In addition to their Pay-As-You-Go plans, T-mobile also has what they call their Monthy 4G Prepaid plans...you have to provide your own phone (or purchase one of their no-contract phones), but for $30 you get 1500 minutes a month for talk/text, and 30 mb for data, which is enough for basic email and occasional web browsing (if your phone supports those things; my Samsung t259 flip phone does, which can definitely come in handy at times).
If the wii is launching in the US on November 19th at a cost of $250, then why does the Nintendo Japan page for the wii http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/index.html say "2006 12.2 Start?" And why does Amazon list the Gamecube verson of Zelda: Twilight Princess as available on Nov 2nd? Wouldn't both versions likely launch at the same time?
And didn't Nintendo say they'd launch before the PS3?
And didn't they hint that the launch price of the wii might be determined by looking at the launch prices of their previous consoles (all of which launched at $200?)
I dunno, but I'd still put my money on an early November launch with a $200 price point.
STS (the Space [Shuttle] Transportation System) is a flawed system design
That's why Apple is planning on releasing the new iShuttle! Initial iShuttles will come in "Bondi Blue" but other colors are planned. These new Apple space shuttles will be superior to the existing NASA design in just about every way...except for the fact that the cockpit control panel only has one button. Of course, you can purchase a third-party control panel with multiple buttons but NASA aficionados are extremely skeptical...
On a related note, does anyone else think the phrase "cron job" sounds vaguely obscene? I can think of many a time I was doing a little system administration while purring "Come on, baby. Give me a cron job. You know you want to..."
that's not true. In northern America humans lived for thousands of year without harming the environment. How? A small population, no technology to speak of (not even the wheel!).
Good point...except that it's totally false. The influx of humans into North America resulted in the extinction of numerous species. 20,000 years ago the North American continent had large populations of horses, camels, several species of giant bears, mammoths, mastodons, lions, cheetahs, saber-toothed cats, ground sloths the size of oxen, and bear-sized beavers, just to name a few. By about 10,000 years ago, all were extinct. All these extinctions occurred around the same time...which just happens to neatly coincide with the arrival of humans in the Americas. Early native Americans hunted most of the big predators and a lot of the large herbivores into extinction. The myth that they "lived in harmony with nature" is just that...a widely-believed myth.
The monsters have nothing to do with hell, the plot is not taking place on Mars and "space marines" are not well "space marines" as their outfits are more like SWAT team members.
What's next, no straffing? No color-coded doors with matching keys? Barrels that don't explode when you shoot them?
Bah. Might as well just call it "Barbie in Space" and have done with.
Microsoft finally adopts PNG? Microsoft becomes friendly with Sun? Microsoft releases WiX as open source...on SourceForge, no less? What the hell kind of bizzaro world did I wake up in today???
Quick, someone check Bill Gates for a stylish alternate-universe goatee!
You'll never get me into a Star Trek-style transporter. Essentially, this device kills you and then makes an exact copy of you somewhere else. I can't imagine being in such a hurry to get someplace that I'm willing to committ suicide in order to speed up the process.
Of course, later versions of Trek seemed to be somewhat confused on exactly how the transporter worked...The Next Generation especially seemed to suggest at times that the transportee wasn't broken down into their component atoms at all, but was somehow singing and dancing within the "matter stream" - which not only contradicts TOS but various other episodes of The Next Generation. Whatever, I'm with Dr. McCoy on this one...we'll take the shuttle, thanks.
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In addition to their Pay-As-You-Go plans, T-mobile also has what they call their Monthy 4G Prepaid plans...you have to provide your own phone (or purchase one of their no-contract phones), but for $30 you get 1500 minutes a month for talk/text, and 30 mb for data, which is enough for basic email and occasional web browsing (if your phone supports those things; my Samsung t259 flip phone does, which can definitely come in handy at times).
And no, I don't work for T-mobile.
If the wii is launching in the US on November 19th at a cost of $250, then why does the Nintendo Japan page for the wii http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/index.html say "2006 12.2 Start?" And why does Amazon list the Gamecube verson of Zelda: Twilight Princess as available on Nov 2nd? Wouldn't both versions likely launch at the same time?
And didn't Nintendo say they'd launch before the PS3?
And didn't they hint that the launch price of the wii might be determined by looking at the launch prices of their previous consoles (all of which launched at $200?)
I dunno, but I'd still put my money on an early November launch with a $200 price point.
I predict that the Wii's online service will called "Download X-Treme!"
Someone's acting awfully aluminum.
*Sigh* Remember when these debates were fun? Now I worry a chick will see me.
This is Slashdot. No danger of that.
STS (the Space [Shuttle] Transportation System) is a flawed system design
That's why Apple is planning on releasing the new iShuttle! Initial iShuttles will come in "Bondi Blue" but other colors are planned. These new Apple space shuttles will be superior to the existing NASA design in just about every way...except for the fact that the cockpit control panel only has one button. Of course, you can purchase a third-party control panel with multiple buttons but NASA aficionados are extremely skeptical...
So yes, it is a cron replacement.
On a related note, does anyone else think the phrase "cron job" sounds vaguely obscene? I can think of many a time I was doing a little system administration while purring "Come on, baby. Give me a cron job. You know you want to..."
What...no Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope? It's better...and much, much funnier...than any of these films.
"Warn you we tried. Listen you did not. Now screwed we all will be!"
that's not true. In northern America humans lived for thousands of year without harming the environment. How? A small population, no technology to speak of (not even the wheel!).
Good point...except that it's totally false. The influx of humans into North America resulted in the extinction of numerous species. 20,000 years ago the North American continent had large populations of horses, camels, several species of giant bears, mammoths, mastodons, lions, cheetahs, saber-toothed cats, ground sloths the size of oxen, and bear-sized beavers, just to name a few. By about 10,000 years ago, all were extinct. All these extinctions occurred around the same time...which just happens to neatly coincide with the arrival of humans in the Americas. Early native Americans hunted most of the big predators and a lot of the large herbivores into extinction. The myth that they "lived in harmony with nature" is just that...a widely-believed myth.
Bah. Might as well just call it "Barbie in Space" and have done with.
I for one welcome the day when this stupid "overlords" joke is not modded Funny.
Well I for one welcome our "overlords" cliche-quoting Slashdot poster Overlords.
Microsoft finally adopts PNG? Microsoft becomes friendly with Sun? Microsoft releases WiX as open source...on SourceForge, no less? What the hell kind of bizzaro world did I wake up in today???
Quick, someone check Bill Gates for a stylish alternate-universe goatee!
If they're made of wood, then scientifically speaking they must weigh the same as a duck. And therefore:
They're a witch! Burn them, burn them!
Scale it down and this could be the next killer bath toy for kids.
Literally.
Obviously this submarine has been heavily influenced by the Best FPS Weapon poll.
You'll never get me into a Star Trek-style transporter. Essentially, this device kills you and then makes an exact copy of you somewhere else. I can't imagine being in such a hurry to get someplace that I'm willing to committ suicide in order to speed up the process.
Of course, later versions of Trek seemed to be somewhat confused on exactly how the transporter worked...The Next Generation especially seemed to suggest at times that the transportee wasn't broken down into their component atoms at all, but was somehow singing and dancing within the "matter stream" - which not only contradicts TOS but various other episodes of The Next Generation. Whatever, I'm with Dr. McCoy on this one...we'll take the shuttle, thanks.
Mono is a DotNet wannabe.
DotNet, of course, is a Java wannabe.
Why not just use Java? Oh, that's right:
Microsoft - Duplicates anything they don't own and control
Open Source Movement - Duplicates anything someone else owns and controls