Now, I'm no cosmologist, but these two descriptions of the theory seem to be in conflict...does the matter in the universe come together in the Big Crunch, or does it fly off into space forever, replenished by subsequent Big Bang events?
Personally, the Big Crunch leaves the reason that that the universe will recycle itself in another Big Bang while Heat Death just means an everlasting permanent dead universe.
Personally, I'd like localized big crunches and big bangs better than the other two because that means if I were to live long enough to where a Technological singularity did happen in my life time and I did get to live for millions of years, I'd have a better chance of avoiding the End of the Universe by just moving my being away from any big crunches or big bangs going on at that moment.
Of course... I've got a lot more to be worried about than trying to figure where I'm going to be in 100 billion years (if at all) and even then I doubt I will have much say in how the universe ends or doesn't end.
I can't send email from my work place to my free register.com hosted account because I had emailed myself some links to look at while at home. Apparently the spam bot assumed messages with just a subject and links and flagged my work address as spam.
I couldn't get them to undo the change... But it is a free service and I figured I won't get anywhere if I push it and these days I just send any emails with links to my hotmail account.
So that leaves us with Evangelion, admired by hordes and spurned by people who are described by said hordes as "not getting it." Perhaps there's just not that much to get? Perhaps you're adding too much into a reading, because they left so much hanging you constructed around the work? That's not literature. Literature guides your faculties, it doesn't fool them and then expect them to expand things past the breaking point.
There is no meaning. There is not higher mental or intellectualism to this type of art.
Sometimes art is more than that... And you aren't supposed to get anything out of art other than a pure emotional reaction to your inner gut or the neurons of your mind exploding in a brain fart that says "What the F*ck?!"
That is the problem with many people... They think art is supposed to make them smarter, more intellectual, or a better person. That isn't what art is about.
Of course, neither is it... say... what Reality TV.
I think Neon Genesis acheives that type of art... Sometimes at the expense of the audience. (ala Andy Kaufman)
"Considering she's 99% cyborg, how is GITS any different than other inside-a-robot animes?"
Well... She can't just pop out of her body like a pilot. If she is a Robo-mecha that pretty much anyone else is.
And gits follows a different plot line. 99.9% she is in her own body unless you count her being in cyberspace not.
In a Giant-robo movie. Most of the time the lead character does his thing outside the robot... The conversation... The drama... And then all of a sudden a big baddy arrives in the city to wreck havok and they lead character jumps in his big robot and fights the thing off and then you have the ending scene with the character usually leaving the robot.
In GITS (especially Stand Alone Complex I and II)... You are treated to very dynamic and well thought out plots. Yes there are guys in mechanized suits and the spider robots (tachikoma's) but these are done realistically and not key feature of the plot. Tachikoma's are often thought of as comic humor relief, but during many episodes these robots are contemplating deeper issues like "The Meaning of Life" and what happens to you after you die while the lead characters often kept a more serious down to earth attitudes.
Most of the plots are semi-realistic or believable enough but still "out there" enough to be considered sci-fi. That and the technobabble is kept to a minimum.
Overall I do have some minor complaints about the second series plot direction (but it maybe because the viewer is supposed to be frustrated with the current events), but it is far better than most average Giant-Robot anime.
I think it will work out, but I forsee lots of complaints of wadeing through adware to get to anything important.. guess we'll see.
That is what the Ad-supported tech support is for...
Tech support person: "Thank you for calling Google/Earthlink Wireless support! How can I help you!" Customer: "I can't connect to the internet!" Tech support person: "Are you on a free account?" Customer: "Ummm... I think..." Tech support person: *types in "I can't connect to the internet in google"* "Sponsored Links T1's starting at $239 MegaPath. Huge Nationwide Broadband Coverage. Check Availability Now!" Customer: "What?!" Tech support person: "Hold on... I've got a few more to read before we begin..."
There is, but they're going to have difficulty because of the Macs LOW MARKET SHARE. Until a large percentage of machines your Mac would communicate with when transfering the virus are Macs too, a Mac virus isn't going to get off the ground.
OS 9 had a ton of viruses and they had even a smaller market share than OS X.
For some reason I don't think market share is related to this.
Mac users by and large have become complacent when it comes to basic security principles. They are even more at risk of infecting their machine when viruses and other threats start to spread on the Mac platform.
I think the problem wasn't that Mac or Windows users were any more complacent than each other, but one system was more prone to viruses and malware.
One of these systems had the following problem:
1. Getting spyware by visiting webpage with default security options 2. Getting viruses just by opening or previewing an email 3. Getting a Virus just by being connected to the internet.
Both systems still can have:
1. Viruses from opening attachments from email 2. Viruses from opening files downloaded from the internet
The first set of issues was nothing that you would consider to be safe security practices. That is unreasonable to think the user could not do these things within reason (Yeah... Back when the Outlook express viruses were going around I turned off my preview pane and avoided unknown senders like the plague but this is a hard practice to keep 100% reliable (you know accidentally opening an email from someone you know or hitting enter key at the wrong time).
Yes, one of those operation systems developers did fix the problem with many various security patches, but the other one never had such widespread issues and was usually quick to address any security hole.
I use OS X primarily for my surfing and email, but I still keep my habits from the windows days.
Don't download files from questionable sources. Don't open emails attachments from questionable sources.
If I don't do either of those, then I believe I should not have to have an anti-virus.
But the idea of rectal feeding has been pretty much removed with the advent of modern intravenous methods. I've heard that unless your going to be doing some physical work, you can actually get all your required nutrients through an IV. I'm thinking 'heads in jars' are in store for some of us.
Actually, as scary as it sounds... I heard a first hand account of getting drunk with red wine via the rectum. Person claims that the buzz you get is much better and less pone to upset stomach and hang over.
However, I wasn't about to test their claim or ask them to demonstrate.
I would hardly call those two sentences brilliant, or even succinct for that matter. In fact, the third sentence does not even seem grammatically correct (though I could be wrong; English is my third language).
When you can crush a man with your pinky finger or shoot lasers from your eyes... No one is going to tell you what they think your grammar skills.
Mind you... if all they need is a fingerprint and/or data from your RFID implant, a crook wouldn't even need you alive.
And how this is any different from a guy putting a gun to your head, forcing you to write down your password or PIN, and then shooting you anyways?
There are countless roberies every year were victims are forced at gun point to withdraw monies from ATMs.
Seriously, a thief doesn't want to murder you (most of the time) if he can avoid it. Unless you put up resistance, they just want your money and then flee the scene. Robbing someone can get 10-20 years, but mediocre pursuit by the police. Murder can get you Life or Death Penalty, and high pursuit by the police.
Of course, if they are out to kill you anyways or going on rage to get a crack cocaine fix... Then you are pretty much screwed as it is.
How many Swords and Sorcery MMOs are on that list? Does the term "also ran" not mean anything to these people?
My problem with most MMORPGs is that they haven't come up anything more innovative than the "kill things, level up, kill more things" formula.
With the success of EQ, everyone went with their model. Personally, I found Ultima Online in 1998 to be extremely fun and interactive.
I always thought it was technical limiations of 3d egines that no one tried to copy them with PvP, housing, and skill systems instead of leveling, but I don't know what is keeping them now.
If someone would come up with something more original or at least less of the same old hack and slash leveling system, I'd be up for it.
Please... If any game devs are reading this... Many of us gamers have been leveling up sinc MUDs, then Diablo, then EQ, then WoW and then any other game that uses the same system... Sure its fun, but after 20 games with the same formula it gets old.
Give us something unique and that makes character advancment and role playing more than just number crunching.
I already paid $150 for my silver one. Yes, it's bulky, but at least I can stick the GBA games in all the way.
I know what you mean, but I realized the other day that I haven't played a GBA game this year because of the new rush of good DS titles.
$130 is a lot of cash for a parent to drop on a kid's system.
I remember the SNES was +$100 when it first came out. Ah yes... From wiki article: "Initially sold for a price of $200 US, the North American package included the game Super Mario World."
And I distinctly remember my parents purchasing this for me around 1990 something... Considering inflation and economic concerns back then, I'd say $200 back then was worth a lot more than $200 today (and even the DS is $130 today).
So now we have hard ware that is cheaper and quite exponentially more powerful than the old consoles. Its cheaper than the new consoles and so are the games. It is quite a deal.
The rest are either moderates or conservatives. All of the other major news outlets are competing for that 1 in 4, and ignoring the rest of us.
Well... Unfortunatley, I don't have any blond missing daughters.
But seriously, I find Fox News offensive and I consider myself to be Independant Moderate (I used to vote Republican).
But there are so many inconstancies and just poor taste and blind support of government and fear mongering over terrorism, that I just don't want to watch them anymore.
Sure the rest suck, but that is what The Daily Show is for.
For like 12 years MS hasn't changed the Office UI singificantly because of "training" issues, and everyone here flamed them for rehashing the same product over-and-over.
The problem is that only the vocal minority complains about things and it gets changed, while the majority of users are fine with the way things are.
I work for a 3rd party Office Tech support company and every time an company upgrades from 97, 2000 to either 2002 and 2003 I already know what the call is about. Here are the top 3 questions...
1. Why can't I get rid of Track changes? - This one is major. We get calls all the time about this and it is a bitch to describe how to accept all changes because you can no longer to it through the Tools, Track Changes, Accept all Changes in document menu. You have to find the "Peice of paper" with the check mark on it and then accept. This may not even be visible on their screen becacse their toolbars might be coverning the options up. That or add the Accept all Changes back to the tool bar through customize toolbars but that is a pain to do each item.
Well that isn't the half of this issue... Mostly these people just upgraded and now all their documents have track changes. I have spoken to literally hundreds of users who saw this and then immediatley figured it was the Final Showing mark up and they toggle it only to find when they reopen the document it shows the track changes again.
2. I can't figure out mail merges?! - From 97 to 2000 you had a simple 3 step merge process which in 2002 and 2003 they converted to 6 steps which most of the menus don't make sense and has it own set of DDE bugs. Now they have to relearn it all over again.
3. I want to get rid of the task pane! - Yes this a simple and silly question, but these people are paying us by the minue to fix these problems and so we spend about 90 seconds having them go to the tools, options, general and uncheck startup task pane.
Trust me... Non techies do not like change. They want to learn their job and then just do it without having to mess with change... EVER!
Vista is going to put a world of hurt on the corporate world. Yeah... It going to keep me employed and busy, but I'm sure all the CIO's are collectively cringing thinking about how much is going to cost them to retrain their work force.
I've been under the impression that thieves steal cars to strip them for parts, as its impractical to re-sell a stolen car as a whole.
Yeah... In most states it is virtually impossible to even buy a car from another state and bring it across the border and avoid sales tax. Much less get a full fledged stolen car.
Although, it appears that pepole don't steal as many cars as they did 10 years ago. Mostly because the parts are becoming too complex to tear out and use in similar cars. I was lucky to find a new computer for my old 91 Mitsubushi in a Junk yard from wrecked one and this was a few years back.
Anything made past 2000 is just unreasable to expect returns off scraped items unless you have the computer equipment in your garage to get it working correctly and I don't think most chop shops would put that much effort in it.
That and in most states it is impossible to pass inspection with scrap work cars.
I could be very wrong though... Perhaps organized crime has such shops.
Abandonware sites often claim they just do it "so those games don't go into extinction". With this reason gone, there's no reason anymore for game companies to shoot with big shells their way without getting bad rep.
I think the point of Abandonware sites (like the-underdogs.org) is that they only host games that aren't being sold or have anyone to complain about them releasing them.
Technically, you can't sue someone over a copyright you don't own.
So game companies can't just sue someone they don't own the rights to whether they like it or not. If they can aquire the rights later down the road... Then yes they can sue.
I don't think this will take any steam out of the abandonware's argument.
Once you have the cell phone version of tetris and break out. Those are the only two you need.
The only time I find myself playing cell phone games is when I am waiting in a lobby, waiting on someone, or just need to kill time if I arrive for an appointment early.
If I fly or go on a road trip, I'm probaly going to bring the DS though and won't think twice about opening the cell phone to kill time.
My cell phone is just clunky and slow for anything advances like a Gameboy.
One of my earlier cell phones had a copy cat of Nethack. It was kind of fun, but I wouldn't pay $3.00, but since it came with the phone... Might as well play it.
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Now, I'm no cosmologist, but these two descriptions of the theory seem to be in conflict...does the matter in the universe come together in the Big Crunch, or does it fly off into space forever, replenished by subsequent Big Bang events?
Personally, the Big Crunch leaves the reason that that the universe will recycle itself in another Big Bang while Heat Death just means an everlasting permanent dead universe.
Personally, I'd like localized big crunches and big bangs better than the other two because that means if I were to live long enough to where a Technological singularity did happen in my life time and I did get to live for millions of years, I'd have a better chance of avoiding the End of the Universe by just moving my being away from any big crunches or big bangs going on at that moment.
Of course... I've got a lot more to be worried about than trying to figure where I'm going to be in 100 billion years (if at all) and even then I doubt I will have much say in how the universe ends or doesn't end.
I can't send email from my work place to my free register.com hosted account because I had emailed myself some links to look at while at home. Apparently the spam bot assumed messages with just a subject and links and flagged my work address as spam.
I couldn't get them to undo the change... But it is a free service and I figured I won't get anywhere if I push it and these days I just send any emails with links to my hotmail account.
So that leaves us with Evangelion, admired by hordes and spurned by people who are described by said hordes as "not getting it." Perhaps there's just not that much to get? Perhaps you're adding too much into a reading, because they left so much hanging you constructed around the work? That's not literature. Literature guides your faculties, it doesn't fool them and then expect them to expand things past the breaking point.
;)
I'd bet you say the same thing about Dada art.
Sometimes the point of art is to "not get it".
There is no meaning. There is not higher mental or intellectualism to this type of art.
Sometimes art is more than that... And you aren't supposed to get anything out of art other than a pure emotional reaction to your inner gut or the neurons of your mind exploding in a brain fart that says "What the F*ck?!"
That is the problem with many people... They think art is supposed to make them smarter, more intellectual, or a better person. That isn't what art is about.
Of course, neither is it... say... what Reality TV.
I think Neon Genesis acheives that type of art... Sometimes at the expense of the audience. (ala Andy Kaufman)
"Considering she's 99% cyborg, how is GITS any different than other inside-a-robot animes?"
Well... She can't just pop out of her body like a pilot. If she is a Robo-mecha that pretty much anyone else is.
And gits follows a different plot line. 99.9% she is in her own body unless you count her being in cyberspace not.
In a Giant-robo movie. Most of the time the lead character does his thing outside the robot... The conversation... The drama... And then all of a sudden a big baddy arrives in the city to wreck havok and they lead character jumps in his big robot and fights the thing off and then you have the ending scene with the character usually leaving the robot.
In GITS (especially Stand Alone Complex I and II)... You are treated to very dynamic and well thought out plots. Yes there are guys in mechanized suits and the spider robots (tachikoma's) but these are done realistically and not key feature of the plot. Tachikoma's are often thought of as comic humor relief, but during many episodes these robots are contemplating deeper issues like "The Meaning of Life" and what happens to you after you die while the lead characters often kept a more serious down to earth attitudes.
Most of the plots are semi-realistic or believable enough but still "out there" enough to be considered sci-fi. That and the technobabble is kept to a minimum.
Overall I do have some minor complaints about the second series plot direction (but it maybe because the viewer is supposed to be frustrated with the current events), but it is far better than most average Giant-Robot anime.
I think it will work out, but I forsee lots of complaints of wadeing through adware to get to anything important.. guess we'll see.
That is what the Ad-supported tech support is for...
Tech support person: "Thank you for calling Google/Earthlink Wireless support! How can I help you!"
Customer: "I can't connect to the internet!"
Tech support person: "Are you on a free account?"
Customer: "Ummm... I think..."
Tech support person: *types in "I can't connect to the internet in google"* "Sponsored Links T1's starting at $239 MegaPath. Huge Nationwide Broadband Coverage. Check Availability Now!"
Customer: "What?!"
Tech support person: "Hold on... I've got a few more to read before we begin..."
but is it faster than an electric car?
Only for about 60 seconds.
There is, but they're going to have difficulty because of the Macs LOW MARKET SHARE. Until a large percentage of machines your Mac would communicate with when transfering the virus are Macs too, a Mac virus isn't going to get off the ground.
OS 9 had a ton of viruses and they had even a smaller market share than OS X.
For some reason I don't think market share is related to this.
Mac users by and large have become complacent when it comes to basic security principles. They are even more at risk of infecting their machine when viruses and other threats start to spread on the Mac platform.
I think the problem wasn't that Mac or Windows users were any more complacent than each other, but one system was more prone to viruses and malware.
One of these systems had the following problem:
1. Getting spyware by visiting webpage with default security options
2. Getting viruses just by opening or previewing an email
3. Getting a Virus just by being connected to the internet.
Both systems still can have:
1. Viruses from opening attachments from email
2. Viruses from opening files downloaded from the internet
The first set of issues was nothing that you would consider to be safe security practices. That is unreasonable to think the user could not do these things within reason (Yeah... Back when the Outlook express viruses were going around I turned off my preview pane and avoided unknown senders like the plague but this is a hard practice to keep 100% reliable (you know accidentally opening an email from someone you know or hitting enter key at the wrong time).
Yes, one of those operation systems developers did fix the problem with many various security patches, but the other one never had such widespread issues and was usually quick to address any security hole.
I use OS X primarily for my surfing and email, but I still keep my habits from the windows days.
Don't download files from questionable sources.
Don't open emails attachments from questionable sources.
If I don't do either of those, then I believe I should not have to have an anti-virus.
Plain. Meet simple.
You mean they discovered patent reform?
But the idea of rectal feeding has been pretty much removed with the advent of modern intravenous methods. I've heard that unless your going to be doing some physical work, you can actually get all your required nutrients through an IV. I'm thinking 'heads in jars' are in store for some of us.
Actually, as scary as it sounds... I heard a first hand account of getting drunk with red wine via the rectum. Person claims that the buzz you get is much better and less pone to upset stomach and hang over.
However, I wasn't about to test their claim or ask them to demonstrate.
I would hardly call those two sentences brilliant, or even succinct for that matter. In fact, the third sentence does not even seem grammatically correct (though I could be wrong; English is my third language).
When you can crush a man with your pinky finger or shoot lasers from your eyes... No one is going to tell you what they think your grammar skills.
Mind you... if all they need is a fingerprint and/or data from your RFID implant, a crook wouldn't even need you alive.
And how this is any different from a guy putting a gun to your head, forcing you to write down your password or PIN, and then shooting you anyways?
There are countless roberies every year were victims are forced at gun point to withdraw monies from ATMs.
Seriously, a thief doesn't want to murder you (most of the time) if he can avoid it. Unless you put up resistance, they just want your money and then flee the scene. Robbing someone can get 10-20 years, but mediocre pursuit by the police. Murder can get you Life or Death Penalty, and high pursuit by the police.
Of course, if they are out to kill you anyways or going on rage to get a crack cocaine fix... Then you are pretty much screwed as it is.
The main issue I have with putting chips under my skin is that I can't take it out whenever I want!
Bull hockey. It ain't nothing a shot of tequila, lether belt, and an exacto knife can't fix.
How many Swords and Sorcery MMOs are on that list? Does the term "also ran" not mean anything to these people?
My problem with most MMORPGs is that they haven't come up anything more innovative than the "kill things, level up, kill more things" formula.
With the success of EQ, everyone went with their model. Personally, I found Ultima Online in 1998 to be extremely fun and interactive.
I always thought it was technical limiations of 3d egines that no one tried to copy them with PvP, housing, and skill systems instead of leveling, but I don't know what is keeping them now.
If someone would come up with something more original or at least less of the same old hack and slash leveling system, I'd be up for it.
Please... If any game devs are reading this... Many of us gamers have been leveling up sinc MUDs, then Diablo, then EQ, then WoW and then any other game that uses the same system... Sure its fun, but after 20 games with the same formula it gets old.
Give us something unique and that makes character advancment and role playing more than just number crunching.
I already paid $150 for my silver one. Yes, it's bulky, but at least I can stick the GBA games in all the way.
I know what you mean, but I realized the other day that I haven't played a GBA game this year because of the new rush of good DS titles.
$130 is a lot of cash for a parent to drop on a kid's system.
I remember the SNES was +$100 when it first came out. Ah yes... From wiki article: "Initially sold for a price of $200 US, the North American package included the game Super Mario World."
And I distinctly remember my parents purchasing this for me around 1990 something... Considering inflation and economic concerns back then, I'd say $200 back then was worth a lot more than $200 today (and even the DS is $130 today).
So now we have hard ware that is cheaper and quite exponentially more powerful than the old consoles. Its cheaper than the new consoles and so are the games. It is quite a deal.
The rest are either moderates or conservatives. All of the other major news outlets are competing for that 1 in 4, and ignoring the rest of us.
Well... Unfortunatley, I don't have any blond missing daughters.
But seriously, I find Fox News offensive and I consider myself to be Independant Moderate (I used to vote Republican).
But there are so many inconstancies and just poor taste and blind support of government and fear mongering over terrorism, that I just don't want to watch them anymore.
Sure the rest suck, but that is what The Daily Show is for.
I also visit Al Jazeera from time to time.
;)
I get all my international new from The People's Daily.
Well there is always Pravda if you don't mind the UFO stories.
I don't live beyond my means draining on society.
You mean like corporate CEO's of the fortune 500?
With a 90% installbase and billions and billions of dollars...
Like IBM in the mid 80's?
For like 12 years MS hasn't changed the Office UI singificantly because of "training" issues, and everyone here flamed them for rehashing the same product over-and-over.
The problem is that only the vocal minority complains about things and it gets changed, while the majority of users are fine with the way things are.
I work for a 3rd party Office Tech support company and every time an company upgrades from 97, 2000 to either 2002 and 2003 I already know what the call is about. Here are the top 3 questions...
1. Why can't I get rid of Track changes? - This one is major. We get calls all the time about this and it is a bitch to describe how to accept all changes because you can no longer to it through the Tools, Track Changes, Accept all Changes in document menu. You have to find the "Peice of paper" with the check mark on it and then accept. This may not even be visible on their screen becacse their toolbars might be coverning the options up. That or add the Accept all Changes back to the tool bar through customize toolbars but that is a pain to do each item.
Well that isn't the half of this issue... Mostly these people just upgraded and now all their documents have track changes. I have spoken to literally hundreds of users who saw this and then immediatley figured it was the Final Showing mark up and they toggle it only to find when they reopen the document it shows the track changes again.
2. I can't figure out mail merges?! - From 97 to 2000 you had a simple 3 step merge process which in 2002 and 2003 they converted to 6 steps which most of the menus don't make sense and has it own set of DDE bugs. Now they have to relearn it all over again.
3. I want to get rid of the task pane! - Yes this a simple and silly question, but these people are paying us by the minue to fix these problems and so we spend about 90 seconds having them go to the tools, options, general and uncheck startup task pane.
Trust me... Non techies do not like change. They want to learn their job and then just do it without having to mess with change... EVER!
Vista is going to put a world of hurt on the corporate world. Yeah... It going to keep me employed and busy, but I'm sure all the CIO's are collectively cringing thinking about how much is going to cost them to retrain their work force.
I've been under the impression that thieves steal cars to strip them for parts, as its impractical to re-sell a stolen car as a whole.
Yeah... In most states it is virtually impossible to even buy a car from another state and bring it across the border and avoid sales tax. Much less get a full fledged stolen car.
Although, it appears that pepole don't steal as many cars as they did 10 years ago. Mostly because the parts are becoming too complex to tear out and use in similar cars. I was lucky to find a new computer for my old 91 Mitsubushi in a Junk yard from wrecked one and this was a few years back.
Anything made past 2000 is just unreasable to expect returns off scraped items unless you have the computer equipment in your garage to get it working correctly and I don't think most chop shops would put that much effort in it.
That and in most states it is impossible to pass inspection with scrap work cars.
I could be very wrong though... Perhaps organized crime has such shops.
Since when is MS Vista focused on gamers?
Well... Ever since you needed a top of the line gaming rig just to run Vista with all the desktop effects on.
I think you can get it at www.ubuntu.com.
You can, but it is hurtful to the Ubuntu Project because you are costing them money for the bandwidth.
Abandonware sites often claim they just do it "so those games don't go into extinction". With this reason gone, there's no reason anymore for game companies to shoot with big shells their way without getting bad rep.
I think the point of Abandonware sites (like the-underdogs.org) is that they only host games that aren't being sold or have anyone to complain about them releasing them.
Technically, you can't sue someone over a copyright you don't own.
So game companies can't just sue someone they don't own the rights to whether they like it or not. If they can aquire the rights later down the road... Then yes they can sue.
I don't think this will take any steam out of the abandonware's argument.
Once you have the cell phone version of tetris and break out. Those are the only two you need.
The only time I find myself playing cell phone games is when I am waiting in a lobby, waiting on someone, or just need to kill time if I arrive for an appointment early.
If I fly or go on a road trip, I'm probaly going to bring the DS though and won't think twice about opening the cell phone to kill time.
My cell phone is just clunky and slow for anything advances like a Gameboy.
One of my earlier cell phones had a copy cat of Nethack. It was kind of fun, but I wouldn't pay $3.00, but since it came with the phone... Might as well play it.