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Every time I have my email, web, Twitter, GPS navigation, and Pandora open on my Pre, take a phone call and then go back to one of the other functions, I wonder just how the iPhone folks can continue to delude themselves that their incapable of multi-tasking status toy is anything more than that. To pay double per month for AT&T's gimped service on top of that makes the madness more pronounced.
Hesse should've said that the iPhone is like "American Idol" - exceedingly popular but not very good. The Pre is for more intelligent and discerning users. The iPhone is just herd inertia. No one thinks you're cool if you have an iPhone anymore. "Oh, you got one, too?" Frankly, it ceased being fresh a year ago and is just tired now. Apple's half-assed "upgrade" with the 3GS is just a sign that they know that they don't have to be innovative or even improved to rope the rubes in.
I thought Lucifer's meat suit, Nick, was in Pike, Delaware. Definitely wasn't Michigan.
There is a simple explanation for the decline in dollar sales: People already have the instruments, so they're just buying the discs for $60 instead of band kits for $180. Duh.
I picked up a RB1 drum set on clearance for $30, a GH Aerosmith guitar bundle for $40 on clearance, and GHWT for ~$70 (which was marked down to $30 at Costco a couple of weeks back) so for less than the cost of one band kit, I have two guitars and games and they work with all upcoming titles.
/rushes off to write an open letter to the producers of Martin, The Bernie Mac Show, In Living Color, Tyler Perry, Oprah...
Huh? I've got Everything Data 450 and other than the limit of minutes, I have all-you-can-eat data, text, GPS navigation, etc. including mobile-to-mobile calls. When I check my usage, it says "Unlimited" for my M2M included minutes.
* Everything Data 450 $69.99
* 450 Anytime Minutes Included
* Nationwide Long Distance Included
* AMERICA - ROAMING Included
* Unlimited Sms Text Messaging
* Unlimited Picture Mail
* Unlimited Data Usage
* Sprint Navigation
* Sprint Data Essentials Pack
* Nights: M-Th 7PM-7AM Wknd: F 7PM-M 7AM
* Caller ID
* Call Waiting
* Three-way Calling
* Voicemail
And I've got a work discount that makes my monthly bill for my Pre w/taxes and insurance ~$66.
Almost everyone I know is on cells, so I'm never in danger of running out of minutes especially when you consider evenings start at 7pm.
I don't get the Sprint hate. Other than Verizon, they're the best 3G network and compared the the unlubed fist that AT&T gives their suckers, er, customers desperate for an iHypeFon, it's a killer deal. I've had no problems with customer service.
@golferal - Now with more Segway!: Worst. Troll. Post. Ever.
I'm 42 and I've known that the Beatles were the greatest band of all time since I was about 11 years old. What's your excuse?
Stick to your Jack Johnson and Nickleback albums, pal. We're talking about MUSIC here.
@ilmarine: I think he was referring to sequence toward the end as Clive Owen moves thru the streets when the army is cracking down on the ghetto. As he moves into the bus, a squib sprays a few drops of blood on the lens, but when he moves into the building and looks up the stairs, it fades away. The first time I watched it, I almost missed the transition until I realized the blood was gone. Rewinding and looking shows where the cross-fade occurred, but it's still quite slick. Unlike the opening of DePalma's "Snake Eyes" where you could spot the cuts *almost* hidden in whip pans, CoM's were pretty much invisible.
@MPerlo9: Good job speaking the inconvenient truths to pettybaby.
It's funny how for years, the brag point for the PS3 over the X360 has been how cool and quiet it was. Suddenly, the PS3 is a noisy furnace that is manure as a BD player?!? What?!?
The PS3 was designed by Sony as a Blu-ray Trojan horse FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS with gaming an secondary consideration because they were relying on the 120 million PS2 buyers to rush out and give them a disc format win. This is why so few developers can get good gaming results out of the thing - it was designed for fanboy bullet-point regurgitation and movie playing, not actual gaming.
The irony of all this though is that while the hardware is all fairly comparable, the DISCS are still prone to slipshod QC, as this week's botched BD of Gladiator showed compared to Braveheart. Doesn't matter if you've paid $300 or $500 for your player when the disc they're reading are junk. GIGO.
This is why I don't understand why the Xbox didn't add Hulu streaming to the latest update. Who cares about being able to Facebook or Twitter in between challenging the sexuality of people playing Halo 3? Give people the means to stream TV shows with unskippable ads to their big home theater sets and increase your audience and kill off much of the torrent action.
Because Thurdays at 9 pm were such a pile-up for shows - CSI, Supernatural, 30 Rock, something that escapes me - my g/f and I had to DL 30 Rock in order to see it. We've got the X360 there to play back that DL, but it'd be so much better if we could just hit the Hulu area of the NXE and get on with it.
"I get why everybody likes 30 Rock. Tracey Morgan is the only bad thing about that show."
@Kraken: FTFY
Any guy who doesn't have the hots for Tina Fey needs their d20s crushed in a vice for penance.
In case anyone needed some starter entries for their "People Absolutely Certain To End Up In Hell" list.
That's odd. It didn't look like a gang of drag queens.
Where's "Galaxy of Terror" - with a bimbo getting her clothes slurped off by a giant tomato caterpillar and Joanie from Happy Days getting her head popped - when we need it?
I thought that was Jane Leeves (Daphne from "Frasier") as the computer on Red Dwarf. WTF was that laugh track about?
So, Justin Hammer is Syndrome from The Incredibles?
Does it hop around? Where's the rubber ball? I foresee a big class action lawsuit over this!
Punchline: "You're the one showing me all the dirty pictures!"
Reading the Nerd Rage at AICN about Avatar was depressing. Bitter, angry virgins whose inner children must be on a milk carton somewhere. They have no sense of wonder or love for anything but their own arrogance and snobbery. They truly hate movies; ironic because they're probably thinking they love them.
When the quick shots from the trailer appeared at the end to signal the end of the presentation was coming, I thought, "Has it been 16 minutes already?" It felt like 7 or 8 had elapsed.
I've never seen a polarized glasses 3D film before and the effect was hit and miss for me and my friend. Fast movements seemed blurry and it sometimes made it hard to appreciate the fine detail. I suspect I'll enjoy it more on Blu-ray.
What bums me out about all the sniping about this sampler presentation is how people, with only a few disjointed scenes are declaring the story to be terrible. They're harshly pixel peeping and sneering that the effects work is sub-par and looking down their noses at everything. They're declaring that the director of the Terminator flicks, Aliens, True Lies and that little art house flick about the leaky boat has lost it and they are refusing to wait for the final picture to arrive and judge in toto.
What's really missing in the flaming is a willing to be ENTERTAINED by a movie. Not to have their eye sockets sexually assaulted. Not to see 1s and 0s arrayed in the most believable presentation ever. To sit in a theater seat and allow themselves to be taken away and shown things that they've never been or seen before. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was like that; Avatar appears it may be a similar trip.
The insistence on over-analyzing every screenshot, trailer or preview means people aren't wanting to be surprised; they're looking for confirmation that they are superior to everyone and aren't gonna let that Cameron loser to put anything past them. Have fun with that, kids.
