I wanna stick it to the local phone company that has stuck it to me before.
It is not THAT much cheaper (25 bucks a month for unlimited long distance on a phone line I rarely use is not that great)
the most useful feature I use is email voicemail on my sidekick (yup it works)
plus I get to brag about having voice over IP phone service to all of my geek friends and on slashdot.
Actually it is very easy to blow your engine downshifting... and a rev limiter does not help!
imagine this scenario, engine redlined in 5th gear, 120 mph
you shift to 2nd gear, what do you think the RPMs are in 2nd gear to get to 120? higher than redline... therefore, nothing electronic is going to stop that Mechanical Gearing that is now transfering the 120mph * 3,000lbs of velocity into Crankshaft RPMS... the Engine WILL throw a rod or otherwise blow up.
It is just like popping the clutch, if you push a car in gear, the engine will turn no matter if the battery is dead or not...
yeah, if your proprietary software running on windows 9x/NT breaks due to a virus, the best thing to do is start a migration to linux... that will get you up an running.
that is like a installing a sprinkler system in a burning building, sure you SHOULD have had it but it doesn't help to suggest it now.
thumb keyboard is what makes the blackberry worth a damn... well at least now Danger does not have to worry about competition for the sidekick 2
having used predictive crap hole 1-9 keyboards, the blackberry and the sidekick
I would have to say they rank as
first by far Sidekick
second Blackberry
and a distant third num-pad
I love de-innovation
Or it is at least a wash...
Soda costs like 20 cents a gallon when you buy the concentrate in the kind of bulk that movie theaters do... Ice on the other hand costs quite a bit to keep cold/freeze.
they are not ripping you off, they are providing what the consumer expects.
kids dont want toys, they want what you have
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I know the kids I know (6months-12years) would rather have a real pc with a real keyboard and mice because they like to use the computer cause that is what they see me doing. I showed a 2 year old my laptop for the first time and he said he didnt want to use it cause it was just a toy, he wanted to use the computer at the desk.
adding a cool shape and crippling the OS does nothing to teach the children how to use a computer
I have never touch typed and I have probably logged 30% of my life on the pc... I also never got carpel tunnel syndrome... I also type fast enough for MMOs and IMing that is all that matters, not touch typing. Also btw I never learned cursive and teachers told me that would ruin my life...
this handheld is great except it has very little advantage over a laptop...
untill a device has a built in querty keyboard, it cannot be an "on the move" hand held.
Graffiti is obviously only good for 1-10 letters at a time...
Onscreen keyboards Ditto
foldable keyboards basically require a desk to operate (especially if there is no rigid connector between the device and keyboard)
I have Tmobile hotspot and a Wired PDA, I still use the Sidekick
at airports despite my 800k connection on the pda and the way crappier browser on the Sidekick.
Sure I occasionally set up my foldable wireless keyboard at a table, put the PDA on the stand and go to town sending e-mails to this boss and that boss, but when everything is said and done, it is just as much of a pain to use the PDA as the laptop. Try balancing a keyboard that trys to fold itself back up and typing, while trying to view your tiny screen and balance the pda on your knees... it does not work.
this device (indeed most PDAs) would be perfect with a thumb querty keyboard. Without it you can do Nothing at 2x the mHz as my current hand held! yay!
hey X-men the movie taught me that every few hundred generations Evolution takes a great leap. That is called mutation and if Gamma rays can cause the hulk's mutation, then a flu can make a monkey into a man.
If this is not the case then Stan Lee has got some explaining to do.
people dont have sex with monkeys (for the most part) It makes sense that there would be more monkey-like groups and less monkey-like groups, and they would each form breeding habits based upon general preferences. Thus creating an ever widening split between the more monkey people and the less monkey people, those groups being of course the Apes we know and love today and the humans we loathe and despise today.
you blew it all up!
next thing you know these things willl be carrying AK47s and doing our dishes.
Actually I am prone to believe that we are watching Evolution... we could not have come as far as we have without a few giant leaps, such as an entire tribe of apes getting a bad flu and changing their posture to make digestion easier, thus putting less demands on the body allowing energy to be spent in a more eficient manner...
I build these little shuttle boxes for software delivery at work for very cheap with 400gb Raid 5 usable redundant space
for a mere $687 you can add that to an existing PC
$300 for the controller3x $129 for the drives
if you shop around and dont use the first froogle links like I did you may be able to save some cash
we used to use a different and cheaper (like 200 bucks plus a RDR Stick of ram) card, but it sucked.
if you wanna spend more money buy another drive and make it 600gb raid 5
Slashdot Mirror
Smaller, cheaper
a 1.22 mp camera and a VGA screen don't kill the iPod, that is not what the iPod is for.
oops I mean, no I didn't see that, nobody saw that movie
I wanna stick it to the local phone company that has stuck it to me before. It is not THAT much cheaper (25 bucks a month for unlimited long distance on a phone line I rarely use is not that great) the most useful feature I use is email voicemail on my sidekick (yup it works) plus I get to brag about having voice over IP phone service to all of my geek friends and on slashdot.
never seen a system or game that made the original release date...
Actually it is very easy to blow your engine downshifting... and a rev limiter does not help! imagine this scenario, engine redlined in 5th gear, 120 mph you shift to 2nd gear, what do you think the RPMs are in 2nd gear to get to 120? higher than redline... therefore, nothing electronic is going to stop that Mechanical Gearing that is now transfering the 120mph * 3,000lbs of velocity into Crankshaft RPMS... the Engine WILL throw a rod or otherwise blow up. It is just like popping the clutch, if you push a car in gear, the engine will turn no matter if the battery is dead or not...
yeah, if your proprietary software running on windows 9x/NT breaks due to a virus, the best thing to do is start a migration to linux... that will get you up an running. that is like a installing a sprinkler system in a burning building, sure you SHOULD have had it but it doesn't help to suggest it now.
but I would not hire a Script kiddie...
What other Bands are they going to Ban? I am gonna start selling Using your microwave is not a crime t-shirts, or howabout "Wi-Fi free america"
Excuse me... I am gonna go WarSpot and set up my Router in my car with an Inverter and broadcast my pirate 2.4gHz signal...
Steal the air
20 keys for 26 letters plus symbols oh ok you are right 6 more keys makes a huge diffrernce...
thumb keyboard is what makes the blackberry worth a damn... well at least now Danger does not have to worry about competition for the sidekick 2 having used predictive crap hole 1-9 keyboards, the blackberry and the sidekick I would have to say they rank as first by far Sidekick second Blackberry and a distant third num-pad I love de-innovation
Or it is at least a wash... Soda costs like 20 cents a gallon when you buy the concentrate in the kind of bulk that movie theaters do... Ice on the other hand costs quite a bit to keep cold/freeze. they are not ripping you off, they are providing what the consumer expects.
the free version of Trillian crashes if you try to use it to connect to Yahoo messenger, the pay version does not have such a problem.
they could never compete with MS because they bother with all that quality controll non-sense
c'mon lets have a story about something else...
I know the kids I know (6months-12years) would rather have a real pc with a real keyboard and mice because they like to use the computer cause that is what they see me doing. I showed a 2 year old my laptop for the first time and he said he didnt want to use it cause it was just a toy, he wanted to use the computer at the desk. adding a cool shape and crippling the OS does nothing to teach the children how to use a computer
I have never touch typed and I have probably logged 30% of my life on the pc... I also never got carpel tunnel syndrome... I also type fast enough for MMOs and IMing that is all that matters, not touch typing. Also btw I never learned cursive and teachers told me that would ruin my life...
once you get a handheld that allows you 20 wpm, email, and IM... talk to me again about using a stylus....
this handheld is great except it has very little advantage over a laptop... untill a device has a built in querty keyboard, it cannot be an "on the move" hand held. Graffiti is obviously only good for 1-10 letters at a time... Onscreen keyboards Ditto foldable keyboards basically require a desk to operate (especially if there is no rigid connector between the device and keyboard) I have Tmobile hotspot and a Wired PDA, I still use the Sidekick at airports despite my 800k connection on the pda and the way crappier browser on the Sidekick. Sure I occasionally set up my foldable wireless keyboard at a table, put the PDA on the stand and go to town sending e-mails to this boss and that boss, but when everything is said and done, it is just as much of a pain to use the PDA as the laptop. Try balancing a keyboard that trys to fold itself back up and typing, while trying to view your tiny screen and balance the pda on your knees... it does not work. this device (indeed most PDAs) would be perfect with a thumb querty keyboard. Without it you can do Nothing at 2x the mHz as my current hand held! yay!
I was like, odd hair metal and space don't really seem to go together
In Soviet Russia, you evolve into the monkey!
Amazing to what dishonest lengths EVERYONE will go to promote their religion. At least evolutionists dont ask me for money.
hey X-men the movie taught me that every few hundred generations Evolution takes a great leap. That is called mutation and if Gamma rays can cause the hulk's mutation, then a flu can make a monkey into a man. If this is not the case then Stan Lee has got some explaining to do.
people dont have sex with monkeys (for the most part) It makes sense that there would be more monkey-like groups and less monkey-like groups, and they would each form breeding habits based upon general preferences. Thus creating an ever widening split between the more monkey people and the less monkey people, those groups being of course the Apes we know and love today and the humans we loathe and despise today.
you blew it all up! next thing you know these things willl be carrying AK47s and doing our dishes. Actually I am prone to believe that we are watching Evolution... we could not have come as far as we have without a few giant leaps, such as an entire tribe of apes getting a bad flu and changing their posture to make digestion easier, thus putting less demands on the body allowing energy to be spent in a more eficient manner...
I build these little shuttle boxes for software delivery at work for very cheap with 400gb Raid 5 usable redundant space for a mere $687 you can add that to an existing PC $300 for the controller 3x $129 for the drives if you shop around and dont use the first froogle links like I did you may be able to save some cash we used to use a different and cheaper (like 200 bucks plus a RDR Stick of ram) card, but it sucked. if you wanna spend more money buy another drive and make it 600gb raid 5