It has the world's worst address book application, which cannot handle the simple task of storing multiple numbers per contact, instead creating new contacts for each number.
Not addressing all your concerns, but if you open the Phonebook, press the menu key and go to setup, then change the "View" from "All Contacts" to "Primary Contacts", you'll get a list of unique names in the phonebook, and scrolling left/right will get the other numbers for that name.
Also, the phonebook s/w should allow you to add numbers/email addresses against a name, and not have to re-type the name again.
My telco (Orange in UK) refunds the cost of dropped calls, so if I'm wandering around and the call drops, I don't get charged. Also, when you turn your phone off, some signalling goes up to the network to tell them that.
One thing no-one has touched on is that the operator also has the regulatory considerations to their coverage - they may be required to cover a certain square mileage / proportion of the population (certainly in 3G) which means that they may have to cover an area entirely populated with Luddites with no cell-phones. As you may guess, this gets quite expensive in hardware, so the radio planning is tweaked to the extreme to stretch coverage as far as possible in some places.
(Note - I work on 3G, which the above applies to. I don't know how much regulation is present in 2G licenses. I wasn't that impressed with the article though - it seems they've just put a fancier GUI to present information that an operator would already collect)
The entire article is a bit disgruntled - bits seem cobbled together from that Games Manifesto and the rest is a rant saying "don't target game content at 14 year old males". Oh, wait. That's the main purchaser of games.
Maybe it would be nice if games could alsobe targetted at other markets, but I suspect the interest just isn't there. Just look at films - barring the odd Titanic / English Patient (eww), how many blockbuster chick-flicks are there? Granted they do exist, but the film market dynamics are different. Currently, the market says "geeky boys play games" - hence games focus their sights on geeky boys.
The movie starts when MESSENGER was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America on Aug. 2. It ends when the probe was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth - farther than the Moon's orbit - on Aug. 3.
Looking at the mpeg with the timestamps, it was pretty much exactly (8mins out) 24 hours, so that makes it travelling at an average speed of roughly 4.29 km/s.
I guess they did - the bastards. Oh, wait, someone does it to 8-year old girls.
I've seen a few programs on the telly that show treatments for certain mental disorders that involve removing segments of the brain. That's the only reference I could dig out with a quick Google, but I'm sure there are others.
Lend me a few quid and I'll try. I think I need around £14Mill to get all the UK lottery tickets - although I risk sharing the prize with someone. Maybe I should get 2 of each to make sure I get a bigger share?
You forget this is PR-speak (the author is a media relations type) - you'll never whip up good publicity/funding by saying that you can't promise the world (or a good view of it!). You never know, they might even be able to do it.
I'd love for accessible space-flight within my lifetime - I doubt it'll happen (unless accessible = "I win a big lottery") but these are good steps in the right direction.
A chum of mine who gets his kicks from disassembling the code refuses to upgrade until it's been hacked to allow that sort of stuff. But then, he's an uber-geek, most punters won't be affected by the loss of these abilities and will instead be impressed by the additional functions available
I wonder if the idea has been floated that having a population asleep for a period of time means that more population can be supported - less energy demands for the sleeping animals means that if an animal is asleep for half the time, it takes less than twice the energy to support twice as many animals. Call it statistical multiplexing population gains, if you will
Can they own a particular performance of a classical work?
short answer: yes
Basically, even though the music may have copyright expired, the performance of music will be copyright for the performance owner (or whoever paid for it). See the rather long discussions on the BBC thread here on/.
Also, even when the copyright expires on the performance, there is still some common law that would prevent copying. Naxos have recently found this out after they bought up old performances of classical music that had expired, tidied them up and re-sold them on (also mentioned in the BBC thread).
If you're not particularly keen on porting family history into a church's docs, and - if you're based in the right country - you might want to try the genesreunited sites. They can use the same format (GEDCOM) as the Mormons (they wrote it) and also allow searching around for matches in other peoples trees.
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Not addressing all your concerns, but if you open the Phonebook, press the menu key and go to setup, then change the "View" from "All Contacts" to "Primary Contacts", you'll get a list of unique names in the phonebook, and scrolling left/right will get the other numbers for that name.
Also, the phonebook s/w should allow you to add numbers/email addresses against a name, and not have to re-type the name again.
My telco (Orange in UK) refunds the cost of dropped calls, so if I'm wandering around and the call drops, I don't get charged. Also, when you turn your phone off, some signalling goes up to the network to tell them that.
One thing no-one has touched on is that the operator also has the regulatory considerations to their coverage - they may be required to cover a certain square mileage / proportion of the population (certainly in 3G) which means that they may have to cover an area entirely populated with Luddites with no cell-phones. As you may guess, this gets quite expensive in hardware, so the radio planning is tweaked to the extreme to stretch coverage as far as possible in some places.
(Note - I work on 3G, which the above applies to. I don't know how much regulation is present in 2G licenses. I wasn't that impressed with the article though - it seems they've just put a fancier GUI to present information that an operator would already collect)
The heating of organic materials that contain fats to produce a bio-diesel fuel - not quite the image of burning dead cats (thankfully).
Maybe it would be nice if games could alsobe targetted at other markets, but I suspect the interest just isn't there. Just look at films - barring the odd Titanic / English Patient (eww), how many blockbuster chick-flicks are there? Granted they do exist, but the film market dynamics are different. Currently, the market says "geeky boys play games" - hence games focus their sights on geeky boys.
Volcanic soil, on the other hand... :)
The movie starts when MESSENGER was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America on Aug. 2. It ends when the probe was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth - farther than the Moon's orbit - on Aug. 3.
Looking at the mpeg with the timestamps, it was pretty much exactly (8mins out) 24 hours, so that makes it travelling at an average speed of roughly 4.29 km/s.
I've seen a few programs on the telly that show treatments for certain mental disorders that involve removing segments of the brain. That's the only reference I could dig out with a quick Google, but I'm sure there are others.
I'd love for accessible space-flight within my lifetime - I doubt it'll happen (unless accessible = "I win a big lottery") but these are good steps in the right direction.
Just a thought - IANABiologist
Same thing as what's wrong with "Aluminum" vs "Aluminium" - the pronounciation-fascists don't like it
What, like one of these?
Go get 'er tiger. 2048 x 1536 @ 85 Hz. 250 quid bargain
short answer: yes
Basically, even though the music may have copyright expired, the performance of music will be copyright for the performance owner (or whoever paid for it). See the rather long discussions on the BBC thread here on /.
Also, even when the copyright expires on the performance, there is still some common law that would prevent copying. Naxos have recently found this out after they bought up old performances of classical music that had expired, tidied them up and re-sold them on (also mentioned in the BBC thread).