If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time. This is a standard operating procedure, and nothing to complain about on Slashdot.
It actually makes no difference in my experience.
I've had my bank shut down my VISA card twice now for the first international transactions made in exactly the location I've told them I'm going to be.
I think what happens is that a computer stops the card immediately and flags it for a human to review at a later point, but in the mean while I have a dead piece of plastic and an embarrassing situation at a checkout.
I'd say Japan. I've been there a few times and have always been amazed as I watch long distance trains pulling into the station exactly when the timetable says they should.
Ryanair has announced that their entire fleet is being fitted with equipment to allow calls on board. Ryanair don't fly to the USA (yet!) but it does raise the question as to whether the FCC would have jurisdiction over a non-US airline.
Or you could do what the rich and self important used to do in the days of Concorde; fly over for a meeting, and fly back the same day. No need to change your timezone at all; you just end up getting a late night.
It would in theory, but there's one major catch; Concorde didn't have the range to do New York to Tokyo without stopping. London to Barbados, not as far, was only possible with restrictions on loading.
The three legal movie download services mentioned in the MPAA press release are:
- CinemaNow - Windows only.
- Movielink - currently a 403 forbidden.
- Ruckus - colleges/universities only, not for individuals.
Maybe I'd take the press releases more seriously if there was a legal choice for DVD (or higher) quality video that I could watch on the platform of my choice.
Millennium Force is 310ft, a full 110ft smaller than Dragster. It is, however, a much better ride -- having done it twice now, the sixteen second experience that is Dragster is not something I would wait more than an hour for.
Also, on Xcode...
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The article mentions the various tools that come with Xcode, but not Xcode itself. Reading between the lines, I guess Blizzard is probably still using CodeWarrior for actual compilation work.
The article refers to Concorde as the only supersonic passenger aircraft. That is not the case; the russian Tupolev TU-144 ran a short lived passenger service in the late '70s.
Of course it was even less efficient than the Concorde, but it did exist:)
Original NES games are at 256*224 (or 240) resolution, which will not fit on a GBA screen. Since, according to Nintendo, emulation is illegal, I would assume that these must be rewrites?
Is it just me, or are BIOS images getting more and more bloated?
I use a Macintosh. While earlier Macs had all sorts of nonsense in ROM (car crash noises, colour photographs, and god knows what else besides) recent machines have almost nothing.
Technologies change - indeed the web is moving at a fair rate too. Imagine if this web browser in the BIOS only supported HTML 1.0.
One of the other posts so far in this topic has commented that bandwidth is a privilege, not a right.
That may be - but it is a privilege only available to a select few. In Ireland, where I live, broadband access is commercially available only in very small areas of Dublin - we're talking a few thousand people, tops.
Many people would be prepared to pay for bandwidth if they could get it - but the fact is, they can't. There is no alternative to modem (or ISDN) dialup for the majority of people here. Worse, local calls are not free - so an hour at 56K costs the equivalent of US $1.00. It adds up.
How much is Cable/DSL in the states? US $50/month? For that, your average Irish modem user may have been lucky enough to get about 300MB of traffic through.
Fortunately it looks like this may change soon - thank god - but for now, we're stuck with V.90.
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I went to a movie earlier this week.
The show was prefixed by twenty-six minutes of advertising and trailers.
Cutting that back would be a major step to improving the customer experience at theaters.
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time. This is a standard operating procedure, and nothing to complain about on Slashdot.
It actually makes no difference in my experience.
I've had my bank shut down my VISA card twice now for the first international transactions made in exactly the location I've told them I'm going to be.
I think what happens is that a computer stops the card immediately and flags it for a human to review at a later point, but in the mean while I have a dead piece of plastic and an embarrassing situation at a checkout.
...is that Creative Cloud is only $50/month in the United States.
Pricing in Europe is almost fifty percent more expensive. Check it if you don't believe me.
I'd love to know how the bean counters in Adobe justify that...
And both users of Vista will be horribly disappointed by that...
I'd say Japan. I've been there a few times and have always been amazed as I watch long distance trains pulling into the station exactly when the timetable says they should.
Ryanair has announced that their entire fleet is being fitted with equipment to allow calls on board. Ryanair don't fly to the USA (yet!) but it does raise the question as to whether the FCC would have jurisdiction over a non-US airline.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5298332.stm
Or you could do what the rich and self important used to do in the days of Concorde; fly over for a meeting, and fly back the same day. No need to change your timezone at all; you just end up getting a late night.
It would in theory, but there's one major catch; Concorde didn't have the range to do New York to Tokyo without stopping. London to Barbados, not as far, was only possible with restrictions on loading.
The three legal movie download services mentioned in the MPAA press release are:
- CinemaNow - Windows only.
- Movielink - currently a 403 forbidden.
- Ruckus - colleges/universities only, not for individuals.
Maybe I'd take the press releases more seriously if there was a legal choice for DVD (or higher) quality video that I could watch on the platform of my choice.
At least one Apple call centre is just outside Cork, Ireland -- I don't know if there is more than one.
I'd love something like this, but I'm far too busy/lazy to build my own. A business opportunity for someone, perchance?
Millennium Force is 310ft, a full 110ft smaller than Dragster. It is, however, a much better ride -- having done it twice now, the sixteen second experience that is Dragster is not something I would wait more than an hour for.
The article mentions the various tools that come with Xcode, but not Xcode itself. Reading between the lines, I guess Blizzard is probably still using CodeWarrior for actual compilation work.
The article refers to Concorde as the only supersonic passenger aircraft. That is not the case; the russian Tupolev TU-144 ran a short lived passenger service in the late '70s.
:)
Of course it was even less efficient than the Concorde, but it did exist
Should help Mac sales somewhat! :)
While the Crystal Quest series was also published by Casady & Greene, it was nothing to do with John Calhoun.
According to a recent thread, MAME may soon be GPL.
Nope. This isn't emulation - the Super Gameboy has the relevant bits of a Gameboy built in to it.
Nope. You can't emulate a SNES on a GBA - the power simply isn't there. SNES conversions (Super Mario Advance, ...) are rewrites.
Original NES games are at 256*224 (or 240) resolution, which will not fit on a GBA screen. Since, according to Nintendo, emulation is illegal, I would assume that these must be rewrites?
Is it just me, or are BIOS images getting more and more bloated?
I use a Macintosh. While earlier Macs had all sorts of nonsense in ROM (car crash noises, colour photographs, and god knows what else besides) recent machines have almost nothing.
Technologies change - indeed the web is moving at a fair rate too. Imagine if this web browser in the BIOS only supported HTML 1.0.
Anyone know if the new Clies will sync on a Mac? Palm Desktop supports it, but previous Clies have not been compatible with the Mac Hotsync.
Site is unreachable now. /. effect strikes again :-)
One of the other posts so far in this topic has commented that bandwidth is a privilege, not a right.
That may be - but it is a privilege only available to a select few. In Ireland, where I live, broadband access is commercially available only in very small areas of Dublin - we're talking a few thousand people, tops.
Many people would be prepared to pay for bandwidth if they could get it - but the fact is, they can't. There is no alternative to modem (or ISDN) dialup for the majority of people here. Worse, local calls are not free - so an hour at 56K costs the equivalent of US $1.00. It adds up.
How much is Cable/DSL in the states? US $50/month? For that, your average Irish modem user may have been lucky enough to get about 300MB of traffic through.
Fortunately it looks like this may change soon - thank god - but for now, we're stuck with V.90.
How about all those only entitled to 1GB/month or whatever before they get billed for excess bandwidth?
Who is seriously going to pay $15 to rent a movie?