Why is this a problem? IT just so happens that razor blades are the most expensive things that you can slip in your pocket in a supermarket, so Gillette's 'overheads' can be quite significant.
I don't know about non-australian supermarkets, but every single aisle is under video surveillence any way. I'd prefer to have my photo taken whilst buying razors so the price can be kept down, as opposed to me scratching my arse between the cornflakes and pumpkin aisle.
A pilot friend of mine recently looked into getting a 3G phone, it'd be nice to be ableto see his wife and kids when doing long haul etc, but the major flaw that he could see wasn't the phone, but the covereage.. the 3G coverage is not global, in fact it's limited to a handful of countries apparently..
Why is it that people always inherently love assuming the worst about technology? I was in the annual meeting for the australian packaging group, and i know their main concern was to get RFID implemented to prevent situations of poisonings and extortion - ie, once an item is sold, the RFID is set as sold. Alarm bells can start to ring if this already purchased item is returned to the shelf - automatically.
How do these things with a passive range of a few feet compare to say a mobile phone's tracking ability. ah well.
..it's just hidden from the main menu. For phones such as the 7110 where you can enablethe net monitor menu, tell it to enable menu 20. The digits in the bottom left corner of the screen prepended by the + [unless you're sitting in the freezer] are the temperature.
You can also use the menus to work out how far from a transmitter you are, to lock to certain transmitters etc etc
..I've seen all of them [thanks to the wonders of technology] and found the two mentioned [2nd ren] very dissapointing. The rest of the series turn into pulsating factals with colours that look like a bad trip.
However, look out for 'beyond', and the one about the P.I - it's very good...as an incidental, for anyone who saw XMEN2 - did you notice that the screen was flickering morethan normal? was it just me, or is this that new anti-cam thing? If i thought about it my eyes started running uncontrollably!
Are you joking? 20,000 words is 20,000 words, english, french or swahili. Kanji is just the script that the words are written in.
Japanese is one of the most rigourous languages out there. No other language that I know of has ~5 levels of politeness.
Failproof Japanese sentence syntax: Time [de] subject [wa] object [particle] verb [desu]
And yes, that's very basic, but compared to english, pah!
Context? You can't muck up - you have particles that you places after words that determine the context. [ie, wo makes the object, wa makes the subject etc]..and that's on a basic level.
Energex in queensland. You wouldnt really know unless you knew, if you follow me. The cables are about 2-4" in diameter, and are non-descript black sheathed.
Bad photos [taken last night actually] http://quantum-x.ice.org/caveclan/12.jp g http://quantum-x.ice.org/caveclan/11.jpg [to the left] http://quantum-x.ice.org/caveclan/7.jpg
In Australia our major power supplier here does that for all of their high-tension cables that go underground - they're encased in a layer of plastic, but the rest is oil. It not only is cheaper and lighter than other sheathing forms, but it insulates and dissapates heat at the same time
Their Octopus card, as poitned out is a great RF based card for not only the MTR [mass transit railway] - but it's slow seeping into 'normal' life - you can zap stuff at the 7-11 etc too, which is very cool for the late night snacks:D
well, if they have 50,000 subscribers, from the article, you'd have thought someone in australia would have heard of it heh heh you can see the aussie cops 'weeell, there is that ISP thing down the road' and off they trudge to raide the local 'internation snack place' [or some other lame acroynym[
of course not- telstra is the monopoly - it used top be government controlled before it was priviatised, so it owns essentially 100% of the australian telephony infrastructure.
pull plug, aussie feds 'Go go hey wha is this thing on?'
The germans have really dropped the ball [potato] on this one.. there were some guys in canberra cbd, australia, 3 years ago firing lemons to heights of 1km, which ripped off a car door on the way down, and went through a few roofs to boot.
Amusingly, they were caught by a cop who reckonised the hard lemons [or remains there of] as one of his family members, if i recall correctly.
Australian FM boasts of course, the obligatory selection of main-stream effluence, but our FM is reliatively clean, open, and categorised. I guess mr abrahams is yet to jump our country.
The concept of piracy is different in China. 'we' as westerners see piracy as downloading warez off the internet, and burning a copy, and maybe giving it to a friend.
piracy in china is walking to your local market and buying something, incredibly cheaply. run by the triads mainly, and they're not short on cash. you dont buy DVD-R'd movies, you buy stamped silvers...in exactly the same way that you dont copy the cartriges yourelf, but buy them pirated...i'd hate to be the PR executive who tried to muscle in on the triads:D
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except as a beta tester, i'd have to tell you that it's basically not :D
Ok, I tried all of these utilities, and you know what? They block every source of LEGITIMATE adult income there is.
I'm all for anti spam and anti malicioius code, but i can't use it because some zealot somewhere makes the decision that adult == spam.
ever notice that it's always the cereal aisle? ..like there *no other places* to dump your stuff.
:/
Guess razors in your cornflakes would get you up and going in the morning
Why is this a problem?
IT just so happens that razor blades are the most expensive things that you can slip in your pocket in a supermarket, so Gillette's 'overheads' can be quite significant.
I don't know about non-australian supermarkets, but every single aisle is under video surveillence any way. I'd prefer to have my photo taken whilst buying razors so the price can be kept down, as opposed to me scratching my arse between the cornflakes and pumpkin aisle.
A pilot friend of mine recently looked into getting a 3G phone, it'd be nice to be ableto see his wife and kids when doing long haul etc, but the major flaw that he could see wasn't the phone, but the covereage.. the 3G coverage is not global, in fact it's limited to a handful of countries apparently..
..time to classify think geek's internet map!
Terrorist training: "Attack the purple bit..no no the one above the orange spidery bit..
Naturally Google = God, but the real question is whether Google == God :)
Why is it that people always inherently love assuming the worst about technology? I was in the annual meeting for the australian packaging group, and i know their main concern was to get RFID implemented to prevent situations of poisonings and extortion - ie, once an item is sold, the RFID is set as sold. Alarm bells can start to ring if this already purchased item is returned to the shelf - automatically.
How do these things with a passive range of a few feet compare to say a mobile phone's tracking ability. ah well.
..it's just hidden from the main menu. For phones such as the 7110 where you can enablethe net monitor menu, tell it to enable menu 20. The digits in the bottom left corner of the screen prepended by the + [unless you're sitting in the freezer] are the temperature.
You can also use the menus to work out how far from a transmitter you are, to lock to certain transmitters etc etc
..I've seen all of them [thanks to the wonders of technology] and found the two mentioned [2nd ren] very dissapointing. The rest of the series turn into pulsating factals with colours that look like a bad trip.
..as an incidental, for anyone who saw XMEN2 - did you notice that the screen was flickering morethan normal? was it just me, or is this that new anti-cam thing? If i thought about it my eyes started running uncontrollably!
However, look out for 'beyond', and the one about the P.I - it's very good.
My god! Theives getting gaoled. This obviously is violating my rights online!
Are you joking?
..and that's on a basic level.
20,000 words is 20,000 words, english, french or swahili. Kanji is just the script that the words are written in.
Japanese is one of the most rigourous languages out there. No other language that I know of has ~5 levels of politeness.
Failproof Japanese sentence syntax:
Time [de] subject [wa] object [particle] verb [desu]
And yes, that's very basic, but compared to english, pah!
Context? You can't muck up - you have particles that you places after words that determine the context. [ie, wo makes the object, wa makes the subject etc]
Energex in queensland. You wouldnt really know unless you knew, if you follow me. The cables are about 2-4" in diameter, and are non-descript black sheathed.
p g
Bad photos [taken last night actually]
http://quantum-x.ice.org/caveclan/12.j
http://quantum-x.ice.org/caveclan/11.jpg [to the left]
http://quantum-x.ice.org/caveclan/7.jpg
In Australia our major power supplier here does that for all of their high-tension cables that go underground - they're encased in a layer of plastic, but the rest is oil. It not only is cheaper and lighter than other sheathing forms, but it insulates and dissapates heat at the same time
Their Octopus card, as poitned out is a great RF based card for not only the MTR [mass transit railway] - but it's slow seeping into 'normal' life - you can zap stuff at the 7-11 etc too, which is very cool for the late night snacks :D
well, if they have 50,000 subscribers, from the article, you'd have thought someone in australia would have heard of it heh heh
you can see the aussie cops 'weeell, there is that ISP thing down the road' and off they trudge to raide the local 'internation snack place' [or some other lame acroynym[
of course not- telstra is the monopoly - it used top be government controlled before it was priviatised, so it owns essentially 100% of the australian telephony infrastructure.
pull plug, aussie feds 'Go go hey wha is this thing on?'
large ISP? never even heard of this eftel of which you speak! [not slamming you, it jsut sounds like a government plan]
aww :( ;)
if it makes you feel any better, I think you should have won.
insightful?
dear GOD
the INJUSTICE
The germans have really dropped the ball [potato] on this one.. there were some guys in canberra cbd, australia, 3 years ago firing lemons to heights of 1km, which ripped off a car door on the way down, and went through a few roofs to boot.
Amusingly, they were caught by a cop who reckonised the hard lemons [or remains there of] as one of his family members, if i recall correctly.
Australian FM boasts of course, the obligatory selection of main-stream effluence, but our FM is reliatively clean, open, and categorised. I guess mr abrahams is yet to jump our country.
The concept of piracy is different in China. 'we' as westerners see piracy as downloading warez off the internet, and burning a copy, and maybe giving it to a friend.
..in exactly the same way that you dont copy the cartriges yourelf, but buy them pirated. ..i'd hate to be the PR executive who tried to muscle in on the triads :D
piracy in china is walking to your local market and buying something, incredibly cheaply. run by the triads mainly, and they're not short on cash. you dont buy DVD-R'd movies, you buy stamped silvers.
Christ almighty
Yes, my child?
that'd make for a large error box on a stat plot.. only 10 or so billion.