Well, I've used my phone as navigation system for cycling and hiking. It was very nice to have a spare fully charged battery or two on longer trips.
That "most of them not "smart" is also an important distinction. I use PDA phones since 2004, because of the large screens and faster than usual CPUs they tend to use the battery like there is no tomorrow. Back then lithium ion batteries wore out significantly faster than nowadays as well, with battery cells swollen like blowfishes. In fact, I still own my fist PDA phone and it still works, but it killed 6 batteries through the years. Dumpbhones don't suffer from this fate quite as much.
So you prefer buying a new phone instead of a second battery and an external charger in a case like mine? Well, be my guest, I prefer to spend the money on my bike.
It is for me. Not only that my 16gb MicroSD card is almost full (offline navigation data, music), the micro USB port of my phone is broken. I can neither recharge it nor copy data through USB.
If I had one of the many smartphones without a card slot or a changeable battery, I'd be screwed. As the things are right now, I can continue to use the phone - a top of the line device few years ago - until something else fails. I can even still update the firmware without much hassle.
I do neither, just commenting on it. Also, there are all sorts of electric assisted bicycles here in Germany now that can do up to 45 kph (they could be faster, but then they would lose the "scooter" status and would need a real license plate).
Do you actually think before you write? Google does not employ people in Germany at charitable principles. They do it because it is good for their business. If getting out of Germany would be a "win win" for Google, they would have done it long ago.
Who said the collapse was a good thing? It brought a lot of suffering to a lot of people. A way more peaceful transformation was surely possible.
Besides, it could only have started by the mid seventies if the preconditions were right 10-15 years earlier. Unfortunately, by then the damage was already done.
Not under Brezhnev, obviously. You forget why Brezhnev got to be the general secretary in the first place - by ousting Khrushchev. Exactly because Khrushchev was trying to restructure USSR and at the same time was a proponent of peaceful coexistence with the capitalist countries. Had he stayed in power... well, he was actually quite similar to Gorbachev.
So did I and I call you bullshit. If anything, the sable rattling from US and UK have prolongued the cold war by scaring the Soviet leaders. Without them, something like perestroika could have started in mid seventies, maybe even earlier.
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Well, I've used my phone as navigation system for cycling and hiking. It was very nice to have a spare fully charged battery or two on longer trips.
That "most of them not "smart" is also an important distinction. I use PDA phones since 2004, because of the large screens and faster than usual CPUs they tend to use the battery like there is no tomorrow. Back then lithium ion batteries wore out significantly faster than nowadays as well, with battery cells swollen like blowfishes. In fact, I still own my fist PDA phone and it still works, but it killed 6 batteries through the years. Dumpbhones don't suffer from this fate quite as much.
My PC at work does not. There is no need because it is connected to the company LAN through gigabit ethernet.
Because the company earns money by selling service, not by monthly payments.
That works fine if you need to copy stuff only when you are at home. And yes, my even older HTC HD2 with the broken USB port has got 802.11n as well.
So you prefer buying a new phone instead of a second battery and an external charger in a case like mine? Well, be my guest, I prefer to spend the money on my bike.
It is for me. Not only that my 16gb MicroSD card is almost full (offline navigation data, music), the micro USB port of my phone is broken. I can neither recharge it nor copy data through USB.
If I had one of the many smartphones without a card slot or a changeable battery, I'd be screwed. As the things are right now, I can continue to use the phone - a top of the line device few years ago - until something else fails. I can even still update the firmware without much hassle.
Diesel soots and stinks. I wish people would use CNG instead of diesel.
I do neither, just commenting on it. Also, there are all sorts of electric assisted bicycles here in Germany now that can do up to 45 kph (they could be faster, but then they would lose the "scooter" status and would need a real license plate).
Well, except for the "gasoline powered", see Segway.
6 hours of walking is not difficult at all.
USA defeated stalinism? Wow. Never knew Khrushchev was an American.
So why don't they do it right now? Looks like they won't be able to provide the service in the area after moving out.
And now you are just trying to squirm yourself out of the situation, but it won't do.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3663861&cid=43491841 stays there.
Well, if he were from the south-west part of Stavropol region you could say that he was from the Russian region near Chechnya.
Are you seriously saying that a cutting losses situation is "win win"? Dude, think, then post.
Do you actually think before you write? Google does not employ people in Germany at charitable principles. They do it because it is good for their business. If getting out of Germany would be a "win win" for Google, they would have done it long ago.
Well, in fact, the USSR was not a communist country by the very definition and even its rulers officially said so. Communism was a long-term goal.
I am not sure you really want the crabs to be bigger.
Who said the collapse was a good thing? It brought a lot of suffering to a lot of people. A way more peaceful transformation was surely possible.
Besides, it could only have started by the mid seventies if the preconditions were right 10-15 years earlier. Unfortunately, by then the damage was already done.
Not under Brezhnev, obviously. You forget why Brezhnev got to be the general secretary in the first place - by ousting Khrushchev. Exactly because Khrushchev was trying to restructure USSR and at the same time was a proponent of peaceful coexistence with the capitalist countries. Had he stayed in power... well, he was actually quite similar to Gorbachev.
So did I and I call you bullshit. If anything, the sable rattling from US and UK have prolongued the cold war by scaring the Soviet leaders. Without them, something like perestroika could have started in mid seventies, maybe even earlier.
What quest for dominance?
Oh, you mean this one?
Except that there was only a single A300 equipped with fly by wire, and that machine was only used to test the system for A320.
You forget the psychological effect. Certain diseases are way scarier than normal assassinations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_beater
never used one?