in the uk, cost of a text (sms message) on pay as you go - 10p, cost on many pay monthly services, 4p. i pay something like 2p a message, but then again im on a very expensive contract (something along the lines of 170 dollars a month, but thats international calls cheaper than from a landline, 1000 minutes to anywhere in the country, any network and 500 texts) after that calls and texts are tantamount to free. on pay as go id be spending about 1000 bucks a month, if not more. for me calling is a lot more imporant than texting
pay as you go is only good for very short term usage (eg 2 month trip to the country) or very low long term usage (under $30 a month) thats the case in the uk anyway
but the whole thing with paying for ringtones and the like, those prices are ludicrous everywhere. simple solution. dont do it.
im no fan of macs, but a friend of mine was one of those muppets... spent 200 pounds (~$380) on a lil goodie bag with about 700 pounds of merchandise in it, sold the lot, got himself a free ipod, which are a fair bit more expensive in the UK... him being a student, far more efficient use of time that many others i can think of...
im sorry but how the hell can you group glasgow with oxford, cambridge and lse? edinburgh deserves to be there, probably imperial and warwick as well, but glasgow? come on...
cant you just take a large commercial jet, take all the weight taken up by the hundreds of passengers and their luggage and replace it with fuel? that should easily provide more than enough "juice" to get around the world at least once...
i cant understand why anyone would ever want to use a trackball... cant stand them...:)
but anyway, a power generator of some sort within a mouse could easily power a wireless mouse... a mouse moves A LOT... compared to a watches, though im sure the amount of power requires is of another order of magnitude...
Things like water need only be shipped once, after that it can be recycled with very great efficiency, energy is easily available in light form, all you need is a few large arrays of cells to generate electricity, that can then be used to distill urine, or gather moisture from the air or whatever other sources. Greenhouses can also be built and food grown.
Getting a base there would be incredibly valuable for humanity (damn i hate that word) in the long run, do you think the first cars were profitable? the first tv's? a technology has to mature, as does a company and a habitat. self sustenance is a possibility in a matter of years, an elevator on the moon would make it that bit easier to get things done (even if only allowing ships to carry less fuel and therefore more cargo as the wouldnt need as much to launch off the moon)
We need to get to the moon, its getting boring here...:)
charming? no... most accents are far from charming... some are sickening, others are nearly impossible to understand... i swear theres as much variation in london as there is in the uk or even the world... in university there are endless "debates" over the correct pronounciation of certain words... then again i get that with my best mate and weve been living less than a mile apart for over a decade...
i guess it is out of order for me to be pissed off with the way people speak... but dont be offended... i actually quite like the american accent... especially on a certain petite brunette, but those 3 words (and aluminium come to think of it) frustrate me no end... a pet peeve i guess
...and if you do say it in english please say moscow "moss co." as opposed to "moss cow"... for me that and the pronounciation of "route" and "leisure" are the most irritating americanisms ("route" is said root as opposed to ra-oot (unless an army is routed... but thats a different word) and "leisure" is leh zhure as opposed to lee zhure... i dont mind american accents but i just want to slap anyone saying any of those 3 words *that* way...
i guess this is flamebait but... what can i do, im russian and ive lived in london for the last 13 years... shit bothers me
average users will be getting "funny" pics and videos forwarded to them on a nearly daily basis... usual size is about 0.3 megs i guess... limited mainly by the size of attachment restrictions hotmail had imposed... the 2 meg videos people send over messenger or link will be able to be sent... hotmail is mostly used for the trivial... the trivial tends to be bloated
people see the increased space theyll stop deleting their forwarded mails with large attachments (most hotmail users recieve a lot) and larger attachment allowances will do little to stunt this growth... id say soon enough the average user will have roughly 50 megs taken up (for every 4 people who delete most of their mail im sure theres one wholl have their box stuffed)
my point is, they probably dont have the physical capacity for that ammount of information on the hotmail servers at the moment... theyll need to upgrade the file storage servers more than a little... increasing capacity by 12400% isnt an inconsiderable feat... especailly at that scale
same here... i think older accounts got hit first... (mines 7-8 years old), you cant just create that much space in an instant? how many users does hotmail have? definitely over 10 million... lets say they allocate 50 megs per user at first (most users wont even use that much) thats how many hard drives that they need? with error checking and the like... we're talking hundreds of thousands of drives... its going to take a while (how many users are on gmail?)
and i think hotmails spam protection is more than decent as long as you dont have your address plastered all over the net...
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in the uk, cost of a text (sms message) on pay as you go - 10p, cost on many pay monthly services, 4p. i pay something like 2p a message, but then again im on a very expensive contract (something along the lines of 170 dollars a month, but thats international calls cheaper than from a landline, 1000 minutes to anywhere in the country, any network and 500 texts) after that calls and texts are tantamount to free. on pay as go id be spending about 1000 bucks a month, if not more. for me calling is a lot more imporant than texting
pay as you go is only good for very short term usage (eg 2 month trip to the country) or very low long term usage (under $30 a month) thats the case in the uk anyway
but the whole thing with paying for ringtones and the like, those prices are ludicrous everywhere. simple solution. dont do it.
and you can set limits on contract phones
im no fan of macs, but a friend of mine was one of those muppets... spent 200 pounds (~$380) on a lil goodie bag with about 700 pounds of merchandise in it, sold the lot, got himself a free ipod, which are a fair bit more expensive in the UK... him being a student, far more efficient use of time that many others i can think of...
im sorry but how the hell can you group glasgow with oxford, cambridge and lse? edinburgh deserves to be there, probably imperial and warwick as well, but glasgow? come on...
a line of dust on the film/ccd... dots and patches occur on most digital slrs if lenses are removed in non sterile surroundings often enough...
cant you just take a large commercial jet, take all the weight taken up by the hundreds of passengers and their luggage and replace it with fuel? that should easily provide more than enough "juice" to get around the world at least once...
woo... warwick... yeh! sorry, feels good to have my uni get a mention
i cant understand why anyone would ever want to use a trackball... cant stand them... :)
but anyway, a power generator of some sort within a mouse could easily power a wireless mouse... a mouse moves A LOT... compared to a watches, though im sure the amount of power requires is of another order of magnitude...
Things like water need only be shipped once, after that it can be recycled with very great efficiency, energy is easily available in light form, all you need is a few large arrays of cells to generate electricity, that can then be used to distill urine, or gather moisture from the air or whatever other sources. Greenhouses can also be built and food grown.
:)
Getting a base there would be incredibly valuable for humanity (damn i hate that word) in the long run, do you think the first cars were profitable? the first tv's? a technology has to mature, as does a company and a habitat. self sustenance is a possibility in a matter of years, an elevator on the moon would make it that bit easier to get things done (even if only allowing ships to carry less fuel and therefore more cargo as the wouldnt need as much to launch off the moon)
We need to get to the moon, its getting boring here...
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i only know two techies... bound to be exclusions then... my bad
all the techies i know in the uk call them rowters...
i was going to say "bitch slap" but... hey... what can you do... and your latter comment, i agree with you... its my problem, not anyone elses
charming? no... most accents are far from charming... some are sickening, others are nearly impossible to understand... i swear theres as much variation in london as there is in the uk or even the world... in university there are endless "debates" over the correct pronounciation of certain words... then again i get that with my best mate and weve been living less than a mile apart for over a decade...
i guess it is out of order for me to be pissed off with the way people speak... but dont be offended... i actually quite like the american accent... especially on a certain petite brunette, but those 3 words (and aluminium come to think of it) frustrate me no end... a pet peeve i guess
even if you beam matter beaming life will be impossible... wouldnt be the same consciousness... the same "soul" as such...
...and if you do say it in english please say moscow "moss co." as opposed to "moss cow"... for me that and the pronounciation of "route" and "leisure" are the most irritating americanisms ("route" is said root as opposed to ra-oot (unless an army is routed... but thats a different word) and "leisure" is leh zhure as opposed to lee zhure... i dont mind american accents but i just want to slap anyone saying any of those 3 words *that* way...
i guess this is flamebait but... what can i do, im russian and ive lived in london for the last 13 years... shit bothers me
doing that means that they need to understand the concepts written about, at least to some extent... its learning... simple as that
average users will be getting "funny" pics and videos forwarded to them on a nearly daily basis... usual size is about 0.3 megs i guess... limited mainly by the size of attachment restrictions hotmail had imposed... the 2 meg videos people send over messenger or link will be able to be sent... hotmail is mostly used for the trivial... the trivial tends to be bloated
neither are most of my friends accounts... (some are though) its just that you stated "all" accounts were still on 2mb... theyre not
people see the increased space theyll stop deleting their forwarded mails with large attachments (most hotmail users recieve a lot) and larger attachment allowances will do little to stunt this growth... id say soon enough the average user will have roughly 50 megs taken up (for every 4 people who delete most of their mail im sure theres one wholl have their box stuffed)
hmm... grammar here becomes tricky... is zero is neither singular nor plural... what the hell do i do? aarrgh
my point is, they probably dont have the physical capacity for that ammount of information on the hotmail servers at the moment... theyll need to upgrade the file storage servers more than a little... increasing capacity by 12400% isnt an inconsiderable feat... especailly at that scale
"Guess what though, all mailboxes are still 2MB!!"
bullshit
mines up to 250 megs as of... tuesday?
same here... i think older accounts got hit first... (mines 7-8 years old), you cant just create that much space in an instant? how many users does hotmail have? definitely over 10 million... lets say they allocate 50 megs per user at first (most users wont even use that much) thats how many hard drives that they need? with error checking and the like... we're talking hundreds of thousands of drives... its going to take a while (how many users are on gmail?)
and i think hotmails spam protection is more than decent as long as you dont have your address plastered all over the net...
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