Why? Simply because the atmosphere is more relaxed! It's like those days back at school when perhaps a school bus crashed or lots of other kids didn't turn up cuz of snow.. Sure it sucked to be in school but the day was different. The work you had to do was generally easy, and you got to have fun in a smaller group.
Working on Xmas means fewer pointy haired bosses to worry about, and hopefully some overtime $$! It's all good!!
Why don't more nerds in universities/companies do things like this? There's a whole heap of stuff you could do.
1) Hook up water and a supply of coffee direct to the machine. This way you could control the ENTIRE coffee creation process remotely so that you have coffee waiting for you.
2) Run Linux on it and have the coffee machine actually control the webcam.
3) Implement a thermostat so that you can go get coffee when it's at a nice drinkable temperature, rather than getting burnt straight away.
4) Hook a car battery and some wheels up to it, and make it mobile. Then program it with everyone's coffee preferences, and have it work out a route around the building delivering coffee. Y'know, just like those robots at the start of Short Circuit.
At the start of every localized broadband revolution, there's a lot of hyped up marketing speak. They talk about bandwidth being increased 'a hundred fold' over modem speeds, etc etc. Telcos say they can offer 10mbps connections to every customer for $X.99 per month, and a handful of content providers say they can provide 'movies on tap' yada yada.
The businesses in question generally can provide what they say.. but only to a small number of customers. Why is this? It's because any system only performs at the speed of its slowest component. In this case the slowest component is almost always the link between the telco and the content providers (or between the telco and the Internet, if you will).
Now, when the first customer signs up to XYZ Telco's ISP they might be given 10mpbs of bandwidth to play with. However, this doesn't mean that they're getting 10mbps of Internet bandwidth, but simply that data can be transferred between the telco and the user at 10 million bits per second.
After several thousand/million people have signed up, the telco realizes that its connection to the Internet isn't quite so hot. Demand shoots up and down throughout the day, and most ISPs simply have enough bandwidth on tap to satisfy most of the bandwidth requirements for most of the day.
Unlike electricity (a market most comparable to that of ISPs), you can't 'create' more bandwidth on tap. That is, at bandwidth heavy times you can't just turn on a generator and create more bandwidth for people to use. So what do ISPs do? They have two options.
1) Have enough bandwidth so that there's always enough available. So, if your customers have 1mbps connections and you have 100,000 customers, you'd need 100,000mbps of bandwidth between them and the Internet. Unpractical.
2) Get away with as little as possible and hope the bulk of your users stay. This will result in slow connections and low speeds at peak times, but will still seem fast off-peak. Many dialup ISPs shoot for this option as it's a great trade off between price and customer retention.
3) Cap your users. A lot of companies don't try this because it can foster illwill with customers, even though it's the best strategy bandwidth-wise. Simply limit your customers to a certain amount of time per day to be online, or in this case.. the amount of total bandwidth they can use. So, they might have a 10mbps line sitting there, but suddenly they can only use 1mbps. This solves the bandwidth problem.. but also creates great redundancy at off-peak times.
Therefore, I'd shoot for my own option. That is, 'intelligently' cap bandwidth based on overall use. So, at 5pm you might only allow every customer to use up to 2mbps, whereas at 5am, you allow the whole 10mbps.
The advantage of this system is that users who are using a lot of resources (P2P etc) don't 'suck up' half of the bandwidth leaving those who are doing other things to have pitiful modem-like amounts of bandwidth to use. That's the problem with scenario 2 above.
And why don't telcos/ISPs use my scenario number 1? Simply because they don't have the money, or would rather save it at the expense of illwill from customers.
The standards in the broadband market are not very high, so why should companies plough money into bandwidth when other companies aren't doing it either? If you had 100,000 customers paying $50 a month for Internet access and you could still be the best in your industry by providing as little bandwidth as possible, wouldn't you do it?
Problems with PDAs, Linux or not
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I think PDAs are a great idea, and that everyone should have one. But PDAs have a number of flaws.
1) If everyone is meant to have one, surely it should act as some sort of communications device too? Manufacturers are starting to pick up on this with phone/PDA devices such as the Nokia Communicator or Cybiko, but more effort should be put into this area of the market rather than just the OS.
2) Bring prices down! I really can't understand the prices of PDAs, and that's why I don't have one. For a tiny thing with a color screen and 16MB of RAM they expect me to pay $300? Nuts.
Perhaps Linux will help slash the prices, but do the OS and applications really suck up most of the $300? I doubt it. In fact, I'd imagine most of the costs of the typical PDA are thanks to giant R&D budgets and weird non standard components. Not to mention those expensive screens..
Using Linux in an embedded setting is a start. But until we have a reasonably well functioned PDA for under $99, the majority of the population will not own one. And nor will I.
remember what Clarke said, the future is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we CAN imagine....
Darn right. Think back to 1981. Would you have even contemplated that you'd be sitting in front of a computer in ten years time having discussions with thousands of people based all over the world?
Could we have contemplated that there'd be a free UNIX about in twenty years time that would threaten the domination of one of the world's largest companies? Or, for that matter, could we have even thought that a COMPUTER SOFTWARE company run by some nerds in Seattle would be the world's most powerful company?
And what about MP3? You can walk around with your entire record collection in your pocket now. With 3G technologies, you can access the Web at broadband speeds on the move and download entire albums in minutes to your handheld devices. This is crazy stuff to even have thought about five years ago, let alone twenty.
My own prediction is that quantum computing is going to give us a major kick in the ass in the next twenty years, and we can't even possibly imagine what technology will be like then.
We're currently sitting on the part of the exponential curve of technology growth where it's shooting up fast, but not at an impossibly dizzy rate. Twenty years, we'll probably be there.
Perl is the x86 instruction set of computer languages. Python is the ARM.
That makes Visual Basic the Z80 of computer languages then I guess?
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You're right. There's a lot of unnecessary elitism in programming (just like in anything else.. choosing an OS, video card, etc) which gets in the way of the task at hand. I admit it, I've done it myself.
Perl is often put down for no reason, although a specifically Win32 based programming language that also gets a lot of unnecessary ribbing is Delphi. Visual C++ diehards don't really care about the fact Delphi's compiler is faster or that you can do practically everything quicker in Delphi, but they blast it anyway.
While Visual C++, Perl, VB, ADA, Delphi, x86 are all good languages, it'd indeed be a dull world if you only stuck to one of them without learning others.
I just can't wait for the day that you can inline other languages easily, just like you can do with x86 into many current languages.
Imagine writing away in C++ and suddenly dropping in:
Canadians love tax, so the government is constantly coming up with oddball schemes to create new taxes for. This is the perfect solution.
If I were Chretian I'd like to call it GST. Going-to Space Tax. This tax will benefit Canada since Canadians will now be able to disperse their superior liberal tax-loving genes elsewhere in the universe.
'Canada can be lOOse to explore space more quickly from our giant space hOOse'
Not to be rude, but is this really news? This product is months old already, and I've seen reviews all over the place. Why suddenly link to one now? It's interesting to read about it [again] but I come to Slashdot to find out about all the geeky news things that I can impress my friends with. How can I do that if you post 'news' that's months old? I might as well go and read The National Tech Enquirer.
Could this 'game' be linked to the real world?
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A few years ago there was a program on British TV called 'Killernet' and it was all about a CDROM 'multimedia' game where a whole town was simulated and you had to go around killing women in the town without being caught. Sounds fun.
However, the whole premise of the story was that some crazy maniac programmer dude wrote the game in the first place and when you murdered chicks in the game he actually DID the murder in real life.
Because friends of the people playing the game knew about the game they generally turned their friends over to the police and the players ended up getting the blame instead of the psychopath who wrote the game.
Could that be what this 'game' is about? Perhaps this software company are just using YOUR skills to hack into real life banks folks.. and YOU'LL get all the blame.
Awww that is so sad, but I will give your 'codec' a new home if need be. A warm loving home and family awaits. Is it toilet-trained and fully innoculated?
I'm not as impressed this time. A PSX was a major achievement, but a SNES? Nah. And anyway, his portable PSX made a nice weapon with that CD spinning in the open on the back;-)
What is impressive, however, is the way he's made it look like a comic strip this time around. That's nice stuff.
As an aside.. 'has did it again'? Nice to see literary standards are on the up with Slashdot contributors.
In the UK we've had digital radio for some time. However, as always, we have to take a different route to the US (think cellphones or TV here) and our digital radio is terrestrial.
There's no subscription fee, and anyone with a digital radio can pick it up, but there are a few things to consider...
Poor station choice. In London you can pick up probably about thirty channels, which is more than normal but hardly amazing. Go 150 miles north of London and you're nearly slumming it.. all you can get is the BBC Radio 1 through 5. Crap.
Questionable quality on certain channels. Digital radio, just like digital TV, should offer enhanced quality. However, they're pulling the same tricks as the digital TV companies by running at as low a bitrate as possible. Do we really want 96kbps mp3 quality?
Low Infrastructure Costs. This is a good one, and means we don't have to pay $X.XX per month to listen in.
VERY EXPENSIVE RADIO SETS. Digital radio sets in the UK right now are very highly priced. The 'cheap' ones are about $300 US, and you can pay far more for one for in your car.
As you can imagine, digital radio has NOT taken off in the UK because of some of these problems. The big problem is that it costs too much for a radio set.
Hopefully a satellite based service will be launched in Europe. Even for $10 a month I'd sign up for a commercial-free service.. I could rip all the songs to mp3!
A digital satellite radio service already exists but it was primarily designed for use in Africa, and as such.. has hundreds of really really really crappy channels from Turkey and the Sudan. No thanks. And you have to point the stupid aerial at the satellite at all times, which rules out mobile or in-home use.
Did you ever hear of Joan of Arc? She was only 16 when she managed to rally France to defeat the English. Sure, not 15, but 15 year olds are no more powerful now than they ever were.
This is exactly why these new phone PDAs worry me. You've only got to have a copy of Outlook Express running and your phone will call everyone in your Address Book or send them frisky messages.
Though my grandma might like to receive 'How are you sexy legs?', I'm not sure my boss would be quite as accepting.. (and if he is, I should quit)
When Ananova.com launched a couple of years ago, there were numerous articles in the press laughing at the way it worked. At the time, Ananova was primarily a streaming video news service fronted by a computer generated character.
Its voice was completely retarded, and let out plenty of faux-pas during its 'broadcasts'. For example, there was a story about a cancer patient who died, and Ananova's cock-awful pronounciation and weird facial tics turned it into a comedy.
It's better now, but still sounds like Stephen Hawkings on acid. Whoever developed this system is a brave mofo for trying it out, but with computer generated characters like this, I think regular people are going to be in demand in the broadcasting industry for some time yet..
Prodigy is just an ISP. Its servers just deliver hyperlinks. Much like Napster only delivered data.
Surely if you really had a patent on links, wouldn't you go after HTML software companies (Adobe, Macromedia) and browser companies (Microsoft, AOL)??
Oh no.. BT wouldn't sue Microsoft because even BTs fat pompous ass would get kicked by MS. Why not pick on Prodigy though?
Either way, BT is a ridiculous company, and this is a ridiculous lawsuit. I mean, come on.. you can get DSL in Yukon, thousands of miles from anywhere, but I can't get DSL 100 miles north of London? Morons.
They already have a colossal amount of debt. With any luck, they'll lose this case, have to shell out the $$, and hopefully we'll see them go under sometime soon. It happened to Railtrack, an even bigger sham of a privatised company.
Noticed this in comments from several people who've bought the game..
The whole point of this game is the fighting and shooting.. especially in the single player scenarios. For some reason, the enemies don't even flinch or jerk when you shoot them.. and apparently this ruins the fighting experience.
Either way, from all the things I've heard, I'm put off buying it now, and $50 is too much. Perhaps I'll wait for GTA3.
Having looked around at all the stuff the Dreamcast can do.. play mp3s, VCDs, go on the net, the games.. these seem a snap at $50 and I want one.
In the UK, however, they cost $150. Even the ones for sale on eBay UK are like $100. Too much. $50 is an ideal price, and I even looked at the import duty on them from the US.. 2.2% + 17.5%.. even with that it'd still be under $90 for a brand new one.. but Amazon won't ship electical items to the UK!
So what do we do in the UK? Pay three times more for everything, like normal? Seems like it. Any ideas?
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Why? Simply because the atmosphere is more relaxed! It's like those days back at school when perhaps a school bus crashed or lots of other kids didn't turn up cuz of snow.. Sure it sucked to be in school but the day was different. The work you had to do was generally easy, and you got to have fun in a smaller group.
Working on Xmas means fewer pointy haired bosses to worry about, and hopefully some overtime $$! It's all good!!
Why don't more nerds in universities/companies do things like this? There's a whole heap of stuff you could do.
1) Hook up water and a supply of coffee direct to the machine. This way you could control the ENTIRE coffee creation process remotely so that you have coffee waiting for you.
2) Run Linux on it and have the coffee machine actually control the webcam.
3) Implement a thermostat so that you can go get coffee when it's at a nice drinkable temperature, rather than getting burnt straight away.
4) Hook a car battery and some wheels up to it, and make it mobile. Then program it with everyone's coffee preferences, and have it work out a route around the building delivering coffee. Y'know, just like those robots at the start of Short Circuit.
At the start of every localized broadband revolution, there's a lot of hyped up marketing speak. They talk about bandwidth being increased 'a hundred fold' over modem speeds, etc etc. Telcos say they can offer 10mbps connections to every customer for $X.99 per month, and a handful of content providers say they can provide 'movies on tap' yada yada.
The businesses in question generally can provide what they say.. but only to a small number of customers. Why is this? It's because any system only performs at the speed of its slowest component. In this case the slowest component is almost always the link between the telco and the content providers (or between the telco and the Internet, if you will).
Now, when the first customer signs up to XYZ Telco's ISP they might be given 10mpbs of bandwidth to play with. However, this doesn't mean that they're getting 10mbps of Internet bandwidth, but simply that data can be transferred between the telco and the user at 10 million bits per second.
After several thousand/million people have signed up, the telco realizes that its connection to the Internet isn't quite so hot. Demand shoots up and down throughout the day, and most ISPs simply have enough bandwidth on tap to satisfy most of the bandwidth requirements for most of the day.
Unlike electricity (a market most comparable to that of ISPs), you can't 'create' more bandwidth on tap. That is, at bandwidth heavy times you can't just turn on a generator and create more bandwidth for people to use. So what do ISPs do? They have two options.
1) Have enough bandwidth so that there's always enough available. So, if your customers have 1mbps connections and you have 100,000 customers, you'd need 100,000mbps of bandwidth between them and the Internet. Unpractical.
2) Get away with as little as possible and hope the bulk of your users stay. This will result in slow connections and low speeds at peak times, but will still seem fast off-peak. Many dialup ISPs shoot for this option as it's a great trade off between price and customer retention.
3) Cap your users. A lot of companies don't try this because it can foster illwill with customers, even though it's the best strategy bandwidth-wise. Simply limit your customers to a certain amount of time per day to be online, or in this case.. the amount of total bandwidth they can use. So, they might have a 10mbps line sitting there, but suddenly they can only use 1mbps. This solves the bandwidth problem.. but also creates great redundancy at off-peak times.
Therefore, I'd shoot for my own option. That is, 'intelligently' cap bandwidth based on overall use. So, at 5pm you might only allow every customer to use up to 2mbps, whereas at 5am, you allow the whole 10mbps.
The advantage of this system is that users who are using a lot of resources (P2P etc) don't 'suck up' half of the bandwidth leaving those who are doing other things to have pitiful modem-like amounts of bandwidth to use. That's the problem with scenario 2 above.
And why don't telcos/ISPs use my scenario number 1? Simply because they don't have the money, or would rather save it at the expense of illwill from customers.
The standards in the broadband market are not very high, so why should companies plough money into bandwidth when other companies aren't doing it either? If you had 100,000 customers paying $50 a month for Internet access and you could still be the best in your industry by providing as little bandwidth as possible, wouldn't you do it?
I think PDAs are a great idea, and that everyone should have one. But PDAs have a number of flaws.
1) If everyone is meant to have one, surely it should act as some sort of communications device too? Manufacturers are starting to pick up on this with phone/PDA devices such as the Nokia Communicator or Cybiko, but more effort should be put into this area of the market rather than just the OS.
2) Bring prices down! I really can't understand the prices of PDAs, and that's why I don't have one. For a tiny thing with a color screen and 16MB of RAM they expect me to pay $300? Nuts.
Perhaps Linux will help slash the prices, but do the OS and applications really suck up most of the $300? I doubt it. In fact, I'd imagine most of the costs of the typical PDA are thanks to giant R&D budgets and weird non standard components. Not to mention those expensive screens..
Using Linux in an embedded setting is a start. But until we have a reasonably well functioned PDA for under $99, the majority of the population will not own one. And nor will I.
remember what Clarke said, the future is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we CAN imagine....
Darn right. Think back to 1981. Would you have even contemplated that you'd be sitting in front of a computer in ten years time having discussions with thousands of people based all over the world?
Could we have contemplated that there'd be a free UNIX about in twenty years time that would threaten the domination of one of the world's largest companies? Or, for that matter, could we have even thought that a COMPUTER SOFTWARE company run by some nerds in Seattle would be the world's most powerful company?
And what about MP3? You can walk around with your entire record collection in your pocket now. With 3G technologies, you can access the Web at broadband speeds on the move and download entire albums in minutes to your handheld devices. This is crazy stuff to even have thought about five years ago, let alone twenty.
My own prediction is that quantum computing is going to give us a major kick in the ass in the next twenty years, and we can't even possibly imagine what technology will be like then.
We're currently sitting on the part of the exponential curve of technology growth where it's shooting up fast, but not at an impossibly dizzy rate. Twenty years, we'll probably be there.
I -want- an XBox, but if I had to buy tomorrow, I'd probably buy a PS2. Why?
1) PS2 is cheaper. 2) PS2 can play cheap PS1 games. 3) PS2 has Gran Turismo 3 and GTA 3.
Why do I want an xBox?
1) Can use as an mp3 box. 2) Possible future hacking projects. 3) Decent netplay. 4) Halo. 5) Better controllers. 6) Better graphics.
But is it worth the extra $ and losing games such as GT3 and GTA3?
I think not.
Perl is the x86 instruction set of computer languages. Python is the ARM.
That makes Visual Basic the Z80 of computer languages then I guess?
You're right. There's a lot of unnecessary elitism in programming (just like in anything else.. choosing an OS, video card, etc) which gets in the way of the task at hand. I admit it, I've done it myself.
Perl is often put down for no reason, although a specifically Win32 based programming language that also gets a lot of unnecessary ribbing is Delphi. Visual C++ diehards don't really care about the fact Delphi's compiler is faster or that you can do practically everything quicker in Delphi, but they blast it anyway.
While Visual C++, Perl, VB, ADA, Delphi, x86 are all good languages, it'd indeed be a dull world if you only stuck to one of them without learning others.
I just can't wait for the day that you can inline other languages easily, just like you can do with x86 into many current languages.
Imagine writing away in C++ and suddenly dropping in:
inline perl {
$_ = $argv['myvariable'];
s/etcetc/etcetc/g;
}
That would rule! (Especially since languages such as C and Pascal are awful at the things Perl is good at.)
They already did it. Windows 95. That bizatch of an operating system cut US productivity in half overnight.
I think the US military should now be focused on finding and putting the Blue Screen Of Death on trial. It's worse than Bin Laden.
And I screwed up my own post. I suck.
Canadians love tax, so the government is constantly coming up with oddball schemes to create new taxes for. This is the perfect solution.
If I were Chretian I'd like to call it GST. Going-to Space Tax. This tax will benefit Canada since Canadians will now be able to disperse their superior liberal tax-loving genes elsewhere in the universe.
'Canada can be lOOse to explore space more quickly from our giant space hOOse'
Not to be rude, but is this really news? This product is months old already, and I've seen reviews all over the place. Why suddenly link to one now? It's interesting to read about it [again] but I come to Slashdot to find out about all the geeky news things that I can impress my friends with. How can I do that if you post 'news' that's months old? I might as well go and read The National Tech Enquirer.
A few years ago there was a program on British TV called 'Killernet' and it was all about a CDROM 'multimedia' game where a whole town was simulated and you had to go around killing women in the town without being caught. Sounds fun.
However, the whole premise of the story was that some crazy maniac programmer dude wrote the game in the first place and when you murdered chicks in the game he actually DID the murder in real life.
Because friends of the people playing the game knew about the game they generally turned their friends over to the police and the players ended up getting the blame instead of the psychopath who wrote the game.
Could that be what this 'game' is about? Perhaps this software company are just using YOUR skills to hack into real life banks folks.. and YOU'LL get all the blame.
Watch out.
Awww that is so sad, but I will give your 'codec' a new home if need be. A warm loving home and family awaits. Is it toilet-trained and fully innoculated?
I just thought of what he could make next..
A portable 286.
Think about it.. you could run all the old favourites. Windows 286. GEM. DOS 2!
I'm not as impressed this time. A PSX was a major achievement, but a SNES? Nah. And anyway, his portable PSX made a nice weapon with that CD spinning in the open on the back ;-)
What is impressive, however, is the way he's made it look like a comic strip this time around. That's nice stuff.
As an aside.. 'has did it again'? Nice to see literary standards are on the up with Slashdot contributors.
There's no subscription fee, and anyone with a digital radio can pick it up, but there are a few things to consider...
As you can imagine, digital radio has NOT taken off in the UK because of some of these problems. The big problem is that it costs too much for a radio set.
Hopefully a satellite based service will be launched in Europe. Even for $10 a month I'd sign up for a commercial-free service.. I could rip all the songs to mp3!
A digital satellite radio service already exists but it was primarily designed for use in Africa, and as such.. has hundreds of really really really crappy channels from Turkey and the Sudan. No thanks. And you have to point the stupid aerial at the satellite at all times, which rules out mobile or in-home use.
Did you ever hear of Joan of Arc? She was only 16 when she managed to rally France to defeat the English. Sure, not 15, but 15 year olds are no more powerful now than they ever were.
Unlike .info and .biz. I've tried hundreds of company names with .biz on the end. None work. Where's microsoft.biz? Where's insurance.info?
.biz or .info. Useless. But at least this .museum TLD is being used.
No-one's using
This is exactly why these new phone PDAs worry me. You've only got to have a copy of Outlook Express running and your phone will call everyone in your Address Book or send them frisky messages.
Though my grandma might like to receive 'How are you sexy legs?', I'm not sure my boss would be quite as accepting.. (and if he is, I should quit)
When Ananova.com launched a couple of years ago, there were numerous articles in the press laughing at the way it worked. At the time, Ananova was primarily a streaming video news service fronted by a computer generated character.
Its voice was completely retarded, and let out plenty of faux-pas during its 'broadcasts'. For example, there was a story about a cancer patient who died, and Ananova's cock-awful pronounciation and weird facial tics turned it into a comedy.
It's better now, but still sounds like Stephen Hawkings on acid. Whoever developed this system is a brave mofo for trying it out, but with computer generated characters like this, I think regular people are going to be in demand in the broadcasting industry for some time yet..
Watch Ananova Video
Prodigy is just an ISP. Its servers just deliver hyperlinks. Much like Napster only delivered data.
Surely if you really had a patent on links, wouldn't you go after HTML software companies (Adobe, Macromedia) and browser companies (Microsoft, AOL)??
Oh no.. BT wouldn't sue Microsoft because even BTs fat pompous ass would get kicked by MS. Why not pick on Prodigy though?
Either way, BT is a ridiculous company, and this is a ridiculous lawsuit. I mean, come on.. you can get DSL in Yukon, thousands of miles from anywhere, but I can't get DSL 100 miles north of London? Morons.
They already have a colossal amount of debt. With any luck, they'll lose this case, have to shell out the $$, and hopefully we'll see them go under sometime soon. It happened to Railtrack, an even bigger sham of a privatised company.
Noticed this in comments from several people who've bought the game..
The whole point of this game is the fighting and shooting.. especially in the single player scenarios. For some reason, the enemies don't even flinch or jerk when you shoot them.. and apparently this ruins the fighting experience.
Either way, from all the things I've heard, I'm put off buying it now, and $50 is too much. Perhaps I'll wait for GTA3.
Having looked around at all the stuff the Dreamcast can do.. play mp3s, VCDs, go on the net, the games.. these seem a snap at $50 and I want one.
In the UK, however, they cost $150. Even the ones for sale on eBay UK are like $100. Too much. $50 is an ideal price, and I even looked at the import duty on them from the US.. 2.2% + 17.5%.. even with that it'd still be under $90 for a brand new one.. but Amazon won't ship electical items to the UK!
So what do we do in the UK? Pay three times more for everything, like normal? Seems like it. Any ideas?
(8) Injuring the reputation of state organs;
Off with Lewinsky's head, if she were in China. She injured the reputation of Clinton's organ alright.