The first thing I noticed when I got a Motorola Droid was that I could actually read the text on the browser page at the default size without zooming in. With my iPhone 3G the text was usually pretty blurry and pixelated from the low resolution screen when trying to display really small font sizes like a page full of text. I think that alone was one of the things that I loved about switching to the Droid... I could actually read a page without constantly zooming in and scrolling around like a half-blind man with his magnifying glass trying to read the newspaper.
Actually while you're in fantasy land you might as well suggest switching to Macs because there's a hell of a lot more commercial desktop software written for Macs than there is for Linux, including Microsoft Office.
I hate beer. I hate drinking beer. I hate the taste of beer. The only reason I drink is socially and that is to loosen me up so I'm not a wallflower. I'd *prefer* to just drink shots of Tequila because it does a better job, quicker, without making me feel bloated like beer does, but for some reason at neighborhood gatherings nobody really breaks out the "hard" alcohol, the just sit around like pansies drinking Bud Lite and Miller Lite... horse piss IMHO.
You missed a lot of evil steps in between like, in no particular order: "Then they want to index all your e-mail and serve you up targeted advertisements, then they want to index everything on your desktop via Google Desktop, then they want to harvest and store all your documents in the cloud with Google Docs, then they want to have all of your appointment and todo information cataloged in Google Calendar, then they want to know where you are at all times with Google Latitude, then they want to know where you plan on going with Google Maps, then they want to catalog your shopping habits with Google Shopper/Goggles, then they want to know about your astronomy interests with Google Sky Map, then they want to catalog all your SMS messages and listen to all your voicemail and telephone calls with Google Voice, then they want to index all your DNS name resolution requests via their resolvers, etc." Google is absolutely insidious!
This is exactly the problem. Most people have probably not heard about a little company called Akamai, but chances are if you're downloading content from a large site, you're using Akamai's content delivery network. Go view a trailer on Apple's site for instance and you'll see the host is actually served off edgesuite.net (which is Akamai). They use a distributed system of caching mirror servers to serve up content to a server closest to you geographically.
The one reason I use an open DNS server instead of my cable provider's (Cox Cable) servers is because they have an Akamai server for Cox and it was horribly overloaded. I was getting 512 Kbps anytime I was trying to download something from Apple. I switched my DNS to a combination of Level3's and Cisco's open DNS servers and I started hitting another Akamai server outside Cox and started getting 15 Mbps. It was night and day going from barely being able to watch a standard definition movie trailer on Apple's site while it buffered buffered, played, buffered, play buffered, etc. to being able to watch a 1080p HDTV stream with the buffer way ahead of my realtime viewing.
Just buy the Eee PC 1005PE. I don't regret my purchase for a second and a 10+ hour real-world battery life is absolutely beautiful on a netbook. I wouldn't even consider a laptop or netbook with a pitiful 5 hour or less battery life these days. The whole point of a netbook is portability and that means not being shackled to an AC power outlet to power or recharge your laptop all the time so why wouldn't you pick the netbook with the most battery life?
Binaries groups should definitely be deleted off of any legitimate Usenet server. There's no reason for people to be downloading binaries off Usenet when there are web and FTP sites that are the proper places to be putting binary files. It still wouldn't solve the other major problem which is spam. The signal to noise ratio on discussion groups because of the spammers and trolls is just ridiculously low.
If I had a replicator that took raw materials and energy and was able to recreate anything I desired you can bet your ass I would be using it, especially to replicate "luxury" items like expensive cars or high-tech gadgets.
This is NOT old news. If you had bothered to read the article it already mentioned that NASA agreed in 2009 to pay up to $51 million for a seat, but this is a NEW agreement as of Tuesday for $55.8 million per seat.
Just sit tight. There are going to be at least a dozen or more Android-based tablets hitting the market by the end of 2010 that should fill in all the features missing from the iPad. Steve Jobs wants Apple to sell you the walled garden approach and Android-tablet vendors just want to sell you their awesome tablet and let you use whatever open software you want on it. I know which device(s) I'm going to support with my wallet.
I have to say the iPad doesn't fall into that category at all. It's not a "computer" in the normal sense -- you can't run a desktop operating system on it. It really is a new category of device.
The iPad isn't a new category of device, it's an iPod Touch with a 10" screen. There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about the device that hasn't been done before on a previous mobile Apple product.
No, what the video is saying is NEVER talk to the police, even with a lawyer present. It will NEVER help your defense and it will only hurt you. If you watch the whole thing you will understand why and how they can trick you and use your own words to incriminate you even though you feel you're just helping them. Things you say can and will be used AGAINST you, but never to aid your defense. Obviously the 5th Amendment doesn't apply outside the USA though.
"Magic" and branding are what make the iPad a superior experience to competitors including the entire genre of $299 Netbooks and $499 tablet PCs running the gambit with everything from Android to Linux to Windows 7 coming out this year.
World of Warcraft is a really old game though. I can't see it attracting a lot of new players to any particular market. Everyone who wants to play WoW is already playing it.
Do Italians even use Imperial units? The Tranquility module and the cupola were both designed and built through the Italians and the European Space Agency. I seriously doubt conversion had anything to do with it. I'm sick of people making such dumb statements as the submitter did without checking simple facts beforehand.
How is using the Nexus One as a GPS any different than a dedicated GPS unit? It has voice input and turn-by-turn voice prompts just like a "real" GPS so there's no need to touch it once you set it in the car dock. The experience of these post-2.0 Android phones is a lot different than the lousy Google Maps feature you'd find in lesser phones like an iPhone.
My Grand Prix only has about a 300 mile range of city driving, but the advantage is that I can replenish its fuel supply in about 5 minutes at any number of fueling stations located strategically throughout the city. With the electric car, when your battery is dead, it's dead and you're going to be spending hours, or perhaps all night, waiting for it to recharge. That's not a viable alternative to gasoline-powered cars in my opinion.
You know, 4 million years from now people are going to be thinking "God damnit, why were they so wasteful with ipv6 address space? I didn't need a/56, all I needed was a/64! If they would've allocated the more efficient subnets we wouldn't have to be worrying about IP address exhaustion within the next 10 million years.:-(
You're just impatient and didn't wait for the thing to finish. It supports 3G with AT&T... $30/month unlimited, no contract, fully unlocked. If this thing supports VOIP via 3G I could ditch my iPhone.:-/
This product reminds me of the Macbook Air. That was another one of their products that was created to fill some apparent missing niche between smartphones, PDAs, and full blown laptops and where has that got them? It is essentially worthless and priced MORE than a full blown Macbook or 13" Macbook Pro.
Do netbooks do a decent job playing Flash though with that slow Atom processor? I've thought about getting one, but I hear the performance isn't that great, especially under Linux.
Are you just trolling? It's right on their front page as the 5th flash advertisement. If you click on it it goes to: http://www.att.com/wireless/iphone/
They also have a "quick link" in their menu right to the iPhone 3Gs page.
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The first thing I noticed when I got a Motorola Droid was that I could actually read the text on the browser page at the default size without zooming in. With my iPhone 3G the text was usually pretty blurry and pixelated from the low resolution screen when trying to display really small font sizes like a page full of text. I think that alone was one of the things that I loved about switching to the Droid... I could actually read a page without constantly zooming in and scrolling around like a half-blind man with his magnifying glass trying to read the newspaper.
Actually while you're in fantasy land you might as well suggest switching to Macs because there's a hell of a lot more commercial desktop software written for Macs than there is for Linux, including Microsoft Office.
I hate beer. I hate drinking beer. I hate the taste of beer. The only reason I drink is socially and that is to loosen me up so I'm not a wallflower. I'd *prefer* to just drink shots of Tequila because it does a better job, quicker, without making me feel bloated like beer does, but for some reason at neighborhood gatherings nobody really breaks out the "hard" alcohol, the just sit around like pansies drinking Bud Lite and Miller Lite... horse piss IMHO.
You missed a lot of evil steps in between like, in no particular order: "Then they want to index all your e-mail and serve you up targeted advertisements, then they want to index everything on your desktop via Google Desktop, then they want to harvest and store all your documents in the cloud with Google Docs, then they want to have all of your appointment and todo information cataloged in Google Calendar, then they want to know where you are at all times with Google Latitude, then they want to know where you plan on going with Google Maps, then they want to catalog your shopping habits with Google Shopper/Goggles, then they want to know about your astronomy interests with Google Sky Map, then they want to catalog all your SMS messages and listen to all your voicemail and telephone calls with Google Voice, then they want to index all your DNS name resolution requests via their resolvers, etc." Google is absolutely insidious!
This is exactly the problem. Most people have probably not heard about a little company called Akamai, but chances are if you're downloading content from a large site, you're using Akamai's content delivery network. Go view a trailer on Apple's site for instance and you'll see the host is actually served off edgesuite.net (which is Akamai). They use a distributed system of caching mirror servers to serve up content to a server closest to you geographically.
The one reason I use an open DNS server instead of my cable provider's (Cox Cable) servers is because they have an Akamai server for Cox and it was horribly overloaded. I was getting 512 Kbps anytime I was trying to download something from Apple. I switched my DNS to a combination of Level3's and Cisco's open DNS servers and I started hitting another Akamai server outside Cox and started getting 15 Mbps. It was night and day going from barely being able to watch a standard definition movie trailer on Apple's site while it buffered buffered, played, buffered, play buffered, etc. to being able to watch a 1080p HDTV stream with the buffer way ahead of my realtime viewing.
I don't consider it piracy to copy Netflix movies as much as efficient local caching.
Just buy the Eee PC 1005PE. I don't regret my purchase for a second and a 10+ hour real-world battery life is absolutely beautiful on a netbook. I wouldn't even consider a laptop or netbook with a pitiful 5 hour or less battery life these days. The whole point of a netbook is portability and that means not being shackled to an AC power outlet to power or recharge your laptop all the time so why wouldn't you pick the netbook with the most battery life?
Binaries groups should definitely be deleted off of any legitimate Usenet server. There's no reason for people to be downloading binaries off Usenet when there are web and FTP sites that are the proper places to be putting binary files. It still wouldn't solve the other major problem which is spam. The signal to noise ratio on discussion groups because of the spammers and trolls is just ridiculously low.
They're probably glaring at you because you're wearing a t-shirt to work at "a major multinational IT company".
If I had a replicator that took raw materials and energy and was able to recreate anything I desired you can bet your ass I would be using it, especially to replicate "luxury" items like expensive cars or high-tech gadgets.
This is NOT old news. If you had bothered to read the article it already mentioned that NASA agreed in 2009 to pay up to $51 million for a seat, but this is a NEW agreement as of Tuesday for $55.8 million per seat.
Just sit tight. There are going to be at least a dozen or more Android-based tablets hitting the market by the end of 2010 that should fill in all the features missing from the iPad. Steve Jobs wants Apple to sell you the walled garden approach and Android-tablet vendors just want to sell you their awesome tablet and let you use whatever open software you want on it. I know which device(s) I'm going to support with my wallet.
The iPad isn't a new category of device, it's an iPod Touch with a 10" screen. There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about the device that hasn't been done before on a previous mobile Apple product.
No, what the video is saying is NEVER talk to the police, even with a lawyer present. It will NEVER help your defense and it will only hurt you. If you watch the whole thing you will understand why and how they can trick you and use your own words to incriminate you even though you feel you're just helping them. Things you say can and will be used AGAINST you, but never to aid your defense. Obviously the 5th Amendment doesn't apply outside the USA though.
"Magic" and branding are what make the iPad a superior experience to competitors including the entire genre of $299 Netbooks and $499 tablet PCs running the gambit with everything from Android to Linux to Windows 7 coming out this year.
World of Warcraft is a really old game though. I can't see it attracting a lot of new players to any particular market. Everyone who wants to play WoW is already playing it.
When you live in the USA it does. Domestic means calling within the USA.
Do Italians even use Imperial units? The Tranquility module and the cupola were both designed and built through the Italians and the European Space Agency. I seriously doubt conversion had anything to do with it. I'm sick of people making such dumb statements as the submitter did without checking simple facts beforehand.
How is using the Nexus One as a GPS any different than a dedicated GPS unit? It has voice input and turn-by-turn voice prompts just like a "real" GPS so there's no need to touch it once you set it in the car dock. The experience of these post-2.0 Android phones is a lot different than the lousy Google Maps feature you'd find in lesser phones like an iPhone.
My Grand Prix only has about a 300 mile range of city driving, but the advantage is that I can replenish its fuel supply in about 5 minutes at any number of fueling stations located strategically throughout the city. With the electric car, when your battery is dead, it's dead and you're going to be spending hours, or perhaps all night, waiting for it to recharge. That's not a viable alternative to gasoline-powered cars in my opinion.
You know, 4 million years from now people are going to be thinking "God damnit, why were they so wasteful with ipv6 address space? I didn't need a /56, all I needed was a /64! If they would've allocated the more efficient subnets we wouldn't have to be worrying about IP address exhaustion within the next 10 million years. :-(
You're just impatient and didn't wait for the thing to finish. It supports 3G with AT&T... $30/month unlimited, no contract, fully unlocked. If this thing supports VOIP via 3G I could ditch my iPhone. :-/
This product reminds me of the Macbook Air. That was another one of their products that was created to fill some apparent missing niche between smartphones, PDAs, and full blown laptops and where has that got them? It is essentially worthless and priced MORE than a full blown Macbook or 13" Macbook Pro.
Do netbooks do a decent job playing Flash though with that slow Atom processor? I've thought about getting one, but I hear the performance isn't that great, especially under Linux.
Are you just trolling? It's right on their front page as the 5th flash advertisement. If you click on it it goes to:
http://www.att.com/wireless/iphone/
They also have a "quick link" in their menu right to the iPhone 3Gs page.