I just moved into a dorm in Tufnel Park in London. As a university student, paying thousands of pounds in tuition not to mention housing, I thought a broadband connection would be included in my room.
Apparently not.
Instead I get these jackasses who charge me 1.20 pounds/min (about $2) to use a modem connection. If I try to connect AOL (which I also hate but at least it's a flat rate) keysurf charges me 0.25 pounds a min to connect to AOL because they are a competing service. Shouldn't that be illegal? Shouldn't I have a choice in who provides my Internet and phone access? Do any Brits know if I can do something about this? I mean really, is Internet access a rare commodity in the UK?
What they really do is make the new version 'look different' so that people using the older version feel outdated - even though it does everything the user need. I sadly admit that when I was younger, the trick worked on me. "Oh man, I'm using the version of word where Clippy is in a window, not the new version where he is free standing. I feel out of date." I'm older and wiser now. I've used Linux for the past three years, and I'm getting an apple when OS X 10.3 comes out.
I had a professor who made me an 'old game' convert. I played quake 3 all the time, but he wouldn't join in. "It's boring," he'd complain. So one day I decided to play his game of choice on a LAN. Duke Nukem 3d. The graphics sucked ass by comparison, but WOW, there was so much to do.
I could open and close doors when I wanted to.
I could use item when I wanted to, not just when I picked them up. And I could partially used them and save them for later.
There were interesting, distinct weapons. Shrink ray freeze gun.
In Q3 I have 8 guns that are basically the same and I can't interact with the world. I've never looked back.
But this is largely due to the high price of a game, around 40. compared to the cost of video rentals or a cinema ticket
I went to see Tomb Raider this week with my girlfriend, including soda and popcorn that came out to be about 35 pounds. The price is about the same, but the movie only lasted 2 hours. A good game can last for months.
A government test in 2002 found that face-recognition systems scored correct matches more than 90% of the time when used for such one-to-one identifications.
Once again, the false positives are not given. That is the number that really matters in a society where you can be held in prison indefinitely without a trial or access to a lawyer.
Meir Kahtan of Identix of Minnetonka, Minn., says the technology is far better suited for ''one-to-one'' identification, such as comparing photos on passports or driver's licenses, than random searches of photo databases
It would not take a lot to be 'far better' given the starting point.
Because we all know that *actual* signatures cannot be forged and the clerks at stores are really hawk-eyed when it comes to making sure the customer is who they say they are.
The signature on my credit card says 'Check Photo ID'. Not one clerk ever has.
When has any product ever "lived" up to the marketing claims? If I expected everything I bought to live up to their claims, I'd be dissapointed with every bar of soap, every beer, and every Big Mac.
And that's not the way it should be. An ad shouldn't be able to tell me that a product is something when it's not. It is not my job to guess about what parts are lies.
I don't know if EU citizens are any more intelligent than the American sheeple...
Questions of innate intelligence aside, the Europeans I encounter seem much more well informed and aware of the world than their US counterparts. I just moved from the US to London and the difference is startling. The news here isn't just scare mongering (well, there is a little), there is actual content to be found in scientific stories.
Californian start-up company, aims to silently solve the problem that the faster chips get, the hotter they become
I know what you mean but... they aren't solving the problem. They are developing a way around the problem. Solving the problem would be to break the laws of thermodynamics and develop a chip that gets cooler as a function of time.
Personally I think they should switch the socket to the spring-loaded bayonet style used in countries like Britain.
I just moved to London from the US (see blog). Man oh man, when the light bulb when out in my flat it must have taken me fifteen minuets to get the damn thing out. Nearly scared me half to death when it finally flew out like that. I was bracing myself for a nasty shock.
Just what we need Another place for people no one cares about to post rants no one will ever read. Isn't there enough of this on the net already?
Well that's the tradeoff on the net. Everyone has the ability to publish their thoughts, but it turns out not everyone's thoughts make a good read. That's why search engines exist: to help you filter out the crap.
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I just moved into a dorm in Tufnel Park in London. As a university student, paying thousands of pounds in tuition not to mention housing, I thought a broadband connection would be included in my room.
Apparently not.
Instead I get these jackasses who charge me 1.20 pounds/min (about $2) to use a modem connection. If I try to connect AOL (which I also hate but at least it's a flat rate) keysurf charges me 0.25 pounds a min to connect to AOL because they are a competing service. Shouldn't that be illegal? Shouldn't I have a choice in who provides my Internet and phone access? Do any Brits know if I can do something about this? I mean really, is Internet access a rare commodity in the UK?
Will ship to United States only.
Are there high email costs to other countries that make shipping too expensive?
Wow, as of right now, the high bid is $20.
:)
I just found a job: apple music reseller.
What they really do is make the new version 'look different' so that people using the older version feel outdated - even though it does everything the user need. I sadly admit that when I was younger, the trick worked on me. "Oh man, I'm using the version of word where Clippy is in a window, not the new version where he is free standing. I feel out of date." I'm older and wiser now. I've used Linux for the past three years, and I'm getting an apple when OS X 10.3 comes out.
I completely agree.
I had a professor who made me an 'old game' convert. I played quake 3 all the time, but he wouldn't join in. "It's boring," he'd complain. So one day I decided to play his game of choice on a LAN. Duke Nukem 3d. The graphics sucked ass by comparison, but WOW, there was so much to do.
I could open and close doors when I wanted to.
I could use item when I wanted to, not just when I picked them up. And I could partially used them and save them for later.
There were interesting, distinct weapons. Shrink ray freeze gun.
In Q3 I have 8 guns that are basically the same and I can't interact with the world. I've never looked back.
But this is largely due to the high price of a game, around 40. compared to the cost of video rentals or a cinema ticket
I went to see Tomb Raider this week with my girlfriend, including soda and popcorn that came out to be about 35 pounds. The price is about the same, but the movie only lasted 2 hours. A good game can last for months.
Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them concentrate on making them fun.
All right, show of hands. Who is a geek and exclusively plays non-fun video games?
A government test in 2002 found that face-recognition systems scored correct matches more than 90% of the time when used for such one-to-one identifications.
Once again, the false positives are not given. That is the number that really matters in a society where you can be held in prison indefinitely without a trial or access to a lawyer.
Meir Kahtan of Identix of Minnetonka, Minn., says the technology is far better suited for ''one-to-one'' identification, such as comparing photos on passports or driver's licenses, than random searches of photo databases
It would not take a lot to be 'far better' given the starting point.
Or I could make my own neural net to generate sigs that pass.
Because we all know that *actual* signatures cannot be forged and the clerks at stores are really hawk-eyed when it comes to making sure the customer is who they say they are.
The signature on my credit card says 'Check Photo ID'. Not one clerk ever has.
or better yet, pay to have your papers written on your behalf and your exam grades altered.
I will be able to do this with the money I have saved from the book-swapping program. Thanks for the idea : )
When has any product ever "lived" up to the marketing claims? If I expected everything I bought to live up to their claims, I'd be dissapointed with every bar of soap, every beer, and every Big Mac.
And that's not the way it should be. An ad shouldn't be able to tell me that a product is something when it's not. It is not my job to guess about what parts are lies.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color and it comes out gray.
Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him?.
The hounds that have bee`s in their mouths and when they bark bee`s shoot at you?
I'm not sure Nostalgic is the right word to use for something that happened less than half a decade ago.
What is your guess and more important, why?
My guess is someone has a little too much time on their hands.
Why? Well, take a look at this.
It's not the speed of your internet connection; it's how you use it...
Who am I kidding? Yeah, it's the speed. Sorry buddy.
I don't know if EU citizens are any more intelligent than the American sheeple...
Questions of innate intelligence aside, the Europeans I encounter seem much more well informed and aware of the world than their US counterparts. I just moved from the US to London and the difference is startling. The news here isn't just scare mongering (well, there is a little), there is actual content to be found in scientific stories.
The pump was developed by mechanical engineer Ken Goodson at Stanford University.
Don't you mean to say he thought 'wouldn't this be cool' and then his grad students developed it?
Californian start-up company, aims to silently solve the problem that the faster chips get, the hotter they become
I know what you mean but... they aren't solving the problem. They are developing a way around the problem. Solving the problem would be to break the laws of thermodynamics and develop a chip that gets cooler as a function of time.
Personally I think they should switch the socket to the spring-loaded bayonet style used in countries like Britain.
I just moved to London from the US (see blog). Man oh man, when the light bulb when out in my flat it must have taken me fifteen minuets to get the damn thing out. Nearly scared me half to death when it finally flew out like that. I was bracing myself for a nasty shock.
Just what we need Another place for people no one cares about to post rants no one will ever read. Isn't there enough of this on the net already?
Well that's the tradeoff on the net. Everyone has the ability to publish their thoughts, but it turns out not everyone's thoughts make a good read. That's why search engines exist: to help you filter out the crap.
Yahoo Korea looks like a lot more fun than regular yahoo. It all ani-ma-fa-kated.