I love my netbook. Battery lasts about 7 hours with heavy use, its small and light and 10 inch screen is enough for quite a lot of uses (prefer using vim to eclipse on it though). It's like an ipad except you can create content on it. When it dies, I will buy another one.
By the logic of this author, it's better to open a store in the middle of nowhere than a shopping center, because the middle of nowhere is not saturated with competitors.
The number of applications on the iPhone actually draws in more customers, Apple advertises rather heavily the fact that you can find an app for anything!. It's also been shown that iPhone users are willing to pay money for applications, has the same been shown about android users?
Also I question whether Java is more developer friendly than objective - c. The syntax is more familiar... perhaps, but thats really its only advantage, Objective C also has memory management (if you want it).
Just find the US equivalent of this phone
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/1600/
It's cheap ( 1 week) if you turn off the screensaver
It even has a colour screen
Just dont expect any features besides phone/text
Well to explain further, its not that I lose the connection when I am underground, because I expect that. But sometimes even after the trainride, the connection does not come back up, unless I restart the phone.
It is probably the best mobile phone I have ever owned, for the following reasons:
-It was cheap AU$99 outright,probably cheaper now, I don't worry too much about dropping or breaking it.
-It has a nice colourful display that is easy to read.
-It has a reasonable form factor, not tiny and not huge, not heavy and not too light.
-It can send sms.
-It can make phone calls.
-It has a digital clock.
-It can remember important dates and meetings.
-The battery lasts *for ever* with the right settings. I find myself recharging it less than once a week.
-Even my mother can use the interface.
It does have a few negatives
-The keys feel a bit cheap
-Ocasionally when I go on a train(subway), it loses its connection with vodafone, and I have to turn it off and on. (Probably a firmware bug)
-Cannot add ringtones/skins/java games (who cares?)
-The default settings use more battery than is neccesary
I have owned phones before that were crammed with features (NGAGE anyone?) and I was never as happy with them as I am with this phone. The complete lack of advanced features is it's greatest strength.
Actually I thought the same as you, that voting is not compulsary but turning at the booth was, but... the aec website says differently compulsory_voting
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While I love all the discworld books, "Going Postal" would definately be the one that I think belongs on this list. It even has a bunch of hackers named the GNU(which is still a recursive acronym), talks about packet space and involves a very low tech spoofing exploit. .
I have a flash based river T20 1 gig model, and it works exactly as you asked. All i have to do is drag a file across in nautilus and its on the player. MP3, OGG, WMA you name it. No DRM on the imp3 and Hogg files but it is compatible with windows media 10 bdrm apparently. I cant speak for their other models but the T20 really does act like a portable hard drive that automatically indexes the songs "instantly" when it starts.
I do have a few complaints though, I haven't figured out how to order the songs by file name, it seems to order them by last modified tag. However it does display the ID3 tags correctly
How much will the replicator cartridges cost? I guess at least initially the cost to produce a beer out of thin air, considering electricity and components will be far more than brewing or purchasing the same beer.
Not exactly sure if this is what you are after exactly, but i was considering using it for university. digimemo
Its basically a special notepad and pen combo that generates a digital image of whatever you write on the paper.
I decided not to get it however, as the redundancy of having to write your notes on paper to begin with was a major turn off
Go see the movie, unless you are really hurting for cash. Its got enough scattered scenes that are funny to be worth the money, however dont expect it to be anywhere near the book or radio play in quality, content or humour. It's kind of like if the guys responsible for Star Trek Voyager directed it, you know, missing all understanding of what made the original so good and trying to pander to a modern hollywood stereotype audience (action, romance, adventure).
The radio show and the book were brilliant, funny and off the wall. The movie is just... well... disappointing, they had the funniest material in the world and yet managed to make it bland and hollywoody. Not only that, but it diverged from the books and radio show so much that it feels like 80% of the movie comes from some alternate universe where Douglas Adams was notfunny. However I must say some of the special effects were very good, and the vogons in particular look just right.
Contrary to the U.S Australia has no fair use laws. In this country it's illegal to copy music from a cd you own to any other medium unless you have permission from the copyright author. In particular I refer to this info sheet, http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G070.pd f.
I checked out my domain, which I'm scared to give the name of now and at the top of the page is the following
Certified Offer Service - Make an offer on this domain
Backorder - Get this name when it becomes available
Similar Names - See suggested alternatives for this domain
In addition a sidebar has all the other tld.net,.org etc...
Excuse me? I don't mind getting legitimate offers to purchased this domain but they seem to be offering services to encourage squatters to either steal it (when the registration expires) or to grab similar sounding names so they can profit off typos? Whose brilliant idea was this?
Sigh
I posted this the other day, I'm personally of the opinion that even though allofmp3 is probably 100% legal by russian law, the artist does not get paid in any way.
However according to some music piracy investigation group in australia, its illegal-
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/17/10846461 14240.html
Personally I tend to mistrust the article but perhaps this is because i want it to be untrue. Could someone in the know explain if the statements in the article by Michael Speck are in fact true or just RIAA (ARIA in au) FUD
Good question...
I think russian copyright law and contract law is quite vague in these circumstances and although its probably illegal, it would be almost impossible for the RIAA or (ARIA in au) to bring to trial
but IANAL...
I really love allofmp3.. However the Sydney Morning Herald has this to offer http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/17/10846461 14240.html Suggesting its not legal even in russia. Otoh this MIPI seems like a FUD spreading group so who really knows?
I still have an orange phone line. Its pretty cool I guess although it uses cdma:(. When you buy one you have to call up an activation number and walk around your house.. i guess so their satelite can get fix on you, not good. either way when you make a call from home its counted as a local call with the usual 20c fixed fee. If you use it anywhere else its a mobile call. I dont know about activating it in sydney cbd but i do know that if you make a call with it when you are home, the call remains local even if you leave your house.
I believe they have stopped selling them because too few people were using them as mobiles and instead using them almost exclusivley as local phones.
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I love my netbook. Battery lasts about 7 hours with heavy use, its small and light and 10 inch screen is enough for quite a lot of uses (prefer using vim to eclipse on it though). It's like an ipad except you can create content on it. When it dies, I will buy another one.
By the logic of this author, it's better to open a store in the middle of nowhere than a shopping center, because the middle of nowhere is not saturated with competitors. The number of applications on the iPhone actually draws in more customers, Apple advertises rather heavily the fact that you can find an app for anything!. It's also been shown that iPhone users are willing to pay money for applications, has the same been shown about android users? Also I question whether Java is more developer friendly than objective - c. The syntax is more familiar ... perhaps, but thats really its only advantage, Objective C also has memory management (if you want it).
Just find the US equivalent of this phone http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/1600/ It's cheap ( 1 week) if you turn off the screensaver It even has a colour screen Just dont expect any features besides phone/text
I also like 1mL of water takes up one 1cc and weighs 1 gram (assuming the correct environmental conditions)
Argh, I wrote the above, did not intend for it to be posted as anonymous coward.
I dont know, Talledaga nights had a lot of racing scenes. Those could look pretty good in HD.
You heard wrong....
He is actually making Harry Potter 12 - Snapes on a Train!
Well to explain further, its not that I lose the connection when I am underground, because I expect that.
But sometimes even after the trainride, the connection does not come back up, unless I restart the phone.
Actually I thought the same as you, that voting is not compulsary but turning at the booth was, but ... the aec website says differently
compulsory_voting
Professor Challengero rs/arthur-conan-doyle/when-the-world-screamed/
http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/scottish-auth
While I love all the discworld books, "Going Postal" would definately be the one that I think belongs on this list. It even has a bunch of hackers named the GNU(which is still a recursive acronym), talks about packet space and involves a very low tech spoofing exploit.
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I have a flash based river T20 1 gig model, and it works exactly as you asked. All i have to do is drag a file across in nautilus and its on the player. MP3, OGG, WMA you name it. No DRM on the imp3 and Hogg files but it is compatible with windows media 10 bdrm apparently. I cant speak for their other models but the T20 really does act like a portable hard drive that automatically indexes the songs "instantly" when it starts.
I do have a few complaints though, I haven't figured out how to order the songs by file name, it seems to order them by last modified tag. However it does display the ID3 tags correctly
Doh' you mean now people would have to learn grammar to communicate in english...
How much will the replicator cartridges cost? I guess at least initially the cost to produce a beer out of thin air, considering electricity and components will be far more than brewing or purchasing the same beer.
Not exactly sure if this is what you are after exactly, but i was considering using it for university.
digimemo Its basically a special notepad and pen combo that generates a digital image of whatever you write on the paper.
I decided not to get it however, as the redundancy of having to write your notes on paper to begin with was a major turn off
Go see the movie, unless you are really hurting for cash. Its got enough scattered scenes that are funny to be worth the money, however dont expect it to be anywhere near the book or radio play in quality, content or humour. It's kind of like if the guys responsible for Star Trek Voyager directed it, you know, missing all understanding of what made the original so good and trying to pander to a modern hollywood stereotype audience (action, romance, adventure).
The radio show and the book were brilliant, funny and off the wall. The movie is just... well... disappointing, they had the funniest material in the world and yet managed to make it bland and hollywoody. Not only that, but it diverged from the books and radio show so much that it feels like 80% of the movie comes from some alternate universe where Douglas Adams was notfunny.
However I must say some of the special effects were very good, and the vogons in particular look just right.
Contrary to the U.S Australia has no fair use laws. In this country it's illegal to copy music from a cd you own to any other medium unless you have permission from the copyright author. In particular I refer to this info sheet, http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G070.pd f.
I checked out my domain, which I'm scared to give the name of now and at the top of the page is the following
.net, .org etc ...
Certified Offer Service - Make an offer on this domain
Backorder - Get this name when it becomes available
Similar Names - See suggested alternatives for
this domain
In addition a sidebar has all the other
tld
Excuse me? I don't mind getting legitimate offers to purchased this domain but they seem to be offering services to encourage squatters to either steal it (when the registration expires)
or to grab similar sounding names so they can profit off typos? Whose brilliant idea was this?
Sigh I posted this the other day, I'm personally of the opinion that even though allofmp3 is probably 100% legal by russian law, the artist does not get paid in any way. However according to some music piracy investigation group in australia, its illegal- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/17/10846461 14240.html
Personally I tend to mistrust the article but perhaps this is because i want it to be untrue. Could someone in the know explain if the statements in the article by Michael Speck are in fact true or just RIAA (ARIA in au) FUD
Good question... I think russian copyright law and contract law is quite vague in these circumstances and although its probably illegal, it would be almost impossible for the RIAA or (ARIA in au) to bring to trial but IANAL...
I really love allofmp3..1 14240.html
However the Sydney Morning Herald has this to offer http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/17/1084646
Suggesting its not legal even in russia.
Otoh this MIPI seems like a FUD spreading group
so who really knows?
I still have an orange phone line. Its pretty cool I guess although it uses cdma :(. When you buy one you have to call up an activation number and walk around your house .. i guess so their satelite can get fix on you, not good. either way when you make a call from home its counted as a local call with the usual 20c fixed fee. If you use it anywhere else its a mobile call.
I dont know about activating it in sydney cbd but i do know that if you make a call with it when you are home, the call remains local even if you leave your house.
I believe they have stopped selling them because too few people were using them as mobiles and instead using them almost exclusivley as local phones.