...oh, and I now remember *why* they're so annoying...it's because the shows have a tendency to summarise what happened before it broke for the ads, so when you don't have any actual ads, the summary is completely unnecessary...so we keep going...come on..we know all this...get on with it! Tsk.
I seriously don't know how you put up with them. When I lived in the US, I bought a Replay TV, which skipped the ads very nicely...wonderful device.
Now I'm living in Finland, the US shows I watch on TV have half the number of ads, so we have the show 'going to ads' and then coming right back again....better than actually having the ads, but still very annoying.
Please, not paypal...that's too restrictive to non-US countries. I wouldn't mind paying micropayments on my phone bill, and that's probably where I would watch them anyway.
> Apple was able to move to x86 from PPC because the control the hardware and moved their whole product line to it (killing PPC market)
and losing me as a customer in the process, albeit slowly as s/w became more and more incompatible with PPC. Of course, that wasn't the only reason, but still.
but I wouldn't put it in the 'cheap' category. They're not available yet, but the battery is supposed to last for a long time...but it uses the Intel Atom :
In my experience, there are plenty of geeks in PRC, rural or otherwise. People would just take it to their nearest one who is likely making a nice profit from providing the service.
Well, *this* geek looks at the iPhone and compares its feature to pretty much every other phone on the market and wonders why the iPhone can't do the same thing. At least, he did with the first iPhone...kind of lost interest after that.
> No honestly, do you guys have fat unattractive girls over there that no one photographs?
As an Englishman living in Finland, I have to admit, the women here *are* quite attractive, on the whole.
I certainly can't think of anyone who is all of: fat, unattractive, girl, not photographed, *and* over here.
The beach in summer....wow...just WOW....and, remember, the day lasts until 10 or 11 pm in summer.....we don't need no stinkin broadband, 1Mb or otherwise. Oh, right...the winter...yeah, fair enough.
...or you can get a real phone, like one running Symbian, that has been able to do such for 'quite some time', and there's no one to stop you in future, either.
I wonder what voltage the psu uses. I find these devices are annoying in that they usually come with 110V only PSUs. Irritating if you move to a different country...not a deal breaker, but still.
MMS should die, but it can't because people with new phones need to be able to interact with people old phones, and the people who use old phones tend not to have the alternatives (eg email) probably because they require data plans.
What keeps MMS going is that it is convenient. On S60 phones, which are very prolific, it's just a menu option on the camera. I've not seen a phone before iPhone that couldn't receive, so you could send to anyone. It's relatively popular in Asia, I understand - still not often used, but enough to influence a purchase decision, I think.
So, any replacement needs to be as convenient as MMS and it needs to convert to/from MMS in a transparent method. Surely there is something that could do this...
Yes. Liked in Somerset for most of my life, so perhaps they don't have them there much, or I didn't like them or something. Seems I was mistaken. Apologies to all the septics who took offence.
1) smaller 2) easier to maintain 3) less mess 4) cheaper running costs (power, aircon) 5) support/professional services from the manufacturer and from people who know your business 6) just easier overall 7) I expect it's faster too 8) you can make a cluster of these too
some of which is debatable, of course
So long as you can pony up, I see many advantages.
You might want to consider trying out the Nokia N900. I expect they have one to try in the Chicago store - a short drive from where you are, I guess;)
I don't know if they'll be offerred through carriers, or which carriers, but I think carriers are stupid if they don't consider selling the N900 with subsidies...of course, they do often tend to be a little 'counter-intuitive' from my viewpoint at least, especially in the US.
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...oh, and I now remember *why* they're so annoying...it's because the shows have a tendency to summarise what happened before it broke for the ads, so when you don't have any actual ads, the summary is completely unnecessary...so we keep going...come on..we know all this...get on with it! Tsk.
Yes, all those ad break are incredibly annoying.
I seriously don't know how you put up with them. When I lived in the US, I bought a Replay TV, which skipped the ads very nicely...wonderful device.
Now I'm living in Finland, the US shows I watch on TV have half the number of ads, so we have the show 'going to ads' and then coming right back again....better than actually having the ads, but still very annoying.
Please, not paypal...that's too restrictive to non-US countries. I wouldn't mind paying micropayments on my phone bill, and that's probably where I would watch them anyway.
> Apple was able to move to x86 from PPC because the control the hardware and moved their whole product line to it (killing PPC market)
and losing me as a customer in the process, albeit slowly as s/w became more and more incompatible with PPC. Of course, that wasn't the only reason, but still.
The phone I have - Nokia N900 - uses the ARM Cortex A8. I wonder how the processors compare...
If battery life is what you want, you might consider one of these :
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/mini-laptop
but I wouldn't put it in the 'cheap' category. They're not available yet, but the battery is supposed to last for a long time...but it uses the Intel Atom :
CPU and chipset
* Intel® Atom(TM) Z530, 1.6 GHz
* Intel® Poulsbo US15W
yeah, I guess this is more plausible.
> It's something that only a geek would do
In my experience, there are plenty of geeks in PRC, rural or otherwise. People would just take it to their nearest one who is likely making a nice profit from providing the service.
Well, *this* geek looks at the iPhone and compares its feature to pretty much every other phone on the market and wonders why the iPhone can't do the same thing. At least, he did with the first iPhone...kind of lost interest after that.
> I can not remember even one paper form Nokia research
http://research.nokia.com/
Help yourself...
> the other two major OSs have
The *other* two? Since when was Linux a major OS?
Actually, reading my post, I notice I wrote, "I can't *think* of any unattractive women...", not that there weren't any :p
> No honestly, do you guys have fat unattractive girls over there that no one photographs?
As an Englishman living in Finland, I have to admit, the women here *are* quite attractive, on the whole.
I certainly can't think of anyone who is all of: fat, unattractive, girl, not photographed, *and* over here.
The beach in summer....wow...just WOW....and, remember, the day lasts until 10 or 11 pm in summer.....we don't need no stinkin broadband, 1Mb or otherwise. Oh, right...the winter...yeah, fair enough.
...or you can get a real phone, like one running Symbian, that has been able to do such for 'quite some time', and there's no one to stop you in future, either.
> but widespread criticism, including reports of stolen code, forced the Chinese government to reconsider
Ha - pure speculation. What evidence do you have to show why the government chose to reconsider?
Ah, sarcasm. That's mature.
BTW, all the racks I've used require plugging in...if only for the fans.
I wonder what voltage the psu uses. I find these devices are annoying in that they usually come with 110V only PSUs. Irritating if you move to a different country...not a deal breaker, but still.
5.47827155 × 10-7 light years per year (according to google)
yeah, I've about those. There's even an open source one iirc.
my impression is that it's not exactly transparent...
MMS should die, but it can't because people with new phones need to be able to interact with people old phones, and the people who use old phones tend not to have the alternatives (eg email) probably because they require data plans.
What keeps MMS going is that it is convenient. On S60 phones, which are very prolific, it's just a menu option on the camera. I've not seen a phone before iPhone that couldn't receive, so you could send to anyone. It's relatively popular in Asia, I understand - still not often used, but enough to influence a purchase decision, I think.
So, any replacement needs to be as convenient as MMS and it needs to convert to/from MMS in a transparent method. Surely there is something that could do this...
> Are you english?
Yes. Liked in Somerset for most of my life, so perhaps they don't have them there much, or I didn't like them or something. Seems I was mistaken. Apologies to all the septics who took offence.
Well, I never heard of them...but it seems I'm in the minority...perhaps I had one when I was young and never liked them, so I never had them again...
> We still apologize for French's Mustard, which is not french and can barely be called mustard
How about English Muffins? I'd never seen one before I went to the US.
I would start the list with :
1) smaller
2) easier to maintain
3) less mess
4) cheaper running costs (power, aircon)
5) support/professional services from the manufacturer and from people who know your business
6) just easier overall
7) I expect it's faster too
8) you can make a cluster of these too
some of which is debatable, of course
So long as you can pony up, I see many advantages.
You might want to consider trying out the Nokia N900. I expect they have one to try in the Chicago store - a short drive from where you are, I guess ;)
I don't know if they'll be offerred through carriers, or which carriers, but I think carriers are stupid if they don't consider selling the N900 with subsidies...of course, they do often tend to be a little 'counter-intuitive' from my viewpoint at least, especially in the US.