I went to Stonehedge on the way to Bath and it's definitely not something to spend much time or money on, I agree. My train trip to Edinburgh was a day trip on the train. It was a long day but it was nice seeing the British countryside. So its a matter of preference. If you book in advance, flying is definitely cheaper.
As for the tube, your point makes sense. I was staying with a friend in the Swiss Cottage area and typically took the tube to my first destination and then walked as much as possible. If you do need to take it every day and the week pass does make sense, can't one buy a zone 2 to zone 3 ticket for the day?
Oh yeah and bring some travel tissues. The underground is a very dusty place and I was blowing black snot out of my nose for a week after I moved on to other parts of the country.
Why not just get a one way ticket into the inner ring and then pay for a week ticket for the inner two zones? Isn't that cheaper? Or do they not offer the week ticket anymore?
Also, if you're going to go anywhere like Edinburgh or Stonehenge, I highly recommend you book your tour BEFORE you leave the states. I paid $200 to take a train to Edinburgh with admission to all the museums + the bus tour. Just to buy a train ticket to Edinburgh was going to run me 200 pound sterling once I was there. Thank God I was able to VPN back to my work and purchase my ticket "from the US."
I have no sympathy for the person complaining to the consumerist in that article. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he really did mod both consoles. Why? Because he complains that he had disks ruined by 1st generation Xboxes. He blames Microsoft for this problem. Well, there was an engineering flaw that would cause your disk to be scratched if you tilted your console while the disk was spinning. But what kind of idiot tilts an optical drive while it is spinning?
Just the fact that he blames Microsoft for his own stupidity suggests that he'd lie about modding.
To my knowledge, no one has cracked the 360 to the point where you can run your own homebrew (outside of XNA). There fore the only reason to mod your xbox is: 3. Steal games.
I travel through DFW all the time and if you ask me it's the least laptop friendly airport I've ever been to. They have plenty of mobile charging stations which will power a phone but its next to impossible to find a regular wall socket.
SJC (San Jose, CA) and JAX (Jacksonville, FL) are both on the Google list AND they already provided free WiFi access. They both have for at least 1 year. So hopefully Google at least threw them some cash / networking equipment. Otherwise, what has Google done for either airport?
I mean I cover them medically too. I feed them. I transport them. I re-assure them. And I'm forced to continue to do so for term.
Wow forced to take care of your employees? You poor thing. So what are the names of these corporations you run? I'm sure everyone here is dying to help support them.
compared to my XP box, which every time I run a virus check flags *something* new as wrong/suspicious.
You should get that checked out there Simon. This is NOT normal. Sounds like you've either got a virus or really poor quality virus scanner. Excluding spam attachments, I can count on one hands the number of files I've had flagged on Windows in the last 10 years.
I think they call it virtual because you can connect to one access point, while sharing that same connection on the same radio with your own access point.
Can you cite anything other than the Blizzard WoWGlider case? Because that is an entirely different story. With WoW you are paying for a service, hence the $15 monthly service fee. I would tend to agree that a licensing agreement for a service would be enforceable. You agree to the license by continuing to pay your $15 fee. Purchasing software at the store is a one time event and no contract is presented or signed at the time you take ownership of the software.
You do NOT have to honor the EULA that comes with the software. It will never hold up in court. You may choose to do so, but that is a choice. Copyright will hold up in court and you are required by law to honor it.
The EULA will never hold up because A) you can't read it before you purchase the software B) you never sign an agreement with the company C) even if you did not agree to the EULA, you would NOT be able to return opened software.
These licenses are so one sided no judge would ever consider them to be fair.
I know there's been articles about iphone app piracy that you don't have as much with a cart, so I guess that's a legitimate concern.
Are you serious? Pirating DS games is trivial. If I owned a DS I'd buy one of these cards. Not to pirate games, but just so that I wouldn't have to carry around all my cartridges on an airplane.
Unless this secret document they gave the judge was something they are using to extort him!
I'm not going all tin foiled hat on you, but you have to avoid the appearance of impropriety and that's impossible to do unless both parties of the suit can review the same documents the judge is reviewing.
Except that the license is not legally binding. How can it be? You don't get the license until after you purchase the product. You never sign the license AND if you don't agree to the license, they won't let you return opened software. Sounds pretty one sided to me. Judges don't typically look kindly on people who try to force one sided contracts on the masses. Just see this ruling from a judge in Washington regarding AT&T's arbitration clause.
I once got flamed on Slick Deals for asking people to show restraint and common sense after someone posted a deal for a free CD from Project Gutenburg. People were ordering tons of disks as if they were getting some special deal. I don't blame Canonical at all for placing limits.
Well I don't literally mean every time, but of the last 5 or so groups of updates that I've gotten, I've had to reboot probably 3 of those times. And one of those was the kernel update that I couldn't even use.
I realize you can rmmod certain modules, update and then insmod them again. It just depends on whether that module is required for your system to function properly.
Really? You've never seen anything like this? I've been to a tradeshow in Birmingham, UK where they may not have had lap dances, but they had pole dancers! Not to mention the girls in see-through plastic "clothes" that showed you exactly how much they were NOT wearing.
and the system needs a reboot with it gone (in true Microsoft fashion).
True Fedora and Ubuntu fashion too! I use Fedora Core 11 at work and Ubuntu 9.04 at home and they require reboots after security updates ALL the time. And don't get me started on the kernel update Fedora pushed out that panics my system every boot.
Really? I feel like a clumsy oaf on my iphone. I can touch type but probably half the words will come out completely wrong. I'm a pretty tall person though so my finger tips are pretty big. Sometimes I accidentally touch the "send" button while my finger is on the 'O' or 'P' key. The iPhone keyboard drives me insane.
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I went to Stonehedge on the way to Bath and it's definitely not something to spend much time or money on, I agree. My train trip to Edinburgh was a day trip on the train. It was a long day but it was nice seeing the British countryside. So its a matter of preference. If you book in advance, flying is definitely cheaper.
As for the tube, your point makes sense. I was staying with a friend in the Swiss Cottage area and typically took the tube to my first destination and then walked as much as possible. If you do need to take it every day and the week pass does make sense, can't one buy a zone 2 to zone 3 ticket for the day?
Oh yeah and bring some travel tissues. The underground is a very dusty place and I was blowing black snot out of my nose for a week after I moved on to other parts of the country.
Why not just get a one way ticket into the inner ring and then pay for a week ticket for the inner two zones? Isn't that cheaper? Or do they not offer the week ticket anymore?
Also, if you're going to go anywhere like Edinburgh or Stonehenge, I highly recommend you book your tour BEFORE you leave the states. I paid $200 to take a train to Edinburgh with admission to all the museums + the bus tour. Just to buy a train ticket to Edinburgh was going to run me 200 pound sterling once I was there. Thank God I was able to VPN back to my work and purchase my ticket "from the US."
I have no sympathy for the person complaining to the consumerist in that article. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he really did mod both consoles. Why? Because he complains that he had disks ruined by 1st generation Xboxes. He blames Microsoft for this problem. Well, there was an engineering flaw that would cause your disk to be scratched if you tilted your console while the disk was spinning. But what kind of idiot tilts an optical drive while it is spinning?
Just the fact that he blames Microsoft for his own stupidity suggests that he'd lie about modding.
To my knowledge, no one has cracked the 360 to the point where you can run your own homebrew (outside of XNA). There fore the only reason to mod your xbox is: 3. Steal games.
When will Firefox and Opera have such privileged access to kernel space.
As soon as you want Firefox exploits to be even more dangerous to the user. A web browser should keep itself strictly in user space.
IAH does not have any free WiFi that I've ever seen. I've flown through there about 4 times in the last year.
I travel through DFW all the time and if you ask me it's the least laptop friendly airport I've ever been to. They have plenty of mobile charging stations which will power a phone but its next to impossible to find a regular wall socket.
SJC (San Jose, CA) and JAX (Jacksonville, FL) are both on the Google list AND they already provided free WiFi access. They both have for at least 1 year. So hopefully Google at least threw them some cash / networking equipment. Otherwise, what has Google done for either airport?
I mean I cover them medically too. I feed them. I transport them. I re-assure them. And I'm forced to continue to do so for term.
Wow forced to take care of your employees? You poor thing. So what are the names of these corporations you run? I'm sure everyone here is dying to help support them.
compared to my XP box, which every time I run a virus check flags *something* new as wrong/suspicious.
You should get that checked out there Simon. This is NOT normal. Sounds like you've either got a virus or really poor quality virus scanner. Excluding spam attachments, I can count on one hands the number of files I've had flagged on Windows in the last 10 years.
I think they call it virtual because you can connect to one access point, while sharing that same connection on the same radio with your own access point.
Can you cite anything other than the Blizzard WoWGlider case? Because that is an entirely different story. With WoW you are paying for a service, hence the $15 monthly service fee. I would tend to agree that a licensing agreement for a service would be enforceable. You agree to the license by continuing to pay your $15 fee. Purchasing software at the store is a one time event and no contract is presented or signed at the time you take ownership of the software.
You do NOT have to honor the EULA that comes with the software. It will never hold up in court. You may choose to do so, but that is a choice. Copyright will hold up in court and you are required by law to honor it.
The EULA will never hold up because A) you can't read it before you purchase the software B) you never sign an agreement with the company C) even if you did not agree to the EULA, you would NOT be able to return opened software.
These licenses are so one sided no judge would ever consider them to be fair.
I know there's been articles about iphone app piracy that you don't have as much with a cart, so I guess that's a legitimate concern.
Are you serious? Pirating DS games is trivial. If I owned a DS I'd buy one of these cards. Not to pirate games, but just so that I wouldn't have to carry around all my cartridges on an airplane.
Unless this secret document they gave the judge was something they are using to extort him!
I'm not going all tin foiled hat on you, but you have to avoid the appearance of impropriety and that's impossible to do unless both parties of the suit can review the same documents the judge is reviewing.
Except that the license is not legally binding. How can it be? You don't get the license until after you purchase the product. You never sign the license AND if you don't agree to the license, they won't let you return opened software. Sounds pretty one sided to me. Judges don't typically look kindly on people who try to force one sided contracts on the masses. Just see this ruling from a judge in Washington regarding AT&T's arbitration clause.
Actually, the attack is named after my Indian friend Vishal. But everyone calls him Vish. No really, I didn't just make this up.
I once got flamed on Slick Deals for asking people to show restraint and common sense after someone posted a deal for a free CD from Project Gutenburg. People were ordering tons of disks as if they were getting some special deal. I don't blame Canonical at all for placing limits.
I was under the impression that Apple listed Steve Jobs as the first inventor on all patent applications they filed. Am I wrong?
Well I don't literally mean every time, but of the last 5 or so groups of updates that I've gotten, I've had to reboot probably 3 of those times. And one of those was the kernel update that I couldn't even use. I realize you can rmmod certain modules, update and then insmod them again. It just depends on whether that module is required for your system to function properly.
Really? You've never seen anything like this? I've been to a tradeshow in Birmingham, UK where they may not have had lap dances, but they had pole dancers! Not to mention the girls in see-through plastic "clothes" that showed you exactly how much they were NOT wearing.
and the system needs a reboot with it gone (in true Microsoft fashion).
True Fedora and Ubuntu fashion too! I use Fedora Core 11 at work and Ubuntu 9.04 at home and they require reboots after security updates ALL the time. And don't get me started on the kernel update Fedora pushed out that panics my system every boot.
I imagine it's because Oracle and Sun both want to continue to do business in Europe?
Really? I feel like a clumsy oaf on my iphone. I can touch type but probably half the words will come out completely wrong. I'm a pretty tall person though so my finger tips are pretty big. Sometimes I accidentally touch the "send" button while my finger is on the 'O' or 'P' key. The iPhone keyboard drives me insane.