A PS3 costs the same as a Wii or an Xbox 360 these days. Below works on the following assumption Xbox and PS3 games tend to be single player with the multiplayer aspect online, while most of the Wii games tend to be Mulitplayer games where you need multiple controllers.
In the UK a Wii will set you back £179 you will need anouther Wiimote £29.99 and atleast one nunchuck at £14.99. (I'm ignoring WiiFit and Motion Plus here). This means your looking at spending atleast £223.98. If you want two nun chucks and include Motion Plus (£19.99) then the price reaches £278.95. Thats £278.95 for a console Nintendo are already talking about replacing.
For my Xbox 360 Comparison I'm assuming you only need a single controller since most of the games are single player with online play. An Xbox Elite will set you back £199.99 and if you want WiFi thats anouther £49.99. Meaning to enjoy the 360 your looking at spending £249.98.
A PS3 Slim is £249.99 Making it £0.01 more expsive than the equivlent Xbox 360. It comes with Blu-ray as standard and Sony seem to suggest it will have a longer life cycle by several years.
If you feel I've been unfair to the Wii in reguards to accessories wise a Xbox360 controller costs £29.99 and a PS3 controller costs £34.99.
So yes the Wii is the cheapest at £278.95, the Xbox is inbetween at £279.97 and the PS3 is the most expensive at £284.98. The £10 price difference shouldn't be enough for anyone to care about and while the links I offered showed Games for the Wii and Xbox360 and not the PS3 in my expearence Game offers vary wildly for all the consoles and you can get a PS3 slim with COD5/GTAIV for the £249.99 price.
Thats a poor arguement since you can turn Wifi, Bluetooth and 3G parts off most modern phones (I can with my Nokia 5800). Secondly I should point out the GPSs the biggest power drain in my device, followed by Bluetooth. The MP3 and phone functions use a surprisingly small amount of battery.
I don't think TomTom and Garmin are going anywhere, on my phone Google Maps sucks* compared to Nokia Maps (which is subscription based). All TomTom and Garmin have to do is create symbian/pre/iphone software so a user can use their phone in a similar fashion to the stand alone product. Since Garmin has already done that for the Nokia 5800/N95/N97 and for the iPhone.
*I thought I would qualify, google maps on the Nokia 5800 is completely net based meaning you can't use it in a non 3G area, since it downloads the maps on the fly it takes about 2 minutes (for me) to get going and it's less accurate in its positioning (usually by a street or two) than Nokia Maps. Finally Nokia Maps works in a similar fashion to a stand alone GPS, Google Maps doesn't give directions in that manor and can be quite hard to follow when driving.
I have to disagree, this is useful for open source and is probably needed sooner rather than later. With windows I can take an install file from 1997 (Myst Masterpiece and Quicktime 6.5.2 in this example) and install it on my Win 7 machine, I don't have to care if its CentOS, Debian, etc... nor do I have to care if its version 7.4, 8.10, etc...
While the various package managers do provide pretty much everything, forcing key libraries to be backwards compatible and providing a file that will work out all the tech stuff for you would bring this aspect of Linux up to Windows/Mac OSX standard.
I program at work and I don't want to be recompiling binaries at home.
Rather than moan why not take a positive view? Because of environment taxes we've gotten more energy efficient houses (cheaper to heat), new cars tend to drive well and do 50/60 MPG and we are beginning to properly diversify our energy needs so a lack of oil won't kill us for example: Many standard cars have electric versions available, the high carbon cost of a coal/gas/oil powered plants has made nuclear power viable once more (UK is replacing older plants with nuclear ones) and hydrogen using planes are starting to go through formal testing.
There are a lot of other benefits in following the Carbon crowd for example the UK upped the building code and now I live in a new flat that seems to cost £150 a year to heat my water and keep the flat warm. My new 42" TV uses slightly less power than my older 32" TV because the EU brought in laws to help countries meet their Kyoto agreements. Rather than get wrapped up in the politics, take a look at the proposals being made to address the problem and you'll usually find an idea that makes good sense in the long term.
There nothing wrong with small screens if the websites properly designed.
For example BBC news website works fine on my Nokia 5800, the frames aren't fixed in width so the whole thing adjusts to properly fit the screen all I have to do is scroll down the page and set the zoom level to something appropriate. Slashdot does something similar where the comments section width never exceeds the available viewing space's width meaning I can scroll across to the comments section and it will fit nicely on the screen.
The problem is to many people don't use CSS/Javascript properly and don't design their pages to properly dynamically adjust. It seems most web designers expect people to be running computers with screen sizes of 1280*1024 and build their site solely to function on that resolution.
Of course the other problem is flashy nonsense that adds nothing. I honestly think a lot of the mobile sites would be better on the PC. Facebook's iPhone page and Dilbert.com/fast would both be great examples.
I've known 2 cinema's with problems with motorcycle helmets because "you could hide a camera in there". Both have demanded I leave the lid outside of the screen rooms.
The first time they had no where for me to store it so I escalated it to the manager and got in with it (never gone back). The second place (Cineworld) keep demanding I put my lid in a speacial locker they provide for which I will be given the key. Three times they've done that and three times I've had to point out the locker isn't actually big enough for a small lid let alone a large.
Yet over the years I've managed to walk in with a digital video camera, a couple times with a digital camera and never had a problem with my phone. I never intended to record the film but it still amazes me a video camera held in my hand was fine.
I honestly think these rules aren't about stopping piracy but ensuring large goods don't take up seats.
In the UK Banks won't insure amounts paid through the swipe card method, only chip and pin is protected. The result is pretty much everywhere will refuse to swipe your card even though every chip and pin device has a a swiping slot.
I used to work in a Woolworths (long before they went bankrupt) and the reason the chain refused to take American Express was because the card system they used was less secure and it was a lot easier for fraud to happen.
The problems a simple one, Britain isn't very large (80,823 square miles) and has a population of approximately 70 Million people. To give a good comparison France has a similar population size but an area of 260,558 square miles. We are one of the most densely populated areas in the world. We are running out of land to build houses on.
Refugee's are supposed to goto the nearest safe country but because of Britain's great welfare scheme many are traveling all across Europe and then sneaking into the UK. The majority of these refugees are men who are escaping the horrors at home but feel its ok to leave mums, wives and children back home.
A great strain is put on the local services like medical care, housing, schools. They then make no effort to integrate and form their own mini versions of their country within a town/city. Local's get upset because crime increases in these area's and because of their status the asylum seekers are given preferential treatment.
Do I agree with this measure? No I think its sick and wrong, but then I'm tired of the large number of fake asylum seekers we let in who I'm not aloud to complain about because its racist. Government caused this problem in the name of multi-cultralisim and the fact none of the non-minority population can complain is whats caused the strong racist feelings within the country, hopefully it will only take a couple of BNP MP's for Parliament to realise this before the country explodes.
Why does everyone assume fancy cars or superbikes will get you laid. When I bought my £4k superbike every person (men and women) all thought the said the same thing. The problem is if you pull up outside a crowded pub in a top class Mercedes/ Audi A4 controvertible or a superbike all that happens is 10 guys come up to have a look at it and tell you how awesome it is. Then they tell you how they'd love to own one and ask you how it drives/rides.
It's like the myth that owning a motorcyle makes you cool to the opposite sex. Honestly in 7 years of riding I've met three random girls who liked the idea. Every other woman I've met when it comes up in conversation has used this exact phrase "Thats so cool, but I could never ride a bike its too scary." I ride a bike because its a joy, not because it makes me "cool". As for the Mecredes and the Audi pure luck from work rentals off of Hertz.
My point? Buy what makes you happy, if its a superbike or a massive comic collection. Just because you have a particular possession you won't magically become more attractive to the opposite sex. For me this case seems like a massive waste of money, but then I think iPhones are massive wastes of money.
I'd like to mod this up but will settle with a biker side story. I ride a Suzuki 600cc GSR (think more mid-range version of the GSXR). I don't consider myself a particularly good rider and while I go fast its more because of my confidence with the bike and the fact the roads safe to do it. I ride my bike everyday since it's my only means of transport and where I'm working now I'm 1 of 2 people who do, however there is only one even adequate biker in the area other than myself. The rest are what I call "born agains", I'm sure everyone has a different name for them. They are the people who hit forty have a mid-life crisis and decide to buy a 600+cc. Or they may have owned a 600 for years which they drive 3 times a year in good weather and move up to 750's and 1100's.
I consider born agains road kill and will never race them, partly because they lose when I don't even try but mostly because they aren't aware of what the bike can do, have no idea of their bikes personnel space and have the road perception of a car driver (extremely limited).
Every weekend I spend an hour cleaning and going over my bike, checking everything is fine. When I'm on the road I've thought about recent weather and how that affects road conditions (e.g. braking distances and general road grip). I'm looking to the farthest point along the road and taking everything in between, from the state of the traffic lights, to the type of cars being driven. I'm constantly thinking about whats going on around me and don't allow distractions.
The by-products are when I approach a roundabout I'm looking at all the exits and entrances what cars are on the roundabout and what their relative speeds are. Is there a gap for me to squeeze into, should I accelerate or decelerate to fit into it. Can I just shoot across, is there traffic ahead of me can I go through the center to get to the roundabout? I know that since I moved from race track tires to a dual compound my braking distances have doubled and tripped in wet cold conditions. I know the bike can handle sharp corners at 60MPH without breaking a sweat. I know the bike can get to 70MPH in less than three seconds in 1st gear.
Knowing this has saved me from some serious accidents. For example a while back I was traveling a dual carriage way (partly three lanes in places) in torrential rain. As I approached a bridge (which was itself a right hand bend) I could see a small fog bank over it. When I hit the fog at 70MPH in the inside lane I discovered cars in all three lanes doing approximately 40-50MPH. Knowing the capabilities of the bike meant instead of braking and going into the back of a car. I saw the second and third lane cars had a bike sized gap , I shot across three lanes and then popped through the gap. This all happened in less than 2 seconds and in my defense I hadn't seen another car on the road in ten minutes and in the UK its against the highway code to be in the outside/middle lane unless your overtaking (major pet peeve of mine).
Unfortunately the stories on how paying attention are too numerous and no where nearly as interesting. All I can say is noticing the slightly erratic driving of another vehicle (minor things from inability to use lanes to strange road position rather than the more obvious kind) or watching cars as they approach junctions has saved me no end of troubles.
Born agains do none of the above, the are commuting car drivers who treat their bikes like a car and suffer for it. Interestingly they are usually the people who goto all the clubs and own the best gear.
Crumple zones were added into cars because of the high number of injuries sustained in car accidents in rigid steel frames cars. The whole point of a crumple zone is for it to crumple reducing the collision energy which reduces the shock to the people inside which reduces the number of broken bones. In essence you want the new car to be wrecked, if its wrecked that means much of the collision energy was used in crumpling the frame of the car and not in jolting the passengers.
It's just one of those things car designers learnt from trial and error, like where to put a petrol tank so it doesn't explode and why not to use metal steering wheels.
I tried to find the European NCAP rating for the Malibu but wasn't able to so i have no idea on how safe the car is. But a while back on Top Gear they felt so safe about a 5 star NCAP car a presenter crashed it into a wall at 30/40MPH he came out without a scratch. Admittedly they'd wrecked the car, but the presenter didn't even have whiplash, you just wouldn't do that in a 50's car because chances are you'd end up with broken legs or internal injuries (generally from the steering wheel). Sure you were fine, but those changes happened because most people wern't ok.
For anecdotal evidence, for me the average size of a ripped album at 192kbps is around 90MB's.
In the last couple of weeks I've downloaded a Sony PS3 update (about 400MB's) followed by a 90MB Singstar update, followed by buying 8 singstar tracks (approximately 70MB's each). Re-installed Steam on my PC and downloaded my games collection (20GB). When you put all that together I'd have to download 289 albums this month to match my completely legitimate use of bandwidth. While Steam has knocked up my download stats this month its not unusual for me to use 20GB a month.
Also in defense to BT they have been trying to role out FTTH (Fiber To The Home) for at least 5 years. To do it would cost approximately £15 billion. Every time they ask the government for money they get fobbed off. They are now rolling out Fiber to the Junction box using their own funds. BT were also pretty consistent about rolling out ASDL and are slowly unbundling the local loops so true competition exists.
I can sort of understand the idea of coming up with new programing methodologies but this one sounds like a weird justification for crappy code and managers ticking boxes. Even the idea that 50% there is better than never getting to 99%.
I'm currently working on a piece of functionality for a prototype which is roughly 80% done but has no GUI, without the GUI the rest of the code might as well not be there and without a properly designed and laid out GUI the whole point of the functionality comes into question.
It's not your phone its slashcode. I've got a Nokia 5800 which has the same webkit browser the iPhone has (in a direct comparison me and a friend couldn't see a difference) and it struggles with Slashdot. I have no idea why.
For me slashdot takes ages to load the last 10kb's of any page, then immediately tries to load another page which isn't a new page. Once I press Stop the page loads and displays properly however the browser will lock up for approximately 30 seconds. If I wait too long to cancel the previous web page load the entire web browser will slow down and require me to close it and re-open to fix.
I'm sure people will argue its my phone but the register, bbc, amazon, ebay, various forums, you tube, google maps, etc.. all load and work perfectly and slashdot is the only site I've found which has any issues.
Lastly my Orange m500 (running Windows Mobile 2003 SE) used to load Slashdot ok (formating was screwed up but it was all there and readable). Around the Windows Mobile 5/ O2 XDA Mini S release some slashcode update caused it to seriously degrade. I'm beginning to wonder if the "designers" need to go do a HTML for dummys training course.
The only race game I can think that does split screen is Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. If you liked the original Motorstorm then it's definitely worth picking up. Otherwise your stuck until GT5.
Your knee jerk response is typical of whats gotten us into this mess. If America's budget is anywhere near as messed up as the UK's there are places that desperately need trimming and area's which should have increased funding. Ignoring the fact that massive sweeping cuts to public services will only cause the economy to fall back into recession.
Lets take the NHS (not popular in the US I know) our biggest problem is the amount of management layers that have been injected into hospitals over the years and often the UK government will simply give money to a hospital with the proviso that it needs to be used. Its biggest problem is there are more managers than front line staff (mostly thanks to Labour). Simply trimming the budget will hurt the front line service and not solve the problem. Over the next few years those management layers need to be removed and the red tape should be killed off. Its not that its state funded thats the problem its that the current government have created (for whatever reason) a lot of non jobs that need to be removed.
Its even worse in the civil service, I have a friend who recently completed her masters in geography and got a job in the environmental services department. She couldn't tell us what her job was and admitted in her office of 7 people there was only really work for 3 people. But the office did at one time need 7 and had only recently got the authorization to get that number.
I wish the UK had a worthwhile endeavor like NASA although it sounds like NASA has been abused much like the NHS has been over here. I've been waiting for UK parties to say how they plan to remove NHS and civil service bureaucracy. But none will agree to do that, simply saying your going to cut public spending by canceling projects grabs headlines and makes you look good
The developer page was what I was looking for, you'll notice the design has immediately changed from the apple.com website (nav bar has gone for instance).
I'm not a regular on Apples website but a quick perusal of their website shows it to be a cut down marketing site rather than the somewhat huge Microsoft tech site. I certainly can't find any pages on known issues, bug fixes, inner workings of their IDE, etc...
I would have thought his issues with consistency and readability would be primarily because Microsoft's website has parts maintained by different business units who all use different web templates. But the use of those templates is consistent. I'd imagine if Apples website was as comprehensive you'd get the same problems.
I disagree with his homepage analysis as well, microsoft will often advertise free products on their home page (latest Windows Media player, Win 7 Beta, etc..) Apple just have several giant adverts for products you have to buy and have hidden away the free stuff. Clutter is bad but making it hard to get to the free stuff is worse in my opinion.
This just sounds like some fan-boy trying to put down Microsoft in any way he can. Also If apples website is more than a glorified online store could someone point me at the other parts. The fact I have to ask kinda shoots his navigation point down. Although I'm not suggesting Microsoft's website is easy to navigate.
I'm English, I live in Yeovil, Somerset. I was born in Plymouth, Devon in an NHS hospital. No one I know or have met has called NICE nasty, not even the tabloid trash like The Sun or The Mirror call NICE nasty.
We also have private hopsitals, I've even known people who had knee surgery in a private hospital paid for by the NHS because the NHS didn't have an open slot soon enough. If thr NHS won't treat you you can rely on your medical insurrance (if you have any) to get you treated. I have private healthcare myself, never used it.
I don't know why I'm bothering your obviously just an eejit troll.
Your talkng out of your ass. NICE is not reffered to as "Nasty" in the UK.
There are times when NICE comes out with some insanely stupid policy but usually BBC News or the papers kick up about it and NICE changes policy. The worst idea they had to do with a drug that prevented blindness. Because of its expense you could only get the drug free on the NHS if you had only one eye. Unfortunatly if youy had two eyes you didn't get the drug free. The media storm that occured when one paitent lost an eye was large enough that NICE changed their policy and did a full investigation into all of them to make sure there wern't any other stupid ones like that. Even if the drug you want isn't as clear cut you can take the matter to the High court and make your case (I think 2 expearimental cancer drugs are now free because of this despite their varying sucess and cost).
NICE is made up of a group of expearenced doctors who decide if the benifit a drug gives a paitent is bearable by the state and sets policy on what the NHS will offer. We have several treatments you wouldn't expect like infertility treatment, sex change operations and abortions for free.
Or it could simply be the battery and lcd panel are far to close together and when the battery starts over heating the heat transferred is enough to begin warping the LCD case unit something cracks.
The few photo's I've seen of the iPhone battery problem suggest the battery's getting close to if not well over 70 degrees celcius. Thats only a guess based on a limited knowledge of how hot you have to get something before plastic starts de-clolouring. I doubt the LCD panel was designed to take anything close to those temperatures.
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A PS3 costs the same as a Wii or an Xbox 360 these days. Below works on the following assumption Xbox and PS3 games tend to be single player with the multiplayer aspect online, while most of the Wii games tend to be Mulitplayer games where you need multiple controllers.
In the UK a Wii will set you back £179 you will need anouther Wiimote £29.99 and atleast one nunchuck at £14.99. (I'm ignoring WiiFit and Motion Plus here). This means your looking at spending atleast £223.98. If you want two nun chucks and include Motion Plus (£19.99) then the price reaches £278.95. Thats £278.95 for a console Nintendo are already talking about replacing.
For my Xbox 360 Comparison I'm assuming you only need a single controller since most of the games are single player with online play. An Xbox Elite will set you back £199.99 and if you want WiFi thats anouther £49.99. Meaning to enjoy the 360 your looking at spending £249.98.
A PS3 Slim is £249.99 Making it £0.01 more expsive than the equivlent Xbox 360. It comes with Blu-ray as standard and Sony seem to suggest it will have a longer life cycle by several years.
If you feel I've been unfair to the Wii in reguards to accessories wise a Xbox360 controller costs £29.99 and a PS3 controller costs £34.99.
So yes the Wii is the cheapest at £278.95, the Xbox is inbetween at £279.97 and the PS3 is the most expensive at £284.98. The £10 price difference shouldn't be enough for anyone to care about and while the links I offered showed Games for the Wii and Xbox360 and not the PS3 in my expearence Game offers vary wildly for all the consoles and you can get a PS3 slim with COD5/GTAIV for the £249.99 price.
I heard they considered calling it a "Cyberpoint".
Thats a poor arguement since you can turn Wifi, Bluetooth and 3G parts off most modern phones (I can with my Nokia 5800). Secondly I should point out the GPSs the biggest power drain in my device, followed by Bluetooth. The MP3 and phone functions use a surprisingly small amount of battery.
I don't think TomTom and Garmin are going anywhere, on my phone Google Maps sucks* compared to Nokia Maps (which is subscription based). All TomTom and Garmin have to do is create symbian/pre/iphone software so a user can use their phone in a similar fashion to the stand alone product. Since Garmin has already done that for the Nokia 5800/N95/N97 and for the iPhone.
*I thought I would qualify, google maps on the Nokia 5800 is completely net based meaning you can't use it in a non 3G area, since it downloads the maps on the fly it takes about 2 minutes (for me) to get going and it's less accurate in its positioning (usually by a street or two) than Nokia Maps. Finally Nokia Maps works in a similar fashion to a stand alone GPS, Google Maps doesn't give directions in that manor and can be quite hard to follow when driving.
I have to disagree, this is useful for open source and is probably needed sooner rather than later. With windows I can take an install file from 1997 (Myst Masterpiece and Quicktime 6.5.2 in this example) and install it on my Win 7 machine, I don't have to care if its CentOS, Debian, etc... nor do I have to care if its version 7.4, 8.10, etc...
While the various package managers do provide pretty much everything, forcing key libraries to be backwards compatible and providing a file that will work out all the tech stuff for you would bring this aspect of Linux up to Windows/Mac OSX standard.
I program at work and I don't want to be recompiling binaries at home.
Rather than moan why not take a positive view? Because of environment taxes we've gotten more energy efficient houses (cheaper to heat), new cars tend to drive well and do 50/60 MPG and we are beginning to properly diversify our energy needs so a lack of oil won't kill us for example:
Many standard cars have electric versions available, the high carbon cost of a coal/gas/oil powered plants has made nuclear power viable once more (UK is replacing older plants with nuclear ones) and hydrogen using planes are starting to go through formal testing.
There are a lot of other benefits in following the Carbon crowd for example the UK upped the building code and now I live in a new flat that seems to cost £150 a year to heat my water and keep the flat warm. My new 42" TV uses slightly less power than my older 32" TV because the EU brought in laws to help countries meet their Kyoto agreements. Rather than get wrapped up in the politics, take a look at the proposals being made to address the problem and you'll usually find an idea that makes good sense in the long term.
There nothing wrong with small screens if the websites properly designed.
For example BBC news website works fine on my Nokia 5800, the frames aren't fixed in width so the whole thing adjusts to properly fit the screen all I have to do is scroll down the page and set the zoom level to something appropriate. Slashdot does something similar where the comments section width never exceeds the available viewing space's width meaning I can scroll across to the comments section and it will fit nicely on the screen.
The problem is to many people don't use CSS/Javascript properly and don't design their pages to properly dynamically adjust. It seems most web designers expect people to be running computers with screen sizes of 1280*1024 and build their site solely to function on that resolution.
Of course the other problem is flashy nonsense that adds nothing. I honestly think a lot of the mobile sites would be better on the PC. Facebook's iPhone page and Dilbert.com/fast would both be great examples.
I've known 2 cinema's with problems with motorcycle helmets because "you could hide a camera in there". Both have demanded I leave the lid outside of the screen rooms.
The first time they had no where for me to store it so I escalated it to the manager and got in with it (never gone back). The second place (Cineworld) keep demanding I put my lid in a speacial locker they provide for which I will be given the key. Three times they've done that and three times I've had to point out the locker isn't actually big enough for a small lid let alone a large.
Yet over the years I've managed to walk in with a digital video camera, a couple times with a digital camera and never had a problem with my phone. I never intended to record the film but it still amazes me a video camera held in my hand was fine.
I honestly think these rules aren't about stopping piracy but ensuring large goods don't take up seats.
£7 a month is unlimited downloads with O2
In the UK Banks won't insure amounts paid through the swipe card method, only chip and pin is protected. The result is pretty much everywhere will refuse to swipe your card even though every chip and pin device has a a swiping slot.
I used to work in a Woolworths (long before they went bankrupt) and the reason the chain refused to take American Express was because the card system they used was less secure and it was a lot easier for fraud to happen.
Chip and pin rocks.
The problems a simple one, Britain isn't very large (80,823 square miles) and has a population of approximately 70 Million people. To give a good comparison France has a similar population size but an area of 260,558 square miles. We are one of the most densely populated areas in the world. We are running out of land to build houses on.
Refugee's are supposed to goto the nearest safe country but because of Britain's great welfare scheme many are traveling all across Europe and then sneaking into the UK. The majority of these refugees are men who are escaping the horrors at home but feel its ok to leave mums, wives and children back home.
A great strain is put on the local services like medical care, housing, schools. They then make no effort to integrate and form their own mini versions of their country within a town/city. Local's get upset because crime increases in these area's and because of their status the asylum seekers are given preferential treatment.
Do I agree with this measure? No I think its sick and wrong, but then I'm tired of the large number of fake asylum seekers we let in who I'm not aloud to complain about because its racist. Government caused this problem in the name of multi-cultralisim and the fact none of the non-minority population can complain is whats caused the strong racist feelings within the country, hopefully it will only take a couple of BNP MP's for Parliament to realise this before the country explodes.
Why does everyone assume fancy cars or superbikes will get you laid. When I bought my £4k superbike every person (men and women) all thought the said the same thing. The problem is if you pull up outside a crowded pub in a top class Mercedes/ Audi A4 controvertible or a superbike all that happens is 10 guys come up to have a look at it and tell you how awesome it is. Then they tell you how they'd love to own one and ask you how it drives/rides.
It's like the myth that owning a motorcyle makes you cool to the opposite sex. Honestly in 7 years of riding I've met three random girls who liked the idea. Every other woman I've met when it comes up in conversation has used this exact phrase "Thats so cool, but I could never ride a bike its too scary." I ride a bike because its a joy, not because it makes me "cool". As for the Mecredes and the Audi pure luck from work rentals off of Hertz.
My point? Buy what makes you happy, if its a superbike or a massive comic collection. Just because you have a particular possession you won't magically become more attractive to the opposite sex. For me this case seems like a massive waste of money, but then I think iPhones are massive wastes of money.
I'd like to mod this up but will settle with a biker side story. I ride a Suzuki 600cc GSR (think more mid-range version of the GSXR). I don't consider myself a particularly good rider and while I go fast its more because of my confidence with the bike and the fact the roads safe to do it. I ride my bike everyday since it's my only means of transport and where I'm working now I'm 1 of 2 people who do, however there is only one even adequate biker in the area other than myself. The rest are what I call "born agains", I'm sure everyone has a different name for them. They are the people who hit forty have a mid-life crisis and decide to buy a 600+cc. Or they may have owned a 600 for years which they drive 3 times a year in good weather and move up to 750's and 1100's.
I consider born agains road kill and will never race them, partly because they lose when I don't even try but mostly because they aren't aware of what the bike can do, have no idea of their bikes personnel space and have the road perception of a car driver (extremely limited).
Every weekend I spend an hour cleaning and going over my bike, checking everything is fine. When I'm on the road I've thought about recent weather and how that affects road conditions (e.g. braking distances and general road grip). I'm looking to the farthest point along the road and taking everything in between, from the state of the traffic lights, to the type of cars being driven. I'm constantly thinking about whats going on around me and don't allow distractions.
The by-products are when I approach a roundabout I'm looking at all the exits and entrances what cars are on the roundabout and what their relative speeds are. Is there a gap for me to squeeze into, should I accelerate or decelerate to fit into it. Can I just shoot across, is there traffic ahead of me can I go through the center to get to the roundabout? I know that since I moved from race track tires to a dual compound my braking distances have doubled and tripped in wet cold conditions. I know the bike can handle sharp corners at 60MPH without breaking a sweat. I know the bike can get to 70MPH in less than three seconds in 1st gear.
Knowing this has saved me from some serious accidents. For example a while back I was traveling a dual carriage way (partly three lanes in places) in torrential rain. As I approached a bridge (which was itself a right hand bend) I could see a small fog bank over it. When I hit the fog at 70MPH in the inside lane I discovered cars in all three lanes doing approximately 40-50MPH. Knowing the capabilities of the bike meant instead of braking and going into the back of a car. I saw the second and third lane cars had a bike sized gap , I shot across three lanes and then popped through the gap. This all happened in less than 2 seconds and in my defense I hadn't seen another car on the road in ten minutes and in the UK its against the highway code to be in the outside/middle lane unless your overtaking (major pet peeve of mine).
Unfortunately the stories on how paying attention are too numerous and no where nearly as interesting. All I can say is noticing the slightly erratic driving of another vehicle (minor things from inability to use lanes to strange road position rather than the more obvious kind) or watching cars as they approach junctions has saved me no end of troubles.
Born agains do none of the above, the are commuting car drivers who treat their bikes like a car and suffer for it. Interestingly they are usually the people who goto all the clubs and own the best gear.
Crumple zones were added into cars because of the high number of injuries sustained in car accidents in rigid steel frames cars. The whole point of a crumple zone is for it to crumple reducing the collision energy which reduces the shock to the people inside which reduces the number of broken bones. In essence you want the new car to be wrecked, if its wrecked that means much of the collision energy was used in crumpling the frame of the car and not in jolting the passengers.
It's just one of those things car designers learnt from trial and error, like where to put a petrol tank so it doesn't explode and why not to use metal steering wheels.
I tried to find the European NCAP rating for the Malibu but wasn't able to so i have no idea on how safe the car is. But a while back on Top Gear they felt so safe about a 5 star NCAP car a presenter crashed it into a wall at 30/40MPH he came out without a scratch. Admittedly they'd wrecked the car, but the presenter didn't even have whiplash, you just wouldn't do that in a 50's car because chances are you'd end up with broken legs or internal injuries (generally from the steering wheel). Sure you were fine, but those changes happened because most people wern't ok.
For anecdotal evidence, for me the average size of a ripped album at 192kbps is around 90MB's.
In the last couple of weeks I've downloaded a Sony PS3 update (about 400MB's) followed by a 90MB Singstar update, followed by buying 8 singstar tracks (approximately 70MB's each). Re-installed Steam on my PC and downloaded my games collection (20GB). When you put all that together I'd have to download 289 albums this month to match my completely legitimate use of bandwidth. While Steam has knocked up my download stats this month its not unusual for me to use 20GB a month.
Also in defense to BT they have been trying to role out FTTH (Fiber To The Home) for at least 5 years. To do it would cost approximately £15 billion. Every time they ask the government for money they get fobbed off. They are now rolling out Fiber to the Junction box using their own funds. BT were also pretty consistent about rolling out ASDL and are slowly unbundling the local loops so true competition exists.
I can sort of understand the idea of coming up with new programing methodologies but this one sounds like a weird justification for crappy code and managers ticking boxes. Even the idea that 50% there is better than never getting to 99%.
I'm currently working on a piece of functionality for a prototype which is roughly 80% done but has no GUI, without the GUI the rest of the code might as well not be there and without a properly designed and laid out GUI the whole point of the functionality comes into question.
It's not your phone its slashcode. I've got a Nokia 5800 which has the same webkit browser the iPhone has (in a direct comparison me and a friend couldn't see a difference) and it struggles with Slashdot. I have no idea why.
For me slashdot takes ages to load the last 10kb's of any page, then immediately tries to load another page which isn't a new page. Once I press Stop the page loads and displays properly however the browser will lock up for approximately 30 seconds. If I wait too long to cancel the previous web page load the entire web browser will slow down and require me to close it and re-open to fix.
I'm sure people will argue its my phone but the register, bbc, amazon, ebay, various forums, you tube, google maps, etc.. all load and work perfectly and slashdot is the only site I've found which has any issues.
Lastly my Orange m500 (running Windows Mobile 2003 SE) used to load Slashdot ok (formating was screwed up but it was all there and readable). Around the Windows Mobile 5/ O2 XDA Mini S release some slashcode update caused it to seriously degrade. I'm beginning to wonder if the "designers" need to go do a HTML for dummys training course.
You think thats bad I bought a Bicycle Helmet from Tesco's and that had a "Risk of Danger" sticker on the box.
The only race game I can think that does split screen is Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. If you liked the original Motorstorm then it's definitely worth picking up. Otherwise your stuck until GT5.
PS3 has been a bit poor racing games wise.
Your knee jerk response is typical of whats gotten us into this mess. If America's budget is anywhere near as messed up as the UK's there are places that desperately need trimming and area's which should have increased funding. Ignoring the fact that massive sweeping cuts to public services will only cause the economy to fall back into recession.
Lets take the NHS (not popular in the US I know) our biggest problem is the amount of management layers that have been injected into hospitals over the years and often the UK government will simply give money to a hospital with the proviso that it needs to be used. Its biggest problem is there are more managers than front line staff (mostly thanks to Labour). Simply trimming the budget will hurt the front line service and not solve the problem. Over the next few years those management layers need to be removed and the red tape should be killed off. Its not that its state funded thats the problem its that the current government have created (for whatever reason) a lot of non jobs that need to be removed.
Its even worse in the civil service, I have a friend who recently completed her masters in geography and got a job in the environmental services department. She couldn't tell us what her job was and admitted in her office of 7 people there was only really work for 3 people. But the office did at one time need 7 and had only recently got the authorization to get that number.
I wish the UK had a worthwhile endeavor like NASA although it sounds like NASA has been abused much like the NHS has been over here. I've been waiting for UK parties to say how they plan to remove NHS and civil service bureaucracy. But none will agree to do that, simply saying your going to cut public spending by canceling projects grabs headlines and makes you look good
The developer page was what I was looking for, you'll notice the design has immediately changed from the apple.com website (nav bar has gone for instance).
How do you get to it from the main site?
I'm not a regular on Apples website but a quick perusal of their website shows it to be a cut down marketing site rather than the somewhat huge Microsoft tech site. I certainly can't find any pages on known issues, bug fixes, inner workings of their IDE, etc...
I would have thought his issues with consistency and readability would be primarily because Microsoft's website has parts maintained by different business units who all use different web templates. But the use of those templates is consistent. I'd imagine if Apples website was as comprehensive you'd get the same problems.
I disagree with his homepage analysis as well, microsoft will often advertise free products on their home page (latest Windows Media player, Win 7 Beta, etc..) Apple just have several giant adverts for products you have to buy and have hidden away the free stuff. Clutter is bad but making it hard to get to the free stuff is worse in my opinion.
This just sounds like some fan-boy trying to put down Microsoft in any way he can. Also If apples website is more than a glorified online store could someone point me at the other parts. The fact I have to ask kinda shoots his navigation point down. Although I'm not suggesting Microsoft's website is easy to navigate.
Actually I've seen several WinCE 'netbooks' in the wild already. Like this one. Of course we could look at existing Arm Linux laptops like this one.
Slashdot as timely as ever.
I'm English, I live in Yeovil, Somerset. I was born in Plymouth, Devon in an NHS hospital. No one I know or have met has called NICE nasty, not even the tabloid trash like The Sun or The Mirror call NICE nasty.
We also have private hopsitals, I've even known people who had knee surgery in a private hospital paid for by the NHS because the NHS didn't have an open slot soon enough. If thr NHS won't treat you you can rely on your medical insurrance (if you have any) to get you treated. I have private healthcare myself, never used it.
I don't know why I'm bothering your obviously just an eejit troll.
Your talkng out of your ass. NICE is not reffered to as "Nasty" in the UK.
There are times when NICE comes out with some insanely stupid policy but usually BBC News or the papers kick up about it and NICE changes policy. The worst idea they had to do with a drug that prevented blindness. Because of its expense you could only get the drug free on the NHS if you had only one eye. Unfortunatly if youy had two eyes you didn't get the drug free. The media storm that occured when one paitent lost an eye was large enough that NICE changed their policy and did a full investigation into all of them to make sure there wern't any other stupid ones like that. Even if the drug you want isn't as clear cut you can take the matter to the High court and make your case (I think 2 expearimental cancer drugs are now free because of this despite their varying sucess and cost).
NICE is made up of a group of expearenced doctors who decide if the benifit a drug gives a paitent is bearable by the state and sets policy on what the NHS will offer. We have several treatments you wouldn't expect like infertility treatment, sex change operations and abortions for free.
For all this american mocking of the NHS our health care is 18th in the world while yours is 34th (according to WHO). We also pay less than you for our health care. The UK's also been consistantly better If you don't want to be treated by the NHS you can pay for private health care. The comany I work for gives me free BUPA coverage.
Lastly the Tory MEP who told America about how our NHS sucks caused alot of problems for the Tory Party and have damaged their election bid. The Tory party leader has backpeddled.
Or it could simply be the battery and lcd panel are far to close together and when the battery starts over heating the heat transferred is enough to begin warping the LCD case unit something cracks.
The few photo's I've seen of the iPhone battery problem suggest the battery's getting close to if not well over 70 degrees celcius. Thats only a guess based on a limited knowledge of how hot you have to get something before plastic starts de-clolouring. I doubt the LCD panel was designed to take anything close to those temperatures.