Screen must be landscape for viewing web pages (so rule out your ipaq's and palms and most cellphones)
My iPAQ (rx1955) can easily be switched into landscape mode simply by holding down the calendar button on the front for about 2 seconds. It's still a relatively small screen, but in a pinch I can read most websites just fine on it if I want to check on something quickly rather than hauling out the laptop and waiting for it to boot up. I'll agree it's not great for extended web browsing though.
And I also live a few miles west of Brazil and work a few miles south of Paris. It's quite a commute, unless you consider that it's Brazil, IN and Paris, IL:)
There's not actually a deadzone at the edge of the monitor for the classic theme either. The graphic for the button doesn't extend to the edge of the screen, but if you actually click up there you click the button.
From my ammature observations, it's not talking on the cell phone that makes people poor drivers. It's that their right (or left) hand is occupied holding the thing up to their head.
I dunno, I drive a manual transmission and thus the times I'm making the sharpest turns (intersections and such) are also the times my right hand is most likely to be off of the steering wheel and shifting, and I don't seem to have any issue driving.
On the plus side it pretty much prevents me from trying using a cell phone while driving except maybe on rural interstates.
Likewise, I also don't allow my client to display graphics in place of emoticon text. It's not uncommon for me and a friend to be discussing coursework or projects - many with a good amount of mathematical equations - and to have a client to convert nearly any letter or punctuation next to parenthesis into a picture does wonders for equations.
Not that pure text is the best method of communicating equations, but no need to make it any harder.
It wasn't terribly difficult for me in Ohio. If I remember correctly, you could get a temp permit at 15 and a half (you could only drive if a licensed parent over 21 or a driving instructor was in the passenger seat) and you had to have that permit for a minimum of 6 months, during which you had to do 50 hours of driving, 10 of which were at night. You also had to have driving school, which the high schools around my home didn't offer so you had to go to a private driving school which was about $225 for some lessons, and 8 hours of driving with th instructor. After the 6 months you could go for a drive around the block driving test at the BMV, as well as a rediculously easy written test* and you'd have your license. There were also some BMV fees for the permit and the licence but I don't remember them being very high.
I believe the requirements were a lot lower if you were over 18 when you tried to get your license.
*It was a multiple choice exam with like 20 questions. I remember one question in particular showed a picture of a Yield sign and asked what it meant, and one of the choices was "Low-flying aircraft." I was almost tempted to choose that answer, since you only needed 75% on the exam to pass or something like that.
From the research I did, there were suggestions that military folks were likely to visit the UK -- I couldn't find anything that suggested that have reason to believe that there was tainted meat on the bases.
As a military dependent in the UK in the early 90s, I can tell you that we did not exclusively eat on base (in fact for about a year we didn't even live on the base), so whether or not the base's meat was tainted was irrelevant.
I do leave it in the car, no need to get so testy... I'm just pointing out that some phones are poorly designed, and if you do have a phone with you, silent mode isn't absolutely horrible.
(also for the record my phone is crap; can't get the battery out without some sort of screwdriver or prying tool:) )
On the other hand, I've had more trouble with my phone being loud if I turn it off than if I make it silent. I don't have one of those fancy pants folding phones; it's a solid unit with buttons on the front, and even in a case the button can get accidentally pushed, including the power button. Now the phone has a keypad lock functionality, but it's a software lock, so it doesn't work when the phone is off. If I turn the phone off, chances are it will turn itself on again in the theater and ring when someone calls it. Maybe my hearing is subpar or maybe my phone is unusual, but I can't hear my phone vibrate with the TV on, let alone in a theater with the volume cranked way to loud as the primary theater I visit always is.
You might want to check into your college bookstore, many of them offer heavily discounted Microsoft products (I can buy Windows XP for around eleven bucks, Office for less than that). Your school may also have some sort of MSDNAA subscription, so ask around and see if something like that is available.
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Screen must be landscape for viewing web pages (so rule out your ipaq's and palms and most cellphones) My iPAQ (rx1955) can easily be switched into landscape mode simply by holding down the calendar button on the front for about 2 seconds. It's still a relatively small screen, but in a pinch I can read most websites just fine on it if I want to check on something quickly rather than hauling out the laptop and waiting for it to boot up. I'll agree it's not great for extended web browsing though.
And I also live a few miles west of Brazil and work a few miles south of Paris. It's quite a commute, unless you consider that it's Brazil, IN and Paris, IL :)
There's not actually a deadzone at the edge of the monitor for the classic theme either. The graphic for the button doesn't extend to the edge of the screen, but if you actually click up there you click the button.
From my ammature observations, it's not talking on the cell phone that makes people poor drivers. It's that their right (or left) hand is occupied holding the thing up to their head. I dunno, I drive a manual transmission and thus the times I'm making the sharpest turns (intersections and such) are also the times my right hand is most likely to be off of the steering wheel and shifting, and I don't seem to have any issue driving. On the plus side it pretty much prevents me from trying using a cell phone while driving except maybe on rural interstates.
Likewise, I also don't allow my client to display graphics in place of emoticon text. It's not uncommon for me and a friend to be discussing coursework or projects - many with a good amount of mathematical equations - and to have a client to convert nearly any letter or punctuation next to parenthesis into a picture does wonders for equations.
Not that pure text is the best method of communicating equations, but no need to make it any harder.
$500 for a 128 MB video card? Where are you shopping?
It wasn't terribly difficult for me in Ohio. If I remember correctly, you could get a temp permit at 15 and a half (you could only drive if a licensed parent over 21 or a driving instructor was in the passenger seat) and you had to have that permit for a minimum of 6 months, during which you had to do 50 hours of driving, 10 of which were at night. You also had to have driving school, which the high schools around my home didn't offer so you had to go to a private driving school which was about $225 for some lessons, and 8 hours of driving with th instructor. After the 6 months you could go for a drive around the block driving test at the BMV, as well as a rediculously easy written test* and you'd have your license. There were also some BMV fees for the permit and the licence but I don't remember them being very high. I believe the requirements were a lot lower if you were over 18 when you tried to get your license. *It was a multiple choice exam with like 20 questions. I remember one question in particular showed a picture of a Yield sign and asked what it meant, and one of the choices was "Low-flying aircraft." I was almost tempted to choose that answer, since you only needed 75% on the exam to pass or something like that.
From the research I did, there were suggestions that military folks were likely to visit the UK -- I couldn't find anything that suggested that have reason to believe that there was tainted meat on the bases.
As a military dependent in the UK in the early 90s, I can tell you that we did not exclusively eat on base (in fact for about a year we didn't even live on the base), so whether or not the base's meat was tainted was irrelevant.
I do leave it in the car, no need to get so testy... I'm just pointing out that some phones are poorly designed, and if you do have a phone with you, silent mode isn't absolutely horrible.
:) )
(also for the record my phone is crap; can't get the battery out without some sort of screwdriver or prying tool
On the other hand, I've had more trouble with my phone being loud if I turn it off than if I make it silent. I don't have one of those fancy pants folding phones; it's a solid unit with buttons on the front, and even in a case the button can get accidentally pushed, including the power button. Now the phone has a keypad lock functionality, but it's a software lock, so it doesn't work when the phone is off. If I turn the phone off, chances are it will turn itself on again in the theater and ring when someone calls it. Maybe my hearing is subpar or maybe my phone is unusual, but I can't hear my phone vibrate with the TV on, let alone in a theater with the volume cranked way to loud as the primary theater I visit always is.
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Well, just remember that three lefts make a right, so you can make any turn you want to into a left turn.
You might want to check into your college bookstore, many of them offer heavily discounted Microsoft products (I can buy Windows XP for around eleven bucks, Office for less than that). Your school may also have some sort of MSDNAA subscription, so ask around and see if something like that is available.