Having actually tried the keyboard, it's not even remotely difficult. It's way faster (and more accurate) than handwriting recognition. As for the stylus--sorry, I had a Palm once. A stylus is about as useless as a cigarette holder. Compared to the iPhone, a stylus is like never being allowed to use your hands, except to operate tongs.
Apple ships you a tested, refurbished-or-new iPhone/iPod.
Once the stock of bad iPhones/iPods has built up, they are batch-shipped to manufacturing for refurbishing.
Newly-refurbished iPhones/iPods are received at Apple and added to the queue.
And it's quite possible that steps 1 and 2 are reversed--Apple ships you a replacement unit and you use the same box with the pre-attached RMA to send your unit back. I had to go through this rigamarole with an iPod once and I honestly can't remember how it went.
What, a neat little pyramid graphic with no apparent source and no backing data is a reliable source? Hey, I can use MS Paint too! Does that make me an expert on learning?
You have a Treo. Not allowing transfers to or from smartphones negates the whole idea of a smartphone. If you have an ordinary cellphone from Verizon, they most certainly do block picture transfers.
Nobody of consequences uses GSM in the US besides T-Mobile and AT&T. The other major players in the US Cell market (Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular) use CDMA.
"Nobody of consequences except half of the major carriers" is still half of the major carriers. (US Cellular isn't a national player, just a regional one.) Whereas GSM is a standard in the rest of the world, allowing someone with a GSM phone to travel worldwide.
I'll tell you about one issue--I got a bunch of "roaming minutes" charged to my phone, despite making those calls from the exact same room that is supposedly within Verizon's "extended network", and which I had never been charged "roaming minutes" for in the past, despite whether or not my phone said "roaming" or "extended network". It took multiple calls to Verizon to resolve this. I recall one representative telling me that he had experienced similar billing anomalies in the past, trying to play it off as no big deal. I was tempted to ask why on earth he worked for this company, since I would never work for a company that screwed me over like that. Ultimately, when I learned the magic incantation "floor manager" to speak to customer service, I was able to resolve a problem that Verizon created out of whole cloth for me to solve to begin with.
On other occasions, representatives have been rude to me, have presented me with contradictory information, and have in general been unresponsive. I guess, technically, they've "resolved" my issues, but never to my satisfaction. (One exception--awhile ago there were news stories about phone companies giving out records to the NSA. I called Verizon Wireless and received the authoritative statement that "Verizon Wireless isn't giving out phone call records to the NSA." from Michael Manalo, an "Executive Consultant". Knowing Verizon's past history, however, I have little reason to believe they weren't flat-out lying.) Not to mention the entire.02 cents debacle--not my problem, but from my 5-6 years of experience with Verizon, it seems completely in character.
On the other hand, Verizon Wireless has horrible customer service, cripples their phones (to the extent that, for instance, you can't even get your pictures off of them and onto your computer without using some proprietary service), doesn't use GSM...
Efforts to desegregate schools can't look at the race of students. In other words, while a school can't officially be "whites only", it effectively can't be stopped from actually being whites only because the district can't consider race in school assignment and, more critically -- if you go by the majority's wording -- cannot even be monitored to know if they're unofficially skewing a school towards racial segregation. All this despite racial integration proving to be one of the few things in education that significantly improves the average academic scores of an area without a significant increase in funding.
Going out of our way to racially integrate schools was a very silly idea to begin with. Should there be school choice to go to a better or closer school? Absolutely. Should this be subverted because one school has too many white people already? That's just silly. And racial integration is the worst place to do this--given the lengths that people go to to segregate themselves, it's not that feasible to force things.
The American poor (with the exception of the homeless) have cable TV and an obesity problem. Compared to the Mexicans, they're fine. The Mexicans come here because they aspire to be poor by American standards (as opposed to Mexican standards) when they move back to Mexico.
What your wife had to go through is a perfect illustration of why we need immigration reform--not to make it harder to immigrate illegally, but to make it easier to immigrate legally. There is no reason anyone has to go through that bullshit just to get a visa.
That's the University of Washington. Washington State University is a public university in Pullman. The University of Washington is a public university in Seattle. The University of Washington invented pine and The Wave (as seen in crowds at sporting events). Washington State University was Paul Allen's alma mater until he left, helped start Microsoft, and gave a lot of money to the University of Washington.
That's a rather tidy way of saying "dump it out in your yard along with your banana peels to rot". Why can't the garbage company dump it in their yard along with my banana peels to rot? Then they could sell it as fertilizer.
There are two measures of inflation. One, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) does measure the difference between how much money you need this year vs. last year to pay for living expenses. CPI is based upon a "market basket" of goods. Actually, there are a few different CPI's, only one of which excludes food and energy because of their volatility. (This is a good thing--if there was massive inflation the same year that giant plastic-recycling microwaves start producing and refining oil, the plummet in gas prices would deceptively hide the inflation. Also, food and fuel prices vary geographically--Hawaii pays more than Florida for oranges, for obvious reasons) There are different measures of inflation that are used to adjust GDP--it's these that measure the difference in the value of the dollar, regardless of the other macroeconomic factors that affect cost of living.
I did mention two specific reasons. First, the market is already flooded with action games, and Civilization used to be one of the few exceptions. Second, adding "action" to a game usually entails making it faster-paced, so less thinking will be involved.
I also criticize you for not carefully reading my post--had you noticed that these ideas were implicit in what I already wrote, I would not have to repeat myself in spelling it out to you.
This is the worst idea I've heard in my life. I guess people who think are no longer in the video game market, huh? Instead we're stuck with action, action, and participatory anime (RPG's).
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Pretty much all of that is still true with iPhone.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
I've never had that problem.
Then it might as well be a Motorola StarTAC.
Having actually tried the keyboard, it's not even remotely difficult. It's way faster (and more accurate) than handwriting recognition. As for the stylus--sorry, I had a Palm once. A stylus is about as useless as a cigarette holder. Compared to the iPhone, a stylus is like never being allowed to use your hands, except to operate tongs.
The process is something like this:
And it's quite possible that steps 1 and 2 are reversed--Apple ships you a replacement unit and you use the same box with the pre-attached RMA to send your unit back. I had to go through this rigamarole with an iPod once and I honestly can't remember how it went.
What, a neat little pyramid graphic with no apparent source and no backing data is a reliable source? Hey, I can use MS Paint too! Does that make me an expert on learning?
That's what I call social responsibility.
You have a Treo. Not allowing transfers to or from smartphones negates the whole idea of a smartphone. If you have an ordinary cellphone from Verizon, they most certainly do block picture transfers.
"Nobody of consequences except half of the major carriers" is still half of the major carriers. (US Cellular isn't a national player, just a regional one.) Whereas GSM is a standard in the rest of the world, allowing someone with a GSM phone to travel worldwide.
I'll tell you about one issue--I got a bunch of "roaming minutes" charged to my phone, despite making those calls from the exact same room that is supposedly within Verizon's "extended network", and which I had never been charged "roaming minutes" for in the past, despite whether or not my phone said "roaming" or "extended network". It took multiple calls to Verizon to resolve this. I recall one representative telling me that he had experienced similar billing anomalies in the past, trying to play it off as no big deal. I was tempted to ask why on earth he worked for this company, since I would never work for a company that screwed me over like that. Ultimately, when I learned the magic incantation "floor manager" to speak to customer service, I was able to resolve a problem that Verizon created out of whole cloth for me to solve to begin with.
On other occasions, representatives have been rude to me, have presented me with contradictory information, and have in general been unresponsive. I guess, technically, they've "resolved" my issues, but never to my satisfaction. (One exception--awhile ago there were news stories about phone companies giving out records to the NSA. I called Verizon Wireless and received the authoritative statement that "Verizon Wireless isn't giving out phone call records to the NSA." from Michael Manalo, an "Executive Consultant". Knowing Verizon's past history, however, I have little reason to believe they weren't flat-out lying.) Not to mention the entire .02 cents debacle--not my problem, but from my 5-6 years of experience with Verizon, it seems completely in character.
On the other hand, Verizon Wireless has horrible customer service, cripples their phones (to the extent that, for instance, you can't even get your pictures off of them and onto your computer without using some proprietary service), doesn't use GSM...
Going out of our way to racially integrate schools was a very silly idea to begin with. Should there be school choice to go to a better or closer school? Absolutely. Should this be subverted because one school has too many white people already? That's just silly. And racial integration is the worst place to do this--given the lengths that people go to to segregate themselves, it's not that feasible to force things.
The American poor (with the exception of the homeless) have cable TV and an obesity problem. Compared to the Mexicans, they're fine. The Mexicans come here because they aspire to be poor by American standards (as opposed to Mexican standards) when they move back to Mexico.
Wow, just what I wanted! A 19th-century economy in my country!
What your wife had to go through is a perfect illustration of why we need immigration reform--not to make it harder to immigrate illegally, but to make it easier to immigrate legally. There is no reason anyone has to go through that bullshit just to get a visa.
Honestly, it's that kind of dumb shit that makes real-time strategy not at all entertaining to me most of the time.
That's the University of Washington. Washington State University is a public university in Pullman. The University of Washington is a public university in Seattle. The University of Washington invented pine and The Wave (as seen in crowds at sporting events). Washington State University was Paul Allen's alma mater until he left, helped start Microsoft, and gave a lot of money to the University of Washington.
That's 6553 years from now! Are we REALLY going to have Vikings then?
That's a rather tidy way of saying "dump it out in your yard along with your banana peels to rot". Why can't the garbage company dump it in their yard along with my banana peels to rot? Then they could sell it as fertilizer.
You wouldn't be able to up and say "oh, this is an Anglo-Saxon word", but I wouldn't be surprised if people subconsciously recognize patterns.
There are two measures of inflation. One, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) does measure the difference between how much money you need this year vs. last year to pay for living expenses. CPI is based upon a "market basket" of goods. Actually, there are a few different CPI's, only one of which excludes food and energy because of their volatility. (This is a good thing--if there was massive inflation the same year that giant plastic-recycling microwaves start producing and refining oil, the plummet in gas prices would deceptively hide the inflation. Also, food and fuel prices vary geographically--Hawaii pays more than Florida for oranges, for obvious reasons) There are different measures of inflation that are used to adjust GDP--it's these that measure the difference in the value of the dollar, regardless of the other macroeconomic factors that affect cost of living.
I'm sure it is, but "it's a different game" says it all.
I did mention two specific reasons. First, the market is already flooded with action games, and Civilization used to be one of the few exceptions. Second, adding "action" to a game usually entails making it faster-paced, so less thinking will be involved.
I also criticize you for not carefully reading my post--had you noticed that these ideas were implicit in what I already wrote, I would not have to repeat myself in spelling it out to you.
I guess in your world, people aren't allowed to criticize anything. I would hate to live in your world.
This is the worst idea I've heard in my life. I guess people who think are no longer in the video game market, huh? Instead we're stuck with action, action, and participatory anime (RPG's).
Perhaps we need to invade Sweden. After all, Eisenhower got the idea for the interstate highway from Germany's autobahns.
I think you've narrowed it down to a sufficiently tiny subset there.