'Don't most people pay their phone bill with their credit card? '
No, they don't.
Pay-as-you-go - whether through age( under 18s) or choice (anonymous billing), or no access to credit, is massive in Europe - don't know about where you live, but in Europe, and Japan, this method of usage is huge - hence OP
'And then I use my automatic online bill-pay service to transfer the correct amount from my checking account'
Wow! You're so 20th Century! What about places that aren't online? Mobile 'phones work there you know. we/They- 're skipping the fixed line/ credit card bit
no. US airport 'security' is a slow joke that scares people from other countries and yet ignores major security breaches.
LAX has *one* major screener, no attempt to have a process, rather a general hullabaloo, no 'where am i in the system', but bluster and false positives a-go-go. People wander out of the queue (line) and greet friends who've been screened, randoms from god-knows-what-US-state look amazed when their bag is searched yet I watch people *repack their bag after it was screened*
Every other country has had for years a sensible, non-intrusive (as a foreign national at a US hub i was finger-printed, retina-scanned and my photo taken) and rational systems.
You are still living in 1932, grateful that air-travellers land, and amazed when they aren't US citizens
Get more serious, get less inappropriate, and deal with modern hub- and spoke- travel, or people won't fly to you anymore.
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And perhaps the 'foreign poor' *should* be competitors to the 'American' poor.
'And American products filter out to the rest of the world after they're out of fashion here, so feeding the American poor would eventually feed the foreign poor, too. '
Moto make rubbish phones that look good in ads and on billboards but break quickly or have way, way too many useless features so doing anything with them is difficult.
nowhere with a real cellphone economy goes near them
> As a result, I earned 40% less because of people > like the above.
no. you earned 40% less because you indicated that you would work for 40% less.
the more people act like this (the people suing HP), the less likely it is that other people are to be paid under the going rate. it's called collectivism.
> Everyone I knew who was not English reacted > normally, ie they were horrified that yet more of > their money would be stolen without them getting > anything in return.
except better health care. which is worth paying higher taxes for.
europeans don't moan and groan about the US's lack of health care/ keeness to spend Us taxpayers' money on wars in foreign countries, so why does the limited amount of state intervention in Europe annoy Americans so much?
Incidentally, US corporation tax is higher than in the UK, and with the various state/ federal taxes that you have, ordinary (eg people earning less than 100,000USD/yr) pay _more_ than in the UK.
When I use it, I get google.com, with a link on the page saying 'go to google UK'. If I click that link, I get the UK site with an equivalent link saying 'go to google.com', and/ncr then remembers that choice.
try killing your google cookie and then going straight to/ncr
> A lot of servers are lucky to be sitting on > their own 100MBps pipe.
In countries where normal (home/office) connections are 5Mb/s, maybe. In countries with significantly faster average connection speeds, perhaps they'll (business, telcos, content services etc) also develop the infrastructure and content that works well at these speeds. And the users will then expect similarly fast speeds when they look elsewhere.
maybe. but remember that perhaps there are new chipsets, etc in the mini - that he (and others) would like to work.
eg (from the FA)
'The audio doesn't appear to be working yet, possibly because the audio driver doesn't recognise the newer chipset as one that it should attempt to drive. I imagine that this will be fixed shortly.'
Whereas the audio on my G3 works just fine under debian
Xdamage *is* gonna be a major performance increase
redrawing only the bits that have changed, and not having to poll for changes, is going to mean that especially for remote X, (vino, vnc, etc) but also for simple workstation use, it'll be much snappier
also, in earlier years 'If you weren't sure of the answer to a question, but it had nothing to do with Bruges, Delft, Dickens or Austen, it was probably Queen Elizabeth.'
in even earlier years, success would be rewarded with half a pint.
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No, you buy top up cards in in vending machines, or shops, or clubs, or pubs, with cash. More info, grandad - On many networks, such as Irelands Meteor Mobile, Pay As You Go is the main mode of operation, with account phones being very much second-class.
'pay for the telephone with a money order or a personal check?'
Wow. Now you're being 19th Century.
'Don't most people pay their phone bill with their credit card? '
No, they don't.
Pay-as-you-go - whether through age( under 18s) or choice (anonymous billing), or no access to credit, is massive in Europe - don't know about where you live, but in Europe, and Japan, this method of usage is huge - hence OP
'And then I use my automatic online bill-pay service to transfer the correct amount from my checking account'
Wow! You're so 20th Century! What about places that aren't online? Mobile 'phones work there you know. we/They- 're skipping the fixed line/ credit card bit
'Think airport security is bad enough already'
no. US airport 'security' is a slow joke that scares people from other countries and yet ignores major security breaches.
LAX has *one* major screener, no attempt to have a process, rather a general hullabaloo, no 'where am i in the system', but bluster and false positives a-go-go. People wander out of the queue (line) and greet friends who've been screened, randoms from god-knows-what-US-state look amazed when their bag is searched yet I watch people *repack their bag after it was screened*
Every other country has had for years a sensible, non-intrusive (as a foreign national at a US hub i was finger-printed, retina-scanned and my photo taken) and rational systems.
You are still living in 1932, grateful that air-travellers land, and amazed when they aren't US citizens
Get more serious, get less inappropriate, and deal with modern hub- and spoke- travel, or people won't fly to you anymore.
you'll want a nokia 6310i then.
Reliable, insane battery life, worldwide (well, tri-band), conservative and modern, etc
no speakerphone, but everything else that you want, i think
> If you are thinking of getting involved, please
> look for a job instead.
why? why do you care? do you think people *don't* look for jobs?
oh, now they will, you asked them to....
> most of these projects have been American, and I
> referred to the projects as a group.
A group of unrelated projects?
News just in. This isn't an American company
And perhaps the 'foreign poor' *should* be competitors to the 'American' poor.
'And American products filter out to the rest of the world after they're out of fashion here, so feeding the American poor would eventually feed the foreign poor, too. '
so naive. when's it going to happen then?
somone has to. makes sense for it to be those guys...
> I sometimes wish Linux had a application packaging
> system like MacOSX
where a GUI wrapper around cd / && ls -la *.mp3 cost 20 bucks?
me too.
> (where's the) option of brining tons of
> libraries with you
> hidden under a file system pretending to be an >
> app icon.
OK, that's easy. wait, what did you want again? ldd?
Moto make rubbish phones that look good in ads and on billboards but break quickly or have way, way too many useless features so doing anything with them is difficult.
nowhere with a real cellphone economy goes near them
nokia all the way, baby
> As a result, I earned 40% less because of people
> like the above.
no. you earned 40% less because you indicated that you would work for 40% less.
the more people act like this (the people suing HP), the less likely it is that other people are to be paid under the going rate. it's called collectivism.
>IANAP
I am not a Projector?
> Everyone I knew who was not English reacted
> normally, ie they were horrified that yet more of
> their money would be stolen without them getting
> anything in return.
except better health care. which is worth paying higher taxes for.
europeans don't moan and groan about the US's lack of health care/ keeness to spend Us taxpayers' money on wars in foreign countries, so why does the limited amount of state intervention in Europe annoy Americans so much?
Incidentally, US corporation tax is higher than in the UK, and with the various state/ federal taxes that you have, ordinary (eg people earning less than 100,000USD/yr) pay _more_ than in the UK.
And get substantially less for their buck.
really? I'm in the UK...
/ncr then remembers that choice.
/ncr
When I use it, I get google.com, with a link on the page saying 'go to google UK'. If I click that link, I get the UK site with an equivalent link saying 'go to google.com', and
try killing your google cookie and then going straight to
Having said that, I realise that the homepage on *this* firefox is google sugest (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
which a) always goes to google.com and b) is great.
http://google.com/ncr is what you need.
(NoCountryRedirect) - takes you to 'real' google.com
> A lot of servers are lucky to be sitting on
> their own 100MBps pipe.
In countries where normal (home/office) connections are 5Mb/s, maybe. In countries with significantly faster average connection speeds, perhaps they'll (business, telcos, content services etc) also develop the infrastructure and content that works well at these speeds. And the users will then expect similarly fast speeds when they look elsewhere.
maybe. but remember that perhaps there are new chipsets, etc in the mini - that he (and others) would like to work.
eg (from the FA)
'The audio doesn't appear to be working yet, possibly because the audio driver doesn't recognise the newer chipset as one that it should attempt to drive. I imagine that this will be fixed shortly.'
Whereas the audio on my G3 works just fine under debian
example direct quotes:
* Why Libertarians Support
Equal Rights for America's Gun Owners
* End Welfare
* The Libertarian Party: Working to slash your taxes!
* Do you remember when the standard of living in America was the best in the world?
+++++++
I mean, really, this is all just nuts
> Its not like a word processor requires any
> support. I've never seen one fail
hmm..
*me remembers trying to run star office a few years ago*
*me thinks about Word on Macs*
your friends go to jail
but hey, you get rich
> Other than that it appears to be exactly the same.
yeah, but do you trust their extension? (tf hat)
Xdamage *is* gonna be a major performance increase
redrawing only the bits that have changed, and not having to poll for changes, is going to mean that especially for remote X, (vino, vnc, etc) but also for simple workstation use, it'll be much snappier
http://freedesktop.org/Software/XDamage
coupla point from the FA
'Q2: How do you make the quiz Googleproof? "I do put the questions through Google, and change some to make it more unlikely that the answers will be thrown up immediately, but there is only so much I can do in that respect." Q3: What do you consider to be cheating? "There's nothing I would regard as cheating. If you want to do it entirely through Google, good luck. The only question is, will it reduce your pleasure if you do so?" That is, perhaps, the best question Cullen has posed so far, to which the correct answer is: "Yes."
also, in earlier years 'If you weren't sure of the answer to a question, but it had nothing to do with Bruges, Delft, Dickens or Austen, it was probably Queen Elizabeth.'
in even earlier years, success would be rewarded with half a pint.
I believe Alan Cox does this quiz every year.
maybe they're, um, not actually going for the christian holiday thing, what with them being 65% non christian and the ones that are christian not using christmas as an excuse for just large-scale gift giving
so yeah, maybe it's just you.
I must be new, posting back to my own post :P
s g?list=dev&msgNo=610
After doing the above, running the binary barfed
This page helped me a lot. http://installation.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadM
Now it works. and well. Comes with a built in media player? WTF?