Some of the larger US banks (Chase, Bank of America) have phone apps that you can use to deposit checks remotely by taking a picture of the check in question.
Guess again. I use Chase and sometimes the ATM asks me if I'm interested in signing up for various services (usually Overdraft Protection which they used to provide by default but regulations changed so that they are now required to ask before signing you up).
Yes. The god-forsaken side-scroll trays that my phone keeps accidentally sliding into when I meant to go to the Mail icon. I never use "Favorites", "Media", "Downloads", "Frequent" trays ever. I was waiting for 6.1 to come out because it was rumored to let you lock onto a chosen tray, but if I have to buy a new phone to get rid of this useless "feature", I think I'll pass on all future BlackBerries. Even when work pays for them, it's not worth the frustration. And do I have to mention how badly the new style keyboards suck? The keyboard used to be their only remaining redeeming feature but no more.
Our COO (who happens to be Canadian) bought a PlayBook. It's a really nice and solid piece of hardware, but the software on the device has serious issues including a GUI that doesn't recognize touches half the time you try to click a button. The BlackBery Desktop Manager, which is supposed to be used to sync data, doesn't work properly (works fine with the BlackBerry phones). It was quite an effort to get it to see the PlayBook and then it wouldn't allow him to add media once it finally did recognize it. He took it home to try on his home PC, which is a Mac, only to discover that the current Desktop Manager software for Mac doesn't support the PlayBook yet and will not be ready until sometime in the summer. Then there's the BlackBerry App Store, which is full of hundreds of $0.99 unit conversion utilities but almost nothing else. Looks like they released it too early trying to steal some of the iPad 2's thunder.
CNN is the one my SO cannot live without. Even though CNN has their own streaming channel, it's not "exactly the same as the live CNN channel". Without ala-carte pricing, we're stuck paying $60 per month just for the privilege of watching CNN (plus another $60 for cable internet, but we would probably keep that).
Why not? It's just a basic physics and collision detection which seems to be the foundation for 50% of all iOS games. Isn't there already a library of basic physics built in? Granted the design of the tons of levels that Angy Birds has would take time, but the basic game is pretty simple.
I'm not sure that Saturn would be a good place to stop, considering the ENORMOUS gravity well it has. You'd spend all the fuel you just loaded just to get out of orbit.
Correction: the keyboards USED TO BE pretty good. They keyboard on my new BlackBerry 9780 (Bold) sucks compared to my old 8320 (Curve). The Curve keyboard was nice, with each key separated from its neighbors by a plastic cutout in the face of the phone. The 9780's keyboard is completely mushy and the keys are all bunched together with no separation.
Many public libraries do not allow children to borrow adult-level books, perhaps because they are afraid they will be exposed to "adult ideas" that they aren't ready to process yet, perhaps because adult books typically cost more than children's books. Would you loan out your copy of an expensive textbook to some kid who claims he'll take good care of it yet his own books have been dropped in puddles and chewed on by a dog?
I have no idea if the cable networks make more money for more 'outlets' in a house.
Most cable companies charge a small fee for each digital converter box; so, I guess that counts as "charging more". The "service" stays the same, but the equipment rental fee goes up.
Of course with Comcast, that means the cable service is only available in the "digital" version that requires a converter box, even to watch local free stations. So if you have multiple TVs, you need multiple boxes unless you're creative. We have two boxes covering 6 TVs. The living room TV has one box that splits out to an HTPC for DVR and directly to the TV for when we don't want to deal with the HTPC. The other cable box is connected to a 5-way splitter (one for each of the extra TVs and a SlingBox). There are only two of us so this is sufficient and gives us access to our second cable box on laptops, desktops, and one iPhone as long as we have Internet access (and the iPhone app works over a 3G connection). The disadvantage is that all of the secondary TVs and computers will display the same channel. It might be awkward if you have guests stay over night who like to watch TV in the guest bedroom...
The idea is not so much to improve file transfer speeds, but rather to combine a bunch of cables into a single cable, almost like having a docking station. So instead of plugging in power, video, USB, firewire, etc. devices individually, you leave them connected to a box on your desk and then attach to that box with a single Thunderbolt cable.
I think the more "enlightened" approach used now is to raise the price by $11, keep the additional $1 profit, and claim that "the market" is forcing them to raise prices.
I don't seek to undermine your important point, but I'd prefer to prevent all fatalities from traffic accidents. The people who die in car crashes probably have a better average quality of life and higher average remaining life expectancy than the typical person who dies of flu.
I assume you mean quality of after-life because you don't have any quality of life or remaining life expectancy after dying, regardless of your method of death.
Let me ask you this - Would you be more comfortable opening the Ark in Berlin - for the Fuhrer - and finding out only then if the sacred pieces of the Covenant are inside? Knowing, only then, whether you have accomplished your mission and obtained the one, true Ark?
I'm with you in that I also suck at almost every racing game I've ever played. Maybe it's the fact that I'm trying to steer using a stock controller, but it always seems as though I just think about turning and find myself bouncing off the other side of the track. In a car, you have a little play in the steering wheel before you actually start to turn. Maybe it's the difference in speed, but I can never seem to get the hang of racing games.
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What makes you think that those consequences are unintended?
Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
Some of the larger US banks (Chase, Bank of America) have phone apps that you can use to deposit checks remotely by taking a picture of the check in question.
Guess again. I use Chase and sometimes the ATM asks me if I'm interested in signing up for various services (usually Overdraft Protection which they used to provide by default but regulations changed so that they are now required to ask before signing you up).
Yes. The god-forsaken side-scroll trays that my phone keeps accidentally sliding into when I meant to go to the Mail icon. I never use "Favorites", "Media", "Downloads", "Frequent" trays ever. I was waiting for 6.1 to come out because it was rumored to let you lock onto a chosen tray, but if I have to buy a new phone to get rid of this useless "feature", I think I'll pass on all future BlackBerries. Even when work pays for them, it's not worth the frustration. And do I have to mention how badly the new style keyboards suck? The keyboard used to be their only remaining redeeming feature but no more.
Our COO (who happens to be Canadian) bought a PlayBook. It's a really nice and solid piece of hardware, but the software on the device has serious issues including a GUI that doesn't recognize touches half the time you try to click a button. The BlackBery Desktop Manager, which is supposed to be used to sync data, doesn't work properly (works fine with the BlackBerry phones). It was quite an effort to get it to see the PlayBook and then it wouldn't allow him to add media once it finally did recognize it. He took it home to try on his home PC, which is a Mac, only to discover that the current Desktop Manager software for Mac doesn't support the PlayBook yet and will not be ready until sometime in the summer. Then there's the BlackBerry App Store, which is full of hundreds of $0.99 unit conversion utilities but almost nothing else. Looks like they released it too early trying to steal some of the iPad 2's thunder.
CNN is the one my SO cannot live without. Even though CNN has their own streaming channel, it's not "exactly the same as the live CNN channel". Without ala-carte pricing, we're stuck paying $60 per month just for the privilege of watching CNN (plus another $60 for cable internet, but we would probably keep that).
Why not? It's just a basic physics and collision detection which seems to be the foundation for 50% of all iOS games. Isn't there already a library of basic physics built in? Granted the design of the tons of levels that Angy Birds has would take time, but the basic game is pretty simple.
We're whalers on Saturn's moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.
I'm not sure that Saturn would be a good place to stop, considering the ENORMOUS gravity well it has. You'd spend all the fuel you just loaded just to get out of orbit.
Correction: the keyboards USED TO BE pretty good. They keyboard on my new BlackBerry 9780 (Bold) sucks compared to my old 8320 (Curve). The Curve keyboard was nice, with each key separated from its neighbors by a plastic cutout in the face of the phone. The 9780's keyboard is completely mushy and the keys are all bunched together with no separation.
Could you please rephrase that as a car analogy?
The International Red Cross probably threatened to sue them if they used the English flag.
Many public libraries do not allow children to borrow adult-level books, perhaps because they are afraid they will be exposed to "adult ideas" that they aren't ready to process yet, perhaps because adult books typically cost more than children's books. Would you loan out your copy of an expensive textbook to some kid who claims he'll take good care of it yet his own books have been dropped in puddles and chewed on by a dog?
Most cable companies charge a small fee for each digital converter box; so, I guess that counts as "charging more". The "service" stays the same, but the equipment rental fee goes up.
Of course with Comcast, that means the cable service is only available in the "digital" version that requires a converter box, even to watch local free stations. So if you have multiple TVs, you need multiple boxes unless you're creative. We have two boxes covering 6 TVs. The living room TV has one box that splits out to an HTPC for DVR and directly to the TV for when we don't want to deal with the HTPC. The other cable box is connected to a 5-way splitter (one for each of the extra TVs and a SlingBox). There are only two of us so this is sufficient and gives us access to our second cable box on laptops, desktops, and one iPhone as long as we have Internet access (and the iPhone app works over a 3G connection). The disadvantage is that all of the secondary TVs and computers will display the same channel. It might be awkward if you have guests stay over night who like to watch TV in the guest bedroom...
The tamale industry will be devastated.
Because AMD's drivers suck?
The idea is not so much to improve file transfer speeds, but rather to combine a bunch of cables into a single cable, almost like having a docking station. So instead of plugging in power, video, USB, firewire, etc. devices individually, you leave them connected to a box on your desk and then attach to that box with a single Thunderbolt cable.
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I think the more "enlightened" approach used now is to raise the price by $11, keep the additional $1 profit, and claim that "the market" is forcing them to raise prices.
I tried the link. Pasting in the text resulted in something that was even less comprehensible than the original Latin!
I don't seek to undermine your important point, but I'd prefer to prevent all fatalities from traffic accidents. The people who die in car crashes probably have a better average quality of life and higher average remaining life expectancy than the typical person who dies of flu.
I assume you mean quality of after-life because you don't have any quality of life or remaining life expectancy after dying, regardless of your method of death.
Let me ask you this - Would you be more comfortable opening the Ark in Berlin - for the Fuhrer - and finding out only then if the sacred pieces of the Covenant are inside? Knowing, only then, whether you have accomplished your mission and obtained the one, true Ark?
No, I'm not drunk.
This is unforgivable and must be rectified immediately or economic sanctions will follow.
I'm with you in that I also suck at almost every racing game I've ever played. Maybe it's the fact that I'm trying to steer using a stock controller, but it always seems as though I just think about turning and find myself bouncing off the other side of the track. In a car, you have a little play in the steering wheel before you actually start to turn. Maybe it's the difference in speed, but I can never seem to get the hang of racing games.