Matter of fact is, context or not, the Bible claims that god created the world in 6 days and then took a day of rest. No amount of interpretation is going to change that, and realizing it is not a factual truth but a poetic description isn't jusr interpretation, it is also realizing that there are things in that Bible that are factually wrong, no matter how much you may dislike saying that.
No, it's myth (in the real, dictionary sense, not the common usage), not wrong.
Some people really do need to realize that ancient literature is not a scientific journal.
Well lovefilm (UK) has 37 bluray movies and 32 hddvd movies, which is close enough to equal.
Personally I've never seen any of them advertised, and retail the movies go for 4-5 times the price you can import them from the US for.. so they don't sell.. and retailers don't but more - vicious circle. The local hmv pulled them off the shelves because they weren't selling and they needed the space. It looks like both formats are failing badly.
Biggest problem with bluray is it's region locked - so no cheaper US imports - and that's an absolute showstopper for me... possibly even more than the totally insane price of the players (not that hddvd is much better, even at 50% cheaper it's still pretty bad, but the xbox addon is cheap enough).
It's actually quite hard to buy a console that doesn't ship with a couple of games, and beyond the cheapest bargain bucket stuff you normally get a DVD thrown in with a DVD player - retailers *know* you need this stuff so sell it as a bundle.
I just topped up my little diesel car.. cost me £30. Last time I topped up is November... winter really gets the bills down:p
The thing gets about 68mpg normally and according to the official stats could get 75mpg if I drove a bit better.
So although diesel costs more per gallon (due to the huge tax difference in this country - it's taxed more.. used to be taxed less then everyone bought one so the gov. upped the tax to rake in some more cash) you still get a much lower cost per mile running cost.
In theory it will, but on a modern diesel the engine management system won't let you get away with it.
There's a biofuel station just a few miles from mem but even they say don't try putting more than 5% biofuel into my car as it'll refuse to start... so I didn't bother - I see little point in using 95% diesel *and* paying a premium (in the UK biofuel is taxed more heavily than diesel so it costs more).
TBH Sony don't give a shit about the european market though - they missed the christmas window and launch in April... smart move guys... the wii has already had the ps3 for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I'm not sure what was told to you but no I do not work with time warner. Just about every ISP that I know of does not allow the use of servers unless you are a commercial account. That being said, get a commercial account.
You must have worked for some shitty ISPs. I've never heard of such a clause and would never join an ISP with such a ludicrous limitation.
Those that don't have specific caps use weasel words like 'bandwidth management' and 'excessive usage' which in practice means they can decide to put you on a 56kbps connection tomorrow and you couldn't do a damned thing about it.
Try AAISP - peak is 8am-6pm (unlimited outside that time), and if you go over it rolls over to the next month.. you can either up your limit for a couple of months or reduce your usage the next month to make up the deficit. They never cap. I'm not sure how far into deficit you're able to go but I've never managed to sustain a peak download for long enough for it to matter.
They also have other advantages - no call center.. you get through to a clueful techie that works there straight away (and doesn't expect you to be running Windows...). If your line drops they text you so you can go and sort it (or roll over and go back to sleep, depending on the time it happens), and they have routed ipv6.
Three is extreme - it's mobile though, which is a law unto itself (typically costing 10-100* the cost of DSL for equivalent bandwidth).
Vodaphone is similar.. main page (http://www.vodafonebusinessshop.co.uk/index.cfm?f useaction=MobileEmailAndData.mobileConnect):
Vodafone Data Unlimited Usage limit (UK): N/A Usage limit (Abroad): N/A Additional charge per MB: N/A Monthly cost: £45
Bottom of *same* page in a smaller font:
"*The Vodafone Data Unlimited and Vodafone Data Travel plans are subject to Vodafone's fair usage policy. This means that a customer's UK usage must not exceed 1Gb per user account in a month." "we reserve the right to... charge them for the excess usage."
but seeing how that involves you knowing it was stolen, your likley to get out of it
Huh? You really think that the torrent of the latest movies you downloaded for free wasn't stolen? Not are you unlikely to get away with that defence the judge would probably have a fit of giggles...
If someone steals a truckload of cigeretes and sells them at the store on the corner of your street, When you buy a pack from the store, you didn't break any laws. Downloading is the same.
No it isn't. It's reasonable to assume that a pack of cigarettes sold at a store are not stolen. It is *not* reasonable to assume that a torrent of a movie downloaded from piratebay isn't stolen.
By law you would be required to return the cigarettes though as they aren't yours (the store owner didn't have the right to sell them). This happens in real cases where people buy cars from car dealers that turn out to be stolen - they lose the car as it still belongs to the original owner, and most probably lose the money as the dealer is in jail and bankcrupt.
Even with LLU BT still own the last mile. They're bound by regulation to offer that to ISPs at nondiscrimatory prices, but that is still a cost factor.
Add into that that the only people who can maintain those lines are BT engineers.. which is perfectly legal since they're BT owned property... and you have a real headache - if a customer goes LLU then has a line fault they have to go through you, and you have to call BT to get the engineer out. Who might turn up if they feel like it. Look at what happened to Bulldog... sure they sucked in many other ways, but half their problems were due to dud lines and non-repairs because they were waiting for BT.
It's not shared at the DSLAM it's shared at the gateway... the fiber lines to the exchanges are so high capacity that DSL couldn't max them anyway - so you in theory have 5000 users on a gateway that can max out 100.
In practice though they never go that high - experience has shown that if you go higher than about 15:1 then contention issues start to bite. At 20:1 it gets hard to get full bandwidth. Only a real cheap-ass ISP would go higher than that. The real difference between the 50:1 and 20:1 contention price points is just that - price.
Lots of ISPs advertise unlimited broadband, then have an FUP limiting you - some as low as 2GB/month. They're allowed to get away with this even though it's blatantly false advertising.
I went with an ISP that chose not to lie.. and I don't regret it because it's never overloaded even at peak times... the heavy downloaders stay away (and as they define peak as a much more realistic 8am-6pm it's truly unlimited in the evenings when I need it).
OTOH SDSL is dirt cheap there - our AU office (Melbourne) just got 2MB SDSL for little more than what I pay for ADSL. For the equivalent line I'd have to pay about 10 times as much.
That's the point of course - the only UI a phone needs is a halfway usable keypad. Almost nobody actually uses the snazzy functions, beyond text messaging (and that's usually a button on the first screen anyway).
As far a physical design goes for me clamshell is an absolute must (much more durable, plus it's easier to talk as the open clamshell gives a natural L shape). I know others think like me, but other like small flat ones.. some like them a bit chunky (my mother is like that - she prefers to have a phone with a bit of wright).
If they'd been developing with europe in mind it would have had 3G. No 3G == No sale in most places in europe these days.
There's also the issue of the camera being on the wrong side of the phone, but that's less of a problem (video calling is still comparitively unused.. most people don't even know their phones can do it).
The razr is small (you hardly know it's in your pocket), cheap (can be bought off contract for £100 now), works well, and is popular for just that reason.
It fulfils a market need - therefore it's popular.
Slashdot geeks that want bricks that run linux and have every feature under the sun are a *very* tiny minority of phone users.
it's unlikely we're going to see the homogenization we have in the desktop market.
I sincerely hope so. More competition -> better products.
Right now if a mobile phone gets popular it's because it has features that more people want, not because 'everyone else uses that one'. That's the way it should be.
Now if only we could get the desktop market to behave that way.
That's why you have ntp. It handles leap seconds automatically.
Of course because the time changes like that calculating historical times accurately is devilishly difficult.... you're more than likely going to be a few seconds out, and if you don't have an accurate database of when things like timezones changed then you could be an hour or three out as well. I think most implementations basically assume that you're only interested in the last year or so.
Here our DST changed in both 1996 and 1999 and nobody cared... no computers broke, no planes fell out of the sky. We just updated our PCs and went on with our lives.
Don't see why this should be any different. It's just the media running around screaming the sky is falling just because it's happening in the US this time.
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One is Joseph's line, and one is Mary's line.
FFS you could have worked that one out in 10 seconds.
Matter of fact is, context or not, the Bible claims that god created the world in 6 days and then took a day of rest. No amount of interpretation is going to change that, and realizing it is not a factual truth but a poetic description isn't jusr interpretation, it is also realizing that there are things in that Bible that are factually wrong, no matter how much you may dislike saying that.
No, it's myth (in the real, dictionary sense, not the common usage), not wrong.
Some people really do need to realize that ancient literature is not a scientific journal.
There's nothing worth buying that's been released in the UK - better to import from dvdworldusa or movietyme - much cheaper too.
Of course with bluray you don't have the option of importing...
Well lovefilm (UK) has 37 bluray movies and 32 hddvd movies, which is close enough to equal.
Personally I've never seen any of them advertised, and retail the movies go for 4-5 times the price you can import them from the US for.. so they don't sell.. and retailers don't but more - vicious circle. The local hmv pulled them off the shelves because they weren't selling and they needed the space. It looks like both formats are failing badly.
Biggest problem with bluray is it's region locked - so no cheaper US imports - and that's an absolute showstopper for me... possibly even more than the totally insane price of the players (not that hddvd is much better, even at 50% cheaper it's still pretty bad, but the xbox addon is cheap enough).
It's actually quite hard to buy a console that doesn't ship with a couple of games, and beyond the cheapest bargain bucket stuff you normally get a DVD thrown in with a DVD player - retailers *know* you need this stuff so sell it as a bundle.
I just topped up my little diesel car.. cost me £30. Last time I topped up is November... winter really gets the bills down :p
The thing gets about 68mpg normally and according to the official stats could get 75mpg if I drove a bit better.
So although diesel costs more per gallon (due to the huge tax difference in this country - it's taxed more.. used to be taxed less then everyone bought one so the gov. upped the tax to rake in some more cash) you still get a much lower cost per mile running cost.
In theory it will, but on a modern diesel the engine management system won't let you get away with it.
There's a biofuel station just a few miles from mem but even they say don't try putting more than 5% biofuel into my car as it'll refuse to start... so I didn't bother - I see little point in using 95% diesel *and* paying a premium (in the UK biofuel is taxed more heavily than diesel so it costs more).
Make that $820 for us UK types.
TBH Sony don't give a shit about the european market though - they missed the christmas window and launch in April... smart move guys... the wii has already had the ps3 for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I'm not sure what was told to you but no I do not work with time warner. Just about every ISP that I know of does not allow the use of servers unless you are a commercial account. That being said, get a commercial account.
You must have worked for some shitty ISPs. I've never heard of such a clause and would never join an ISP with such a ludicrous limitation.
Maybe they clamped down on it in the US.. in the UK it's a sorry tale:
Vodaphone 'unlimited' 1GB
Eclipse 'unlimited' 20GB
etc. etc.
Those that don't have specific caps use weasel words like 'bandwidth management' and 'excessive usage' which in practice means they can decide to put you on a 56kbps connection tomorrow and you couldn't do a damned thing about it.
Try AAISP - peak is 8am-6pm (unlimited outside that time), and if you go over it rolls over to the next month.. you can either up your limit for a couple of months or reduce your usage the next month to make up the deficit. They never cap. I'm not sure how far into deficit you're able to go but I've never managed to sustain a peak download for long enough for it to matter.
They also have other advantages - no call center.. you get through to a clueful techie that works there straight away (and doesn't expect you to be running Windows...). If your line drops they text you so you can go and sort it (or roll over and go back to sleep, depending on the time it happens), and they have routed ipv6.
Three is extreme - it's mobile though, which is a law unto itself (typically costing 10-100* the cost of DSL for equivalent bandwidth).
f useaction=MobileEmailAndData.mobileConnect):
... charge them for the excess usage."
Vodaphone is similar.. main page (http://www.vodafonebusinessshop.co.uk/index.cfm?
Vodafone Data Unlimited
Usage limit (UK): N/A
Usage limit (Abroad): N/A
Additional charge per MB: N/A
Monthly cost: £45
Bottom of *same* page in a smaller font:
"*The Vodafone Data Unlimited and Vodafone Data Travel plans are subject to Vodafone's fair usage policy. This means that a customer's UK usage must not exceed 1Gb per user account in a month."
"we reserve the right to
but seeing how that involves you knowing it was stolen, your likley to get out of it
Huh? You really think that the torrent of the latest movies you downloaded for free wasn't stolen? Not are you unlikely to get away with that defence the judge would probably have a fit of giggles...
If someone steals a truckload of cigeretes and sells them at the store on the corner of your street, When you buy a pack from the store, you didn't break any laws. Downloading is the same.
No it isn't. It's reasonable to assume that a pack of cigarettes sold at a store are not stolen. It is *not* reasonable to assume that a torrent of a movie downloaded from piratebay isn't stolen.
By law you would be required to return the cigarettes though as they aren't yours (the store owner didn't have the right to sell them). This happens in real cases where people buy cars from car dealers that turn out to be stolen - they lose the car as it still belongs to the original owner, and most probably lose the money as the dealer is in jail and bankcrupt.
Even with LLU BT still own the last mile. They're bound by regulation to offer that to ISPs at nondiscrimatory prices, but that is still a cost factor.
Add into that that the only people who can maintain those lines are BT engineers.. which is perfectly legal since they're BT owned property... and you have a real headache - if a customer goes LLU then has a line fault they have to go through you, and you have to call BT to get the engineer out. Who might turn up if they feel like it. Look at what happened to Bulldog... sure they sucked in many other ways, but half their problems were due to dud lines and non-repairs because they were waiting for BT.
It's not shared at the DSLAM it's shared at the gateway... the fiber lines to the exchanges are so high capacity that DSL couldn't max them anyway - so you in theory have 5000 users on a gateway that can max out 100.
In practice though they never go that high - experience has shown that if you go higher than about 15:1 then contention issues start to bite. At 20:1 it gets hard to get full bandwidth. Only a real cheap-ass ISP would go higher than that. The real difference between the 50:1 and 20:1 contention price points is just that - price.
The UK is the *worst* for this.
Lots of ISPs advertise unlimited broadband, then have an FUP limiting you - some as low as 2GB/month. They're allowed to get away with this even though it's blatantly false advertising.
I went with an ISP that chose not to lie.. and I don't regret it because it's never overloaded even at peak times... the heavy downloaders stay away (and as they define peak as a much more realistic 8am-6pm it's truly unlimited in the evenings when I need it).
OTOH SDSL is dirt cheap there - our AU office (Melbourne) just got 2MB SDSL for little more than what I pay for ADSL. For the equivalent line I'd have to pay about 10 times as much.
That's the point of course - the only UI a phone needs is a halfway usable keypad. Almost nobody actually uses the snazzy functions, beyond text messaging (and that's usually a button on the first screen anyway).
As far a physical design goes for me clamshell is an absolute must (much more durable, plus it's easier to talk as the open clamshell gives a natural L shape). I know others think like me, but other like small flat ones.. some like them a bit chunky (my mother is like that - she prefers to have a phone with a bit of wright).
how many people get mugged for a cellphone?
Thousands (possibly tens of thousands), every year. The market for 'second hand' phones is huge.
If they'd been developing with europe in mind it would have had 3G. No 3G == No sale in most places in europe these days.
There's also the issue of the camera being on the wrong side of the phone, but that's less of a problem (video calling is still comparitively unused.. most people don't even know their phones can do it).
The razr is small (you hardly know it's in your pocket), cheap (can be bought off contract for £100 now), works well, and is popular for just that reason.
It fulfils a market need - therefore it's popular.
Slashdot geeks that want bricks that run linux and have every feature under the sun are a *very* tiny minority of phone users.
it's unlikely we're going to see the homogenization we have in the desktop market.
I sincerely hope so. More competition -> better products.
Right now if a mobile phone gets popular it's because it has features that more people want, not because 'everyone else uses that one'. That's the way it should be.
Now if only we could get the desktop market to behave that way.
Time sync is UTC it has *nothing* to do with DST.
You need to fix your machine.
That's why you have ntp. It handles leap seconds automatically.
Of course because the time changes like that calculating historical times accurately is devilishly difficult.... you're more than likely going to be a few seconds out, and if you don't have an accurate database of when things like timezones changed then you could be an hour or three out as well. I think most implementations basically assume that you're only interested in the last year or so.
Here our DST changed in both 1996 and 1999 and nobody cared... no computers broke, no planes fell out of the sky. We just updated our PCs and went on with our lives.
Don't see why this should be any different. It's just the media running around screaming the sky is falling just because it's happening in the US this time.