> Why would an 800 number be free? You're not in the US. You know, if I buy an american product and try to call the 1-800 from the UK it's not free here either! Bastards!
That's true, however he is correct that Cable & Wireless makes it so that you have to pay for local calls on a per minute basis. This is not how it used to be in Panama with INTEL and it's not a great model to suddenly implement in a country like Panama.
> You know, you could have contacted the company in question and asked if they had any provision for customers in your locale.
And they would have told him to go to hell, because since Cable & Wireless forces itself into a monopoly, they have no incentive to accomodate your needs.
Why do you think the Panamenian government is blocking Voice over IP? Because they feel it's "unfair" to C&W or becase C&W is paying off the necessary people?
Not sure about the degree of cell use in Panama, though it sounds like it is an option, though one C&W controls as well. >:(
I don't know what the numbers are, but from my last visit to Panama (2000) one thing that got my attention was the amount of cell phones all over the place. So it seems to me from simple observation that cell phone usage is very high.
Also, there's services to "rent" a cell phone while you are there, which is convenient if you are traveling.
Why the local phone company even offers phone cards at the rates they charge these days is beyond me.
Cable & Wireless spent a lot of money on fancy looking telephone boots in Panama, which where very neglected in the past. They also spent a lot of money on phone cards for these phones, they're actually useful. Not sure if they are much more expensive than before.
This is yet another example of our British friends at Cable & Wireless adapting to the local culture of the country which they're sucking the blood out of. They obviously have quickly learned the Panamenian way of politics and have paid off all the necessary politicians, which can often be bought very cheap.
Cable & Wireless is privatization gone totally wrong. The previous phone company was a government owned company called INTEL, and Cable & Wireless beat US GTE and took over the phone system of Panama. The results have been horrible.
Local calls in Panama used to be like in the US, you paid your minimal fee and could talk all the minutes you wanted. Cable & Wireless brought the wonderful European model of paying for each minute for local calls.
If that wasn't enough, they also charge you per minute (I think) for calls from a land line phone in your house to a cell phone. That is, you pay for calling a cell phone and the person on the cell phone pays too. I had to find this the hard way after making a few calls to some friends from my grandmothers house.
So, people are fed up with them, and the internet savy are using Voice over IP a lot. I used to receive a lot of calls from a cousing over dialpad.com (when it was free). This was the ideal system to make a call to the US, dialpad was for US calls only, but the funny thing is that this worked great if you lived in another country.
Here's a good article on the whole mess Cable & Wireless is creating;
I'm sure there's a way to hook up the alarm system to a cell phone, but that's not cost effective. That's one of the main reasons for me not to do what you suggest.
So much to respond to, so little time, but this sentence says it all;
You can't get rich by telling people things about themselves they don't want to believe.
And that may be true, but on the other hand, I see nothing in the Constitution that says that you should be guaranteed an audience, weatlh, respect or any such thing if your exercise of speech is simply not popular.
The argument that the media is right wing (or left wing) is something both fringes of the political spectrum like to cry about. I have no time for that. The reality is, you can easily read any article with the whole range of opinion with no problem and no hassle, specially on the internet.
Any fool can setup a website and say whatever they want, haven't you seen the miriad of sites that poke fun at the government, the crackpot conspiracy theory moron websites, everybody can pretty much say anything.
To deny this is to be too blind, and I really wish such people would volunteer their time in an opressive society and live there among normal people and see what they think. When you are there, ask them if they'd like to trade their citizenship with yours and see what they say.
> Oops, I've said too much. Pretty soon they are gonna start rounding up supposed communists again.
Oh please. I can guess you've never lived in a true opressive dictatoriship in the third world. It's one thing to complain about horrible laws like (DMCA), but it's quite another to start stating insipid comments about "how they're going to get me for my opinions". Please. Specially, when in the same post you mention a country like CHINA, where you can't even enjoy basic freedoms like the freedom of the press or the freedom to worship whatever God you want to.
I like the monitor they show in the article. We're starting to have more people with multiple monitors at my work, and it does really help for programming tasks.
This one they show is great, because of the shape and not having to have separate monitors. Very nice.
If a militant organization targets civilians directly (although maybe not exclusively), it is a terrorist group.
Colombia Rebels Kill 11 Civilians -Rights Group
Marxist Colombian rebels allegedly killed 11 civilians, abducting them from a pool-hall, tying them up and methodically shooting them execution-style days later, Colombia's top human rights official, Ombudsman Eduardo Cifuentes, said on Thursday.
That's one or the more recent, of course, there are many more examples of these bozos killing, kidnapping and torturing civilians. Same goes for the lunatic paramilitaries.
If a militant organization targets govt installations/other military, thats fair game. In this situation, although we may not like them, they are just another 'army', not terrorists.
So McVeigh was just a little "army", not a terrorist. Intersting...
With the only difference from you don't show a "national id", but a voter registration card and a photo-id (which should be somehow combined in the future).
Ummm, lets see... ads, schlock-talk, drive-time crud, ads, more ads, still more ads, and every now and again, some piece of top-40 junk.
Music is most likely NOT the #1 thing transmitted over FM radio signals.
Oh boy, what now, you're going to post statistics telling us what's the most transmitted information over FM? His point was simple and he made it, this level of nitpicking usually means you've got nothing to contribute and it's time to shut up.
> Our goal is to be profitable./Our goal is to be profitable in 2003.
I don't need to quote "profitable in 2003", my point was that their goal should have been to be profitable from the start of the business or even earlier. You can disagree with that, but you're wasting your time "fixing" quotes.
> and has shifted its goals toward obtaining profitability in 2003.
Talk about short attention spans.
Of course I know the "shifted goal" is to obtain profitability(that's the whole point of the post). I'm questioning why that wasn't a main goal from the beginning.
> We all know Lucas's biggest motivation is money, lots and lots of it.
> Too bad he's too ego-centric to let go. Ego over money, I guess.
First you say his biggest motivation is money, then you say his ego is greater than his love for money. Why don't you make up your mind and then write your opinion?
You also seem to imply that making money is more important than ego, yet most great artists are big ego-centrics (Dali, Van Gogh, etc).
Slashdot Mirror
They cut it out, because the movie is longer than 2 hours and IMAX can only show 2 hour movies.
The library scene is in the DVD, so no, you're wrong.
Super Mario came out way after A New Hope. You probably weren't even born then I assume ;-)
It even predates Donkey Kong.
... not a screenshot. So I think this version looks even more like the Dublin library.
Would be nice to post a screenshot from the movie to compare instead.
> Why would an 800 number be free? You're not in the US. You know, if I buy an american product and try to call the 1-800 from the UK it's not free here either! Bastards!
That's true, however he is correct that Cable & Wireless makes it so that you have to pay for local calls on a per minute basis. This is not how it used to be in Panama with INTEL and it's not a great model to suddenly implement in a country like Panama.
> You know, you could have contacted the company in question and asked if they had any provision for customers in your locale.
And they would have told him to go to hell, because since Cable & Wireless forces itself into a monopoly, they have no incentive to accomodate your needs.
Why do you think the Panamenian government is blocking Voice over IP? Because they feel it's "unfair" to C&W or becase C&W is paying off the necessary people?
Not sure about the degree of cell use in Panama, though it sounds like it is an option, though one C&W controls as well. >:(
I don't know what the numbers are, but from my last visit to Panama (2000) one thing that got my attention was the amount of cell phones all over the place. So it seems to me from simple observation that cell phone usage is very high. Also, there's services to "rent" a cell phone while you are there, which is convenient if you are traveling.
Why the local phone company even offers phone cards at the rates they charge these days is beyond me.
Cable & Wireless spent a lot of money on fancy looking telephone boots in Panama, which where very neglected in the past. They also spent a lot of money on phone cards for these phones, they're actually useful. Not sure if they are much more expensive than before.
This is very embarassing, but not a surprise.
This is yet another example of our British friends at Cable & Wireless adapting to the local culture of the country which they're sucking the blood out of. They obviously have quickly learned the Panamenian way of politics and have paid off all the necessary politicians, which can often be bought very cheap.
Cable & Wireless is privatization gone totally wrong. The previous phone company was a government owned company called INTEL, and Cable & Wireless beat US GTE and took over the phone system of Panama. The results have been horrible.
Local calls in Panama used to be like in the US, you paid your minimal fee and could talk all the minutes you wanted. Cable & Wireless brought the wonderful European model of paying for each minute for local calls.
If that wasn't enough, they also charge you per minute (I think) for calls from a land line phone in your house to a cell phone. That is, you pay for calling a cell phone and the person on the cell phone pays too. I had to find this the hard way after making a few calls to some friends from my grandmothers house.
So, people are fed up with them, and the internet savy are using Voice over IP a lot. I used to receive a lot of calls from a cousing over dialpad.com (when it was free). This was the ideal system to make a call to the US, dialpad was for US calls only, but the funny thing is that this worked great if you lived in another country.
Here's a good article on the whole mess Cable & Wireless is creating;
A Case of Privatization Gone Wrong -
Panama's Wires Crossed
I'm sure there's a way to hook up the alarm system to a cell phone, but that's not cost effective. That's one of the main reasons for me not to do what you suggest.
This is crazy, he managed to create a version of adventure where the graphics randomly slow down when being chased by the dragon!
So much to respond to, so little time, but this sentence says it all;
You can't get rich by telling people things about themselves they don't want to believe.
And that may be true, but on the other hand, I see nothing in the Constitution that says that you should be guaranteed an audience, weatlh, respect or any such thing if your exercise of speech is simply not popular.
The argument that the media is right wing (or left wing) is something both fringes of the political spectrum like to cry about. I have no time for that. The reality is, you can easily read any article with the whole range of opinion with no problem and no hassle, specially on the internet.
Any fool can setup a website and say whatever they want, haven't you seen the miriad of sites that poke fun at the government, the crackpot conspiracy theory moron websites, everybody can pretty much say anything.
To deny this is to be too blind, and I really wish such people would volunteer their time in an opressive society and live there among normal people and see what they think. When you are there, ask them if they'd like to trade their citizenship with yours and see what they say.
> Oops, I've said too much. Pretty soon they are gonna start rounding up supposed communists again.
Oh please. I can guess you've never lived in a true opressive dictatoriship in the third world. It's one thing to complain about horrible laws like (DMCA), but it's quite another to start stating insipid comments about "how they're going to get me for my opinions". Please. Specially, when in the same post you mention a country like CHINA, where you can't even enjoy basic freedoms like the freedom of the press or the freedom to worship whatever God you want to.
Get some perspective.
I like the monitor they show in the article. We're starting to have more people with multiple monitors at my work, and it does really help for programming tasks.
This one they show is great, because of the shape and not having to have separate monitors. Very nice.
Colombia Rebels Kill 11 Civilians -Rights Group Marxist Colombian rebels allegedly killed 11 civilians, abducting them from a pool-hall, tying them up and methodically shooting them execution-style days later, Colombia's top human rights official, Ombudsman Eduardo Cifuentes, said on Thursday.
That's one or the more recent, of course, there are many more examples of these bozos killing, kidnapping and torturing civilians. Same goes for the lunatic paramilitaries.
If a militant organization targets govt installations/other military, thats fair game. In this situation, although we may not like them, they are just another 'army', not terrorists.
So McVeigh was just a little "army", not a terrorist. Intersting
> But I think you would be hard pressed to find any political group in Latin America that has not done bad things
Most political groups in Latin America have no private armies, like the FARC and the paramilitaries.
The Sony network adapter does broadband and dialup, so yes, you can play games with dialup.
Now, all games don't support dialup (SOCOM), altough I've read people have gotten around this in some cases (causing headaches because of lag).
X-Box doesn't work with dialup.
This is exactly what I did to vote today.
With the only difference from you don't show a "national id", but a voter registration card and a photo-id (which should be somehow combined in the future).
I don't see any, just some lame Doom III logo.
Ummm, lets see... ads, schlock-talk, drive-time crud, ads, more ads, still more ads, and every now and again, some piece of top-40 junk.
Music is most likely NOT the #1 thing transmitted over FM radio signals.
Oh boy, what now, you're going to post statistics telling us what's the most transmitted information over FM? His point was simple and he made it, this level of nitpicking usually means you've got nothing to contribute and it's time to shut up.
You are not alone, the name is utterly stupid and sadly I think it does impact the amount of people who know about this format.
> Our goal is to be profitable./Our goal is to be profitable in 2003.
I don't need to quote "profitable in 2003", my point was that their goal should have been to be profitable from the start of the business or even earlier. You can disagree with that, but you're wasting your time "fixing" quotes.
> and has shifted its goals toward obtaining profitability in 2003.
Talk about short attention spans.
Of course I know the "shifted goal" is to obtain profitability(that's the whole point of the post). I'm questioning why that wasn't a main goal from the beginning.
Geez!
has shifted its goals toward obtaining profitability in 2003
What were the initial goals??? And here I tought the goal of all businesses was to make money.
I think there might be prior art on this, but I'm not sure. We should grant it for now, just to safe.
Patent Granted
... heard of editing video on their computer, specially digital video. Duh!
> A pencil and paper only assist if you are either literate, or able to receive instruction. Computers, on the other hand, can teach literacy.
:-/
This little PDA doesn't seem like it would teach an indian farmer how to read, specially when it's main interface requires that you READ!
How about we send money for real teachers? There's an idea!
> We all know Lucas's biggest motivation is money, lots and lots of it.
> Too bad he's too ego-centric to let go. Ego over money, I guess.
First you say his biggest motivation is money, then you say his ego is greater than his love for money. Why don't you make up your mind and then write your opinion?
You also seem to imply that making money is more important than ego, yet most great artists are big ego-centrics (Dali, Van Gogh, etc).
Try to find a point and then post back, OK?