the likelihood is there will be people open minded enough to accept people think differently to them and leave the articles as they are.
P900s do not cost twice as much, they're about GBP450 compared to GBP330 for the 6600. I own a P900 myself and would not in a million years swap, even if you offered me a 6600 and 200 cash in exchange. I can happily manipulate 640x480 pics in the P900's paint program so I don't know what you mean about it not being fast enough for fullscreen images. The P900 uses a touchscreen and has better software available, which is a very big plus. The one advantage I do see of the 6600 is the standard memory card rather than being tied to Sony memory sticks.
I refer you to my own post here. I paid less including a full years contract with a free phone than the selling price of the handset alone. I have checked all the details and there is no cancellation fee after the year is up and the phone is mine to do as I want with.
Google for smartDCT4calc. It's paid software, but it's cheap and once you've paid you can unlock many different phones that you might buy.
I don't even see unlocking as an issue personally. It's so cheap and easy that I just pick up the phone and either generate a code on my computer (free) or get it cable unlocked at work/at the market (~5GPB). It hasn't ever become a problem AFAICS.
They are small, but by no means the smallest (Google for the Panasonic GD55 if you want to see a really small phone). There are 8 different Xelibris available and IIRC the SIM just goes under the battery in them. It was a while ago that I used one but I'm pretty sure it just slides in.
Xelibris are not prototypes and do not have built in SIMs. I've used them infact, they're production models and work just the same as other GSM phones.
I'm well aware of unlocking, providers lock the phones here too and it only costs 10GBP maximum to get them unlocked - the very shop I work in does it. If the parent of my previous post was wrong, then surely my point still stands and you can just sell off the upgrade and switch SIMs?
That's only Nokia. The other brands have been consistently innovating and improving with the greatest percentage of their range.
Ugh, the 7250i is overpriced and horrrible compared to the Sony Ericsson T610. The 7250i has a screen about half the size, 4096 colours compared to 65,000, no bluetooth and poorly designed Nokia keys rather than standard ones. For those priveledges you'll pay at least 20 more for the 7250i.
I do know what I'm talking about - I've used both extensively in the course of my job and the 7250i is only being bought because people have the irrational desire to own a Nokia despite their inferior build quality and specifications. For budget-mid range phones I'll concede that the Nokias aren't bad, 3310 is cheap and solid and the 3100 is an OK colour screen phone for not too much cash. Anything with a camera or a Smartphone you should look to other brands. While Motorollas used to be horrible, the new V300, V525 and V600 are really nice. The Sony smartphones (P800/900) are amazing pieces of kit and if you can afford one you should jump at it.
It all makes sense now! I never knew US phones didn't always need a SIM. Here in the UK you always have a SIM and the handset (normally included unless you go for Pay as you Go) is yours to do what you want with. The networks are so competetive you can often sell your free upgrade and make more than the year's contract cost. The phone I have was selling for ~450GBP on eBay when I got it, but the contract including the free phone and all the SMS/MMS/Minutes/GPRS that I need only cost 300GBP for the whole year.
I may be ignorant, but don't you own the phone your provider gives you? If you take out a contract and get Phone A free, then a year later they give you Phone B as an 'upgrade' aren't Phones A and B both your property meaning that you can use the SIM card in Phone A and just eBay Phone B?
In the shop I work in we demo projectors regularly. 1000 lumens can be seen adequately when projected through a sheet of perspex onto a blue wall in full indoor lighting. On a proper white screen with the lights dimmed 700 lumens should be fine. Even better for lumen-optimisation is using it to project onto a sheet of paper from behind - looks like a nice flatscreen TV, very portable and doesn't depend on light conditions nearly so much.
If I were buying a proper projector for home cinema I'd go for 1900+ but something cheap and portable to show up charts or a slideshow of my graphic work would work fine with 700.
I use an Epson 880 too, and I just about print enough to use up the ink before it dries out. The mistake you are making, however, is buying official cartridges. I use Jet-Tec ink cartridges and they are ~9GBP for a pack of 2 black or ~11GBP for 2 colour (in US terms that's about $10 per cartridge maximum). The quality is slightly lower but it's pretty damn good on photo paper when neccesary, and the rest of the time I'm just printing documents or posters.
How did he manage to rack up $300k in that time? 3.5mill/month isn't an enormous amount of traffic and hosting packages with hundreds of GBs of bandwidth are relatively cheap.
Damn Series60 users, leaving us Series70 folks out in the cold. I want this program on my P900 and I want it NOW!
The worst comapny for making you shell out on memory are Sony. On average a Sony MS Duo is twice the price of a comparably sized SD or MMC card, and offers no real benefit AFAICS. Even worse, they change things within their own format meaning that 95% of existing devices can only use Duo standard cards (which aren't released larger than 128MB) so if you want 256 or 512 you need a Duo Pro compatible device.
In case you can't tell, I'm not happy that they crippled my P900 to only use Duo standard. I understand that they want to make money rather than being SD compatible, but what possible reason could there be for not letting it use Duo pros?
If you're going down that line of election rigging, you don't even need to break the tape. Just walk past the machines with a fair size magnet and you should do a good job of frying/invalidating the screens and/or memory.
Don't mod this funny BTW, I'm deadly serious and AFAICS it's quite possible.
Maybe Google could weild their might in this one?
They're big Linux users, so they obviously believe it's good for some things at least. They also have such a large userbase that this service could conceivably dent Windows' market share if advertised properly on the front page. They have such an enormous backend cluster that it should survive, and they could subsidise more servers by showing adverts during the download.
You can easily fry phones this way too - a power outage during a firmware upgrade on a phone can easily kill it, and when it's a top of the range device that's a lot of money.
On most Nokia Symbian60 phones even the factory reset can kill them. If you select 'Clear all' from the menu you'll be OK, but there's also the industrial strength reset code ( *#7370# if anyone is interested) that I think reinstalls the OS from the internal memory and wipes everything in the process. If the battery dies or the user touches the on off switch during the process (which can take up to 15 mins) it doesn't install and your only hope is to have it reflashed by the manufacturer. This is why we generally don't tell customers the code.
If there is a chip that can monitor what you think and those thoughts can be transmitted over a network then someone with a reciever chip could see what you are thinking.
If you read 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter you'll get a good insight into the possible consequences. While the book is centred around the idea that wormholes can be used to view anyone at any time, knowing what people think would have the same effect of first causing terrible unrest but eventually destroying barriers and allowing everyone to work together. It's a very interesting read and I feel that every day we get closer to that reality.