The iPhone doesn't play movies. You're thinking of Apple's bastard phone that will have to have a new name once Cisco whoops some ass in the courtroom.
Actually, it would appear that cisco may have lost the trademark, since they hadn't used it within a certain amount of time after getting it, so it is possible that their claim will amount to nothing.
mjc, what I don't get is why you seem to hate the iphone so much...
I thought I was the resident Apple hater. I don't care a great deal about Apple's silly phone. It doesn't offer a single feature that I desire. And really, I predicted that devices similar to the iPhone, except maybe with a couple more features would eventually become commonplace years ago. When they first started putting cameras on phones I spoke of this to my mother and she seemed incredulous. I don't think she was convinced, and yet, here we are.
mjc, what I don't get is why you seem to hate the iphone so much...
I don't hate the iPhone. Never even used one, but I'm sure Linksys put out a quality product, just like their routers that I use.
And if I can expand on X'o'Lore's comment, Apple's phone seems like just another stupid Helio. Don't call it a phone? Fuck you Helio, it's a phone, and you are a phone company, whether you like it or not. Every time I see these commercials I want to choke someone.
Yes, but you do seem to absolutely hate it, but I don't see why, yes it's getting a lot of hype, but you can tell that this looks like a quality product.
Perhaps the server that Orange Belt is hosted on is sitting on Jake's lawn?
Anyway, the iPhone looks neat and stuff, but for the same price as a PS3? I could justify that price a bit more if the thing held more than 8gb. I have more than 8 gb of just music. And then if you add videos I'd like to put on it, I'd need a lot more space than 8gb. Even still, its really expensive.
My hope is that Cingular will offer discounts when purchased with contracts. And to put things a bit more in perspective: the iPod, when it was originally released in 2001, cost $399 and had a mere 5GB storage. People balked at the price, but the device quickly caught on (even when it only worked with the Mac!), and soon higher capacities at lower prices with larger feature sets were introduced. I have no doubt the iPhone will follow along the same path.
Another putting-the-price-in-perspective: the iPhone isn't a low-end "free with contract" cell phone, it's a full-fledged music player with cell phone functionality and what appears to be a fair bit of PDA capabilities to boot. The 4GB iPod nano costs $199, and your average high-end smartphone (with e-mail, web browsing, digital camera and the like; I pulled up the BlackBerry Pearl on cingular.com, before 2-year contract discount) goes for $399. So you're saving about $100 to have both devices rolled into one. This isn't an exact science, but since the iPhone will be competing with devices like the BlackBerry (which only packs 64MB of memory! How many feature-length films can fit in that capacity?), I thought it a fair comparison.
Still, I would like higher-capacities. If they had gone the 1.8" hard drive route, they would have been able to fit a lot more data at potentially lower price points. But like I said, the second-gen iPhone will likely drop drastically in price.
Yeah, but it would make the device a fair bit thicker, 1.8 inch drives.
Also, you could JUST about fit one feature length film on 64Mb using RMVB, but it would be heavily artifacted, and I doubt it supports RMVB's anyway :P
1.8" doesn't refer to the height of the drive. 5G video iPods have 1.8" hard drives, but are nowhere near that thick. And 64MB wouldn't exactly fit a film from the iTunes Store, which are in the 1GB+ range.
I voted in my first election in 2006, I couldn't decide what party to vote for.
I was raised in socialist democrat home and my parents made me believe in solidarity etc. etc.
But the left wing parties ran really bad campaigns and their leadership is very poor.
On the other hand, the right wing parties ran their campaign together, it was accessible and intelligent.
Though I had decided to vote for the moderate party, the biggest right wing party, (hardly right by American standards I am given to understand) I found myself unable to do so. The right wing parties carried to great a stigma due to my upbringing and the idea that the right is unfair, uncaring and only interested in helping the rich was surprisingly deeply rooted in me. I really didn’t expect that.
But on the other hand, I really wasn’t interested in seeing the corpulent social democratic party in majority for the next four years so I took a took one voting bill of each kind, jumbled them together with my eyes closed and put one in the envelope randomly.
I voted in my first election in 2006, I couldn't decide what party to vote for.
Not to attack you, but this is what hurts the most. Don't think of it as which party to vote for, think of t as who to vote for. If you've never heard of either person, you're allowed to leave it blank/not pick either one. By this point, carrying the endorsement of one party or the other is more of a formality than any indication of how that leader will act.
I had originally intended to not vote at all, since I knew I was too uninformed to throw my weight into either side of the fray, plus I could say I had not voted as a sort of political abstinance.
HOWEVER, when I was in Pittsburgh a card reminding me to vote arrived at my father's house in New Jersey. He, who was unregistered himself, but with a name equal to mine, took the card to the local courthouse, forged my signature, and voted for Bush.
AND NOW I'M GETTING READY TO GO KILL PEOPLE WHO AREN'T AMERICAN.
Not to attack you, but this is what hurts the most. Don't think of it as which party to vote for, think of t as who to vote for. If you've never heard of either person, you're allowed to leave it blank/not pick either one. By this point, carrying the endorsement of one party or the other is more of a formality than any indication of how that leader will act.
Our political system is different. We have like 7 parties atm and we vote for the party we want to represent us in the various political arenas.
While the leadership of the party is important, no party is capable of forming a majority government anymore and even then the minister of state who I guess would be the closest thing we have, really doesn’t have the power of a president.
Also, we are a monarchy and I think the king would take offense if he was 1-upped.
Real executive power is derived from a mandate of the masses, not some farsical aquatic ceremony.
EDIT: Thanks Mario! (see below)
I would have added another post, but right now I'm at 343, which is my favorite number. Tell ya what, I'll only increase this post count if somebody can say why it's my favorite number. There are basically two reasons that need to be stated. For some, you'll want these reasons never to be revealed. Others desire my unique input as soon as possible, therefore numbers will be crunched.
I would have added another post, but right now I'm at 343, which is my favorite number. Tell ya what, I'll only increase this post count if somebody can say why it's my favorite number. There are basically two reasons that need to be stated. For some, you'll want these reasons never to be revealed. Others desire my unique input as soon as possible, therefore numbers will be crunched.
It's because it's the product 7 to the 3rd power, and it's a palindrome
Not to attack you, but this is what hurts the most. Don't think of it as which party to vote for, think of t as who to vote for. If you've never heard of either person, you're allowed to leave it blank/not pick either one. By this point, carrying the endorsement of one party or the other is more of a formality than any indication of how that leader will act.
I'm a bit too cynical to agree with this right now. In theory you are correct-- a person should vote for the person best suited for the job. This is why I never registered Democrat or Republican-- I'm willing to vote for anyone of any party who will get the job done. But in practice, in the United States, your vote is not for a single person, but rather a whole party. Right now, the party chooses and grooms its candidate, and most of them seem to carry on in favor of their party's best interests rather than the whole country's. On their face, campaigns are between one person and another, but I think that the real bent of political strategy is party vs. party, complemented by the two big parties making sure that no other party gets a foothold.
I think the first step to stopping this ridiculousness is to get rid of the oligarchyof the two-party system. If two businesses were pulling this bullshit, our anti-trust laws would kick their asses. I can't believe we tolerate it in our government.
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mjc, what I don't get is why you seem to hate the iphone so much...
I don't hate the iPhone. Never even used one, but I'm sure Linksys put out a quality product, just like their routers that I use.
And if I can expand on X'o'Lore's comment, Apple's phone seems like just another stupid Helio. Don't call it a phone? Fuck you Helio, it's a phone, and you are a phone company, whether you like it or not. Every time I see these commercials I want to choke someone.
GET OFF MY LAWN
Get outta here, you senile old man!
Anyway, the iPhone looks neat and stuff, but for the same price as a PS3? I could justify that price a bit more if the thing held more than 8gb. I have more than 8 gb of just music. And then if you add videos I'd like to put on it, I'd need a lot more space than 8gb. Even still, its really expensive.
Another putting-the-price-in-perspective: the iPhone isn't a low-end "free with contract" cell phone, it's a full-fledged music player with cell phone functionality and what appears to be a fair bit of PDA capabilities to boot. The 4GB iPod nano costs $199, and your average high-end smartphone (with e-mail, web browsing, digital camera and the like; I pulled up the BlackBerry Pearl on cingular.com, before 2-year contract discount) goes for $399. So you're saving about $100 to have both devices rolled into one. This isn't an exact science, but since the iPhone will be competing with devices like the BlackBerry (which only packs 64MB of memory! How many feature-length films can fit in that capacity?), I thought it a fair comparison.
Still, I would like higher-capacities. If they had gone the 1.8" hard drive route, they would have been able to fit a lot more data at potentially lower price points. But like I said, the second-gen iPhone will likely drop drastically in price.
Also, you could JUST about fit one feature length film on 64Mb using RMVB, but it would be heavily artifacted, and I doubt it supports RMVB's anyway :P
Dive, dive!
I'm gonna go read a book or something.
I was raised in socialist democrat home and my parents made me believe in solidarity etc. etc.
But the left wing parties ran really bad campaigns and their leadership is very poor.
On the other hand, the right wing parties ran their campaign together, it was accessible and intelligent.
Though I had decided to vote for the moderate party, the biggest right wing party, (hardly right by American standards I am given to understand) I found myself unable to do so. The right wing parties carried to great a stigma due to my upbringing and the idea that the right is unfair, uncaring and only interested in helping the rich was surprisingly deeply rooted in me. I really didn’t expect that.
But on the other hand, I really wasn’t interested in seeing the corpulent social democratic party in majority for the next four years so I took a took one voting bill of each kind, jumbled them together with my eyes closed and put one in the envelope randomly.
Not to attack you, but this is what hurts the most. Don't think of it as which party to vote for, think of t as who to vote for. If you've never heard of either person, you're allowed to leave it blank/not pick either one. By this point, carrying the endorsement of one party or the other is more of a formality than any indication of how that leader will act.
HOWEVER, when I was in Pittsburgh a card reminding me to vote arrived at my father's house in New Jersey. He, who was unregistered himself, but with a name equal to mine, took the card to the local courthouse, forged my signature, and voted for Bush.
AND NOW I'M GETTING READY TO GO KILL PEOPLE WHO AREN'T AMERICAN.
Our political system is different. We have like 7 parties atm and we vote for the party we want to represent us in the various political arenas.
While the leadership of the party is important, no party is capable of forming a majority government anymore and even then the minister of state who I guess would be the closest thing we have, really doesn’t have the power of a president.
Also, we are a monarchy and I think the king would take offense if he was 1-upped.
EDIT: Thanks Mario! (see below)
I would have added another post, but right now I'm at 343, which is my favorite number. Tell ya what, I'll only increase this post count if somebody can say why it's my favorite number. There are basically two reasons that need to be stated. For some, you'll want these reasons never to be revealed. Others desire my unique input as soon as possible, therefore numbers will be crunched.
It's because it's the product 7 to the 3rd power, and it's a palindrome
I'm a bit too cynical to agree with this right now. In theory you are correct-- a person should vote for the person best suited for the job. This is why I never registered Democrat or Republican-- I'm willing to vote for anyone of any party who will get the job done. But in practice, in the United States, your vote is not for a single person, but rather a whole party. Right now, the party chooses and grooms its candidate, and most of them seem to carry on in favor of their party's best interests rather than the whole country's. On their face, campaigns are between one person and another, but I think that the real bent of political strategy is party vs. party, complemented by the two big parties making sure that no other party gets a foothold.
I think the first step to stopping this ridiculousness is to get rid of the oligarchyof the two-party system. If two businesses were pulling this bullshit, our anti-trust laws would kick their asses. I can't believe we tolerate it in our government.