For expensive items, I believe they give you a note saying you had it with you, when you left your home country. If you can't produce such a note going back, tough luck, you have to pay a small fortune in tax.
In particular, I remember/. screaming that just because CD sales went down while sharing went up, didn't mean that the sharing was causing it. I believe the argument was that quality of music was dropping, and that was why sales had gone down.
Maybe music quality has improved? Or at least, more people like the music being created...
We used to have a pay service, ITV Digital (previously OnDigital) but it kinda flopped.
Basically it was providing less channels than most of the competing pay services, and while it had the advantage that you could get it absolutely anywhere without changing the house (great if you're living in university halls of residence), that wasn't enough to make it successful.
Glad someone got some use of this. I'm mildly confused how a detailed description of IE breaking a couple of RFCs is offtopic in a discussion about making IE standards complaint, but apparently the mods think it is.
If you're interested, browsers I've tested this on include Mozilla (and varients), Netscape, Opera and Safari. I think I tested this under Lynx as well, but wouldn't swear to it.
Downloading the index page, then uploading it to the W3C validator throws an error about being unable to determine character encoding. Forcing character encoding to iso-8859-1 results in 371 errors!
Now if they'd just fix the stupid file upload breakage. Every other browser I know of sends just the name of the file, in the content disposition header, but IE sends the full path, like this:
C:\windows\Desktop\myfile.doc
instead of
myfile.doc
That's not too bad though - we can just trim everything after the last backslash. Except, that the ContentDisposition is a MIME header, so those backslashes are meant to be escaping the character after them. Therefore, the filename is really:
C:windowsDesktopmyfile.doc
So we have to have two different ways of parsing ContentDisposition, the right way, and the Microsoft way, and have to pick one depending on browser ID.</rant>
Must not post when sleepy. Fuel as in natural gas, in a heating your house way, not in a making the car go way. That sort of fuel has a just scary tax rate on it.
Yes, but the health service sucks, pensions are lousy, and I believe we pay a helluva lot more tax. This months salary for me (research assistant, computer science, degree + 3 years experience):
Basic pay - 1849.25 UKP
Income tax - 276.74 UKP
NI (government pension) - 136.82 UKP
Company pension - 117.43 UKP
Net pay - 1318.26 UKP
Then a further 60 UKP to the local council, to cover police, schools, refuse, sewage, etc. Oh, and 17.5% on anything I buy, except for food and fuel (which are 5% I believe).
Hunting briefly around the 'net, I can find a 40gb Seagate IDE HD for about $55. Official memory cards for an X-Box cost $25. I have two cards for my PS2, so lets assume that's about the right number. So, for $5 more, I get over 2500 times the space, and much higher access speed.
So here's what I'm hoping Microsoft do. They sell two models of X-Box 2, one with HD, one without. The one with costs $50 extra, but you can probably save that in memory cards.
On a seperate note, am I the only one here who didn't chip their X-Box? Everyone is complaining they won't be able to use it as their file server, or at least not copy games to the HD?
I have a policy of upgrading and rebooting my systems frequently. It tends to break things. Which is a good thing. It makes sure you only have to deal with little problems, instead of years worth of problems at once.
I currently sys-admin half a dozen servers. When I inherited them, they were massively out of date, and hadn't been rebooted in years. The sys-admins had nightmares about what would happen if they ever had to be rebooted. So I scheduled some downtime, and rebooted them. Took me 8 hours to get the server back up again. I then fixed all the problems that had shown up, and updated the server to the latest of everything. Server reboots now occur every few weeks (generally for kernel updates), and take a matter of minutes.
It's particularly frustrating for me, as I have a motherboard for a 64bit processor, but the processor has disappeared into the postal system. I'm taking bets on how many weeks it takes before I finally have a complete working system...
Try moving every 6-12 months, and then tell me that:) Seriously, good point, although for anyone that does move often a single box they can pick up and carry, compared to 2 or more, is wonderful. Also in terms of cabling - one box means less cables to disconnect, pack, lose, find again and reconnect.
Is that it only takes one lazy programmer for their to be a GPL violation. I don't see this is being some high-up manager instructing their programmers to use mplayer to save time, I see this as someone realising they needed subtitles code and mplayer had it already, so they did a quick cut&paste.
A quarter? You lucky bastard, I'm at 2500% spam and rising, after filters!
However, on the whole trash it argument, if everyone installed these filters, the "Please confirm" messages would never be delivered to someone who didn't send the message in the first place. Not that I'm saying I _like_ this option, just that it seems to work.
There's a really cool trick I've seen, used by Internet retailers, where they have offices just outside the UK, and post region 1 DVDs from there. They accept payment in UKP, and your product arrives typically within 2 days. play.com, DC-DVD and a few others all do this.
The problem with this is that you need to be able to get the public key of whoever is sending you e-mail, in order to verify that e-mail. That's going to get complex.
Personally, I'd like to see SMTP moved to being over SSL. ISPs would get their certificates from some central signing authority, much in the same way SSL certificates are handed out already. Users would get an SSL certificate with their account, signed by their ISP, so they could send e-mail to the ISP's SMTP server, which then forwarded it on. Then all SMTP servers are told not to accept e-mail from systems with unverifiable keys, and you have a very good start to a trusted e-mail system.
There are problems - it will be necessary to have a list of revoked certificates, which is likely to get quite long until people figure out they can't effectively work around this. It will involve more load on the SMTP servers, although the decrease in spam might counteract that somewhat. However, I think it would work.
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For expensive items, I believe they give you a note saying you had it with you, when you left your home country. If you can't produce such a note going back, tough luck, you have to pay a small fortune in tax.
Try running Testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
It comes as part of Knoppix I believe, and was a great help last time someone lost their partition table. After that, just fsck as normal.
In particular, I remember /. screaming that just because CD sales went down while sharing went up, didn't mean that the sharing was causing it. I believe the argument was that quality of music was dropping, and that was why sales had gone down.
Maybe music quality has improved? Or at least, more people like the music being created...
> On the other hand those monkey adverts were superb.
Yup. The get a free monkey with a settop box offer nearly saved the company, apparently. You can buy the monkeys online now:
http://www.gadgetshop.com/eshop/product.asp?pf_id= 17135
We used to have a pay service, ITV Digital (previously OnDigital) but it kinda flopped.
Basically it was providing less channels than most of the competing pay services, and while it had the advantage that you could get it absolutely anywhere without changing the house (great if you're living in university halls of residence), that wasn't enough to make it successful.
Glad someone got some use of this. I'm mildly confused how a detailed description of IE breaking a couple of RFCs is offtopic in a discussion about making IE standards complaint, but apparently the mods think it is.
If you're interested, browsers I've tested this on include Mozilla (and varients), Netscape, Opera and Safari. I think I tested this under Lynx as well, but wouldn't swear to it.
Downloading the index page, then uploading it to the W3C validator throws an error about being unable to determine character encoding. Forcing character encoding to iso-8859-1 results in 371 errors!
Now if they'd just fix the stupid file upload breakage. Every other browser I know of sends just the name of the file, in the content disposition header, but IE sends the full path, like this:
C:\windows\Desktop\myfile.doc
instead of
myfile.doc
That's not too bad though - we can just trim everything after the last backslash. Except, that the ContentDisposition is a MIME header, so those backslashes are meant to be escaping the character after them. Therefore, the filename is really:
C:windowsDesktopmyfile.doc
So we have to have two different ways of parsing ContentDisposition, the right way, and the Microsoft way, and have to pick one depending on browser ID.</rant>
Must not post when sleepy. Fuel as in natural gas, in a heating your house way, not in a making the car go way. That sort of fuel has a just scary tax rate on it.
Yes, but the health service sucks, pensions are lousy, and I believe we pay a helluva lot more tax. This months salary for me (research assistant, computer science, degree + 3 years experience):
Basic pay - 1849.25 UKP
Income tax - 276.74 UKP
NI (government pension) - 136.82 UKP
Company pension - 117.43 UKP
Net pay - 1318.26 UKP
Then a further 60 UKP to the local council, to cover police, schools, refuse, sewage, etc. Oh, and 17.5% on anything I buy, except for food and fuel (which are 5% I believe).
Someone want to tell me how that compares?
I don't want to seem pedantic, but...
Apart from that, good point!
I have to say, given a PS2 with HD makes only marginally more noise than a normal PS2, I think the processor can be blamed a lot more for this one...
Hunting briefly around the 'net, I can find a 40gb Seagate IDE HD for about $55. Official memory cards for an X-Box cost $25. I have two cards for my PS2, so lets assume that's about the right number. So, for $5 more, I get over 2500 times the space, and much higher access speed.
So here's what I'm hoping Microsoft do. They sell two models of X-Box 2, one with HD, one without. The one with costs $50 extra, but you can probably save that in memory cards.
On a seperate note, am I the only one here who didn't chip their X-Box? Everyone is complaining they won't be able to use it as their file server, or at least not copy games to the HD?
I have a policy of upgrading and rebooting my systems frequently. It tends to break things. Which is a good thing. It makes sure you only have to deal with little problems, instead of years worth of problems at once.
I currently sys-admin half a dozen servers. When I inherited them, they were massively out of date, and hadn't been rebooted in years. The sys-admins had nightmares about what would happen if they ever had to be rebooted. So I scheduled some downtime, and rebooted them. Took me 8 hours to get the server back up again. I then fixed all the problems that had shown up, and updated the server to the latest of everything. Server reboots now occur every few weeks (generally for kernel updates), and take a matter of minutes.
It's particularly frustrating for me, as I have a motherboard for a 64bit processor, but the processor has disappeared into the postal system. I'm taking bets on how many weeks it takes before I finally have a complete working system...
Fedora Core 1 is 2.4.22 with misc patches. Having said that, while I couldn't tell you off hand, I'm pretty sure that includes Serial-ATA support.
Try moving every 6-12 months, and then tell me that :) Seriously, good point, although for anyone that does move often a single box they can pick up and carry, compared to 2 or more, is wonderful. Also in terms of cabling - one box means less cables to disconnect, pack, lose, find again and reconnect.
their=there, oops
Also, they contract out to a group in Korea for their coding!
Is that it only takes one lazy programmer for their to be a GPL violation. I don't see this is being some high-up manager instructing their programmers to use mplayer to save time, I see this as someone realising they needed subtitles code and mplayer had it already, so they did a quick cut&paste.
Well, that's what I meant, anyway. What I should have put is 96% spam. Oops
Answering backwards:
A quarter? You lucky bastard, I'm at 2500% spam and rising, after filters!
However, on the whole trash it argument, if everyone installed these filters, the "Please confirm" messages would never be delivered to someone who didn't send the message in the first place. Not that I'm saying I _like_ this option, just that it seems to work.
The best one of these I've seen has to have been the one that came from a UK address. Great move, spam-boy.
There's a really cool trick I've seen, used by Internet retailers, where they have offices just outside the UK, and post region 1 DVDs from there. They accept payment in UKP, and your product arrives typically within 2 days. play.com, DC-DVD and a few others all do this.
The problem with this is that you need to be able to get the public key of whoever is sending you e-mail, in order to verify that e-mail. That's going to get complex.
Personally, I'd like to see SMTP moved to being over SSL. ISPs would get their certificates from some central signing authority, much in the same way SSL certificates are handed out already. Users would get an SSL certificate with their account, signed by their ISP, so they could send e-mail to the ISP's SMTP server, which then forwarded it on. Then all SMTP servers are told not to accept e-mail from systems with unverifiable keys, and you have a very good start to a trusted e-mail system.
There are problems - it will be necessary to have a list of revoked certificates, which is likely to get quite long until people figure out they can't effectively work around this. It will involve more load on the SMTP servers, although the decrease in spam might counteract that somewhat. However, I think it would work.