Presumably because the USA has historically had a different relationship with the telephone to the UK, Americans don't seem bothered about just phoning one another. But I figure my friends might be in meetings, or with a client, or whatever; so I don't want to interrupt with a social call. My American friend considered this unnecessarily cautious. *shrug* Just a cultural thing, I guess.
I was discussing this with an American friend the other week. It's not that we send messages to avoid the expense of calling the person - most of the time it would be cheaper for me to make a quick call than to fire messages back and forth. It's just that we find messages less intrusive; you can reply to them at your convenience, at whatever pace is best for you. SMS means my friends and I can communicate "in the background" while we're (separately) at work, watching TV, shopping or whatever, knowing that our conversation isn't interrupting anything important. We find that very valuable.
I live in the UK and I and my friends have been using text messaging a lot (200+ msgs per month each) since 1996. I've never experienced, nor even heard of, one not arriving. Still, if you want to be sure, on Orange you can prefix your message with "RCT" and you get a delivery confirmation when your message has been received. I understand you can get the same effect on other networks by putting "*0#" at the start of your message, though I haven't tried this.
I have a slow PC with a broadband connection, so when I want to transfer a CD to my iPod I tend to download rips from KaZaA rather than encode them myself (otherwise I can't use my PC for 2+ hours while it's encoding). Most MP3s are uploaded direct to my iPod and never played on anything with a network connection. So even if this were real, it wouldn't be catching me; and I'm not doing anything wrong anyway. Though I'd be interested to see how a European court felt about a foreign organisation stealing my processor power and bandwidth.
For the record, though, I find this IMMENSELY unlikely. They're just trying to scare less-knowledgeable, casual copiers.
Looking at the Nextel coverage map, I see you're right; but the family I was staying with had an analogue phone, and that worked, while my tri-band digital phone couldn't find a network on any frequency. Can you tell me more? I'm curious now.
I had to read this about four times until I realised out why it's funny (which it actually is) - in England we pronounce "BEUI" as "b'yoo-wee" and "buoy" as "boy"... our loss in this case, I guess.:)
Very true. I found out the hard way just last week that my tri-band Ericsson doesn't work in a lot of Virginia because there's no digital coverage at all there - not just in the middle of the woods, but in large commercial towns like Roanoke City. The population there is around 100,000 (to make that more comprehensible to Brits like me, that's approx. the same size as Chester or Exeter, and 15% or so bigger than Durham or Hartlepool) - but there's only an analogue signal. It's very frustrating - I don't think either digital or analogue is inherently evil, but I'm certainly in favour of everyone being on just one system or the other.
If you're using Sun Java, go to the Control Panel and run the "Java Plug-In" control. Change "Show console" to "Hide console" and click "Apply." Eccolò!
Just to be pedantic, Latvia is.lv;.la is actually Laos. See here for a web page that says pretty much exactly what I just said, plus a load of other stuff.
Kind of a pain setting up a whitelist for everyone who might me non-spam email.
It does say you can optionally claim payment. Presumably it would be socially unacceptable to claim payment from bona fide people who needed to get hold of you and weren't on your whitelist.
Of all the *nix users I know, I do not personally know of one who deserted Linux or BSD for Mac.
It doesn't have to be complete desertion though. You can switch just your desktop OS, or just your laptop OS, or whatever. Didn't CmdrTaco himself do just that?
Plus, I know a lot of people - myself included - who always liked the idea of Linux but were reluctant to lose all our industry-standard applications. Now we're looking at OS X instead of Linux as our next operating system. So that's a sort of mindshare switch, though obviously Apple can't keep going on mindshare alone.
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Oh sorry, I forgot a bit:
Presumably because the USA has historically had a different relationship with the telephone to the UK, Americans don't seem bothered about just phoning one another. But I figure my friends might be in meetings, or with a client, or whatever; so I don't want to interrupt with a social call. My American friend considered this unnecessarily cautious. *shrug* Just a cultural thing, I guess.
I was discussing this with an American friend the other week. It's not that we send messages to avoid the expense of calling the person - most of the time it would be cheaper for me to make a quick call than to fire messages back and forth. It's just that we find messages less intrusive; you can reply to them at your convenience, at whatever pace is best for you. SMS means my friends and I can communicate "in the background" while we're (separately) at work, watching TV, shopping or whatever, knowing that our conversation isn't interrupting anything important. We find that very valuable.
I live in the UK and I and my friends have been using text messaging a lot (200+ msgs per month each) since 1996. I've never experienced, nor even heard of, one not arriving. Still, if you want to be sure, on Orange you can prefix your message with "RCT" and you get a delivery confirmation when your message has been received. I understand you can get the same effect on other networks by putting "*0#" at the start of your message, though I haven't tried this.
I think "it's" for "it has" is pretty unexceptionable. "It's stopped raining," for example, or "it's been three months since I last bought a CD."
I have a slow PC with a broadband connection, so when I want to transfer a CD to my iPod I tend to download rips from KaZaA rather than encode them myself (otherwise I can't use my PC for 2+ hours while it's encoding). Most MP3s are uploaded direct to my iPod and never played on anything with a network connection. So even if this were real, it wouldn't be catching me; and I'm not doing anything wrong anyway. Though I'd be interested to see how a European court felt about a foreign organisation stealing my processor power and bandwidth.
For the record, though, I find this IMMENSELY unlikely. They're just trying to scare less-knowledgeable, casual copiers.
Looking at the Nextel coverage map, I see you're right; but the family I was staying with had an analogue phone, and that worked, while my tri-band digital phone couldn't find a network on any frequency. Can you tell me more? I'm curious now.
I had to read this about four times until I realised out why it's funny (which it actually is) - in England we pronounce "BEUI" as "b'yoo-wee" and "buoy" as "boy" ... our loss in this case, I guess. :)
Well sure, but we have the density elsewhere in the country to subsidise that, innit?
Very true. I found out the hard way just last week that my tri-band Ericsson doesn't work in a lot of Virginia because there's no digital coverage at all there - not just in the middle of the woods, but in large commercial towns like Roanoke City. The population there is around 100,000 (to make that more comprehensible to Brits like me, that's approx. the same size as Chester or Exeter, and 15% or so bigger than Durham or Hartlepool) - but there's only an analogue signal. It's very frustrating - I don't think either digital or analogue is inherently evil, but I'm certainly in favour of everyone being on just one system or the other.
Well, we could try to slashdot their (I believe official) webserver by all going here every so often...
Unfortunately for you, the question is whether the judge believes in it.
If you're using Sun Java, go to the Control Panel and run the "Java Plug-In" control. Change "Show console" to "Hide console" and click "Apply." Eccolò!
1. Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Java Plug-In
2. Untick "Show Java in System Tray"
3. Click "Apply"
Voilà.
If you get spam from ABC Mortgage Company offering to refinance your house, the sanctions run against ABC rather than the spammer ABC hires.
Time to send out a million messages saying "buy Windows XP!"
Seriously, how would you prove that the advertiser had given the agent authority to expose it to sanctions?
Dude, that is the most heinous spelling of Chakotay ever. It is, however, much, much more satisfying than the real one.
Just to be pedantic, Latvia is .lv; .la is actually Laos. See here for a web page that says pretty much exactly what I just said, plus a load of other stuff.
I bet they're doing obscenely wasteful things like using ints to track individual character features that have under 256 alternatives each.
That would be wasteful. If they... oh, ints. Sorry. Thought you said ents.
If LucasArts can achieve that with just an "M", surely one character ought to be enough for anybody?
Kind of a pain setting up a whitelist for everyone who might me non-spam email.
It does say you can optionally claim payment. Presumably it would be socially unacceptable to claim payment from bona fide people who needed to get hold of you and weren't on your whitelist.
Hey, give the guy a break - it may not have been screened in that his country yet. With a name like "Anonymous Coward," I'd guess he's French.
In Soviet Union, too bad there is a backwards R!
Of all the *nix users I know, I do not personally know of one who deserted Linux or BSD for Mac.
It doesn't have to be complete desertion though. You can switch just your desktop OS, or just your laptop OS, or whatever. Didn't CmdrTaco himself do just that?
Plus, I know a lot of people - myself included - who always liked the idea of Linux but were reluctant to lose all our industry-standard applications. Now we're looking at OS X instead of Linux as our next operating system. So that's a sort of mindshare switch, though obviously Apple can't keep going on mindshare alone.
And while you're at it, ask her if she wants to add inches to her penis.
Empty out AUTOEXEC.BAT so you won't get prompted for a date, while you're at it.
Hey, if I did that I'd never get asked for a date at all!
Please don't watch Eastenders/Monty Python/Fawlty Towers and think that the country hasn't changed.
Or indeed that it was ever like that, except in rarefied pockets of society, isolated and exaggerated for the purposes of a TV comedy.