This crap gets modded up again? For years I could not get anything better than 3/768 DSL or 5/512 Cable (worse actually) in the middle of friggin' Manhattan. In any of our two locations, Chelsea and Upper East side that was the best available. The same for both the homes I lived in, on in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Finally last year I think it was speakeasy that offered us "up to" 12 Mbit DSL for... wait for it... 160$!!! Yes, it was static IP included (you didn't have a choice), but come on! Supposedly FIOS is coming "soon"... Meanwhile, in Athens Greece, with Greece being among the worse (or the worst) among EU nations in internet speed, everyone I know has had at least 8Mbit (currently "up to" 24, with 10-13 being the usual case at the typical 1-2km distance from a DSLAM) for about 30-40 Euro. And again, this is among the worse of EU. So, yeah, do your nice comparisons. Delaware = Romania and don't forget New York = Zimbambwe and chill out, no need to ask for more!
to fit a larger baby image on his 1957 computer? From what I get from the article for him it is like a day has not passed since then and things like image compression were never invented. Oh, wait, that is what Alzheimer's does to you... I see... Anyway, we should thank him for the pixel (and for it being square and not something ridiculous that would give us problems for years to come...).
Different root. Also, Greece should ideally be pronounced with a silent "H" and accented at the last syllable, nothing like Cartman's favorite word. Also, 10^27 is not such a big number and already has a name in (I guess) most languages. If you are interested, in Greek it is called "oktakis ekatommirio".
Ok, the show kinda sucks if you are not under 15 (fortunately I was at the time), but what about that opening theme? A classic over-the-top pompous orchestral score switching to the funkiest 70's beat! And actually that part which is the only aspect I really appreciate now, I did not really "get" as a kid...
1) In 2006 we wanted to support phones that were manufactured in 2004-2005. Actually there were official statistics updated monthly about the Symbian OS penetration and 3+ year old symbian devices at the time amounted to around 30% of the user base, more than the 9.x devices IIRC. 2) I am not talking about just an app store. Any distribution system would help. We had an equivalent app for BREW devices and it was distributed by carriers. Note that if it was *just* this problem it would not amount to much. 3) I am talking mainly about backward compatibility on OS level. Do android 1.6 apps work on android 2.1 (as-is or with minimal work)? I haven't worked on android but I suspect the answer is yes. Also, is it possible to have a single app run on android 1.6 - 2.1? I suspect the answer is also yes? I don't get it about the iOS on old iphones comment. I never expected Symbian 9.x to run on ancient devices, this is all about app compatibility.
9.1 was released in 2005, however we did not try to port until there was a market, IIRC over a year later. Yeah, now you can target Qt, but, as they say, it is too little too late. For the record, back at that time (2005) I bought a N770 for my company, as we usually evaluate all potentially interesting devices. I had told my boss that I could not believe Nokia keeps up with the Symbian madness and does not polish up Maemo and put it on a phone... It was so obvious that only Nokia could take 5 long years to figure it out...
The company I work for develops for many platforms and it was trying to have a line of Symbian apps as well. The effort required for porting from one OS version to the next was usualy not insignificant (ridiculous - most other OS's are more or less backwards compatible) and especially the jump from 8 to 9.x was so big that the boss just decided to give up on the platform (the non-existent app store or distribution system plus the fact we would have to keep working on separate versions to support pre-OS 9.x users were among the factors considered).
The solar power plant does not cost much to run, so almost all of the energy cost is the installation. So that is $20000/home for many years of power, plus the jobs...
However, suggesting that Apple is being deceptive when they are doing a reasonable job of mitigating a hardware problem by providing a software update is not accurate or fair.
No, Apple is not deceptive now, but they have been deceptive all these years since they admit bias in showing full signal since the first iPhone. Don't tell me they did not design it that way to not have people figure out other phones have better reception? They end the deception (right after an Anandtech article exposing it) by trying to spin it into explaining at least part of the problem with iPhone 4 (although people complain about the dropped calls not about the bars).
Whoa there! Fax looks like shit because it is about 100dpi (the usual non-hi rez, otherwise 200) with ONE BIT COLOR. I am not very familiar with printer technology so they might be able to vary the dot size and thus not be exactly like the 1 bit fax, but in any case 300 dpi is certainly not enough and not comparable to a 300 ppi screen as the 600 dpi prints appear to be much better than the 300dpi.
If the post wasn't clear, the dpi of the printers is to the ppi of the screens what apples are to avocados.
Uh, I had a Toshiba e805 in 2003 at 200ppi (640x480, 4")... It was replaced by a Dell X50v in 2004 at 210ppi (640x480, 3.8")... I got a Nokia 770 in 2005 which was at 225ppi (800x480, 4.1")... When I first tried to browse on the iphone my company provided me (for development), I was appalled by the horrid (by my standards) resolution which made the device useless for me. I currently have a Nokia N900, which at 267 ppi I think does not need any more resolution (for example the default font on freeciv is very hard to read at the native resolution). So now after all these years of lagging horribly, Apple decides to provide a display with good resolution (actually higher than I like for the screen size) and the idiot fans are running amok...
P.S. It is not clear for the above, but for me the optimal resolution/size for a mobile device would be around 4" running at 800x480 - the Nokia 770 was the closest I had at that.
So I can just grab a photo of the user whose PC I want to log onto and show it to the cam? Much easier to crack than that darn retinal scan that requires me to get the eyeballs of my victim...
Could you explain it a bit more? When you start going faster than the wind, don't you lose the "positive pressure" of the wind, since it is now against you? What am I missing?
What do you mean? You use google to go to ebay? I guess you don't like to use the address bar? When I shop from newegg, ebay etc I go directly, I would assume it is the most common procedure. If I want to compare stores & prices I use specialized sites like retailerratings.com, pricegrabber etc. Oh, and the ebay referal bonus could not possibly amount to anything close to the 8%-20% range that bing was giving.
I don't know what sites you looked at, but this was never the case for large sites like newegg, buy.com, overstock etc. However, the greatest deal was the 20% (later dropped to 8%) cash back on ebay get it now purchases. I saved a lot of money with that and could never figure out how they could afford it. Plus, even if I loved the cash back thing, I would only visit bing to go to ebay through it - google was still my search engine, so they didn't gain anything by paying me. In all canceling the program seems to me an inevitable (and late) decision.
So you are saying Microsoft is not the child prodigy that becomes a powerful evil force, but is instead the guy that is forced to betray his friend, but then saves him as well as his companions and goes on to become a rebel hero?
Hmm, as I said before, Star Trek is more "my thing", so I might be missing things here...
We're talking about episode VI, right? Vader kills the Emperor? So I guess, this is enough for Microsoft (or its ghost) to be welcomed by Yoda, Obi-Wan or the/. crowd?
Hmm, on the other hand I was always a Star Trek fan myself, so I might be shooting blanks here...
In a casino the odds are against you anyway, by definition. The even worse odds at an online casino will only accelerate the inevitable outcome. That is not necessarily bad, e.g. if you were going to stop when you lost all your money, at least you saved some time... Now. if you were not going to stop even after losing all your money... oh well...
Ah, but of course! IBM's Perseus Graphics Controller (PGC), I remember back in the 80's, it could do some serious CAD stuff, so that's what all the fuss is about?;)
I am sure that something horribly wrong like an elephant stampede through your living room would occur if you decided to play regular scrabble with the new rules instead of shelling out for the "new version".
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This crap gets modded up again? For years I could not get anything better than 3/768 DSL or 5/512 Cable (worse actually) in the middle of friggin' Manhattan. In any of our two locations, Chelsea and Upper East side that was the best available. The same for both the homes I lived in, on in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Finally last year I think it was speakeasy that offered us "up to" 12 Mbit DSL for... wait for it... 160$!!! Yes, it was static IP included (you didn't have a choice), but come on! Supposedly FIOS is coming "soon"...
Meanwhile, in Athens Greece, with Greece being among the worse (or the worst) among EU nations in internet speed, everyone I know has had at least 8Mbit (currently "up to" 24, with 10-13 being the usual case at the typical 1-2km distance from a DSLAM) for about 30-40 Euro. And again, this is among the worse of EU.
So, yeah, do your nice comparisons. Delaware = Romania and don't forget New York = Zimbambwe and chill out, no need to ask for more!
Guess they shouldn't bother and go straight here then http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous-people.html
Great source:
George W. Bush
IQ Score 125
*cough*Is that in octal?*caugh*
And other gems like Tarrantino == Stephen Hawking etc.
I am not saying IQ tests are accurate depictions of anything, but, come on...
to fit a larger baby image on his 1957 computer?
From what I get from the article for him it is like a day has not passed since then and things like image compression were never invented.
Oh, wait, that is what Alzheimer's does to you... I see...
Anyway, we should thank him for the pixel (and for it being square and not something ridiculous that would give us problems for years to come...).
Different root. Also, Greece should ideally be pronounced with a silent "H" and accented at the last syllable, nothing like Cartman's favorite word.
Also, 10^27 is not such a big number and already has a name in (I guess) most languages. If you are interested, in Greek it is called "oktakis ekatommirio".
Ok, the show kinda sucks if you are not under 15 (fortunately I was at the time), but what about that opening theme? A classic over-the-top pompous orchestral score switching to the funkiest 70's beat! And actually that part which is the only aspect I really appreciate now, I did not really "get" as a kid...
1) In 2006 we wanted to support phones that were manufactured in 2004-2005. Actually there were official statistics updated monthly about the Symbian OS penetration and 3+ year old symbian devices at the time amounted to around 30% of the user base, more than the 9.x devices IIRC.
2) I am not talking about just an app store. Any distribution system would help. We had an equivalent app for BREW devices and it was distributed by carriers. Note that if it was *just* this problem it would not amount to much.
3) I am talking mainly about backward compatibility on OS level. Do android 1.6 apps work on android 2.1 (as-is or with minimal work)? I haven't worked on android but I suspect the answer is yes. Also, is it possible to have a single app run on android 1.6 - 2.1? I suspect the answer is also yes?
I don't get it about the iOS on old iphones comment. I never expected Symbian 9.x to run on ancient devices, this is all about app compatibility.
9.1 was released in 2005, however we did not try to port until there was a market, IIRC over a year later. Yeah, now you can target Qt, but, as they say, it is too little too late.
For the record, back at that time (2005) I bought a N770 for my company, as we usually evaluate all potentially interesting devices. I had told my boss that I could not believe Nokia keeps up with the Symbian madness and does not polish up Maemo and put it on a phone... It was so obvious that only Nokia could take 5 long years to figure it out...
The company I work for develops for many platforms and it was trying to have a line of Symbian apps as well. The effort required for porting from one OS version to the next was usualy not insignificant (ridiculous - most other OS's are more or less backwards compatible) and especially the jump from 8 to 9.x was so big that the boss just decided to give up on the platform (the non-existent app store or distribution system plus the fact we would have to keep working on separate versions to support pre-OS 9.x users were among the factors considered).
Oh, sorry, it looked like an RPG to me...
The solar power plant does not cost much to run, so almost all of the energy cost is the installation. So that is $20000/home for many years of power, plus the jobs...
However, suggesting that Apple is being deceptive when they are doing a reasonable job of mitigating a hardware problem by providing a software update is not accurate or fair.
No, Apple is not deceptive now, but they have been deceptive all these years since they admit bias in showing full signal since the first iPhone. Don't tell me they did not design it that way to not have people figure out other phones have better reception?
They end the deception (right after an Anandtech article exposing it) by trying to spin it into explaining at least part of the problem with iPhone 4 (although people complain about the dropped calls not about the bars).
Whoa there!
Fax looks like shit because it is about 100dpi (the usual non-hi rez, otherwise 200) with ONE BIT COLOR.
I am not very familiar with printer technology so they might be able to vary the dot size and thus not be exactly like the 1 bit fax, but in any case 300 dpi is certainly not enough and not comparable to a 300 ppi screen as the 600 dpi prints appear to be much better than the 300dpi.
If the post wasn't clear, the dpi of the printers is to the ppi of the screens what apples are to avocados.
Uh, I had a Toshiba e805 in 2003 at 200ppi (640x480, 4")...
It was replaced by a Dell X50v in 2004 at 210ppi (640x480, 3.8")...
I got a Nokia 770 in 2005 which was at 225ppi (800x480, 4.1")...
When I first tried to browse on the iphone my company provided me (for development), I was appalled by the horrid (by my standards) resolution which made the device useless for me.
I currently have a Nokia N900, which at 267 ppi I think does not need any more resolution (for example the default font on freeciv is very hard to read at the native resolution).
So now after all these years of lagging horribly, Apple decides to provide a display with good resolution (actually higher than I like for the screen size) and the idiot fans are running amok...
P.S. It is not clear for the above, but for me the optimal resolution/size for a mobile device would be around 4" running at 800x480 - the Nokia 770 was the closest I had at that.
So I can just grab a photo of the user whose PC I want to log onto and show it to the cam?
Much easier to crack than that darn retinal scan that requires me to get the eyeballs of my victim...
Could you explain it a bit more? When you start going faster than the wind, don't you lose the "positive pressure" of the wind, since it is now against you? What am I missing?
What do you mean? You use google to go to ebay? I guess you don't like to use the address bar?
When I shop from newegg, ebay etc I go directly, I would assume it is the most common procedure. If I want to compare stores & prices I use specialized sites like retailerratings.com, pricegrabber etc.
Oh, and the ebay referal bonus could not possibly amount to anything close to the 8%-20% range that bing was giving.
I don't know what sites you looked at, but this was never the case for large sites like newegg, buy.com, overstock etc. However, the greatest deal was the 20% (later dropped to 8%) cash back on ebay get it now purchases. I saved a lot of money with that and could never figure out how they could afford it. Plus, even if I loved the cash back thing, I would only visit bing to go to ebay through it - google was still my search engine, so they didn't gain anything by paying me. In all canceling the program seems to me an inevitable (and late) decision.
I hate posts without proper links...
So, who will post the direct link to the girl with an interesting way of eating a banana?
Who's anus?
So you are saying Microsoft is not the child prodigy that becomes a powerful evil force, but is instead the guy that is forced to betray his friend, but then saves him as well as his companions and goes on to become a rebel hero?
Hmm, as I said before, Star Trek is more "my thing", so I might be missing things here...
We're talking about episode VI, right? Vader kills the Emperor? /. crowd?
So I guess, this is enough for Microsoft (or its ghost) to be welcomed by Yoda, Obi-Wan or the
Hmm, on the other hand I was always a Star Trek fan myself, so I might be shooting blanks here...
In a casino the odds are against you anyway, by definition. The even worse odds at an online casino will only accelerate the inevitable outcome. That is not necessarily bad, e.g. if you were going to stop when you lost all your money, at least you saved some time... Now. if you were not going to stop even after losing all your money... oh well...
Ah, but of course! IBM's Perseus Graphics Controller (PGC), I remember back in the 80's, it could do some serious CAD stuff, so that's what all the fuss is about? ;)
I am sure that something horribly wrong like an elephant stampede through your living room would occur if you decided to play regular scrabble with the new rules instead of shelling out for the "new version".
Wait, you meant cromoulent? Oh, perhaps that was US English?