Just so you know, Handy is only a German word, I think. The rest of the world uses "mobile phone" or "cell phone" or "hand phone" (well, the last one is an Asian thing; I've heard that in Singapore and Korea so far but nowhere in the US or Europe)
Hey- why not solar power? A bunch of solar panels stuck on the roof of an electric car and hooked up to the battery to recharge would be great- more so for California, Arizona, and similar regions than places like Washington state, of course. Also, precautions would have to be made for shielding- pigeon droppings and things like that are a good reason to shield the panels if used.
Where? Do tell- all I've been able to find is either MP3 or AAC format (sometimes WMA). Of course, I'm looking for old Japanese music that came out on vinyl (specifically an artist called Motoharu Sano, who already put his most recent albums on iTunes, but nothing that I'm looking for), so I suppose I just have to take what I can get (No, I won't look for used ones- last I heard Japan has a law against that or something). And screwing over my favorite musicians? I suppose you have a point ther, because even though I live in China I try to avoid pirated CDs- of course even here they don't sell vinyl records anyway, so I just listen on MP3.
"Worse wireless than China"? I currently live in China- the only thing that they are more advanced in than the US is the removal of analog- only GSM and CDMA now. And even then, while it works pretty much everywhere, we only have GPRS (provinces close to Hong Kong have EDGE) and 1xRTT respectively while the US already has WCDMA (at a strange frequency) and 1xEVDO. Well... it is cheap here, though- I can get an unlimited GPRS plan here for about $25 a month, and I can get a service plan here that includes 400 local minutes (no nights or weekends) for $7. In addition, roaming in the US is only $.75 a minute on GSM and nly $.35 a minute with CDMA, while the reverse seems to cost twice as much. My current plan is 30 minutes, 60 text messages, and 25MB of GPRS data for about $3.50 a month. If it was only that cheap in the US.
That's... interesting- I think I'll be staying away from that one, then. Thanks for the info. But- it can cause abortions? Unfortunately that's an effect that some people at my school will actually notice (but that's another problem together- when I am using the toilet, I do not want to hear the sounds of sex from the handicapped stall next to mine).
At my school, it's about $3.75US (not sure- I'm living in China and I'm still getting used to the moving exchange rate) and you get a plate that you can fill with what you want. Problem is that they are awful at preparing vegetables- I'm almost SURE that cucumber and carrots are not supposed to taste bitter. They do better with things like kung pao chicken and meat-based dishes in general (stereotypical of Chinese culture, I know, but hey- it tastes good). I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that the cafeteria staff is all from some fancy restaurant in the area that did catering for this school because they got to advertise in the area- and that the vegetables aren't something they're used to preparing.
Cafeteria food tastes bad? Where ARE you? That or I'm lucky- my school gets catering daily from some incredibly fancy restaurant in the local area in return for letting said restaurant advertise around the school building (the school is next to a housing development FULL of rich American/European people). I'm in Shanghai, China, though- probably other countries don't let this sort of thing happen.
Why would you want to? With a screen that small, the Q1 is unfit for such things (well... maybe watching a movie, but I'd go for the Sony UX series over this one in that case anyway because the Samsung doesn't seem to have the battery life that is required for such a task) and even if you were to give it a bigger screen, the battery life pretty much keeps this thing from being a TRUE mobile PC.
Exactly- 30RMB looks much more attractive than the 400+RMB ($50+) that legit games cost. Heck, when I bought my Nintendo DS lite, the salesman said to just buy a flash cartridge for half the price of a game and download ROMs off the internet (yay for living in China)! Of course, there are multitudes of places to download ROMs here in China, but those are in Chinese which may lead some people to believe that it is near-impossible to get ROMs for DS games (I certainly can't find any sites in English that offer DS ROMs for download). The person that sold me the DS said that he sells loads more PSPs and PS2s than DSes because PSP and PS2 games are so easy to pirate (buy a memory stick, make sure your firmware is 1.5 or 1.0, download the games and you're good to go, or get a modchip and look around the streets for a stand that sells pirated PS2 games).
GPON- that's like the Japanese fiber internet system, correct? Multiple (like 16 or 32) users on a single 2.5Gbps stream? Or does GPON mean something else over there?
Prety sure it did- I was trying with a Bank of America card, and while they do have 1 branch in Shanghai, I tried this at a local bank- it seems like it should be impossible from what I hear, but it works.
I've noticed that in Shanghai there are "hybrids"- since the bank is only open until 6PM, they have a separate door for the ATM section that also has a cardlock. But- they don't respond to anything but a bank card- I tried with hotel keycards and a couple of department store discount cards- none of them worked. So why can't the US do that?
I live in China right now, where the record labels are attempting to compete with the pirates by offering the "legal" CDs for MUCH cheaper than in other countries- they cost AT MOST $12 here... but pirate CDs cost less than $1, so they're not quite there yet. Also, the CDs have notices saying "Not for distribution outside mainland China", apparently to prevent others from taking avantages of prices like this. I have always downloaded off of P2P in the States because I thought that CDs were either too expensive (like hell I'm going to pay over $.60 per track for a CD) or unavailable in the States (I like J-Pop but some of my favorite artists don't have CDs for sale in the US). I moved to China, and now I can get all my favorite CDs for cheap. For example, Otsuka Ai's album Love Punch costs about ¥3800/US$38 in Japan while it costs ¥(RMB)60/US$7.50 in China- some of the Japanese tourists I see buy CDs like crazy here since it's so much cheaper than buying at home for them.
I remember that a couple of years or so back I got hit with a multiple Mac OS Classic-style dialog box ads from Japanese websites (mostly for dating sites with messages like "your love life is slowing down- need help?") but I have never gotten any Mac-style dialog box ads since then (only one OS X-style dialg box ad also from a Japanese website). I suppose that back before OS X the Mac was gaining more market share in Japan than PCs so those dialog box ads gained a Mac style rather than a PC style- that or Mac users there are more...desperate for love... than PC users there.
Are they that bad? I've had Sanyo cell phones (In the US and Japan) and while the batteries used in US models have a couple of problems (I'm pretty sure its battery isn't not supposed to deform just by sitting in the charger for more than a couple of hours) the Japanese ones have never been a problem for me- even though I have dropped the battery while it was sitting in the charger, dented it when I accidentally dropped it on the corner of a short brick wall while riding my bicycle, and had it get kicked around a couple of times, it has never shown any strange behavior (but I DID get worried when the outer plastic shell started to separate from the actual cell, even though it works great to this day).
If you didn't read too carefully I am talking about the batteries used, not the actual phone.
I always liked Mister Donut better than the other places (well... last time I went to North America to try the rest was a while ago, maybe almost a year) but then again, no other store has curry-filled donuts or thoes Pon de Ring things. Don't think that it would be possible to have curry-filled donuts? Look here towards the bottom right above the Pon deRing section (in case it was a Japan/China-only thing, it's the donut that looks like 8 balls joined into a ring).
Mister Donut went bankrupt? Strange that where I live Mister Donut seems to be the only donut place around, and I am not even within TRAIN distance of a Krispy Kreme (not that I liked them when I did get a chance to try, but...). Well... if you look at my post history, you can tell that I'm living in China, so that could have something to do with it (and isn't Mister Donut a Japanese shop? Why would it be opening in North America- not to mention that with the roaring success/monopoly that they are here it seems near-impossible for me to see them fail?)
Disgruntled Japanese tourists? (I know, some joke or sarcasm is most likely going over my head right now) A lot of Japanese websites (most notably Google Japan -self-explanatory- and 2channel -most popular message board in Japan-) are getting blocked by the Great Firewall of China from my personal expierience (of course, 2channel is organizing a boycott of Made in China goods, and Google in English is getting blocked anyway).
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Just so you know, Handy is only a German word, I think. The rest of the world uses "mobile phone" or "cell phone" or "hand phone" (well, the last one is an Asian thing; I've heard that in Singapore and Korea so far but nowhere in the US or Europe)
Hey- why not solar power? A bunch of solar panels stuck on the roof of an electric car and hooked up to the battery to recharge would be great- more so for California, Arizona, and similar regions than places like Washington state, of course. Also, precautions would have to be made for shielding- pigeon droppings and things like that are a good reason to shield the panels if used.
Where? Do tell- all I've been able to find is either MP3 or AAC format (sometimes WMA). Of course, I'm looking for old Japanese music that came out on vinyl (specifically an artist called Motoharu Sano, who already put his most recent albums on iTunes, but nothing that I'm looking for), so I suppose I just have to take what I can get (No, I won't look for used ones- last I heard Japan has a law against that or something). And screwing over my favorite musicians? I suppose you have a point ther, because even though I live in China I try to avoid pirated CDs- of course even here they don't sell vinyl records anyway, so I just listen on MP3.
Not to be a pedant, but China's domain is .cn- .ch would be Switzerland (I think), and I don't think that they are involved here.
Oh great- why can't WiMax be on a single frequency?
You missed the "get locked in a cell" and "got records of their action that will stay with them for 5 years" parts. Oh, it's /. not ./ just so you know.
"Worse wireless than China"? I currently live in China- the only thing that they are more advanced in than the US is the removal of analog- only GSM and CDMA now. And even then, while it works pretty much everywhere, we only have GPRS (provinces close to Hong Kong have EDGE) and 1xRTT respectively while the US already has WCDMA (at a strange frequency) and 1xEVDO. Well... it is cheap here, though- I can get an unlimited GPRS plan here for about $25 a month, and I can get a service plan here that includes 400 local minutes (no nights or weekends) for $7. In addition, roaming in the US is only $.75 a minute on GSM and nly $.35 a minute with CDMA, while the reverse seems to cost twice as much. My current plan is 30 minutes, 60 text messages, and 25MB of GPRS data for about $3.50 a month. If it was only that cheap in the US.
That's ... interesting- I think I'll be staying away from that one, then. Thanks for the info. But- it can cause abortions? Unfortunately that's an effect that some people at my school will actually notice (but that's another problem together- when I am using the toilet, I do not want to hear the sounds of sex from the handicapped stall next to mine).
At my school, it's about $3.75US (not sure- I'm living in China and I'm still getting used to the moving exchange rate) and you get a plate that you can fill with what you want. Problem is that they are awful at preparing vegetables- I'm almost SURE that cucumber and carrots are not supposed to taste bitter. They do better with things like kung pao chicken and meat-based dishes in general (stereotypical of Chinese culture, I know, but hey- it tastes good). I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that the cafeteria staff is all from some fancy restaurant in the area that did catering for this school because they got to advertise in the area- and that the vegetables aren't something they're used to preparing.
Cafeteria food tastes bad? Where ARE you? That or I'm lucky- my school gets catering daily from some incredibly fancy restaurant in the local area in return for letting said restaurant advertise around the school building (the school is next to a housing development FULL of rich American/European people). I'm in Shanghai, China, though- probably other countries don't let this sort of thing happen.
Why would you want to? With a screen that small, the Q1 is unfit for such things (well... maybe watching a movie, but I'd go for the Sony UX series over this one in that case anyway because the Samsung doesn't seem to have the battery life that is required for such a task) and even if you were to give it a bigger screen, the battery life pretty much keeps this thing from being a TRUE mobile PC.
Exactly- 30RMB looks much more attractive than the 400+RMB ($50+) that legit games cost. Heck, when I bought my Nintendo DS lite, the salesman said to just buy a flash cartridge for half the price of a game and download ROMs off the internet (yay for living in China)! Of course, there are multitudes of places to download ROMs here in China, but those are in Chinese which may lead some people to believe that it is near-impossible to get ROMs for DS games (I certainly can't find any sites in English that offer DS ROMs for download). The person that sold me the DS said that he sells loads more PSPs and PS2s than DSes because PSP and PS2 games are so easy to pirate (buy a memory stick, make sure your firmware is 1.5 or 1.0, download the games and you're good to go, or get a modchip and look around the streets for a stand that sells pirated PS2 games).
GPON- that's like the Japanese fiber internet system, correct? Multiple (like 16 or 32) users on a single 2.5Gbps stream? Or does GPON mean something else over there?
I think it's because of Tor. It happens to me too, and I use a direct connection to my DSL modem.
Prety sure it did- I was trying with a Bank of America card, and while they do have 1 branch in Shanghai, I tried this at a local bank- it seems like it should be impossible from what I hear, but it works.
I've noticed that in Shanghai there are "hybrids"- since the bank is only open until 6PM, they have a separate door for the ATM section that also has a cardlock. But- they don't respond to anything but a bank card- I tried with hotel keycards and a couple of department store discount cards- none of them worked. So why can't the US do that?
I live in China right now, where the record labels are attempting to compete with the pirates by offering the "legal" CDs for MUCH cheaper than in other countries- they cost AT MOST $12 here... but pirate CDs cost less than $1, so they're not quite there yet. Also, the CDs have notices saying "Not for distribution outside mainland China", apparently to prevent others from taking avantages of prices like this. I have always downloaded off of P2P in the States because I thought that CDs were either too expensive (like hell I'm going to pay over $.60 per track for a CD) or unavailable in the States (I like J-Pop but some of my favorite artists don't have CDs for sale in the US). I moved to China, and now I can get all my favorite CDs for cheap. For example, Otsuka Ai's album Love Punch costs about ¥3800/US$38 in Japan while it costs ¥(RMB)60/US$7.50 in China- some of the Japanese tourists I see buy CDs like crazy here since it's so much cheaper than buying at home for them.
Keep threatening it then... that seems to be the only way.
I remember that a couple of years or so back I got hit with a multiple Mac OS Classic-style dialog box ads from Japanese websites (mostly for dating sites with messages like "your love life is slowing down- need help?") but I have never gotten any Mac-style dialog box ads since then (only one OS X-style dialg box ad also from a Japanese website). I suppose that back before OS X the Mac was gaining more market share in Japan than PCs so those dialog box ads gained a Mac style rather than a PC style- that or Mac users there are more ...desperate for love... than PC users there.
Are they that bad? I've had Sanyo cell phones (In the US and Japan) and while the batteries used in US models have a couple of problems (I'm pretty sure its battery isn't not supposed to deform just by sitting in the charger for more than a couple of hours) the Japanese ones have never been a problem for me- even though I have dropped the battery while it was sitting in the charger, dented it when I accidentally dropped it on the corner of a short brick wall while riding my bicycle, and had it get kicked around a couple of times, it has never shown any strange behavior (but I DID get worried when the outer plastic shell started to separate from the actual cell, even though it works great to this day).
If you didn't read too carefully I am talking about the batteries used, not the actual phone.
And report said break to the Chinese government? Probably not.
I always liked Mister Donut better than the other places (well... last time I went to North America to try the rest was a while ago, maybe almost a year) but then again, no other store has curry-filled donuts or thoes Pon de Ring things. Don't think that it would be possible to have curry-filled donuts? Look here towards the bottom right above the Pon deRing section (in case it was a Japan/China-only thing, it's the donut that looks like 8 balls joined into a ring).
Mister Donut went bankrupt? Strange that where I live Mister Donut seems to be the only donut place around, and I am not even within TRAIN distance of a Krispy Kreme (not that I liked them when I did get a chance to try, but...). Well... if you look at my post history, you can tell that I'm living in China, so that could have something to do with it (and isn't Mister Donut a Japanese shop? Why would it be opening in North America- not to mention that with the roaring success/monopoly that they are here it seems near-impossible for me to see them fail?)
Depending on the family, the police might just quietly go away with a "sorry"
Disgruntled Japanese tourists? (I know, some joke or sarcasm is most likely going over my head right now) A lot of Japanese websites (most notably Google Japan -self-explanatory- and 2channel -most popular message board in Japan-) are getting blocked by the Great Firewall of China from my personal expierience (of course, 2channel is organizing a boycott of Made in China goods, and Google in English is getting blocked anyway).