"Who wants a massive lens poking out of their phone?"
Look at some of the Sharp phones available (9xxSH series)- zoom doesn't mean having a lens sticking out of the phone.
"ou can get a very decent 5 or 6 megapixel camera for $85-$150"
Oh really- like what? I can't find any with quality better than my cameraphone for that price. All the decent cameras cost in the neighborhood of $250+ new. I can get a 2MP cameraphone with autofocus for $25. The only catch is its dubious origin. I had an older cameraphone stolen from me and found it at the market I bought this one from. I know it's mine but can't conclusively prove it because when I bought it the IMEI printed on the back of the phone didn't match the IMEI shown by pressing *#06# (strange, but I think it had something to do with the unlocking procedure). Of course, everything was erased when it was taken from me as well. I probably technically have no right to this phone but then again, I live in China.
Ouch. At my school the photographer takes a photo with his camera, and then I hand him my cameraphone (2megapixel) and ask him to take a photo with it. Of course, in my school the photographer is an employee of the school and the photos are free (or covered in tuition, I don't know which- just that the photos are put online and you print them yourself).
Go for a Sharp then- pretty everything you're asking for (9xx series- 910SH has 5MP sensor with 3x optical zoom and autofocus, 904SH has image stabilization, 3.2MP sensor, 2x optical zoom and autofocus, the 903SH has the same without image stabilization, and the 902SH is trailing behind with all the features of the 903SH but with a 2MP sensor). They are pretty big, though.
Probably the "kidnapper" (not so much really- at his age I wished that I could get 4 years off of school) pretended to be his parent. Maybe he really is a relative of some sort- why else would the parents not collapse into fits of hysterics after they finally found their kid after 4 years?
Well, there's mroe than that, though. The iPhone has no number pad, so how would existing applications be controlled? They would have to be rewritten to handle the iPhone's multi-touch. I was thinking that the fact that the iPhone ran a mobile version of OS X would mean that things like Widgets (if not full-on applications) could carry over between a Mac and an iPhone.
Where were you and what kind of connection did you have? I live in Shanghai with a DSL connection and I couldn't access most international sites at all for a few days (I made it work -barely- by passing my internet connection through a Japanese proxy after I noted to my surprised that some Japanese websites still worked). It's getting back to normal, but it sucked. Lucky you.
I'd never trust shipping on eBay any other way than paying when the product actually gets to me. That's why I'm a fan of the Chinese eBay system.
1. Look for auction. On the Chinese site, a seller's contact info is usually listed- either a telephone number or address.
2. Go to the address in question or telephone the seller. This is to make sure that the seller is legit. Usually, if an address is listed, it's a store and I will buy directly from them. Only once it turned out that someone was running a mini-store out of his apartment, and the guard at the apartment complex asked if I was getting accessories for my phone when I asked him about that apartment.
3. Make the purchase. It's nice to be able to actually meet the person selling the item- I can inspect it before purchase to make sure that everything's OK. I don't have an eBay account, and I'm afraid of using Paypal. Of course, for those sellers that don't use Paypal, wire transfer is the standard method of payment, and I'm naturally scared of doing that.
I need to be able to do an inspection of an item that I'm buying before I purchase it. If a store won't do that, then I just go to the local "flea market" for stuff. However, a lot of the stuff is stolen. I went through my local cellphone market- found a phone that I dropped on a taxi some months ago. I couldn't do anything about it because there was no way to officially tell that it was mine (the red Vodafone logo came off, same scratches, same orange outer casing that I imported) because the IMEI on the box doesn't match the IMEI under the battery of the phone when I bought it. And the IMEI under the battery didn't match the IMEI that was displayed by pressing *#06# which was strange when I bought it but I didn't give it a second thought because I didn't care. I sometimes buy some phones just for fun ($7 apiece for some Japanese phones) to see what some people's personal lives are like. One CDMA phone without the ESN on the back (just a little sticker with the production date on it) had some porn on it- I will never look at Japanese people the same way again.
Nope- if a restore disc is included it shouldn't be linked to the restore partition. I have a Panasonic Let's Note CF-T5 now- I activate the restore partition by going into the BIOS setup and selectin the "Format/Recovery" option. On Sony laptops it's activated by pressing F10 at the start-up screen (before Windows start-up).
Sony includes a restore partition. I learned this when I checked their support pages and found out why the warranty is void by installing Windows in English (I got a Japanese import)- apparently it interferes with the restore partition when install occurs so that when recovery is needed I need to buy discs (for that matter, I needed to register my computer in order to get a Customer ID which I could then use to order recovery discs- they wouldn't let me order otherwise).
Must be them trying to cut costs- Acer is Taiwanese/Chinese (can't remember which) so probably they included a homegrown version of Linux (local Chinese distro is called Red Flag- just try to guess why) because they still have to pay for Windows, even if it is a reduced cost. Did your computer come with Chinese stickers on it or not (Chinese keyboard is same as US keyboard except that Ctrl/Alt/Shift keys may be labeled in Chinese)?
So that means that you don't know a lot of people with iPods then. As far as I know WMP can't be used to load an iPod- why else would people use iTunes?
Same thing if you ask about browsing the web or listening to the music; you will almost never hear the words "browser" or "media player", instead they will answer you with "Internet Explorer" and "Windows Media Player".
No, more often it will be "Firefox" and "iTunes".
Wow- if my school blocked Myspace the student body would either
A. Complain to student council, which would remove the block or create a workaround (Because of the location of this school, there can be as much as 1/2 hour of downtime before classes start because school buses get there early and some night-time activities leave a bunch of bored students waiting for said activities to be set up- everyone at my school has a Myspace).
B. Find an inventive way around the block. It's amazing how few teachers pay attention when I plug my cellphone into a lab computer- it's a simple matter of finding and installing drivers for dial-up, and practically all the student body knows the administrator password to the computers. I picked it up on an internship with the school's IT department; who knows how the other students found out.
C. Children of the teachers could complain to the administration; because of the location of this school, teachers have residences above the classrooms and internet is fed from the same fiber line that supplies the rest of the school with internet.
This won't happen at my school because the administration is specifically looking to combat filtering- what is called the Great Firewall of China (else the students won't get their Wikipedia and other resources to do their work properly- books tend to have trouble getting here if they contain controversial subject matter so online is the only choice when researching said subject matter).
If you've been to both countries, you'll notice that both currencies are represented by . Of course, I'm Chinese and even I've tended to call the local currency "yen" on off-days (ever since one of the German students at my school tried to pronounce "yuan" and failed many times I gave up and told him to call it the "yen" if it's easier on his tongue).
Unfortunately, I'm going by what I've been told by PC builders in my local area. I live in China- a lot of people buy the parts and have someone put it all together for them. When I asked one of them about building a computer that supported Linux, he said to make sure to get TP-LINK for wireless networking. Of course, TP-LINK is also (as far as I've been told) a local brand (local to China, where I live) so that may be part of the reason. I can't say myself how reliable TP-LINK is because every time I've installed Linux on a laptop the built-in wireless worked no problem, so I didn't experiment. Sorry I can't be more helpful- I live in China so things are different here (TP-LINK is much cheaper to buy than imported brands like Linksys/Netgear/Cisco).
Because ever since that "Stella" case I vowed that I would never get myself into that sort of position and decided to go for cold or iced coffee (especially the frappuccinos, but people look at me funny when I order one in December when it's rainy outside). McDonalds has crappy coffee and it's hot too. Then again, I've never liked hot drinks.
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"Who wants a massive lens poking out of their phone?"
Look at some of the Sharp phones available (9xxSH series)- zoom doesn't mean having a lens sticking out of the phone.
... which my phone refuses to read properly (it spews some garbage characters at me when I try to scan it).
"ou can get a very decent 5 or 6 megapixel camera for $85-$150"
Oh really- like what? I can't find any with quality better than my cameraphone for that price. All the decent cameras cost in the neighborhood of $250+ new. I can get a 2MP cameraphone with autofocus for $25. The only catch is its dubious origin. I had an older cameraphone stolen from me and found it at the market I bought this one from. I know it's mine but can't conclusively prove it because when I bought it the IMEI printed on the back of the phone didn't match the IMEI shown by pressing *#06# (strange, but I think it had something to do with the unlocking procedure). Of course, everything was erased when it was taken from me as well. I probably technically have no right to this phone but then again, I live in China.
Ouch. At my school the photographer takes a photo with his camera, and then I hand him my cameraphone (2megapixel) and ask him to take a photo with it. Of course, in my school the photographer is an employee of the school and the photos are free (or covered in tuition, I don't know which- just that the photos are put online and you print them yourself).
Go for a Sharp then- pretty everything you're asking for (9xx series- 910SH has 5MP sensor with 3x optical zoom and autofocus, 904SH has image stabilization, 3.2MP sensor, 2x optical zoom and autofocus, the 903SH has the same without image stabilization, and the 902SH is trailing behind with all the features of the 903SH but with a 2MP sensor). They are pretty big, though.
Yep- watch China. The piraters wouldn't want their DVDs to suddenly not work in Vista- they'd do everything possible to prevent it.
Probably the "kidnapper" (not so much really- at his age I wished that I could get 4 years off of school) pretended to be his parent. Maybe he really is a relative of some sort- why else would the parents not collapse into fits of hysterics after they finally found their kid after 4 years?
Well, there's mroe than that, though. The iPhone has no number pad, so how would existing applications be controlled? They would have to be rewritten to handle the iPhone's multi-touch. I was thinking that the fact that the iPhone ran a mobile version of OS X would mean that things like Widgets (if not full-on applications) could carry over between a Mac and an iPhone.
Strange that they won't support third-party programs, either. I mean, programming in Cocoa has got to open up far more possibilities than Java.
Where were you and what kind of connection did you have? I live in Shanghai with a DSL connection and I couldn't access most international sites at all for a few days (I made it work -barely- by passing my internet connection through a Japanese proxy after I noted to my surprised that some Japanese websites still worked). It's getting back to normal, but it sucked. Lucky you.
Actually, science classes are already taught in metric (as far as I know- I went to school in California and Tennessee).
I'd never trust shipping on eBay any other way than paying when the product actually gets to me. That's why I'm a fan of the Chinese eBay system.
1. Look for auction. On the Chinese site, a seller's contact info is usually listed- either a telephone number or address.
2. Go to the address in question or telephone the seller. This is to make sure that the seller is legit. Usually, if an address is listed, it's a store and I will buy directly from them. Only once it turned out that someone was running a mini-store out of his apartment, and the guard at the apartment complex asked if I was getting accessories for my phone when I asked him about that apartment.
3. Make the purchase. It's nice to be able to actually meet the person selling the item- I can inspect it before purchase to make sure that everything's OK. I don't have an eBay account, and I'm afraid of using Paypal. Of course, for those sellers that don't use Paypal, wire transfer is the standard method of payment, and I'm naturally scared of doing that.
I need to be able to do an inspection of an item that I'm buying before I purchase it. If a store won't do that, then I just go to the local "flea market" for stuff. However, a lot of the stuff is stolen. I went through my local cellphone market- found a phone that I dropped on a taxi some months ago. I couldn't do anything about it because there was no way to officially tell that it was mine (the red Vodafone logo came off, same scratches, same orange outer casing that I imported) because the IMEI on the box doesn't match the IMEI under the battery of the phone when I bought it. And the IMEI under the battery didn't match the IMEI that was displayed by pressing *#06# which was strange when I bought it but I didn't give it a second thought because I didn't care. I sometimes buy some phones just for fun ($7 apiece for some Japanese phones) to see what some people's personal lives are like. One CDMA phone without the ESN on the back (just a little sticker with the production date on it) had some porn on it- I will never look at Japanese people the same way again.
Sounds interesting- what's market ouvert?
Nope- if a restore disc is included it shouldn't be linked to the restore partition. I have a Panasonic Let's Note CF-T5 now- I activate the restore partition by going into the BIOS setup and selectin the "Format/Recovery" option. On Sony laptops it's activated by pressing F10 at the start-up screen (before Windows start-up).
Sony includes a restore partition. I learned this when I checked their support pages and found out why the warranty is void by installing Windows in English (I got a Japanese import)- apparently it interferes with the restore partition when install occurs so that when recovery is needed I need to buy discs (for that matter, I needed to register my computer in order to get a Customer ID which I could then use to order recovery discs- they wouldn't let me order otherwise).
Must be them trying to cut costs- Acer is Taiwanese/Chinese (can't remember which) so probably they included a homegrown version of Linux (local Chinese distro is called Red Flag- just try to guess why) because they still have to pay for Windows, even if it is a reduced cost. Did your computer come with Chinese stickers on it or not (Chinese keyboard is same as US keyboard except that Ctrl/Alt/Shift keys may be labeled in Chinese)?
So that means that you don't know a lot of people with iPods then. As far as I know WMP can't be used to load an iPod- why else would people use iTunes?
Same thing if you ask about browsing the web or listening to the music; you will almost never hear the words "browser" or "media player", instead they will answer you with "Internet Explorer" and "Windows Media Player".
No, more often it will be "Firefox" and "iTunes".
Wow- if my school blocked Myspace the student body would either A. Complain to student council, which would remove the block or create a workaround (Because of the location of this school, there can be as much as 1/2 hour of downtime before classes start because school buses get there early and some night-time activities leave a bunch of bored students waiting for said activities to be set up- everyone at my school has a Myspace). B. Find an inventive way around the block. It's amazing how few teachers pay attention when I plug my cellphone into a lab computer- it's a simple matter of finding and installing drivers for dial-up, and practically all the student body knows the administrator password to the computers. I picked it up on an internship with the school's IT department; who knows how the other students found out. C. Children of the teachers could complain to the administration; because of the location of this school, teachers have residences above the classrooms and internet is fed from the same fiber line that supplies the rest of the school with internet. This won't happen at my school because the administration is specifically looking to combat filtering- what is called the Great Firewall of China (else the students won't get their Wikipedia and other resources to do their work properly- books tend to have trouble getting here if they contain controversial subject matter so online is the only choice when researching said subject matter).
Or it can make a great prank if done in someone else's home.
argh- why won't it take my symbols- I meant that both countries's currencies (China and Japan) are represented by a Y with a = superimposed on it.
If you've been to both countries, you'll notice that both currencies are represented by . Of course, I'm Chinese and even I've tended to call the local currency "yen" on off-days (ever since one of the German students at my school tried to pronounce "yuan" and failed many times I gave up and told him to call it the "yen" if it's easier on his tongue).
Exactly- I've got an old phone that won't take miniSD cards bigger than 256MB.
Unfortunately, I'm going by what I've been told by PC builders in my local area. I live in China- a lot of people buy the parts and have someone put it all together for them. When I asked one of them about building a computer that supported Linux, he said to make sure to get TP-LINK for wireless networking. Of course, TP-LINK is also (as far as I've been told) a local brand (local to China, where I live) so that may be part of the reason. I can't say myself how reliable TP-LINK is because every time I've installed Linux on a laptop the built-in wireless worked no problem, so I didn't experiment. Sorry I can't be more helpful- I live in China so things are different here (TP-LINK is much cheaper to buy than imported brands like Linksys/Netgear/Cisco).
Because ever since that "Stella" case I vowed that I would never get myself into that sort of position and decided to go for cold or iced coffee (especially the frappuccinos, but people look at me funny when I order one in December when it's rainy outside). McDonalds has crappy coffee and it's hot too. Then again, I've never liked hot drinks.