In Europe when you want a new phone you have to shell out several hundred dollars, there are no free phones or discounts. This is news to this European who has not paid for a handset for ten years. you really have paid though. You can get a 'free' phone if you sign up to a contract which is normally 12/18 months.
Details based on UK prices - but I doubt there is much difference elsewhere in Europe.
your 'free' phone in this case costs ~$440 plus you lose the flexibility to switch at will.
NB: this is the direct O2 to O2 comparison. You can probably save more by buying your own phone and heading to a network like Virgin which is more competitive in the sim-only space.
that $440 might be a good deal for you, but it is NOT free!
Unfortunately, the perception that there is a free lunch reduces the transparrency in the market and does reduce the intensity of the competition on prices.
there are only a finite number of atoms/gluons/etc in the disk. There are only a finite number of positions/orientations they can take (nothing is analogue when you get small enough) - so they can only store a finite ammount of information.
How do people get away with such obviously bogus claims?
quote: It's the stock buybacks that are eating up MS' cash reserve. Buying back your own stock is an admission you have nothing better to do with your money that give it back to your shareholders
Why is it bad for a company to return cash to investors? 'You invested in us, and now you get some of the profit' sounds like thouroughly sensible economics. I'd expect it if I invested in a company directly.
most folks don't send more than 50 mails a day (number pulled out of a** and is for illustration only)
so how about this ISP anti-spam approach:
1) if a user sends more than 350 emails in a week, or more than 100 emails in a day, the ISP emails the user with a 'do you have a zombie' email.
this would list the subjects & initial contents of emails sent.
user could either reply 'yup, I send a lot of email please bump me up to a higher trigger level' or 'please help me fix this - I'm not really a viagra salesman'
x days/emails after the warning, the ISP could start blocking stuff if there was no response to their warning mail.
This would give people a chance to know if their machine was infected (I think mine is clean - but I certainly don't monitor outgoing smtp traffic) and generally provide a service to all at little inconvenence.
Would this be bad ??? Is it really hard to spot a zombie PC that is sending spam out through your network?
I hunted virgin's site for an appropriate complaint address. They don't seem to have any group level complaints address, and the only contact points I found for virgin media were sales/account related.
It recorded the sound of my harmonica in real time, then played it back about an inch back on the tape and a fraction of a second later. The tape was a simple loop with a write and read head seperated. You could listen to me in real time and with a delay. You could change the speed of the tape to vary the delay.
all kidding apart - that's a single-media time warping system and every band had one in the 70s!
1) he was breaching copyright by ripping and putting on his shared drive
"Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the.mp3 format for his and his wifes use. . Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs recording into the compressed.mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs."
2) he was breaching copyright by sharing the mp3s on Kazaa
(this follows immediately from the previous quote) "Moreover, Defendant had no authorization to distribute Plaintiffs copyrighted recordings from his KaZaA shared folder."
In Italy, hotels, internet cafes, etc are required to get your passport before letting you log in. Again - this is supposedly in case the terrorists get access to the internet.
I felt sooo much safer knowing that it was impossible in Italy for terrorists to see lolcats. I guess the system is watertight - otherwise I'm sure they wouldn't be putting all us legitimate non-terrorist types to such inconvenince.
well, our cops are trying to argue in a court case right now that they didn't put the public at risk when they follwed a chap, then shot him 7 times in the head with hollowpoint bullets.
-There was no 'stop or we shoot. They just shot.
It seems that just suspecting someone of being a terrorist was enough to kill him. It was made more embarrasing to the cops when the chap they shot wasn't even their suspect.
>US is still a democracy unlike Hitler's Nazi germany.
It isn't entirely clear that the US is still a democracy - at least not in the sense of free and fair elections.
exit polls are routinely used by international election monitors to determine whether elections have been rigged. The last presidential election had disparities between the exit polls which are
'A brief history of time' is populist physics - it isn't just for physics nerds 'Taking Liberties' is populist civil liberties - not just for for civil liberties nerds
It was presented in a straightforward manner, and with a good sense of fun. They picked clips which were -dramatic such as police horses charging over polltax protesters (polltesters?) -amusing such as the seller of 'Bollocks to Blair' t-shirts describing the police action (for wearing the t-shirt) against a girl who he described as 'Rather lovely'
Most of what I saw was material I already knew about, so I'm fairly confident that what was presented was truthfull. Packaged up in a dramatic film (this is no dry documentary) it brought laughs, tears and shock. I think this is what the author meant by 'unashamedly populist'.
It is a strong statement - and one that I think is needed to shake the British public out of our complacency.
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Details based on UK prices - but I doubt there is much difference elsewhere in Europe.
If you don't want the phone, then you can get the sim-only tarrif which is typically about $20-30 cheaper per month.
18 month tarrifs at 02 http://shop.o2.co.uk/tariffs/18_months/
sim only tarrigs at 02 http://shop.o2.co.uk/tariffs/sim_only
your 'free' phone in this case costs ~$440 plus you lose the flexibility to switch at will.
NB: this is the direct O2 to O2 comparison. You can probably save more by buying your own phone and heading to a network like Virgin which is more competitive in the sim-only space.
that $440 might be a good deal for you, but it is NOT free!
Unfortunately, the perception that there is a free lunch reduces the transparrency in the market and does reduce the intensity of the competition on prices.
Good to see confirmation of what we Brits already knew.
The UK is the centre of the known universe.
Buyer 1 offers $100k through realtor (seller has to pay 6k to realtor)
Buyer 2 offers $95k and realtor doesn't have to get anything.
Which buyer will the seller go to. (Hint - seller gets $1k more from buyer 2)
Now tell me that the seller is paying the comission.
or the BBC iPlayer?
-not just legal, but free and good.
theoretically unlimited my ass.
there are only a finite number of atoms/gluons/etc in the disk. There are only a finite number of positions/orientations they can take (nothing is analogue when you get small enough) - so they can only store a finite ammount of information.
How do people get away with such obviously bogus claims?
has anyone found somewhere to complain at the group level? I can't find any way to contact the virgin group, just the individual company.
quote: It's the stock buybacks that are eating up MS' cash reserve. Buying back your own stock is an admission you have nothing better to do with your money that give it back to your shareholders
Why is it bad for a company to return cash to investors? 'You invested in us, and now you get some of the profit' sounds like thouroughly sensible economics. I'd expect it if I invested in a company directly.
serious question:
most folks don't send more than 50 mails a day (number pulled out of a** and is for illustration only)
so how about this ISP anti-spam approach:
1) if a user sends more than 350 emails in a week, or more than 100 emails in a day, the ISP emails the user with a 'do you have a zombie' email.
this would list the subjects & initial contents of emails sent.
user could either reply 'yup, I send a lot of email please bump me up to a higher trigger level' or 'please help me fix this - I'm not really a viagra salesman'
x days/emails after the warning, the ISP could start blocking stuff if there was no response to their warning mail.
This would give people a chance to know if their machine was infected (I think mine is clean - but I certainly don't monitor outgoing smtp traffic) and generally provide a service to all at little inconvenence.
Would this be bad ??? Is it really hard to spot a zombie PC that is sending spam out through your network?
Mitchell and Webb have Identity Theft nailed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I don't think there was any advertising of the suspicions here - at least not directly.
More likely, when the police took all his IT-related gear, they took his work laptop too.
The article says that he told his work. My guess it was in order to explain the missing work laptop.
I may be missing something, but where I come from, 595 million != 525,000 * 1million
I calculate $1000/computer. Still a lot.
I hunted virgin's site for an appropriate complaint address. They don't seem to have any group level complaints address, and the only contact points I found for virgin media were sales/account related.
I used to use a pretty cool echo machine.
It recorded the sound of my harmonica in real time, then played it back about an inch back on the tape and a fraction of a second later. The tape was a simple loop with a write and read head seperated. You could listen to me in real time and with a delay. You could change the speed of the tape to vary the delay.
all kidding apart - that's a single-media time warping system and every band had one in the 70s!
they actually make two arguments
.mp3 format for his and his wifes use. . Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs."
1) he was breaching copyright by ripping and putting on his shared drive
"Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the
2) he was breaching copyright by sharing the mp3s on Kazaa
(this follows immediately from the previous quote)
"Moreover, Defendant had no authorization to distribute Plaintiffs copyrighted recordings from his KaZaA shared folder."
If it really cost them that - wouldn't they be falling over themselves to spend at least 1 billion chasing the 'lost' revenue down themselves?
after all, they would only have to reduce 'stealing' by 6% to make that a breakeven proposition...
In Italy, hotels, internet cafes, etc are required to get your passport before letting you log in. Again - this is supposedly in case the terrorists get access to the internet.
I felt sooo much safer knowing that it was impossible in Italy for terrorists to see lolcats. I guess the system is watertight - otherwise I'm sure they wouldn't be putting all us legitimate non-terrorist types to such inconvenince.
www.whois.sc/domain.tld
has been live for years. I'm fairly sure they wer pre August 23, 2004
they do a whois lookup based on domain.tld
well, our cops are trying to argue in a court case right now that they didn't put the public at risk when they follwed a chap, then shot him 7 times in the head with hollowpoint bullets.
-There was no 'stop or we shoot. They just shot.
It seems that just suspecting someone of being a terrorist was enough to kill him.
It was made more embarrasing to the cops when the chap they shot wasn't even their suspect.
-This is where the Palm Foleo would fit in if it hadn't been unfortunately cancelled...
remembering roughly from an interview Gary gave a while ago...
There is a threshold of damage that needs to be done for the crome to be serious enough to warrant extradition. This is something like $3000.
When the prosecution realised this, they stated that $3000 of damage had been done to each machine and multiplied up to get the number.
because the drm is still pretty effective.
for example, DVDs are still in practical terms uncopyable to a large portion of the population (can your mum rip a dvd?)
It isn't entirely clear that the US is still a democracy - at least not in the sense of free and fair elections.
exit polls are routinely used by international election monitors to determine whether elections have been rigged.
The last presidential election had disparities between the exit polls which are
at the least, unusual.
Certainly, people get to vote - but it isn't clear that those votes are counted.
That's even before you get pernicious issues like gerymandering or campaign finance.
did you mean
1 for right answer.
-1/3 for wrong answer.
0 for no answer.
'A brief history of time' is populist physics - it isn't just for physics nerds
'Taking Liberties' is populist civil liberties - not just for for civil liberties nerds
-yes, I have seen it.
I watched the film last night.
It was presented in a straightforward manner, and with a good sense of fun.
They picked clips which were
-dramatic such as police horses charging over polltax protesters (polltesters?)
-amusing such as the seller of 'Bollocks to Blair' t-shirts describing the police action (for wearing the t-shirt) against a girl who he described as 'Rather lovely'
Most of what I saw was material I already knew about, so I'm fairly confident that what was presented was truthfull. Packaged up in a dramatic film (this is no dry documentary) it brought laughs, tears and shock. I think this is what the author meant by 'unashamedly populist'.
It is a strong statement - and one that I think is needed to shake the British public out of our complacency.
Watch the trailer - you'll get the idea.