The price for putting a phone in a house in Japan is a lot but what people do when they leave is pass it on to the next person to move in, so the person leaving gets most of their money back.
"all 15 member states of the European Union have just ratified the Kyoto treaty"
I'm going to instead "rapify" the Kyoto treaty:
We've agreed to cut back on our greenhouse emissions Maybe use something clean like nuclear fission The only thing now that this rapper be dissin' Is the US of A, 'cos the point they be missin'.
" Which means it's really "Ghird". So now, Hurd is "Ghird of Unix-Replacing Daemons"... Ghurd. But now, Hird is "Gghird" and Hurd is "Gghurd" making it Ggghird and Ggghurd..."
Ah, I see the start of a great Icelandic Saga here.
I disagree- if you look at Kenobi's face when he tells Luke about the death of his father (in the scene in Ben's hut) he looks like he is hiding something. Watch it again, you'll see what I mean.
I had a book, back in the day, which was about The Making of ESB, specifically the models, and there was an interview with GL in there which had him saying there would be 9 films, that the droids linked them together, that the middle 3 were made first because they had the most action in and were more "accessible" etc.
" So while it may run at 1.53GHZ, that is not the name of the processor. I find it annoying that you just can't call the processor by the correct name"
Yeah, and if you run GNU software on that processor you'd better get used to calling it the GNU/AMD XP 1800.
This is slightly tangential, but seems a good place to ask: does anyone know how to get Microsoft IME under Windows XP to use a Dvorak layout for romanji input when typing Japanese ?
For English I just use the US Dvorak input method, but when the language is set to Japanese there seems to be no way to use Dvorak other than tediously modifying the romanji->kana input table, which is clearly the wrong way to go about things.
But the fact that this appeared in a major British newspaper is important: it may represent the fact that public opinion is stronger than we have judged and there may be a consumer backlash against the "content moguls".
Or not...
And if you think a mogul is a thing out of Final Fantasy, you're wrong.
"Yes, it's because of the bandwidth hogs, ho use ten times what they are paying for"
They can't use ten times more bandwidth than they are paying for; they are merely efficiently using all the bandwidth they have been allocated.
This is unless of course you are referring to people hacking their cable modems to increase their alloted bandwidth, in which case, these users can be singled out and cut off.
"How dare they? I mean, why the hell should people who cost them more money have to pay more? Don't they realise that these noble, honourable souls constantly downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s and porn deserve a free ride?"
What the hell are you talking about ?
When you pay for (A)DSL you get a certain upload and download bandwidth- in my case it's 256Mb up, 512Mb down.
ISPs claim that you can use this bandwidth as much as you like as often as you like, and yet their whole business model depends on either no or very few people doing that.
Now they could put the technology in place to handle everyone using 256/512 24/7, charge accordingly and know that the system will hold up, but instead they think "Muhhahahhahaha, no-one's going to actually try using all that bandwidth on a regular basis, we can get more money this way".
If I am alloted a certain amount of bandwidth it is impossible (hacking of cable modems notwithstanding) to increase that bandwidth. You're saying that if I actually use the amount of bandwidth I have then I am stupid to think that I should not pay more, because I am costing the ISP more....
Wake up! Stop taking the drugs! Earth to poster- get a fucking clue!
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How anodyne.
(Warning, that was a geeky joke for etymologists).
graspee
"Yes, but you can't call on your iPAQ."
I count this as another advantage.
Most people like to be "in" when they're out, I like to be "out" when I'm in.
graspee
The price for putting a phone in a house in Japan is a lot but what people do when they leave is pass it on to the next person to move in, so the person leaving gets most of their money back.
graspee
But the Nokia Communicator is bigger than my ipaq, and my ipaq can do all this and more. I personally have nethack and a Spectrum emulator on it.
graspee
How come nobody has stated the obvious yet ?
It's perfect for pr0n!
Now your boss will have to look at your facial expression to see if you're working or not; good poker players need never work again!
graspee
Is your Palm a worthless piece of junk then?
I know, send it to China!
graspee
"all 15 member states of the European Union have just ratified the Kyoto treaty"
I'm going to instead "rapify" the Kyoto treaty:
We've agreed to cut back on our greenhouse emissions
Maybe use something clean like nuclear fission
The only thing now that this rapper be dissin'
Is the US of A, 'cos the point they be missin'.
graspee
"If only major software vendors delayed code to iron out the bugs, "
And if only major hardware vendors delayed iron to code out the bugs....
graspee
"'Copyright is my right. Buy a license or you'll have trouble with the police,' croons Egyptian pop singer Shaban Abd el-Reheem on his latest album"
Great lyrics! Can you imagine Metallica singing:
"Respect respect respect our intellectual property!
If...
You...
Copy our music,
You'll be in trouble!
With the POLICE!
With the POLICE!
WITH THE POLICE!"
graspee
After all of you have finished having fun with your little joke I would just like to get seri...
$10!
Goddamit, I'm not letting some AC beat me to 0wning a huge network!
graspee
They should sell the network on ebay. I bid $1!
graspee
Talking of stuff like this, please check out Plan9 if you haven't already done so.
graspee
" Which means it's really "Ghird". So now, Hurd is "Ghird of Unix-Replacing Daemons"... Ghurd. But now, Hird is "Gghird" and Hurd is "Gghurd" making it Ggghird and Ggghurd..."
Ah, I see the start of a great Icelandic Saga here.
graspee
I lost any respect for Alec Guinness when he bad-mouthed that fan for having no life, and his attitude towards Star Wars generally.
graspee
I disagree- if you look at Kenobi's face when he tells Luke about the death of his father (in the scene in Ben's hut) he looks like he is hiding something. Watch it again, you'll see what I mean.
graspee
I had a book, back in the day, which was about The Making of ESB, specifically the models, and there was an interview with GL in there which had him saying there would be 9 films, that the droids linked them together, that the middle 3 were made first because they had the most action in and were more "accessible" etc.
Or did I dream it ?
graspee
" So while it may run at 1.53GHZ, that is not the name of the processor. I find it annoying that you just can't call the processor by the correct name"
Yeah, and if you run GNU software on that processor you'd better get used to calling it the GNU/AMD XP 1800.
graspee
This is slightly tangential, but seems a good place to ask: does anyone know how to get Microsoft IME under Windows XP to use a Dvorak layout for romanji input when typing Japanese ?
For English I just use the US Dvorak input method, but when the language is set to Japanese there seems to be no way to use Dvorak other than tediously modifying the romanji->kana input table, which is clearly the wrong way to go about things.
graspee
Rocket jumping taken to extremes.
graspee
try this, it's hilarious!
graspee
But the fact that this appeared in a major British newspaper is important: it may represent the fact that public opinion is stronger than we have judged and there may be a consumer backlash against the "content moguls".
Or not...
And if you think a mogul is a thing out of Final Fantasy, you're wrong.
graspee
"Yes, it's because of the bandwidth hogs, ho use ten times what they are paying for"
They can't use ten times more bandwidth than they are paying for; they are merely efficiently using all the bandwidth they have been allocated.
This is unless of course you are referring to people hacking their cable modems to increase their alloted bandwidth, in which case, these users can be singled out and cut off.
graspee
"How dare they? I mean, why the hell should people who cost them more money have to pay more? Don't they realise that these noble, honourable souls constantly downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s and porn deserve a free ride?"
What the hell are you talking about ?
When you pay for (A)DSL you get a certain upload and download bandwidth- in my case it's 256Mb up, 512Mb down.
ISPs claim that you can use this bandwidth as much as you like as often as you like, and yet their whole business model depends on either no or very few people doing that.
Now they could put the technology in place to handle everyone using 256/512 24/7, charge accordingly and know that the system will hold up, but instead they think "Muhhahahhahaha, no-one's going to actually try using all that bandwidth on a regular basis, we can get more money this way".
If I am alloted a certain amount of bandwidth it is impossible (hacking of cable modems notwithstanding) to increase that bandwidth. You're saying that if I actually use the amount of bandwidth I have then I am stupid to think that I should not pay more, because I am costing the ISP more....
Wake up! Stop taking the drugs! Earth to poster- get a fucking clue!
graspee
This is not "insightful"- loads of ISPs already charge by the MB over a certain limit (in addition to a flat charge for access).
graspee
It would have been better to call it the MX-EVA2 (Asuka's) , since the EVA3 is the black one that goes a bit mental and strange.
graspee