It however does not cost you anything to put your phone number under a different name. I could put my name under John Smith. Any phone calls that I receive for John Smith can easily be ignored then and it hasn't cost me a cent.
T-Mobile. The other GSM providers (AT&T & Cingular) do not have a presence in my area yet so I can safely say it was a T-Mobile tower. It was in New Haven, Indiana. Not exacly New York City, but decent coverage. I don't have problems with several other phones I've own so I attributed it to the phone.
That is correct. It doesn't necessarily mean that. But there is a very good chance that would be the tower that you would get since it probably would have the strongest signal. Also, if you are on a fringe area, it may be the only tower for some distance, so if you are getting a signal, then that would be the tower you'd hook up with. The particular area that I had the most problem with was exactly that type of problem. My Moto Timeport, Nokia 3390, and Samsung S105 never had any problems, but my T68 did.
I was expressing my opinion. I said in another post that this is what I experienced. Maybe your's was different. I do know that I am not the only one that was disappointed by the poor reception.
For those of us who don't like to get a new phone number every 12 months, it's 199/299. Maybe a little cheaper, those are T-Mo's prices before any type of loyalty discounts if they apply.
See here for all the problems that people have had. I probably should have said that your reception may suck. Everyone hasn't had problems, but many people have possibly do to the internal antenna.
Whatever the reason is, I think that there are many better phones out there. The screen has an inferior resolution to most color phones out there right now, doesn't have polyphonic or better ringtones (if that interests you), or java applets/midlets. If you want to go spend 199 for the T68 or 299 for the T68i, go for it. I'm just telling you my experience. I thought that the $200 I paid for my S105 was a better deal.
I did exagerate some, but not much. I bet that 75% of people who have the phone are unhappy with the phones signal strength. I purchased a T68 (the T68i is just cosmetically different for the most part) and the signal was horrorible. Dropped calls, choppy reception...and that was within line of sight of a tower about 300 yards away. Inside buildings or farther away was even worse. Check out Amazon's reviews, howardforum.com, or any other place that has reviews of the phone and you'll see that this isn't just my opinion. This was last October that I experienced this. Maybe they found it was a firmware thing (not likely) or something else wrong since then, but I doubt it.
Taco - If you've been lusting over the T68i, you are going to be sadly disappointed. The reception sucks unless you are withing about 6 inches of a tower. The only plus it has is bluetooth. Do yourself a favor. Get the Samsung S105 if you can't wait.
I never had any intentions of being moderated up to +5, especially by being moderated as +1 Informative.
However, it's their moderation points. It was informative for someone who didn't know. Maybe they are not as culturally as informed as you and I. If other people don't feel that it should be moderated as +1 informative, then it will be meta-moderated as such or moderated as -1 Overrated.
SmartRipper and Vidomi. Not that I would know. Sure it's more then 1 click...you have to click 10 times I beleive assuming that you don't want to title the rip at the rip time.
Open SmartRipper (1) Click Start Rip (2) Wait for Rip to finish. Click OK (3) Click X to close app (4) Open Vidomi (5) Click Add File (6) Click file to add (7) Click open (8) Click Start (9) Click X to close app (10).
Of course if you may have a few more steps in there to go to the correct directory, change the file name, etc...but I basically consider it a two step process. Once you get the inital configuration down, it's a cinch.
This assumed that you wanted to make a DivX movie. If you just wanted to backup the DVD, you could just stop at the 4th click since you have the VOB already.
From www.m-w.com: Main Entry: hero Pronunciation: 'hir-(")O, 'hE-(")rO Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural heroes Etymology: Latin heros, from Greek hErOs Date: 14th century 1 a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability b : an illustrious warrior c : a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities d : one that shows great courage 2 a : the principal male character in a literary or dramatic work b : the central figure in an event, period, or movement 3 plural usually heros : SUBMARINE 2 4 : an object of extreme admiration and devotion : IDOL
There are more then one type of hero. I agree that WWII soldiers are heroes. I'd say that the in most cases, maybe even all, police/firefighters at the WTC were heroes.
I say that ALL the astronauts are heroes...past, present, and future. Thousands of kids (and adults judging from stories that I have read) have looked up to astronauts with amazement, fantasy, and desire. They have given the public glimpses of what it is like to be in space, presented us with invaluable data from scientific experiences...the list goes on and on.
I think that it would be the greatest thing in the world to be able to do what they do. Will I ever get a chance to do that...probably not in my life time or my kids lifetime. Could I ever do what they have done/accomplished? Probably not either. Astronauts are the cream of the crop. You don't walk onto a space ship without going through years of physical, psychological and education/scientific training. All of these things add up to a hero for me. I have nothing but the utmost extreame admiration towards all cosmonauts.
They did catch a bad break. It's unfortunate that we lost 7 lives, some of which were very bright individuals that possessed talents few have. Please don't rain on other people's feelings. If someone feels that they are a hero to them, then they are a hero. Maybe they did not sacrifice their lives in a battle of freedom from tyranny, rescue your dog from the street, or stop a violent crime, but that none the less does not make them any less a hero to many.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no real experience in the video or graphics industry.
That being said, 3D content creation wouldn't be limited to the card would it?
In the case of raytracing, modeling 3D animation like Pixar, or other similar work...isn't that processor bound? They do everything in memory, then output a single 2d frame. Then repeat for the next frame. Once all the frames have been rendered, then they add them together to make the movie.
For video editing...that would always be in 2D.
Wouldn't the only thing that a 3D card be useful for is real time displaying of 3D enviroments?
The 24-hour "disclaimer" is usually seen on the splash screen to a warez/appz/gamez/romz whatever site. Basically they think that by telling you that you have to delete the downloaded program or rom after 24 hours, that it is legal to share the copyrighted works. This 24 hour period will let you "test" it to make sure it is what you want.
Usually the notice is followed up by a "If you work for the Police, FBI, CIA, NSA or someother TLA, you are hearby forbidden from accessing any content on this site." Both notices hold 0 legal credibility.
Many cities sewer systems have overflow mechanisms that allow raw sewage to wind up ultimately in a nearby river. Those same rivers feed water treatment facilities downstream for other cities' drinking water. I realize that this isn't a direct reclaimation, but it is more "direct" then the evaporation/precipitation route.
Yes, some do like the IPod, but they are not immune to shocks though. Some (all?) models of the IPod have a 32mb buffer, quickly filled by most hard drives in a few seconds and will allow 20 minutes (+/- depending on encoding) of playback uninterrupted. During this time, the drive can spin down and the heads park so that it can sustain a considerable impact. When the drive is spinning and the head seaking, an impact can damage the drive either by a actual head collision with the platter or by damaging the voice coil that moves the heads.
Personally, I think that IPods are great for times when you want to listen to tunes at your desk, on a flight, in your car, etc. If I was going to work out or move around alot, I wouldn't want to bouce around with $500 hard drive. I'd much prefer something with solid state memory.
As someone else mentioned already for this article, because they are handheld. Hard drives usually don't like to be moved/impacted/bumped around when they are running.
I thought that too from the way the article was worded originally, but I think that is probably correct at $12m for the whole project. The majority of the snow is going to be fairly flat and smooth already. I would imagine that most of the work will be in the mountainous region and the occasional filling in of a crevice here and there.
They are compacting snow and smoothing ice. Not building a superhighway. The enviromental impact from the road probably will be negligable. Besides, the penguines will have a new slip-n-slide to play with.
Also, do they use diesel down there? I would have thought that it would gel up in the extreme cold.
It's not a paved road. It's a smoothed compacted snow road. I bet that the majority of the Ross Ice Shelf that they would be traveling over is fairly smooth. Once they get into the mountains is probably where the majority of the cost will lie.
I don't think structural stability will be a problem either. The pieces that break off in the article you linked to was 500 billion tons. A convoy of trucks wouldn't have a significant impact, especially in the middle of the ice shelf.
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It however does not cost you anything to put your phone number under a different name. I could put my name under John Smith. Any phone calls that I receive for John Smith can easily be ignored then and it hasn't cost me a cent.
T-Mobile. The other GSM providers (AT&T & Cingular) do not have a presence in my area yet so I can safely say it was a T-Mobile tower. It was in New Haven, Indiana. Not exacly New York City, but decent coverage. I don't have problems with several other phones I've own so I attributed it to the phone.
That is correct. It doesn't necessarily mean that. But there is a very good chance that would be the tower that you would get since it probably would have the strongest signal. Also, if you are on a fringe area, it may be the only tower for some distance, so if you are getting a signal, then that would be the tower you'd hook up with. The particular area that I had the most problem with was exactly that type of problem. My Moto Timeport, Nokia 3390, and Samsung S105 never had any problems, but my T68 did.
I was expressing my opinion. I said in another post that this is what I experienced. Maybe your's was different. I do know that I am not the only one that was disappointed by the poor reception.
For those of us who don't like to get a new phone number every 12 months, it's 199/299. Maybe a little cheaper, those are T-Mo's prices before any type of loyalty discounts if they apply.
See here for all the problems that people have had. I probably should have said that your reception may suck. Everyone hasn't had problems, but many people have possibly do to the internal antenna.
Whatever the reason is, I think that there are many better phones out there. The screen has an inferior resolution to most color phones out there right now, doesn't have polyphonic or better ringtones (if that interests you), or java applets/midlets. If you want to go spend 199 for the T68 or 299 for the T68i, go for it. I'm just telling you my experience. I thought that the $200 I paid for my S105 was a better deal.
Actually it was T-mobile in NE Indiana.
I did exagerate some, but not much. I bet that 75% of people who have the phone are unhappy with the phones signal strength. I purchased a T68 (the T68i is just cosmetically different for the most part) and the signal was horrorible. Dropped calls, choppy reception...and that was within line of sight of a tower about 300 yards away. Inside buildings or farther away was even worse. Check out Amazon's reviews, howardforum.com, or any other place that has reviews of the phone and you'll see that this isn't just my opinion. This was last October that I experienced this. Maybe they found it was a firmware thing (not likely) or something else wrong since then, but I doubt it.
Taco - If you've been lusting over the T68i, you are going to be sadly disappointed. The reception sucks unless you are withing about 6 inches of a tower. The only plus it has is bluetooth. Do yourself a favor. Get the Samsung S105 if you can't wait.
I never had any intentions of being moderated up to +5, especially by being moderated as +1 Informative.
However, it's their moderation points. It was informative for someone who didn't know. Maybe they are not as culturally as informed as you and I. If other people don't feel that it should be moderated as +1 informative, then it will be meta-moderated as such or moderated as -1 Overrated.
Wile E. Coyote never tried to catch Woody Woodpecker. He was always trying to catch the Road Runner.
SmartRipper and Vidomi. Not that I would know. Sure it's more then 1 click...you have to click 10 times I beleive assuming that you don't want to title the rip at the rip time.
Open SmartRipper (1)
Click Start Rip (2)
Wait for Rip to finish. Click OK (3)
Click X to close app (4)
Open Vidomi (5)
Click Add File (6)
Click file to add (7)
Click open (8)
Click Start (9)
Click X to close app (10).
Of course if you may have a few more steps in there to go to the correct directory, change the file name, etc...but I basically consider it a two step process. Once you get the inital configuration down, it's a cinch.
This assumed that you wanted to make a DivX movie. If you just wanted to backup the DVD, you could just stop at the 4th click since you have the VOB already.
Well, they could do two things...
.iso that came from /dev/random. This would give them access to see what is there, download, and then press the charges
1. They could upload a 650 meg
-or-
2. Upload a real program that they ARE authorized to copy. They get access, see what is there, download, and press charges.
Of course they could always just talk with the ISP/host if it is available.
An even better solution would be not to host an illegal server in the first place.
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: hero
Pronunciation: 'hir-(")O, 'hE-(")rO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural heroes
Etymology: Latin heros, from Greek hErOs
Date: 14th century
1 a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability b : an illustrious warrior c : a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities d : one that shows great courage
2 a : the principal male character in a literary or dramatic work b : the central figure in an event, period, or movement
3 plural usually heros : SUBMARINE 2
4 : an object of extreme admiration and devotion : IDOL
There are more then one type of hero. I agree that WWII soldiers are heroes. I'd say that the in most cases, maybe even all, police/firefighters at the WTC were heroes.
I say that ALL the astronauts are heroes...past, present, and future. Thousands of kids (and adults judging from stories that I have read) have looked up to astronauts with amazement, fantasy, and desire. They have given the public glimpses of what it is like to be in space, presented us with invaluable data from scientific experiences...the list goes on and on.
I think that it would be the greatest thing in the world to be able to do what they do. Will I ever get a chance to do that...probably not in my life time or my kids lifetime. Could I ever do what they have done/accomplished? Probably not either. Astronauts are the cream of the crop. You don't walk onto a space ship without going through years of physical, psychological and education/scientific training. All of these things add up to a hero for me. I have nothing but the utmost extreame admiration towards all cosmonauts.
They did catch a bad break. It's unfortunate that we lost 7 lives, some of which were very bright individuals that possessed talents few have. Please don't rain on other people's feelings. If someone feels that they are a hero to them, then they are a hero. Maybe they did not sacrifice their lives in a battle of freedom from tyranny, rescue your dog from the street, or stop a violent crime, but that none the less does not make them any less a hero to many.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no real experience in the video or graphics industry.
That being said, 3D content creation wouldn't be limited to the card would it?
In the case of raytracing, modeling 3D animation like Pixar, or other similar work...isn't that processor bound? They do everything in memory, then output a single 2d frame. Then repeat for the next frame. Once all the frames have been rendered, then they add them together to make the movie.
For video editing...that would always be in 2D.
Wouldn't the only thing that a 3D card be useful for is real time displaying of 3D enviroments?
Itsn't plutocracy government of the dogs? Actually, since Pluto is a Disney character, it would still be government of the wealthy corporations.
The 24-hour "disclaimer" is usually seen on the splash screen to a warez/appz/gamez/romz whatever site. Basically they think that by telling you that you have to delete the downloaded program or rom after 24 hours, that it is legal to share the copyrighted works. This 24 hour period will let you "test" it to make sure it is what you want.
Usually the notice is followed up by a "If you work for the Police, FBI, CIA, NSA or someother TLA, you are hearby forbidden from accessing any content on this site." Both notices hold 0 legal credibility.
Duh. The obvious solution to backing up your hard drive is to get a DVR-R drive and backup everything to a couple of DVDs. :)
Wasn't the first computer "programmers" female? I'm talking about the ones who flipped the switches and ran the computers.
Many cities sewer systems have overflow mechanisms that allow raw sewage to wind up ultimately in a nearby river. Those same rivers feed water treatment facilities downstream for other cities' drinking water. I realize that this isn't a direct reclaimation, but it is more "direct" then the evaporation/precipitation route.
Yes, some do like the IPod, but they are not immune to shocks though. Some (all?) models of the IPod have a 32mb buffer, quickly filled by most hard drives in a few seconds and will allow 20 minutes (+/- depending on encoding) of playback uninterrupted. During this time, the drive can spin down and the heads park so that it can sustain a considerable impact. When the drive is spinning and the head seaking, an impact can damage the drive either by a actual head collision with the platter or by damaging the voice coil that moves the heads.
Personally, I think that IPods are great for times when you want to listen to tunes at your desk, on a flight, in your car, etc. If I was going to work out or move around alot, I wouldn't want to bouce around with $500 hard drive. I'd much prefer something with solid state memory.
As someone else mentioned already for this article, because they are handheld. Hard drives usually don't like to be moved/impacted/bumped around when they are running.
mispelt werds two? :)
I thought that too from the way the article was worded originally, but I think that is probably correct at $12m for the whole project. The majority of the snow is going to be fairly flat and smooth already. I would imagine that most of the work will be in the mountainous region and the occasional filling in of a crevice here and there.
They are compacting snow and smoothing ice. Not building a superhighway. The enviromental impact from the road probably will be negligable. Besides, the penguines will have a new slip-n-slide to play with.
Also, do they use diesel down there? I would have thought that it would gel up in the extreme cold.
It's not a paved road. It's a smoothed compacted snow road. I bet that the majority of the Ross Ice Shelf that they would be traveling over is fairly smooth. Once they get into the mountains is probably where the majority of the cost will lie.
I don't think structural stability will be a problem either. The pieces that break off in the article you linked to was 500 billion tons. A convoy of trucks wouldn't have a significant impact, especially in the middle of the ice shelf.