The important thing to factor into this low price is the average wage in the region; according to a quick google, and although the figures are from 2004/2005 (I was too lazy to look any harder!) "The average wage in India. currently stands at US$145 per month." ($1,740 a year) "The White collar average wage is US$335 per month." ($4,020 a year)
So it will take a white collar worker about 7 months wages to pay for this ultra cheap car, or a non-white-collar worker could put one on lay-away.... for his grandchildren!
"and not put up with rejection, sarcasm, derision, and general apathy for those years"
remember you are addressing the slashdot audience here!
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LOL, as a child, a friend's number was 642, which within a period of a couple of years got changed to 4642 then 840642 to merge the village's numbering into the nearest town.
I saved up enough CDs (mainly AOL) a couple of years back to tile the splashback above my bath.... used loads and loads of silicon to stick them up though (enough to make me dizzy from the fumes, LOL!).... which was nice.:-)
When I did this on the 14th of this month for one of these pharmacy emails, I got the following response:-
Thank you for your email to Habeas!
This message has been automatically generated in response to your email
regarding "Habeas Misuse", a summary of which appears below.
There is no need to reply to this message right now. Your ticket has
been assigned an ID of [habeas.com 133550].
Habeas has recently come under attack from an as yet unidentified
spammer. The spammer is illegally utilizing the Habeas Warrant Mark in
emails which are promoting several pharmacy websites. The attack began
on Sunday January 11, 2004 at about 11am PT.
Habeas is aggressively pursuing this incident to stop this illegal
mailstream and to utilize the Habeas legal tools at our disposal to
punish the responsible spammer for copyright and trademark violations.
Thank you for reporting this abuse of our Warrant Mark to us. We
appreciate all complaints concerning this incident, as they have already
been extremely helpful in our investigation.
With respect to Support requests:
We are currently experiencing a backlog and will review your request in
the order in which it was received.
With respect to spam containing our headers:
Please know that at Habeas we take the use of our trademark in spam very
seriously, and that while we cannot report back to you directly and
individually on the disposition of each submission, know that we will
investigate and follow this through to a satisfactory conclusion -
either the responsible party ceasing their infringing action, their
being appropriately dealt with by their service provider, or, failing
any satisfactory remedial action, listing in our Habeas Infringers List.
Thank you,
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Relavent links about Intelligent Speed Adaptation being trialled in Europe at the moment. Blurb from one of the sites:-
Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) is a general term for Intelligent Transport Systems that serve to limit the speed of a vehicle. By restricting the vehicle to the posted speed limit, ISA potentially provides one of the most effective strategies for reducing inappropriate speeds.
In the fledgling days of GSM, UK providers allowed you to port your analogue mobile number over to a GSM phone, but only while staying with the same provider.
A few years back they implemented the cross migration of GSM mobile numbers between providers. You are issued with a new temporary mobile number when you buy your new phone on your new provider, and you fill in various paperwork. The new provider then applies to your current provider for permission to release the number - if you haven't paid your bills up to date etc then they wont release it!
If all goes well the transfer happens and you can start receiving calls with your old number on your new phone within a month or so.
Turning the power off does 2 things - switches the LED off, and tells the Tivo that you're not using it anymore, allowing it to freely record any suggestions it may have for you. Normally it will only start recording suggestions after a timeout period.
This is why they invented MTV.... to flick to during the adverts!
In the UK, on Sky One at least, the adverts are so long that I've forgotten what programme/ which episode of a programme I was watching....:S
The Philips Pronto is excellent at timer functions. Mine switches my sat box to BBC News 24, and my amp on at a certain volume level on weekday mornings, and my sat channel to Sky One at 19:00 weekdays for the Simpsons. When I go to bed at night, one button powers down all my kit and fires an X10 macro to deal with lights and appliances (coffee machine etc) It also holds a disc listing for my Sony 300 DVD changer and my Pioneer 25 CD changer, and fires up my selected disc within a second or two. All functionality is only limited by memory space (I've got the original 1MB, but there's also a 2MB and I think the colour one is 8) so you can have 5000 timers if they fit in the memory.....!
I love my Pronto:-)
Check out Remotecentral.com, download the editor program which also has an emulator, download other people's configs etc. (Windows only I'm afraid....!) and have fun!!
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8776 - just have a hunt in character map inside system tools and it tells you it's unicode hex value 2248.
"heck, half of us or more have momorized where the keys" - surely +1 Irony
The important thing to factor into this low price is the average wage in the region; according to a quick google, and although the figures are from 2004/2005 (I was too lazy to look any harder!) "The average wage in India. currently stands at US$145 per month." ($1,740 a year) "The White collar average wage is US$335 per month." ($4,020 a year)
So it will take a white collar worker about 7 months wages to pay for this ultra cheap car, or a non-white-collar worker could put one on lay-away.... for his grandchildren!
"and not put up with rejection, sarcasm, derision, and general apathy for those years"
remember you are addressing the slashdot audience here!
LOL, as a child, a friend's number was 642, which within a period of a couple of years got changed to 4642 then 840642 to merge the village's numbering into the nearest town.
Now if only it would allow you to search multiple search engines like Firefox's built in search. Yeah, like there are other search engines!
I saved up enough CDs (mainly AOL) a couple of years back to tile the splashback above my bath.... used loads and loads of silicon to stick them up though (enough to make me dizzy from the fumes, LOL!).... which was nice. :-)
Wow, remind me never to play Top Trumps with you!
The article states that for these low transaction amounts, the charge will be 5% + 5 cents, so charging just a penny would cost you money!
Leeds University trials
MIRA a manufacturer
Here's a link to The Register's story about the Christmas raid on Ingliston market.
In the fledgling days of GSM, UK providers allowed you to port your analogue mobile number over to a GSM phone, but only while staying with the same provider. A few years back they implemented the cross migration of GSM mobile numbers between providers. You are issued with a new temporary mobile number when you buy your new phone on your new provider, and you fill in various paperwork. The new provider then applies to your current provider for permission to release the number - if you haven't paid your bills up to date etc then they wont release it! If all goes well the transfer happens and you can start receiving calls with your old number on your new phone within a month or so.
.... they could do the maths to work out how to realistically show a toaster flying... ;>
Turning the power off does 2 things - switches the LED off, and tells the Tivo that you're not using it anymore, allowing it to freely record any suggestions it may have for you. Normally it will only start recording suggestions after a timeout period.
This is why they invented MTV.... to flick to during the adverts! In the UK, on Sky One at least, the adverts are so long that I've forgotten what programme/ which episode of a programme I was watching.... :S
The Philips Pronto is excellent at timer functions. Mine switches my sat box to BBC News 24, and my amp on at a certain volume level on weekday mornings, and my sat channel to Sky One at 19:00 weekdays for the Simpsons. When I go to bed at night, one button powers down all my kit and fires an X10 macro to deal with lights and appliances (coffee machine etc) It also holds a disc listing for my Sony 300 DVD changer and my Pioneer 25 CD changer, and fires up my selected disc within a second or two. All functionality is only limited by memory space (I've got the original 1MB, but there's also a 2MB and I think the colour one is 8) so you can have 5000 timers if they fit in the memory.....! I love my Pronto :-)
Check out Remotecentral.com, download the editor program which also has an emulator, download other people's configs etc. (Windows only I'm afraid....!) and have fun!!