Interesting. Off on a tangent- I believe that record companies should have to watch a live public Goatse once a day for what they do to the average customer.
I do wish I got my hands on an old Mac. I'm too easily distracted, and working with a Mac with an old version of Office and nothing else would probably increase my productivity.
Right. One more anecdote- My computer's a Single-core 1.2GHz with 512MB RAM. Snappy in Mac, not so in Windows. Definitely worth the time to hack OSx86 onto it.
...I was thinking of charging overage, but your idea works better (for the customer, not so for the telco who can't sneak a uber-high overage bill on you; in China if you buy the 2GB plan- about US$30, they're nice enough to stop charging it at double that, so you effectively get an unlimited plan if you so choose).
Oh. I knew about dialing up (I do it every so often) but didn't know that it could be used to send faxes like that. I thought it was some sort of system that converted SMSes to faxes on the fly when sending to a landline or something like that.
Yep- People wouldn't be complaining if Verizon called it the 5GB plan upfront. In China, for example, mobile data is metered (50MB/100MB/800MB/2GB, ranging from US$4-$30) if you buy it with a cellphone. They have an unlimited datacard plan, which is truly unlimited (as much as you want, no matter what you're downloading) but you can't make phone calls with that card (not regular circuit calls- VoIP's OK).
Yep- I see that a lot, living in Shanghai. People like to show off their cellphones, and unlocked gray-market models are commonplace (particularly the Sharp 903).
Oh, you CAN get all that in the US. It'll be through an importer and cost more, though. And yes, you'd understand far better if you clicked the pictures. The PC, for example, is far better suited to being carried around than most of what US makers sell as "ultraportable". Especially the Kohjinsha- that's something that the average person can stuff in their bag and carry around at school for long periods of time(and I'm not talking about a separate laptop bag- it's smaller than most college textbooks). Most HP laptops- not so much.
YOu have got to be kidding me. The Infobar2 on that page is the only candybar phone that I have ever found appealing. I'd like to know when someone can make candybar phones look good, and they did that. Ordinary crap? Hardly.
Nearly every cellphone sold in Japan has the English language included. The only localization that needs to be done is switching out the OneSeg TV tuner (for TV-capable models) for a US/Europe-based digital tuner, and switching out the FeliCa RFID chip for whatever the US/Europe uses (and for HK/Singapore, which uses FeliCa already, it's just a matter of creating the application to tell the phone how to respond to their specific readers). On the other hand, Japan is behind in service a bit- only 2 providers offer unlimited M2M (and on one, unlimited M2M is a separate service plan so you can't buy a minute package and then M2M), Softbank and Willcom. Willcom is also the only provider in Japan with rollover.
Oh, I know very well that I am not exactly squeaky-clean. No doubt of that. (Oh, and the plus side to having a physical disc should be quite obvious if you have a stand-alone DVD player). I just felt like continuing the discussion thread for no particular reason. My justification exists for me alone- if people agree or disagree I don't really care (but living in China and going to a school where pretty much all the teachers, students, and staff do it means that most people around me agree with me- if I buy a DVD in America I want the damn thing to work in any DVD player no matter where I bought it, but they won't so pirated DVDs FTW).
Maybe around Beijing, where all the people will be. Shanghai- not nearly. I've moved in. and I can easily find 3 different vendors selling DVDs (no CSS or region-lock either; my problem is solved). They don't even try- the police are more conerned with things like keeping people from being run over by the crazy drivers around here.
Also, Japan has a much larger selection of ISPs than the US does. In fact, nearly every Japanese computer manufacturer runs their own ISPs (for example, Panasonic's is called Hi-ho, and Sony's is called So-net- how creative), each with DSL and fiber available, up to 100Mb/100Mb max (So-net even includes a mobile datacard option which gives you 400Kb access outside of home for about $10/month extra). Truly a country to look up to.
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And let Mac or Linux gain marketshare? They'd never do such a thing.
Is your name-a Borat? No wait, that's Kazakhstan. But bet you have a house-cow all the same.
Aren't there other radioactive substances that can be used?
"That's what using Windows Vista with less than 1GB RAM is like.
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Interesting. Off on a tangent- I believe that record companies should have to watch a live public Goatse once a day for what they do to the average customer.
I do wish I got my hands on an old Mac. I'm too easily distracted, and working with a Mac with an old version of Office and nothing else would probably increase my productivity.
Oh yeah- even New Zealand is more interesting.
Right. One more anecdote- My computer's a Single-core 1.2GHz with 512MB RAM. Snappy in Mac, not so in Windows. Definitely worth the time to hack OSx86 onto it.
"There are enough ass-tunnels out there (like me)"
Thank you for that brilliant word. Ass-tunnel. Now I will forever associate you with Goatse (which I think is a visual representation of such).
...I was thinking of charging overage, but your idea works better (for the customer, not so for the telco who can't sneak a uber-high overage bill on you; in China if you buy the 2GB plan- about US$30, they're nice enough to stop charging it at double that, so you effectively get an unlimited plan if you so choose).
Oh. I knew about dialing up (I do it every so often) but didn't know that it could be used to send faxes like that. I thought it was some sort of system that converted SMSes to faxes on the fly when sending to a landline or something like that.
Yep- People wouldn't be complaining if Verizon called it the 5GB plan upfront. In China, for example, mobile data is metered (50MB/100MB/800MB/2GB, ranging from US$4-$30) if you buy it with a cellphone. They have an unlimited datacard plan, which is truly unlimited (as much as you want, no matter what you're downloading) but you can't make phone calls with that card (not regular circuit calls- VoIP's OK).
You can send faxes from a cellphone?
Japan's on NTSC, so no worry of that.
Actually, everything works except for RFID, and that's because there's no standardization of contactless cards in the US.
Yep- I see that a lot, living in Shanghai. People like to show off their cellphones, and unlocked gray-market models are commonplace (particularly the Sharp 903).
Oh, you CAN get all that in the US. It'll be through an importer and cost more, though. And yes, you'd understand far better if you clicked the pictures. The PC, for example, is far better suited to being carried around than most of what US makers sell as "ultraportable". Especially the Kohjinsha- that's something that the average person can stuff in their bag and carry around at school for long periods of time(and I'm not talking about a separate laptop bag- it's smaller than most college textbooks). Most HP laptops- not so much.
YOu have got to be kidding me. The Infobar2 on that page is the only candybar phone that I have ever found appealing. I'd like to know when someone can make candybar phones look good, and they did that. Ordinary crap? Hardly.
Nearly every cellphone sold in Japan has the English language included. The only localization that needs to be done is switching out the OneSeg TV tuner (for TV-capable models) for a US/Europe-based digital tuner, and switching out the FeliCa RFID chip for whatever the US/Europe uses (and for HK/Singapore, which uses FeliCa already, it's just a matter of creating the application to tell the phone how to respond to their specific readers). On the other hand, Japan is behind in service a bit- only 2 providers offer unlimited M2M (and on one, unlimited M2M is a separate service plan so you can't buy a minute package and then M2M), Softbank and Willcom. Willcom is also the only provider in Japan with rollover.
Sounds like it's time to get Canadian citizenship.
Oh, I know very well that I am not exactly squeaky-clean. No doubt of that. (Oh, and the plus side to having a physical disc should be quite obvious if you have a stand-alone DVD player). I just felt like continuing the discussion thread for no particular reason. My justification exists for me alone- if people agree or disagree I don't really care (but living in China and going to a school where pretty much all the teachers, students, and staff do it means that most people around me agree with me- if I buy a DVD in America I want the damn thing to work in any DVD player no matter where I bought it, but they won't so pirated DVDs FTW).
Maybe around Beijing, where all the people will be. Shanghai- not nearly. I've moved in. and I can easily find 3 different vendors selling DVDs (no CSS or region-lock either; my problem is solved). They don't even try- the police are more conerned with things like keeping people from being run over by the crazy drivers around here.
Yes, for a limited time is a good thing. However, life of the author + 70 years is not.
Also, Japan has a much larger selection of ISPs than the US does. In fact, nearly every Japanese computer manufacturer runs their own ISPs (for example, Panasonic's is called Hi-ho, and Sony's is called So-net- how creative), each with DSL and fiber available, up to 100Mb/100Mb max (So-net even includes a mobile datacard option which gives you 400Kb access outside of home for about $10/month extra). Truly a country to look up to.
which makes my decision to move to China look better and better. I'll re-buy my movies in a form that will play on my laptop.