Why do that ? Just boot up and edit the kernel commands when prompted to choose a kernel (or during the short delay before the kernel loads). Simply add a 1 to the end of the command line and hit return. The system boots in single user mode (root) from where you can change his standard user passwd.
I thought IBM would be the first to market with this technology. I remember reading a report from them last century (can't find it now) but I did find this from 1999.
No, actually third world is the only correct usage of the group. The other 2 are Old World (Eurasia) and New World (The Americas). Third world is so named because it is neither of the other two.
I'm sorry, but have you forgotten that you are posting on/. ? There is no such thing as unlimited downloads unless you have unlimited bandwidth. AFAIK, no-one is selling unlimited bandwidth. Here in the UK most ISPs offer "up to 8Mbps" bandwidth allocations, which is dependent on location relative to the exchange. Natural download limits are related to your available bandwidth. For example, I have an "up to 8Mbps" connection, but due to my location I'm getting a connection of roughly 6Mbps. That equates to roughly 760KBps, which in turn should allow me to transfer a total of 1.84 TERABYTES of data per month. Is this a reasonable figure for domestic use ? I think not. For one thing, you would need 4 * 500GB hard disks per month to store the data, unless you were deleting everything constantly. Also, I would like to know what you can actually download, that requires that amount of traffic. Even if I'm downloading movies at full dvd9 size, then I would be expecting to download and watch over 208 full length films per month, which amounts to nearly 7 films per day. Unfortunately, I work for a living, and have to sleep occasionally. Not to mention that finding 208 new films to watch every month is impossible. I think fair use means what it says, and the scenario I described above, does not meet the definition. If you really need to have that much data coming over your phat pipe, then get a commercial solution, but unless you have a large income then you won't be able to afford it. So how come somebody paying less that $50/month expects to get more throughput than commercial subscribers paying 100 times as much ? I put it down to greed and ignorance. Ignorance is due to the fact that to the general public, 8Mbps means 8 megabytes per second, so their expectations are off by a factor of 8 to start with. Not to mention the fact that to achieve the absolute maximum, the connection would have to be no more than 1 hop away on the same network. To expect to get full advertised speed when accessing a website hosted on another continent is completely unreasonable, and that's without taking into account other sources of congestion, like *other users* ! The second element is greed. While you may applaud some idiot for trying to enforce the "all you can eat" offer in some random restaurant, would you expect to do the same thing, day in day out ? Do you even respect someone for attempting that ? But somehow, because it's on the internet, it's ok. Now, having said all that, the ISPs are wrong to state Unlimited downloads, because as I have shown, there is a natural limit imposed by the bandwidth and the conditions. But for the average domestic user, their connection is by and large, unlimited. They are never going to hit 1.8TB in a month, even if they were the only person on their network. I have always taken the term unlimited to mean that the ISP doesn't restrict my downloads, i.e. blocking connections when I hit some secret figure, but to be honest, I've never found that to be the case. BT as my ISP states that it will rate limit p2p at busy times so as not to negatively affect the network, but surely that's a good thing ? Why should some kid torrenting the latest badly shot cam of a shit movie affect my download from linux isos ? In short, get into the real world where you have to co-exist with the rest of the population, and stop expecting everything as your exclusive right, to the detriment of all around you. If you really expect advertising to tell the truth then go buy the next *best* thing, because I guarantee that it won't be the best at all, but that's advertising for you. An insightful buyer of any product or service will educate themselves about that product or service before signing on the bottom line, and should know what they're getting. The sad part about all the fuss that is made about the "unlimited" claims, is that no-one has even come close to requiring the amount of transfer that they are claiming. It's all just so much emo wanking over a misperceived loss of service, fue
You do realise that you're talking rubbish ?
I have posted on this before but for the record - I drive a truck, 18 wheeler, hgv, whatever you like to call it where-ever you are. I regularly collect shipping containers from major ports around the UK (which is part of the EU). I have been pulled to one side while leaving the port before (last year sometime) because I had set off the *radiation detectors*. The stated contents of the container were toilets shipped from China. The officials used a higher spec machine to check the load, and found it to be what it purported to be. I was allowed to continue on my way. EVERY truck leaving the major UK ports is scanned automatically, and if it can pick up the residual radiation given off by porcelain, then I'm pretty sure it would pick up weapons grade nuclear material. Felixstowe One of my trucks.
The PC is supposed to be a general purpose computing environment. All your points about Vista simply point out that all those increases in capability are solely to allow Vista to run. They do nothing to improve the capability of other software running under Vista. It's an OS fer christs sake ! I can run a 3d desktop with linux using 512MB RAM and an old XP2200+ AMD chip. As for finding stuff quicker, I find that I already know where my stuff is, because I file it sensibly in the first place. You sound like the sort of person who gets a 3d graphics package then because you actually have to create and define the objects to create a scene, you lose interest. Yes I want 2 GB RAM, but I want it used on things I specify, not just to enter the game.
You bought that as a "relatively top of the line" gaming machine in 2000 Man were you ripped off ! The cpu is one thing but 64MB RAM ?!?! Christ I had win95 running with 512MB ! I built a machine in 2000 with an 1400MHz Athlon T-bird, 512MB RAM, and 20 Gig drive, which in early 2001 I added a Gladiac 920 GeForce3 64MB AGP graphics card to. I'm still using that graphics card today on my tv box. In fact it's still using the same motherboard but with an XP2200+ cpu - still only got 512 MB RAM though. I agree about the Vista crap though, but it runs XP Pro fine, or Mythdora.
I've been trying to get a multi-computer shared library (all ripped from the CDs I store in the attic) like this working for about 10 years now, and even still nothing works right. Who's rights did I violate to cause every software developer to shelve those features because 'I might be a pirate'?
Features like NFS and/or Samba seem to work fine for me.
And for an encore you can go on to describe black as white and get killed on the next zebra crossing ! This habit of changing the established definition of words leads to confusion and ignorance. How can a word that means one of a kind be twisted to mean unusual but not one of a kind ? What word do we now use to fulfill the original purpose of the word "unique" ? By twisting the meaning we now have to use qualifiers which negate the whole meaning of the term. I for one will continue to mock those who use the word "unique" incorrectly. Maybe we should redefine the term "wanker" to mean "someone who accepts the use of confusing definitions", in which case, you're a wanker !
I'm not sure the world had any respect for ISO standards anyway. Speaking outside the world of software, the general perception is that ISO standards guarantee some degree of quality in a process. This is not true - all that adhering to an ISO standard gets you is consistency. So you can manufacture the crappiest piece of junk ever devised, that does nothing useful and does it badly, but, as long as you can demonstrate that you manufacture it in the exact same way every time, you can get ISO certified. This has the result that companies making flat pack furniture can get official letters after their names but the lifelong expert cabinet maker can not. And how many times have you discovered that a vital piece is missing from a flat pack furniture kit...
(ie: I don't want a separate cell phone, PDA, MP3 player, GPS and batman utility belt. Especially NOT when the technology is available to easily have all 4 in a single device. And the only thing stopping it from happening is BS marketing idiots.)
Who's stopping it happening ? It's getting boring to keep saying this, but I've had all that for well over a year (and I'm not an early adopter [any more]). My HTC has all the things you quoted (except batmans belt) and I find it great. Ok, it runs WM5, but to be honest, I rarely come across any issues with that. Once again, here are the features:-
Specification
Platform
- Microsoft Windows Mobile Version 5.0 - PocketPC Phone Edition
Dimension
- Typical: 108mm(L)x 58.2mm(W)x 18.4mm(T)
- Typical: 150g with battery pack
Processor/Chipset
- Baseband: Qualcomm MSM 6275
- CPU: Samsung MSP4 Processor 400MHz
Memory
- Flash ROM: 128 MB
- RAM: 64 MB SDRAM
LCD Module
- 2.8" 240 x 320 dots Resolution
- 65K-color TFT Transmmisive LCD with white LED
Back light
- Sensitive Touch Screen
HSDPA/UMTS/GPRS/ EDGE/GSM Functional
- Internal Antenna
- Dual mode HSDPA/UMTS and GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- - HSDPA/UMTS
- - Tri-band 2100 MHz and/850/1900 MHz
- - GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- - Quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- HSDPA/UMTS
- - UMTS: R99 compliant
- - HSDPA: Release 5 compliant
- EDGE/GPRS/GSM
- - (E)GPRS class B
- - Multi-slot standard class 10
- - WAP over (E)GPRS
- - (E)GPRS indicator
- - Coding Scheme
- - (E)GPRS PBCCH
- Global Roaming
- Auto Band Switching
- Handover and cell reselection between 2G & 3G
- Audio Codec: AMR/EFR/FR/HR
- Generic Service
- - Call holding, waiting, forwarding, Call barring
- - CLI (Calling Line Identity)
- - SMS (Short Message Service)
-- Display own number
- - Network selection
- - Cell broadcast
-- Multi-party conference capability
-- Phase 2+ Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
- - Network Lock
- - CPHS
- USIM/SIM
- - 1.8 / 3V of UICC
- - USIM Application
- - SIM Application Tool Kit
- - Over the Air (OTA) programming
- - Fixed Dialing Number (FDN)
- - Abbreviation Dial Number (ADN)
- - Security Pin 1 & 2 control
Digital Camera Specification
- Main Camera: 2.0 Mega Pixels CMOS
- Second Camera: VGA CMOS
- Lighting: Min. 5 Lux
- "Continuous" Digital Zoom
- Night Mode
Keyboard/Button/Switch
- Power button
- 5-way Navigation d-pad
- Send/Hands-free button
- End button
- Voice command / Voice record button
- Two Soft-key button
- Start button
- OK button
- Full-Scrolling Jog Wheel/Volume up & down
- Back button
- Camera capture button
- Reset
Notification
- One bi-color LED for UMTS/GSM
- Two respective -LEDs for Bluetooth/ WiFi notification
- Vibration for notification
- Notification by LED, vibration, sound, and message on the display
Audio
- Microphone
- Receiver
- Loud Speaker (Support Hands-free Mode)
- Audio sampling rate
- - Decode: 16-bits with 8KHz, 11KHz, 22KHz, 44.1KHz and 48KHz
- - Encode: 16-bits with 8KHz, 16KHz
- AMR/AAC/WAV/Wma/MP3 codec
Connectivity & Interface
- Bluetooth
- Compliant with v2.0
- Class 2 transmit power
- Supported profiles:
- GAP (generic access profile)
- SPP (serial port profile)
- OPP (object push profile)
- DUN (dial-up networking profile)
- GOEP (generic object exchange profile)
- ActiveSync (legacy application via SPP)
- HSP (headset profile)
- HFP (handsfree profile)
- A2DP (advanced audio distribution profile)
- AVRCP (audio/video remote control profile)
- Service discovery application profile
- SIM Access Profile
- HID (human interface device profile)
WiFi
- - IEEE 802.11b/g compliant
- - Internal WLAN antenna
- Infrared IrDA SIR
- Mini SD card slot
- 1.8V/3V USIM/SIM card slot
- Mini USB 1.1 full speed
- External RF connector with cover
Power
- Battery
- Removable and chargeable Lithium ion polymer
- Typical capacity: 1500 mAh
- AC adaptor
- AC input: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
- DC output: 5V and 1A
Stylus
- Stylus with lock type mechanism
Hanger Hole
Accessories
- Inbox
- AC adap
Hear, hear. Add to this that the vast majority of ads on tv are directed at women, and the growing number of 1 parent families where the lone parent is female. People are always complaining about the bad behaviour of young men, but what do you expect when their only role models in life are football players, gangster rappers, or other such "artistes".
Or indeed the plight of the Native Americans, and the Inuit, and the Mexicans, and the Cubans, and the Africans and the Koreans, and everybody else who the US have steamrollered in their quest for world domination. Pity is a naive emotion when dealing with world affairs. What can you do about the situation NOW ? Being sorry for someone doesn't help them one bit. It's better to do what you can, when you can, than to waste time moralising over something you can't influence when the people concerned most need that influence. Of course people feel for the Tibetans, but unless you are threatening to nuke China unless they withdraw now and undo everything they have done (impossible), then you're wasting your breath by calling for pity. I have more pity for the Palestinians whose plight is more influenced by the USAs policies then the USA would like to admit. They lost their lands by International agreement FFS, it's a pity that they weren't part of that agreement. Do as we say and not as we do is never a good argument for enforcing change.
Utter crap. Your claim that somehow the USAs decision not to go to the Moscow Olympics caused the fall of the USSR is rubbish, and even your weak disclaimer negates your statement. Even more amusing is the reason for that boycott - the USSR had invaded Afghanistan. Who is embroiled in Afghanistan now (and Iraq) ? And even your reasons are the same as theirs - to quash rebel forces opposed to your domination of the area. The USSR boycotted the 1984 LA Olympics, for political reasons, did that have any effect on world peace ? Even the 1976 boycott by the African Nations did nothing to directly influence the South African apartheid regime. The Olympics should not be about politics, and refusing to play nicely is what causes and prolongs arguments. By dealing with the Chinese, we get to understand them, and more importantly, they get to be exposed to, and start to understand and relate to us. These things take time, but by working together, I'm sure we'll find that as the Chinese govt. evolves (as it must due to death of current officials and leaders) the next generation will not be so hostile to the west, and even embrace more of our values. Once they are working on the same set of values then our arguments will make more sense to them. Just telling them to fuck off and not engaging will just reinforce the separation of our cultures. And seeing as how the Chinese pretty much own your asses, financially speaking, you shouldn't be picking a fight you haven't got the capability to win.
And after having been used to Windows for so long, Gnomes arrangement actually makes you think about the decision, and if you just click absentmindedly, you hit cancel, so no harm done.
You can. If you are that desperate for clickable areas, but it does make things cluttered. I'm pretty sure you can do the same thing with KDE and even Windows to be honest (er no, scrub that last one), I'm actually using Xoblite as my shell in XP, which is Blackbox based.
Maybe you should work for NASA. 1 mm^2 is a measurement of total area, whereas 1 mm squared describes the dimensions of the sides. The correct way to write 1 mm^2 longhand is 1 square millimetre. Notice the position of the word "square". And to mention SI units is irrelevant, the same rules apply to inches, feet, yards and miles.
... the ISPs would quickly raise rates to account for the massive increase in bandwidth.
If there were a massive increase in bandwidth, there wouldn't be a problem. Maybe you meant a massive increase in traffic over the available bandwidth ?
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Why have both ? Now that's unnecessary clutter. It's 1 or the other, since you obviously can't use them simultaneously.
Why do that ?
Just boot up and edit the kernel commands when prompted to choose a kernel (or during the short delay before the kernel loads). Simply add a 1 to the end of the command line and hit return. The system boots in single user mode (root) from where you can change his standard user passwd.
I thought IBM would be the first to market with this technology. I remember reading a report from them last century (can't find it now) but I did find this from 1999.
No, actually third world is the only correct usage of the group. The other 2 are Old World (Eurasia) and New World (The Americas).
Third world is so named because it is neither of the other two.
I'm sorry, but have you forgotten that you are posting on /. ?
There is no such thing as unlimited downloads unless you have unlimited bandwidth. AFAIK, no-one is selling unlimited bandwidth. Here in the UK most ISPs offer "up to 8Mbps" bandwidth allocations, which is dependent on location relative to the exchange. Natural download limits are related to your available bandwidth.
For example, I have an "up to 8Mbps" connection, but due to my location I'm getting a connection of roughly 6Mbps. That equates to roughly 760KBps, which in turn should allow me to transfer a total of 1.84 TERABYTES of data per month. Is this a reasonable figure for domestic use ? I think not. For one thing, you would need 4 * 500GB hard disks per month to store the data, unless you were deleting everything constantly. Also, I would like to know what you can actually download, that requires that amount of traffic. Even if I'm downloading movies at full dvd9 size, then I would be expecting to download and watch over 208 full length films per month, which amounts to nearly 7 films per day. Unfortunately, I work for a living, and have to sleep occasionally. Not to mention that finding 208 new films to watch every month is impossible.
I think fair use means what it says, and the scenario I described above, does not meet the definition. If you really need to have that much data coming over your phat pipe, then get a commercial solution, but unless you have a large income then you won't be able to afford it.
So how come somebody paying less that $50/month expects to get more throughput than commercial subscribers paying 100 times as much ?
I put it down to greed and ignorance. Ignorance is due to the fact that to the general public, 8Mbps means 8 megabytes per second, so their expectations are off by a factor of 8 to start with. Not to mention the fact that to achieve the absolute maximum, the connection would have to be no more than 1 hop away on the same network. To expect to get full advertised speed when accessing a website hosted on another continent is completely unreasonable, and that's without taking into account other sources of congestion, like *other users* !
The second element is greed. While you may applaud some idiot for trying to enforce the "all you can eat" offer in some random restaurant, would you expect to do the same thing, day in day out ? Do you even respect someone for attempting that ? But somehow, because it's on the internet, it's ok.
Now, having said all that, the ISPs are wrong to state Unlimited downloads, because as I have shown, there is a natural limit imposed by the bandwidth and the conditions. But for the average domestic user, their connection is by and large, unlimited. They are never going to hit 1.8TB in a month, even if they were the only person on their network. I have always taken the term unlimited to mean that the ISP doesn't restrict my downloads, i.e. blocking connections when I hit some secret figure, but to be honest, I've never found that to be the case. BT as my ISP states that it will rate limit p2p at busy times so as not to negatively affect the network, but surely that's a good thing ? Why should some kid torrenting the latest badly shot cam of a shit movie affect my download from linux isos ?
In short, get into the real world where you have to co-exist with the rest of the population, and stop expecting everything as your exclusive right, to the detriment of all around you. If you really expect advertising to tell the truth then go buy the next *best* thing, because I guarantee that it won't be the best at all, but that's advertising for you. An insightful buyer of any product or service will educate themselves about that product or service before signing on the bottom line, and should know what they're getting.
The sad part about all the fuss that is made about the "unlimited" claims, is that no-one has even come close to requiring the amount of transfer that they are claiming. It's all just so much emo wanking over a misperceived loss of service, fue
You do realise that you're talking rubbish ?
I have posted on this before but for the record - I drive a truck, 18 wheeler, hgv, whatever you like to call it where-ever you are. I regularly collect shipping containers from major ports around the UK (which is part of the EU). I have been pulled to one side while leaving the port before (last year sometime) because I had set off the *radiation detectors*. The stated contents of the container were toilets shipped from China. The officials used a higher spec machine to check the load, and found it to be what it purported to be. I was allowed to continue on my way.
EVERY truck leaving the major UK ports is scanned automatically, and if it can pick up the residual radiation given off by porcelain, then I'm pretty sure it would pick up weapons grade nuclear material.
Felixstowe
One of my trucks.
The PC is supposed to be a general purpose computing environment. All your points about Vista simply point out that all those increases in capability are solely to allow Vista to run. They do nothing to improve the capability of other software running under Vista. It's an OS fer christs sake !
I can run a 3d desktop with linux using 512MB RAM and an old XP2200+ AMD chip. As for finding stuff quicker, I find that I already know where my stuff is, because I file it sensibly in the first place.
You sound like the sort of person who gets a 3d graphics package then because you actually have to create and define the objects to create a scene, you lose interest. Yes I want 2 GB RAM, but I want it used on things I specify, not just to enter the game.
Heh,
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mahatma Gandhi
You bought that as a "relatively top of the line" gaming machine in 2000
Man were you ripped off ! The cpu is one thing but 64MB RAM ?!?! Christ I had win95 running with 512MB !
I built a machine in 2000 with an 1400MHz Athlon T-bird, 512MB RAM, and 20 Gig drive, which in early 2001 I added a Gladiac 920 GeForce3 64MB AGP graphics card to. I'm still using that graphics card today on my tv box. In fact it's still using the same motherboard but with an XP2200+ cpu - still only got 512 MB RAM though.
I agree about the Vista crap though, but it runs XP Pro fine, or Mythdora.
And for an encore you can go on to describe black as white and get killed on the next zebra crossing !
This habit of changing the established definition of words leads to confusion and ignorance. How can a word that means one of a kind be twisted to mean unusual but not one of a kind ? What word do we now use to fulfill the original purpose of the word "unique" ? By twisting the meaning we now have to use qualifiers which negate the whole meaning of the term.
I for one will continue to mock those who use the word "unique" incorrectly.
Maybe we should redefine the term "wanker" to mean "someone who accepts the use of confusing definitions", in which case, you're a wanker !
I'm not sure the world had any respect for ISO standards anyway. ...
Speaking outside the world of software, the general perception is that ISO standards guarantee some degree of quality in a process. This is not true - all that adhering to an ISO standard gets you is consistency. So you can manufacture the crappiest piece of junk ever devised, that does nothing useful and does it badly, but, as long as you can demonstrate that you manufacture it in the exact same way every time, you can get ISO certified.
This has the result that companies making flat pack furniture can get official letters after their names but the lifelong expert cabinet maker can not. And how many times have you discovered that a vital piece is missing from a flat pack furniture kit
Who's stopping it happening ? :-
It's getting boring to keep saying this, but I've had all that for well over a year (and I'm not an early adopter [any more]). My HTC has all the things you quoted (except batmans belt) and I find it great. Ok, it runs WM5, but to be honest, I rarely come across any issues with that.
Once again, here are the features
Specification Platform - Microsoft Windows Mobile Version 5.0 - PocketPC Phone Edition Dimension - Typical: 108mm(L)x 58.2mm(W)x 18.4mm(T) - Typical: 150g with battery pack Processor/Chipset - Baseband: Qualcomm MSM 6275 - CPU: Samsung MSP4 Processor 400MHz Memory - Flash ROM: 128 MB - RAM: 64 MB SDRAM LCD Module - 2.8" 240 x 320 dots Resolution - 65K-color TFT Transmmisive LCD with white LED Back light - Sensitive Touch Screen HSDPA/UMTS/GPRS/ EDGE/GSM Functional - Internal Antenna - Dual mode HSDPA/UMTS and GSM/GPRS/EDGE - - HSDPA/UMTS - - Tri-band 2100 MHz and /850/1900 MHz
- - GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- - Quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- HSDPA/UMTS
- - UMTS: R99 compliant
- - HSDPA: Release 5 compliant
- EDGE/GPRS/GSM
- - (E)GPRS class B
- - Multi-slot standard class 10
- - WAP over (E)GPRS
- - (E)GPRS indicator
- - Coding Scheme
- - (E)GPRS PBCCH
- Global Roaming
- Auto Band Switching
- Handover and cell reselection between 2G & 3G
- Audio Codec: AMR/EFR/FR/HR
- Generic Service
- - Call holding, waiting, forwarding, Call barring
- - CLI (Calling Line Identity)
- - SMS (Short Message Service)
-- Display own number
- - Network selection
- - Cell broadcast
-- Multi-party conference capability
-- Phase 2+ Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
- - Network Lock
- - CPHS
- USIM/SIM
- - 1.8 / 3V of UICC
- - USIM Application
- - SIM Application Tool Kit
- - Over the Air (OTA) programming
- - Fixed Dialing Number (FDN)
- - Abbreviation Dial Number (ADN)
- - Security Pin 1 & 2 control
Digital Camera Specification
- Main Camera: 2.0 Mega Pixels CMOS
- Second Camera: VGA CMOS
- Lighting: Min. 5 Lux
- "Continuous" Digital Zoom
- Night Mode
Keyboard/Button/Switch
- Power button
- 5-way Navigation d-pad
- Send/Hands-free button
- End button
- Voice command / Voice record button
- Two Soft-key button
- Start button
- OK button
- Full-Scrolling Jog Wheel/Volume up & down
- Back button
- Camera capture button
- Reset
Notification
- One bi-color LED for UMTS/GSM
- Two respective -LEDs for Bluetooth/ WiFi notification
- Vibration for notification
- Notification by LED, vibration, sound, and message on the display
Audio
- Microphone
- Receiver
- Loud Speaker (Support Hands-free Mode)
- Audio sampling rate
- - Decode: 16-bits with 8KHz, 11KHz, 22KHz, 44.1KHz and 48KHz
- - Encode: 16-bits with 8KHz, 16KHz
- AMR/AAC/WAV/Wma/MP3 codec
Connectivity & Interface
- Bluetooth
- Compliant with v2.0
- Class 2 transmit power
- Supported profiles:
- GAP (generic access profile)
- SPP (serial port profile)
- OPP (object push profile)
- DUN (dial-up networking profile)
- GOEP (generic object exchange profile)
- ActiveSync (legacy application via SPP)
- HSP (headset profile)
- HFP (handsfree profile)
- A2DP (advanced audio distribution profile)
- AVRCP (audio/video remote control profile)
- Service discovery application profile
- SIM Access Profile
- HID (human interface device profile)
WiFi
- - IEEE 802.11b/g compliant
- - Internal WLAN antenna
- Infrared IrDA SIR
- Mini SD card slot
- 1.8V/3V USIM/SIM card slot
- Mini USB 1.1 full speed
- External RF connector with cover
Power
- Battery
- Removable and chargeable Lithium ion polymer
- Typical capacity: 1500 mAh
- AC adaptor
- AC input: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
- DC output: 5V and 1A
Stylus
- Stylus with lock type mechanism
Hanger Hole
Accessories
- Inbox
- AC adap
Or there are more interesting pictures available.
Maybe that's just my filthy mind.
Hear, hear.
Add to this that the vast majority of ads on tv are directed at women, and the growing number of 1 parent families where the lone parent is female. People are always complaining about the bad behaviour of young men, but what do you expect when their only role models in life are football players, gangster rappers, or other such "artistes".
Or indeed the plight of the Native Americans, and the Inuit, and the Mexicans, and the Cubans, and the Africans and the Koreans, and everybody else who the US have steamrollered in their quest for world domination. Pity is a naive emotion when dealing with world affairs. What can you do about the situation NOW ? Being sorry for someone doesn't help them one bit. It's better to do what you can, when you can, than to waste time moralising over something you can't influence when the people concerned most need that influence.
Of course people feel for the Tibetans, but unless you are threatening to nuke China unless they withdraw now and undo everything they have done (impossible), then you're wasting your breath by calling for pity.
I have more pity for the Palestinians whose plight is more influenced by the USAs policies then the USA would like to admit. They lost their lands by International agreement FFS, it's a pity that they weren't part of that agreement.
Do as we say and not as we do is never a good argument for enforcing change.
Utter crap. Your claim that somehow the USAs decision not to go to the Moscow Olympics caused the fall of the USSR is rubbish, and even your weak disclaimer negates your statement. Even more amusing is the reason for that boycott - the USSR had invaded Afghanistan. Who is embroiled in Afghanistan now (and Iraq) ? And even your reasons are the same as theirs - to quash rebel forces opposed to your domination of the area. The USSR boycotted the 1984 LA Olympics, for political reasons, did that have any effect on world peace ? Even the 1976 boycott by the African Nations did nothing to directly influence the South African apartheid regime.
The Olympics should not be about politics, and refusing to play nicely is what causes and prolongs arguments. By dealing with the Chinese, we get to understand them, and more importantly, they get to be exposed to, and start to understand and relate to us. These things take time, but by working together, I'm sure we'll find that as the Chinese govt. evolves (as it must due to death of current officials and leaders) the next generation will not be so hostile to the west, and even embrace more of our values. Once they are working on the same set of values then our arguments will make more sense to them.
Just telling them to fuck off and not engaging will just reinforce the separation of our cultures. And seeing as how the Chinese pretty much own your asses, financially speaking, you shouldn't be picking a fight you haven't got the capability to win.
And after having been used to Windows for so long, Gnomes arrangement actually makes you think about the decision, and if you just click absentmindedly, you hit cancel, so no harm done.
Don't know (or care) about the cursor.
You can. If you are that desperate for clickable areas, but it does make things cluttered.
I'm pretty sure you can do the same thing with KDE and even Windows to be honest (er no, scrub that last one), I'm actually using Xoblite as my shell in XP, which is Blackbox based.
Yeah right, you can imagine the meetings - ... no, wait !?!
... dammit !
My names Smoker2 and I'm anonymous
Maybe you should work for NASA. 1 mm^2 is a measurement of total area, whereas 1 mm squared describes the dimensions of the sides. The correct way to write 1 mm^2 longhand is 1 square millimetre. Notice the position of the word "square". And to mention SI units is irrelevant, the same rules apply to inches, feet, yards and miles.
I don't have a credit card, and my bank thinks I live somewhere else.
Next question.
Maybe you meant a massive increase in traffic over the available bandwidth ?
Yeah, that's a really good idea.