my mother and my father both have phones with windows mobile on it (htc blue angel and htc wallaby) for almost two years now. they needed only about half an hour to learn to use them.
and no, they aren't geeks or something, my mother is a medical doctor and my father is a naval navigator, currently unemployed.
htc touch has something like that (biotouch), you can run opera mobile on htc touch (and all other windows mobile phones) and who cares about itunes? btw as you can install software as you like to your windows mobile phone, you can even install a media player which can play ogg. can your iphone play ogg?
let me explain to you how it works: some german ministers want to introduce some new crap law to become a police state. then they see that this law could be rendered as unconstitutional (or they just try to implement it and fail). they go to eu and spin-doctor that crap there so it goes back to germany as an eu directive and the ministers can say they could do nothing about it.
microsoft doesn't support hardware because they make none (in case of pocketpc, that is). they license the operating system to the oems. the oems are making the devices and the drivers and the custom applications for their devices. they even get the sources for the operating system so they can compile them for their devices. that is the reason why you won't get software updates from microsoft - the complete firmware is device-specific.
there is a shitload of totally different ce/windows mobile devices. apple only makes a two-three different devices and doesn't license the operating system to other vendors.
i have got a completely different experience. the battery life isn't that great, but then again, 520 mhz xscale and a big vga screen are eating a lot (and i do tend to listen music via a2dp and reading books on my windows mobile phone, and all that at the same time). nothing locks up when the battery runs down, the phone just shuts off. as soon as you begin to charge it, you can use it again. every cell phone does that. losing the data when the battery is empty happens no more since wm5. before that you had the same problem with other pdas (palm, ebookman, you name it).
wifi works well and i sometimes watch videos over wifi and 400 mhz are enough for that - i have done it with my good old toshiba e800 (400 mhz xcale, vga).
the only one more or less valid point is that with os upgrades - you can only get an upgrade from the manufacturer of your pda, but this happens only because you can only upgrade the operating system by flashing the firmware and this can only work when the firmware image has got all the vendor-specific drivers in it. but then again, name me please just one pda where you get operating system updates directly from the operating system vendor and not from the device manufacturer.
i had to work with a tablet pc for two years. i hate that damn thing. the pivot is highly unreliable and cannot hold the screen in the position for a while. the digitizer in the screen has all the problems of normal digitizers - it isn't very exact.
a decent pocket pc is much more fun because of the touch screen and the operating system really designed for a pen interface.
sure, but don't forget the weight. liquids are awfully heavy and modern soldiers already need to lift so much equipment that their body weight doubles.
not very explicit and you also don't need to do her (and she is adopted anyway). you'll laugh, but i play bishoujo games for the story only and skip all h-scenes.
Call me a pussy but I have cried 4 of 6 hours I played this game. And I couldn't sleep properly for a week, feeling too much grief (tried to be the perfect brother and got one of the intellectual endings).
it's not that the russian lacks the verb "to be", it is that this verb in its original meaning is normally omitted in the present tense (and in every russian joke about foreigners you can spot them by their use of this verb in present tense).
still, even in the present tense this verb is used in an abomination of a language construction as a replacement for "to have". "u menya est' (chto-to)" means "i have (something)" but it can literally be translated as "at me/my own there is (something)".
the literal "i have" (ya imeyu) also works, but it has sometimes got a sexual connotation with a touch of superiority, something along the lines of the big lebowski nihilits repeating "i'll fuck you in the ass", that's why it is seldom used.
unfortunately strobe picks - as cool as they are - are for made the standard guitar and bass frequencies (EADGBe). you'll need real strobe tuners (like peterson autostrobe) for other instruments and they are expensive as hell.
some guy used to build them for other frequencies you could chose, but it looks like he is out of business now.
you cannot compare guitars and amplifiers. the impedance of a strat is in the 250-500 kOhm range, the impedance of an amplifier to speaker is 2-8 Ohm. due to the low impedance the capacitance of a speaker cable becomes almost irrelevant.
put active pickups into your guitar and you can achieve the same effect (the impedance of emg pickups is afair 25 Ohm) and also get a lot of more sound bandwidth.
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like robot gunboats?
my mother and my father both have phones with windows mobile on it (htc blue angel and htc wallaby) for almost two years now. they needed only about half an hour to learn to use them.
and no, they aren't geeks or something, my mother is a medical doctor and my father is a naval navigator, currently unemployed.
htc touch has something like that (biotouch), you can run opera mobile on htc touch (and all other windows mobile phones) and who cares about itunes?
btw as you can install software as you like to your windows mobile phone, you can even install a media player which can play ogg.
can your iphone play ogg?
let me explain to you how it works:
some german ministers want to introduce some new crap law to become a police state.
then they see that this law could be rendered as unconstitutional (or they just try to implement it and fail).
they go to eu and spin-doctor that crap there so it goes back to germany as an eu directive and the ministers can say they could do nothing about it.
i have it even better. there is only one device with a led in my bedroom - my pda phone. and when i go to bed i just put it into a drawer.
you don't get it, do you?
microsoft doesn't support hardware because they make none (in case of pocketpc, that is). they license the operating system to the oems. the oems are making the devices and the drivers and the custom applications for their devices. they even get the sources for the operating system so they can compile them for their devices.
that is the reason why you won't get software updates from microsoft - the complete firmware is device-specific.
there is a shitload of totally different ce/windows mobile devices. apple only makes a two-three different devices and doesn't license the operating system to other vendors.
wrong. you get the update from the device manufacturer (which is also apple).
microsoft doesn't make their pdas themselves, they sell the operating system to different oems instead.
as far as i remember you've got to get the updates for sony clie from sony and not from palm.
i have got a completely different experience.
the battery life isn't that great, but then again, 520 mhz xscale and a big vga screen are eating a lot (and i do tend to listen music via a2dp and reading books on my windows mobile phone, and all that at the same time).
nothing locks up when the battery runs down, the phone just shuts off. as soon as you begin to charge it, you can use it again. every cell phone does that. losing the data when the battery is empty happens no more since wm5. before that you had the same problem with other pdas (palm, ebookman, you name it).
wifi works well and i sometimes watch videos over wifi and 400 mhz are enough for that - i have done it with my good old toshiba e800 (400 mhz xcale, vga).
the only one more or less valid point is that with os upgrades - you can only get an upgrade from the manufacturer of your pda, but this happens only because you can only upgrade the operating system by flashing the firmware and this can only work when the firmware image has got all the vendor-specific drivers in it. but then again, name me please just one pda where you get operating system updates directly from the operating system vendor and not from the device manufacturer.
i had to work with a tablet pc for two years. i hate that damn thing.
the pivot is highly unreliable and cannot hold the screen in the position for a while.
the digitizer in the screen has all the problems of normal digitizers - it isn't very exact.
a decent pocket pc is much more fun because of the touch screen and the operating system really designed for a pen interface.
scnr
sure, but don't forget the weight.
liquids are awfully heavy and modern soldiers already need to lift so much equipment that their body weight doubles.
actually an optimist has only disappointments in his life.
compare that to a pessemist who has only happy surprises.
it's not dead, it's resting ;-)
not very explicit and you also don't need to do her (and she is adopted anyway).
you'll laugh, but i play bishoujo games for the story only and skip all h-scenes.
kana and crescendo were the best for me so far.
Call me a pussy but I have cried 4 of 6 hours I played this game. And I couldn't sleep properly for a week, feeling too much grief (tried to be the perfect brother and got one of the intellectual endings).
Read this review, the guy felt the same.
hitler was a catholic, stalin also was (an orthodox) christian, was even in a church school.
palm wm phones are also made by htc (treo 750w is afair htc cheetah)
it's not that the russian lacks the verb "to be", it is that this verb in its original meaning is normally omitted in the present tense (and in every russian joke about foreigners you can spot them by their use of this verb in present tense).
still, even in the present tense this verb is used in an abomination of a language construction as a replacement for "to have". "u menya est' (chto-to)" means "i have (something)" but it can literally be translated as "at me/my own there is (something)".
the literal "i have" (ya imeyu) also works, but it has sometimes got a sexual connotation with a touch of superiority, something along the lines of the big lebowski nihilits repeating "i'll fuck you in the ass", that's why it is seldom used.
because modern phones become pdas.
(i like it the other way around, btw).
that's no moon... it's a space station!
it is monty python.
unfortunately strobe picks - as cool as they are - are for made the standard guitar and bass frequencies (EADGBe). you'll need real strobe tuners (like peterson autostrobe) for other instruments and they are expensive as hell.
some guy used to build them for other frequencies you could chose, but it looks like he is out of business now.
yes, wilkinson stays in tune better than a floyd rose - when you do a double bend for example.
this is a blackbox
you cannot compare guitars and amplifiers.
the impedance of a strat is in the 250-500 kOhm range, the impedance of an amplifier to speaker is 2-8 Ohm.
due to the low impedance the capacitance of a speaker cable becomes almost irrelevant.
put active pickups into your guitar and you can achieve the same effect (the impedance of emg pickups is afair 25 Ohm) and also get a lot of more sound bandwidth.