How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
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Didn't want to screw with it, and will probably never need to actually use the switch for anything. Solder FTW.
Interesting.
I remember the '99-'00 era Motorola flip phones having a lot of mechanical issues with the ribbon cable that conjoined the two halves. Knock on wood, but my HTC Espresso (Mytouch 3G Slide) has been perfectly reliable and proven quite robust. I've dropped it a number of times, and while the back cover always pops off and the battery flies out, it's never failed to come right back up after re-assembly. Had it for about 2.5 years at this point.
Frankly, I would never want to own a smartphone that didn't have a physical slide-out keyboard. I've used both blackberrys (with their portrait-oriented display and consequently tiny keyboard) as well as modern-vintage iPhones. Neither is as comfortable for me to type on as a slider. Yes, I know that 13 year old girls can type 500 words per minute on a touchscreen, but I just can't do it.
to add: I felt the urge to explain to my wife one reason she should not get a qwerty slider android phone was that mechanical stuff breaks much more easily than solid state. touchscreen has no moving parts and will not likely fail with repeated button presses. slider qwerty is all sorts of tiny mechanical stuff just waiting to disassemble itself at the weak points.
I remember the '99-'00 era Motorola flip phones having a lot of mechanical issues with the ribbon cable that conjoined the two halves. Knock on wood, but my HTC Espresso (Mytouch 3G Slide) has been perfectly reliable and proven quite robust. I've dropped it a number of times, and while the back cover always pops off and the battery flies out, it's never failed to come right back up after re-assembly. Had it for about 2.5 years at this point.
Frankly, I would never want to own a smartphone that didn't have a physical slide-out keyboard. I've used both blackberrys (with their portrait-oriented display and consequently tiny keyboard) as well as modern-vintage iPhones. Neither is as comfortable for me to type on as a slider. Yes, I know that 13 year old girls can type 500 words per minute on a touchscreen, but I just can't do it.
I remember the '99-'00 era Motorola flip phones having a lot of mechanical issues with the ribbon cable that conjoined the two halves. Knock on wood, but my HTC Espresso (Mytouch 3G Slide) has been perfectly reliable and proven quite robust. I've dropped it a number of times, and while the back cover always pops off and the battery flies out, it's never failed to come right back up after re-assembly. Had it for about 2.5 years at this point.
Frankly, I would never want to own a smartphone that didn't have a physical slide-out keyboard. I've used both blackberrys (with their portrait-oriented display and consequently tiny keyboard) as well as modern-vintage iPhones. Neither is as comfortable for me to type on as a slider. Yes, I know that 13 year old girls can type 500 words per minute on a touchscreen, but I just can't do it.
Edit: also joe's name is now an ad.
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Didn't want to screw with it, and will probably never need to actually use the switch for anything. Solder FTW.
Interesting.
I remember the '99-'00 era Motorola flip phones having a lot of mechanical issues with the ribbon cable that conjoined the two halves. Knock on wood, but my HTC Espresso (Mytouch 3G Slide) has been perfectly reliable and proven quite robust. I've dropped it a number of times, and while the back cover always pops off and the battery flies out, it's never failed to come right back up after re-assembly. Had it for about 2.5 years at this point.
Frankly, I would never want to own a smartphone that didn't have a physical slide-out keyboard. I've used both blackberrys (with their portrait-oriented display and consequently tiny keyboard) as well as modern-vintage iPhones. Neither is as comfortable for me to type on as a slider. Yes, I know that 13 year old girls can type 500 words per minute on a touchscreen, but I just can't do it.
Interesting.
I remember the '99-'00 era Motorola flip phones having a lot of mechanical issues with the ribbon cable that conjoined the two halves. Knock on wood, but my HTC Espresso (Mytouch 3G Slide) has been perfectly reliable and proven quite robust. I've dropped it a number of times, and while the back cover always pops off and the battery flies out, it's never failed to come right back up after re-assembly. Had it for about 2.5 years at this point.
Frankly, I would never want to own a smartphone that didn't have a physical slide-out keyboard. I've used both blackberrys (with their portrait-oriented display and consequently tiny keyboard) as well as modern-vintage iPhones. Neither is as comfortable for me to type on as a slider. Yes, I know that 13 year old girls can type 500 words per minute on a touchscreen, but I just can't do it.
And the end result is a generally crappy android phone with a qwerty keyboard. The current best options (on verizon) are the Motorola Droid 4 and the Samsung Stratosphere II. Both have specs that are slightly ahead of my 2.5 year old Incredible. Both have specs that are forgettable compared to my Galaxy Note II.
Other than price, why would anyone buy anything other than a top spec phone in their particular choice of size?
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And that's my wife's problem. She wants a qwerty keyboard android phone. it's maddening that this one feature is more important than pretty much every other major feature (screen size, resolution, camera, processor, ram, blah blah blah) and that choosing a qwerty keyboard relegates all of those major features to middling averageness at best.
When I was last laptop-shopping, I'd found one machine that ticked all the boxes. i7 processor, 11" screen, very lightweight- generally awesome. But when I actually used it in person, I knew I couldn't buy it. They'd gone Apple-style on the touchpad, declaring there to be two "button zones" at the bottom of the pad rather than fitting it with mechanical buttons. So instead, I spent the same amount of money on a refurbished Latitude E4200 which was slightly larger and had less RAM and only a Core 2 processor.
Some folks drive around in their Miatas with the hard-top on year round. Many have even removed the soft-top altogether, and bemoan that Mazda never made a "proper" hard-top version of the car. But personally, the lack of convertableness is the one reason why I wouldn't buy a BRZ even if it cost $5,000 brand new and had a 400HP engine.
My HTC Espresso wasn't a high-end phone even when it was new nearly 3 years ago. It runs FroYo (2.2), has a relatively low-rez screen, and the processor is so slow that even Angry Birds sometimes gets choppy.
However, none of this really matters to me. It is entirely adequate for the tasks which I require of it, and as a matter of personal preference, I find its tactile keyboard to be easier to use than any OSK I have ever tried. If you were to offer me a brand new iPhone 5 or Nexus IV in exchange for my current phone, I would kindly decline and offer you a nice glass of scotch for your trouble.
Other than price, why would anyone buy anything other than a top spec phone in their particular choice of size?
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Edit: more importantly: how is that a win for you? She'd bitch at you all the time about the "better" phone you made her get instead of the one with the features she wanted ...
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Because it's all about whatever makes you happy, makes you happy. She wants buttons to push. Real ones. If she got a "better" phone but hated it every time she used it because she didn't like virtual touchscreen buttons, how is that a win for her?
Edit: more importantly: how is that a win for you? She'd bitch at you all the time about the "better" phone you made her get instead of the one with the features she wanted ...
Edit: more importantly: how is that a win for you? She'd bitch at you all the time about the "better" phone you made her get instead of the one with the features she wanted ...
Stuff like:
the battery just went from 80% to 2% WTF!
my phone just forze
the camera takes forever to load! I miss all the good shots!
the camera takes crappy photos
people can't hear her on phone calls (dead mic?)
my phone froze again!
I should steal it and root it and give it back to her and see what she does about it.
She's currently testing an iPhone 4 that a friend gave her to play with. This is one reason verizon trumps all. You can just switch phones whenever you want without consequences.
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She's currently testing an iPhone 4 that a friend gave her to play with. This is one reason verizon trumps all. You can just switch phones whenever you want without consequences.
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You do know you can do that on all major carriers correct? With GSM carriers you just swap you SIM card into the new phone, with the CDMA carriers you just enter the new EIN number or whatever on phone companies site and it switches over.
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economics rant:
So ever since the small shrink in our economy last quarter was reported I've been listening/reading closely to a bunch of commentators/economists/columnist on the topic.
Before/During Sandy, you'd hear a lot of Keynesians claiming that it will be good for the economy as the rebuild will provide jobs.
We finally pass a bill for "recovery" which in itself wipes out any increased revenue from the tax increase.
Now, the same are blaming Sandy over and over again for the lack of growth because so many lost thier jobs and can't work and yada yada yada.
anyways...
/rant.
So ever since the small shrink in our economy last quarter was reported I've been listening/reading closely to a bunch of commentators/economists/columnist on the topic.
Before/During Sandy, you'd hear a lot of Keynesians claiming that it will be good for the economy as the rebuild will provide jobs.
We finally pass a bill for "recovery" which in itself wipes out any increased revenue from the tax increase.
Now, the same are blaming Sandy over and over again for the lack of growth because so many lost thier jobs and can't work and yada yada yada.
anyways...
/rant.
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It's funny. After making an account on on the Greek sites and reading around the other forums, I've noticed that we are seriously behind in making power. It's completely common to see 500-600whp B6/BP cars on those forums.
It's funny. After making an account on on the Greek sites and reading around the other forums, I've noticed that we are seriously behind in making power. It's completely common to see 500-600whp B6/BP cars on those forums.
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Unfortunately, most of the economists and commenters on TV either (A) don't know what they are talking about and just make stuff up with no accountability or (B) are so restricted to 30-second soundbites, interrupted by the interviewer, that they don't have a chance to expound on a thorough discussion of the topic.
I'd argue it's mostly (A).
There are literally only three professional economists on my radar in terms of "giving a **** what they say." There are zero academic economists on that list. There are also zero associated with any political party or figure.
All the other people I pay attention to are active investors and traders and there are only a couple of those.
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granted it was that easy because of a design flaw, but still!
I'm curious about the implied pretext to the "no consequences" rule. I assume that this is predicated on owning the phone outright, rather than being in the midst of a multi-year contractual obligation as a result of having purchased a subsidized phone at an artificially low price?
People will exploit grandpa's family plan line to get a new phone and then take it from grandpa and give him back his Nokia 3310. Forget the 18 month window, now it's 9 because grandpa dont care.
[NA] Swedish 340rwhp 1.6L @15.8PSI DIY Turbosystem - MX-5 Miata Forum
It's funny. After making an account on on the Greek sites and reading around the other forums, I've noticed that we are seriously behind in making power. It's completely common to see 500-600whp B6/BP cars on those forums.
It's funny. After making an account on on the Greek sites and reading around the other forums, I've noticed that we are seriously behind in making power. It's completely common to see 500-600whp B6/BP cars on those forums.