I suspect that paying services like this will dry up quickly, due to competition from other ways of access/forms of transport and the growing expectation that WiFi should be provided like light or bathrooms - free.
Here in Paris, about three months ago I noticed that lots of cafes were offering WiFi at a similar rate to this. A couple of months later, and the same places have given up and offer it for free. It started out as a premium service, then became a nice perk to have, and soon it will be an expectation everywhere.
This is going to sound so old-fashioned, but does anyone else feel like the tunnel might take some of the romance out of the trip? I've done it twice now, and I have to confess there was always something a little special about getting the boat and being able to watch as the shores of Africa approached.
Surely The Second Coming is available on some of those labels? It came out ten years ago, and you can buy it at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000OT 7/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-9193601-6480634
Yes, but at the same time the German economy is stagnating, struggling to deal with their social welfare systems and the strain of reintegrating the former East Germany.
BBC streamable radio programme on the problems they are having here.
Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government
I believe that the origin of the celebration was originally as an anti-Catholic thing, sort of like a 17th Century Klan rally. It was effigies of the Pope that were burned, changing to Guy Fawkes only later. Most people now celebrate it for the same reason people celebrate Halloween; go out, have fun.
OK, I missed the part where you simply replaced US bills being printed with Chilean bills or whatever, and tryed to point them in the right direction. Sure, if the Federal Reserve controlled the printing and issuing you could do it.
I don't think it would be as popular as you would imagine, though. Somehow, it seems that if you print a local design on the currency, it implies that there is a political union of some sort involved (like the Euro). I know this isn't what you are aiming for, but I can hear the cries of 'Yankee Imperialsm' already...
Sounds nice, but what would be the point economically?
Countries that use the US dollar do so in order to allow them to conduct business in a hard currency which is not likely to fluctuate greatly in value. If they can print their own, this is no longer the case.
If they can't, then they have to swap an old bill for every new one, costing a great deal of money and diluting the US dollar supply.
The worst is when you go out drinking, and stick your hand in your pocket the next morning. In England, if there is paper in there you know you didn't spend that much. In the US, you think you have $60 left and it turns out to be $3. bah.
Yes; I know whether whoever I'm chatting to is actually going to respond, or has just nipped off to smoke a cigarette, drink some coffee, chat to someone else or whatever. I like to know whether I'm going to get a response soon or not, especially if there are several sessions open.
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Insecure, but a more enjoyable user experience?
Almost as if he spends his time running a software company rather than posting on /., and registered just so he could post this rebuttal.
Why would crackers distributing/editing their own copies of the code affect Valve's copy?
I seem to remember reading, though, that he hated the weather in Finland and wanted to leave for that reason.
Yes, there is in the original. Care to explain this?
Here in Paris, about three months ago I noticed that lots of cafes were offering WiFi at a similar rate to this. A couple of months later, and the same places have given up and offer it for free. It started out as a premium service, then became a nice perk to have, and soon it will be an expectation everywhere.
Piracy = theft and murder on the high seas
Piracy != copyright violation
On the other hand, we can drink a beer on the beach or in the park, which you incredibly free Americans can't. Theoretical versus practical freedom.
Or perhaps they will be normal Joes who will just swallow the ads. Wonder what the percentage will be?
This is going to sound so old-fashioned, but does anyone else feel like the tunnel might take some of the romance out of the trip? I've done it twice now, and I have to confess there was always something a little special about getting the boat and being able to watch as the shores of Africa approached.
Surely The Second Coming is available on some of those labels? It came out ten years ago, and you can buy it at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000OT 7/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-9193601-6480634
Thanks, not far from me I will give it a go. Is there internet access there?
Hi, just a quick question: which library did you choose? You make it sound pretty good!
I know that. You know that. But you are never going to convince your average home user that the command line is not hideously scary.
The point has been made time and time again; its fine for us geeks to deal with the command line, but you can't sell that to your average user.
...is HP sauce. Today bacon, tomorrow ebusiness.
BBC streamable radio programme on the problems they are having here.
I believe that the origin of the celebration was originally as an anti-Catholic thing, sort of like a 17th Century Klan rally. It was effigies of the Pope that were burned, changing to Guy Fawkes only later. Most people now celebrate it for the same reason people celebrate Halloween; go out, have fun.
I don't think it would be as popular as you would imagine, though. Somehow, it seems that if you print a local design on the currency, it implies that there is a political union of some sort involved (like the Euro). I know this isn't what you are aiming for, but I can hear the cries of 'Yankee Imperialsm' already...
Countries that use the US dollar do so in order to allow them to conduct business in a hard currency which is not likely to fluctuate greatly in value. If they can print their own, this is no longer the case.
If they can't, then they have to swap an old bill for every new one, costing a great deal of money and diluting the US dollar supply.
... and they can just print 53 $1,000,000 bills, so thats ok.
Turn on your troll detector!
The worst is when you go out drinking, and stick your hand in your pocket the next morning. In England, if there is paper in there you know you didn't spend that much. In the US, you think you have $60 left and it turns out to be $3. bah.
Yes; I know whether whoever I'm chatting to is actually going to respond, or has just nipped off to smoke a cigarette, drink some coffee, chat to someone else or whatever. I like to know whether I'm going to get a response soon or not, especially if there are several sessions open.
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