If you refused every phone that someone had "a bad experience with," you'd be using two tin cans and a length of string for the rest of your life.
I've been using a Motorola V710 for three years now. It's been dropped, been on its belt clip during dashes through the rain, and its exterior is scratched to hell and back. The glass over the camera lens has a hairline crack from a particularly nasty drop, but neither the camera nor the phone has ever quit working. It pulls in signals like a champ. It has a MicroSD card slot for expansion, and I can copy MP3s and MIDs from the card to the phone memory to use as ringtones. It's on its second battery now, and I get 5 days standby with Bluetooth activated.
If you don't need analog capability, try the identically styled E815.
Though the movie answers with, "Er...I'll tell you later," ISTR that Earl Mac Rauch has said that the watermelon in the vise was part of a program under development at the Banzai Institute to create food that could be air-dropped into a famine area without parachutes or other special equipment: any bush pilot could fly over and drop a load of watermelons, and the starving masses would rejoice, needing only a sharp knife to get through the tough, drop-rated skin. (This idea is somewhat reminiscent of the water spheres in the classic short story "Arena," by Frederic Brown, which are unbreakably held together with increased surface tension until something sharp releases the water.)
Yeah, but they appear to have put forth very little effort telling people just how cool "there" was. When TI got "there," they began aggressively marketing to schools, getting key-by-key use instructions into textbooks and other classroom materials, giving the schools a free calculator for every n calculators bought by students, and creating nifty teaching aids like overhead-projector display panels, sensor interfaces, and Win/Mac TI-84 emulators.
HP, on the other hand, even before the board went crazy trying to find out who called who when, seems to have forgotten that it even has a calculator division.
Don't get me wrong: My first "real" calculator was an HP 11C, and I have an HP 28S that I still prefer for personal use. When I teach high-school chemistry and physics, however, I use my TI-84.
...it's the candy stash! How can you expect the guy to work without candy? I mean, those two Blow Pops on the shelf aren't going to fuel him for long with the increased caloric requirements of holding his arms up so high! Sheesh!
As pitiful as the current public understanding of science is (as evidenced by such things as the rampant belief in nonsense like 'creationism'), it'd be nice if the problem not further exacerbated.
C.P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) pointed this out in 1959 in his book The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Snow was a rarity, being both a respected scientist and a respected novelist. In Snow's words:
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question -- such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, Can you read?-not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had.
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I've been using a Motorola V710 for three years now. It's been dropped, been on its belt clip during dashes through the rain, and its exterior is scratched to hell and back. The glass over the camera lens has a hairline crack from a particularly nasty drop, but neither the camera nor the phone has ever quit working. It pulls in signals like a champ. It has a MicroSD card slot for expansion, and I can copy MP3s and MIDs from the card to the phone memory to use as ringtones. It's on its second battery now, and I get 5 days standby with Bluetooth activated.
If you don't need analog capability, try the identically styled E815.
Though the movie answers with, "Er...I'll tell you later," ISTR that Earl Mac Rauch has said that the watermelon in the vise was part of a program under development at the Banzai Institute to create food that could be air-dropped into a famine area without parachutes or other special equipment: any bush pilot could fly over and drop a load of watermelons, and the starving masses would rejoice, needing only a sharp knife to get through the tough, drop-rated skin. (This idea is somewhat reminiscent of the water spheres in the classic short story "Arena," by Frederic Brown, which are unbreakably held together with increased surface tension until something sharp releases the water.)
HP, on the other hand, even before the board went crazy trying to find out who called who when, seems to have forgotten that it even has a calculator division.
Don't get me wrong: My first "real" calculator was an HP 11C, and I have an HP 28S that I still prefer for personal use. When I teach high-school chemistry and physics, however, I use my TI-84.
...it's the candy stash! How can you expect the guy to work without candy? I mean, those two Blow Pops on the shelf aren't going to fuel him for long with the increased caloric requirements of holding his arms up so high! Sheesh!
C.P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) pointed this out in 1959 in his book The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Snow was a rarity, being both a respected scientist and a respected novelist. In Snow's words: