To clarify, I found the blackberry feature-poor. It couldn't handle many file formats so I could not do as many things (read gutenberg texts, listen to old mp3 recordings of radio programmes, watch video etc) as the nokia n95 it 'replaced'. And the GPS was shoddy. Email worked. I couldn't see/hear the attachments for the above reasons, but I could get them. And it auto-formatted the sd card when I tried to migrate my data to it. That REALLY annoyed me. Bag of crap. And so was LG Renoir.
Scuba diving? Watches are quite handy there, while phone cases might leak. While working? You can angle your wrist around to see if it is nearly time for dinner without putting your tools/workpiece down, switching off the machine or crawling out from under something to unzip your overalls to reach your jeans' pocket. In fact, it would be an idea to not take the phone to work at all if possible, I have broken 3 at various times as they get crushed in my pocket ( a colleague managed to break one of those Land Rover tough phones at work, but that was by trying to clean the swarf out of it with an air line ). Cheap waterproof digital watches just keep on going, and you can use abrasive compound to clear enough of the scratches away to read the display. Or smear grease on it if you are lazy.
If they are depending on their hardware and OS to sell phones, their track record is not good. They may suddenly leapfrog the competition in both those areas, but judging by the bag of crap they foisted on me, it will be one heck of a leap.
I didn't think it was ever supposed to render the same. I thought it was supposed to render in a way that made sense on whatever display the browser was set up for and how the user wanted it. I might want all images suppressed, for instance, or all headings read out by a voice synth. Marking up the text with tags lets the browser treat the document 'intelligently'.
I agree that people should get paid for all the hard work they put in creating adverts, but you must realise that your industry is paid for by the advertisers and those advertisers make money by selling products.
Scenario one: I watch TV and (by various means) skip the ads, then go shopping and may buy products whose companies have paid the advertising industry $millions .
Scenario two: I watch TV and have to see ads, then go shopping and avoid products whose ads I have seen because I associate them with pushy jerks who interrupt the shows I like.
Take the money, make the ads, let me avoid the ads and it will all work out.
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If you define terrorist as a proponent of 'systematic use of terror as a policy', then yes, I have seen lots and lots of them since 9/11. They are always campaigning for my vote.
The REAL threat is the terrorist sleeper agents that have infiltrated government itself! They want to destroy society and bring back serfdom! And they seem to be in the majority.
How much does it cost to keep the servers running? Surely it can't be a lot if not many people use it and they don't update often. How many sales will Sony lose on other products now they have annoyed another few thousand users?
How long would it take to learn to talk through this kind of interference? People learn how to talk over others' interruptions so, with practice, I reckon it should be possible to overcome this device.
an even more efficient system would be to tear out the traffic lights entirely, thus in addition to savings in peoples time, wear and tear on vehicles and fuel there would be savings on electricity and maintenance. If the city planners who get kickbacks from traffic light manufacturers were sacked, that would save even more.
Pah! My Nokia n95 predated the iphone and needed charging every night and topping up whenever possible during the day. On the plus side, (for additional reasons of crappitude) it made choosing phones easier in the future as i no longer considered nokia products. Just like LG did with my 910 Renoir and RIM did with whatever Blackberry I had (battery life on blackberry was ok as it couldn't do anything). Sorry. Got sidetracked into ranting about crappy phones.
Maybe the key/screen lock was like on my old LG, where to unlock the key/screen, all you had to do was apply pressure to the screen. Yeah, really. Someone got paid to duhsign that.
..seeing as most website duhsigners totally ignore the original point of the browser arranging the content to suit the display device, the web would _look_ much the same, it would just be a different form of HTML being tied in knots.
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The west should totally start reverse-engineering chinese products and learn how to make steel, computer chips etc
Management doesn't give a crap about productivity, never has, grow up.
To clarify, I found the blackberry feature-poor. It couldn't handle many file formats so I could not do as many things (read gutenberg texts, listen to old mp3 recordings of radio programmes, watch video etc) as the nokia n95 it 'replaced'. And the GPS was shoddy.
Email worked. I couldn't see/hear the attachments for the above reasons, but I could get them.
And it auto-formatted the sd card when I tried to migrate my data to it. That REALLY annoyed me.
Bag of crap. And so was LG Renoir.
Scuba diving? Watches are quite handy there, while phone cases might leak.
While working? You can angle your wrist around to see if it is nearly time for dinner without putting your tools/workpiece down, switching off the machine or crawling out from under something to unzip your overalls to reach your jeans' pocket.
In fact, it would be an idea to not take the phone to work at all if possible, I have broken 3 at various times as they get crushed in my pocket ( a colleague managed to break one of those Land Rover tough phones at work, but that was by trying to clean the swarf out of it with an air line ).
Cheap waterproof digital watches just keep on going, and you can use abrasive compound to clear enough of the scratches away to read the display. Or smear grease on it if you are lazy.
If they are depending on their hardware and OS to sell phones, their track record is not good.
They may suddenly leapfrog the competition in both those areas, but judging by the bag of crap they foisted on me, it will be one heck of a leap.
I didn't think it was ever supposed to render the same. I thought it was supposed to render in a way that made sense on whatever display the browser was set up for and how the user wanted it.
I might want all images suppressed, for instance, or all headings read out by a voice synth.
Marking up the text with tags lets the browser treat the document 'intelligently'.
Hah! Then Inflatable Ingrid and I are way above average. Our lovemaking can sometimes go on for minutes.
I agree that people should get paid for all the hard work they put in creating adverts, but you must realise that your industry is paid for by the advertisers and those advertisers make money by selling products.
Scenario one: I watch TV and (by various means) skip the ads, then go shopping and may buy products whose companies have paid the advertising industry $millions .
Scenario two: I watch TV and have to see ads, then go shopping and avoid products whose ads I have seen because I associate them with pushy jerks who interrupt the shows I like.
Take the money, make the ads, let me avoid the ads and it will all work out.
I thought that Britain is in danger of missing out on the economic and social benefits of superfast broadband due to The Pirate Bay being blocked.
Thankyou Ladies and germs. I'm here all week.
Really?
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Don't model #22 bending units use a 6502 processor?
If you define terrorist as a proponent of 'systematic use of terror as a policy', then yes, I have seen lots and lots of them since 9/11. They are always campaigning for my vote.
The REAL threat is the terrorist sleeper agents that have infiltrated government itself! They want to destroy society and bring back serfdom! And they seem to be in the majority.
"The tablet comes in at 9.4mm and 1.4 pounds, and will be available in black and white. It's 9.5 inches high, 7.31 inches wide, and 0.37 inches deep."
So, a high resolution display, but monochrome. I will get an android tablet with a colour screen, thanks.
How much does it cost to keep the servers running? Surely it can't be a lot if not many people use it and they don't update often.
How many sales will Sony lose on other products now they have annoyed another few thousand users?
How long would it take to learn to talk through this kind of interference? People learn how to talk over others' interruptions so, with practice, I reckon it should be possible to overcome this device.
Which year was that, Neil?
Heh, good luck with that.
an even more efficient system would be to tear out the traffic lights entirely, thus in addition to savings in peoples time, wear and tear on vehicles and fuel there would be savings on electricity and maintenance.
If the city planners who get kickbacks from traffic light manufacturers were sacked, that would save even more.
You should see the percentage increases in data use over the preceding twenty years!
What about people who illegally downloaded her music after she died? Are they depriving Whitney of more money or no longer depriving her of money?
I still miss OS/2 2.2
Tried many times to get OS/2 running in a Virtual Machine on Linux, but got nowhere.
Pah! My Nokia n95 predated the iphone and needed charging every night and topping up whenever possible during the day. On the plus side, (for additional reasons of crappitude) it made choosing phones easier in the future as i no longer considered nokia products. Just like LG did with my 910 Renoir and RIM did with whatever Blackberry I had (battery life on blackberry was ok as it couldn't do anything).
Sorry. Got sidetracked into ranting about crappy phones.
Maybe the key/screen lock was like on my old LG, where to unlock the key/screen, all you had to do was apply pressure to the screen. Yeah, really. Someone got paid to duhsign that.
..seeing as most website duhsigners totally ignore the original point of the browser arranging the content to suit the display device, the web would _look_ much the same, it would just be a different form of HTML being tied in knots.