Start by giving everyone the actual cap limits on the network. Then provide them with a web page showing their usage for the billing period, along with a little icon widget that can be placed on the bottom tab of the web-browser that would provide a warning if the current level of usage is going to exceed the usage cap. That should help sort most of these problems out.
I've experimented with PAYG Internet using a couple of wireless data cards (GPRS/3G networks). Once you start being billed by the kilobyte, it's straight back to text only browsers (those advertising banners, corporate logo frames that fill the entire screen and flash intro's are real bandwidth munchers).
In one of the companies I worked for, they had desks arranged in long lines side to side and back to back. The CRT monitors were so good at degaussing that they would also degauss the monitors at either side and opposite. This would lead to a "degaussing" battle as everyone degaussed their monitors.
Martian users have written to tell us of an Martian Times report that an asteroid may hit Earth on February 1st 2019. The asteroid is roughly 2 kilometres across, and martian-based researchers say that it has an unknown chance of striking Earth... scientists are hoping to witness an impact of a similar scope to the Tunguska disaster. From the Martian Times: "Because scientists have never observed an asteroid impact -- the closest thing being the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter -- such a collision on Earth would produce a 'scientific bonanza,' a martian spokesman said."
They do that on ordnance survey maps - one of their favorite tricks is to flip round the orientation of a building (especially corporate office blocks). There's nothing worse than trying to take a taxi from a railway station, only to spend 15 minutes driving in circles because the map is wrong (and it's obviously wrong because the non-symmetrical shape of the building has been rotated/flipped from what it actually is).
My mistake - our ad-blocker was set up to block all sites with *ads* in the string - that was supposed to block advert related sites, not syllable related images.
Trying doing a google image search for "prayer beads", "brake pads" or "adsorption". None of these keywords will show up any pictures with Google because they both contain the substring "ads".
There were dangers back then and now. Sunlight has been proved to be damaging to your body; sunburn - the amount of UV radiation from the sunlight has caused damage to your cells equivalent to being burnt by hot water (which in turn is emitting infra-red radiation a.k.a. as heat). Stand too close to a hot object and you will also damage your body.
Not forgetting the hazards of the early X-ray equipment (many shoe stores used to have novelty X-ray machines that allowed children to view X-rays of their feet).
Out of curiousity, does anyone have a comparison of the electromagnetic spectrum in somewhere extremely remote (eg. desert in Nevada) against the "electro-smog polluted" urban areas? The optical frequencies will probably be lower (less glare due to the shadows caused by buildings).
There are places in cities which are free from "electro-smog". Most basements won't allow cellphone operation. One of our technicians set up his office in the most remote corner of our building - it didn't even have a telephone - so he could get on with his work uninterrupted.
However their analysis and science behind the statements is based on the theory that the only way for this to happen is for the radio signals to cause some sort of spark.
I'd hate to be next to a gas station when there's a thunderstorm. I'm amazed that they don't all go popping like firecrackers every summer.
But as more graduates return to their home countries, they help expand their own universities, which means all universities across both countries will have to compete harder for the same students. This is already happening with Chinese students.
It brought attention to the open source community, Linux and Linus Torvalds. There really wasn't much media interest in Linux until Microsoft started throwing FUD and chairs at Linux; mostly at the time, the only mention was Red Hat for servers. Then everyone wants to know what scares Microsoft so much that they have to do this...
Now newspaper columns are much more aware; listing where to download liveCD's, the different releases (Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc... ) and the different desktops (KDE, Gnome).
The most obvious limitation on laptop size is what you can take with you on an airplane flight - even if it is a short-haul one hour flight. The main problem with a desktop system, is what you do with it when you relocate. You can either sell it (second hand price will lose you half of your expenditure). You can ship it to your new location, which is another few $$$. If you have a car that isn't too much of a problem.
However, with a laptop you don't have any of these problems.
I don't worry about the competence of the people designing these things. I worry about the competence of the road crews installing/upgrading/repairing/extending sewer lines/gas mains and what would happen if they suddenly discovered a concrete block in the way of their excavation. No doubt their first choice of action would be to drill away whatever bits were in their way.
The weirdest DVD I ever saw was just yesterday when I was in the supermarket. They had these credit card shaped DVD's (must have been maybe just a few minutes of video) which were being used to sell seats at a soccer match.
The point is that the game was developed using an emulator running under a MS-DOS/Windows system. When it came to saving the image used to burn the ROM cartridge memory, the cross-compiler simply malloc'ed a large block of memory, copied the code, data and static stack segments into this block and wrote the solidified block out. Unfortunately, the block of memory also contained fragments of system memory (editor source code, registry settings, and just about everything else floating about in system memory). The cross-compilation tools developer should have used 'calloc' instead of 'malloc', except that 'malloc' is generally quicker.
If you have any discussion about the legal rights of any religion, then using one of the established religions as an example, you risk starting a flame-war. So you need to create a hypothetical religion based on a particular character. All religions have one or more gods who helped create the world, and stories about interactions with humans in the past, thus in the case of Pastafarianism, The Flying Spaghetti Monster fills the role of being a God, and allows the discussion to take place without insulting anyone.
An exampled discussion: Should religion artwork be allowed in government buildings?
If all religions are to be treated fairly, then if you are to permit marble sculptures of religions figures, then you must allow be willing to accept sculptures of His Holy Noodlyness. If you are to permit paintings of a guy in white robes, white curly hair, and a long beard, then you must also be willing to permit paintings of a plate of spaghetti reaching out.
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It has happened many times with wireless modem cards (3G/GPRS) - not
£7000 Charge For Useage When Sim NOT In Use
case #1.
case #2
other cases
(Has anyone ever seen a $48,797.09 phone bill from ATT ????)
Start by giving everyone the actual cap limits on the network. Then provide them with a web page showing their usage for the billing period, along with a little icon widget that can be placed on the bottom tab of the web-browser that would provide a warning if the current level of usage is going to exceed the usage cap. That should help sort most of these problems out.
I've experimented with PAYG Internet using a couple of wireless data cards (GPRS/3G networks). Once you start being billed by the kilobyte, it's straight back to text only browsers (those advertising banners, corporate logo frames that fill the entire screen and flash intro's are real bandwidth munchers).
Many cool Sulphur Hexafluoride videos on youtube
In one of the companies I worked for, they had desks arranged in long lines side to side and back to back. The CRT monitors were so good at degaussing that they would also degauss the monitors at either side and opposite. This would lead to a "degaussing" battle as everyone degaussed their monitors.
Martian users have written to tell us of an Martian Times report that an asteroid may hit Earth on February 1st 2019. The asteroid is roughly 2 kilometres across, and martian-based researchers say that it has an unknown chance of striking Earth ... scientists are hoping to witness an impact of a similar scope to the Tunguska disaster. From the Martian Times: "Because scientists have never observed an asteroid impact -- the closest thing being the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter -- such a collision on Earth would produce a 'scientific bonanza,' a martian spokesman said."
Put one some headphones and play a video on my laptop, like this one [The Two Ronnies - crossed lines, or just listen to other music.
As another spoof video once pointed out, if you arrange the OS releases in the right order, you get Windows CE/ME/NT
They do that on ordnance survey maps - one of their favorite tricks is to flip round the orientation of a building (especially corporate office blocks). There's nothing worse than trying to take a taxi from a railway station, only to spend 15 minutes driving in circles because the map is wrong (and it's obviously wrong because the non-symmetrical shape of the building has been rotated/flipped from what it actually is).
There is the "Satellites Only, No Trucks sign"
The classic phone boxes were bright red, then there were the "modern BT phone boxes", but the latest designs have scrolling advertising pages on the opposite side to solve the declining revenue problem.
I thought this year it would be:
radio controlled dragonflies
and radio controlled helicopters
Now, if they put a couple of wireless cameras into those, that would really cool.
My mistake - our ad-blocker was set up to block all sites with *ads* in the string - that was supposed to block advert related sites, not syllable related images.
Trying doing a google image search for "prayer beads", "brake pads" or "adsorption". None of these keywords will show up any pictures with Google because they both contain the substring "ads".
If there was an air leak, wouldn't the water vapor condense and form ice around the venting region (like a little volcano?)
There were dangers back then and now. Sunlight has been proved to be damaging to your body; sunburn - the amount of UV radiation from the sunlight has caused damage to your cells equivalent to being burnt by hot water (which in turn is emitting infra-red radiation a.k.a. as heat). Stand too close to a hot object and you will also damage your body.
Not forgetting the hazards of the early X-ray equipment (many shoe stores used to have novelty X-ray machines that allowed children to view X-rays of their feet).
Out of curiousity, does anyone have a comparison of the electromagnetic spectrum in somewhere extremely remote (eg. desert in Nevada) against the "electro-smog polluted" urban areas? The optical frequencies will probably be lower (less glare due to the shadows caused by buildings).
There are places in cities which are free from "electro-smog". Most basements won't allow cellphone operation. One of our technicians set up his office in the most remote corner of our building - it didn't even have a telephone - so he could get on with his work uninterrupted.
However their analysis and science behind the statements is based on the theory that the only way for this to happen is for the radio signals to cause some sort of spark.
I'd hate to be next to a gas station when there's a thunderstorm. I'm amazed that they don't all go popping like firecrackers every summer.
But as more graduates return to their home countries, they help expand their own universities, which means all universities across both countries will have to compete harder for the same students. This is already happening with Chinese students.
Not even Touched by his Noodly appendages
Super large version for printing out and covering government buildings
It brought attention to the open source community, Linux and Linus Torvalds. There really wasn't much media interest in Linux until Microsoft started throwing FUD and chairs at Linux; mostly at the time, the only mention was Red Hat for servers. Then everyone wants to know what scares Microsoft so much that they have to do this...
Now newspaper columns are much more aware; listing where to download liveCD's, the different releases (Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc... ) and the different desktops (KDE, Gnome).
The most obvious limitation on laptop size is what you can take with you on an airplane flight - even if it is a short-haul one hour flight. The main problem with a desktop system, is what you do with it when you relocate. You can either sell it (second hand price will lose you half of your expenditure). You can ship it to your new location, which is another few $$$. If you have a car that isn't too much of a problem.
However, with a laptop you don't have any of these problems.
It's been done
I don't worry about the competence of the people designing these things. I worry about the competence of the road crews installing/upgrading/repairing/extending sewer lines/gas mains and what would happen if they suddenly discovered a concrete block in the way of their excavation. No doubt their first choice of action would be to drill away whatever bits were in their way.
The weirdest DVD I ever saw was just yesterday when I was in the supermarket. They had these credit card shaped DVD's (must have been maybe just a few minutes of video) which were being used to sell seats at a soccer match.
The point is that the game was developed using an emulator running under a MS-DOS/Windows system. When it came to saving the image used to burn the ROM cartridge memory, the cross-compiler simply malloc'ed a large block of memory, copied the code, data and static stack segments into this block and wrote the solidified block out. Unfortunately, the block of memory also contained fragments of system memory (editor source code, registry settings, and just about everything else floating about in system memory). The cross-compilation tools developer should have used 'calloc' instead of 'malloc', except that 'malloc' is generally quicker.
If you have any discussion about the legal rights of any religion, then using one of the established religions as an example, you risk starting a flame-war. So you need to create a hypothetical religion based on a particular character. All religions have one or more gods who helped create the world, and stories about interactions with humans in the past, thus in the case of Pastafarianism, The Flying Spaghetti Monster fills the role of being a God, and allows the discussion to take place without insulting anyone.
An exampled discussion: Should religion artwork be allowed in government buildings?
If all religions are to be treated fairly, then if you are to permit marble sculptures of religions figures, then you must allow be willing to accept sculptures of His Holy Noodlyness. If you are to permit paintings of a guy in white robes, white curly hair, and a long beard, then you must also be willing to permit paintings of a plate of spaghetti reaching out.