I've used an FM transmitter (Belkin) with the iPod, and they are one of the most useless devices for the most money. Not only does it have a range of about 4 feet, it tends to get a lot of interference from TVs, other radio stationg, cel phones... the 88.X band is really really littered with misceleaneous signals. Unfortunately that's the only range of signals one is allowed to transmit short range on. Oh well.
The Apple web store at apple.com ships to the US, the Apple web store at apple.ca ships to Canada, the Apple web store at apple.co.jp ships to Japan... and so on...
I find it very funny that 3M actually markets Duct tape as somewhat of a long term repair item, which is what it's useful for... not that actually repairing the item would be better...
Reminds me of the first days of the iPod, where cunning users would sneak in to local computer stores and hijack all of the apps, such as full versions of Final Cut Pro and Office X, on to their iPods - all in a matter of seconds thanks to FireWire! I never tried it myself... I got my pirated software elsewhere!
Yeah I can remember the days... once in 1998 when I spent at least a half hour in the cockpit of a British Airways B747-400... the pilot even turned off the autopilot and the plane started to veer off... of course then he turned autopilot back on and it corrected itself..
As for this system, Go for it. Just watch out when you have cities that have airports IN them, like the old Hong Kong airport where to land you often literally had to fly right between skyscrapers.
Oh for god's sake just drop it already. We all know you CANNOT compare PPC and x86 processors! With clock speed, it's like Miles and Kilometers, and every system setup is different, conditions are different, hell even temperature can affect performance.
Comparing the Apple results to the Intel results... its more likely that Intel has ALSO manipulated their tests!
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Uh... no I dont think that was the intent of my comment. I'm just saying it's not fair for paying customers to bear the brunt of actions taken against pirate users. Kind of off topic actually...
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I really have only a basic idea of what the whole SCO/IBM case is here, but in my impression SCO is at blame here. I did notice at work (Safeway) that on a terminal screen there was a login prompt then below it lines and lines of "this material is copyrighted etc etc, please call to validate" and all sorts of other warnings. When will the software industry learn that making its legal users feel like pirates isn't the way to go. Compatatively we have the whole WinXP activation fiasco, and I say that because it makes it near impossible for pirate users, but increidbly unfair and awkward for legal users, for example if you upgrade your motherboard and reinstall windows, you have to call them again and they make you feel guilty for reinstalling windows, asking you questions thinking you are trying to steal windows... seems that they concentrated on the bad people rather than the paying customers (who outweigh the bad ones).
Keep in mind that the 30 cent charge does not apply if you EMAIL the phone. For example, my carrier allows outside people to email the phone for free at something like 6045551212@pcs.rogers.com or 6045151231@msg.telus.com
This way nobody gets charged (At least not on my system) because incoming messages are free. This makes it very very easy to spam phones, and its not even practical or possible to spam using a phone as you would have to manually type in the message and all those numbers. Read: it wouldnt work unless you were sitting at a computer doing it.
That's just expensive and awkward. The common card we use today works because the standard was decided on years ago, and everyone has gotten used to this kind of thing. If someone wants to make a new way, try and make it as similar to the old way. That may sound like the talk of a luddite, but think of _who_ will be using these cards... you, your kids maybe, your grandma... now are most of those people going to figure out some kind of complex thumbprint scanner or something? The answer is most likely no.
And then it comes down to the point where you have the fact that the card could just as easily be stolen. No amount of encryption would protect a card from that.
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Cryptonomicon is incredible. Stephenson again. A step above Snow Crash
This is the thing, a good movie will get good reviews, and YES people will still go see movies, until we get two storey screens in our houses. If a movie is crap however, nobody will go see it! And nobody will bother to make even a decent Telesync of it. Look on www.vcdquality.com... there are at least half a dozen rips of the matrix, and maybe one of movies like Daddy Day Care. And I bet you anyone who downloads TMR will go and see it in the theatres as well.
I would have to say that FF7 changed my life, simply because it is FF7. And Silent Hill 2 scared the bejeezus out of me... especially in the dark on a big screen with surround sound....
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I've used an FM transmitter (Belkin) with the iPod, and they are one of the most useless devices for the most money. Not only does it have a range of about 4 feet, it tends to get a lot of interference from TVs, other radio stationg, cel phones... the 88.X band is really really littered with misceleaneous signals. Unfortunately that's the only range of signals one is allowed to transmit short range on. Oh well.
The Apple web store at apple.com ships to the US, the Apple web store at apple.ca ships to Canada, the Apple web store at apple.co.jp ships to Japan... and so on...
I find it very funny that 3M actually markets Duct tape as somewhat of a long term repair item, which is what it's useful for... not that actually repairing the item would be better...
Reminds me of the first days of the iPod, where cunning users would sneak in to local computer stores and hijack all of the apps, such as full versions of Final Cut Pro and Office X, on to their iPods - all in a matter of seconds thanks to FireWire! I never tried it myself... I got my pirated software elsewhere!
Yeah I can remember the days... once in 1998 when I spent at least a half hour in the cockpit of a British Airways B747-400... the pilot even turned off the autopilot and the plane started to veer off... of course then he turned autopilot back on and it corrected itself.. As for this system, Go for it. Just watch out when you have cities that have airports IN them, like the old Hong Kong airport where to land you often literally had to fly right between skyscrapers.
Oh for god's sake just drop it already. We all know you CANNOT compare PPC and x86 processors! With clock speed, it's like Miles and Kilometers, and every system setup is different, conditions are different, hell even temperature can affect performance. Comparing the Apple results to the Intel results... its more likely that Intel has ALSO manipulated their tests!
Uh... no I dont think that was the intent of my comment. I'm just saying it's not fair for paying customers to bear the brunt of actions taken against pirate users. Kind of off topic actually...
I really have only a basic idea of what the whole SCO/IBM case is here, but in my impression SCO is at blame here. I did notice at work (Safeway) that on a terminal screen there was a login prompt then below it lines and lines of "this material is copyrighted etc etc, please call to validate" and all sorts of other warnings. When will the software industry learn that making its legal users feel like pirates isn't the way to go. Compatatively we have the whole WinXP activation fiasco, and I say that because it makes it near impossible for pirate users, but increidbly unfair and awkward for legal users, for example if you upgrade your motherboard and reinstall windows, you have to call them again and they make you feel guilty for reinstalling windows, asking you questions thinking you are trying to steal windows... seems that they concentrated on the bad people rather than the paying customers (who outweigh the bad ones).
Why can't I destroy someones computer when they lip me off online?
Keep in mind that the 30 cent charge does not apply if you EMAIL the phone. For example, my carrier allows outside people to email the phone for free at something like 6045551212@pcs.rogers.com or 6045151231@msg.telus.com This way nobody gets charged (At least not on my system) because incoming messages are free. This makes it very very easy to spam phones, and its not even practical or possible to spam using a phone as you would have to manually type in the message and all those numbers. Read: it wouldnt work unless you were sitting at a computer doing it.
Slightly reminiscent of the broadband mogul who bought the USS Enterprise in "Snow Crash". Let's build The Raft!
That's just expensive and awkward. The common card we use today works because the standard was decided on years ago, and everyone has gotten used to this kind of thing. If someone wants to make a new way, try and make it as similar to the old way. That may sound like the talk of a luddite, but think of _who_ will be using these cards... you, your kids maybe, your grandma... now are most of those people going to figure out some kind of complex thumbprint scanner or something? The answer is most likely no.
And then it comes down to the point where you have the fact that the card could just as easily be stolen. No amount of encryption would protect a card from that.
Cryptonomicon is incredible. Stephenson again. A step above Snow Crash
This is the thing, a good movie will get good reviews, and YES people will still go see movies, until we get two storey screens in our houses. If a movie is crap however, nobody will go see it! And nobody will bother to make even a decent Telesync of it. Look on www.vcdquality.com... there are at least half a dozen rips of the matrix, and maybe one of movies like Daddy Day Care. And I bet you anyone who downloads TMR will go and see it in the theatres as well.
I would have to say that FF7 changed my life, simply because it is FF7. And Silent Hill 2 scared the bejeezus out of me... especially in the dark on a big screen with surround sound....