Of course they did. I remember listening to the director's commentary for Pi (filmed in the late 90's if I remember correctly) and they mentioned they had to hide whenever a cop came by because they didn't have a permit to film on the subways.
That's more than a little disingenuous - indy film or not, black and white or not, it was shot on a film camera. Guerilla filming or not, he still had a crew with him. Obviously and blatantly breaking a law that there could be no doubt they knew all about, because they were MAKING A COMMERCIAL FILM, is not quite the same as "hassling someone for taking a picture".
His reasoning? My camera was "too professional looking".
This is a common one, and one particularly harsh on Canon users (70-200mm L lens and up have that white barrel people are used to seeing pro sports photographers use).
Makes me a little concerned about it - in August, the Blue Angels will be in Seattle, and I've got my hands on a 400mm f/2.8 L IS USM lens (translation, nearly 14" long, 6" in diameter, nearly 12 lb in weight). I'd really rather not be prevented from taking "commercial" photography just because I've rented for a week a lens that would cost $7,000+ because I "kinda like planes".
Me, I like the iPod, I've had a 4G, and now a 1G nano. iPhone has me thoroughly unimpressed. I think my next phone now will be the N95 (last phones: HTC Trinity, HTC Wizard, SE K800i, Nokia N90, Nokia 9500i).
Yeah. Because the only thing stopping us winning in Iraq is media with its wellknown liberal bias, and "Defeatocrats". Right. It couldn't possibly be a people not liking being invaded, or less than a quarter of the recommended troop levels being there, could it? We all know our Republican overlords are infallible, right?
On the other hand, they'll be first to market with the LG CDMA/EVDO iPhone copycat, starting at $199.
You mean the LG KE850 that was launched before anyone had seen the first glimpse of the iPhone? I can see, based on that, why you'd call it a copycat - because Apple must be the innovator, right?
Let's not let the laws of physics get in the way of bashing companies for copying Apple by releasing a similar product (in design, if nothing else) before Apple's launch, huh?
How the hell do you think "300-700kbps" is even remotely accurate a description of a service that maxes out at 236kbs?!? Let's put it another way, I have the gall to point out that the MINIMUM usable speed of this service is TWENTY TWO PER CENT less than the "MINIMUM" quoted speed and you're the one getting uppity at me for doing so?
300-700kbps--basically, speeds that EDGE was already supposed to support.
GSM spec for 4 timeslots (the almost universal configuration, and the only feasible "real world" configuration, maxes at 236.4kbps. With 8 timeslots the theoretical max is 473.6kbps.
So if you'd been sold on "EDGE is 300-700kbps", you'd be looking at a pretty clear case of deceptive advertising.
You realize that there are chipsets that will support 3G technologies/and/ EDGE where 3G is not available, right? That's what, to me, the complaints are about - the two aren't mutually exclusive.
That's where sandwiching EDGE with Wi-Fi really makes sense because Wi-Fi is much faster than any 3G network.
Nice spin. I wish I had Wi-Fi networks wherever I roamed. My HTC Wizard has EDGE+WiFi, but I've never heard anyone claim "Whadda you want 3G for, you have Wi-Fi!"
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Well, it's not "official". You just know, as a retailer, that if you undercut Apple, they're going to be "seriously depleted" when it comes to your next stock order.
and / or "the naive". The whole idea of "this new consciousness" is laughable. Hint: the only difference between most of them and LiveJournal is owing their own domain name. LJ never had this much credibility - I don't see what a $6 domain name from GoDaddy automatically imparts.
What really annoys me is reading someone's blog and they'll go on and on about something they've just got, some new toy, and then, right at the end, you get the first mention that they were given it by a company to market. And it's often an aside, "By the way, I received this toy and $100 to review this". Perhaps you should have mentioned that upfront, instead of not giving the simplest hint until then.
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Right, and the Newton did quite a bit more than that too, so would be an unfair comparison against those $9.99 PDAs, of the day, or of now. But to say its a comparable PDA to a PDA that does more than "just contacts" today is really grasping at straws.
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but that low-end hardware does handwriting recognition and some natural language parsing -- software features that no PDA since has done anywhere near as well
You've not seen Windows Mobile 6, then. That thing seems to handle around 95%+ of my handwriting with ease, almost as much as the handwriting recognition in XP Tablet. (But I've gotta be crazy to say something like that in a story that already has Apple fanboys practically orgasmic.)
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Staples store and look at some of the cheap PDAs there? I'm talking about the glorified electronic address books with some other functions built in with it. It's marketed as a PDA.
Staples selling a glorified calculator for $9.99 as a "PDA" with 32kb of RAM neither makes it a PDA by any common sense definition, nor I wager would any number of laypeople confuse it with a Palm Pilot, iPaq, etc.
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The Newton is still being used by some, and is more powerful than some PDAs on the market right now.
It's what? More powerful? The thing came out with a 20MHz ARM processor. My four year old PDA has a 200+MHz ARM processor. It came with a 4MB ROM, same PDA I have came with 64MB ROM. It came with 640KB RAM, this one came with 64MB RAM.
Remind me again, "more powerful"?
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Anyone who had watched the apple tour video can tell you the UI is lightyears ahead of Blackberry, Treo, etc. Even the commercials make this apparent.
Oh, come on! Go back and read and re-read that sentence and ask yourself how ridiculous it sounds.
These are the same commercials that show someone clicking a button, and getting directions to a seafood restaurant nearby. Except we know that the phone doesn't have GPS. How does it know this? Oh, yes, you need to show Google Maps where you are. That bit was cut for the MARKETING. But yet if you'd not read a review, but watched Apple's tour video and commercials, you'd think it had GPS.
I'm going to send one of our employees to get in line (for myself and three others) around noon, heh.
Good luck, "one per person".
I'm also a bit disappointed in the family pricing.. it's not considerably cheaper for my own phone + my partner's on the same plan, versus individual plans.
You're surprised? They're happy to jack you higher than normal plans for the privilege of getting it in the first place, why would they stop if you're already showing you'll happily take that?
the service
What service? Cingular? It's better than T-mobile, in general, though specific location makes a difference. Apple customer service? Alternately polarizing - on one hand they can be great, replacing items with new things at the drop of a hat, and on the other they'll actively cover up and deny known, confirmed widespread problems.
just for the UI (and non-crashyness)
UI? Not bad. Definitely extremely promising. Non crashiness? You know this, uh, how? As an aside, I can't remember the last time I needed to yank the battery on a Nokia running Symbian apps from all over the place (and literally, cannot remember, many years).
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That's more than a little disingenuous - indy film or not, black and white or not, it was shot on a film camera. Guerilla filming or not, he still had a crew with him. Obviously and blatantly breaking a law that there could be no doubt they knew all about, because they were MAKING A COMMERCIAL FILM, is not quite the same as "hassling someone for taking a picture".
This is a common one, and one particularly harsh on Canon users (70-200mm L lens and up have that white barrel people are used to seeing pro sports photographers use).
Makes me a little concerned about it - in August, the Blue Angels will be in Seattle, and I've got my hands on a 400mm f/2.8 L IS USM lens (translation, nearly 14" long, 6" in diameter, nearly 12 lb in weight). I'd really rather not be prevented from taking "commercial" photography just because I've rented for a week a lens that would cost $7,000+ because I "kinda like planes".
Me, I like the iPod, I've had a 4G, and now a 1G nano. iPhone has me thoroughly unimpressed. I think my next phone now will be the N95 (last phones: HTC Trinity, HTC Wizard, SE K800i, Nokia N90, Nokia 9500i).
Yeah. Because the only thing stopping us winning in Iraq is media with its wellknown liberal bias, and "Defeatocrats". Right. It couldn't possibly be a people not liking being invaded, or less than a quarter of the recommended troop levels being there, could it? We all know our Republican overlords are infallible, right?
Not the same thing.
You mean the LG KE850 that was launched before anyone had seen the first glimpse of the iPhone? I can see, based on that, why you'd call it a copycat - because Apple must be the innovator, right?
Let's not let the laws of physics get in the way of bashing companies for copying Apple by releasing a similar product (in design, if nothing else) before Apple's launch, huh?
Err, MAXIMUM, my bad.
How the hell do you think "300-700kbps" is even remotely accurate a description of a service that maxes out at 236kbs?!? Let's put it another way, I have the gall to point out that the MINIMUM usable speed of this service is TWENTY TWO PER CENT less than the "MINIMUM" quoted speed and you're the one getting uppity at me for doing so?
Ahhh, they lifted their ideas /and/ their bodies. That makes a world of difference.
GSM spec for 4 timeslots (the almost universal configuration, and the only feasible "real world" configuration, maxes at 236.4kbps. With 8 timeslots the theoretical max is 473.6kbps.
So if you'd been sold on "EDGE is 300-700kbps", you'd be looking at a pretty clear case of deceptive advertising.
You realize that there are chipsets that will support 3G technologies /and/ EDGE where 3G is not available, right? That's what, to me, the complaints are about - the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Nice spin. I wish I had Wi-Fi networks wherever I roamed. My HTC Wizard has EDGE+WiFi, but I've never heard anyone claim "Whadda you want 3G for, you have Wi-Fi!"
Blah.
Certified mail:
Yup, and don't forget all those volunteers who reply to mail sent to "Santa Claus" on behalf of the post office.
What company do you work for, so I can avoid doing business with them?
But some people seem to think that's okay ...
and / or "the naive". The whole idea of "this new consciousness" is laughable. Hint: the only difference between most of them and LiveJournal is owing their own domain name. LJ never had this much credibility - I don't see what a $6 domain name from GoDaddy automatically imparts.
What really annoys me is reading someone's blog and they'll go on and on about something they've just got, some new toy, and then, right at the end, you get the first mention that they were given it by a company to market. And it's often an aside, "By the way, I received this toy and $100 to review this". Perhaps you should have mentioned that upfront, instead of not giving the simplest hint until then.
Right, and the Newton did quite a bit more than that too, so would be an unfair comparison against those $9.99 PDAs, of the day, or of now. But to say its a comparable PDA to a PDA that does more than "just contacts" today is really grasping at straws.
You've not seen Windows Mobile 6, then. That thing seems to handle around 95%+ of my handwriting with ease, almost as much as the handwriting recognition in XP Tablet. (But I've gotta be crazy to say something like that in a story that already has Apple fanboys practically orgasmic.)
Staples selling a glorified calculator for $9.99 as a "PDA" with 32kb of RAM neither makes it a PDA by any common sense definition, nor I wager would any number of laypeople confuse it with a Palm Pilot, iPaq, etc.
It's what? More powerful? The thing came out with a 20MHz ARM processor. My four year old PDA has a 200+MHz ARM processor. It came with a 4MB ROM, same PDA I have came with 64MB ROM. It came with 640KB RAM, this one came with 64MB RAM.
Remind me again, "more powerful"?
Oh, come on! Go back and read and re-read that sentence and ask yourself how ridiculous it sounds.
These are the same commercials that show someone clicking a button, and getting directions to a seafood restaurant nearby. Except we know that the phone doesn't have GPS. How does it know this? Oh, yes, you need to show Google Maps where you are. That bit was cut for the MARKETING. But yet if you'd not read a review, but watched Apple's tour video and commercials, you'd think it had GPS.
Good luck, "one per person".
You're surprised? They're happy to jack you higher than normal plans for the privilege of getting it in the first place, why would they stop if you're already showing you'll happily take that?
What service? Cingular? It's better than T-mobile, in general, though specific location makes a difference. Apple customer service? Alternately polarizing - on one hand they can be great, replacing items with new things at the drop of a hat, and on the other they'll actively cover up and deny known, confirmed widespread problems.
UI? Not bad. Definitely extremely promising. Non crashiness? You know this, uh, how? As an aside, I can't remember the last time I needed to yank the battery on a Nokia running Symbian apps from all over the place (and literally, cannot remember, many years).
Who'll be watching? They'll all be queued up at the Apple store to buy into the hysteria.