Why aren't they using sloped lenses and hoods for these? Essentially putting blinders on them with no bottom so that snow isn't allowed to collect inside the enclosure?
Hm? Oh, sorry, I was just remembering wintertime living in the midwest. At any rate, snow can gather in ways that hang off of traffic light hoods out in the midwest, not to mention icicles that can build up and block visibility. Not quite as easy a problem as it sounds.
And, strangely enough, depending on the weather, there's times when the heat of standard non-LED lights wouldn't be enough to melt the snow/ice enough, either. Wintertime means fun times in the midwest!
Not quite. The Milestone is designed for European 3G networks (i.e. runs off different frequencies than US networks, even besides T-Mobile's unique 3G frequency). Sure, if you're in the US, you'll get a GSM version of the Droid, as well as voice service and EDGE connectivity, but if you're getting an uberpowered smartphone, I think you'd want the possibility of 3G worked in there somewhere.
(simply assuming the GP is in the US when Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile were mentioned)
Okay, granted, I have my trusty G1 here in an area where T-Mobile doesn't have 3G service (and, despite promises, seems to be in no hurry to provide it), and I like it quite a bit, but still...
So... um... what's a fully-open STACK got to do with fully-open APPS on the device? Anyone can still write a proprietary, closed-source app on the N900, right? I mean, even on a fully-open Linux desktop, you can still very well have proprietary, not-open, binary-blob applications on it. In the same manner, anyone can write a fully-open application for Windows if they so desire.
Or can they NOT do so on the N900, and the lack of this choice, for better or worse, is what's keeping developers away from it? Some people just plain and simply don't want the source to their applications released.
(DISCLAIMER: Author of a fully-open Android app currently on the Marketplace for free)
On the bright side, if it legitimately were my fault and/or plan, that IS one of the top things I'd be proud to be on trial for. Rates right up there with "attempted destruction of the moon" and "triggered volcanoes to, as the defendant put it, 'show all those fools who is mad'".
"Okay. Look, sure, it IS record-setting revenues. But that's just going to bolster the pirate community to pirate us HARDER next year! So come on! We need more laws! I swear, ONE of these years we'll be right!"
Honestly, if it were just a US version of the Milestone (so, a GSM Droid with a 3G radio that can talk to US networks), I think I'd be plenty happy enough...
You... ARE aware that color laser printers have existed for... oh, well over a decade by this point? Probably two? I only recall color laser printers being advertised back in my high school days around 15 or so years ago, they probably existed not too long after the laser printer itself was invented in 1969...
Unless you're an AC troll. Which... okay, I can, from at least a base standpoint, understand a troll who wants to troll against something that matters. Picking sides, turf wars, primitive "you're different from me" attitude, etc. Sure, sure. But you're trolling against laser printers? What? Is the turf war between inkjets and lasers really THAT bad that it inspires trolls? d00d, ur ink is 2 lamez!1!!1! TONER CARTS 4TW
Which they will quickly refuse to pay, putting the printer back in your hands, maybe with a minor service fee charged to you. Gotcha. Sort of a strange start to the plan, as it leaves you back at square one with a bit of a loss, but I've heard stranger. What's step two, then?
Or is it "skip town, hope the post office loses track of you, dumping the printer into a Dead Letter Office, thus offloading the responsibility onto a third party"?
Add a layer to crop in GIMP? I use GIMP a lot and all I do is select an area and crop it. It sounds like you're talking about masking, which is overkill for cropping something.
And even adding a mask doesn't require a new layer; you can just make a selection, tell the current layer to add a mask, and tell it to use the current selection.
This probably isn't helping the perception of GIMP fanboys.:-)
DVI connectors are clunky and have that 18th century finger destroying screw-on mechanism. Anything with screws on computers should be abolished for good.
Typical response from you so-called "computer user" kids these days. Back in my day, everything had screws! From the case to the cards to the plugs and sometimes the boxes everything came in! And our fingers were perfectly good enough for the job! Even the ones that weren't thumbscrews! Any one of the old-timers could grind your mabmly-pambly little soft, precious, pampered thumbs to dust, bones and all, with nothing but our bare fingers, and we wouldn't even flinch!
How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?
Man, don't I know it. I can't even begin to count the number of times I was in the produce section of the supermarket when I was suddenly overcome with a primal urge to blindly ram whole fruit into my mouth. Doesn't matter what type; apples, pears, oranges, kiwi, pineapples, whatever's immediately there, I grab it and jam it into my mouth with reckless abandon, not even bothering to look at what it is, let alone whether or not it's one of the many, many fruits that have stickers on them.
Now, I'll admit that a fair share of the inconvenience I've had from this condition stems from dealing with these backwards yokels around where I live who are either unable or unwilling to understand my perfectly common and normal intermittent fruit-ravenous needs, but in all actuality, there's nothing more annoying than the thought that when I'm forcing an apple down my throat without looking at it, there's a chance that there may be a sticker on it. I can barely stand the thought sitting here right now!
That's why I'm so glad the good people who work for our nation's fruit growers have recognized this very obvious need which, until this point, has been sorely lacking a solution. The next time I'm racing through the produce department, not even bothering to even give the most cursory of glances at what I eat before I eat it despite the fact that it is fairly well-known that there are stickers on fruit, I will salute our laser-etching fruit guardians.
So let me get this straight: Scientists gave up on building a better mouse trap, for which the world have beaten a path to their doors, and instead they went the indirect route of building a better rat to chew a path through the world's doors?
"Hollywood Accounting" applies to people (or at best holders of copyrights and other things) involved in the movies never making a dime off of something. The executives and suits at the studios most certainly made that money and used said tricks to KEEP said money.
"Hollywood Accounting" isn't a synonym for "magically create money to keep the studio in business", it's a synonym for "screw over the not-big-name, not-corporate people involved".
Assuming all the conspiracy theorists can be convinced it's true, at least this means I'll be dead before this idiocy crops up again.
And assuming I suddenly sprout a magical jetpack on my back through a miracle of evolution, I can fly off to California from right where I sit for a pleasant afternoon of talking with friends and taking in the culture. And frankly, that's a bit more likely to happen than convincing a conspiracy theorist he/she's wrong.:-)
Lobby as in send 'contributions' in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year like time warner does?
Not so much. All though if you let me borrow that amount, I will do exactly that with it. Just paypal it to me!
Sadly I have discovered they do not accept monopoly money:{
Do you understand just how many games worth of Monopoly money you'd need to amass hundreds of millions of dollars in it? I mean, I think there's only in the range of $15k in a single, standard boxed Monopoly game. If you DID get hundreds of millions in it, that... might do a pretty decent job impressing somebody. Wow.
(no, I'm not counting that one ridiculous "zomg lets jack up all the prices" version they released a year or so ago)
Wait, they fired the best publicist in the history of the company, perhaps one of the best in the history of the tech industry? Why on EARTH would they do that? Now they've got nothing left!
Or have I just been brainwashed by the "no such thing as bad publicity" crowd?
Not really, not when it's due to a plugin they themselves installed and have their name all over. I mean, you don't consider Flash vulnerabilities to be the fault of IE or Firefox, do you? If anything (and that's a big "if" in this case), it'll be a black eye for Microsoft.
Nah, if you're going the paranoid route, it'd have been a better idea if they made this plugin under the guise of a shell company or something, then when the vulnerabilities hit the fan, have the shell complain about how "hard" it is to make a secure plugin for the "obviously inferior" Firefox, then have Microsoft suddenly pipe up about how much more secure the.NET plugin is under IE. Bonus points if the shell claims to be open-source with their reimplementation of.NET so Microsoft can attempt to discredit open-source software, too!
Market watcher Gartner is claiming that by Q4 2012 Google's Android smartphone OS will have overtaken Apple's iPhone.
*sigh* Yeah, yeah, and that's also the year of the Linux desktop, and when BSD will finally be dead, and when Duke Nukem Forever is going to be released, and...
Well, that settles it, then! Why on earth would I buy a paltry 64-bit Windows 7 when a much shinier and newer 128-bit Windows 8 is right around the corner? I'd best hold off until then! Thanks, Microsoft!
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Ah, thanks, I needed an idea for a new pickup line. "So you say you don't want the city blown up by terrorist attack, baby? Well..."
Why aren't they using sloped lenses and hoods for these? Essentially putting blinders on them with no bottom so that snow isn't allowed to collect inside the enclosure?
Mmm... ice... icicles... non-powdery snow... packing snow... wintertime... aaaaahhhhh...
Hm? Oh, sorry, I was just remembering wintertime living in the midwest. At any rate, snow can gather in ways that hang off of traffic light hoods out in the midwest, not to mention icicles that can build up and block visibility. Not quite as easy a problem as it sounds.
And, strangely enough, depending on the weather, there's times when the heat of standard non-LED lights wouldn't be enough to melt the snow/ice enough, either. Wintertime means fun times in the midwest!
Not quite. The Milestone is designed for European 3G networks (i.e. runs off different frequencies than US networks, even besides T-Mobile's unique 3G frequency). Sure, if you're in the US, you'll get a GSM version of the Droid, as well as voice service and EDGE connectivity, but if you're getting an uberpowered smartphone, I think you'd want the possibility of 3G worked in there somewhere.
(simply assuming the GP is in the US when Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile were mentioned)
Okay, granted, I have my trusty G1 here in an area where T-Mobile doesn't have 3G service (and, despite promises, seems to be in no hurry to provide it), and I like it quite a bit, but still...
So... um... what's a fully-open STACK got to do with fully-open APPS on the device? Anyone can still write a proprietary, closed-source app on the N900, right? I mean, even on a fully-open Linux desktop, you can still very well have proprietary, not-open, binary-blob applications on it. In the same manner, anyone can write a fully-open application for Windows if they so desire.
Or can they NOT do so on the N900, and the lack of this choice, for better or worse, is what's keeping developers away from it? Some people just plain and simply don't want the source to their applications released.
(DISCLAIMER: Author of a fully-open Android app currently on the Marketplace for free)
On the bright side, if it legitimately were my fault and/or plan, that IS one of the top things I'd be proud to be on trial for. Rates right up there with "attempted destruction of the moon" and "triggered volcanoes to, as the defendant put it, 'show all those fools who is mad'".
"Okay. Look, sure, it IS record-setting revenues. But that's just going to bolster the pirate community to pirate us HARDER next year! So come on! We need more laws! I swear, ONE of these years we'll be right!"
Honestly, if it were just a US version of the Milestone (so, a GSM Droid with a 3G radio that can talk to US networks), I think I'd be plenty happy enough...
So you're suggesting it was a Lama-trained Lamia Lama playing for Lama under a Lama?
Man, when Lima hears about this...
You... ARE aware that color laser printers have existed for... oh, well over a decade by this point? Probably two? I only recall color laser printers being advertised back in my high school days around 15 or so years ago, they probably existed not too long after the laser printer itself was invented in 1969...
Unless you're an AC troll. Which... okay, I can, from at least a base standpoint, understand a troll who wants to troll against something that matters. Picking sides, turf wars, primitive "you're different from me" attitude, etc. Sure, sure. But you're trolling against laser printers? What? Is the turf war between inkjets and lasers really THAT bad that it inspires trolls? d00d, ur ink is 2 lamez!1!!1! TONER CARTS 4TW
Which they will quickly refuse to pay, putting the printer back in your hands, maybe with a minor service fee charged to you. Gotcha. Sort of a strange start to the plan, as it leaves you back at square one with a bit of a loss, but I've heard stranger. What's step two, then?
Or is it "skip town, hope the post office loses track of you, dumping the printer into a Dead Letter Office, thus offloading the responsibility onto a third party"?
Add a layer to crop in GIMP? I use GIMP a lot and all I do is select an area and crop it. It sounds like you're talking about masking, which is overkill for cropping something.
And even adding a mask doesn't require a new layer; you can just make a selection, tell the current layer to add a mask, and tell it to use the current selection.
This probably isn't helping the perception of GIMP fanboys. :-)
it involves a piece of furniture and some kinetic energy. As effective as spitting in the wind.
Yeah, laugh it up now, smart guy. You won't be laughing tomorrow when Microsoft unveils their MyFurnitureRailgun 2010 For Windows Live.
Unless the top 1,000 sites happen to be, by odd math, shady viagra sales, knockoff Rolex retailers, and spammers.
In which case, go right ahead, Mark! We're behind you all the way!
Nah, they should just rename it the Reversi programming language. That shouldn't conflict with anything!
DVI connectors are clunky and have that 18th century finger destroying screw-on mechanism. Anything with screws on computers should be abolished for good.
Typical response from you so-called "computer user" kids these days. Back in my day, everything had screws! From the case to the cards to the plugs and sometimes the boxes everything came in! And our fingers were perfectly good enough for the job! Even the ones that weren't thumbscrews! Any one of the old-timers could grind your mabmly-pambly little soft, precious, pampered thumbs to dust, bones and all, with nothing but our bare fingers, and we wouldn't even flinch!
Now get off my lawn! Durn whippersnappers...
How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?
Man, don't I know it. I can't even begin to count the number of times I was in the produce section of the supermarket when I was suddenly overcome with a primal urge to blindly ram whole fruit into my mouth. Doesn't matter what type; apples, pears, oranges, kiwi, pineapples, whatever's immediately there, I grab it and jam it into my mouth with reckless abandon, not even bothering to look at what it is, let alone whether or not it's one of the many, many fruits that have stickers on them.
Now, I'll admit that a fair share of the inconvenience I've had from this condition stems from dealing with these backwards yokels around where I live who are either unable or unwilling to understand my perfectly common and normal intermittent fruit-ravenous needs, but in all actuality, there's nothing more annoying than the thought that when I'm forcing an apple down my throat without looking at it, there's a chance that there may be a sticker on it. I can barely stand the thought sitting here right now!
That's why I'm so glad the good people who work for our nation's fruit growers have recognized this very obvious need which, until this point, has been sorely lacking a solution. The next time I'm racing through the produce department, not even bothering to even give the most cursory of glances at what I eat before I eat it despite the fact that it is fairly well-known that there are stickers on fruit, I will salute our laser-etching fruit guardians.
So let me get this straight: Scientists gave up on building a better mouse trap, for which the world have beaten a path to their doors, and instead they went the indirect route of building a better rat to chew a path through the world's doors?
"Hollywood Accounting" applies to people (or at best holders of copyrights and other things) involved in the movies never making a dime off of something. The executives and suits at the studios most certainly made that money and used said tricks to KEEP said money.
"Hollywood Accounting" isn't a synonym for "magically create money to keep the studio in business", it's a synonym for "screw over the not-big-name, not-corporate people involved".
Assuming all the conspiracy theorists can be convinced it's true, at least this means I'll be dead before this idiocy crops up again.
And assuming I suddenly sprout a magical jetpack on my back through a miracle of evolution, I can fly off to California from right where I sit for a pleasant afternoon of talking with friends and taking in the culture. And frankly, that's a bit more likely to happen than convincing a conspiracy theorist he/she's wrong. :-)
The problem with a PEBKAC diagnosis is that even when you replace the offending filter, you're still taking input from a chair...
Ah, but the chair is less likely to give you faulty data, isn't it?
Lobby as in send 'contributions' in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year like time warner does? :{
Not so much. All though if you let me borrow that amount, I will do exactly that with it. Just paypal it to me!
Sadly I have discovered they do not accept monopoly money
Do you understand just how many games worth of Monopoly money you'd need to amass hundreds of millions of dollars in it? I mean, I think there's only in the range of $15k in a single, standard boxed Monopoly game. If you DID get hundreds of millions in it, that... might do a pretty decent job impressing somebody. Wow.
(no, I'm not counting that one ridiculous "zomg lets jack up all the prices" version they released a year or so ago)
Wait, they fired the best publicist in the history of the company, perhaps one of the best in the history of the tech industry? Why on EARTH would they do that? Now they've got nothing left!
Or have I just been brainwashed by the "no such thing as bad publicity" crowd?
Not really, not when it's due to a plugin they themselves installed and have their name all over. I mean, you don't consider Flash vulnerabilities to be the fault of IE or Firefox, do you? If anything (and that's a big "if" in this case), it'll be a black eye for Microsoft.
Nah, if you're going the paranoid route, it'd have been a better idea if they made this plugin under the guise of a shell company or something, then when the vulnerabilities hit the fan, have the shell complain about how "hard" it is to make a secure plugin for the "obviously inferior" Firefox, then have Microsoft suddenly pipe up about how much more secure the .NET plugin is under IE. Bonus points if the shell claims to be open-source with their reimplementation of .NET so Microsoft can attempt to discredit open-source software, too!
But we're not THAT paranoid. Are we?
Market watcher Gartner is claiming that by Q4 2012 Google's Android smartphone OS will have overtaken Apple's iPhone.
*sigh* Yeah, yeah, and that's also the year of the Linux desktop, and when BSD will finally be dead, and when Duke Nukem Forever is going to be released, and...
Well, that settles it, then! Why on earth would I buy a paltry 64-bit Windows 7 when a much shinier and newer 128-bit Windows 8 is right around the corner? I'd best hold off until then! Thanks, Microsoft!