I've used their camera ones extensively and they are sufficiently unconspicuous that i've never had a problem.
I'd like it a lot better if they didn't emblazon 'Pro' on the back - but you can pick that off quite easily.
I've backpacked in quite a few countries with thousands of dollars of camera gear and had no problems - in fact i've had my leather jacket stolen (got it back from a really dodgy guy i met) but they didn't touch my bag loaded with gear.
I'd normally expect that my ISPs imap server would perform better than a third party one - simply because it's bound to have a better network condition.
What, I felt, the article alluded to was that vonage's service would be deliberately degraded. Which is clearly anticompetitive.
My point is that there'll be less incentive for a US network to purchase Red Dwarf and fill it full of commercials, if it's possible to download it off the net.
In that vein they'll probably want to restrict it to british citizens or even just british license payers, otherwise they'll be paying for bandwidth to reduce the value of their international resale rights.
I know they've been involved in trials of ogg vorbis, but it seems unlikely that anything which has commercial value will be released drm-less.
The BBC bring in a lot of money by licensing shows to foreign broadcasters; however most of this probably comes from current shows, so their back catalogue may not be so valuable.
My mum complains about the fact that her 3.2MP pictures are "far too big".
Higher resolutions mean larger lenses and sensors. Larger semiconductors cost LOTS more than smaller one, and larger lenses tend to follow that trend too.
I think resolution wise, the consumer market will mostly stop at what can be done with a 16 or 22mm CCD/CMOS. Pro's will want higher resolutions, but that equipment will still remain expensive for a while.
Have you personally reviewed the 2.9M messages which were filtered out... if you have then i'd question the value of your filtering.
I know i've occasionally had false positives and i get nowhere near your message volume. My personal favorite is the UK paypal-esque service NoChex which sends emails with the subject line "YOU'VE GOT CASH!!"...
How can a telemarketer know if you are roaming or not?
Sure i might have free minutes when i'm in colorado, or even the usa. But if i fly home to britain i'll be paying for every second.
Another peeve of mine is that they don't consider the time of day where your phone terminates.. as such when i was living in the UK, i'd get telemarketer calls at 1am since I found it convenient to have a 303 (Denver) number.
It should be illegal to call a phone if it's possible that it rings in a country where it's after 9pm.
What I can't understand is that teachers and tutors have this kind of weight in the american system.
In britain, every one of my exam papers since about age 12 was marked anonymously. Many of them were even traded with other institutions so that in a small class the teacher still couldn't pick you out by your style or writing.
This seems like the only fair way to grade work since it's very hard for teachers to be completely objective - and for critical exams, that's not fair on students.
Your teacher does still mark your day to day classwork - but a subset of that is marked externally as well so that a comparison could be made. I've had a grade increased because my immediate teacher was unreasonably harsh on me.
I've got both a uk and a usa t-mobile sim card, and in my apartment i get one bar with my US sim card because my phone insists on staying on their network. My t-mobile uk phone gets an almost full signal since it roams quite happily onto a competitors network.
And we get snow and ice. The conventional markers are mounted in little rubber mounts that pop them under the road surface when a plow comes by.. i've never seen one that's been torn up.
I have also seen ones that change colour (to blue i think) in freezing conditions, but it starts to get too confusing. Unlike the US, british motorways use red, green, white and amber 'cateyes' to mark the sides of the road, lanes and exits. Adding more colors to the mix gets complicated.
What we have on a stretch of the M90 are markers on little posts by the side of the road that (iirc) blink blue when it's freezing and red when there's an accident ahead.
That's true, but i was very impressed with how Lufthansa handled the situation.
They took off from frankfurt in full knowledge that denver airport was closed, speculating that it'd probably be open again in 9 hours time. Most airlines would just put you up in a hotel and try again the next day.
When it was closed they rerouted us to dallas, paid for a very nice hotel, i asked for wifi access and they provided it free, they provided us with silly amounts of money to buy dinner (so i could give the delivery girl a $20 tip).
OTOH british airways caused a 12 hour delay for me because they had a borked plane. They knew it was broken 4 hours before it even came in, but didn't think to try and locate the tools to fix it until it arrived. It took them 10 hours to do that + 2 hours to fix the plane. For that they gave me a $5 meal voucher, which at denver airport buys you a single big mac, or half a quizno's sub.
They didn't even have the courtesy to reschedule my connecting flights. I bitched and bitched to them but ultimately got a $40 gift certificate for their on flight duty free.
I had to make a call on one once, because my flight couldn't land at the destination airpot and I didn't want my fiancee to try driving through the snowstorm to pick me up.
It took about 10 attempts to get it to work, the instructions were inaccurate, when something went wrong it just produced a random tone... when i actually got it to work the call was so noisy I could hardly make out a word she said.
Worst $10 call ever... fortunately that was a lufthansa flight, so next time i'll just email.
Given a seller with a high enough ebay rating, why cant a buyer simply purchase a policy based on a combination of feedback & price. eBay wouldn't even need to inform the seller that this policy had been taken out.
It's just a numbers game and that's what insurance is all about. Insurance can also be a very high margin business and eBay could do really well by offering it.
Unfortunately eBay pander to their power sellers. They can essential pay (through squaretrade) to have negative feedback removed, which will happen if the buyer doesn't respond to squaretrade.
That of course means that feedback isn't all that accurate, so they might have to fix that before they start betting their money on it.
My housemate got ripped off on a $900 digital camera. This was back before paypal was international and he had to send the money via Western Union.
The seller had a fairly good rating and had sold a few high ticket items before. He claimed however that Western Union hadn't released the funds to him because he forgot to take his ID, Western Union claimed they paid up but couldn't find a copy of the reciept for the payment...
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I've used their camera ones extensively and they are sufficiently unconspicuous that i've never had a problem.
I'd like it a lot better if they didn't emblazon 'Pro' on the back - but you can pick that off quite easily.
I've backpacked in quite a few countries with thousands of dollars of camera gear and had no problems - in fact i've had my leather jacket stolen (got it back from a really dodgy guy i met) but they didn't touch my bag loaded with gear.
That's a little different.
I'd normally expect that my ISPs imap server would perform better than a third party one - simply because it's bound to have a better network condition.
What, I felt, the article alluded to was that vonage's service would be deliberately degraded. Which is clearly anticompetitive.
I don't see your point.
If i have the choice between
a) watching a 30 minute show bloated to 45 with commercials
b) watching a slightly lower quality streaming one commercial free
I'll choose b every time (gotta love tivo).
Less people will watch a rerun on tv IF they either have it on tv or their computer. Therefore the show is worth less money to the bbc...
I just dont know how much
I bought some chips on ebay from vegas_supplies_gifts.
The chips themselves are very heavy and excellent quality, but the case was cheaply made and the handle broke off after a few months.
The seller refused to replace it, even though it was clear that the case wasn't designed to handle 13lb's of chips.
My point is that there'll be less incentive for a US network to purchase Red Dwarf and fill it full of commercials, if it's possible to download it off the net.
In that vein they'll probably want to restrict it to british citizens or even just british license payers, otherwise they'll be paying for bandwidth to reduce the value of their international resale rights.
I do wonder what sort of DRM they'll use.
I know they've been involved in trials of ogg vorbis, but it seems unlikely that anything which has commercial value will be released drm-less.
The BBC bring in a lot of money by licensing shows to foreign broadcasters; however most of this probably comes from current shows, so their back catalogue may not be so valuable.
Rather than doing the 'actual rendering', you could use systems to do photon mapping for lighting models.
That sort of thing works well with a reduced polygon count model. Doesn't need to know everything about textures.
A scene with only camera/lightsource motion could fit in a few megabytes and consume many hours of cpu time.
However the overhead of setting this up probably outweighs the benefits of doing it in house.
My mum complains about the fact that her 3.2MP pictures are "far too big".
Higher resolutions mean larger lenses and sensors. Larger semiconductors cost LOTS more than smaller one, and larger lenses tend to follow that trend too.
I think resolution wise, the consumer market will mostly stop at what can be done with a 16 or 22mm CCD/CMOS. Pro's will want higher resolutions, but that equipment will still remain expensive for a while.
Yes this is possible. All you need to do is make sure that each eye sees a different image, which is *possible* without glasses.
All the techniques i'm aware of do depend on a very particular viewer location though.
How can you know you've had no false positives.
Have you personally reviewed the 2.9M messages which were filtered out... if you have then i'd question the value of your filtering.
I know i've occasionally had false positives and i get nowhere near your message volume. My personal favorite is the UK paypal-esque service NoChex which sends emails with the subject line "YOU'VE GOT CASH!!"...
I was one of the first vonage customers since I was in a unique position where I lived in one country but worked and had a fiancee in the US.
Vonage worked out great since it gave me unlimited calls to colorado for a tiny fraction of the price i'd be paying to call internationally.
It had occasional problems, but given that I consumed about 3000 minutes in a high month, it worked great most of the time.
Currently i'm moving to freeworlddialup since everyone i talk to either has broadband or is local.
If I still lived in Edinburgh i'd be out with chalk marking "twice the price of the usa" beneath their logo.
Tell me about it...
.ms and it's a pain in the ass giving to anyone - even computer literate people do a double take.
I've got an email address that ends in
On the upside i get comparatively little spam to that address - i wonder if the spam tools filter out unlikely domains?
How can a telemarketer know if you are roaming or not?
Sure i might have free minutes when i'm in colorado, or even the usa. But if i fly home to britain i'll be paying for every second.
Another peeve of mine is that they don't consider the time of day where your phone terminates.. as such when i was living in the UK, i'd get telemarketer calls at 1am since I found it convenient to have a 303 (Denver) number.
It should be illegal to call a phone if it's possible that it rings in a country where it's after 9pm.
They are successful because they do what they do very well.
By plenty standards, Kazaa is successfull...
What I can't understand is that teachers and tutors have this kind of weight in the american system.
In britain, every one of my exam papers since about age 12 was marked anonymously. Many of them were even traded with other institutions so that in a small class the teacher still couldn't pick you out by your style or writing.
This seems like the only fair way to grade work since it's very hard for teachers to be completely objective - and for critical exams, that's not fair on students.
Your teacher does still mark your day to day classwork - but a subset of that is marked externally as well so that a comparison could be made. I've had a grade increased because my immediate teacher was unreasonably harsh on me.
T-Mobile do that to me here.
I've got both a uk and a usa t-mobile sim card, and in my apartment i get one bar with my US sim card because my phone insists on staying on their network. My t-mobile uk phone gets an almost full signal since it roams quite happily onto a competitors network.
And we get snow and ice. The conventional markers are mounted in little rubber mounts that pop them under the road surface when a plow comes by.. i've never seen one that's been torn up.
I have also seen ones that change colour (to blue i think) in freezing conditions, but it starts to get too confusing. Unlike the US, british motorways use red, green, white and amber 'cateyes' to mark the sides of the road, lanes and exits. Adding more colors to the mix gets complicated.
What we have on a stretch of the M90 are markers on little posts by the side of the road that (iirc) blink blue when it's freezing and red when there's an accident ahead.
Many businesses can avoid VAT on purchases that are essential to their business, or become part of something that they will sell on.
:)
Otherwise if company A were to buy a widget from company B, repackage it and sell it - the final consumer would end up paying VAT twice.
Creative accounting should avoid most of these problems
Surely it's much better to have your government spend money on an open video codec than a system to violate your rights.
I know the US government does fund cool things too, and the british government funds shit too, but it was a lighthearted point.
Open video codec...
carnivore...
open video codec...
carnivore...
I wonder which cost more
That's true, but i was very impressed with how Lufthansa handled the situation.
They took off from frankfurt in full knowledge that denver airport was closed, speculating that it'd probably be open again in 9 hours time. Most airlines would just put you up in a hotel and try again the next day.
When it was closed they rerouted us to dallas, paid for a very nice hotel, i asked for wifi access and they provided it free, they provided us with silly amounts of money to buy dinner (so i could give the delivery girl a $20 tip).
OTOH british airways caused a 12 hour delay for me because they had a borked plane. They knew it was broken 4 hours before it even came in, but didn't think to try and locate the tools to fix it until it arrived. It took them 10 hours to do that + 2 hours to fix the plane. For that they gave me a $5 meal voucher, which at denver airport buys you a single big mac, or half a quizno's sub.
They didn't even have the courtesy to reschedule my connecting flights. I bitched and bitched to them but ultimately got a $40 gift certificate for their on flight duty free.
I had to make a call on one once, because my flight couldn't land at the destination airpot and I didn't want my fiancee to try driving through the snowstorm to pick me up.
It took about 10 attempts to get it to work, the instructions were inaccurate, when something went wrong it just produced a random tone... when i actually got it to work the call was so noisy I could hardly make out a word she said.
Worst $10 call ever... fortunately that was a lufthansa flight, so next time i'll just email.
Given a seller with a high enough ebay rating, why cant a buyer simply purchase a policy based on a combination of feedback & price. eBay wouldn't even need to inform the seller that this policy had been taken out.
It's just a numbers game and that's what insurance is all about. Insurance can also be a very high margin business and eBay could do really well by offering it.
Unfortunately eBay pander to their power sellers. They can essential pay (through squaretrade) to have negative feedback removed, which will happen if the buyer doesn't respond to squaretrade.
That of course means that feedback isn't all that accurate, so they might have to fix that before they start betting their money on it.
My housemate got ripped off on a $900 digital camera. This was back before paypal was international and he had to send the money via Western Union.
The seller had a fairly good rating and had sold a few high ticket items before. He claimed however that Western Union hadn't released the funds to him because he forgot to take his ID, Western Union claimed they paid up but couldn't find a copy of the reciept for the payment...
crappy situation