Also, laptops are almost all 120/240 dual voltage. Just look on the power block part of the power adapter. You should just need a cheap <10 dollar adapter. NOT an expensive converter. If you're lucky, your power adapter will have the kind of removable plug/cable most radios, DVD players, etc, have coming out of it you can swap cheaply. I keep one for mainland europe, the UK and the US. They're just as cheap and way more convenient. Like this:
Most of the people I know already keep a secondary address on gmail/hotmail, etc for this purpose.
This works, but things such as invites, forwards, e-cards that your friends send you with good intentions still mess things up. I had a good clean 3-year run with my last address, but lately it's just spiraled out of control.
As many people have pointed out, this is a prelimenary decision to allow the question to even be reaised, not a ruling. Furthermore, the source is Business Wire, a self-publising mechanism for PR companies, so it's ultimately just scare-mongering from this Mindshare company.
Can someone explain this to me? Seems an inside reference. (requires you to RTFA):
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GD: Faith Hill or Shania Twain? (this has nothing to do with their music)
Curtis: Really when you have physical scale as we do it is Jessica Simpson, Beyonce, Mariah, Jewel, Britanny, Shakira, Christina and the other 2.5 billion singers in addition to Faith Hill AND Shania Twain - we want them all.
while working on project where we were working with new technology a few years back. we were a group of pretty experienced people, but none of us had ever really worked with this new tool, and it was very handy to take turns digging through the spec(almost non-existent and updated daily) , while the other hacked away at trying to implement our interpretations of the said spec. basically like firing of one process to look for answers, while the other tried to implement them in parallel.
it was far more effective as far as the 'zone' argument goes, and also good for finding mistakes faster... but i've never found it so useful for things you already know your way around.
but the idea of tinkering that's probably more important right now. From what i remember -- I, too was started on BASIC in grade two, etc. -- i liked it at an early age because it was fun, and as kids like, it made me special to my parents, and other important grown-ups. By the time i was in junior high, and people were ramming Pascal down my throat, it wasn't horribly interesting compared to my friends, music, comic books... it wasn't
fun
. Don't forget they're kids. The mindstorm/programming/results comment definitely hits home, since i didn't get back into any computer work until late in high school i wandered into our Yearbook office and a game of 'net trek on networked Macs (fun again). I ended up designing for a while, and came full circle with UI programming after that. But i missed a lot of good years because of overbearing grown-ups more interested in teaching me what was interesting to them, rather than showing me how the tools around me were relevant, fun, and useful from a child's perspective. for them, if programming is a means to jokes, pranks, breaking stuff, day dreaming and creating, not an end in itself, you're probably more likely to keep them interested.
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If you've got T-Mobile with internet service, you can pretty much get online for free anywhere in Europe. Here's a listing of T-Mobile HotSpots.
https://selfcare.hotspot.t-mobile.com/locations/retrieveGlobalLocationByCountry.do?country=UK
Also, laptops are almost all 120/240 dual voltage. Just look on the power block part of the power adapter. You should just need a cheap <10 dollar adapter. NOT an expensive converter. If you're lucky, your power adapter will have the kind of removable plug/cable most radios, DVD players, etc, have coming out of it you can swap cheaply. I keep one for mainland europe, the UK and the US. They're just as cheap and way more convenient. Like this:
http://www.national-tech.com/specs/power-cable/10w1-13406.htm
http://www.national-tech.com/specs/power-cable/10w1-15406.htm
They have the added bonus of not marking you out as a tourist.
Most of the people I know already keep a secondary address on gmail/hotmail, etc for this purpose.
This works, but things such as invites, forwards, e-cards that your friends send you with good intentions still mess things up. I had a good clean 3-year run with my last address, but lately it's just spiraled out of control.
As many people have pointed out, this is a prelimenary decision to allow the question to even be reaised, not a ruling. Furthermore, the source is Business Wire, a self-publising mechanism for PR companies, so it's ultimately just scare-mongering from this Mindshare company.
snip
GD: Faith Hill or Shania Twain? (this has nothing to do with their music)
Curtis: Really when you have physical scale as we do it is Jessica Simpson, Beyonce, Mariah, Jewel, Britanny, Shakira, Christina and the other 2.5 billion singers in addition to Faith Hill AND Shania Twain - we want them all.
while working on project where we were working with new technology a few years back. we were a group of pretty experienced people, but none of us had ever really worked with this new tool, and it was very handy to take turns digging through the spec(almost non-existent and updated daily) , while the other hacked away at trying to implement our interpretations of the said spec. basically like firing of one process to look for answers, while the other tried to implement them in parallel.
it was far more effective as far as the 'zone' argument goes, and also good for finding mistakes faster... but i've never found it so useful for things you already know your way around.
- fun
. Don't forget they're kids. The mindstorm/programming/results comment definitely hits home, since i didn't get back into any computer work until late in high school i wandered into our Yearbook office and a game of 'net trek on networked Macs (fun again). I ended up designing for a while, and came full circle with UI programming after that. But i missed a lot of good years because of overbearing grown-ups more interested in teaching me what was interesting to them, rather than showing me how the tools around me were relevant, fun, and useful from a child's perspective. for them, if programming is a means to jokes, pranks, breaking stuff, day dreaming and creating, not an end in itself, you're probably more likely to keep them interested.