Are you honestly bitching about having to lug a small usb hub? I would think you'd be bitching more about the substantially larger accessories your lugging around for no reason. The only thing I ever plug into my Macbook is a thumbdrive, and maybe my cellphone's USB charging adapter. My mouse is the Bluetooth Apple mouse, and my phone syncs via Bluetooth as well. The only thing I could possibly need to plug into my Macbook is a webcam, or DVD burner, which it already has built in!
Probably of no use to you now, but MSN is no longer slow, and annoying thankfully on Symbian phones. Fring fixed all of that with login to multiple clients with voice supported (AIM, MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, etc). It's kind of weird how they go about making it work, but hey it's free!
I never said they didn't. They will not however output those movies over 480p with DVD. It's part of an agreement manufacturers sign to be allowed to decode the video.
My first HD-TV was also component only. I was a bit pissed off when I found out that the only thing willing to output an actual HD signal to the component connection was only videogame systems. Movies were only outputting via HDMI which makes zero sense given upscaled DVDs are done via lossy hardware when DVDs only contains a 480i image. Who the hell honestly is going to pirate an upscaled signal?
But I digress, no lawsuits were ever brought over that completely stupid spec over anything over 480p must go over a secured signal connection outside of the rouge players that would do it, and thusly landed themselves in court with the DVD consortium.
Thats a different make of phone entirely. The KRZR is the typical minimalistic Motorola phone. It's all they have going for them right now since everything else is crap that they make, and their interface is still as bad as it was 3 years ago. A phone with that size is easy to do though since it's a basic cellular modem with a camera, and basic phone functionalities (the 3G is honestly frivolous with that phone). Not to mention if I'm not mistaken the radio is located in that lower area of the phone thats a bit of an eyesore imo. The iPhone on the other hand does substantially more requiring quite a bit more circuitry/thickness. The power requirements also come into play here heavily. The KRZR doesn't really need much in terms of power outside the basics, not the case with the iPhone (it's a hog as-is). I'm personally waiting for the 3G iPhone since my current phone is the Nokia N95. I love the phone, but it falls flat on it's face with it's web-browser when compared the iPhone.
Thing is thats one of the games thats usualy full up all the time. Those Otaku love their Gundam. Now I just wish I could have read Kanji better when I was there this Summer so I could have played it. And 500 yen for that game? Everywhere was 1000 yen when I was there. The replay station (to watch a previous fight) is 500 yen though.
Yeah the gasoline argument doesn't really hold water with me either. I spent the Summer in Japan bouncing around the country, and you really don't see cars, let alone parking spots around arcades. You take a freaking train to get everywhere. Driving to an arcade in Japan is pretty superfluous in Japan. All you need to bring is a few thousand yen, and your good to go. It's more likely the best arcades are getting all the business really. Usually I stayed away from Namco's arcades since they usually have the games that are a couple years old, and their UFO catchers in my experience are substantially harder (translation: require more $$$) to win. Find it odd that Sega would be closing arcades though, probably just the under performing ones in bad locations.
You can't "force" 3G radios to become smaller, or use less power just because you have purchasing power. That is something thats taken radio manufacturers until now to do. Apple did not go with EDGE because AT&T wasn't ready. It's strictly a technological issue. I have a 3G phone, the radio in it is thicker than the iPhone itself, and suck down juice like a Las Vegas hooker. For an Apple fanboi you certainly don't know the facts. It's certainly better in this instance a cellular engineer made the decision as to what the initial iPhone would be like instead of the run of the mil/.er. Not to mention if you knew anything about the cellular phones you would know that the US uses one frequency for 3G, and the rest of the world uses a completely different frequency (it's really fucking stupid). If you think it sucked waiting for the iPhone (why your grumbling about something you didn't even buy is beyond me), it would have taken far longer for anywhere outside the US to see anything like the iPhone since they would have required a completely different radio for Europe to accommodate the different frequency. It will be quite a long time before the UK can get a proper 3G iPhone compared to the US.
A datacenter with more horsepower than anything these countries would ever hope to see in the next decade within their borders otherwise outside of Japan.
Sounds more like your running an older BT client that goes above XP SP2's Max Connection limit. If you go above the max number of 10 XP's connection will take a dump. Newer BT clients will work around it (unless the user changes values), but the best way to fix it is to just REMOVE it.
I live in Las Vegas, and am out at Clubs 3-4 nights a week. Almost every guy I see in a tacky striped shirt (which is every guys pretty much) is sporting an iPhone. Windows Mobile, and such people are pretty much treated like lepers in such places. They are just, ugly...
Oh, and this kind of thing is fairly common in Japan more often than not. People are used to getting rapped on anything they pay for. Better service that costs just a little more is something they happily pay for all the time. Having some beauty following you around at most decent clothing store you walk into trying to help you decide on things does get a bit weird though.
I understand your annoyance, but this kind of stuff is old news. Sommeliers, or people who act like them for technology usually service high end clientel...Just like the traditional ones. I know because I do this day in, and day out. It's just not my entire line of work. I deal with mid to high end real estate agents, small to midsize business owners, and the like usually. Anyone below that line usually can't afford someone who's intelligent enough to understand technology, and how it will fit with a client. These people don't care about price, what makes it work, or where they can get it. Just that it works, it can be a status icon (first on the block with one) and will make their life as easy as possible. Anyone who goes into a retail cellphone store would love that kind of service, but they are in a retail store for a reason. Price matters way too much for them.
And there are a number of solutions that can fix the spare battery argument. Many companies sell external batteries for notebooks. Just buy the external plus adapter for your notebook model, and go. Not to mention the spare battery argument never held much water with me. At 3 hours with my Macbook I'm extremely happy, even on an international flight. Now your talking 5 hours with the Air. The more stuff you have to carry with your laptop to be MOBILE is in fact making it LESS mobile. If your going to be away from a power supply over 3, let alone 5 hours you need to really re-evaluate your needs for your notebook, and really what your doing during that time. Even the big time sink (International Flights) don't really need the spare. If you have enough cash to buy the Air, you can afford a halfway decent airline that'll provide you with power. Once again though, maybe I'm crazy, and have no desire to be conscious for over 3-5 hours on a plane. Especially doing just one thing.
Not to mention one of the characters does notify you that once you perform a certain action you likely won't be able to go back for anything else. I think the OP possibly hasn't actually played the game.
I thought you were being funny at first! The KY Jelly Creation museum. Now thats a museum we need! You could possibly even get museum-goer participation too I bet! XD
Honestly, did you think before posting that? If it was possible to clone non-withstanding the damaged gene issues, and genetic problems introduced by our shoddy understanding of cloning...would you honestly want an infinite supply of the "perfect meat"? After a while you wouldn't be eating the perfect meat anymore. You'd be eating more of a brand because you'd be used to solely that one flavor, and texture. Not to mention I personally would get pretty fucking bored. Live is ABOUT variation, and new things. You can't possibly know what the "best" is if you can't remeber what "everything else" is like. Hell, a really good example of this is go find yourself someone who their fav soda is Coke. Now ask them if they remeber what sugar Coke tastes like. Unless they leave the US pretty regularly, or get their Coke from Mexico I'm betting you they probably wouldn't even know what the fuck your talking about. Now if you could accomplish the feat of putting Coke with real sugar in their hand almost every time they'll just about shit themselves that it's better (drinking the stuff in Japan ruined US Coke for me). Yes this is a bit reverse on the best meat analogy, but highly relevant in it's own way. If people don't know/remeber anything else, they'll go with what they know (which is kind of boring imo). Variety is the spice of life. Predictability is lame, and leads to medications if not suicide.
And yes I have big objections to all GM foods based on the science behind it.
Are you just naturally stupid? Your comparing a natural process thats been going on since before we were around to a process we have a child-like understanding of at best that said organisms were NEVER intended to fucking do! There are so many problems introduced by cloning that we do in a laboratory it's insane at best.
Please, please, PLEASE buy a fucking clue since you can't get one through common sense. Cloning an animal does not give you the original that you wanted to start with. It gives you precisely what you cloned, plus time it'll take for maturation before usable, and extra genetic damage while it matures. Repeat this process on clones for bonus genetic damage. Say if maturation age is 20 when the sample was taken, your cloned livestock when it's 20 will have a genetic age of 40, and would have all the normal birthing complications of a 40 year old livestock (and explanation that can't figure out genetics are your age). Not to mention the process of laboratory cloning which we are by no means anywhere near perfect at so we end up adding in extra damage of our own each time. Plus! PLUS! genetic homogamy. What a great way to make sure one bug can wipe out your entire livestock for sure. Cloning, and GMO are not without their tradeoffs. All actions have an equal, and opposite reaction. If you make something grow faster, it dies, and rots faster. If you decide you want green corn one day, you may find out the next that the crops are especially delicious to a bug that normally doesn't eat them. It's the law of unintended consequences. If you push somewhere, there will be a pull somewhere else on the other side guaranteed.
And yes I'll agree with you that there is ALLOT of irrational fear out there, but it's largely due to lack of education. The same can be said about the other side too on lack of education on the matter. Laboratory cloning is about the largest meat producing cow, and the bottom dollar. Not about providing you something healthy. Growth hormones, and all the other garbage they pump into livestock is bad enough without compounding even more problems into the situation.
I'm by no means opposed to cloning though. It has it's uses, just not in my personal food, and I will happily pay more to know my meat isn't part of this. If other people want to pump stuff into themselves that runs a very high risk of being worse for them I say let them. Just regulate it into it's own area. Once cloned? Not allowed near uncloned livestock again, and fucking label that the meat your getting descends from cloned livestock. If they have nothing to fear and stand behind it. Why would they honestly be trying to not have to label their cloned meat?
No it doesn't take special permissions to put stuff in Apllications, it's pretty danm near impossible though without user intervention though. However with 10.5 the system keeps tabs on apps that come from the internet. On first run at least you will be prompted that the application your about to run came from the internet the first time with the option to not allow it to run.
Still a far better deal than retail. But good luck with the Apple bashing for no other reason than it's not for you. I think the SSD is not for me, but I can certainly see the benifits. Just not the price ones when an iPod can have a larger drive.
Heres the real problem to me, the only thing this is looking to possibly replace is IR. No point to it otherwise that I can see. IR is even more secure than this wireless tech can hope to be just because of the physical implications.
Best I believe we can agree on is to disagree. The tech is largely not very useful to a plane at cruising altitude where they spend most of their time. Not to mention your anti-lock brake analogy is pretty weak. There are plenty of cars that still come without them. Hell my own 04 car came without them. Anti-lock brakes are only required for people who have no idea how to drive/allowing them to pay less attention to what they are doing while driving, and to those such as myself that know pay attention so as to keep breaks from locking up, find them a waste of money.
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Are you honestly bitching about having to lug a small usb hub? I would think you'd be bitching more about the substantially larger accessories your lugging around for no reason. The only thing I ever plug into my Macbook is a thumbdrive, and maybe my cellphone's USB charging adapter. My mouse is the Bluetooth Apple mouse, and my phone syncs via Bluetooth as well. The only thing I could possibly need to plug into my Macbook is a webcam, or DVD burner, which it already has built in!
Probably of no use to you now, but MSN is no longer slow, and annoying thankfully on Symbian phones. Fring fixed all of that with login to multiple clients with voice supported (AIM, MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, etc). It's kind of weird how they go about making it work, but hey it's free!
I never said they didn't. They will not however output those movies over 480p with DVD. It's part of an agreement manufacturers sign to be allowed to decode the video.
My first HD-TV was also component only. I was a bit pissed off when I found out that the only thing willing to output an actual HD signal to the component connection was only videogame systems. Movies were only outputting via HDMI which makes zero sense given upscaled DVDs are done via lossy hardware when DVDs only contains a 480i image. Who the hell honestly is going to pirate an upscaled signal?
But I digress, no lawsuits were ever brought over that completely stupid spec over anything over 480p must go over a secured signal connection outside of the rouge players that would do it, and thusly landed themselves in court with the DVD consortium.
Thats a different make of phone entirely. The KRZR is the typical minimalistic Motorola phone. It's all they have going for them right now since everything else is crap that they make, and their interface is still as bad as it was 3 years ago. A phone with that size is easy to do though since it's a basic cellular modem with a camera, and basic phone functionalities (the 3G is honestly frivolous with that phone). Not to mention if I'm not mistaken the radio is located in that lower area of the phone thats a bit of an eyesore imo. The iPhone on the other hand does substantially more requiring quite a bit more circuitry/thickness. The power requirements also come into play here heavily. The KRZR doesn't really need much in terms of power outside the basics, not the case with the iPhone (it's a hog as-is). I'm personally waiting for the 3G iPhone since my current phone is the Nokia N95. I love the phone, but it falls flat on it's face with it's web-browser when compared the iPhone.
Thing is thats one of the games thats usualy full up all the time. Those Otaku love their Gundam. Now I just wish I could have read Kanji better when I was there this Summer so I could have played it. And 500 yen for that game? Everywhere was 1000 yen when I was there. The replay station (to watch a previous fight) is 500 yen though.
No need to bring them back, we have a nice one here in Las Vegas ^^
http://www.pinballmuseum.org/
Yeah the gasoline argument doesn't really hold water with me either. I spent the Summer in Japan bouncing around the country, and you really don't see cars, let alone parking spots around arcades. You take a freaking train to get everywhere. Driving to an arcade in Japan is pretty superfluous in Japan. All you need to bring is a few thousand yen, and your good to go. It's more likely the best arcades are getting all the business really. Usually I stayed away from Namco's arcades since they usually have the games that are a couple years old, and their UFO catchers in my experience are substantially harder (translation: require more $$$) to win. Find it odd that Sega would be closing arcades though, probably just the under performing ones in bad locations.
You can't "force" 3G radios to become smaller, or use less power just because you have purchasing power. That is something thats taken radio manufacturers until now to do. Apple did not go with EDGE because AT&T wasn't ready. It's strictly a technological issue. I have a 3G phone, the radio in it is thicker than the iPhone itself, and suck down juice like a Las Vegas hooker. For an Apple fanboi you certainly don't know the facts. It's certainly better in this instance a cellular engineer made the decision as to what the initial iPhone would be like instead of the run of the mil /.er. Not to mention if you knew anything about the cellular phones you would know that the US uses one frequency for 3G, and the rest of the world uses a completely different frequency (it's really fucking stupid). If you think it sucked waiting for the iPhone (why your grumbling about something you didn't even buy is beyond me), it would have taken far longer for anywhere outside the US to see anything like the iPhone since they would have required a completely different radio for Europe to accommodate the different frequency. It will be quite a long time before the UK can get a proper 3G iPhone compared to the US.
A datacenter with more horsepower than anything these countries would ever hope to see in the next decade within their borders otherwise outside of Japan.
Sounds more like your running an older BT client that goes above XP SP2's Max Connection limit. If you go above the max number of 10 XP's connection will take a dump. Newer BT clients will work around it (unless the user changes values), but the best way to fix it is to just REMOVE it.
I live in Las Vegas, and am out at Clubs 3-4 nights a week. Almost every guy I see in a tacky striped shirt (which is every guys pretty much) is sporting an iPhone. Windows Mobile, and such people are pretty much treated like lepers in such places. They are just, ugly...
Oh, and this kind of thing is fairly common in Japan more often than not. People are used to getting rapped on anything they pay for. Better service that costs just a little more is something they happily pay for all the time. Having some beauty following you around at most decent clothing store you walk into trying to help you decide on things does get a bit weird though.
I understand your annoyance, but this kind of stuff is old news. Sommeliers, or people who act like them for technology usually service high end clientel...Just like the traditional ones. I know because I do this day in, and day out. It's just not my entire line of work. I deal with mid to high end real estate agents, small to midsize business owners, and the like usually. Anyone below that line usually can't afford someone who's intelligent enough to understand technology, and how it will fit with a client. These people don't care about price, what makes it work, or where they can get it. Just that it works, it can be a status icon (first on the block with one) and will make their life as easy as possible. Anyone who goes into a retail cellphone store would love that kind of service, but they are in a retail store for a reason. Price matters way too much for them.
And there are a number of solutions that can fix the spare battery argument. Many companies sell external batteries for notebooks. Just buy the external plus adapter for your notebook model, and go. Not to mention the spare battery argument never held much water with me. At 3 hours with my Macbook I'm extremely happy, even on an international flight. Now your talking 5 hours with the Air. The more stuff you have to carry with your laptop to be MOBILE is in fact making it LESS mobile. If your going to be away from a power supply over 3, let alone 5 hours you need to really re-evaluate your needs for your notebook, and really what your doing during that time. Even the big time sink (International Flights) don't really need the spare. If you have enough cash to buy the Air, you can afford a halfway decent airline that'll provide you with power. Once again though, maybe I'm crazy, and have no desire to be conscious for over 3-5 hours on a plane. Especially doing just one thing.
Not to mention one of the characters does notify you that once you perform a certain action you likely won't be able to go back for anything else. I think the OP possibly hasn't actually played the game.
I thought you were being funny at first! The KY Jelly Creation museum. Now thats a museum we need! You could possibly even get museum-goer participation too I bet! XD
Honestly, did you think before posting that? If it was possible to clone non-withstanding the damaged gene issues, and genetic problems introduced by our shoddy understanding of cloning...would you honestly want an infinite supply of the "perfect meat"? After a while you wouldn't be eating the perfect meat anymore. You'd be eating more of a brand because you'd be used to solely that one flavor, and texture. Not to mention I personally would get pretty fucking bored. Live is ABOUT variation, and new things. You can't possibly know what the "best" is if you can't remeber what "everything else" is like. Hell, a really good example of this is go find yourself someone who their fav soda is Coke. Now ask them if they remeber what sugar Coke tastes like. Unless they leave the US pretty regularly, or get their Coke from Mexico I'm betting you they probably wouldn't even know what the fuck your talking about. Now if you could accomplish the feat of putting Coke with real sugar in their hand almost every time they'll just about shit themselves that it's better (drinking the stuff in Japan ruined US Coke for me). Yes this is a bit reverse on the best meat analogy, but highly relevant in it's own way. If people don't know/remeber anything else, they'll go with what they know (which is kind of boring imo). Variety is the spice of life. Predictability is lame, and leads to medications if not suicide.
And yes I have big objections to all GM foods based on the science behind it.
Are you just naturally stupid? Your comparing a natural process thats been going on since before we were around to a process we have a child-like understanding of at best that said organisms were NEVER intended to fucking do! There are so many problems introduced by cloning that we do in a laboratory it's insane at best.
Please, please, PLEASE buy a fucking clue since you can't get one through common sense. Cloning an animal does not give you the original that you wanted to start with. It gives you precisely what you cloned, plus time it'll take for maturation before usable, and extra genetic damage while it matures. Repeat this process on clones for bonus genetic damage. Say if maturation age is 20 when the sample was taken, your cloned livestock when it's 20 will have a genetic age of 40, and would have all the normal birthing complications of a 40 year old livestock (and explanation that can't figure out genetics are your age). Not to mention the process of laboratory cloning which we are by no means anywhere near perfect at so we end up adding in extra damage of our own each time. Plus! PLUS! genetic homogamy. What a great way to make sure one bug can wipe out your entire livestock for sure. Cloning, and GMO are not without their tradeoffs. All actions have an equal, and opposite reaction. If you make something grow faster, it dies, and rots faster. If you decide you want green corn one day, you may find out the next that the crops are especially delicious to a bug that normally doesn't eat them. It's the law of unintended consequences. If you push somewhere, there will be a pull somewhere else on the other side guaranteed.
And yes I'll agree with you that there is ALLOT of irrational fear out there, but it's largely due to lack of education. The same can be said about the other side too on lack of education on the matter. Laboratory cloning is about the largest meat producing cow, and the bottom dollar. Not about providing you something healthy. Growth hormones, and all the other garbage they pump into livestock is bad enough without compounding even more problems into the situation.
I'm by no means opposed to cloning though. It has it's uses, just not in my personal food, and I will happily pay more to know my meat isn't part of this. If other people want to pump stuff into themselves that runs a very high risk of being worse for them I say let them. Just regulate it into it's own area. Once cloned? Not allowed near uncloned livestock again, and fucking label that the meat your getting descends from cloned livestock. If they have nothing to fear and stand behind it. Why would they honestly be trying to not have to label their cloned meat?
No it doesn't take special permissions to put stuff in Apllications, it's pretty danm near impossible though without user intervention though. However with 10.5 the system keeps tabs on apps that come from the internet. On first run at least you will be prompted that the application your about to run came from the internet the first time with the option to not allow it to run.
Still a far better deal than retail. But good luck with the Apple bashing for no other reason than it's not for you. I think the SSD is not for me, but I can certainly see the benifits. Just not the price ones when an iPod can have a larger drive.
You can capture Hydrogen from space? Once that genie leaves the bottle it's gone for good.
Heres the real problem to me, the only thing this is looking to possibly replace is IR. No point to it otherwise that I can see. IR is even more secure than this wireless tech can hope to be just because of the physical implications.
Best I believe we can agree on is to disagree. The tech is largely not very useful to a plane at cruising altitude where they spend most of their time. Not to mention your anti-lock brake analogy is pretty weak. There are plenty of cars that still come without them. Hell my own 04 car came without them. Anti-lock brakes are only required for people who have no idea how to drive/allowing them to pay less attention to what they are doing while driving, and to those such as myself that know pay attention so as to keep breaks from locking up, find them a waste of money.