I'm one of these Surface RT toters (and I like it), and Office 2013 RT was free.
There's no way in hell I'd move to Office 365 -- Word and Excel are mature, I'm used to the ribbon, and I can't really see what more they can do to make it worth the subs money. If I need to edit a Word doc on the go? I have my tablet. Forgotten that? Google Docs in a bind, but I'm no worse off than before they went to a subscription model.
"As a consequence, EU banned the US Budweiser from ever using this name in Europe"
Balls. I can buy it in English supermarkets. Did you mean The Czech authorities banned it (before they joined the EU who have trade agreements that would preclude that from happening)?
Also, $299 per eye. Typically it's 5 x that cost. So either, someone's got an old instrument from eBay (and will have poorer outcomes and greater risk because of it), or there's other costs that are in there that that advert isn't telling you about. Some refractive surgeons in the states are no better than used car salesmen!!! In no way is that a good example.
Well, where I'm from (the UK), the shops that replace the butchers, bakers, record stores, are charity shops. But only so many stores can be (goodwill?) stores. So the rest become vacant, and inevitably, vandalised. Not all towns have teens rich enough to regularly buy sweet skateboards and excellent coffee to maintain a town centre's retail economy.
Not following your tax logic. Nobody is paying high taxes to maintain town centres. The town centres just decline. Although if the consumer money was being spent there, in your town, employing people and generating wealth, rather than going with tax-avoiding online vendors with robotic-controlled warehouses, the government's tax-take would be higher -- they could tax the individual less.
Again, it's society's choice. This seems to be the way things are going. Don't pretend it is all nice and good, and has no consequences.
How selfish do you want to be?
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I think the point of the article is about: Do people want the changes that are happening to the main street to continue?
From a purely consumer standpoint, sure, cheaper is better. And as long as there's no development of monopolies or other devious practices, that's fine for consumers.
But. Stores closing down in your town leads to decrepit town centres; decaying cities aren't nice and have other, unpleasant consequences. Massive corporate tax avoidance (partly why Amazon has such great prices in the UK?) actually is a bad thing too -- for infrastructure, and for your own personal tax bill. So yes, these changes have a cost -- to society. But, damn, that USB memory/ LED monitor/ Android tablet is cheaper there. Yay!
Sadly, I think Charlie's having a prolonged manic episode.
People enabling somebody that's probably bipolar to do batshit crazy things constantly is wrong, however amusing people find it.
In the UK, PAYG phones are getting data thrown in for free with top-ups. The equivalent of ~$16/month in top-ups will get you unlimited internets + some reasonable amount of mins and texts to go with some reasonably inexpensive but good smartphones, like the Sony X10 mini.
If that sort of pricing went down in the US, this phone would have a chance. I thought it was quite nifty.
Sorry, I thought you had read my original post above in this thread. EMI own Virgin Records. NTL own Virgin Media (the broadband provider). There is no link there.
Hey, Virgin Media can collude with *iaas, I don't know, but I do know the label and the telco share only a name.
No, you're being confused by the Virgin name. Virgin Media (the broadband provider) was sold to NTL.
Although Branson owns shares in the company, it's not the same company as the record label -- indeed Virgin Media pay Branson a yearly fee just to use the Virgin brand.
Further, the Virgin record label was sold off to EMI years ago.
My nephew (aged 3) was singing "America: Fuck Yeah" -- turns out he can operate DVD players with the Team America: World Police DVD in the drive.
Mind you, I was trying to teach him the word "bollocks" from the age of 18 months... heh.
I had the same idea with my HTC Desire on a recent trip to Belgium -- without a mobile network, the GPS was useless -- the phone goes into roaming mode -- no data -- and with no (expensive, roaming) data, no GPS fix.
However, I'd previously unlocked the device; got a local pay as you go sim, bought 10 euros worth of data -- all good. YMMV in other countries -- but it's nice to be able to use Wikitude/Facebook/Twitter etc. as a tourist in a foreign country.
Man gets so drunk, he passes out. Gets a toe injury. While blisteringly drunk. No memory of losing a bit of toe.
I don't think blaming the dog for it is the logical conclusion. It's not like blaming the dog for a particularly noxious fart, you know.
I don't really think people should have "moral problems" with embryonic stem cell research. Human embryos left over from IVF are (mandated by law) thrown in a bin. Is IVF immoral?
Embryonic stem cells have many, many reasons going for them over adult stem cells, not least of which a lower potential for developing into cancer. In terms of basic medical research, they are - for want of a better phrase - a godsend. Adult stem cells are not as good.
Why should "moral issues" about trash from a process that brings the joy of children to many stop genuine medical advances?
Anyhow, clinical trial entry in the US is dependent on the person receiving the trial therapy signing a waiver saying that they understand what they're doing. The worrying thing in this circumstance is that these people are desperate, which never helps clear judgement.
Or rather, the 2.0 and 3.0 firmware added business features. 3.0 added MMS too, but that's not exactly business critical, unlike, say, Exchange support.
The 3G added 3G and GPS; the 3GS added a reasonably faster ARM chip, slightly better camera, uncrippled the video capability, and a digital compass.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but a journalist, Nick Davies, has built an entire book on media distortion and starts with the Y2K brouhaha and argues the opposite of what you're saying about media types.
He argues that billions that governments spent avoiding the mostly fairly minor consequences of the vast majority of non-mission critical computers thinking it's the wrong date were whipped up by lazy journalists wanting easy copy: http://www.flatearthnews.net/chapter-one-bug-ate-world
He ends with "This is Flat Earth news. A story appears to be true. It is widely accepted as true. It becomes a heresy to suggest that it is not true - even if it is riddled with falsehood, distortion and propaganda".
At least with TomTom, the underlying OS is Linux anyway.
(Hence all that hoo-hah with Microsoft over the FAT patents. TomTom was using FAT on their solid state media).
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(He uploaded a series of >2Gb app updates at the same time). https://m.facebook.com/story.p...
That's why all recent cars with diesel engines have Diesel Particulate Filters. Which cost a bloody fortune to replace!
I'm one of these Surface RT toters (and I like it), and Office 2013 RT was free. There's no way in hell I'd move to Office 365 -- Word and Excel are mature, I'm used to the ribbon, and I can't really see what more they can do to make it worth the subs money. If I need to edit a Word doc on the go? I have my tablet. Forgotten that? Google Docs in a bind, but I'm no worse off than before they went to a subscription model.
Pretty sure sugar pills that once had some water applied to them, but then it evaporated, will dehydrate you.
"As a consequence, EU banned the US Budweiser from ever using this name in Europe" Balls. I can buy it in English supermarkets. Did you mean The Czech authorities banned it (before they joined the EU who have trade agreements that would preclude that from happening)?
Also, $299 per eye. Typically it's 5 x that cost. So either, someone's got an old instrument from eBay (and will have poorer outcomes and greater risk because of it), or there's other costs that are in there that that advert isn't telling you about. Some refractive surgeons in the states are no better than used car salesmen!!! In no way is that a good example.
Well, where I'm from (the UK), the shops that replace the butchers, bakers, record stores, are charity shops. But only so many stores can be (goodwill?) stores. So the rest become vacant, and inevitably, vandalised. Not all towns have teens rich enough to regularly buy sweet skateboards and excellent coffee to maintain a town centre's retail economy. Not following your tax logic. Nobody is paying high taxes to maintain town centres. The town centres just decline. Although if the consumer money was being spent there, in your town, employing people and generating wealth, rather than going with tax-avoiding online vendors with robotic-controlled warehouses, the government's tax-take would be higher -- they could tax the individual less. Again, it's society's choice. This seems to be the way things are going. Don't pretend it is all nice and good, and has no consequences.
I think the point of the article is about: Do people want the changes that are happening to the main street to continue?
From a purely consumer standpoint, sure, cheaper is better. And as long as there's no development of monopolies or other devious practices, that's fine for consumers.
But. Stores closing down in your town leads to decrepit town centres; decaying cities aren't nice and have other, unpleasant consequences. Massive corporate tax avoidance (partly why Amazon has such great prices in the UK?) actually is a bad thing too -- for infrastructure, and for your own personal tax bill. So yes, these changes have a cost -- to society. But, damn, that USB memory/ LED monitor/ Android tablet is cheaper there. Yay!
"but it isn’t clear whether the case protected the phone from the fall or the fact that it was cushioned by the brush that it hit"
What, the brush was moving too? It (actively) hit the iPhone 4? That's one Fandroid bush!
Sadly, I think Charlie's having a prolonged manic episode. People enabling somebody that's probably bipolar to do batshit crazy things constantly is wrong, however amusing people find it.
In the UK, PAYG phones are getting data thrown in for free with top-ups. The equivalent of ~$16/month in top-ups will get you unlimited internets + some reasonable amount of mins and texts to go with some reasonably inexpensive but good smartphones, like the Sony X10 mini. If that sort of pricing went down in the US, this phone would have a chance. I thought it was quite nifty.
Sorry, I thought you had read my original post above in this thread. EMI own Virgin Records. NTL own Virgin Media (the broadband provider). There is no link there. Hey, Virgin Media can collude with *iaas, I don't know, but I do know the label and the telco share only a name.
And EMI do not own NTL. There is no connection.
Yes, but the "Virgin record label was sold off to EMI years ago."
No, you're being confused by the Virgin name. Virgin Media (the broadband provider) was sold to NTL. Although Branson owns shares in the company, it's not the same company as the record label -- indeed Virgin Media pay Branson a yearly fee just to use the Virgin brand. Further, the Virgin record label was sold off to EMI years ago.
My nephew (aged 3) was singing "America: Fuck Yeah" -- turns out he can operate DVD players with the Team America: World Police DVD in the drive. Mind you, I was trying to teach him the word "bollocks" from the age of 18 months... heh.
I had the same idea with my HTC Desire on a recent trip to Belgium -- without a mobile network, the GPS was useless -- the phone goes into roaming mode -- no data -- and with no (expensive, roaming) data, no GPS fix. However, I'd previously unlocked the device; got a local pay as you go sim, bought 10 euros worth of data -- all good. YMMV in other countries -- but it's nice to be able to use Wikitude/Facebook/Twitter etc. as a tourist in a foreign country.
Man gets so drunk, he passes out. Gets a toe injury. While blisteringly drunk. No memory of losing a bit of toe. I don't think blaming the dog for it is the logical conclusion. It's not like blaming the dog for a particularly noxious fart, you know.
No, I wasn't being sarcastic (I usually use ellipses when I am...) -- this time, I was ignorant of the DS emulator.
Sadly lacking the Microsoft Courier OS. Oh well. Any Nintendo DS emulators out there for Windows 7?
Mod points if I had them. This is terrible science and not worthy of slashdot.
I don't really think people should have "moral problems" with embryonic stem cell research. Human embryos left over from IVF are (mandated by law) thrown in a bin. Is IVF immoral?
Embryonic stem cells have many, many reasons going for them over adult stem cells, not least of which a lower potential for developing into cancer. In terms of basic medical research, they are - for want of a better phrase - a godsend. Adult stem cells are not as good.
Why should "moral issues" about trash from a process that brings the joy of children to many stop genuine medical advances?
Anyhow, clinical trial entry in the US is dependent on the person receiving the trial therapy signing a waiver saying that they understand what they're doing. The worrying thing in this circumstance is that these people are desperate, which never helps clear judgement.
The 3G added 3G and GPS; the 3GS added a reasonably faster ARM chip, slightly better camera, uncrippled the video capability, and a digital compass.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but a journalist, Nick Davies, has built an entire book on media distortion and starts with the Y2K brouhaha and argues the opposite of what you're saying about media types.
He argues that billions that governments spent avoiding the mostly fairly minor consequences of the vast majority of non-mission critical computers thinking it's the wrong date were whipped up by lazy journalists wanting easy copy: http://www.flatearthnews.net/chapter-one-bug-ate-world
He ends with "This is Flat Earth news. A story appears to be true. It is widely accepted as true. It becomes a heresy to suggest that it is not true - even if it is riddled with falsehood, distortion and propaganda".
At least with TomTom, the underlying OS is Linux anyway. (Hence all that hoo-hah with Microsoft over the FAT patents. TomTom was using FAT on their solid state media).